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From: bnk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Bob N Keenan)
Subject: Re: Mail order from CDW
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:34:46 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.171255.10339@raven.alaska.edu> sxjcb@orca.alaska.edu (Jay C. Beavers) writes:
>> I am planning to buy some stuff from the CDW in IL.  Their prices listed in
>> PC World are good.  I have several questions before I place the order:
>>	 1. Do they deliver the parts ordered in time?
>> 	2. How is the reputation of CDW (service, product quality)?
>
>> I need commonts from anyone who has ordered from CDW before.  Thanx.
>
>> Haibo Yu
>
>I've had many problems with CDW when ordering, specifically that they
>pre-approve your purchases on your credit card, not 'charging' exactly but
>still taking that credit off your card.  As well, I've had problems when
>cancelling an order (on the order of two - four weeks to get them to remove
>the pre-approval) and I've been consistently given the 'any-day-now' routine
>on backorders.  I've also had rude salespeople.  So, nope, I strongly
>recommend against ordering CDW.  USA Flex has similar prices, good service,
>and I've never had a lick of a problem. - jcb

  I have heard of the EXACT same problems from CDW.  My friend ordered
  and returned a tape drive to them, and found out he could only
  receive STORE CREDIT and not a refund.  He was thinking of
  purchasing a SVGA monitor anyway, so he applied his credit + $150,
  and ordered a Panasonic Panasync. This was over a MONTH ago, and he
  has also consistantly been given the "any-day-now" , or "gaureentee
  it'l be here Xday" line... He also has complained about rude/inept
  salespeople......... Ill never order from them.

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From: paul@aci_1.aci.ns.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: looking for distributor of disks!!!
Summary: want to buy!
Keywords: disks
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:36:06 GMT
Organization: Atlantic Computer Institute

looking for a source to buy large quantities of floppy disks(3.5" high or 
low density) 
send reply to Paul@aci_1.aci.ns.ca



					thanks,
					Paul Skeffington
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 13:11:04 EDT
From: Ed Dentel <EXD108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Memory help...

     I have a 386 with 4megs of memory (extended). I am running Dos 5.0 with Su
perStor to expand my harddrive.  I've played with Himem and EMM386.exe for a fe
w days and the most memory I can squeeze out is 579 thousand. The problem is I
still want to play Wing Commander 2 whcih needs 587K. SuperStor's driver is eat
ing up too much memory. Anybody have suggestions or ideas of what other memory
manager I could try?
                                 ARGH!!!!!
                                          Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Usenet address of TurboPower Software required
From: mmarriot@equinox.gen.nz (Manfred Marriott)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 12:30:39   M
Organization: The Equinox Network CHCH NZ (Node 1)

Would anyone who knows the Usenet address of TurboPower Software, CA USA
please either email me or post it here?

They have a forum on Compuserve (which I am not a member).
Please write the address in the form of  71234.5678@compuserve.com
as I am new to this and might otherwise have trouble.

Thanks in advance,
Manfred Marriott

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Subject: Re: Verify
Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com
Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 03:52:46 GMT

photi_w@news.cs.odu.edu (W. Photinos III) writes:

>Can anyone tell me exactly how DOS VERIFY works?
>-Does it reread a file after it is written?
>-Does it reread and compare to a copy in memory?
>-Does it use some sort of checksum for the next time it is read?
>-Does it just check the validity of the entry in the fat?
>- or some combination of the above?

None of the above.

Verify merely reads each sector after it is written. If it can be 
read, verify assumes it is ok.

The sector is *not* compared to the data that was supposed to be
written. 

All it does is "verify" that the sectors are readable.


-- 
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(The CIS address is checked daily. The others infrequently)
From: drmo@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: MSS file format?
Date: 17 Apr 92 13:24:20 GMT

I don't know if this is posted to the proper place, cause I have no clue
what the answer to my question is.

My problem is that I have a document file that I need to print.

It is in "mss" format.  I do not know what this  format is or how to
print it.  If you know what to do with one of these files, please
email me.

Thanks.

Drew Moseley
From: jpehko@cs.joensuu.fi (Juha Pehkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Help: DOS5 -> DOS3.3
Date: 9 Apr 92 08:30:54 GMT
Organization: University of Joensuu

>In article <1992Apr5.224414.22485@lmpsbbs.mot.com> chetanc@ecs.comm.mot.com (DX536 Chetan Chokshi) writes:
>>
>>    Here is the problem. My computer does not boot up from the harddisk.
>>It does pass memeory test, looks for floopy drive but after thata it
>>just hungs up. It doesn't gives any error or message. Would
>>somebody help me out??

well if everything else fails, reinstall Dos5.0. That's what I did when I
screwed up.

Juice
jpehko@cs.joensuu.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: bfh@b15.b15.ingr.com (Burgess Howell)
Subject: Re: VGA on my old XT - can I do it? Sales person says no.
Organization: Intergraph, Huntsville AL
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 21:23:46 GMT

In <1992Apr2.170351.3634@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@atropa (Mike Berger) writes:

>bruceb@locus.com (Bruce M. Binder) writes:
>>Comp.sys.ibm.pc'ers

>>I am considering upgrading the monitor on my XT compatible to VGA.
>>I am told that with my motherboard it is impossible since I do not
>>have a switch on the motherboard labeled "EGA" which supposedly
>>tells the system that I am using a video card with its own BIOS.
>>Can anyone confirm or refute this?  Am I stuck with monochrome or
>>CGA?
>*----
>If it's a very old XT compatible with an ancient BIOS, you may be out of
>luck.  But genuine IBM XT's work with a VGA.  Just set the switches on the
>motherboard to indicate that there is no display installed.

I have an old XT clone at home with a bios dated 1987.  I'm using an
Orchid Designer card and an NEC MultiSync II with absolutely no
problems.  I believe the mb switches are set to indicate no display,  as
Mike suggests.


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From: lebowitz@krypton.Mankato.MSUS.EDU (Robert J. Lebowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Popular Shareware products
Date: 6 Apr 92 14:14:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: krypton.LEBOWITZ.92Apr6091436
Distribution: comp
Organization: Mankato State University

How could I obtain a listing of the most popular shareware products currently
being distributed?  Is there a central organization which keeps track of such
things?  I vaguely recall reading an article in BYTE a while back that 
ranked the various shareware products on the basis of their popularity.

Rob Lebowitz - lebowitz@krypton.mankato.msus.edu
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Mankato State University     VOX              (507) 389-2540
Mankato MN 56002-8400
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: WORDSTAR 4.0 TO 5.5??
Date: 12 Apr 92 14:30:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Satalink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324

TO: bagdy@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM
MB.My friend uses WORDSTAR.  He was using 4.0 very happily.  After installing
  .5.5 (he says...) various "older" files that were not touched in a while
  .now have spurious characters in the file.  He can clean these manually, but
  .they seem to be in many files.
  .
  .Spurious characters like:
  .
  .^]}^#^#Uepson^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^@^ ...
  ..op
  ..mt0

WordStar 5.xx and later introduced a whole new document format, that's
what you're seeing.  I still use 4.0 for my simple work here, I have
5.0, 5.5, and 6.0 on the shelf here! :-)  I have decided to abandon WordStar
for documents, they just didn't keep up.
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From: as789@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Francisco J. Diaz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Updates
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:14:05 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)


Hi All! Can anyone tell me or give me a number for any Microsoft
BBS? I need to update my HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE and some people
have told me that there are new versions out. Thanks!
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:7268 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:13305
From: rab@ariel.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (Richard Alan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: MKS tools would the latest version stand up!!!!
Keywords: v3.1 v3.2
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:41:08 GMT
Followup-To: afs@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au
Organization: School of Physics, University of Melbourne


We have finally received our MKS tookit package (after a *long* wait),
and I have a question....
We ordered MKS ver 3.2 as advertised, but we got MKS ver 3.1c
Dum, de Dum Dum......
Now.... is the latest version MKSv3.2? or is it v3.1c?
It took AGES for this stuff to arrive and the 
prospect of another 'n' month wait would not be a pleasant
one.

Any ideas...


Thanks AListair Scott

afs@tauon.ph.unimelb.edu.au
From: the_shadow@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: A Friend Needs Some Help
Date: 15 Apr 92 08:51:27 GMT
Organization: Wright State University


A friend of mine wrote to me.. : 



I have a dilemma I hope someone out there in News-land can help me with...

My boss wants to connect my 386 with a 486 and share the same information back
and forth...speedily. I know I can use a null modem cable and comm software to 
do this but I have heard about a program that enables you to actually access 
the hard drive or floppy drive of the other machine as if it were your own. 
This would be ideal for me.  Does anyone have first hand knowledge of Desklink 
or Carbon Copy software packages?

Because my configuration is so complex, I'm not even sure if it will do what I 
need it to do.  My LasterMaster controller card does not use the Windows print 
manager and takes over the whole CPU while it prints, I tried a buffer in the
past and it didn't work any faster. I guess what I'm asking is:

Will one of these programs enable me control the printer with one PC while
keeping the other free to do work?  If not, what can I use? Will I have to go 
to a full blown Network (someone recommended Lantastic...any users of this 
set up out there?)...I'm sooooo confused. I have no knowledge of networks so 
if I can get off easy with a little software package and a null modem cord...I 
will be happy.  If not...I NEED HELP!!!!

Thanks...

Lynne

    ::Singing:: I'm dreaming of a zero wait state...




Anyone have any ideas???? 

email:   The_Shadow@desire.wright.edu
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thursday, 9 Apr 1992 16:22:27 EDT
From: Ed Dentel <EXD108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: EMM386.exe

   I'm trying to get EMM386.exe to set aside more memmory for the upper area...
 after it loads dos into upper memory I about 27k left, I need around 20K more
to shift another device driver. I think that the i=mmmm-nnnn switch would do
what I want....can anybody give me an appropriate device= line to handle this??

                 Another would be compu-genius who's in over his head!
From: marki@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Mark Ikemoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Problems getting ordered PC
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:29:36 GMT
Organization: HP CCSY, Cupertino, CA

I've ordered a PC from a Bay Area store (local to me) about 4 weeks
ago and I still haven't received it because they say components are
difficult to come by (in particular, the cpu and the hard drive).  I'd
like to know if anyone else out there has had similar problems
recently or has had no problems getting their systems.

For comparison purposes with your own experiences, I've listed
the system I've ordered below:

- Intel 486/33 MHz
- 256K cache
- 8 Mb ram
- 213 Mb Maxtor SCSI hard drive
- 3 1/2" and 5 1/4" floppy drives
- SVGA non-interlaced monitor
- 1 Mb graphics card


Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: Iskandar Taib <ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Logon security software
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:31:23 -0500

In article <LEBOWITZ.92Apr15152538@krypton.Mankato.MSUS.EDU> lebowitz@krypton.Mankato.MSUS.EDU (Robert J. Lebowitz) writes:
>A coilleague of mine has had students accidentally erase his root directory
>on two occasions.  AS a result, he is looking for software to limit access 
>to the PC he makes available to students in his lab.  In particular, he'd 
>like something which logs usage to a file on the harddrive and requires a
>password for logon.  Can anyone suggest a product or shareware program that


You can set the files in the root to Read-Only from DOS. I 
believe the command is

ATTRIB +R filename





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From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: WIN*FAX Pro, FAX Modem Soaftware etc.
Date: 16 Apr 92 11:53:43 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

root@shawn.uucp (Mark Jeghers -- UNIX/X/Motif Contractor) writes:

>seanm@terapin.com (Sean McCaskey) writes:
[...]
>The FAX package by Alien is probably superior to WinFAX pro.  I had WinFAX pro
>and returned it for a refund.  The software was half-baked trash, and the
>customer support was a pathetic slap in the face.  I intend to purchase
>the Alien Software fax package soon to replace the returned WinFAX junk.
>I am using the cheap software provided with the card for the time being.

The "product foo sucks" attitude is not very enlightning. Please let us
know why you dislike that "half-baked trash".

>>  Any help?

>Just don't buy WinFAX!

WHY ? I use WinFax Pro 2.0 every god damned day and it does it's
thang well.

Niels
From: ptrw_cif@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Mr. Right!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: >Password Programs
Date: 14 Apr 92 23:49:57 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

If that librarian has an IBM PS/2, then
you are all set.  The bios can have be set
using the original reference disk that came
with the computer.  You can set the power
on password that will prompt immediately after
the machine checks the RAM ...even if a disk
is in the drive.  You can also set a keyboard
password if you leave for a minute...the only
way somebody could beat that would be to flip 
the machine off and then turn it back on...but
then the power on password would stop 'em.
My 55sx is a pretty secure little beast...only
way they could get into it would be to crack/break
the chasis lock.

Even though the above applies only on IBM PS/2 s, 
you could try a software locking program and buy
a hardware disk-drive insert lock that would effectively
plug and lock out drive access.  Even if they somehow
ripped that out, the heads of the drive would be ripped
apart to render it useless!

You can always get around computer security.
You just have to ask yourself how serious and motivated
are the guys that are going to try to break in.

Fortunately, most people I know aren't motivated! :)

			Pete
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: Iskandar Taib <ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Program to Low Level Format IDE drive
Keywords: SpinRite
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:58:40 -0500

In article <5307@pdxgate.UUCP> h2co@odin.cc.pdx.edu (Candace O'Connor) writes:
>ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Apr04.220959.1299@crash.cts.com> jimf@pro-woolf.cts.com (Jim Frost) writes:
>>
>>>Check out SpinRite, low-level format without having to backup the hard
>>>drive.
>>
>>It doesn't work with IDE's. Or with SCSI's or anything that does
>>sector translation. For the older MFM and RLL drives its great!
>
>Sorry, but SpinRite is not "great" for older RLL drives.  Quoting from the
>SpinRite ver 2.0 manual (pg 14):

>
>"SpinRite may wisely refuse to perform actual low-level formatting on a
>hard disk.  This most frequently occurs when RLL formatting has been
>used to create 26 sectors per track even though the disk controller
>reports having only an MFM formatted sector count of 17."
>
>One of my computers fits this description. SpinRite would indeed not do
>a low-level format of this disk.  


Note I did say something about sector translation above 9-)

Many RLL controllers don't translate sectors. The WD controller on
my Kalok 30 Megger doesn't and Spinrite works just great.







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From: tom@portland.mdc.unisys.com (Tom Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: SuperStor v. Stacker: Opinions?
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:44:15 GMT
Organization: Unisys - Applied Technology

My hard drive is (nearly) full, and I need more space.  I would appreciate
feedback on these two products.

-- 
Tom Albrecht
From: rwerman@vms.huji.ac.il (ROBERT WERMAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Laplink or Related Communication
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:20:03 GMT
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Can somebody help me with communicating from a laptop, 386,
to a pc?  I have heard of Laplink?  Is it in the public
domain?  Or can someone recommend something else that is?

I want to avoid using a modem. 

Thanks.


__Bob Werman    rwerman@hujivms.bitnet    rwerman@vms.huji.ac.il
Jerusalem
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: DOES 387 SPEED UP WIN 3.1
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:35:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Satalink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324

TO: bbrown@b11.ingr.com
BB.I read somewhere that a 387 coprocessor speeds up windows 3.1.
  .Not just applications like Excel, but windows itself.  
  .Is this true?   Why would Windows be using floating point anyway?

I'm not sure where you saw this, but to my knowledge it has no basis
in fact.  It sure doesn't do much for it, if anything.  I have two
'386DX-40 machines here, one with and one without, both running
Windows.  They both have STB PowerGraph video boards, the speed
in Windows seems exactly the same.
---
 . KingQWK 1.05 . Artificial Intelligence: The other guy's opinion.
From: tom@portland.mdc.unisys.com (Tom Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SuperStor v. Stacker: Opinions?
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:03:13 GMT
Organization: Unisys - Applied Technology

In article <1992Apr12.214538.19579@animal.gcs.co.nz> lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Lawrence Chiu) writes:
>PC Mag had a review of a number of such packages recently and came out in
>favour of Stacker with Superstor a close second. Either would suit your
>needs, especially if you have a 386 so that the performance hit in
>compression/decompression is low and you can load the drivers in the UMB
>to avoid taking up precious low memory (if that is a concern to you).
>I use Stacker on one of my drives and even in Windows I hardly notice
>the overhead (this is on a 386/40).

Thanks for all the email responses to my inquiry.

I ended up getting SuperStor version 2.0.  The local CompUSA was selling
it for $47, while they were charging $99 for Stacker software version 2.0.

The installation for SuperStor was painless.  I repartitioned by 120 Mbyte
harddrive into 40 + 60 + 20.  The first two partitions are for MS-DOS, the
last is reserved for an os TBD.  I told SuperStor I wanted 8 Mbyte for 
Windows permanent swapfile on drive C:.  Prior to installation my drive was
running with about 30 Mbytes free space.  After installation, the stat
program from SuperStor tells me I have about 75 Mbytes free, not counting
the 20 Mbyte I reserved in that third partition.

But the amazing thing was the performance improvement.  Performance was my
main concern with using on-the-fly data compression.  I also have a 386/40,
and was I pleased when I found Windows running noticeably faster, as well as
most of my DOS and Windows apps.

I'm impressed with this product.

-- 
Tom Albrecht
From: dinda@cae.wisc.edu (Dinda Peter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Emerson Accucard MANUAL needed
Date: 12 Apr 92 01:19:35 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison


  I just recently acquired an Emerson Accucard at a swap fest.
Alas, it came sans manual and wiring harness.  The Accucard is a
"Uninteruptable Power Supply on a Card."  It senses when power is 
lost, takes over and causes an interupt which makes a TSR program
dump the machine state to disk.  

  Anyway, I called Emerson and was told they would not even consider
selling even a *manual* to me.  They did, however, point me to to a BBS
with the newest software.

  Thus, I still need a MANUAL - hopefully it'll contain the wiring
pinout and let me install the thing.  Please reply to

     dinda@vms3.macc.wisc.edu 

  or this address if you can help.


Peter A. Dinda
From: teddy@emx.utexas.edu (Teddy Iglehart [Ted E. Bear])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: geoworks pro
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:20:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas

I currently run Desqview and have considered Geo Pro.
The question that I have is

does this program task-switch or multitask
can you run it without a mouse( i have one serial with a modem)
what does it look like on a vga laptop

any help would be greatly appreciated.