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From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Postscript files to dot matrix printers ?
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:00:51 GMT

Robert_Magee@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Magee) writes:

>I belive there is a PD software called Go Script which does a creditable job
>of printing postscript files to dot matrix printers.

The name of the utility is GhostScript, and it can be found at Simtel-20
in the PD1:<MSDOS.POSTSCRIPT> directory, under the filenames of GS252*.*
and 25*.*.  Yes, there are a lot of files.

It is not PD software, it is Freeware.  Yes, there is a difference.  :)

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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: INDEX files [WAS:  Recent msdos uploads to SIMTEL20...
Keywords: simtel20,msdos,recent,uploads
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:25:56 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.075041.5769@alf.uib.no> buboo@alf.uib.no (Ove
Ruben R Olsen) writes:
>Why need yet-another-browse-util ?

A fair question.  The answer is the following.  Because a well
written browse util can combine useful information from two (or even
more) related files.  I suggested this (for INDEX with descriptions
and _dir.lst with file sizes and dates) to Michael Sanders who is
writing an update of his Garbo browser. 

>I use good 'ol grep and his friends for most of my browsing. It has been
>fairly sufficient until now :-)

Grep is very useful, but it does not give you the directory
information from the standard Garbo and SIMTEL20 file lists, nor (on
Garbo) the file sizes and dates. 

>\Ruben.
>(Member of the KISS Principle :-)

(If simple, make it complicated, if straight-forward, confuse the
issue, if still not fuzzy enough, invite a comittee, and finally, if
nothing else fails to kill it, let's make it a public administration
issue :-). 

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:04:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.220929.25369@wixer.cactus.org> cb@wixer.cactus.org (Cyberspace Buddha) writes:
>ok, but how big are your blocks?  512?  1024? 2048?

                                         ^^^^

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:12:44 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.042955.5899@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> jmukher@lonestar.utsa.edu (Joy . Mukherjee) writes:
>What can we the users do?  Its seems that Garbo is really the place to send
>source code, while Simtel is the place to send shareware/freeware type
>programs.  Is this a good rule to use, or should we send them to both?

No, it is far from that simple.  Rather it goes like this.  SIMTEL20
is a much more general repository than Garbo.  Garbo specializes in
some areas while leaving some others out.  Among Garbo's
specializations are
  - Quality MsDos utilities
  - Turbo Pascal programming
  - Education (we are a university)
  - Educational MsDos games
  - Mathematics and statistics (again the university in the background)
  - Astronomy related programs
  - Some special information (like my FAQs, ftp site lists, etc)
I think this gives you the drift of Garbo's direction.  It also is
to indicate that while we carry material for some other OSes (with
the exception of OS/2), our main lines are within the MsDos domain.

Not carried at all or of lesser interest to us
  - Recreational games (these are ulowell's specialization)
  - Recreational gifs
  - Non-English utilities
  - BBS systems related material
  - All religion related material (goes also for bible utilities)

There also are a few utilities which Garbo can carry, but SIMTEL20
can't because of management policies (please let's leave this at
that). 

Please observe a wish of Keith's (and mine).  You are welcome to
query about Garbo policies, because I have a definite say in them,
even if in 99% of cases I have to discard the users' kind
suggestions because they would involve excessive work for me. 
SIMTEL20 general policies are decided by the SIMTEL20 management and
should thus rather not be debated. 

   All the best, Timo

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Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: maurel@mimosa.unice.fr (Maurel Frederic)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Problem with Stacker
Date: 26 Jan 1993 13:29:20 GMT
Organization: University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: mimosa.unice.fr


 I tried to install Stacker(2.01) and I had this message:

 screate error 35
 run chkdsk 

 I ran chkdsk and all was OK
 I ran compress (of PCTOOLS) and all was OK

 So, I can't install Stacker.

 What is the problem ?

 Thank you in advance

  -- Frederic Maurel --
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From: v111qheg@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (P.VASILION)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Need .DL multimedia amimation for WIN 3.x
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:24:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


Does any one know of a Windows or, for that matter, of a good .DL animation 
player? How about a .QT QuickTime animation viewer?

Thanks,
Peter
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: Federal Register
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:55:31 GMT

sph0301@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu writes:

>Does anyone know if the Federal Register (records of all Congressional
>activities) are available anywhere on the Internet

I think you're confusing two publications.  The _Federal_Register_ is
where Federal agencies and such publish formal notices, such as
NPRM's (Notice of Proposed Rule Making), and announcements of procurement
solicitations (I've always loved that phrase).

The official activities on Congress are supposedly recorded in a different
publication, the _Congressional_Record_.  I say "supposedly" because the
idiots^H^H^H^H^H^H members of Congress can and all too frequently do edit
or insert material which is completely at odds with what really happened.

I can't help you find either publication, but you need to specify which
one you're looking for.

Joe Morris
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: File View utility wanted
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:09:16 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.024839.6769@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jepler@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Epler) writes:
>I am looking for a file viewer, but I desire some features I haven't
>been able to find:
>
> -- Ability to load files larger than memory, up to about 2 megabyte
> -- Ability to exit a file and return to the same place in it later
> -- Ability to paste characters from screen into buffer as program
> exits

If you can't find exactly what you want, consider the following. 
You can do this with a proper combination of tools even if the
browser does not itself fulfil all the requirements.  Use the
following programs and information in combination

  92658 Oct  7 15:06 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/fileutil/list77a.zip
  21151 Oct 20 02:59 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/screen/snippr26.zip
  21244 Jun 24  1992 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/sysutil/shroom20.zip
   6016 May 19 07:16 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/pd2/bestpr24.zip

As for item 2, shell to DOS.

   All the best, Timo

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Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland


Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: douglas@cs.scarolina.edu (G. David Douglas Jr.)
Subject: Re: Why is Zip not compatable is PKUNZIP
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date: 24 Jan 93 23:34:23 GMT

luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey) writes:

>Recall seeing all those questions like

>  "Why can't I unzip PGP 2.1, I keep gettin CRC failures"

>and the usual answer is 'Did you remember to set BIN mode
>before getting it with FTP'

>Well, I bet alot of people did.  I know I did.  But when I
>tried PKUNZIP, I got CRC errors on about 30% of the files.

>But I did find a way to unzip this very same file.  How?
>By using the unzip program on my unix machine (INFO zip?)

>and PGP wasn't the only offender.  I just got ZZAP off of
>garbo, and I'm having the same sort of problems.  It unzips
>fine on unix,  crc errors on the 386.

>I wonder if Timo and other moderators aren't unzipping and
>rezipping with unix style zip, to try and achive PKZIP 1.1
>compatability.  But instead it seems that it becomes less
>compatable rather than more.

>Has anyone found a better solution than unzipping under
>unix?

Well, I'm not sure about a solution at the unzipping stage,
but I do know that the  Zip  utility (version 1.0, dated
29 September 1991) has a -k option which tells it to
simulate PKZIP-created .zip files.  In addition, I 
tried the following:

(1) Take .ZIP file (created with PKZIP 1.1), and unzip it
    under UNIX with  unzip, 

(2) re-zip it under UNIX with  zip, (either with or without
                                     -k option),

(3) and then unzip it again, this time with PKUNZIP (running
    in a SoftPC  PC-emulator window).

No problems were encountered, either with or without the -k
option.  So whether omission of the -k option is to blame is
an undecided question (at least to me).  You might try
unzipping with  unzip  and then rezipping with  zip  using
the -k option and see if that helps any, before downloading
the final zipped file for decompression with PKUNZIP.

Just my thoughts on the situation.


David Douglas
douglas@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu

Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: huopio@lut.fi (Kauto Huopio)
Subject: Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:32:18 GMT
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed below are writers own.
Peruutus: Mielipiteet ovat omiani.
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

Well, here are the SunOS "df" figures for nic.funet.fi's FTP disks..

Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/md1a            3707691 3699169    8522   100%    /ftp/disk1
/dev/sd8c            1004077  941162   62915    94%    /ftp/disk2
/dev/sd16c           1374491 1228010  146481    89%    /ftp/disk3
/dev/sd17c           1369531 1138857  230674    83%    /ftp/disk4
/dev/sd5e             913596  778288  135308    85%    /ftp/disk6
/dev/sd1c            2028352 1824880  203472    90%    /ftp/disk7
/dev/sd2c            2028352 2024692    3660   100%    /ftp/disk9

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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.os.msdos.apps
From: sauder@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu (EY Sauder clyde jeffr (410) 209-6155)
Subject: Looking for SF-171 program
Organization: Johns Hopkins Continuing Professional Programs
Distribution: dc
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:01:01 GMT

I'm looking for a software program, either commercial or shareware,
that will assist me in filling out the SF-171 form (and more importantly,
conveniently save the information so I never have to start from scratch
again).  I looked in the archives at oak.oakland.edu for shareware,
but did not have success.

If multiple products exist, does anyone have recommendations?

-- 
Jeff Sauder    sauder@aplcenmp.apl.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
Subject: remind 3.00.01 for OS/2 and MSDOS
Keywords: remind, calendar
Organization: Auburn University, Alabama
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:02:57 GMT

It appears from the charter that the .announce group is only for uploads
to garbo and simtel, or announcements by site sysops. Here's an upload
announcement for remind 3.00.01 by David F. Skoll. I have seen remarks
on the msdos groups concerning older versions of this program.

remind is a flexible text-mode reminder program (and calendar program). 
The new features include a postscript calendar option.

This program will be in pub/uploads/ until the site coordinator moves it.
Note carefully that I use OS/2, and the MSDOS bound versions are the ones
with filenames *b.exe. Info-Zip unzip 5.0 will be needed to un-archive. 
(unzip 5.0 for MSDOS is available at simtel20.army.mil in pd1:<msdos.zip>.)

I have included formatted man pages for those without access to groff. These
pages should be read with the "less" pager, available at simtel in 
pd1:<msdos.gnuish>. Or, get groff from garbo, or get cawf, a C version of 
the awf man page formatter, or get groff from ftp-os2 (untested under MSDOS)
or...

There are also 32-bit versions in the archive. These are untested under 
MSDOS. If you wish to use the 32-bit versions, you must retrieve the
emxdev.zip package from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/2.0/programming/.

(EMX is a gcc-development package for OS/2 and MSDOS by Eberhard Mattes, 
author of emTeX.)


ftp-os2.nmsu.edu upload information

 Program: remind 3.00.01 by David Skoll
 Description: sophisticated reminder (and calendar) text-mode program
 Source: comp.sources.misc and David Skoll

 Proposed directory: os2/all/miscutils/


Notes:
1. There are OS/2 16-bit, bound OS/2 and MSDOS, and 32-bit emx-compiled
versions included. The 32-bit versions are untested under MSDOS. The 32-bit
versions require the emxdev.zip archive from pub/os2/2.0/programming/.

2. Perhaps a link needs to be created in os2/2.0/miscutils/ since 
OS/2 2.x versions are included.

3. .01 contains a new postscript-calendar feature. For additional changes,
see the WHATSNEW file.

--
Darrel Hankerson hankedr@mail.auburn.edu
24 January 1993

Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: biswick@ms.uky.edu (Chad Hall)
Subject: Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:51:32 GMT

While it's not the biggest, it'll give you some idea of big and small are.
f.ms.uky.edu is the site.

f% du -s ~ftp/pub4/msdos
85375   /u/ftp/pub4/msdos

Modestly,
Chad.
From: jepler@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jeff Epler)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: File View utility wanted
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:48:39 GMT
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.

I am looking for a file viewer, but I desire some features I haven't
been able to find:

 -- Ability to load files larger than memory, up to about 2 megabyte
 -- Ability to exit a file and return to the same place in it later
 -- Ability to paste characters from screen into buffer as program
 exits

(Hmm, TSR might be nice too, to decrease disk access since it could
keep the file open.  This might be necessary, too, for the keyboard
stuffing bit..)

My desire is to be able to browse files such as the listings of SIMTEL
and Garbo while in an interactive FTP session.  Currently, I have a
key in my terminal set to execute list on a certain file.  This works
okay, except that if I return briefly to the terminal to do a command
in FTP, I have to find the spot I need to return to.  This is an
annoyance.

If there's a way to accomplish this with list, I would be overjoyed to
hear about it.. Otherwise, I would like pointers to a file somewhere
in the world of FTP..

Mail is preferred, I'll summarize the responses I get.

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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:53:35 GMT

In article <C1E20D.8J@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> geo@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca () writes:
>I just wonder too that how many percent of files at Simtel and Garbo
>are duplicated.  This may save a lot of space for some sites, 
>such as wuarchive that mirror both BIG sites.

We are sometimes asked questions about coordination between the two
sites.  The standard reply is that we cooperate, but we do not have
the time for excessibe coordination.  Furthermore the cost of disk
space is going down.  Not so with moderation.  Besides we reside on
different continents. 

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Scanner and stuff
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:03:28 GMT
Distribution: comp.archives.msdos.d
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

dan@cci632.cci.com (Daniel B. Engle) writes:

>1.- Can I get a windows 3.1 version of wscan for my Logitec scanner ? The one
>that came with the scanner is for MSW3.0, and it won't run on MSW3.1, and if
>I use the DOS software under MSW3.1, it will collapse, saying something about
>some weird buffer being too small ?? How can I scan from MSW3.1 ???

I am very glad that I upgraded to Logitech FotoTouch software ($79),
because it supports the scanner much better and runs under Win 3.1 and
is much, much more flexible in its options and uses.  I suggest you do
the same.  To my knowledge, Logitech is not supporting WScan anymore.

You might just need to make more memory available for the DOS Scan
program; I don't know because I don't use it anymore.  FotoTouch is
wonderful.  :)

>3.- Is there any good vt100 emulator to use with my modem under MSW3.1, PD
>or shareware that is ?? The one that comes with MSW is pretty bad, and the
>vt emulation is even worse. I need an emulator that will run vi perfectly.

Try WinQVT, available at your local FTP site.

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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: robinson@sml.cs.psu.edu (Andrew Robinson)
Subject: Re: pkzip 2.04 and DPMI
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:06:19 GMT

To disable pkzip2.04c's usage of DPMI, use the "-)" command line parameter.
Or, better yet, get pkzip2.04e, which appears to have a fix for the DPMI
problem (it seems to be working right for me).


--
     -- Andy
robinson@cs.psu.edu
From: gt4719b@prism.gatech.EDU (Dave Frascone)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: pkzip 2.04 and windows3.1 or os/2
Date: 23 Jan 93 00:51:19 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Pkzip must try to put the processor into protected mode or something,
It crashes on my os/2 at home, and at work under windows 3.1.

Has anyone else had this trouble?

Dave
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
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Subject: Switching A: and B: floppy drives on GW2000
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X-To: comp.archives.msdos.d.usenet, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.usenet


Folks,

   I was trying to boot Linux yesterday on my Gateway 2000 486-33 using
my 3.5in drive which is configured as the B drive. I tried two things

1. Use the boot_b.exe shareware program that allows you to boot from B:
2. Switch the 4pin cables of the A and B floppy drives

Neither worked. In the first case, Linux loaded fine, but once loaded it
started reading the floppy in drive A (boot sector of A floppy written
by boot_b) and bad things happenned. In the second case, the 3.5in drive
still was B:

My question to you folks is, how can I make the 3.5in drive the A:
drive. Can I switch the cables and achieve this. I have a Gateway
4DX-33V with a 5.25in (1.2Mb) as A: and a 3.5in (1.44Mb) as drive B:.
There are two connectors to each floppy drive. One is a 4pin connector,
and the other one is a ribbon wire connector. I apologize for the bad
terminology here, I don't have experience with PC hardware. I swapped
the 4pin connectors of the A and B drives. Is this sufficient. I also
corrected the system configuration (using Ctrl-Alt-Esc), but this didn't
help.

Can boot_b.exe be used to load Linux or other OS from the B: drive
without opening the PC box. Is there someother pd/shareware program that
can do this. 

If none of the above is possible, I guess I have to go out and buy
5.25in floppies. :(

Thanks in advance for any tips. Please send me mail, and I will
summarize to the net.

Vijay
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: How to deal with .pak files?
Keywords: How do I expand .pak files?
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:11:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.161806.22638@nwnexus.WA.COM> night@halcyon.com (Brent Olson) writes:
>I have been trying to guess what program
>I need to deal with this problem.  I have

You can stop guessing now and get the relevant FAQs. :-)
 107719 Jan 24 13:51 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq32.zip
  47206 Nov 27 16:14 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-net/faqc9212.zip

>files with the extension .PAK and I don't
>seem to have any program to deal with it.

I have a surprise for you.  The program is called PAK, would you
believe.  It also handles .sdn files (also a FAQ, incidentally).

 103338 Oct 7 1990 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/arcers/pak251.exe

>I tried hpack78 and unpack from garbo, but
>they didn't like the files I have.

That's for .hpk files.  Tight and very slow.

>Can anybody tell me what it is, and which
>arcer I need to "unpack" these archives?

Can, and probably will. :-)

   All the best, Timo

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi      Co-moderator of comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
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