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From: sbrock@teal.csn.org (Steve Brock)
Subject: PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon (culture)
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 17:33:59 GMT

PRAIRYERTH: A DEEP MAP by William Least Heat-Moon.  Houghton
Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, N.Y., NY  10003.  Illus-
trated, maps.  624 pp., $13.95 paper.  0-395-63752-X

                             REVIEW

     Three months on the New York Times best-seller list in
hardcover, Heat-Moon (real name William Trogdon - he adopted his
father's Osage name) proves that, even though more people live in
suburban areas than rural ones, they still love to read about the
country.  The book is now out in a paperback edition.
     In "PrairyErth," Heat-Moon (probably still tired from the
13,000 mile, 38 state trek he took in "Blue Highways,") elects to
stay in one county - Chase County, in central Kansas.  The county
is the geographical center of the contiguous United States. 
PrairyErth, a title out of a fantasy novel (could this be the
county where Anne McCaffey's city of Pern exists?), is a geological
term for the grassland soil found in the area.
     Heat-Moon has cross-hatched the county and given a chapter to
each square.  Each of the twelve chapters begins with several pages
of quotes, and proceeds with Heat-Moon's observations of the
geography (mostly cultural, since the land looks pretty-much the
same), the history, and the people.  The book is filled not only
with observations, but most importantly, impressions.
     As unchanging as is the land in Chase County, Heat-Moon has
unearthed a myriad of different inhabitants.  Many who arrived on
the prairie were disappointed that it wasn't forested and tried to
change it.  Most, though, tried to live with it, to learn from it.
     Heat-Moon tries to let the county into not only his conscious-
ness, but his physical body, as when he puts a few limestone rocks
into his glass of water and drinks it down.
     Toward the end of the book, Heat-Moon says the idea of white
"progress" has caused the development of a disrespect for
PrairyErth, and he pleas for the inhabitants to return to an
increased reverence for it.
     "PrairyErth" is ponderous, but personal and wonderfully
written.  Heat-Moon's images and characters stay with, and may
change you.  

Newsgroups: alt.books.reviews,sci.athropology,sci.biology,sci.psychology
From: danny@orthanc.cs.su.oz.au (Danny)
Subject: Book Review - Trial and Error
Reply-To: danny@cs.su.oz.au (Danny)
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:30:04 GMT
Followup-To: talk.origins

Trial and Error - The American Controversy over Creation and Evolution
Edward J. Larson
Oxford University Press 1989
pp. 243

This is a history of the legal debate over the teaching of evolution and
creation in the United States.  It begins with the introduction of
evolutionary ideas into botany and zoology textbooks towards the end of
the 19th Century (there were no complaints about this for thirty years).
It then discusses the rise of fundamentalism and the beginnings of
opposition to the teaching of evolution, culminating in the passing of
anti-evolution laws in several states and the drama of the Scopes trial
in the 20s.  The final chapters deal with the successful overturning of
all anti-evolution statutes in the 60s and 70s and the final rejection
by the Supreme court of attempts to get "creation science" equal time in
schools.

I learnt a lot from from this book about the separation of church and
state in the US, and about the parts of the American constitution that
mandate it.  My feelings about this, like so many other similar aspects
of American modern history, are best summed up with: Thank God for the
ACLU, without whom most of the constitution would probably be ignored by
the bigots who find it inconvenient.  

9/1/92
From: v070qp2s@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Ben H Siebert)
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
Subject: Operational Amplifiers
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:59:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


	I am looking for a comprehensive book on the design and/or use
of operational amplifiers in signal processing.  Does any one have any 
recent material in regard to this topic.  Please e-mail any information.

thanks for your help....


			Ben
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
From: kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko)
Subject: Re: Looking for New Hacker's Dictionary
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:23:56 GMT

cole@lea.csc.ncsu.edu (Robert Cole) writes:

>I'm looking for the New Hacker's Dictionary.  I've tried the local
>Bookstar but they cannot find a listing for it.  Perhaps I don't have
>the title correct, but I thought I was close enough that a search on the
>word 'hacker' would have shown it.

From my "A Concise Guide to Unix Books" (posted to news.answers regularly)
...

   Title: The New Hacker's Dictionary
   Author: Eric Raymond 
   Publisher: MIT Press
   Edition: 1991
   ISBN: 0-262-68069-6
   Comment: This book corresponds to version 2.9.6 of the on-line
            jargon file ... The latest (at the time of writing) is
            version 2.9.10 (jargon2910.ascii.Z) which is available
            by ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu (in mirrors/gnu) ...
            Changes since the publication of this book can be found
            in the file jargon-changes.Z ...

>I had heard that it was available in hardback but right now I would
>settle for the ISBN number of *any* copy.  Ever better would be a place
>to order it from.

No ... it is in paperback ... not expenseive (around 10 bucks) ...

>Also, I'm trying to find the Whole Internet User's Guide (or something
>like that).  Once again, the bookstore couldn't find a listing for it.
>Any info on either book (ISBN numbers, price, hard/soft cover, etc)
>would be greatly appreciated.  I know these books exist, I just need to
>convince the worker bees at the store.


 Title: The Whole Internet User's Guide Catalog
 Author: Ed Krol
 Publisher: O'Reilly
 Edition: 1992
 ISBN: 1-56592-025-2
 Comment: **** Highly Recommended ****
          Definitely a MUST for any new and not-so-new Internet users ...
          "It is a complete user's guide to the Internet, covering everything
           from the basics, like electronic mail and newsgroups, to the
           newest developments. A large part of the book tells you how to
           find the resources you want." ...

This one is also in soft cover ... The cost is around $25 (US) ... And you
can order it directly from O'Reilly (call 1-800-998-9938) ... for more
details, you can telnet gopher.ora.com (login:gopher) ...

Hope this info helps ... Samuel

Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
From: jprondak@shearson.com (Jason Prondak)
Subject: DEC Manual Wanted
Reply-To: jprondak@shearson.com
Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:32:24 GMT

Does any one know how where I can obtain a copy of the VCB02 Video Subsystem Guide?


				--jason
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Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
From: nac@well.sf.ca.us (Nancy Cedeno)
Subject: Re: Looking for New Hacker's Dictionary
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 03:31:38 GMT


Just in case you can't find it locally, you can order either book from the
Computer Literacy Bookshop in San Jose, CA.  They take phone orders
at (408) 435-1118, and ship the next day.  They have just about any
computer-related book you could imagine.  (I saw stacks of both books the
last time I was in their Sunnyvale store!)

Happy hunting!

Nancy Cedeno
nac@well.sf.ca.us
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
Subject: Wanted:  Altair Information
From: kmwheeler@ualr.edu
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:55:57 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Help!

I'm looking for *any* information on the old 
MITS Altair 8800b.  I need schematics, bus specs,
memory maps, software listings, etc.

Thanks

Keith Wheeler
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
senior, Computer Engineering Technology
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
From: cole@lea.csc.ncsu.edu (Robert Cole)
Subject: Looking for New Hacker's Dictionary
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:59:29 GMT

I'm looking for the New Hacker's Dictionary.  I've tried the local
Bookstar but they cannot find a listing for it.  Perhaps I don't have
the title correct, but I thought I was close enough that a search on the
word 'hacker' would have shown it.

I had heard that it was available in hardback but right now I would
settle for the ISBN number of *any* copy.  Ever better would be a place
to order it from.

Also, I'm trying to find the Whole Internet User's Guide (or something
like that).  Once again, the bookstore couldn't find a listing for it.
Any info on either book (ISBN numbers, price, hard/soft cover, etc)
would be greatly appreciated.  I know these books exist, I just need to
convince the worker bees at the store.

Thanks for any help,

RG Cole
Xref: sparky alt.books.technical:315 misc.books.technical:1646
From: gturrell@bmdhh256.bnr.ca (Graham Turrell)
Subject: Book title by Chen needed
Keywords: Entity Relationship Modelling
Organization: BNR-Europe-Limited, Maidenhead, England
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 11:28:21 GMT

I am trying to find the title (plus publisher/ISBN if possible)
of a text by Chen which covers the Entity Relationship Modelling
methodology.

Can anyone help ???
Please post or email to gturrell@bnr.ca

Many thanks !

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Newsgroups: alt.books.technical,misc.books.technical,alt.books.reviews
From: mitch@cirrus.com (Mitch Wright)
Subject: YABL
Followup-To: poster
Summary: New release of yabl
Keywords: YABL, New, Books, Unix, C
Organization: Cirrus Logic Inc.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:22:23 GMT

Greetings!  I have finally pushed out an updated version of YABL.  It's been
a couple months and a few new and exciting books have been published.  Here
is the necessary information for those that are not familiar with yabl.

TITLE: *** YABL ***
AUTHOR: Mitch Wright
AUTHOR: Fellow USENET Readers...
DATE: Fri Nov  6 00:21:21 PST 1992
COMMENTS
   For complaints, kudos, suggestions, corrections, additions, donations, ...
   drop me an E-mail note -- mitch@yahoo.cirrus.com

   The latest version of this list can be obtained via anonymous ftp from

        ftp.rahul.net   pub/mitch/YABL/yabl
   

Regards,

   ~mitch
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Azrak)
Subject: Re: my_tsr
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:36:47 GMT

vincent@datmuc.UUCP (vincent) writes:

>This is a (re)repost I never got any replys, The Org. Q. was why this code
>doesn't work?

[Lot's of text and code deleted....]

>P.P.P.S. I will continue on my side like instead of allocating a stack,
>have a fix buffer in the code segment. Also to date I'm not shure
>if I need to save the DS since it is anyway restore at the interrupt.
>Also in the inline asembly I might try to set ds to cs (for my data) and
>also for the stack seg.. (I guess I do need my own stack). The only thing I know
>about .COM is that LINK tell me that for tiny memory model I am not alowed
>to have _far pointers.

In the very few TSRs I have written (all in assembly, I'm afraid), I
save ALL registers I use, especially segment registers, like DS.
I never made my own stack, but the TSRs I wrote were also of the clock
interrupt type, and did not perform stack intensive operations,
though I did PUSH a few registers, including DS.
I did set DS = CS  upon entering the clock interrupt so I could get at
my own data easier, just remember to save DS before assigning it.

If you wish, I will post one of my TSRs for you to look at, but remember
that it is completely in 8088 assembly, and I am not a CS major. The
program might not be as efficient as possible, however it is quite
stable and will not crash very easily.

- Brian  (smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu)

As for my opinion for why it crashes, try saving all registers used
in the interrupt routine. At least you will be at a "known state" and
can go from there. Just remember to POP all registers in reverse order
at the end of your routine.

Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: John_Morgan@mindlink.bc.ca (John Morgan)
Subject: Re: c++ and Memory Manager
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 06:17:14 GMT

Thanks.  I finally figured out what the problem was and got it working so off
to the races I go.

Now can some one suggest a good tutorial for C++ as I have only used BASIC
and QUICK BASIC before.   :)

Ciao Ciao
    J

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Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: cclark@trentu.ca (J. Chris Clark)
Subject: Re: c++ and Memory Manager
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Trent University Computer Services Department
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:45:00 GMT

In article <17292@mindlink.bc.ca>, John_Morgan@mindlink.bc.ca (John Morgan) writes...
>I seem to have a problem running C++ 3.00.  It says that the memory manager
>won't initialize.  Is there a way of fixing this?  If so how?
>I am using EMM386.COM that came with DOS 5.0 with a few TSRs running in high
>memory.  If someone could help that would be great.

If this is Borland C++ that you're reffering to, the only time I've seen this
message is when there wasn't enough  Extended memory left.  Specifically, I
was running Smartdrv and had it using more than 50% of the Extended memory
on the system.  As soon as I dropped Smartdrv back to less than 50%, I was
fine.
So, I would suggest that you check whether you are using Expanded or
Extended memory and then make sure you have lots of extended free.  With 
EMM386.exe that comes with DOS 5.0, you can use the "noems" command line if
you want to use the UMB's but leave all of your extended memory as extended
memory.  (Note: if you only have 2 Meg, you're better off not using EMM386
as it will only give you about 100K or so in the UMB's, but I've noticed it
takes up about 150-200 K of your extended!)

Hope this helps some,
Chris C.
From: erica@wariat.org (Lady of the BitMode)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Turbo-C bitmap format
Date: 10 Nov 92 01:17:11 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Akademia Pana Kleksa, Public Access Uni* Site


Hello. I'm using Turbo-C 3.0 soon tobe using 3.1. I've been playing with
graphics and want to now the format of a turbo-c bitmap produced by getimage()
function. I know that the must specify the mask map for colors and also
the bit configuration. But DO they have to specified the color for each bit ?
If so, the an image of 8 x 8 pixels would require:
8 * 8 bits * 4 bits = 256bits = 32bytes 
But in order to address a particular bit it appear to that they would
have to do so shifting and also set each bit a time, this would entail
256 calls to outport command to 256 access to register and or memory data.
THis doesn't sound very efficient to me. Is, there a better way or is that 
just what the people at Borland do?  I'm very curious to know how they, and
you, do this.

Thankyou:

Erica C. Ramsey
Xref: sparky alt.msdos.programmer:2712 comp.os.msdos.programmer:10515
From: ci922@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Duane A. Paulson)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: detecting parameters
Date: 11 Nov 1992 17:51:01 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: ci922@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Duane A. Paulson)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, d91mf@efd.lth.se (Mats Fraennhagen) says:

>I've written a small program in assembler and I would like to
>detect if any parameters like:
>
>test -?
>
> is given after the filename. Does DOS support this?
> 
> /Mats
>
>-- 
> Mats Fraennhagen 	Email: d91mf@efd.lth.se
>

Sure does. This info is in the Program Segment Prefix (PSP), which dos loads
as the first 256 bytes of any program. Register ES always points to the 
beginning of the PSP at the start of a program, no matter whether the program
is .COM or .EXE.

The start of the command tail (everything following the program name) is at
offset 81hex within the PSP. It ends with a CR. A count of the characters
in the command tail, including the terminating CR, can be found at offset
80hex within the PSP. Have fun! (C overhead isn't that much!)
-- 
Duane Paulson
ci922@cleveland.freenet.edu
duane.paulson@pcb.batpad.lgb.ca.us
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
From: jmh@coyote.datalog.com (John Hughes)
Subject: ARRRGH! Turbo-C++ is driving me NUTS!
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Keywords: borland turbo c++ dos migraine
Organization: order is illusion, chaos is reality.
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 19:40:32 GMT


I really do need some help with this one...

It all started when I discovered that I couldn't run Turbo C++ over a
two machine network (Artisoft Lantastic). That was dealt with by
installing a thingy that allowed me to send a command to the server,
which would then run the compiler (via make or whatever) for me. Very
clumsy, and I get tired of peering across the room to see what the
compilation messages say. So, in a burst of inspiration, I moved the
tcc binaries, libraries, and sources to the workstation, which I
really didn't want to do (kinda defeats the purpose of having a file
server with lots of disk space, you know what I mean?).

It *still* won't work correctly. Even if I shut the net down and don't
load the netbios TSR's, tcc gives me a bizarre error when run on the
workstation machine. The linker says that I have an invalid group
definition *in one of the Borland library modules* !!! Not only that,
but the compiler and linker work just fine on the server. Ah, but it
gets better... the error "moves" from module to module (I'm really
starting to twitch and slobber).

I'm the only person using the network, and its primary role in life
is to test multi-user database packages, so it's not like there's any
kind of major load on it. I've also run every diagnostic I have on
both machines (and I have a LOT) and they both come up with a clean
bill of health. The config.sys has plenty of buffers and files
defined, and the command line shell on both is 4DOS 4.0 running on
top of MSDOS 3.3 (if you do commercial software development you'll
understand why MSDOS 3.3 is being used here). The only real diff.
between the two is that the server has 1.5 Mb of extended memory.
That, however, shouldn't make a difference. I've run tcc on what is
now the workstation for over two years, with no bizarre problems.

Someone, somewhere, help me... please!


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From: Mark.Kraml@f250.n514.z17.fidonet.ftn (Mark Kraml)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: c++ and Memory Manager
Date: 11 Nov 92 21:16:38 GMT

Hello John!

Monday November 09 1992, John Morgan writes to All:

 JM> @PID: Fred 1.9m
 JM> @MSGID: 17:5140/110 d72ccf7a
 JM> From: John_Morgan@mindlink.bc.ca (John Morgan)
 JM> Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
 JM> Subject: c++ and Memory Manager
 JM> Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
 JM> @Message-ID: <17292@mindlink.bc.ca>
 JM> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 08:23:49 GMT

 JM> I seem to have a problem running C++ 3.00.  It says that the memory
 JM> manager won't initialize.  Is there a way of fixing this?  If so how? I
am
 JM> using EMM386.COM that came with DOS 5.0 with a few TSRs running in high
 JM> memory.  If someone could help that would be great.

get BC++ 3.1 upgrade it costs $39.00 from borland. 3.00 is full of buglets.

Mark
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: cclark@trentu.ca (J. Chris Clark)
Subject: Borland C++ OWL question.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Trent University Computer Services Department
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:50:00 GMT

I'm using OWL with Borland C++ and can't get a modeless dialog to use the
keyboard interface.  I've made my own dialog class descended from TDialog
and have tried both of the following lines in the constructor:

EnableKBHandler();
GetApplication()->SetKBHandler(this);

From the (scarce) docs it looks like either one of these should do the trick,
but neither works, alone or together.
Modal dialogs seem to invoke the keyboard handler automatically, so I don't
have a problem with them, but this modeless one is beginning to get just a
little frustrating!

Anyone have any sugggestions?  Any little tricks that aren't in the docs?
Thanks in advance.
Chris C.
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
From: dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL)
Subject: Re: Stat-ing a Directory file
Originator: dspascha@c00576-1403br.eos.ncsu.edu
Reply-To: dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:31:30 GMT


In article <BxIvF5.Ao6@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>, ceharris@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Carl Harris) writes:
|>You can open a directory just like any other file, and read the time
|>and date stamp of any file there in.  The format is the same as that used
|>in the root directory.

But this only works with FCB-type calls (using extended FCBs).  Handle-based
calls will not open subdirectories or volume labels.

Tschuess,
David Paschal
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
From: amark@cs.joensuu.fi (Mark Arthur)
Subject: Re: IBM I/O Ports: data wanted
Organization: University of Joensuu
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:52:08 GMT

pstlb@acad2.alaska.edu writes:


>    I know this is somewhat of a dead horse, and I'm quite sure it's in the
>FAQs, but since noone has enlightened me on how to FIND these FAQs, I'll ask
>the general public.....   :)

>    Ports.  Specifically, IBM PC ports, numbers, functions, etc.....

>    Haven't been able to find anythings about them (yes, PC Intern does list
>some, but not all, and I need to know about all of them.....  and the PC
>Programmer's Sourcebook doesn't list anything about them....)

>    if this IS in the FAQs, please let me know how to find them.....  or, if it
>would be more productive to post to another newsgroup, please tell me that....

>    and Email me, please......  with the amount and caliber of homework I have,
>it is nearly impossible for me to check this newsgroup more than once on a blue
>moon....  (I know it's bad etiquette, but please bear with me......  )



I also would really be interested in this info.
Please send all replies by email to : amark@cs.joensuu.fi.

Thanx!

Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer