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From: sph0301@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu (Kate Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Mine Sweeper cheating
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:10:43 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Texas School of Public Health

In article <martin.713581667@zen> martin@zen.maths.uts.edu.au (Martin Caden) writes:
>Secondly, I don't believe it is possible to recognise any patterns in the 
>way in which mines are laid down - although you may have good intuition.  
>Of course I'd be pleased to know if any such patterns do indeed exist but 
>it would be harder to program such behaviour than to use a psuedo random 
>number generator to place the mines - so why would a programmer do 
>otherwise?  On the other hand, a poor choice of random number generator 
>could lead to a small cycle of numbers being churned out and thus the mines 
>might be placed in roughly the same manner each time the game is run.  Is 
>someone prepared to do a complete statistical analysis for us :-)

I've noticed the following behavior which I can replicate pretty reliably.
If you select the top left square as the first choice in a new game (this
is in expert level - haven't tried it on other levels), that square is never 
a bomb.  But if the mouse 'slips' a little and you hit the square below
instead, then the top left square almost always turns out to be a bomb.
It's as though the location of the bombs isn't decided until you make your
first square selection.  Am I imagining this?
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: cjwein@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Chris J. Wein)
Subject: Re: Mathematica vs MathCAD
Keywords: MAthematica MAthCAD
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:03:32 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.130737.22769@ncsu.edu> lelebrun@eos.ncsu.edu (LOUIS E LEBRUN) writes:
>
>I have been considering buying a program such as MathCAD for Windows or
>possibly Mathematica for the same.  I run Win3.1 on a 486/33 and use the
>current versions of Word and Excel.  My question is which one will do a
>better job?
>
>I am a Masters student in Civil Engineering and am looking for a program
>that will effectively allow me to edit equations and allow me to do some
>number crunching.  I have used Mathtype but would really like something
>that does more than make pretty pictures.
>
>I understand both programs allow some form of programming, and that is a
>feature that I'm really interested in.  I want to be able to write some
>programs that will analyze data and give me results that can be easily
>pasted into a W4W document.  I can purchase either package at a student
>discount but want to buy the right program the first time.

If you want to do programming then Mathematica is clearly the correct
choice.  Since you mentioned serious number crunching (ie. numeric) then
have you considered Matlab?  Mathematica derives most of its power
(and price) from its symbolic capabilities.

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From: drinnen@deakin.OZ.AU (Philip Shead)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: compressed : Not bloody likely
Date: 18 Aug 92 06:42:46 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: Deakin University, Victoria, Australia

As the title suggest me and windows are having a little to do over the
dos compression. Whenever I try to run a dos application it says : 
One of more of the program components are compressed. 
And will of course refuse to run it, So does anybody have any suggestions.
The files are not compressed and I re-installed windows but that had no effect.
 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: snowden@cray.com (Jim Snowden)
Subject: Re: ** NORTON'S DESKTOP FOR WINDOWS!! **
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Date: 21 Aug 92 03:59:08 CDT

In article <1992Aug21.065034.26236@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> CSC9017984R@LUST2.LATROBE.EDU.AU (M.C. Freddy!!) writes:
>
>               **    NORTON'S DESKTOP FOR WINDOWS !!!    **
>                               version 1.0
>
>                               Brand new !!
>                                Unused !!
>                           Still in Plastic !!
>
>                        Won at PC-Show last week !!
>
>                               $150.00 !!
>
>                          Or make me an offer !!
>
>
Thou jestest?!!
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: veikko@vipunen.hut.fi (Vesa J Pyyluoma)
Subject: Cyrillic font (tt maybe)??
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: comp
Date: 22 Aug 92 10:44:05


Hi.  This could be a FAQ, but has anyone ever come across a *truetype*
cyrillic font??  Or any other fancy variations of the same theme?

cheers,

Vesa J Pyyluoma		veikko@vipunen.hut.fi		DoD# 200h
Avionics rules!				 Helsinki Univ. of Tech, Finland

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From: dhartung@chinet.chi.il.us (Dan Hartung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Smartdrive.sys & WIN 3.0 /3
Date: 14 Aug 92 17:05:39 GMT
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX

aa330@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Neil Gould) writes:
>
>Does anyone know if SMARTDRV.EXE will work with WINDOWS 3.0? I need to 
>stay with v3.0 until all of the drivers for devices on that machine are
>available for v3.1.

Yes, it works just fine with 3.0, and with all other software I've run
so far.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: dyoung@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Donn C Young)
Subject: Print Manager Woes
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:46:47 GMT

I've just installed an Intel SatisFAXtion board in my 486 clone. The 
board came with a crippled version of Intel FAXability software for 
Windows where you set up the fax as a printer device. Nice to fax stuff 
from WfW etc. Howsomever, when someone faxes stuff to my machine, the 
Intel software hangs onto the document, makes you "save" it as a *.DCX 
file. Then, you've got to break it up into *.PCX files using a DOS 
command (outside Windows). Then, I import the images into WfW or 
Paintbrush and print.

My problem: I've got this one page WfW document with a single PCX image 
(about 200K). When I go to print the damn thing, Print Manager keeps 
halting with the dreaded stop sign and a message that says "The printer 
on LPT1 is not responding. Check the printer or increase the 
Transmission Retry value (it's 120 sec.) ... and resume the print 
queue."  What's going on???  After 12 minutes pm says its completed 44% 
of 202K and crashes again.

I have a 486/50 clone with 16 Mb ram with a HP Laserjet III w/2Mb 
optional memory in addition to its stnd 1 Mb internal memory and a 
official HP Postscript cartridge.  I'm running Win 3.1 and WfW 2.0.
Why does this thing balk at a measly little 200K file?? Why does print
manager take 15+ minutes to send this thing over a parallel port??
With all that memory I thought it'd be zapped over in no time at all.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Donn Young, Biostatistics Unit     dyoung@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
OSU Cancer Center                  614/293-3075
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: rwb@Turing.ORG (Robert W. Bingler)
Subject: Help using parad31.zip drivers?
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:18:30 GMT

Hey,
	I have a clone of Paradise 1024 w/ 512K.  I am having problems
running Win 3.1 with the parad31.zip drivers.  In 640x480x256 the screen
does weird things in scroll boxes as well as windows.  Trash just seems
to overwrite the info in there.  In 1024x768x16 if you open a dos window
with a 80x50 text screen, very shortly the screen goes into a big garble.
You have to reboot to fix it.  The standard 640x480 that came w/ Win works
fine.

Thanks,
Rob

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From: ehunt@bsc835bsc.edu (Eric Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: DOS 6.0?
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:58:21 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: Birmingham-Southern College

In article <TGUEZ.92Aug13183937@jade.tufts.edu>, tguez@jade.tufts.edu (Name) writes:
> 	Is it true that soon we shall see DOS 6.0?  I heard that

DOS 6.0 has entered Beta. I'm not a tester, but know people who are.
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From: carter@cemvax.cem.msu.edu (Tom Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: re: 50 line modes in DOS windows
Keywords: 50 lines
Date: 13 Aug 92 12:55:18 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan

In article <1992Aug13.054519.25655@u.washington.edu> rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) writes:
>
>	I prefer using a DOS comm prog with Windows for most of my
>stuff, but I really hate the way that it puts it in 25 line mode.  I
>like for my eyeballs to hurt and all that, so could somebody tell me
>how I might get my various DOS apps to appear in their 50 line glory?
>Yes, I know what ANSI is, so perhaps I make a pif that points to a bat
>file or something?  I don't know.  I am meager.  Someone, please
>enlighten me. 
> 
> 	So many thanks,
> 
>rene@hardy.u.washington.edu

Edit the SYSTEM.INI file in your windows directory to add the following line
to the [NonWindowsApp] section:

ScreenLines=50

This will do it! Every DOS session invoked under windows will start with a 
50 line screen! HTH 

P.S. 	Exit and restart windows after making the change. 

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From: Robert.Turner@brunel.ac.uk (Robert Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Permanant Swapfiles and Security
Date: 14 Aug 92 09:18:39 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK

rw@donner.Rational.COM (Bob Weissman) writes:=
%I write
%>NO! NO! NO!  As the original poster (and beginning to regret it!),
%>Windows is held on the network, the permanant swapfile would be held on
%>a local hard disc which has physical access from anyone who cares to
%>enter the room.
%
%But, your original query <BsEKL6.16t@brunel.ac.uk> said, and I quote:
%
%    What I mean is, if someone does some work on a machine under windows
%    with a permanent swapfile linked to a network, saves all data on said
%    network and exits, can anyone else come alone later and edit the same
%    swapfile to discover data.
%
%which sure sounds a lot like you meant the swapfile was on the network.

My apologies. My original text was ambiguous. However, I believe that it
is IMPOSSIBLE to have a permanant swapfile on a network, as Windows uses
direct disc access to get information out of this swapfile.

%In actuality, the presence of a network is totally irrelevant to your
%original query.  The original user may have saved his data onto a floppy
%disk instead of a network and your query is still the same.

I agree with this.

%Then you write further:
%>Oh, well, back to the temporary swapfiles........
%
%But in MS-DOS, a deleted file is merely marked as deleted.  Its bits
%are still intact on the disk until they happen to be overwritten.
%So this isn't secure either.

Unfortunately, this is correct. I think that I will just have to tell
people just how secure the system is, and not to do any highly 
confidential work in the classrooms!

I think that 'MS-DOS' and 'security' should not be mentioned in the same
sentence.

Thanks for all who answered my original posting.

Rob

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From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Park Disk
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:30:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

CS.Look folks... Of course you shouldn't shut down the computer before
  .Windows (or any program) has exited. All of my drives park themselves,
  .but some don't. I think what he was asking for was a program to park
  .the heads while the disk is just idle and spinning. That would be
  .of some use if your heads don't park automatically.

Which drive is it that automatically parks the heads during normal
operation?  The last one I saw was an ill-fated Miniscribe, and the
autopark was nothing but trouble!  Most drives only park when you
power down.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Subject: Re: Paradise/Western Digital drivers for Win 3.1
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:25:21 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Aug14.093928.25473@csd.brispoly.ac.uk> kw_simpk@csd.brispoly.ac.uk writes:
>Please, does anybody have Windows 3.1 drivers for the Western Digital 
>Paradise vga as fitted to oem boards, using the WD90C30 chip and
>1 Meg of video ram?  
>The parad31.zip file from ftp.cica.indiana has drivers which only utilise
>512k of video ram and do not give a 1024x768 256 color mode.
>Also, drivers for 640x480 256 color 1 meg and
>                  800x600 256 color 1 meg
>should be much faster than 512k versions ( as they were with Windows 3.0 ).

These drivers work on my PVGA1A paradise card, and are much faster than
the Win 3.0 drivers. However, the 640x480x256 driver exhibits weird
scrolling problems. Characters and graphics get broken up when the
screen scrolls them upward (as in a list box of file names).
The 800x600x256 driver doesn't work, of course, on this old card.



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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: yukingc@athena.mit.edu (King Chung Yu)
Subject: Active on pointing!
Keywords: pointer, pointing, active, window, click
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:00:37 GMT

Is it possible to configure Windows 3.1 such that an application window is active when the
mouse pointer points inside it (instead of having to click once inside the window)?  This is
a feature X-windows provides and is a lovely feature that I want to see in MS Windows as
well!  This feature would mean that you can do things on a partially occluded window and
don't need to awkwardly make a meaningless mouse-click before you can do things in a window.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: annef@dmp.csiro.au (Anne Foxworthy)
Subject: Re: SMARTDRV for Windows 3.1
Organization: CSIRO Division of Mineral Products, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:35:33 GMT


Perhaps I worded my original post a little strongly. I do think SmartDrive
write caching is a good thing _in general_. What I was concerned about were
the number of people who seemed to believe the original person who asked
about SmartDrive caching was being overly fussy, without apparently
thinking about the various (admittedly few) situations in which write
caching could be a major problem.

Less than a week ago I had the job of "fixing" a corrupt database. I had
done this many times before, so it should have been straight forward. It
wasn't. Things were _really_ screwed up. Eventually we worked out what had
happened. 

The machine had crashed halfway through writing a record (note, not an
index entry). This meant that half the record was correct, while half
still contained the old data. This database uses variables in each record
to record various things about other records (primarily for speed). Only
some of those variables were updated.

To fix this database, I had to drag out a utility that had been written
and used during the alpha test phase of the program (when errors of
this kind were program induced!). Boy was I glad that utility was
available!

I should also say that we managed to get a similar thing to happen
on purpose, using write caching. When we turned off write caching
and repeated everything, only the indexes were incorrect.

I might also add that I usually DO use SmartDrive's write caching.

For those interested, the database system in use was a program written
in C++ using CTree. It tries to save changed data at every opportunity, 
and (until SmartDrive write-caching) had never lost more than a few words
(one field or less) under any circumstances. The database I "fixed"
last week is, to my knowledge, the only one running with the new version
of SmartDrive. Many users are using XTs and ATs, with 640 K - 1 Mb RAM.
Many don't have Windows 3.0, let alone 3.1!!
 


Anne
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: s9874203@titan.ucc.umass.edu (s9874203)
Subject:  I figure it out: nothing wrong with WinGIF or pspro!
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:24:35 GMT

In last post I said pspro was a memory hog and before that I also said I
had memory problem with WinGIF. Now I know actually nothing is wrong
with pspro or WinGIF ... I should have used windows 386 enhanced mode
rather than stardard mode. That is it. After I use the enhanced mode,
all the memory problems are gone! Sorry for confusing things.

Only one problem remains: why the bmp files I got by converting gif
files by these programs are in 16 colors rather than 256 colors (when
viewed by paintbrush)? I need help on this since I want to use them as
wallpaper. Thanks in advance.

H.Y.
From: ken@batman.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: More on WinGif, the gif viewer for Windows
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:06:44 GMT
Reply-To: ken@netmail.austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
Organization: IBM Austin, TX


Hey, could someone email me the author's email address?
I am interested in wingif and want to verify something.
Is this new version (wingif14.zip) for Windows 3.1? I
have a version on wingif but I think it's for Windows
3.0 - it won't read *any* gif files! 

Thanks!


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: bx953@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Cohen)
Subject: Cardfile question
Reply-To: bx953@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Cohen)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 03:07:32 GMT


You netters did such a superlative job answering my clock questions, I now
hit you with a cardfile question.

I have a good deal of info in my cardfile "rolodex," about 150 cards.  I
wonder if there is an easy way to extract this information and use it to
create a mailing list ... perhaps via Wordperfect for Windows or some other
Windows application.

I sure would like not to have to retype all the info that is already in my
cardfile file into a mailing list program!

Again, e-mail appreciated, thanks in advance.

David
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From: ketil@edb.tih.no (Ketil Albertsen,TIH)
Subject: Re: SMARTDRV for Windows 3.1
Organization: T I H / T I S I P 
Posting-Front-End: Winix Conference v 92.05.15  1.20 (running under MS-Windows)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 12:17:15 GMT

In article <BszDLM.G8u@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com>, vscarafi@eccdb1.pms.ford.com (Vincent F. Scarafino) writes:

>Programs that do proper transaction support *require* the assurance that at
>least a minimal amount of data be safely written to a log (in such a way as
>to survive the loss of power) *before* they can acknowledge to the application
>that a transaction has been committed. Otherwise there is an integrity problem.  
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, isn't that a little pessimistic? A rollback is not an integrity problem,
it is next to "normal" in DBMSs - at least you should be prepared for it. And
you can make a perfectly consistent system with no integrity probles even if
you have no guarantee that "at least a minimal amount of data" is written
safely to disk. The last data you write to the log is the commit record, and
if after a power loss you don't find a complete commit record in the log (you
may end the record with a checksum to verify that it is complete), then you
have a rollback condition. If you find a commit record, it might be the case
that the user was not informed about the successful commit before power went
off, but he did request a commit and thereby gave up his right to do a
rollback. So the DBMS should insist that everything is consistent (which it is!).

The only thing you require is that when the disk system reports that the
entire data record has been written successfully to disk, then it *is* written 
successfully to disk. If a power loss occurs before this report is given, then
it is not written successfully to disk, and everything is still consistent,
although in the state of the database prior to transaction start. (Rollback)

A "nice" DBMS may after power up pick up the incomplete transaction and ask
if the user wishes a redo attempt, up to the point of the last successfully
written log record (again, checksumming may be used to verify that the log
record is indeed successfully written in its entirety). But this is not 
required for consistency, and all redoing is under the full integrity 
constraints mechanisms of the DBMS.
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