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From: ssantiag@bellahs.com (Sam Santiago PSE)
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 and Stacker, NOT!!
Organization: Bell Atlantic Healthcare Systems
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:35:38 GMT

In article <2770057@hparc0.aus.hp.com> doug@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Doug Parsons) writes:
>>Windows 3.1 works beautifully with Stacker. In fact, the new version of
>>Smartdrive that comes with Windows (and is faster than any of the other
>>caches on the market today, according to tests) is Stacker-aware, and
>>works more effiently with it.
>>
>>- Brian
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>

I've been using Stacker 2.0 with Windows 3.0 for several months now with no problem.
I think Stacker's a great product and I'd recommend to anyone.  But, before 
installing Windows 3.1 I'd strongly suggest a complete backup of your system.
I installed Win 3.1 last night with no problem.  I started Windows and was checking
out the new features when all of sudden the message "Cannot access drive D:" starts
popping up every few seconds. I decided to exist Windows and while existing the 
message popped up several times.  At the DOS prompt I ran SCHECK which found
570 errors - lost clusters and directory entries (something like that, I don't 
remember the exact wording of the error messages, but basically the FAT was trashed).
PCTools diskfix was able to recover most of the lost directories and files; also I had 
done a full backup about two weeks ago so no information was totally lost.  But the
potential for disaster is there so better safe than sorry - do a backup first.

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From: lchang@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ling Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: The new cica....Thanks!
Keywords: Good job!
Date: 15 Apr 92 20:45:49 GMT

People, we owe our regards to the people in cica for coping
with the disk crash and getting a new site in such a short
time.

Thanks!

Ling S. Chang
lchang@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
From: cchapman@matd.gatech.edu (Charles H. Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: reversi on cica missing .hlp
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:55:08 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


Whoever posted the new 3.1 version of reversi, is there a new reversi.hlp
file that went with it?  That was not included in the .zip file and there
are some new (albiet trivially simple to figure out) menu options.

Chuck

Charles H. Chapman  (GTRI/MATD)             (404) 528-7588
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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Internet: cchapman@matd.gatech.edu
From: ms86817@suula.tut.fi (Matti Suokko (OH5MRM))
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: DUMB QUESTION about SPEAK.EXE (RE: How to install it.)
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:01:08 GMT
Organization: Tampere University of Technology



> btsg6965@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Briand T Sanderson) writes:
>
>I just downloaded the SPEAK.EXE file from MSDOS_UPLOADS on WUARCHIVE.

	WUARCHIVE ????

	Is that public ftp-site ?
	What is the complete name of this site ? Or IP-number ? 

	Thanks,

Matti Suokko                   OH5MRM
Mekaniikanpolku 6 A 36         Packet radio: OH3MRM@OH3RBR.FIN.EU
SF-33720 TAMPERE               Internet: ms86817@cs.tut.fi
Tel: +358-49-626362            Fax: +358-31-185985
From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico de Vries.)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS/HP win Apple suit!
Date: 17 Apr 92 06:36:20 GMT
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht

In <8dvUPKi00YVXQ32l8y@andrew.cmu.edu> cj00+@andrew.cmu.edu (Carl B Jabido) writes:

>Hey, and we have a trashcan for Win 3.1 too!!

Actually Microsoft did not (yet) win the Apple suit (althought their PR
is working hard on claiming it). The only thing happened is that most
claims (overlapping Windows, icons etc) where not accepted by the judge.
Probably this means if Apple wins they will not have much left.

Funny enough the trashcan (in HP NewWave) WAS accepted as claim by the
judge. Means they will have to think up another icon there :-)


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From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Subject: Re: Why go to 3.1 if 2.0 works
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 06:04:38 GMT

In article <44908@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> sexonbd@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Benjamin David Sexson (Ben)) writes:
>He has a good question.  Which is better Windows 3.1 and DOS 5.0
>or OS/2 2.0.  OS/2 has many advantages from what I know, but Windows
                                                              ^^^^^^^
>has the Apps behind it.  My question is when will someone make an OS
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Ah, but IBM has this aspect covered too. IBM is smart this time. OS/2 is
Win 3.0 compatible. And by summer, you can get the upgrade to be 3.1
compatible FREE. So OS/2 also has the Windows applications behind it as
well as the OS/2 products that's coming out. And a lot more companies
have stepped forward to say they will be coming out with a OS/2 version
of their program to make use of the 32 bit. I can't wait till I get the
CorelDraw for OS/2 or the Borland C++ (among the others planned) because
they sure can use the speed and power! :) Can't ever be satisfied with
more power.

Thomas.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: chawdry@wizard.cis.ohio-state.edu (rehan nisar chawdry)
Subject: Re: VGA graphics in a windows in windows (how good is it???)
Keywords: Dos Windows 3.1
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:09:31 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.180821.12074@sdc.com> derrick@sdc.com (Derrick) writes:
>I was absolutely amazed at the improvement of DOS CGA/EGA/VGA screens
>running in a window under Windows 3.1.
>
>I ran the Miracle piano learning system software in a Win3.1 window.
>(In case you dont know what I'm refering to,  the miracle software
>has beautiful VGA screens)
>
>It wasn't an exact color match, but it was the most amazing thing
>I`ve seen Windows do.  Only parallelled by OS/2 2.0's ability to
>do the same. 
>
>I often find myself looking for other DOS apps to run in Win3.1 to 
>gawk at.

Err, um sorry, but I've had Win 3.1 for about a week and am going crazy
trying to find out why VGA programs DON`T run in a window.  The mouse
works, but no VGA screens even on my 1024x768x256 Tseng with the latest
drivers.  I have 3 MB memory and 2 MB available after I run Windows, but
I can't get 320x200x256, 640x480x16, or any other VGA resolution.  It
gives me a message saying that no graphic app can run in the backround
from a window.  

	-- Rehan --
From: ehunt@bsc835bsc.edu (Eric Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: SMARTDRV 4.0 weirdness
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:42:47 GMT
Organization: Lost in Space

In article <1992Apr8.201752.14754@news.Hawaii.Edu>, lauch@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Chung Lau) writes:
>   Re: the new smartdrv,  does anyone know how to set the max.
> cache size (eats up 2 megs on mine!).  I've read the manual and

The same way you did with the old smartdrv.sys
The line in my autoexec.bat reads:
c:\windows\smartdrv 1024 1024

and I get a 1meg cache inside and outside of Windows 3.1 now.
-- 
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Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL
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From: futrena@wkuvx1.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: That's "solved".
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:36:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: wkuvx1.1992Apr7.183603.1250
Organization: Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

Oops.  Spelling error.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: chen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Hua Chen)
Subject: Changing Colors of WinHelp
Organization: Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 07:28:46 GMT

Hi, is there anyway to change the main text color of winhelp (I know how to 
change the Jump and Popup colors).  I would like to use darker background,  
that makes the black text really hard to read.  Reply through email will be 
appreicated.

thanks 

Hua 
chen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu
From: mgkst1+@pitt.edu (Michael G Koopman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Excel 4.0 review
Keywords: Excel, graphic objects, graphs
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:14:26 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <00958B23.61BED3E0@srcvax.cem.msu.edu> ridge@srcvax.cem.msu.edu writes:
>Fellas have you heard?  Anybody have reviews of Excel 4.0?? Is it 
>going to be out soon??  I am specifically interested in the enhanced 
>graphing capabilities(like error bars).  Can it put supers and 
>subscripts in the chart title, axes titles, etc...  
>
>Please send any comments and I will organize them into one large 
>review.  Thank you.
>

I have not had the opportunity to use Excel 4.0 but I look forward to
additional graphics capabilities, as well.  Specifically, I wish to get
at graphic object scaling under the chart tool.  I would like to plot an
ellipse by scaling an oval to the value axes.  Excel 3.0 appears to have
the capacity for this but no provision for the user to get at it.  I can
associate an oval from the spreadsheet with a bar graph and have some
vertical scaling capability .. but not vertical and horizontal.  I hope
this is fixed.

Perhaps someone might know of a fix or undocumented macro function that
allows more robust graphic object scaling?  Please let me know.

Thank you,
Mike Koopman
<mgkst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
From: phuongn@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Phuong Ngoc Nguyen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Need to knows UWarchives IP address
Date: 10 Apr 92 02:15:46 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.


 need to know the UWARCHIVES IP address or someone could show me 
how to ftp to it.

Thanks,
phuongn@sail.labs.tek.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: pdoub@koko.csustan.edu (Peggy Doub)
Subject: windows printer driver for xerox typewriter
Keywords: windows printer driver
Organization: CSU Stanislaus
Distribution: ca
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 21:21:11 GMT

Can anyone tell me what windows	3.0 printer driver to use so I could print
Microsoft Word documents to my xerox typewriter???????

Debera
From: v085khdn@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Geo @UB)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 and Stacker, NOT!!
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:32:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr7.211321.27934@alw.nih.gov>, donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) writes...
>I found that the new Windows 3.1 disk cach doesn't work well with
>my hard disk setup: a ST225 mfm + ST296N SCSI and stacker.  If you
>are having problems with Stacker "GET RID OF FASTDISK" and your
>problems will go away.  (They did for me.)  I reported this as
>a problem under the beta but it must be something they missed in the
>final release.
> 
> 
>--
>Donald A. Lehn, Ph.D.                      Phone: (301) 496-2885
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>Bethesda MD 20892


Setup.txt explicitly states that you should add a C- or D- on your 
smartdrive line in config sys, depending on which is the compressed disk.
This prevents smartdisk from caching the Stacked drive
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: Re: AmiPro 2.0 and Win 3.1
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:38:48 GMT

In article <167C4A504.BLAC$GA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> BLAC$GA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Garrick) writes:
=I dragged my AmiPro icon over to the startup folder so it would boot up every
=time I loaded windows.  I worked fine.  Then I decided that I wanted AmiPro
=loaded every time I loaded windows, but I wanted it to run minimized.
=So, I edited the properties of the AmiPro icon to have it run minimized.
=But, then whenever I start windows, I get a divide by zero error from ami.
=I've duplicated the problem over and over and it only occurs when AmiPro is
=set to run minimized.  Any ideas?  I'll try calling lotus today.  I'm using
=Win 3.1 and Ami 2.0.

This was reported on the Lotus Word Processing Forum on CompuServe, and
Lotus indicated that it is a bug in AP. Their suggestion? Don't run
minimized if AP is "autoloaded."

Pete
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From: linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Why I'm sticking with Windows
Date: 15 Apr 92 14:14:52 GMT
Organization: NCSU CATT Prog

In article <1992Apr15.041903.8194@cs.mcgill.ca> becap@cs.mcgill.ca (Brian CAPSON) writes:
>NT has got enough great features that I will MAKE room for it on my machine.

Just what features are these?  Please don't say pre-emptive multitasking, or
multithreading, or memory protection, or VDMs, or....

>OS/2 just doesn't have enough features for me to bother switching to it.

Do you even know what features OS/2 has?

>I'm not convinced that IBM does have access to the NT source, but if they do,

Not only do they have access to it, they are still partially funding the 
project due to existing contractual obligations.

>I hope they have the sense not to just keep patching things onto OS/2 to try 
>to compete with NT, the things that make NT so great have to built in from

I still don't know what you think will make NT so great.  OS/2 already has 
hooks for many/most of the features of NT that OS/2 doesn't ALREADY have.

If you're running DOS (patch upon patch) and especially Windows 3.1 (the $50
patch) then don't speak to me about OS/2 becoming a patch.  At least it is
here now.

>scratch. And since the API is a superset of the one I'll be investing in with
>Windows, I'll be all set. No need to waste my money on OS/2 apps, nor run my

Which API?  POSIX?  OS/2 1.3 text mode?  Windows 3.x?  Windows32?  (Insert
flavor of the month here)?  Microsoft has been marketing NT as a server OS.
Unless they are planning to figure out a way to run Windows apps as X clients,
it is going to be hard to run your Windows 3 apps in text mode.

>Windows apps in an environment where they don't belong.

Windows apps under OS/2 run under a version of Windows (that acts like a real
DPMI server should) tailored for OS/2.  The advantage is that you can run every
app in its own address space where it is safe from all the other running apps.
As far as I am concerned, if I have to run a Windows app than OS/2 is where it
belongs.

John W. Linville


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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: jkvanm00@nx29.mik.uky.edu (jonathan van meter)
Subject: Re: MOD player for Windows 3.x?
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 22:36:44 GMT
X-Bytes: 

> Does anybody know of a Amiga MOD sound file player for Windows 3.x?  There
> is one I know that requires Visual Basic's DLL.  I'm hoping to find one that
> doesn't require the VB*.DLL file.
> Alvin

I was wondering the same thing.  Does one exist?  Please post!!!!!

jonathan
From: edd946u@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Paul J. da Silveira)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: How many versions of QEMM are there?
Summary: How many versions of QEMM are there?
Keywords: Qemm Versions
Date: 13 Apr 92 08:23:24 GMT
Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus

Fellow netters,
  I'm currently running Win31 and as with 3.0 (run on a 486/25 4Mb 105Mb HDD),
  it runs considerably slower than it should.  For some strange reason, when
  I replace the HIMEM with QEMM's memory manager I get my "proper" CPU 
  performance.

  For example:  When I run Norton SYSINFO under windows, I get a CPU performance
                of around 12 - 14 when it should be around 54.  As I said, when
                I run QEMM it seems to alleviate this problem.

  I've heard you all discussing version 5.11 and 6.01 and 6.02, is there a 
  version 6.00?  Could someone please furnish me with the sequence of revisions,
  say from 5.?? onwards?

  Thanks in anticipation.

Paul.

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From: halderen@research.ptt.nl
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS Draw - WfW 4.0 - Postscript Problems
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:39:54 GMT

In article <7781@travis.csd.harris.com>, leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) writes:
> In article <1992Apr8.135332.65616@research.ptt.nl> halderen@research.ptt.nl writes:
>>I have been having difficulties with using the MS Draw program that came
>>with Word for Windows 2.0. Sometimes when i use dotted or dashed lines
>>in a drawing the whole picture suddenly becomes dotted or dashed. This
>>only happens when i print the picture on a Postscript printer. The picture
>>looks just fine on screen and on matrix-printers.
> 
>>Does anyone else have this problem? I have already tried the postscript
>>drivers version 3.4, 3.4A and 3.4B. Nothing works though. Microsoft told
>>me that there could be a problem with my video driver (TRIDENT 8900c), but
>>i really cannot imagine that this the problem.
> 
> I specifically do not, but one of my co-workers does - exactly as you 
> described.  In his case he is using a Paradise card with 256k running in 
> 800x600x16 to a QMS PS printer using the QMS modified version of 3.4 
> PSCRPT.DRV - sounds like a Microsoft bug to me.
> 
> 
> leoh@hdw.csd.harris.com         	Leo Hinds       	(305)973-5229
> Gfx ... gfx ... :-) whfg orpnhfr V "ebg"grq zl fvtangher svyr lbh guvax V nz n
> creireg ?!!!!!!? ... znlor arkg gvzr


Today (april 9) Microsoft in Holland confirmed this postscript-printing
problem: the only solution he could give was to buy Windows 3.1.
He said that the postscript-driver in Windows 3.1 should solve the problem.

I bit strange of course: to solve a serious bug.

A. van Halderen  
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
From: dorsai@iear.arts.rpi.edu (gregory d moncreaff)
Subject: Re: Tastes gross/more fattening (repost (last attempt only got ~1 site))
Keywords: (hex encoded ASCII) 3A 2D 29
Organization: the committee for asethetic deletions
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:57:15 GMT

In article <890139w.702661419@aucs> 890139w@aucs.acadiau.ca (John Weatherbie) writes:
>teverett@jarthur.claremont.edu (Toby Everett) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Apr7.051700.10839@midway.uchicago.edu> chi9@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>>>0.0333333333333, which gives us the astounding answer that Windows 3.0 is 1.5
>>>of an operating system!                                                   ^^^
>
>>	Which is what many people have been saying all along.  Windows is only
>>one half an operating system.  :-)
>>        --Toby Everett
>
>Any idiot who thinks that Windows is an operating system needs a kick to the head.  An operating system doesn't require another operating system to be installedto work.  Does Windows do this, didn't the last time I checked. Maybe it's in
>the manual, let me check.  Nope not there either, must be in a txt file. Hmm 
>don't see it.  Must not be able to do it. Guess it's not an operating sytem,
>everyone hear that, IT IS NOT AN OPERATING SYSTEM!!. DOS is an operating system,
some peoples kids....
From: thomasg@epx.hscs.umn.edu (Thomas Gasser)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Novell and IPX
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:11:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: epx.thomasg.504
Organization: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota


>Nope... have not used PDIPX.  Not sure what it's for.  Background....
>When we recently switched from token ring to ethernet, I did a lot of
>reading-up on the Clarkson packet drivers.  But when the computerr
>center bought the cards for us (from Cabletron), I discovered that
>Cabletron suppled their own drivers (Clarkson compatible, I guess,
>since NCSA Telnet and a host of other PD software works with the
>driver).  To generate IPX.COM, I just added Cabletron's software to
>the WSGEN files and generated IPX.  Everything worked.  Now, I've
>substituted MS' IPX.OBJ and regenerated.  Do I need PDIPX??  Is NETX
>MS' generic file to replace NETx (x=3,4,5..))?

PDIPX is one method of to get IPX and TCP/IP running on one machine.  It 
sounds like the problem you are running into is very much like what I ran 
into with PDIPX.  I would contact Cabletron to see if they have a new IPX.
COM for Win 3.1.  The NETX is Novells attempt to get rid of version specific 
net files ie NET5.COM.  The NETX.COM that comes with Windows is the latest 
shell from Novell.



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