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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 11:01:46 -0500
From:         David McMeans <mcmeans@DTEDI.HQ.AFLC.AF.MIL>
Subject:      WIN3: PKZ204c

>Where can I get pkz204c?  Is MSDOS_UPLOADS safe?

        My mailer can't reach Andreas.tako@uibk.ac.at so I'm breaking the rules
and posting this response to the entire list.  Excuse the impropriety.

        I just read the lastest MSDOS-ANN and it said to avoid the copy
in MSDOS_UPLOADS like the plague because of all the hacked copies
that have been put there.

Here's the note:

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kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko) writes:
>Oooh... I finally got hold of an authentic copy of pkzip/unzip 2.04c ...
>So, it should be on SIMTEL20 and Garbo soon ... In the meantime, you
>can try to get pkz204c.exe from PKWARE BBS (414-354-8670) ... (it's
>not safe to get it from /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS at wuarchive as there have
>already been several hacked uploads there) ...
>
>From the file whatsnew.doc ...
[...]
>-Password Encryption
>
>       Sensitive data files can be scrambled with password protection.
>       The security of this feature has been significantly improved in
>       PKZIP/PKUNZIP 2.04c.

Due to the restrictions on the exporting of encryption technology, this
program cannot be legally offered by any FTP site in the USA or Canada
that can be accessed from other countries,

We'll have to wait for an "Export Version", which will hopefully be
supplied by PKWare as they did for PKZ110.

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Date:         Mon, 4 Jan 1993 08:48:47 -0700
From:         Ken Shaw <kens@CATSEQ.CATLIN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: disk compression

On Thu, 17 Dec 1992 KNOPF%FNAL.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu wrote:

>  Marc du Bois <mdbois@HVLPX.NS-NL.ATT.COM> writes:
>
>         Dos 6.0 will be delivered with DiskDoubler. Might be
>         a good idea to check that software package out.
>
>  My question:
>  Since NT does not support stacked drives, I had to remove Stacker 2.0
>  from my system (reducing storage by 50% really hurts). Has anyone
>  heard any rumors to the effect that MS will support stacked drives in
>  FAT file systems (maybe even in NTFS)???

        Bad news - I have heard second hand that Microsoft Will not
include support for driver level compression in NT.  However, it should be
noted than NT has not entered Beta testing yet, and if Beta testers demand
it, it could very well show up in the actual release.

                                -Ken
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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:06:32 -0500
From:         Rich Moraski <bf8rz61@SOCRATES.BELL-ATL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Start-Up Group booboo

Hi.

Silly me, I deleted that window also. Unfortunately, I'm still not privy to
what it does. Why do you need it?

Thanks in advance,
Rich Moraski
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:45:11 PST
From:         "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
Subject:      Multitasking
              5 Jan 1993 13:35:22 +0100
              <9301060348.AA10509@fourier.inference.com>

  In the Norwegian edition of PC-World magazine some
  months ago, there were an article on multitasking with
  Windows,OS/2, ISA/AT-bus and the MCA-bus in
  question.

You are confusing two separate issues.  Multitasking is completely
independant of the bus.  It has more to do with the processor that it
was designed to run on.  Windows NT has the most bullet-proof
multitasking because it uses the 386 hardware protection, which the
other operating systems cannot use because they must be compatible
with the 286.

Symmetric multiprocessing can be supported by busses like MCA and
EISA, but they are not likely to.  It turns out that none of these
busses has the necessary signals to keep the caches on the different
processors in sync.  They do have the necessary signals to allow
multiple CPUs to work cooperatively, but not to support the symmetric
model that NT supports.  NCR and Compaq are making systems which put
the additional processors in special slots.  The trend is likely to
continue.

-Vance Gloster
 gloster@inference.com
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:31:53 -0500
From:         "Ken Latta" <klatta@MERIT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Multitasking
              05 Jan 93 13:35:22 +0100." <9301060415.AA01545@merit.edu>

I don't think the Microchannel will suddenly become much
more popular (except for IBM that is). At least one
configuration of the Dec Alpha Risc machine (which is
going to be a Windows NT platform) is based on the EISA bus.
Many lan servers are EISA for the extra performance.
But local bus, coprocessor IO systems and multiprocessor
systems also can be tailored for multitasking systems.
And some risc processors are fairly slow at context switching
so their multitasking performance doesn't live up to
expectation.
In short, multitasking environments are still a moving
target and the market will probably have to tolerate
more, not fewer, approaches over the next few years.

Usual disclaimers apply (i.e., just my opinion)

Ken Latta, Merit Network, Inc.
NSFNET Project, Internet Engineering Group
1071 Beal, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2103
313.936.2115 voice,  313.747.3745 fax
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 > From: :  Arne deg rd <Vatle@OSCAR.BBB.NO>
  >In the Norwegian edition of PC-World magazine some
  >months ago, there were an article on multitasking with
  >Windows,OS/2, ISA/AT-bus and the MCA-bus in
  >question.
(text deleted)
  >Does anyone have comment to add on this subject ?
  >
  >
  >Arne Oedegaard
  >EDBMANAGER
  >VOSS VIDEREGAAENDE SCHOOL
  >5700 Voss, Norway
  >E-mail:  VATLE@OSCAR.BBB.NO
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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:16:32 EST
From:         "Harry Yeatts" <HYEATTS@VTVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Mac-in-DOS for Windows

Several months ago, I mentioned that we were getting a program called
Mac-in-DOS, which enables PC users to read/write mac disks...and I
promised to let everyone know bit about the program.

After a few delays (convincing the boss to get it, going through the
purchase order process, getting the DOS version and having to return
it, generally busyness, general laziness), here's a little about it.

It works just like I hoped it would. Pull up the program, click on the
drive with the mac disk, and there you are. Very simple.

You can also format ("initialize" in mac parlance) a disk. We've tested it
out on a number of occasions and all the macs we have in the unit react
like the disks were home-grown.

One thing to keep in mind...the program only works with HD disks.

Also, with a minimum of tinkering you can even include the header info
that comes with a mac file. (This is how macs know which program to
start up when you click on a data file.) However, we haven't really used
this feature...we just tell the mac user to start the program first
and then load the file from there.

You may not need to use Mac-in-DOS very often, but when you do, it does
the job very nicely.


Harry Yeatts (HYEATTS)                INTERNET: VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU
Virginia Tech                         BITNET: VTVM1
Blacksburg, Virginia                  PHONE: 703-231-5141
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Date:         Sat, 9 Jan 1993 18:17:53 +0200
From:         Yossi Oren <LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL>
Subject:      Re: Pro Audio Spectrum
              8 Jan 1993 07:40:07 CT from <BAWAECHT@CORPSB.REMNET.AB.COM>

>I have seen an advertisement for the Pro Audio Spectrum sound board for
>129.99 in the DAMARK catalog.  The features are:
...
>Is this card a good one and is this a good deal.  Also, does anyone
>know if this card is Microsoft MPC compatible?
Since Media Vision, the maker of this card, sits in the MPC council, I
would assume is is *highly* MPC compatible.
Yossi.
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From: swesterback@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi (Sten Westerback, Nokia Telecommunications, FINLAND)
Subject: Re: Re: HIMEM and EMM386... *.EXE, not *.sys
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:52:07 GMT


In article <1iaqe7INN1ea@tamsun.tamu.edu>, pmh2962@tamsun.tamu.edu (Pat Hayes) writes:
> Sarah wrote:
>>either one is acceptable.  Windows just put the emm386 and himem in
>>their software since they require them. So when running installation
I disagree. If you are running Windows 3.1 you should use the ones that come
with Win31. It may possibly be that recent versions of DOS 5.0 has the same
(or even a newer) versions. Is it so?

. removed ...

>>extras when using these programs too.  Load as much as possible high!
> 
> .... Of course, HIMEM and EMM don't get loaded high;
>     but most everything else should.
I just wanted to warn you with net drivers in your PC. Some of them should
NOT be loaded high (for example the DEC Pathworks PROTMAN.SYS).

Sten
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   Note that i am working, but not speaking for Nokia Telecommunications!
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:59:20 EST
From:         Andy Mavrias <andym@550SHERB.LAN.MCGILL.CA>
Subject:      Re: win3-l

Hi there,

        We've got one in for testing, and have had no problems with it so
far. However, using PC mag's Winbench, we found that the old ATI ultra
card OUT-Performed the PRO! - Go figure....
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From:         Rob Lussenburg <LUSSENBURG@RULBUR.LEIDENUNIV.NL>
Subject:      Re: Video driver problem (I think)

In an answer to a question put forward by Darryl Johnson
(DAJ@ABS.NLC-BNC.CA), Willy Verheulpen (waverheu@bbrbfu60.bitnet) writes:

> Several sources told me that the 3 chips type ram modules occasionally
> cause malfunction problems in fast machines, even if they are 70ns or
> less. There seems to be no valid explanation why but it is said that the
> parity implementation in this type of chips is the cause of the trouble.
> This problem never seems to show with the 9 chips ram modules.
> I have seen the experiment of transferring 8Mb ram from a 386DX33 to a
> 486DX33 the 386 working perfectly well and the 486 even refused to boot!
> removing 4meg & testing the remaining 4Meg showed 1 module to be 'defective'.
> Putting all memory back in the 386 re-generated a perfectly working machine
> with no errors. Frustrating but true, try to interchange the ram modules and
> find out which one is generating the trouble.

I can confirm Willy's statement: I bought 8 pieces of 3-chip 70ns 1 Mb.
SIMM's, to install them in (then) my 386SX-16 MHz. Occasionally, the thing
reported memory read/write errors on bootup. Shuffling the SIMM's around in
the banks helped in some cases (but it is quite a lot of work!). Then I
bought an elderly 386DX-25 MHz. board with 4 Mb. DRAM chips on it. I added 4
of the SIMM's. No problems. I sold the rest to a collegue with a 486DX. He
couldn't get his system to work properly so he returned them. I sold them to
another collegue with a 386DX-33 MHz. He couldn't get the machine to boot up
either so he also returned them to me. I installed them in my own system. I
got problems at bootup.... Then I returned the 4 little criminals to the
person I bought them from. He put them in his 486DX-33MHz. and they performed
beautifully. They are in his machine for over a week now and they didn't give
the slightest hitch.
Thought I'd let you know...


Sincerely,

Rob Lussenburg
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden
the Netherlands
LUSSENBURG@RULBUR.LeidenUniv.nl
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Date:         Tue, 5 Jan 1993 06:28:07 -0600
From:         Kenedy Araujo <KENEDY@UFRJVMS1.BITNET>
Subject:      TDW 2.51 and Win 3.10.

        There is a patch to update the Turbo Pascal for Windows so it can work w
ell wi
th Windows 3.1. The patch can be found at CICA. It updates the debugger and oth
er things.
        Hope this helps!

Kenedy Araujo
Kenedy Araujo
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Consulant/Programmer
From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
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Subject: Bizarre Error Interim Report !*****************************************
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:19:01 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


                        Help!! Bizarre System Error!!
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                    Interim Report (Not Solution Summary)
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

        I haven't found the answer to this problem yet, in spite of the 
excellent help I have been getting from you netters. I didn't want anyone 
to think I was ungrateful, so many sincere thanks from the heart of my 
bottom to everyone who took the time out to reply to my post ; and 
here's a summary of the stuff I've tried so far.

1).     Remove "lastdrive=" statement from the config.sys.
        
        If I do this the PC won't attach to the network. Maybe this
        would work for Novell, but for PC-NFS it's a no-no.


2).     Set "lastdrive=" to the letter that is before the drives the
        network need to work.

        Again, the PC fails to mount the network.


3).     Remove any "subst" drives.

        None are set up.


4).     Load the network drivers ahead of windows.

        I do.


5).     Do you run Win 3.1 rather than 3.0 ?

        Yes.


6).     Is file manager or an application trying to read the j: drive     
        on Windows launch?

        No.


7).     Set up Win31 for PC-NFS : special TSRs & tell Windows 
        'there is no network'.

        I am using the standard setup for windows & PC-NFS which
        works on 100's of PCs on campus every day. {But not this 
        one *sob* :( } It does include theose TSRs & Windows is set
        up for 'no network'.

Thats most of it. Finally, I have reinstalled Windows, and reinstalled the     
network connection software, and no joy. I even tried running the network 
version of windows, rather than this guy's local version, and that 
displayed the same symptoms. The network version is definately set up OK,
so I am beginning to believe the problem is not with Windows.

I think I'll check out the PC-NFS newsgroups, and see if anyone there 
can suggest anything else.

A big thanks once again to all who replied. As a guy posted to me the 
other day: "What a pleasure to work in a community where people
help each other, like here on the Internet."

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From:         "Wile E. Coyote" <BBHULSEY@LIFE.UAMS.EDU>
Subject:      Disabling Call Waiting in Comm Programs

Greetings!

Conrad Sabatier writes:

>I believe the correct code is *70, isn't it?  An alternate form is
>1170 (no star), which is useful if your comm program (as many do)
>interprets "*" to mean something special, like "pause for 2
>seconds" or whatever.  Whichever form you use, insert it before any
>other numbers in the dial string.  This is, if I understand
>correctly, only to be used for dialing out, not for answering, or
>during a call in progress.

This is correct.  Also, I would think that any communications package/modem
combination that uses the Hayes AT command set should let you use this code,
since it's a function of the phone system and not of the comm package or modem
itself.  The Hayes AT command is ATDT*70,nnnnnnn where nnnnnnn is the host
phone number.  The comma just allows a pause between dialing *70 and nnnnnnn.

.......
:  o/ : Bruce Hulsey
: <|  : Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:47:51 -0500
From:         "PAUL C. FOSTER" <FOSTERPL@UCBEH.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Wolfenstein 3-d

My friend has a copy of Wolfenstein 3-d at home and according to the opening
screen, it isnt shareware. Although I have heard that at one point in time
it was. He has all six levels (there may be more by now). If there is
significant interest in it, I can post the address of the company which
sells it. I think they charged about 30 bucks for the whole package.
Real good deal considering it's probably the best computer game I've
ever played. Respond to me directly and I'll try to send you the address

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Date:         Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:34:27 PST
From:         Roman Shi <ROMAN@UCSFVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Windows user

Please add me to your mailing list.

Thank You

Roman Shi
roman@vm.ucsf.edu
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Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:33:06 +0200
From:         LIOREN1@WEIZMANN.WEIZMANN.AC.IL
Subject:      Re: Good Comms Prog for Win 3.1 Wanted
              11 Jan 1993 22:23:57 +0000 from <K.E.Walton@BRADFORD.AC.UK>

>Can any one recomend a good comms prog for windows, currently use odysey
>for dos. Is there a win version of this ?
The best shareware Windows comm program I know of is MicroLink, which has a
nifty toolbar, and is very intuitive.  You can find it at cica as MLKsomething.
Yossi.
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Date:         Thu, 7 Jan 1993 13:43:00 CDT
From:         "ETDAI2::LEONG" <leong%etdai2.decnet@MDCGWY.MDC.COM>
Subject:      RE: Stacker Performance

Why would Stacker not allow you to share files?  Whenever you access the disk
to use a file, Stacker uncompresses the file.  If you were to copy the file to
another disk (floppy) the file on the floppy would not be compressed because
Stacker would not be operating on the floppy drives.  Unless you use the option
the both Stacker and SuperStor provides to create a 'compressed floppy'.  But
even then, they imbed a decompression TSR on each floppy to make the disks
portable.  Perhaps on a networked system you may run into problems if you don't
use the host cpu's OS to access a file and tried to copy it directly from the
"Stacked" disk you'd run into problems.  I am not familiar with the way PCLans
handle remote file access on server machines.  One would assume that, DOS being
DOS, you could not merely pull a file off another host's hard drives without
using the host's DOS to do it.  In that case the host's copy of Stacker would
handle the decompression prior to the network copy.  If this is wrong, please
correct me someone.

Chee Woo leong
McDonnell Douglas Aerospace
St. Louis, MO
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Date:         Wed, 6 Jan 1993 09:51:45 -0500
From:         Benny Galliher <bgallihe@NCDC.NOAA.GOV>
Subject:      Memory Hog

Is there a way to release memory that a program used?  If I run a program
and then quit the program, the memory monitor shows the memory that could
be used stays the same.  The program is not letting go of the memory that it
used.  I noticed this in some of the windows shareware programs that I
was looking at.  Is there a program out there that will fix this problem
without starting windows over?

Thanks
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Subject:      Sound using SPEAK.EXE

I have a PS/2 70 and at one time because of space problems on my harddrive
I removed virtually all files which related to sound and multimedia. Since that
time considerable space has been freed up and I would like to enable the
limited amount of sound that is available without additional hardware. I have
reinstalled soundrec.exe, soundrec.hlp, mmplayer... and installed speak.exe and
I still am not able to play any .wav files. Basically when I launch
soundrec.exe I am told to use the control panel to install a sound driver,
which is already installed. Any suggestions?
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