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From: hughes@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (S. Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: S3 Pprobles [was Re: ATI ultra drivers]
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:13:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucdavis.19404
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ghewes@spchp9.BBN.COM (Gerald Hewes) writes:
: see anything. Since the NT setup is 100% graphical I had no choice than
: reinstalling ALL of NT. Windows 3.1 does not have this problem since
: it supplies a character based setup.exe. It has been very useful in the past.
:      Is MicroSoft considering such character based (probably DOS based)
: setup program to at least get you out of corners.

I've found that if you do the initial install using the VGA driver,
you can then experiment all you want with video drivers.  If you get
to where you can't read the screen, just boot from the Emergency
Repair disk.  It will reinstall the VGA driver.  (I'm not sure what
other potentially bad things it might do, so beware)

Shayne Hughes
hughes@eecs.ucdavis.edu
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From: kaushikc@microsoft.com (Kaushik Choudhury)
Subject: Re: Opening Tape0 from C
Date: 19 Nov 92 03:30:29 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Nov17.194048.20923@unislc.uucp> edge@unislc.uucp (Brian Edginton) writes:
>
>Has anyone discovered a method of accessing the tape drive
>from anywhere other than the backup program? I have searched
>most of the documentation and tried various combinations of
>\Devices\Tape0, etc. to no avail. There are several functions
>that allow determination of tape type, media type, etc. but
>all require that a fd be used. I would assume that fd is the
>result of an open -- but I cannot discover what I need to 
>open.
>

Use "\\.\TAPE0", if you are using CreateFile to get the device handle.
Open it with sharemode = 0. 

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From: hampe@mailgate.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (J. Felix Hampe)
Subject: IBM TR-Busmaster Adapter
Organization: Philipps-University-Marburg
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:59:19 GMT

Hi,
here again the question: has anybody seen a (reliable) driver for the IBM TR-
busmaster adapter (MCA) for the NT green beta and if so, how can i get 
it? (For the meantime a version for LanMan 2.1a would help us as well).
Thanks for any hints,

/Felix

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Philipps-University Marburg  I  or    : hampe@mailgate.wiwi.uni-marburg.de
FB 02, Dept. of Computing    I
Universitaetsstr. 25         I   phone: +49 6421 28-3753
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From: hampe@mailgate.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (J. Felix Hampe)
Subject: IBM 2.3 gigatape: driver for NT???
Organization: Philipps-University-Marburg
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:05:29 GMT

Hi again,	
has anybody seen a driver for the IBM 2.3 gigatapedrive (internal) which 
will work with the backup-software of NT (green beta)???
We badly need it, as we failed to get SYTOS+ to work (it comes bundled 
with LanMan 2.1a but hasn't worked properly since version 2.1).
Thanks for hints,

/Felix


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FB 02, Dept. of Computing    I
Universitaetsstr. 25         I   phone: +49 6421 28-3753
D-3550 Marburg               I     fax:            -4858
Germany                      I
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From: Kane@Xanadu.com (Charles Foster Kane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Help.
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:11:12 GMT
Organization: The Evening Herald

I've been running the Oct. Beta of NT on an AT&T 6836E/33 WGS (a 33Mhz 386) 
machine but get the notorious NTDVM error when a try to run a DOS or Windows 
3.1 (for DOS) application. The tech crew at Microsoft say that it not a 
certified machine and that it "just won't work" si I'll have to wait for the 
next Beta. I have a 350 MB SCSI hard drive and 24 MB of memory. Any ideas ?

					-CFK
From: mike-b@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Michael Bishop)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:16:15 GMT
Subject: Wanted: Diamond Speedstar 24X NT Drivers
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32

I was wondering if anyone has found a Windows NT video driver for the
Diamond Speedstar 24X display card.  640x480 resolution is simply
unusable.

Thanks for your help.

Michael Bishop
Hewlett-Packard Company
Internet: mike-b@fc.hp.com
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From: saswta@terrapin.unx.sas.com (Bill Arnette)
Subject: RIP debug event
Originator: saswta@terrapin.unx.sas.com
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:18:24 GMT
Organization: The Village


Does anybody know what the RIP_EVENT debug event is?  It is new with the October
release but I can't seem to find any documentation about it online.
-- 
Bill Arnette, SAS Institute Inc.  (919)677-8000x6193  | saswta@unx.sas.com
SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC 27513  (919)677-8123(fax)  | ...!mcnc!sas!saswta
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From: cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok)
Subject: Re: Anyone had experience with Gateway computer company & shipping?
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:55:20 GMT

In article <1992Nov14.212808.10903@cis.ohio-state.edu> kalra@turtle.cis.ohio-state.edu (harsh kalra) writes:
>In article <1992Nov4.160103.27714@cs.wayne.edu> pbh@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Patrick B. Haggood) writes:
>[Stuff Deleted]
>>Anyone had any bad experiece with Gateway and their not actually having in 
>>stock the items they advertise?   I'm not terribly interested in Gateway's 
>>-- 
>>Kadidjri Lahab
>>Wayne State University
>>Physics '94
>>
>I bought a 486SX-25 from Gateway a couple of months ago, and was supposed to
>recieve Borland C/C++ and Paradox free with the system.  Needless to say, I
>still haven't recieved it.  Every weekend, I'm always told of some 
>problem they are havin, and that I should get it within a week or so.  Anyway,
>on top of that when I ordered the system the AD in PC Magazine said that this
>machine will be able to accept the doubler chip when Intel made that available.
>But, when I called Gateway about not having a slot for the doubler chip, I was
>told that the AD was wrong and this system is in fact not upgradeable as the
>AD had said, and all I could do was to get another motherboard with a faster
>processor for which, of course, they would charge me.
>
>I would strongly urge anyone anyone buying a system from them, to get a written
>sheet of specs and make them *legally* promise on a delivery date.
>
>kalra@cis.ohio-state.edu
>

well, i *have* heard a lot of complaints about GW2K, but then people are
usually more vocal when there are problems, for obvious reasons. i feel
compelled to say that i ordered a GW machine a few weeks ago. they
promised me 3 week delivery -- and they shipped it 10 days early!
it came with everything requested and (so far) is working great. i
have my fingers crossed..

--
charles
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: rvenkate@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Ravikuma Venkateswar)
Subject: NT Developers' program
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:57:00 GMT

What _exactly_ do you get when you join the developers' program?
I've heard that you get the beta releases, but do you get the final
release? And if it includes the Win32 SDK, can I use that to program
with Borland C++ or Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5 ?

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Ravikumar Venkateswar
rvenkate@uiuc.edu

A pun is a no' blessed form of whit.
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From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: COM-Ports
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:40:16 GMT

Some time ago, I sent a request to winnthw@microsoft.com regarding
XENIX-compatible Serial I/O cards (4 ports via one IRQ). I got
a positive reply, that these cards will be supported. Unfortunately
it wasn't included in the October Release. So I did install a standard
serial I/O card with 2 ports (and two IRQs, grrrr).

My problem is now, that NT/green does not recognize the ports, if
I install them after NT is installed. Does anyone know, the registry
entries for installing COM-Ports (and device mapping from Serial0 to
COM1 etc.)?

Christoph
--
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Internet: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de
Bitnet  : HAMPE2 AT DMRHRZ11
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: edge@unislc.uucp (Brian Edginton)
Subject: Re: TrueType problems
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:10:25 GMT

hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:

>In  <1992Nov10.153804.25764@cam-orl.co.uk>  thg@cam-orl.co.uk (Tim Glauert) writes:
>> In the October Beta, none of the listed TrueType fonts seem to work. The fonts
>> setup in the Control Panel can't preview them etc. Have I done something
>> wrong or is this a known problem? Is there a fix?

>You are not alone. It seems, that True-Type fonts do not work in NT/green
>(October Release). I think the problem is, that NT/green does not recognize
>the .TTF files, but only the .FOT files. I have installed NT on drive D: and
>my assumption was, that NT/green has "hardcoded" .TTF file searching to
>C:\WINNT\SYSTEM or C:\NT\SYSTEM, but it didn't work either. I was also not
>able to install other True-Type Fonts (from Corel-Draw 3.0) in WINNT. I got
>an error message "Failed to add font" or something similar.

I have installed both the TTFonts from microsoft and the TTFonts from the
net in NT/G and have experienced no problems. In fact I brought up an old
document in WinWord that needed some TTFonts --closed the document while I
installed them and redisplayed a corrected document. WOW!

edge

-- 
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From: millerm@skie.ECE.ORST.EDU (Mike Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Where is NT
Keywords: Win32 WinNT
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:18:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: flop.1egsr8INN2dp
Organization: College of Engineering, Oregon State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: skie.ece.orst.edu

I am having troubles finding a copy of windows NT. I would really like to  
use it but Microsoft hasn't answered my letters and I seem to be at a loss  
for where to aquire a copy (preferably on 3.5in HD disks)

If somebody could send me mail on where I could get a copy I would really  
appreicate it (or if somebody has a spare copy :-))

Thanks for you support!

Mike Miller			millerm@skie.ece.orst.edu
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From: ushomirs@spot.Colorado.EDU (USHOMIRSKIY GRIGORIY)
Subject: 256 color drivers for Tseng and Video 7 video chipsets
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:47:10 GMT

I have just got a November issue of Microsoft Developer Network newspaper
(never ordered it).  In the article "Second NT SDK Release Hits the Streets"
(or something like that) they gave a list of source code for drivers
included with the *DDK*.  One of the items was SVGA 1024x768x256 colors
Tseng and Video 7 driver.  Is this true?  If it is, can someone compile it
and post it to the net??  I can't imagine that Microsoft would have a problem
with this.  All drivers for Win 3.1 are posted to ftp.cica.indiana.edu, then
why can't NT's drivers be posted too?

Can  someone confirm this and post the drivers if possible?

Greg.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: paulb@harlqn.co.uk (Paul Butcher)
Subject: Increasing XMS available to DOS programs under NT
Organization: Harlequin Ltd, Cambridge, UK
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:20:12 GMT

Subject says it all really.  Under the October NT Beta, does anyone
know how to increase the amount of XMS memory available to DOS
programs?  (At the moment it seems to be limited to circa 1MB).

Thanks in advance,

PaulB->msgCount++
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From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: TrueType problems
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.14 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:13:02 GMT

In  <1992Nov10.153804.25764@cam-orl.co.uk>  thg@cam-orl.co.uk (Tim Glauert) writes:
> In the October Beta, none of the listed TrueType fonts seem to work. The fonts
> setup in the Control Panel can't preview them etc. Have I done something
> wrong or is this a known problem? Is there a fix?

You are not alone. It seems, that True-Type fonts do not work in NT/green
(October Release). I think the problem is, that NT/green does not recognize
the .TTF files, but only the .FOT files. I have installed NT on drive D: and
my assumption was, that NT/green has "hardcoded" .TTF file searching to
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM or C:\NT\SYSTEM, but it didn't work either. I was also not
able to install other True-Type Fonts (from Corel-Draw 3.0) in WINNT. I got
an error message "Failed to add font" or something similar.

Christoph
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Internet: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de
Bitnet  : HAMPE2 AT DMRHRZ11
Fido    : 2:243/660
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From: larner@atd.mke.ab.com (Dan Larner)
Subject: Minimal Supported SCSI card
Reply-To: larner@atd.mke.ab.com
Organization: Allen Bradley Co.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:09:55 GMT

I'd like to know which of the NT beta supported SCSI
controllers is the least expensive, and a vendor where I
could order one. I only plan to run a NEC CDR-84 CDrom from it, 
no other SCSI devices.  [The CDR-84 came with a NEC controller 
that is unsupported under the NT beta.]  Any input appreciated!

--- Dan

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From: rryan@panix.com (Rob Ryan)
Subject: CD ROM Drive
Summary: Do I*need* CD ROM for Windows NT
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:41:20 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC
Keywords: nt install cd-rom cdrom cd

Is there anyway to install Windows NT without having a CD-ROM connected
directly to the PC?  I've got access to a CD-ROM at work, but wanted to
install Windows NT on my machine at home.  Can this be done?  I presume not,
but I don't want to fork out the cash for a CD-ROM.  Is there anyway to
transfer the CD-ROM information onto floppy?  (Yes, I know that, if possible,
it would take boxes and boxes of disks.)

Thanks.

My system configuration is as follows:

  386/33
  300 MB disk space
  8 MB RAM
  Windows 3.1, DOS 5.0

-- 
 Rob Ryan
    Internet:   rryan@panix.com or Robert_Ryan@brown.edu
    Bitnet:     ROBR@BROWNVM
    Compu$erve: 70324.227@compuserve.com
From: xmbs_gh@debet.nhh.no
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Looking for drivers for Compaq HW
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:34:55 GMT
Organization: MBS Fjerndata a.s Bergen, Norway

I'm looking for NT drivers for my Compaq QVision graphics card and Compaq
Business Audio sound card (as found in the new Compaq DESKPRO/i models).
Any FTP sites? Hints appreciated!

Please reply via e-mail. Thanks!

Gunnar

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From: jon@ncrbeth.BethlehemPA.NCR.COM (John Staub)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: Re: Anyone had experience with Gateway computer company & shipping?
Date: 18 Nov 92 18:51:45 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NCR-FESC BETHLEHEM, PA.

kalra@turtle.cis.ohio-state.edu (harsh kalra) writes:

>In article <1992Nov4.160103.27714@cs.wayne.edu> pbh@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Patrick B. Haggood) writes:
>[Stuff Deleted]
>>Anyone had any bad experiece with Gateway and their not actually having in 
>>stock the items they advertise?   I'm not terribly interested in Gateway's 
>>-- 
>>Kadidjri Lahab
>>Wayne State University
>>Physics '94
>>
stuff deleted!

>I would strongly urge anyone anyone buying a system from them, to get a written
>sheet of specs and make them *legally* promise on a delivery date.

>kalra@cis.ohio-state.edu
I would strongly advise anyone bying a system from them , not to!!!
I bought one a year and a half ago. In the first year I went through
two monitors, two video cards, and am on my second power supply. The
people are very nice and helpful, but you wait over a week or more for
any parts. I was able to upgrade to a better video card the second
time for the difference plus a "restocking fee" of $30 to restock a
broken card. I purchased a 486-33. The people I talk to swear by their
386's but I swear at my 486.
-- 
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FESC                                Voice Plus 397-1000
2156 CITY LINE RD.                  Fax        215-264-9287
BETHLEHEM PA 18017                  address    john.staub@bethlehemPA
From: arms@strobe.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Stevie Ray @ His Desk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: File Formats
Keywords: NT EXE DLLs
Date: 20 Nov 92 08:48:33 GMT

Does anyone have a description of the file formats of EXEs and/or
DLLs for windows NT? (I don't think that there is a difference between
NTFS and FAT)

Thanks for any help..


May your camel spit dates.

Steve

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From: khan@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu (Mumit Khan)
Subject: More GW woes (Re: Anyone had experience with Gateway computer company & shipping?)
Organization: Center for X-ray Lithography, University of Wisconsin
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 00:12:29 GMT

Long long time ago, when gateway was a small friendly company selling good
but cheap (no, wasn't really a contradiction back then), we bought a big
load of machines from them -- about 20 386SX machines.

Just after the 1 year warranty was over, guess what went wrong: (actually,
to be honest, about 2 years after we bought them)

    - 8 monitors died.
    - 4 power supplies died. and before these great PSs bit the dust, they
      took a heavy toll on my various adapters in these machines (such as
      video adapters, ethernet cards, etc).
    - almost half the motherboards had to be replaced for spooky problems, 
      such as the floppy drives suddenly not working, but they work fine 
      on other machines, etc.
    - majority of the old 67MB RLL (we were real poor!) hard drives were
      completely trashed in a matter of 2 to 2-1/2 years.


But, boy were we REALLY STUPID!!!!!. Right before these machines
started dying, we bought MORE machines from Gateway -- FOUR MORE 486/33
and 485/25s. I still remember the day we got the first 486/33 GW2000
machine; started up the machine and the disk was DEAD (200 MB IDE).
Called them up; phone tagged for two days and then finally got a good
one back. The same machine is now sitting in a junk pile because of
multiple motherboard failures and a disk (200MB IDE again) making so
much noise that no one wants to touch it. Then the rest of the machines
have the same type of story, some a bit better, but mostly as bad.


1989-1990: We buy 20+4 = 24 386SX GW machines.
1990-1991: We buy 4+4 = 8 486/{33,25} GW 2000 machines.

    still happy with gateway!

1992: out of 32, only 14 haven't had to go thru a complete overhaul.

    wouldn't touch another Gateway in my life!

1992: bought tons of new DELL and DEC PCs and junked (didn't even try to
    sell) most of the Gateways.

Maybe we did get what we paid for, but that is no excuse for the treatment 
we've received from GW.

peace 
mumit -- khan@xraylith.wisc.edu
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From: jones@newton.uvm.edu (Mike Jones)
Subject: Things under OS/2 run here ?
Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:42:57 GMT

I see alot of source code that claims to compile/run under OS/2.  What
are my chances of getting this to run under NT ?  Most notibly tcsh,
kermit and a few others ?  Before I start down a dead road, anybody at
the end ?

Thanks,

 Mike

(seems like there are a lot of questions in this newsgroup, but not
too many answers...)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: DLC Transport and Driver
Date: 21 Nov 92 18:09:52 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Nov17.182002.29454@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de> hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:
>In  <1992Nov09.071315.13552@microsoft.com>  alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
>> No, tcp/ip does not need dlc - dlc is used by various SNA transports
>>
>
>Is there a VDD for DOS to access dlc from DOS-Programs and if yes is it
>compatible to the IBM-Interface via INT 0x5C?

Yes, the IBM-defined Int5C interface to DLC is supported for MS-Dos
applications under Windows NT -- Alistair
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