HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: hcooper@javelin.sim.es.com (Harrison Cooper)
Subject: Looking for DRAW type program
Keywords: draw, gem
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:59:45 GMT

I am looking for a drawing package (pd) that runs under win 3.1.  I used
to use GEM, but it runs under its own desktop, and conflicts with windows.
Something like correl (sp?), doesn't have to be real fancy.

please email hcooper@javelin.sim.es.com

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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: mueller@iwf.mabp.ethz.ch (Mueller Beat)
Subject: reading mac disks
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:06:35 GMT

where can i find a programm by which i will be able to read mac-disks
into my pc? e. g. simple ascii-files should be readable, perferred
are other formats like word, word-star, too.

does anyone know which ftp-site carries such utilities ?

zosh

Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Federal Register
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:24:58 GMT

In article <sph0301.156.727721540@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu> sph0301@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu writes:
>I don't really know which group would be the most appropriate for this
>request, so I'll start here....

A tip.  When one is very uncertain where to ask, one place is
news.newusers.questions.  It often has question like "where can I
best ask about this".  One can also try to check news.answers.  The
problem from this newsgroup's point of view is that this covers
MsDos FTP archive site related questions rather than generic
information retrieval.

>Does anyone know if the Federal Register (records of all Congressional
>activities) are available anywhere on the Internet... seems like the
>kind of information that would be available via a WAIS server somewhere...

I wish I knew so that I could give the answer.  But sorry, no.

   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



Xref: sparky comp.archives.msdos.d:694 comp.lang.pascal:8403
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Is tspa3170.zip forthcoming?
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:42:24 GMT
Followup-To: comp.lang.pascal
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland

-Subject: Re: To new and old Garbo uploaders. Please see the instructions
-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:16:39 +0200 (EET)
-From: ts

>
> I was wondering when your useful utils tspa30??.zip will be updated to 7.0?

A.S.A.P.  Maybe even next weekend.  I've just laid my dirty paws on
TP 7.0 (I put just TPC on my harddisk, nothing else).  I'll only
make the normal mode TPU.  Protected and TPW will not be forthcoming
at all.  BTW, its ts tspa31??.zip currently.

> I know your busy...

You can say that again.  You can say that again :-).

> .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.
> .   TCS Consulting Services   P.O. Box 600008   St. Paul, MN  55106-0008    .
> .   ..!srcsip!tcscs!zeta                 ..!src.honeywell.com!tcscs!zeta    .
> .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.

   All the best, Timo

P.S.  I'll post my reply to the news.

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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: userDHAL@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (David Halliwell)
Subject: Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:23:21 GMT

ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:

   [general discussion of garbo policies deleted]

>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. 

   I've seen Timo make comments similar to this a number of times,
and usually it is in response to someone having posted something
along the lines of "it would be easier for me if you did it this 
way..", and all I want to do is publicly state....

    THANKS, Timo and all the other archive moderators, for the time
and effort that you put into maintaining the collections that you
do. Perhaps there are one or two things you could do for an individual
that would make their life easier, but you already do an awful lot,
and there are people out here who really appreciate it.

    There. I've said it. Been thinking it for while, but I just haven't
taken the time to say it. Been too busy :-)


Dave Halliwell
Department of Geography
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
From: corvett@csa.bu.edu (Sungyeup Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Compression program wanted
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:07:41 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

Hollo !

I'm looking for a shareware or PD program that do the same job as stacker.
I have a 80 Mb hard disk, and need more space desperately.
Please somebody recommend me a *reliable* compression program.
Send e-mail about the program(Quality, where is it, etc)
Thanks in advance.
--
#include <stdsig.h>
// Sungyeup Kim, corvett@csa.bu.edu
// Computer Science, Boston University
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: raistlin@wixer.cactus.org (Eli Boaz)
Subject: Re: CC1PLUS missing from djgcc222.zip
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:33:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.212342.1433@nwnexus.WA.COM> brennan@halcyon.com (J.D. Brennan) writes:
>I downloaded djgcc222.zip from simtel20 last week and from reading
>through the docs it appears that C++ should be supported by the
>presence of a file called CC1PLUS.EXE.  But that file wasn't in
>the .zip file.  Any thoughts?  Did I do something wrong?  Or is
>the C++ support in another file that I have to download?  Or is
>the djgcc222.zip file incorrect?

Starting wiht 2.2.2, cc1plus.exe was move to djgpo222.zip which has
all the C++ files in it... If I remember correctly, it was to help
cut down on the size of the djgcc???.zip file ...

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
Subject: Re: So, how big ARE the archives?
Organization: NullNet r.y.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:40:24 GMT

In article <4fMgagG00Uh_01k6sp@andrew.cmu.edu> pm3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Paul Joseph Mitchell) writes:
>wondering exactly how big they are.  I know that simtel at least has to
>be around 600 megs or so, because of the periodic CD-ROM of the archives
>that is released now and then.

Well, the simtel20 disk only has the MSDOS-stuff from simtel, and I think
there's other archives as well. So there's more than that 600M. And cica..
the cica Windows3 disk has about 200M programs on it (June 1992 edition).

..Wolf
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: meyer@geomatic.no (Harald Martens Meyer)
Subject: Program for mixing drinks??
Organization: Geomatic a.s, Norway.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:18:34 GMT

Anyone know of a program that; given some ingredients come up with
suggestions for different drinks??

Or something similair??

  2
HM
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: pkzip 2.04 and DPMI
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:01:08 GMT

In article <81411@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4719b@prism.gatech.EDU (Dave Frascone) writes:
> 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?

There seems to be a bug in the DPMI use/recognition in PKZip 2.04c. This
applies t both Windows and OS/2 2.x. 
 
At least with OS/2 you can "zero" the DPMI available in a particular DOS
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From: Y.K.Chan@lut.ac.uk
Subject: re: Postscript files to dot matrix printer - THANKS
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 09:58:45 GMT


Thanks to everyone who suggested Ghostscript to my question.
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: Recent msdos uploads to SIMTEL20 (between 930115 and 930123)
Keywords: simtel20,msdos,recent,uploads
Date: 24 Jan 93 07:20:36 GMT
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland

In article <9301240343.kp1058@tacom-emh1.army.mil> w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen) writes:
>Directory PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS>
>SIMIBM.ZIP    B  288427  930123  Comma-delim list of all MSDOS files w/descrip.
>SIMLIST.ZIP   B  282127  930123  Text format list of all MSDOS files w/descrip.

Garbo does not mirror any site, but I try to make these two
available also from Garbo on a regular basis.  For example now I
have
 288697 Jan 23 22:26 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/filelist/simibm.zip
 282397 Jan 23 22:33 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/filelist/simlist.zip

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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,comp.graphics.gnuplot
From: martin@space.ualberta.ca (Martin Connors)
Subject: gnuplot for windows memory (spurious?) problem
Reply-To: martin@space.ualberta.ca (Martin Connors)
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:08:23 GMT

I got Windows 3 gnuplot executables in wgplt338.zip and wgpltdem.zip 
from wuarchive.wustl.edu but cannot run them on my machine under 3.1.
I installed COMMDLG.DLL and that did not change the result, which is a 
'not enough memory' error, 'please shut down some applications'. That  
seems an unlikely real problem on my 486 with 8M and near 200M of free  
disk space! Anyone else had this problem?

I don't yet have Turbo C++ (it's on order) so please don't suggest  
recompiling....

--
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Space Research         | martin@space.ualberta.ca  (403) 492-2526
University of Alberta  |
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.os.msdos.4dos
From: cdvaugha@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Chris Vaughan)
Subject: Re: Telemate 4.00 terminal emulation
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: inet
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:54:19 GMT

> Anyways, that aside, I, too, have a problem with TeleMate.
> Using the default cursor-key mappings ("^[Ox" for up, etc) I
> just get beeps and error messages.  I figure this is because
> (duh) the Unix server thinks I am on a vt100 (not 102)
> machine.  I can't get the server to change to 102 (I tried
> tset vt102 but it didn't work), so maybe someone could help me
> with the arrow-key codes which work best on the vt100.

I have the same problem. Use the ANSI codes: ^[[A is up, ^[[B is down, etc.
Look at the ANSI.PAD file for a template. Or just use the ANSI terminal.
Telemate's VT102 is so thin, you don't miss much.

-- 
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cdvaugha@ucs.indiana.edu       	 amid general applause from all the wits,
cdvaugha@iubacs.bitnet           who believe that it is a joke.   -Kierkegaard
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Luxembourg BBS numbers?
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:51:54 GMT

In article <1joiblINNbvk@werple.apana.org.au> antony@werple.apana.org.au (Antony Suter) writes:
>Can anyone point me to a list of BBSs in Luxembourg. BBSes in France, 
>Belgium and Germany might also be helpful. Thanks.

This is the right place to ask.  But if you do not get any answers,
your next bets are comp.bbs.misc (check your .newsrc for the name)
and then any good FidoNet BBS.  Usually the best up to date lists
are on FidoNet.  The other distribution channels have the danger of
lagging. 
 
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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: kollur@aix.rpi.edu (Ramana Kolluri)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: software to print chemical symbols?
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:26:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: rpi.l0p3qx+
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY

Is there any shareware/freeware software out there at one of the
ftp sites that can be used to print things like benzene rings
etc. in a wordperfect or some other msdos environment?

Ramana
From: vporguen@unl.edu (victor porguen)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Cyrillic Fonts Are There!!!
Date: 27 Jan 1993 06:30:53 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu
Keywords: Cyrillic Russian Font Tavolga

 
Several readers have contacted me saying that they could not find
the archive with the Tavolga Cyrillic fonts on the Quepasa server. 
I just checked and was told that the file _is_ there, but in a
different subdirectory.

If you want the fonts, log on as `anonymous' user to 

          ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de

and get the file 

          /pub/msdos/windows3/fonts/cyrilttf.arj


That should do it. 


Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: sph0301@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Federal Register
Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:52:20 GMT
Followup-To: comp.archives.msdos.d
Organization: Univ. of Texas School of Public Health

I don't really know which group would be the most appropriate for this
request, so I'll start here....

Does anyone know if the Federal Register (records of all Congressional
activities) are available anywhere on the Internet... seems like the
kind of information that would be available via a WAIS server somewhere...

kate wilson
UT Health Science Center, Houston
From: autry@sgi.com (Larry Autry)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: A suggestion for msdos announcements
Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:05:23 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, St. Louis, MO
NNTP-Posting-Host: magellan.stlouis.sgi.com

In article <babcock.15.0@cfa.harvard.edu> babcock@cfa.harvard.edu (Robert W. Babcock) writes:
ts>Yes certainly.  But including such information is entirely up to the
ts>uploaders.  The archive site maintainers cannot afford the extra
ts>effort required. 
>
>One thing I'd like to see uploaders include in announcements is whether a 
>program is public domain or shareware.  (I'd like to see this info in the 
>file listings too, but I realize it would be a huge job to get it in there.)
There is freeware and there is public domain software.  This is a
commonly overlooked fact.  This should be made clear by uploaders.
Freeware by the way, is software that is freely distributable and
usable but the author maintains ownership of the copyright.
--
Larry Autry
Silicon Graphics, St. Louis
autry@sgi.com 
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: janovetz@meibm4.cen.uiuc.edu (Jacob W Janovetz)
Subject: Re: pkzip 2.04 and windows3.1 or os/2
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:04:10 GMT

gt4719b@prism.gatech.EDU (Dave Frascone) writes:

>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
>-- 
>gt4719b@prism.gatech.edu

   I had this problem earlier.  It only crashed for me when I ran PKZIP without
parameters and looked at the list of switches, then pressed a key to continue.
When I forced PKZIP _NOT_ to use DPMI with the -) switch, I believe... the
symptoms disappeared.  I was also running under OS/2 at home.  

   Jake ---- janovetz@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu

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From: jxh@math.ksu.edu (James C. Hu)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: pctco253.zip on oak.oakland.edu
Date: 25 Jan 1993 00:01:36 -0600
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: hilbert.math.ksu.edu

No flames on my choice of editors, I was just
trying it out.  I have been trying to run it on my
386, MSDOS 5.0 with noavail.  I've done the
obvious things of making sure all transfers were
binary and such.  Anyone else having problems with
it?
-- 
James C. Hu (jxh@math.ksu.edu), 1804 Denholm Dr., Manhattan, KS 66502
I speak for me, the whole me, and nothing but for me.  So help me me.
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Thursday, 21 Jan 1993 09:46:28 PST
From: <HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: Large Character Program


In article <C16J1B.3J3@hkuxb.hku.hk>, archana@hkusub (The HK Connection) says:
>
>A couple of months ago there was a progam which enlarged the charcaters
>that were typed on screen or from file. Me thinks it was posted in
>c.b.i.p. If any one has that program can you mail it to me.
>Thanks a lot
>--
>
There are several programs in the MSDOS archives pub/msdos/handicap
Try oak.oakland.edu or wuarchive.wustl.edu

Harold
From: revesz@msc.cornell.edu (Peter Revesz)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: where is vwfrun.zip ?
Date: 27 Jan 93 18:42:52 GMT
Distribution: comp.archives. msdos.d
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center

I am trying to locate the Microsoft Video  vier program
vwfrun.zip.

Anyone knows where to find it?

 <<Peter>>

 revesz@msc.cornell.edu
From: Y.K.Chan@lut.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Postscript files to dot matrix printers ?
Date: 26 Jan 93 14:51:55 GMT
Reply-To: Y.K.Chan@lut.ac.uk
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.


Does anyone know of a program that will enable Postscript files to be
viewed and then printed to a dot matrix printer ?

Thanks alot.
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ih@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Ian Heath)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: Searching Seahaven Towers for pc's
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:05:12 GMT

In <1993Jan18.125846.9829@fokus.gmd.de> ar@fokus.gmd.de (A. Richter) writes:

>I am looking, as the subject says, for a pc version of the Seahaven Towers card game. I used archie, but there are only Mac or Amiga (?) versions of this game. So my question is: Is a copy of a similiar card game out there, or is the pc versions name changed, so i can't find it? Any hints appreciated! BTW i need a DOS version of this game and no Windows or OS/2 version.

>ThanX in advance

>	Alex

There's a version of Seahaven Towers for Windows called, surprisingly
enough 'TOWERS'.  Its shareware and should be available via FTP from
ftp.cica.indiana.edu or one of the mirror sites.


Cheers,

Ian
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: mcramer@watdragon.uwaterloo.ca (Mert Cramer)
Subject: Re: TeX files, need help.....
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:34:22 GMT

From article <1k3044INNfld@cc.tut.fi>, by s106275@lehtori.cc.tut.fi (Anssi Saari):
> In <Jan.25.21.14.32.1993.26111@gandalf.rutgers.edu> deatz@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Gregory H Deatz) writes:
> 
>>Anybody know where I can find a good quick on-line or off-line manual for someone who has virtually NO experience with it, but would find it extremely convenient to learn?
> 
> The TeXbook, by the author Donald E. Knuth.
> 
> Anssi

Unless you have a strong streak of masochism the TeXbook is not for beginniers.
Much better books are:
TeX for the Impatient by Paul Abrahams -- Addison-Wesley 1990 or
A Beginner's Book of TeX by Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy - -Springer-Verlag
 1991.

 Mert Cramer
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: j_bob@iastate.edu (Vincent J Giovannone)
Subject: Re: Switching A: and B: floppy drives on GW2000
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:57:41 GMT

In <ofNfY=f0BwwqA9lkNo@transarc.com> Vijay_Anand@transarc.com writes:


>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.

As a computer technician, I believe I can answer your question.

Simply switching the "4pin" connector is not sufficient.  That connector is the
power connector for your floppy drives.  (If you follow the wires, they'll go
to your power supply.)  What you need to do to switch your A: drive to be your
B: drive and vice versa is this:

Take the "ribbon" connector, asyou call it, and switch them.  To double check,
start at the end of the cable that connects to the motherboard or floppy
controller.  Follow the cable until you get to the first connector.  Connect
this to the drive you want to be B:.  After this, there should be a few lines
on the cable that get flipped left to right.  (On most cables, they just cut
the lines and physically reverse them.  It should be quite obvious from looking
at the cable.)  Anyway, the connector after the pins get flipped right to 
left is the connector for your A: drive.

After that, correct your setup in your BIOS (if I remember correctly, for a
Gateway you should push ctrl-alt-esc) and your system should run fine!

Later.

						-Vince

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