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From: Stephen Gibson
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Mouse drivers: mouse.com mouse.sys mouse.drv
Keywords: mouse drivers
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:32:29 GMT
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

In article <1992Sep2.151013.29423@ncsu.edu> dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL) writes:
>
>In article <1992Sep02.020652.14983@microsoft.com>, blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett) writes:
>|> Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
>|> Path: taco!rock!stanford.edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!blakeco
>|> From: blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett)
>|> Subject: Re: Mouse drivers: mouse.com mouse.sys mouse.drv
>|> Message-ID: <1992Sep02.020652.14983@microsoft.com>
>|> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 22:06:52 GMT+5:00
>|> Organization: Microsoft Canada Inc.
>|> References: <1992Sep1.175930.9276@pony.Ingres.COM>
>|> Keywords: mouse drivers
>|> Lines: 25
>|> 
>|> In article <1992Sep1.175930.9276@pony.Ingres.COM> jabbate@Ingres.COM (Joe M. Abbate) writes:
>|> >one vs. the other.  With Windows 3.1, there's mouse.drv and mouse.com
>|> >(version 8.20).  If I assume correctly, the .drv is used by Windows
>|> >and .com is for DOS use.  Can someone confirm this and/or point me to
>|> >anywhere in the documentation where the differences are explained?
>|> 
>|> This is correct.  mouse.com is the driver for DOS and mouse.drv is the Windows
>|> driver.
>|> 
>|> I answered this mostly because it gives a perfect example of Windows
>|> virtualization.  Both of these mouse drivers are designed to talk directly
>|> to the mouse hardware.  In fact they both do, mouse.com talks directly
>|> to the hardware if Windows isn't running or if a DOS app is active in
>|> standard mode, mouse.drv talks directly to the hardware if a Win app
>|> is active in standard mode.
>|> 
>|> In enhanced mode both drivers continue to think they are talking to the 
>|> hardware but in fact they are being virtualized by *vmd (the virtual mouse
>|> driver built into win386.exe)
>|> 
>|> -Blake (Apologizes for the sermon, Tomer I hope you are reading this)
>|> Now was that a sneaky followup to the thread that won't die or what?
>|> -- 
>|> #include <std/disclaimer.h>                       blakeco@microsoft.com
>|> Mail Flames, Post Apologies.                      ...!uunet!microsoft!blakeco
>|> 
>
>Hi.  So what is MOUSE.SYS for?
>
>Also, while we're on the subject of mice, why is it that the INT 33h call to
>reset the mouse (function 0) takes so long?  Certain programs (like old
>versions of Turbo Debugger and some programs that were written with True
>BASIC) like to call this function constantly, and it really slows things down.
>I wrote a program on my computer to selectively disable the mouse driver, but
>still I wonder why it's so time-consuming in the first place to reset the
>mouse...
>
>Tschuess,
>David Paschal

Maybe it has to deal with all of the resources used to gain mouse access
in DOS windows.

Steve Gibson
gibsonst@sonoma.edu
From: jewell@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Larry Jewell)
Subject: Re: Is GATES gay? Only a Fag could make windows
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 10:32:49 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.031138.12213@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsalte2@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mystery) writes:

>Windows sucks!  All window lovers are suckers.....love OS/2 you fools.

>dont be sucker any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't you love it when the Freshmen hit the net?






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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ashaw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (andrew.shaw)
Subject: Re: Windows == OS
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:40:50 GMT

From article <714807912.1@ttlg.ttlg.UUCP>, by Monroe.Thomas@ttlg.UUCP (Monroe Thomas):
> I agree 100% with you...  the GUI *should* be a separate entity from
> the OS.  Windows, up until 3.x has certainly inter-related OS and
> GUI...
> 
> *However*, can we make assumptions about the types of terminals
> attached to our OS?  Unix doesn't.  I think what is falling out is
> that there should be hooks in the OS to make GUI apps easier to
> produce.  After all, perhaps one of the resources that often gets
> neglected in the definition of an OS is the graphical monitor.
> Screenspace deserves to be managed too, IMNSHO.  The question is, can
> the OS provide general enough screen managemnt tools so that the GUI
> flavour remains unaffected???  I dunno.
> 

I'm not sure that I like putting application-specific hooks in the OS.
What I do like is the UNIX(R) solution of having the hardware come
with drivers.  The drivers are supposed to conform to the published
conventions and can use already existing kernel services (eg mask
interrupts).  At installation time you parameterize the driver with
the specifics of your hardware setup (I/O address, IRQ, etc) and
then the driver is incorporated into the kernel.  So the old OS
provides hooks in the form of read/write/ioctl system calls that
are directed to the particular driver based on the device passed.
The new OS (kernel) provides hooks in the form of the driver for
the device, eg writing to /dev/ega should update the screen.  If
you change to another card, just do the same thing, and then
writing to /dev/vga should update the screen.  This way the apps
do not need to know the specifics of the hardware: they can
merely look to see if /dev/svga, /dev/vga, /dev/ega, /dev/cga,
/dev/tty exist and open the desired one.  I realize that using
graphics is a bad example here, since under X all of this
would be taken care of by the X server, with yet another API,
but...
From: u8515682@cc.uow.edu.au (Wayne Jefferson Doust)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Monitor
Date: 31 Aug 92 05:18:34 GMT
Organization: University Of Wollongong

reza.naima@uttsbbs.uucp (Reza Naima) writes:


>  I'm not sure if this is appropriate, but a friend pointed this out to 
>when I was over at his house.  He runs windows under 800X600 (or something 
>like that) mode, and although he has a non-interlaced monitor and card, he 
>has to run a program which makes his monitor run non-interlaced.  I am not 

Sounds like Flicker Kicker. I tried this out and it sucks raw eggs.
What it (apparently) does is reduce the screen size so that the pixels
overlap each other and reduce the flicker. I can't buy the loss in
screen size, it's too much. The install programme is horrible, all it
does is add the name of the programme (70.com from memory) to the
beginning of your autoexec.bat file.
From: LB.NKA@isumvs.iastate.edu (Nubi Achebo)
Subject: Shareware Statistics Program
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:08:40 GMT

Does anyone know if there is a shareware statistics out there?  I
will appreciate information about the site and file directory.

lb.nka@isumvs.bitnet
lb.nka@isumvs.iastate.edu

Nubi Achebo
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole)
Subject: Re: WINSPEED DRIVERS LOCATION (not?)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 04:32:51 GMT

In article <kingw.714442814@sfu.ca> kingw@fraser.sfu.ca (King Rio Wong) writes:
>edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>
>>down winspeed.lzh, not winspeed.zip.  Nevertheless, I thought we were talking
>>about
>>drivers which improved screen redraws, to be used in place of or along side
>>our current trident drivers. I may not have looked far enough here on this
>>program, but I don't see any drivers right off.
>
>>Anyway, my fault. I think I got the wrong program, unless I misunderstood what
>>it was in the first place.
>
>>Anyone got any idea where the winspeed drivers can be located?
>
>    Isn't Winspeed (the software windows accelerator) commercial software?
>I've seen it being sold in a local software store, too.
>
>Timothy
>
Timothy Wins!!!!  I got the Winspeed drivers in a packaged deal.  (that means
I bought them...for those of you who are knee deep in PD :-)  )  The only 
thing I got from ftp sites were my updated drivers for trident and my Stealth
card (man, I gotta slow down on this ftp stuff).  Sorry for getting everyones
hopes up...but once you've seen one video driver...you've seen them all.  I
hope the dudes (and dudettes) at Panacea weren't reading my past postings...I
could have started a real doozy with their Trademark..(Software developers are
sooooo touchy :-) 

So the answer is...support your local developer....buy, purchase, etc.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(This is called trying to cover one's ass in case of any misconceptions!)

Mario

P.S.-> Buy a Diamond Stealth card...at least those drivers are free! 
:-) "what a funny guy!!"

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: fmag9694@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Fouad M. Abdel-Rahim)
Subject: Re: DR-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:22:30 GMT

axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar) writes:


>One of my users wants to run Windows 3.1/DR-DOS 6.0
>combination.  I know that Digital Research has some sort
>of "fix" which will let you do this.

>Could some one direct me to an FTP site where I can
>grab the files?

>Thank you,

>Ashok
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: vscarafi@eccdb1.pms.ford.com (Vincent F. Scarafino)
Subject: Re: Need help with Faxit
Originator: news@pms001
Organization: Ford Motor Co.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 20:14:13 GMT

hpverwei@cs.ruu.nl (Dick Verweij) writes:
> Recently my brother in law purchased a FAX/MODEM card. (Faxit for windows)
> He installed it, and after a few difficulties : a conflict with the mouse(COM1) with the card (COM2) , 
> he could run it from windows, by assigning it to COM4.
> BUT... it still does not work in windows, the only thing that works is the modem software "QuickLink II".
> And when a Fax is about to be transmitted, windows crashes.  
> 
> System: 386DX 25Mhz Windows 3.1 Enhanced Mode
> Mouse on COM1:
> 
> 
> Could someone who also owns such a modem tell what he did wrong???
> -- 
> DICK H.P. VERWEIJ
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D:-) I:-) C:-) K:-) email : hpverwei@cs.ruu.nl 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Is he running the DOS option of afterdark?  It causes me to lose the system
when trying to print faxs I've received.

Vince
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
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Subject: GlobalWire/GlobalUnWire
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:07:36 +0000

I've inherited an application which uses GlobalWire/GlobalUnWire
The 3.1 Programmer's Reference says these shouldn't be used
under 3.1, does anyone know what happens if you do use them?
Is there anyway to emulate their operation?
                          James M. Ross
                          (j.m.ross@man0507.wins.icl.co.uk)
From: andrewsr@ratt.rutgers.edu (Rich Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Speeding up Windows
Date: 2 Sep 92 12:09:52 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <1992Aug28.222436.7248@wam.umd.edu> macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:


> this sounds very familiar!)  Other pointers...don't put Windows on a Stacker
> drive, trash Himem.sys, don't blame Smartdrv for everything, and most 
> important of all...give Windows every bit of memory you can spare.
> 

> Mario
> 

Wouldn't putting Windows on a stacker drive speed up performance?  

What is wrong with HIMEM.SYS?

TO increase my performance, I disabled the RAMDISK and gave the memory
to SMARTDRV.  I installed Stacker to increase (double) the size of
SMARTDRV's cache and decrease the size of files on the disk.  But,
adding an ATI Ultra also made a gain in speed.  Not as much as I
expected, however.

-Rich
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: ChessBitmap won't work in Win3.1
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:54:40 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.223034.1996@reed.edu> tchen@sloth.Reed.Edu (Timothy Chen) writes:
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I really like a Chess Bitmap in Windows3.0.  However, when I upgrade to  
>Win3.1 I can not use it. It said there is not enough memory to use the  
>Chess bitmap.(I have 8Meg RAM on my computer). Does anybody have an  
>experience with this kind of the problem? Thanks

Try getting into WinGif and cropping it down a pixel line or two..
this might be a manifestation  of the old 1024x768 .bmp problem. 
Chess.bmp isn't 1024x768 but who knows.. could be a related bug.










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From: rick@proust.CERCA.UMontreal.CA (Richard Lefebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: talk
Date: 31 Aug 92 02:00:53 GMT
Organization: Cerca, Universite de Montreal

Is there a running version of talk (talkd), finger (fingerd) of unix for dos
or windows (tsr style or one of multiprocess) using the Clarkson Packet
driver (if possible) ?

Thanx

Rick


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.periphs.printers
From: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
Subject: Re: Problem with Postscript Driver (Win 3.1)
Reply-To: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 19:53:35 GMT

Didn't a specific printer definition come with your NEC printer?

Did you try the suggested test to make sure that the printer
and computer were actually talking to each other, windows notwithstanding?

I have an NEC Model 95 Silentwriter (also postscript), and it
runs fine under windows--both in postscript and HP mode.

On windows, check which port you are connected to. Check that
the timeout on the printer is not too short. The standard
postscript driver that comes with windows should in fact work
fine.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: WinQVTNet and PC-NFS?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:28:49 GMT


> thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
>>Is it possible to run both programs such as WinQVTNet and PC-NFS
>>together on the same ethernet card?

QPC supposedly has a version that will run on top of Sun's 
PC-NFS transport layer. Haven't seen any sign of it though.
Might want to write them about it.




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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: bielski@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com (Walt Bielski)
Subject: Re: WinQVTNet and PC-NFS?
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:31:57 GMT

In article <1992Sep01.034741.31748@datamark.co.nz>, thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
> Is it possible to run both programs such as WinQVTNet and PC-NFS
> together on the same ethernet card?
> 
According to the latest version of the release notes that I have, there is a
PC-NFS _version_ of WinQVT/Net. I had thought this capability was going to be
included in the standard version, but that is not the case. Apparently, you
have to order this version from QPC, as it is not available as shareware. The
manual says to send $40 (the normal registration fee) for a copy of it; I
don't know if you can "trade" your registration of the non-PC-NFS version
for that (since registration of that is also $40). Not being a PC-NFS user,
I have not had the need to investigate this further. Hope this helps...

My opinions, not Honeywell's
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jewell@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Larry Jewell)
Subject: Tiling multiple gifs to a .bmp?
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: world 
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:06:48 GMT

Hi, can someone recommend (or WRITE :-) a program that will allow me to 
paste mutiple small gifs into a .bmp?  I've seen the programs that make
"contact sheet" type collages, and they generate too much "white space"
between the gifs.  The gifs are 320X200 or smaller, and I'd like to 
get either six or nine into a single .bmp.  Samples of the gifs can
be found at wuarchive.wustl.edu /graphics/gifs/v/vnr (sorry, they're not
"exotic" :-).

advTHANKSance,

Larry J

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole)
Subject: Re: Norton Desktop
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:59:10 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.010830.11380@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> shayden@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Sean Lee Hayden) writes:
>I've got a few qestions to ask about Norton Desktop:
>
>1.)  Is there anything i can do to make it come up faster?  It sure seems like
>     it loads my entire drive up before comeing on. (* sarcasm *).  
>     I don't have any programs in the startup or anything like that.  It 
>     just "boots dry" and it still seems very slow.
>
Well, it depends on what machine you have and what version of NDW you have.
I have a 386-25, but I have 8 megs of RAM, a Diamond Stealth card, virtual
memory driver for QEMM, and I limited the size of my swapfile.  NDW runs
pretty well (oh, and I have NDW 2.0)...it chews up alot of my resources, but
I have no problems with its speed.

>2.)  You Norton'ers out there:  Do you use anything to make your life easyier?
>     Like:  I can't stand the fact the the drag/drop always COPIES instead of
>     move like the FILE MANAGER use to do.  

If you drap/drop to the same drive, it will move the file...if you do it to
another drive, it will copy it.

When you drag/drop, press the Alt key and the + sign on the document icon
will appear or disappear...depends on where you are dragging it to.  The +
means copy...no + means move. (or vice versa...my brain is fried..)

>3.)  Also,  The icons seem to be slugish when i select them and also when i 
>     select the options like LABEL.  It just doesn't work somethimes.  Is
>     this a bug?

Beats me...

>4.)  If there is a bug fix for Desktop where can i get it.

The only bug fix for NDW is get a faster machine...:-)

>And another Question not related:
>
>I download ALOT from my school and i use KERMIT.  I have PROCOMM FOR WINDOWS
>and it sure seems to be slow.  I only average about 100 character/sec?? maybe
>bytes/sec..Whatever it says when downloading.  (* anyway *)  Is there 
>something else i can use besides KERMIT?  Or someway i can make it Faster???

Hehehehe..kermit...go to any decent ftp site and get zmodem....you may 
have to compile it...it allows you to download with the zmodem protocol 
(along with X and Ymodems).  Depending on your modems' speed, you should be
able to exceed 100 char/sec easily!  

Hope this helps... 

Mario
"Norton Desktop for Windows NT....I hate Program Manager!"


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mortenaa@Lise.Unit.NO (Morten Aagaard)
Subject: SYSTAT for Windows
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 16:59:25 GMT

There is a demo for Systat for Windows, would someone please
upload it to:

"ftp.cica.indiana.edu" in "pub/pc/win3/uploads"

Thank you.
From: Stephen Gibson
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: WinQVT tech support
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:43:56 GMT
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

WinQVT tech support:  Is there a phone number available?  How good is their response via eMail?

Stephen Gibson
gibsonst@sonoma.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: What is WinQVT?
From: hippo@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
Date: 1 Sep 92 09:07:55 PDT
Organization: Sonoma state university

In article <168559DA7.PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater) writes:
>Subject: What is WinQVT?
>From: PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater)
>Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 11:12:39 EDT
>This must seem painfully naive, but what is WinQVT? I see many
>references to it on the net, but I have no clue what it is.
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It's a software package that has:Telnet,Ftp,NNTP,Pop3 Mail. You can find 
this at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the directory /pub/win3/upload It's called 
winqvt27.zip

It's Wondeful

Michel