HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: zbsa01@hou.amoco.com (Brad Alprin)
Subject: Re: AmiPro and ligature substitution
Reply-To: zbsa01@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:25:27 GMT

>>>Can AmiPro be made to perform ligature substitution?
>>
>>To the best of my memory Wordperfect for DOS is the only mainstream word
>>processor with this feature. I sure don't think lack of ligatures is good
>>enough reason to drop Ami Pro, though!

>Before I moved "up" to Windows (acutally, Win-OS/2, but AmiPro doesn't
>know the difference), I used XyWrite in DOS and filtered my output
>through FancyFont, a typesetting utility that including a kerning and
>substitution filter. Despite the sarcastic quotation marks in my first
>sentence, I do appreciate AmiPro's superior layout, but I find it ironic
>to have to give up as important a typographic feature as ligatures, when
>these were available seven years ago under plain old DOS. No, I won't
>drop AmiPro, but I will fuss a bit.
---

There is a TYPECHAR macro in AMiPro 3.0 that allows you to do EXACTLY what was originally requested, even to setting shortcut keys for the special characters.



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From: tony@casper.cs.uct.ac.za (Tony Donno)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Looking for the .SCH (Schedule+) file format
Date: 18 Nov 92 08:57:19 GMT
Article-I.D.: casper.BxwM7J.J74
Organization: Computer Science Department, University of Cape Town

Hi,

I am developing a program that needs to be able to export and import from the
Schedule+ app that comes with Windows for Workgroups. Does anybody have the
file format for the .SCH file that Schedule+ uses? Another option is to the
.CAL format.

Please e-mail any replies. Thanks in advance.

Anthony Donno
University of Cape Town
South Africa
e-mail : tony@casper.cs.uct.ac.za
phone  : +27 +21 6892420
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: NT requirements
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:29:43 GMT

In <1e4jcsINN9d9@sam.ksu.ksu.edu> sdoran@sam.ksu.ksu.edu (Steven Marcotte) writes:


>  I know this is probably a FAQ, but what the hey.  What are the 
>minimum requirements for NT?  Right now, I have the following

>	486/50
>	4 meg Ram
>	120 meg HD
>	SVGA

>If I got the Beta, would my current setup be enough?  At least
>enough to last until I had the money to upgrade my ram and HD?

I wouldn't expect it to run in only 4 MB.  Everything else is probably
workable, assuming you have a CD-ROM drive.  I understand that there
are people out there who have run the Beta in 8 MB and it is A DOG.

I'm curious.  Why would you buy a 486-50 and only give it 4 MB of
memory?  What can your run decently in 4 MB of memory that needs that
kind of speed?

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From: banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Quattro Pro Win ?
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:45:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


tn10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tony Niderost) writes:
>To a selected block, shade all cells containing ANYTHING (we're using
>the number 1). 

Try a macro using the @CELL("contents",cell) function.  "contents" returns 0
if the cell is empty. 

 {IF @CELL("contents", cell) = 0}{Color_Cell}
 {Select_next_cell}

>I wish to thank anyone who could help me in advance with a big 
>"Thank you for allowing me to finally sleep!"

No problem.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: kcurtis@ob.engin.umich.edu (Keith Curtis)
Subject: Re: Windows Calendar
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 18:18:30 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: kcurtis@ob.engin.umich.edu



>In general, what you would do is do a postmessage (hwnd,WM_COMMAND,ID_Month,0L);
>or something like that and it should work.

>Wouldn't this be doable using something like the batch language that
>comes with Norton Desktop for Windows (or Command Post, or just about
>any of them)?  Then put the batch file in your startup file instead of
>the Calendar icon.

Yep, you could do it in a batch file with Norton's Desktop, but this uses a program that people might not have.

You could use the Windows recorder to do it--if you don't mind the extra wait and the fact that the recorder will still be running when your program is done.
From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: For those with the NT beta... a question.
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:21:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Nov18.162134.29822
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In article <1992Nov17.235358.23725@utkux1.utk.edu> harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp) writes:
                              [...]
>3) After popping the cd in the drive, will it appear just like another dos
>partition, or is there a special disk to access the data on the cd.  Reason
>being that I would like to dump the cd onto my hard disk to enable me to
>install NT away from a cd-rom drive (as well as faster).

It might not appear at all, if it is not a SCSI CD-ROM drive, since
apparently Microsoft didn't include an NT capable CD-ROM driver routine
with the NT distribution.  I haven't been able to try it out yet,
because I am still working on getting my memory upgraded to permit
booting NT.  Can anyone who has booted NT confirm or deny this nasty
report, which I heard from a coworker who has NT?  If this is true,
can NT use the standard MSCDEX driver?  I am holding back from any
outbursts until I know the facts about this potential problem.

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From: gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: Re: word for window / postcript problem
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:41:38 GMT

would you believe that reinstalling the print driver seems
to work!, and it made the ps file about half the size.
Something really weird went on here!

Mike

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: hayesj@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (HAYES JAMES MICHAEL JR)
Subject: Re: Good graphing with error bars?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:46:08 GMT

>I've been looking around for a program that can make nice looking graphs (publi
>cation quality) with error bars (standard error of the mean). Believ it or not,
> this is not easy to find. I purchased CA-Cricket Graph for Windows a few month
>
>...[tried some spreadsheets]
>
	Stuff deleted

I bought DeltaGraph Profesional for about $100, ed discount.

Together with Excel, I produced paired scatter plots with nth degree
ploynomial least squares curve fitting and error bars with less than
an hour of mucking about.  Not the greatest software for Windows,
but for the price?

Another benefit of D-G, it prints the plot, not the plot plus title
plus labels plus legend, to the size you specify, exactly.

I just used Excel to set up and analyze the data, and then pasted it
into a "data sheet" in D-G, selected paired columns, chose chart type,
set the axis scales and endpoints.  I chose curvefit from the menu,
it brings up a dialog box that allows you to use your own equation, if
desired, set fit parameters and go.  The error bars are another menu
choice that brings up another dialog box thaat lets you choose options
and parameters, then go.  It was rather painless, once I decided to
use Excel to collect and transform my data instead of learning their
"data sheet" format. Just copy and paste it in.

D-G was ragged on by PC Mag and others.  Doesn't support TT, uses ATM.
Data sheets don't work the same as Excel.  Menus don't always follow
Windows conventions.  I think the OLE implimentation is buggy and
switched to just copy and paste.  But I based my decision on price.
I compared the ease of use to MathCad 3.1's advanced math pack curve
fitting template, same accuracy and precision on the coefficients, but
D-G blows Mathcad away in presentation graphics on the curve fit alone.
But viewing the coefficients and storing them required a copy from thier
box to a notepad, then a little editting. It can't paste its own coefs
to its own data sheet! (without editing)

Hope this helps the poor folk like me out there.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: sigurdg@ifi.uio.no (Sigurd Gl{rum)
Subject: Re: Postscript viewer for Windows... where is it?
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:06:58 GMT
Originator: sigurdg@brenna.ifi.uio.no


In article <1992Nov17.082014.19538@nic.funet.fi>, salanne@convex.csc.FI (Simo Salanne) writes:
> In <1992Nov17.020057.13040@utkux1.utk.edu> harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp) writes:
> 
> 
> >I just got the other necessary files.  Good God, why did they bother to
> >make a windows version.  That was the sadest user interface I've ever
> >seen in my life.
> 
> >Sean Harp
> >University of Tennessee
> 
> Come on, you should assosiate *.ps files with gswin.exe.
> Then just select the postscript file in filemanager and
> voila, there is your image, page... what ever you have.
> 
> Good God, why didn't you bother to install it properly in your
> environment!-)
> 
> Simo Salanne
> 

What I think he means is that, in case of a multi-page document, it
is not a trivial matter to do anything but leaf through the document
one page at the time in one direction. 

The user-interface would benifit greatly if there was a Windows version
of GhostView.  GhostView for X-windows is a shell for GhostScript that
gives push-button control for navigating through a document, printing
selected parts of the document etc.

Sigurd Gl{rum
From: kcj@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Kate Juliff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Postscript Viewers
Date: 16 Nov 1992 02:35:06 GMT
Organization: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.20.13

In article <ieong.721419659@sfu.ca> ieong@fraser.sfu.ca (Kim Ieong) writes:
>>	
>
>Ghostscript for Windows is available from ftp.cica.indiana.edu.  The file
>name is GS252WIN.ZIP.

In what subdirectory?

--Kate Juliff
>
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: NDW VIEWer drivers for XL 4.0 on CICA?
From: stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz (Stefan Olson)
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 21:56:06 +1200

In <92326.101611WDH2@psuvm.psu.edu> <WDH2@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Hello out there?
>Quattro Pro, files.   Symantec's tech help said that there are patches
>available to read XL4.0,Corel Draw3.0 and a coulp other file formats that were
>post released from NDW2.0.  Unfortunately, the Symantec fellow saidthat they
>are available for downloading from Symantech and/or CompuServe.  Being a poor
>grad student with internet (i.e. CICA or WUARCHIVE) capabilities, I have yet to
>invest in a modem.

I second that!!  I'd really love to have those viewers...  Could someone
please get them??

Thanks,
Stefan

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: steveh@devildog.att.com (Steve Hendershott)
Subject: TCP/IP and Windows for Workgroups
Organization: AT&T IMS - Piscataway, NJ (USA)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:20:01 GMT

If I currently use TCP/IP (FTP's) to communicate from DOS/Windows to
UNIX (telnet, ftp, etc), can I put up Windows for Workgroups (WFWG) and
set up to communicate with my associates who also install WFWG? In
other words, is it that simple to say WFWG will work over TCP/IP? What
else does one have to do? Is there a simple answer or is it
complicated?

Thanks for any help I can get in understanding this.

Steve Hendershott
steveh@devildog.att.com
-- 
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steveh@devildog.att.com
From: carol@ee.uts.edu.au (Carol Gibson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Intellidraw sloooww
Date: 17 Nov 92 00:42:36 GMT
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
NNTP-Posting-Host: rossi.ee.uts.edu.au

Hi. I am using Intellidraw V.1 on a 486 with 4 Meg of RAM
and Windows 3.1. The damn thing not only goes incredibly
slowly, but keeps running out of memory during saves and
other significant moments. I've stripped the pc's system
files down to the basics, closed every other possible 
window, and *still* the thing is completely braindead.
Has anyone out there had success with this package? Does
anyone know how to make it run more efficiently?

Carol Gibson
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From:  Trent A. Basarsky
Subject: QVTNET30 
Summary: QVTNET.INI
Keywords: QVTNET30
Reply-To: tab@iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 01:29:38 GMT


	Has anyone else encountered the failure of QVTNET30
to successfully read the QVTNET.INI file?  In particular I am
asking about the FTP configuration.  I have noticed that in my
.ini file I set the transfer type to BINARY and QVTNET faithfully
reports that it is in binary mode if I look at the configuration 
menu once connected.  If I type status at the command line, I 
am informed that I am in ASCII mode, which is indeed what is actually
configured.

	Thanks for any comments.

Trent A. Basarsky
tab@iastate.edu
From: oliver@castle.ed.ac.uk (O R Vellacott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Music typesetting systems?
Date: 18 Nov 92 11:29:16 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Edinburgh University

This is posted for someone else -- please reply directly to him at
cfc@ee.ed.ac.uk.

----------------

I am interested in finding out about music typesetting systems which
run under Windows. The only one I know about is Finale, from Coda
software I think. Can anyone recommend others I should look at, or is
Finale indeed the best bet?

I have used Finale on the Macintosh, and I assume it is much the same
on the PC.

Thanks in advance,

Colin Caughie
cfc@ee.ed.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: bzb47596@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Baba Z Buehler)
Subject: IRC client for Win?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:57:03 GMT

is there an IRC client for Windows 3.1?  

thanks
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Truetype/FastFonts and CorelDRAW! 3.0
From: Sleight of Hans <HCM100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 14:09:59 EST
Organization: Penn State University

I recently got completely fed up with FastFonts by ATech Software and before
erasing it from my hard drive and putting the disks and manuals into perpetual
storage I had it convert all of its fonts to TrueType format.

These new TrueType fonts work great with my windows apps (W4W, Excel 4) but
they are not usable in CorelDRAW! 3.0.  Anyone have a similar experience?
I bought FastFonts because of its advertised capabilities.  But now that
TrueType is a windows standard, why use anything else?  Blah...

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From: harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Postscript viewer for Windows... where is it?
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:18:07 GMT
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center

In article <1e9fg7INN1hb@manuel.anu.edu.au> kcj@vulcan.anu.edu.au (Kate Juliff) writes:
>Someone posted that there is a ps viewer for windows (GS252win.zip).
>It is supposedly on cica.indiana.edu. Well I've done a pretty
>thorough search in the obvious places, but no luck. Can
>some kind soul please post the subdirectory this elusive file can
>be found in?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kate.
>

I downloaded it from wuarchive.wustl.edu in the
systems/ibmpc/msdos/postscript directory.  Got it home on my computer
and when I ran it, it came up briefly and then went down.  I could
barely read what the screen said:

	Unable to open file gs_init.ps

Gee, the archive didn't come with this file.  What is the story?
Anybody know?

Sean Harp
University of Tennessee
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ddennis@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dave Dennis)
Subject: Large Friendly Letters font group?
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix (sponsored by U. of Denver Math/CS dept.)
Disclaimer1: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University of
Disclaimer2: Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
Disclaimer3: control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 16:31:59 GMT

A bit ago someone posted a note on how to find some fonts called
"Large Friendly Letters (LFLXXXX.FON)" that you could use to change
the DOS window font.  The fonts were sized in between some of the
supplied ones and fit nicely with a 1024x768x? screen.  Could someone
repost that information with ftp site, EXACT directory and filename?

(whine-on)

BTW, I have been seeing a lot of file-source replies like: "You can
find 'Neat-Program" at cica".  This doesn't really help the searcher
When 'Neat-Program' is buried in /pub/pc/win3/unusual/things/that/you/can/run
as NP235.arj!   If you are nice enough to help someone with their quest, 
please take an extra second and give the full reference!

Thanks for your help in advance, and sorry for the whining :_)

Dave
(ddennis@nyx.cs.du.edu)
From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Is This A PostScript Driver Bug?  Or Not Enough Memory In My Printer?
Date: 19 Nov 92 01:19:03 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA


I am using Word for Windows, 2.0b, Windows 3.1, using PostScript printer
driver v3.5.  I find some documents won't print completely on my TI 
microLaser PS35.  On a 25 page document, about 6-9 pages in (depending 
on the number of TrueType fonts that get embedded in the output), it 
stops printing, part way through a page -- in some cases, part way 
through a line of text!

If I print the entire document in sections, everything prints.

The same problem appears if I print the PostScript to a file, and
print it with a COPY command from DOS, so that tells me it's not
a problem of timeouts in Windows.

If I insert the ehandler.ps PostScript error handler, it complains
about "limitcheck" on the MT-Symbol TrueType font.  So I removed
all the TrueType fonts, and used only built-in printer fonts.
The problem moves from page 6 to page 9.  But still, "limitcheck"
messages.  It's not at all clear from the context what limit
was exceeded.

Running the same output to an Apple LaserWriter II here at work,
it works like a charm.

This suggests to me that I am running out of RAM in the laser
printer.  Anyone know for sure?  It sure would be nice if the
PostScript printer driver, rather than just going "Splat!" would
print out a discrete little message on the page, like: "Not enough
memory to print such a complicated page."
-- 
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"Foxes prefer rabbits with short claws." -- Nadja Adolf
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: leo@cae.wisc.edu (Leo Lim)
Subject: NDW 2.0 and 386MAX 6 FOR SALE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:29:49 CST

	Hi, are looking for cheap desktop manager? Or looking for memory
manager after hacking around with UMB, XMS etc made you nuts?
I'm offering these 2 brand new software(unopened) coming to your help.

1. Norton Desktop for Windows ver 2.0
	# of package available: 2
	price                 : @85 + S&H. OBO

2. 386MAX 6.02
	# of package available: 2
        price                 : @$55 + S&H. OBO

Buy both these software at the same time, you'll only pay $119 + S&H.
Hurry, these software won't last for a minute.
Send checks to:
	Leo Martin Lim
	525 University Ave apt D-201
        Madison, WI 53703
From: iceman@sequent.com (Ian Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Is Windows NT worth the trouble?
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:32:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: sequent.1992Nov18.153253.9302
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.

In article <1992Nov17.211129.58@dmdscs.com> jrkdmd@dmdscs.com (Joe Krulewicz) writes:
>> 
>> The beta version that is shipping contains BOTH 3.5" diskettes AND
>> a CD ROM.  There is NO documnentation on the CD ROM.  The only docs
>> that come with it are a system guide and release notes.
>> 
>> The final version is 'supposed' to have hard copy docs with it.
>> Of course that can change in a heartbeat :-)
>> 
>
>I don't know what copy of the CD rom YOU have ... but MINE has FULL
>Documention on the CDROM in BOTH WRITE and PS formats.  For the 69$
>you are NOT entitled too the Hardcopy DOCS AT ALL. -- thats an extra
>$250 or so.
>

OK, Here's what I found out form MS.  Again, this is NOT the final
answer.  I'm sure if 5 people called MS and asked the same question
we would get 5 more different answers :-)

There are TWO different distributions of the October Beta release:

	Developers CD -- with online docs and on CD ROM only.

	General Beta Release -- No online docs and avilable on CD
	and floppy.

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