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From: adam@research.nj.nec.com (Adam Porter)
Subject: Greek/Math Postscript Fonts, WfW
Originator: adam@acapella.nj.nec.com
Organization: NEC Research Institute
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 15:59:28 GMT

Hi folks... The Greek and Math stuff shows up fine on the Word for
Windows screen, but they don't print out on an NEC Silentwriter 2
Model 90 Postscript printer.  (It's set to print to Postscript printer
on LPT1:)  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks


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From: rmaretsk@wtcp.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Robert Maretsky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Win 3.1 and Thunderboard
Date: 13 Apr 92 20:51:25 GMT
Reply-To: rmaretsk@wtcp.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Robert Maretsky)
Distribution: usa
Organization: APTS - Dayton, OH

I'm having all sorts of problems with my Thunderboard and Win 3.1. When I
installed the MM driver for it and restarted 3.1, the speakers put out a loud
audible HISS with a small whine in the background. The .WAV files play just
fine, but the hiss is always there. I downloaded the latest Tboard driver
(ThunderBoard Wave Driver) from GEnie and this did not fix it. 

Additionally, .MID files are not playing properly. When I play canyon.mid
(included with Win 3.1) I get a cacophony of noise. Somehow (I wish I knew),
I got it to play right once, so I know what it really sounds like.

Are there any other Tboard people out there who can help me??
From: darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 07:13:33 GMT
Subject: Windows 3.1, SCSI, QEMM, and the Netherworld
Organization: HP Network Measurements Div, Santa Rosa, CA
From: jdr8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jay D Rosenbaum)
Subject: DEC's Free Compose Utility
Reply-To: jdr8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jay D Rosenbaum)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 22:26:32 GMT

PC Magazine (April 28) has an article in First Looks, page 54, about a free
utility allowing the composition of characters, like in WP, in any Windows
program.  It is being distributed as CMPKIT.ZIP or COMPOS.ZIP.  Anybody
know where to get it?

Thanks for your help...

-Jay
jdr8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu




Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: jsmolnar@descartes.waterloo.edu
Subject: Re: My opinion on 3.1
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:59:02 GMT

In article <11290@mindlink.bc.ca> Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) writes:
>The first thing I did after installing the new Windows was run Telix, which
>I've been running in a Window with a PIF I made for weeks with no problems,
>multi-tasking with other programs simultaneously. Under 3.1 it works in the
>Window, but when I switch to full screen, the text disappears and all that is
>left are some junk characters where certain graphics like the borders are
>supposed to be (the program will still run in this state, though a lot of good
>that does me, when I can't see what's going on). That was just the beginning of
>nine hours of misery. I finally gave up, deleted the whole Windows directory
>and reinstalled 3.0. So far I am very disappointed in 3.1.

I don't understand what you are doing wrong...Because I am using it 
perfectly fine, Telix works in a Window, full screen, switches fine etc.
I have been running 3.1 for a good little while and had no problems like
that at all.


Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: jcyu@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jeff Yu)
Subject: Using TrueType Fonts Supplied by Applications
Keywords: TrueType, Windows 3.1, PowerPoint, Windows Draw, incompatible, fonts
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 17:27:28 GMT

Hi,

     I was reading some of the deluge of articles relating to Windows 3.1 
recently, and I noticed articles about upcoming updates to Microsoft
PowerPoint (ver. 3.0 in June) and Micrographx Windows Draw (ver. ? in 
month of ?).  The articles mentioned that both of these programs will come
with something on the order of 15-25 additonal TrueType fonts.  Does anyone
know of fonts supplied this way are available to all Windows (3.1) 
applications?  I was considering the purchase of the TrueType FontPack from
Microsoft, but I will almost definitely buy PowerPoint and Windows Draw,
so I don't want to waste my font efforts. 

    By the way, could someone give me a pointer to the PCWeek list of
incompatible programs?

    I would appreciate any insights.  I am not able to read this newsgroup
as often as I used to, so perhpas people could e-mail me, and I will post
a summary shortly thereafter.

Many thanks in advance,

Jeff Yu
jcyu@leland.stanford.edu


Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: prs@turing.acs.virginia.edu (Phillip R. Scarr)
Subject: Re: Why I'm sticking with Windows
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:40:18 GMT

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.
>OS/2 just doesn't have enough features for me to bother switching to it.
>I'm not convinced that IBM does have access to the NT source, but if they do,
>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
>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
>Windows apps in an environment where they don't belong.
>Sounds right to me.

I think you miss the point.  Unless you have a P5 (80586) or an R4000
machine, you won't be ABLE to run NT.  I don't want to be acused of
dealing FUD here, but what I have read about NT is that it is out there
to compete with UNIX and the various variations thereof, not to really
compete with DOS/Windows/OS/2.  OS/2 is not a patch, far from it.  It is
a well constructed, well ordered single-user, multi-tasking built-from-
the-ground-up operating system.  It is robust (I sat and watched the WPS
crash last night, all the icons disappear and then 30 seconds later, the
whole thing came right back up, all the time I was typing away on AmiPro
for Windows on the WPS desktop with no problems (I was testing out a
screen saver that OS/2 2.0 didn't like so when the shell came back, I
simply killed it)).

>
>- Brian
>

	-Phil
From: mpolen@gelato.mips.com (Michael Polen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: HELP: Windows 3.1
Date: 7 Apr 1992 20:45:46 GMT
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gelato.mips.com

In article <1992Apr7.051927.21779@cco.caltech.edu>, heathh@cco.caltech.edu (Heath Ian Hunnicutt) writes:
|> bakalov@WFUNET.WFU.EDU (Rudy Bakalov) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> >        Hello everybody:
|> >        I madly need your help. I spent the whole day trying to install
|> >Win 3.1 and I couldn't. It's a real shame-- I used to think my CS degree
|> >has some value.
|> [Windows only comes up in 3.0a /s mode...]
|> >        I am running 386/25MHz, 4Mb, ET4000, Stacker, 386MAX.
|> >        Please, help ASAP. I feel I am missing something very simple, but
|> >I couldn't find it. I tried to install in a new DIR-- same effect.
|> >        I WILL HIGHLY APPRECIATE ANY FEEDBACK.
|> 
|> 	Since you are running Stacker, you have to configure it in some
|> certain manual that I read in setup.txt but don't recall.  Anyway, it's
|> there for you to read.  

Only true if you have swapped the your boot drive to be a stacked drive.  If
so check the documentation.
|> 
|> 	Furthermore, try booting off of a floppy so that EMM386 is installed,
|> not 386MAX.  If possible, do not use Stacker.  (Obviously, you must run
|> Stacker to install on a Stacker drive..)  Win 3.1 should install Ok with
|> a standar setup like this.
|> 
|> P.S. My 3.1 upgrade installed A-OK, and I am running MSDOS 5.0, EMM386,
|> no stacker, tons of TSRs, with a nearly full hard drive, a TSeng 4000
|> Graphics Card, and SETUP just sailed right through it all.  So, my
|> guess is: Stacker or 386MAX is the culprit.
|> 
P.P.S.  My 3.1 upgrade installed A-OK, and I am running MSDOS 5.0, QEMM386,
stacker, tons of TSR's, with a hard drive that would be full if not for
stacker, and a farenheit video card.  No problems. 

Try executing win /3 to see if you car force it to Enhanced mode.  I have
sometimes had problems without the /3 because QEMM memory didn't look 
right to windows to let it know it could go into Enhanced mode.  After
that, everything was OK.  The problem eventually went away, and I don't know
how.  This problem (feature?) may also exist with 386 max.
From: dje@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Daniel Jay Enebo)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 Resource Kit - is this useful?
Date: 14 Apr 1992 20:01:25 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

There is an on-going discussion of MS Win Resource Kit available through MS's 
BBS.  Someone posted last week that it was available on internet (I'm sure the
y said it was on garbo "uploads" directory but there is no such dir).  Can any
one direct me to the correct location?
 
Thanks,
 

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|  Division of Biology      | ----------------------- |
|  Kansas State University  |  Cell Cycle Regulation  |
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
Subject: Differences between Norton's Desktop version 1.0 and version 2.0?
Reply-To: axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 00:34:07 GMT


I currently use NDW 1.0 as my shell.  Could someone who has used NDW 1.0,
and now uses NDW 2.0 tell me more about the enhancements in the latter?

Additionally, does anyone know whether Symantec is offering a cheaper
upgrade to registered users of version 1.0?

Regards,

Ashok
-- 
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		   aiyar@cwbio.bioc.cwru.edu
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From: mpolen@gelato.mips.com (Michael Polen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Why I'm sticking with Windows
Date: 15 Apr 1992 17:49:18 GMT
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gelato.mips.com

In article <1992Apr15.151407.2183@scott.skidmore.edu>, pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr15.142857.27595@alw.nih.gov> donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) writes:
|> >Another perspective on why to stick to Windows.  I have 5 IBM Model 80
|> >PS/2's with 2 mb ram and 80 mb hard drives.  These machines are perfectly
|> >adequate Windows platforms.  To upgrade to OS/2 2.0 for these machines
|> >would require 4 mb ram ($600.00) and at least another 80 mb hard disk
|> >($800.00). 
|> 
|> ($600 for an additional 2mb ram??)

and $800 for an 80meg hard disk?

Is the PS/2 that expensive to upgrade.  The going rate for memory today in the
retail discount outlets or by mail is < $50/meg.  The going rate for drives
is way less than that.  I have been looking at 200-400meg for << $800.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: ms-isv@uunet.uu.net (Microsoft - ISV Archive)
Subject: Re: Windows NT
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 01:03:23 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.015549.27626@news.iastate.edu> arakins@iastate.edu (Andrew R Akins) writes:
>  Howdy folks.
>
>  I would appreciate it if someone knowledgable on the subject
>would describe exactly what NT is and is not going to be. I

For an 8 page Windows overview paper, a 21-page Windows 3.x to
Win32 porting guide, and for a 2.5Mb Win32 API Spec WinHelp file,
please use anonymous ftp to the site ftp.uu.net, look into
the /vendor/microsoft directory and choose suitable files from
the ./win32-api & ./isv-communications directories.

Alistair Banks, Microsoft Systems Division
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
Subject: Re: Why Windows is a better bet than OS/2 2.0...
Organization: /usr/local/lib/news/organization
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 22:40:11 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.201637.27169@eng.umd.edu> toddf@eng.umd.edu (Todd Fine) writes:
>

>*********** Excerpt from Washington Post Business section ************
>
>	...Meanwhile, Microsoft Corp. shipped Windows 3.1 this week. It's
>	more of a stalking horse for a trio of Microsoft products coming
>	at the end of the year than it is a direct competitor for OS/2 2.0
>	  The most important of those new products will be Windows NT, for
>	new technology, a full 32-bit operating system that will offer
>	important features missing in the new OS/2, said David Thacher,
>	Microsoft's group product manager for Windows NT. Where OS/2 2.0 
>	has a high-performance file system capable of long 254-character
>	file names, Windows NT will have yet a more advanced file system,
>	with multiple long file names for a single file, self-reparing of
>	damaged files and the ability to address much greater disk storage
>	space than OS/@ 2.0, Thacher said.
>	versions...
>
>************************** End excerpt *********************************
>
>Some final comments:  OS/2 2.0 is a great product. I've ordered it myself,
>along with Windows 3.1. OS/2 2.0 has a lot to offer, but, in my opinion
>(repeat, *MY* opinion), it's only benefit over the Windows line is that
>it is "here right now". 

Unfortunately, Microsft itself has taught us the sad (and sometimes 
quite expensive, Os/2 support in C7.0 is an example) lesson not
to believe its own strategic plans. 


>Good luck,
with Microsoft strategic plans -:)

>		Todd Fine
>		toddf@eng.umd.edu

Dov Bai
From: ng@eemips.tamu.edu (Kit-Tong Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: windows for 3D ??
Date: 11 Apr 92 15:32:23 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University





Howdy:

Is there any software packages out there that can be used to program 
3-D in Microsoft Window environment ???
I am actually looking for one that has the capabilities of DDE, DDL and all the wonderful things a MS windows has.

Please E-mail me at "kit@Napolean.tamu.edu" or "ng@eemips.tamu.edu"
From: scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS Wins Apple suit!!!
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:08:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: lims01.16APR199209082707
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr16.024304.18404@cs.brown.edu>, wcn@cs.brown.edu 
(Wen-Chun Ni) writes...
>In article <1992Apr15.224824.23864@cs.mcgill.ca> becap@cs.mcgill.ca () writes:
>>  Computers:  MICROSOFT and Hewlett Win Ruling Over Apple ----
>>  By  Stephen  Kreider Yoder Staff Reporter of The Wall Street
>>  Journal
>	<stuff deleted>
> 
>Even though Windows is not that good, I am glad that Apple didn't win.
>This case is basically ridiculous: copy-righted look-and-feel? Give
>me a break!

Technically, this is a "No Judgement Rendered" since da judge tossed most 
of the stuff out, effectively due to lack of evidence.  However, at least 
by the way the article read, Apple's remaining claims (if ruled in Apple's 
favor) could provide at least an annoyance to Microsoft.

JD
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: pr@wam.umd.edu (Jesus M. Rodriguez)
Subject: :-)
Originator: pr@rac1.wam.umd.edu
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 03:07:16 GMT




	WINDOWS SUCKS!!!
From: Ayman Kayssi
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 Resource Kit - FTP
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:56:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: jaber.70327781218871
Reply-To: ayman@eecs.umich.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: ACAL, EECS, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

In article <palmer.703273263@isye.gatech.edu> palmer@isye.gatech.edu (Michael T. Palmer) writes:
>In addition to the download time, I've heard the docs expand to quite a few
>pages... 

	Is the WRK available on any of the Windows FTP sites?

--
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: Arshad Omari <arshad@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au>
Subject: Events in Windows3.1
Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Western
     Australia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.0
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 07:04:35 GMT

What other (if any) events can be assigned sounds in Windows 3.1 ?
.....................................................................
........
Arshad Omari

Department of Computer Science            email:	   
arshad@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au
The University of Western Australia       phone:     (09) 380 3695
From: leadfoot@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Mark Curtis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 Review
Date: 8 Apr 92 04:49:45 GMT
Distribution: usa

Is there anyway to get these new niffty sounds out of the normal PC
speaker? I don't have a SB board and unless the SB for MCA is a 16bit
half-size card I never will.  I only have a 16bit slot open.

So far I have had the same type of problems and joys you have.  It didn't
upgrade my 7.05 microsoft mouse to the 8.20 that is on the install disks
so I had to do it myself.  I copied the new .com .sys .drv files to the
windows and system directories.  I didn't change the mouse settings in the
system ini file so maybe I missed something.  I'm not sure why they
have a 8.20 driver on the disk and don't install it.

The TT fonts appear to work well, but I haven't really given them a
work out yet.

One problem I have had with the print manager is that it doesn't seem
to update the status of the print job, eg. 6% of 256K, unless I force it
to redraw the screen.  The old PM would update every few seconds and was
a good way to see what was happening.  I did change the setting about
fast printing directly to the hardware port.  I need to have the printer
use the normal calls so that when I have my external ethernet adapter on
the machine windows leaves the hardware alone.  The driver only handles
normal calls through its printer connection.  I don't use the printer and
adapter together, but if PM is watching the print port directly it screws
up the adapter even if you aren't printing.  At least it worked that way
in win 3.0.

I am using BlueMAX so I stuck with their qcache program instead of using
the new smartdrv.  Maybe I should try smartdrv for a while and see what
happens.  But if I can not safely load it high I will be back to qcache.

Does anyone know if the new smartdrv handles disk manager partitioned
drives correctly.  I mean the ones the old smartdrv couldn't because
of the number of cylinders (over 1024) or the bios not matching the
disk params.  I have a friend with a system that will not work without
disk manager to fool the silly bios.  It only seems to know about MFM
drives.

Mark
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: Novell and IPX
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 19:30:32 GMT

pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:

>To make a long story short....  Win3.1 update complained about my
>current IPX.  But have continued using it with no problems.  What
>incompatibilities should I expect?   Also used MS' IPX.OBJ to generate
>a new IPX.COM, no go.. the system hangs.  Anyone successful at
>generating a new IPX??

I too have seen no problems (so far) using an old copy of IPX.  Mine is
IPX version 3.02.

Our local NetWare specialist built me a new IPX.COM which I've installed,
but I don't see any difference in the way the system works...again, so far.
I have not seen any system hangs; in your case where does the hang occur?

One question: what NETX.COM are you using?  And does its version match
the NetWare option specified in Windows SETUP?  Remember that a copy 
of NETX.COM V3.26 is probably in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.

Another question: you *did* tell Windows that you are using a network, no?
Windows (at least at 3.0) did strange things if NetWare was active but
Windows had not been told about it.

Joe
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: taber@ultnix.mro1.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber)
Subject: Re: Mouse in DOS window????? Was: Re: VGA in DOS windows
Reply-To: taber@ultnix.mro1.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber)
Organization: KC1TD@KB4N.NH.USA.NA.EARTH.SOLAR_SYSTEM.UNIVERSE.MIND_OF_GOD.01463
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 12:52:07 GMT


|>> > kc2x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kwan-Ju Chen) writes:
|>> > 
|>> > > Does Windows 3.1 supports vga mode under DOS windows?
|>> > 
|>> > Sure does, and what's more it displays DOS icons correctly (the icon you
|>> > use the the PM displays when minimized!!)
|>> > You can alos use the mouse in a dos window...
|>> > 
|>> > ...Stefan
|>>
|>>This is the one thing I haven't got working!!  Several people claim that
|>>the DOS application will react to mouse activity, even if it's reduced to
|>>a window in 386 enhanced mode.  I can't get this to work!
|>>
|>>By default, nothing happened when I used the mouse in the DOS window.
|>>Then, by changing some option in the Control Panel, I got back to the
|>>normal cut and paste of Win30 by default...
|>>
|>>Do I need a special mouse driver, or what?

I didn't see the original post -- do you have your DOS mouse driver loaded?  If you don't have a DOS mouse driver in the virtual machine, then you don't have mouse support in DOS windows.  There are two approaches -- load the DOS mouse driver in AUTOEXEC and every DOS virtual machine will have one, or make up a batch file that loads the mouse driver then runs your application and use that file + pif to start the application putting a mouse driver in only the virtual machine that is running the application.






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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: dbeedle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Dave Beedle)
Subject: IBM M-Audio, speaker.exe and delay problems...
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:10:05 GMT
Organization: Illinois State University

     Hi all!  I just upgraded to win 3.1 and have lost the driver for the M-
Audio Capture and Playback card I have in my PC.  I have tried reinstalling
the drives but windows does not like them.  My guess is they are too old.
Also the card is an older style card (we have another newer card here as
well).  Any clues on how to get the thing to work?

     Also, I used to be able to play .WAV sounds through the PC speaker (as
well as the card) but no more.  I have tried to install the speaker driver
folks have bee talking about recently but still have no luck.  My guess is
that in my stumbling about in my system.ini and win.ini I have set up things
wrong or the older stuff conflicts with the new.  Could some kind sole email
me the relevant lines in their INI files?  On a related note...the sound
recorder and the media player both tell me I don't have a sound driver and the
MCI drivers installed.  I have reinstalled all the MCI drivers...no luck.

     Finally,  on exit from windows it pauses for, maybe, 20 seconds before
returning the DOS prompt.  It appears that no activity is taking place during
this time.  There is disk access just after the exit, pause, quick disk access
again then the prompt.  Is this normal?  If so it a real pain! If not what's
the problem?  Thanks for any info!

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                                                    Illinois State University
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