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From: swood@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Sid Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MKS Toolkit (Was: Re: TAR.EXE for MS DOS Problems ... help!)
Date: 2 Sep 92 11:43:13 GMT
Reply-To: swood@ncrwat.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Sid Wood)
Organization: Imaging Systems Division, NCR Corp, Waterloo, Ont., CANADA

In article <1992Aug31.032848.4818@news.uakron.edu> x1gsd@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregory S Delozier) writes:
>
>Is there maybe a mailing list for the MKS Toolkit or users?
>Finally, is MKS on the net or email anywhere?

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From: 890560p@dragon.acadiau.ca (Trevor Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: V86 mode in DOS
Date: 30 Aug 92 16:14:32 GMT
Organization: Acadia University

Could somebody please explain V86 mode in DOS.  When I install EMM386.EXE
it puts the system in V86 mode.  The MSDOS manual doesn't mention anything 
about V86 and some software won't run in this mode.  Is it possible to
install EMM386.EXE without going into V86 mode?

Thanks

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From: ygoland@edison.seas.ucla.edu (The Jester)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: DR DOS v6/STOR Question
Date: 4 Sep 92 07:59:13 GMT
Organization: The Hacker Conference

I am having a problem with a system running dr dos v6.0 and the
version of stor that comes with it. Specifically, at apparently
random intervals, upon bootup, the system will deliver the following
message:
Cannot load file
Press a key to retry

NOTHING in the dconfig.sys is run (originally I thought that perhaps
the first item in dconfig.sys was generating the error so I put in an
echo statement as the first line of the dconfig, when the above
error occurs, the line is NOT displayed) and the system will sit
until a key is pressed. In most cases pressing the key once causes
the system to reboot and everything is fine. In some cases you will
get the error again but in ALL cases after you have rebooted a
couple of times the system will work, without any apparent problems.
The only 'funny' thing we can find is that chkdsk tends to give
REALLY bad estimates. I know it uses a 2:1 estimate but it does
things like say we have 7 megs of free space when we only have 100k.
Because the system is running dr dos's stor I suspect that is the
root of the problem. Does anyone know anything about this error and
can provide additional information?

			Thank you,
					The Jester
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From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: UMB_DRVR causes HIMEM to abort
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:23:51 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In <wai.715485825@csuvax1> wai@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Julian Wai) writes:

>Can anyone give me any suggestions of what I did wrong?  My config.sys
>file looks like :

>	device=c:\umb_drvr.sys /C=09
>	devicehight=c:\himem.sys
                  ^ This is a typo, right?

You have umb_drvr before himem, as it should be. The /C parameter is
correct? OK. Do you have the line telling DOS=[HIGH|LOW],UMB? It's
essential - and as I read the docs from the other window, it says that
if you've omitted this line, it's HIMEM.SYS which gives an error.

Hope this helps; it's so simple there can't be anything else wrong?

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From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Batch command file parameter question
Date: 30 Aug 92 03:01:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.8#gn=sn.messina
Organization: Messina Software

compata@cup.portal.com (David H Close) writes:

>The following simple MS-DOS batch file,
>[...]
>yields a result which I find peculiar.  Observe this behavior:
>	> q "one two" three
>	"one
>	two"
>	three
>Is there no way to make this foolish operating system recognize a quoted
>string and treat it as a single parameter?  

That's not the operating system, that's the brain dead command.com.
Replace it with 4DOS, and you will get exactly what you expect. 

>Alternatively, is there any
>justification for this behavior (besides incompetence)?

No.

t.
From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Windows Enhanced Mode + UMB_DRVR
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:15:06 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

UMB_DRVR versions 5.21 and up *do* work with Windows Enhanced mode. 
You'll need an EMMExclude = A000-FFFF statement, though, and 4 megs of
memory.  MONOUMB.386 will also be nice.  I'm running a DOS terminal
program in a window under Win 3.1 with UMB_DRVR 5.22 as I type, so it
definitely works. 

Nice product, IMO BTW.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: dww2@po.CWRU.Edu (David W. Woodward)
Subject: MS-DOS 5.0 and 'F'ailing...
Reply-To: dww2@po.CWRU.Edu (David W. Woodward)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 03:43:45 GMT


I remember reading (several times actually) about an undocumented switch in
DOS 5 that makes it default to a 'F'ail status on bad disk reads, trying to
read a floppy with the door open, etc.  Now, I need to know how to do that,
and of COURSE, I can't find the references.  Can anybody help me?  Thanks!

Dave
From: gwni@troi.cc.rochester.edu (G. Wayne Nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Debug'ing with DRDOS
Date: 1 Sep 92 02:22:49 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <1992Aug31.165610.16771@esd.dl.nec.com> west@esd.dl.nec.com (Mike West) writes:

>I have a Adaptec ACB-2372B RLL disk drive controller.  In order to
>add a disk to the controller, I must select drive type 1 in the
>CMOS setup (no problem), but then I must go to memory location
>C800 and run a program which is in the board's ROM to do the
>actual configuration of the new disk.  The board's pamphlet
>gives instructions on how to do this with MSDOS debug.  However,
>I have DRDOS.  How do I do this with SID?

SID is documented in Appendix D of the DRDOS manual.
If you were using a DEBUG command like "g=C800:5",
the equivalent SID command is "gC800:5".
From: dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: WARNING!!!! major problem with vi and possibly every other app around! (was: help I don't understand write caches like smartdrive 3.1)
Summary: Consider the past . . Smileys ARE necessary.
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:20:53 GMT
Organization: Data Factory Services, Harrisburg, Pa.

In article <rdippold.714755270@cancun>, rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
> dave@frackit.UUCP (Dave Ratcliffe) writes:
> >In article <1992Aug14.232515.5824@cco.caltech.edu>, nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu) writes:
> >> The other day I was editing a file with vi and I quit using :q!
> >> 
> >> I lost ALL my changes!!!! 

> >Assuming this is not a great cosmic joke....  (seeing no smileys, he
> >stumbles forward..)

> It is... it is... he was replying to a post which claimed that lazy
> writes had similar problems.

> >(aside).... Where DO they come from.....
> 
> O, sad day when smileys are necessary.

Well, considering some of the winner questions posed to the net in the
past, yes, smileys ARE necessary. I honestly thought this was a serious
question from someone who had a problem easily solvable had he read the
manual. 

Also considering the number of people who believed, as I did, that this
was a serious question, the damn thing should have been RINGED in
smilies :) 

:q!
exit
done
/s
Oh hell! How do I get out of this damn editor?

shutdown -y -g0 (That oughtta do it)

WARNING!!! System services are being halted....


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: cyril@odie.cs.mun.ca (Cyril Mullins)
Subject: msdos,apps, help databases
Summary: Looking for MSDOS & APPS help databases
Keywords:  help databases, MSDOS, MSDOS APPS
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:35:44 GMT

Does anyone know of MSDOS help databases (or q&a) available by anonymous ftp
(or other means).  I am trying to build an online help system for a pc-lan
using Clipper 5.01 and MSC 5.1.  Anything on msdos apps would be appreciated
as well.

Please reply by e-mail, or post if it bounces.  I will post a summary if anyone 
is interested.

Thanks

cyril(at)odie.mun.cs.ca    sorry about the at but vi & windows terminal (3.1)
won't recognize the key(?)
From: jeff@ryhope.del.dec.com (Jeff Finkelstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Unstacking Stacked Disks
Date: 3 Sep 92 15:37:13 GMT
Reply-To: jeff@ryhope.del.dec.com (Jeff Finkelstein)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


Does anyone know how to unstack a disk stacked with STACKER 2.0? The
problem, of course, is to do it on the same device without copying it to
another disk.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: denis@gandalf.ca (Denis Godmaire)
Subject: Re: Upgrading 286 to 386: Do I need new RAM?
Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:55:46 GMT

In <1992Aug29.002114.28902@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Mike J. Brown) writes:

>(insert usual "hope this isn't a FAQ" disclaimer here)

>I have a Laser 286/2, 12MHz, and am thinking about getting a new
>motherboard for it.  If I get a 386 motherboard, will my old RAM
>work in it?  Please help!
>-- 

most likely not! 286 m.b usually takes dip or sips ram and 386 m.b.
needs simms

>Mike Brown
>mjbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
>"The Universe is a spheroid region 705 meters in diameter."

denis

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: rwilliam@bach.helios.nd.edu (richard williams)
Subject: Re: Sticky shift key, errant num-lock... Probably a FAQ
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 16:47:46 GMT

In article <4969@news.duke.edu> alan@acpub.duke.edu (Alan M. Gallatin) writes:
>Here's one that I'm sure I saw answered over a year ago...
>
>Whenever I have more than 2 or 3 TSR's loaded (low or high), my shift
>keys (generally the left one) and my num-lock keys behave strangely.
>In particular, at some seemingly random point, every key I type will
>be shifted (alphanumeric, function keys, the works) although this
>phenomenon is generally NOT preceded by my touching the shift key.
>The only cure is to simply press the left shift key and release it,
>thereby ending my woes until it all starts up again.

Get INT9FIX3.ZIP from the keyboard subdirectory of Simtel20 or one of
its mirrors (e.g. at oak.oakland.edu the file is found under
pub/msdos/keyboard).  The files included give a discussion of this
problem and offer several possible solutions, one of which will hopefully
work for you.  

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From: clemens@faui8a.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Clemens Beckstein)
Subject: Re: MKS Toolkit
Organization: Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:45:57 GMT

msc@ssigate.ssinc.com (Michael S. Cross) writes:

>In article <1992Aug31.032848.4818@news.uakron.edu> x1gsd@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Gregory S Delozier) writes:

>I don't know of any mailing list.  MKS is on the NET.  I thought I had the
>address around here somewhere.  The manual says uunet!watmath!mks!toolkit
>but I don't know if the link is still active.  I can't seem to find them
>listed in the UUMAPS.  (but what does that prove?  We aren't listed [yet]
>either)

Why don't you try to contact Pat Inglis from MKS:
        pat%mks.UUCP@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
or just
        pat@mks.com
should do the job...

Cheers,

- Clemens
Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:50:09 -0400 
From: "Jared M. Oberhaus" <jo0e+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: HELP! DeskMate info needed...

I need to find out where to get technical information about Tandy's
DeskMate operating system (if you want to call it that)... If you have
any phone numbers or anywhere to get a book, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks!
Jared Oberhaus
Carnegie Mellon
From: Deon.Strydom@p16.f1.n7104.z5.fidonet.org (Deon Strydom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Windows Enhanced Mode + UMB's is it possible?
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 06:38:10 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 5:7104/1.16 - The Catalyst BBS 1, Port Elizabeth

In a message of <Aug 26 20:38>, Alfred Porziella (5:7104/2) wrote to All:
 AP>The UMB providers I have used are UMB_DRVR.SYS (v5.21) and 
 AP>LASTBYTE.SYS
 AP>using HIGHUMM.SYS (v2.11). I can't get either to work with windows.

 AP>I have managed to exclude a 64k block at D000-DFFF so that EMM386.EXE 
 AP>(DOS5)
 AP>can provide EMS. But windows enhanced mode still wont work!

Hi Alfred,
The docs of UMB_DRVR clearly states that it doesn't work with Windows.  I use plain Dos 5.0 and have UMB's and Windows in enhanved mode.  Here's my CONFIG.SYS (BTW, I have a Hercules mono 386SX with 4Meg Ram and don't use expanded mem under Windows)

REM  >>> FOR RUNNING WINDOWS
device=C:\dos\himem.sys
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE X=A000-BFFF I=C000-EFFF NOEMS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
devicehigh=c:\dos\ramdrive.sys 256 /e
Devicehigh=C:\DUBLDISK\DUBLDISK.SYS /C D0=F
DEVICEHIGH=c:\dos\mouse\gmouse.sys *2+12
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\NANSI.SYS
BUFFERS=40
COUNTRY=031
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P /F
devicehigh=c:\dos\smartdrv.sys 1024 512

 AP>Any ideas would be appreciated.

Hope my ideas might help you! ;-)  The first three lines is all you need, but I left the rest in for you to see what I load into UMB's.

Groetnis (=cheers)
Deon



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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz)
Subject: Re: Let's start a DR-DOS newsgroup- All in favor- say aye! 
Reply-To: frotz@novell.com
Organization: Desktop Systems Group/Novell, Monterey CA/USA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 20:46:21 GMT


Aye!  Not sure that we have the readership to support multiple groups,
but it would sure be nice for both internal and external customers
(you guys) to have a place to ask questions with better response time
than you can get with "drdos@novell.com" (mail gateway delays and
all). 

BTW, there are a number of us who are making an attempt to ensure that
Ralf Brown's Interrupt List is accurate (at least as far as the
information that _we_ can talk about). 

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From: rusu@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (LMRusu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Help with QEMM386, EMM386 and Procomm Plus
Date: 28 Aug 92 06:07:25 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

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From: walkerd@pegasus ( ipg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: DOS for embedded controller
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:39:25 GMT
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.

In article <12677@pegasus> walkerd@pegasus ( ipg) writes:
>I have heard that it may be possible to get a version of DOS which I can
>run on an embedded controller (Intel of course).  Has anyone else heard
>of this?  Can you give me company contacts so that I can get more
>information?
>
>Please reply by mail,if possible.

It appears that our postnews is screwy and didn't append my .signature file
or show the correct from address.  Also I have to make sure that in this
followup I have more characters than I copied from the original post. 
Therefore I am going on and on and on, wasting bandwidth, and my time just
so that I can tell you all my real address.


My address is:

	walkerd@mitel.com


Thanks again,
Doug
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:46:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Let's start a DR-DOS newsgroup- All in favor- say aye!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc

  First of all: I'm a big DR DOS 6.0 fan.

  However I'm not sure whether or not I want a seperate DR DOS group/
hierarchy.

  Of course it is an advantage to have all the DR DOS discussions in one
place, but many discussions will be about ANY-DOS instead of DR DOS. How
do we keep these out of the .drdos hierarchy?

  As to the name: As much as the original poster probably dislikes it
and I do disklike it, as several other posters said, it probably should
be part of the comp.os.msdos hierarchy, i.e.

comp.os.msdos.drdos* (Yeach! :-))

  Better, but probably impossible, would be

comp.os.dos.drdos*

  Currently I am quite satisfied by the "DR DOS" indicators which people
put in the title ("Subject: ") of their postings. But then, this is only
to be expected: DR DOS users know what is important, otherwise they
would not have purchased DR DOS (slime, slime :-)), so they put "DR DOS"
in their titles. Coming to think of it: Yes, it would be nice to have
a seperate group for the elite of this world. :-) Consider this an "Aye"
vote for comp.os[.whatever].drdos

Frank "There are only MS-DOS users and DR DOS fans. None of the reverse!"

P.S. To summarize my above rambling: Do whatever you like. I'm not going
     to object/vote_no.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: palsson@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Jerry Palsson)
Subject:  CGA on Hercules Monochrome?
Organization: San Diego State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:31:06 GMT

Hope this isn't a boring old FAQ, but can some kind soul tell me if
there is a utility that will let me run CGA/EGA (etc.) games using a
Hercules monochrome graphics card?  This is for an XT with DOS 5.0.
I'm familiar with most of the good ftp sites, so just want to know which
filenames to look for.  Thanks...

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: kjetilo@bilbo.uio.no (Kjetil Otter Olsen)
Subject: Calling C from Pascal
Organization: University of Oslo
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:06:11 GMT



I have a pascal program (Turbo-Pascal >= 5.0). From this program I
would like to call several "procedures" written in C (Microsoft
or Borland).

Is this possible ?? If so; How. A small example would be nice.

Thanks in advance. (Answers in E-Mail, please).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: marc@let.rug.nl (M.Ch. Dupuis)
Subject: Borland TLINK 4.0 bug?
Organization: Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:14:20 GMT


Hi,

Does any one know if there is a bug in Borland's TLINK version 4.0?
I used to work with TLINK version 3.01, which never gave any problems. Now
I find that some of my programmes (sources unchanged) suddenly won't be 
converted to .COM files, or crash my pc after they are loaded.

Marc.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: XMS memory manager for C/C++ needed
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 06:54:29 GMT

cambler@zeus.calpoly.edu (Christopher J. Ambler, Phish) writes:
>I'm looking for an XMS memory manager package that can make XMS available
>to the heap via malloc() or new calls transparently. Protected mode
>interfaces do not qualify for my application.

Protected mode interfaces are really your only choice to do this
transparently.

>Most that I've seen will do this, but require malloc() calls to use
>their custom handles, and since I cannot afford the time on the project
>to rewrite all the calls to new in Turbo Vision, I need something transparent.

The problem is that XMS memory isn't in the 8086's addressing space,
so you can't access it directly in real mode, only through handles and 
XMS service requests.  It is in theory possible to write a compiler
that could hide all this for you, and I believe MAC compilers do
something like this, but I can't see anyone doing it for MS-DOS and
XMS because of the huge overhead involved.

							Ross Ridge

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