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From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: cheap PC and pirated DOS/WINDOWS
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:58:55 GMT

newsmann@gmath.uum.edu writes:
>I bought a 286 two years ago from the cheapest PC store in the area. They
>installed DOS and some other softwares, with no manuals or anything. So I 
>guess that is not a legal copy. They did a good business and now opened
>another store in the area. Last I visited, they sell DOS with systems. That
>is, DOS with manuals. Of course their prices are not cheapest anymore.

>I bought another PC, a 486DX-33, from a now cheapest store in the area.
>They installed DOS and WINDOWS for me. no manuals. The receipt only
>listed hardware cost, no softwares.

>I never had/have any problems with those PCs, hardware or software wise.
>I was wondering if all those cheap stores competing with bigger ones
>initially with pirated copies of DOS or Windows.
*----
It sure sounds like it.  I don't think Microsoft authorizes OEM's to
install DOS or Windows without supplying disks and manuals too.

--
	Mike Berger
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pham@ecf.toronto.edu (PHAM CHARLES TUAN CUONG)
Subject: 256 on Windows 3.1 - Help
Summary: How to see more than 16 colors in Windows 3.1
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: World
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:00:56 GMT

I have a 256K VGA card-Paradise Plus-                a and monito
and VGA color monitor but I could not get Windows  3.1 to run in
256 color mode even after I tried the paradise driver ftp from some
sites.(90c0031 and Parad31).  Does anyone have this problem with
their Paradise Plus card in Windows 3.1?  Please help me find a solution.

Reply to pham@skule.ecf.toronto.edu or post to this newsgroup. 

Thanks.

:x
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From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 08:53:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Help! How to get tar to read UNIX archives??
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc

mppu3@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Conor McMenamin) writes:

> 	Does anyone out there use Unix tar on 1.44Mb floppies to
> transfer files to a PC? If so could you tell me how to do it, because I
> keep getting directory checksum errors and the like on archives that are
> fine on the 'side' (Unix or PC) that created them. I have tried a few
> TAR's on the PC, of which tar4dos gets closest. Close but no cigar that
> is....

  For most tar's "directory checksum error" normally means that the
blocking factor during read was not the same as during write. Check out
the documentation on the tar "b" option on both platforms involved, and
select a block size which is compatible.

  If you only get "directory checksum error" at the *end* of the read (t
or x), i.e. the first files are OK but the last (few) not, then probably
your writing tar is broken. All blocks in the archive should be the same
size, but some broken tar's truncate the last block. You can workaround
this by piping the output to dd(1) with "conv=sync" (and of course the
right "bs=").

  Hope this helps.

Frank Slootweg, UNIX support person and PC (with MKS Toolkit) owner.
From: dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: help me out with LHARC (.LZH) - pleeze!
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:29:27 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
NNTP-Posting-Host: b63519.student.cwru.edu
Summary: anybody know where to find a new version of LHARC?
Keywords: lharc lzh

In article <1992Nov13.023319.3928@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> bprk_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Brian Park) writes:
>   I recently ftp'd a few files which ended in the .LZH extension.  I'm
>almost positive that this specifies compression by LHARC, but when I ran
>LHARC on these files, I kept getting
>
>   (filename) : unknown compression method (or something like that)
>   (filename) : unknown compression method
>   ...
>
>   At first I thought it was a fluke, maybe a bad data transfer or wrong
>CRC or something.  But I've been having this problem now with a lot of LZH's.
>I never used LHARC that much, so my best guess is that I just have an older
>version of the program.  After all, it's not like my LHARC doesn't recognize
>the new LHARC at all - it knows (what I assume) are the filenames in the
>archive.

Look for the program 'LHA' -- I believe that this should handle any LZH/LHA 
files out there. I don't know exactly where you can find it, but I would be 
very surprised if it is not on wuarchive somewhere.
+-------------+------------------+---------------------------------+
| Damien Neil | dpn2@po.cwru.edu | Case Western Reserve University |
+-------------+------------------+---------------------------------+
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:52:33 -0500 
From: "Mark D. Schroeder" <ms70+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: schematics needed

I need schemos for the system board, the 8 and 4 port async boards, and
the SCSI adapter. Does anyone know where I can get them?

Thanks!!

?d
From: mooreb@fac.com (Brian Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: RT hardware and supplies
Keywords: RT 6150 6151
Date: 4 Nov 92 16:58:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: fac.1992Nov04.165845.4095
Organization: First Albany Corp.

Yes, IBM still carries some replacement parts.  I got a battery from
them about a half year ago for around $40 I think.  The battery is
not the same as a standard PC battery, and I didn't want to chance
messing things up.  A little while later I started losing power for
no apparent reason.  I priced a power supply through IBM, they wanted
over $1,000 for one.  I managed to find one through a part shop for
$150.  In the end, I just cleaned the power supply and I haven't had
a problem since.

While I was looking into the power supply, I also asked about memory
and multiport serial cards.  As far as I can recall, they didn't have
any.  I guess they only carry "replacement" things nowadays.
-- 
Brian Moore, mooreb@fac.com | "Buddha once sat before a wall, and when he
Unix System Administrator   | arose he was enlightened." / "You compare
First Albany Corporation    | yourself to Buddha?" / "No, only to the wall."
standard disclaimers apply  |                               - Circle of Iron
From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: What is differential SCSI?
Date: 12 Nov 92 08:34:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxLH5B.7ox
Reply-To: shair@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Champaign

Sorry, but the SCSI support in the RT is only for the IBM differential
SCSI adapter, used to attach, for example, 9332 and 9335 disk drives.
These are huge, expensive, external disks (400MB!!!) which needed the
long cables which the more elaborate differential SCSI permits.

Don't know anything more about it; 
don't think you can attach anything but 40MB disk drives to the adapter
you now have.  

Your best bet is to find someone who would let an "EESDI" disc controller
card and some 114MB or 310MB disk drives go cheaply;  trying to support
devices not originally supported in AIX is probably NOT the way to go.
--

Bob Shair                          shair@vnet.ibm.com
Scientific Computing Specialist    SHAIR@UIUCVMD (bitnet)
IBM Champaign
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Date: Fri,  6 Nov 1992 20:20:14 -0500 
From: "Mark D. Schroeder" <ms70+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: RT hardware and supplies

Yeah. I'm also in need of parts. We (my housemate and I) have two RTs,
one's in a tower and one's the desktop model (I always get the model
numbers confused). One's got 12 meg RAM, an EPC, and an E70 and is
deperately in need of another drive, and the other has 10 meg RAM and
110 meg of drive space but is in need of real serial ports and a
faster processor (it's about three times slower than the EPC...). Oh,
and it's battery is also dead.

Which reminds me... anyone out there want to sell a high speed modem?
Slip is pretty painful at 2400 baud...

?d
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: What is differential SCSI?
From: craiga@kcbbs.gen.nz (Craig Anderson)
Date: 14 Nov 92 15:11:46 GMT
Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand

zitsky+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Ryan Miller) writes:
>I have an RT running AIX 2.2.1.  Right now I have two 40 meg drives,
>which is a bare minimum.  I saw something in one of the RT manuals about
>hooking up SCSI devices.  Can anyone tell me if it can take a regular
>IBM PC SCSI card, and if I could hook up a SCSI drive to my RT,
>something like 100 Meg or more?? 

You'll need the RT SCSI card (which has a differential SCSI bus), and
a differential<->single-ended black box (i don't know where to get these
but they are available).  Also, i beleive you have to write the first N
sectors of the disk with 0's, otherwise you won't be able to configure
the SCSI disk.
-Craig
From: zitsky+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Ryan Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: What is differential SCSI?
Date: 12 Nov 92 00:58:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BxKw13.AFs.2
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

I have an RT running AIX 2.2.1.  Right now I have two 40 meg drives,
which is a bare minimum.  I saw something in one of the RT manuals about
hooking up SCSI devices.  Can anyone tell me if it can take a regular
IBM PC SCSI card, and if I could hook up a SCSI drive to my RT,
something like 100 Meg or more?? 

Thanks.

--Mark
From: markw@antimatr.hou.tx.us (Mark Whetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: What is differential SCSI?
Summary: You can run NON-IBM SCSI disks on the IBM adapter!
Date: 13 Nov 92 04:23:44 GMT
Organization: StarTrek and Lionel trains fan, Missouri City, TX

In article <BxLH5B.7ox@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair) writes:
> Sorry, but the SCSI support in the RT is only for the IBM differential
> SCSI adapter, used to attach, for example, 9332 and 9335 disk drives.
> These are huge, expensive, external disks (400MB!!!) which needed the
> long cables which the more elaborate differential SCSI permits.
But..
You can run NON-IBM SCSI disks on the IBM SCSI adapter.  As long as
they are either native differential, or run thru a Rancho diff-to-single
converter box.  AIX and VRM will quite happily initialize the drives
ONCE you hack a ddi with the correct device geometry, and insert /etc/system
stanzas by hand.  (The Devices command INSISTS on checking for a 9332
disk on the SCSI controller..   :-(  )

You can't run diagnostics on them, or perform a low-level format, but if
they are already formatted, just zero the first 10 cylinders to all zeros
and VRM will put the minidisk partition table on the "empty" drives!

> Don't know anything more about it; 
> don't think you can attach anything but 40MB disk drives to the adapter
> you now have.  
Sad, but true.. It is a stock AT MFM controller for the R40 drives.. :-(

> Your best bet is to find someone who would let an "EESDI" disc controller
> card and some 114MB or 310MB disk drives go cheaply;  trying to support
> devices not originally supported in AIX is probably NOT the way to go.

Writing your own SCSI card support would be a tough job, true enough..
especially that ornery VRM to get JUST right...
But, might be quite worth it once the EESDI controllers are all gone,
and not just ANY ole ESDI drive will work with the IBM EESDI controller.
SCSI disks are getting cheaper and cheaper and larger every day!
Don't go over 1 Gig, AIX 2.2.1 and VRM just WRAP the block number
back to ZERO!

Later,
markw
-- 
M. Whetzel 
Home: markw@antimatr.hou.tx.us        | IBM RT/125 running AIX 2.2.1 
UUCP ..!uhnix1!lobster!antimatr!markw
From: censjg@caledonias3.caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Simon Greaves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: What is differential SCSI?
Date: 11 Nov 92 10:45:13 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

I have a disk tray (4 x hard drives connected to one SCSI controller) which has two Centronics type SCSI connectors on it labelled Host and Aux. Inside the box there are two PCB's, one an Emulex MD2410201-02B and the other a Rancho Technology RT-SDA.

The RT-SDA card has a 50 way connector at each end, one labelled differential side (connected to the Host connector on the back) and the other labelled single ended (connected to the Aux connector on the back). So this card is a converter between single ended & differential SCSI. The Differential side then goes to the Emulex controller card.

The disk tray is/was used with an IBM RT 6150 fitted with an IBM SCSI card and mounted using the varyon command.

What I want to know is:

	What is Differential SCSI & how does it differ from single ended?

	Is it possible to connect this box directly to a Sun or a Dec (I think
 	they're single ended??)

	Any information most welcome.. (email preferred)

Thanks
--
Simon
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From: br.pct@RLG.Stanford.EDU (Peter C. Tam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: INETD hangs temporary
Keywords: INETD
Date: 6 Nov 92 22:35:27 GMT
Organization: Research Libraries Group, Inc.



  My system  is AOS BSD 4.3 running ibm.pc.rt. Frequently, INETD will hang
up (immediately after reboot or a SIGHUP to inetd process) with the
following symptons:

  (1) Post a message: pmap-set: Cannot register service RPC: Timed Out
  (2) finger/telnet/ftp servers were not responding
  (3) finger/telnet/ftp clients were not affected
  (4) telnet back to itself also was affected

  When it freed up (if ever, I had to send it "Are You There Inactivity
Poll" from telnet client), hard disk started usual disk access noise.

  THANKS FOR ANY TIPS!!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
From: edwin@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Edwin Tisdale)
Subject: terminals on planar serial port RS232C interface
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 03:52:57 GMT

We a have terminals connected to the psp - planar serial port RS232C interface.
The terminal attached to the `S2' port usually displays the following prompt:

Academic Information Systems 4.3 (unix) (ttys0)

login: 

and permits me to `login' and work.  But eventually, output to the terminal
will suddenly stop.  And I will not be able to restart it from the terminal.
I can login from another workstation and kill the terminal session.  But the
process remains in an `<exiting>' condition:

unix% ps -gx
  PID TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
  695 p0 S     0:00 -csh (csh)
  716 p1 R     0:00 ps -gx
  704 s0 S     0:00 -csh (csh)
unix% kill -9 704
unix% ps -gx
  PID TT STAT  TIME COMMAND
  695 p0 I     0:00 -csh (csh)
  717 p1 R     0:00 ps -gx
  704 s0 S     0:00 <exiting>
unix% 

And I cannot use the terminal again unless I reboot or enter something on
the terminal attached to the `S1' port.  Then that terminal will freeze
until I enter something on the terminal attached to the `S2' port again
which will in turn freeze and so on.  This behavior will continue until 
I reboot the system.

I would appreciate any advice I can get to help me solve this problem.
The following information may be useful:

unix% stty everything
new tty, speed 19200 baud, 32 rows, 80 columns
even odd -raw -nl echo -lcase -tandem tabs -cbreak 
crt: (crtbs crterase crtkill ctlecho) -tostop 
-tilde -flusho -mdmbuf -litout -pass8 -nohang 
-pendin -decctlq -noflsh 
erase  kill   werase rprnt  flush  lnext  susp   intr   quit   stop   eof
^?     ^X     ^W     ^R     ^O     ^V     ^Z/^Y  ^C     ^\     ^S/^Q  ^D     
unix% cat /etc/motd
4.3 BSD UNIX (6151) #1: Thu Jul 27 15:00:42 PDT 1989

Thanks in advance, Bob Tisdale (edwin@maui.cs.ucla.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bryan@cmhcsys.cmhcsys.com (Bryan M. Beck)
Subject: Need help identifying old IBM PC Equipment
Organization: CMHC Systems
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:43:42 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: 3270 Personal Computer, 5272 Color Display


I found an old IBM PC with a label that says 3270 Personal Computer, It
also has a monitor labeled 5272 Color Display.  What are these?  I was told 
that the monitor was a PGA monitor.??? Never heard of these, is this
possible? But when I try to install any software that wants to use CGA/EGA
or VGA it fails.

Also is this monitor compatible with any other CGA/EGA/VGA monitor cards, I 
would like to run it on an old XT if possible.


Any help will be appreciated.

Please e-mail all responses.

Thanks,
Bryan
-- 
Bryan M. Beck                                                 CMHC Systems, Inc.
Systems Engineer                                              5500 Frantz Road
INTERNET: bryan@cmhcsys.com                                   Dublin, Ohio 43017
UUCP:     ..!osu-cis!cmhcsys!bryan                              (614) 764-0413
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From: cdvaugha@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (christopher douglas vaughan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: LIM 4.0 EMS question.
Date: 13 Nov 92 22:14:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Indiana University


	My Taiwan-clone EMS card purports to be LIM 4.0 compatible, and it does
support non-volatile memory blocks, for example. But the driver it came with
doesn't allow any specification of page frame or addresses to in-/exclude like
true LIM 4.0 drivers do.

	If possible, I would like to take advantage of LIM 4.0's memory mapping
features to use some software I found which would give me access to DOS UMB's.

	My question is, would a different driver allow me to do this, or is
this a hardware limitation? And if another driver would work, where would I
find one? Would QRAM, for example, be useful here? Or am I basically out of
luck with this?

	Any and all replies most apppreciated.

Chris Vaughan
Indiana University
cdvaugha@ucs.indiana.edu
From: moe@nuchat.sccsi.com (Norman C. Kluksdahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: GUI libraries
Summary: recommendations on GUI libraries
Date: 12 Nov 92 03:05:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: nuchat.1992Nov12.030553.15468
Organization: South Coast Computing Services, Inc.

I am searching for a GUI development library.  Specifically, I need
a library package which will permit relatively painless development
of complex graphical user interfaces and displays, will be linked into
my software, and then permits the software to be run as a standalone
entity (e.g. not like X11/Motif, which requires run-time support).

I would appreciate any feedback which I can get regarding packages which
exist, either as commercial products or as shareware.

Please e-mail responses.  Thank you.

=====================================================================
Norman Kluksdahl  
  ...!nuchat!moe
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From: shadow@r-node.gts.org (Jay Chu)
Subject: Breaking up a HUGE file safely
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Organization: Aardvark
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:52:17 GMT

Help!

I have a 3 meg binary file that's too large for copying to any floppy disks.

Is there a safe method for breaking this HUGE file up into smaller files
like 1.2 meg each?  Then, using a combining method, I can combine the smaller
files into the original file again?
-- 
        ______                shadow@r-node.gts.org
       | |__| |   If it's there and you can see it       - it's real
       |  ()  |   If it's there and you can't see it     - it's transparent
       |______|   If it's not there and you can't see it - you erased it!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: grahj@gagme.chi.il.us (jim graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Redirecting STDERR
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:34:25 GMT
Organization: Gagme Public Access UNIX, Chicago, Illinois.
Originator: grahj@gagme

In article <1d9g03INNq53@golem.wcc.govt.nz> dennis_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
writes:

>How can I redirect (or just suppress) output from a program that is
>going to stderr rather than stdout?

foo > foo.out      redirects stdout only
foo >& foo.out     redirects stdout *AND* stderr

hope this helps.  :-)
   --jim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: schoof@dec5.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Jochen "Joscho" Schoof)
Subject: Re: Redirecting STDERR
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:10:05 GMT

From article <1992Nov05.042258.126673@zeus.calpoly.edu>, by mwormley@zeus.calpoly.edu (Matt Wormley):
[some lines deleted]
> 
>    Doesn't >& work for redirecting both stdout and stderr?  I think that's
> it. 
> 
>     worm

Sure it does, but only if you use a proper shell like 4DOS! 

- Jochen

-- 
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Jochen Schoof                    schoof@sundae.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Lehrstuhl f. Informatik II +-----------------------------------------------
Universitaet Wuerzburg     | It's worse than that: he's dead, Jim!  -Bones
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From: jmiller@wendy.bowlgreen.oh.us (Jim Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Curses availability for MSDOS
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:40:19 GMT
Organization: JCM Consulting, Bowling Green, OH

Hello,
   I am looking for a MSDOS version of the Curses screen control package
that UNIX has. I have found one version on wuarchive, but it seems to have
some bugs that I cannot work around. 

   I have also looked in the C User's Journal magazine, and found one version
of curses from "Networks Software", but they have not been able to deliver the
program in the time frame that I require.

   If you know of any PD or Commercial implementations of this package, please
respond via e-mail. 

   Apologies if this is a FAQ, but I searched all the FAQ lists I could find
with no success.

Thanks in advance,
Jim Miller
From: dpp@cray.com (Dave Peterschmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard
Subject: GUS SB emulation
Date: 11 Nov 92 20:35:56 GMT
Reply-To: dpp@cray.com
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.


There was some discussion a while back about people having trouble with
the Sound Blaster emulation on the GUS (weak sound, or sound not as good
as other boards such as PAS with hardware SB emulation, etc).  Is this
still the case?  I'm in the market for a sound card, to be used mostly
for games but not exclusively.  Can some of you GUS owners comment on
how good (or bad) the GUS sounds on games or other software that uses
the SB emulation?


Thanks,
Dave Peterschmidt