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From: planius@hpmpi1.desy.de (P. Lanius)
Subject: Re: Any graphic program to edit Post script files?
Organization: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany.
	<1992Dec17.141137.27193@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:28:12 GMT

You should have read the rest of his posting since ghostview is (as far as I
know) only available for X-windows. For a PC the thing you need is ghostscript
which in the PC version includes VGA, EGA and so on as output devices. I.e.
no separate viewer is needed for the PC while on Unix platforms ghostview is
not a part of ghostscript but needs ghostscript as well.
So what you really need for a PC is ghostscript and the related fonts. You'll
find them in msdos.postscript on SIMTEL:
24*.zip - fonts
25*.zip - new fonts, replace some of the 2.4 fonts
gs252*.zip - executables etc
samples.zip - examples
Install everything as explained in one of the documentation files (man.doc or
use.doc don't remember) and if you run under Windows simply associate .ps
with gswin.exe. That's it. Don't forget to set GS_LIB environment variable.

Cheers, Peter
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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: CPIB has been reorganized SO where are the
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:39:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.035643.11616@exucom.com> cyberman@exucom.com (Stephen R. Phillips) writes:
>posted files going?  They still going to CPIB? or is there now a group
>called CAM?

CAM is just an abbreviation for comp.archives.msdos and there is no
such group alone.  The names are
   comp.archives.msdos.announce     (moderated)
   comp.archives.msdos.d            (this newsgroup)

The binary postings are in comp.binaries.ibm.pc just as before and
will continue to be there moderated by Brian O'Neill.  What we call
CAM.announce for short is comp.binaries.ibm.pc.archives and that is
where the program availablity from MsDos FTP sites announcements are
posted by the moderators.  These two are quite separate, and have
nothing to do with each other as such.  (Brian is also a
co-moderator of CAM.announce and we cooperate in many other
respects, too, but this does not change the setting). 

If you wish to discuss CBIP aspects, the right place to do it is in
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d.  If you wish to look for a missing CBIP
posting, the right place is comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted.

If you wish to discuss programs on the MsDos FTP sites, or problems
with connecting to the sites, wish to review the programs on the
said sites, etc, then comp.archives.msdos.d, that is this very
newsgroup, is exectly the right place.

I will be sending out a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) to CAM.d
and CAM.announce each Saturday, and I already did so as the first
posting to both the groups the 15th.  They will give you more
information on our "CAM" groups.

We are at premiliary stages.  So far all has gone well.  So feel
free to ask away, just as you did. 

   All the best, Timo

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Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous FTP archives 128.214.87.1
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Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: simibm.zip corrupted?
Summary: PKUNZIP v1.10 has been available for over two years
Keywords: simtel20,archives,unzip50,pkunzip
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 02:34:00 GMT
Reply-To: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen)
Followup-To: poster
Organization: The SIMTEL20 Archives

Tony Roder <TONY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> writes:
>In the past week, every copy of simibm.zip I have ftp'd from oak has
>failed the crc check when I have attempted to unzip it.  I know that
>my unzip program works with other zipped files.  Is there something I
>should know that I obviously don't?

Yes, your PKUNZIP is outdated.  Most recent files on SIMTEL20 require
PKUNZIP ver 1.10, which has been available for over two years.

The Info-ZIP group's free UNZIP50.EXE also works on all ZIP files
stored on SIMTEL20.

Directory PD1:<MSDOS.ZIP>
 Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
==============================================
PKZ110EU.EXE  B  140116  900402  PKWare ZIP create/extract v1.10 - export vers.
UNZIP50.EXE   B   37211  920830  Info-ZIP's free portable UNZIP, v5.0, EXE/docs
UNZIP50.ZIP   B  242662  920830  C src code for free Unix/VMS/MS-DOS/etc. UNZIP

Keith
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: mktjadx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Jeff A. Dilcher)
Subject: Spanish Programs available?  Help!
Organization: Georgia State University
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:43:16 GMT


Anyone know of a site where I could obtain msdos Spanish tutorial programs?
Any help would be appreciated,
Jeff

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From: sylve_ge@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Gerald Sylvester)
Subject: Re: Any graphic program to edit Post script files?
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:11:37 GMT

In article <BCR.92Dec17132018@hfl3sn02.cern.ch> bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers) writes:
>>>>>> On 16 Dec 1992 10:42:35 -0800, anandamu@girtab.usc.edu (Anand) said:
>Anyways, if no-one knows of such a beast the following does work:
>
>  1) View view the file with "ghostview"
>  2) Grab the ghostview window with "xv"

What does ghostview actually do?  What files do I need to run it?
(I have PS/2 55SX with mathco)  I tried once to run it and the
docs were pretty confusing and it seemed as though the FTP sites
did not have all the files to correctly run it.

Thanks

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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: looking for utility program that extends the kb buffer.
From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:36:05 GMT
Organization: Beckman Instruments, Inc.

In <1992Dec17.112437.27673@tolten.puc.cl> mbfarah@isluga.puc.cl (Miguel B. Farah) writes:

>Timo Salmi (ts@uwasa.fi) wrote:
>: In article <16DEC199200190313@vax2.concordia.ca> pam@vax2.concordia.ca (LAM, PO YAN) writes:
>: >Hi, I am looking for a utility that can extend my kb buffer for my 286 
>: >running msdos5.
>: 
>: I do not know if this will fill all your requirements, but you could
>: try
>:    3841 Feb 2 1989 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/keyboard/256keys.zip
>: 
>: It worked satisfactoryly on my MsDos 5.0 486 at office when I
>: recently tested it. 
>: 
>Yes, it works but... it won't LoadHigh :-(  - is there another one that
>does LoadHigh?

You can't loadhigh a "standard" keybuf program.
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From: kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko)
Subject: Re: New tlx320 files
Keywords: hey kids rock and roll...
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:08:28 GMT


jejensen@alfred.carleton.ca (John Jensen) writes:

> darkstar@pecan.cns.udel.edu (The Janitor Of Anarchy) writes:

>>Now, keep in mind that the /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS directory is never checked.
>>Does this make it bad?  No, of course not, but this now places the entire
>>burden of checking out the software on you.

>Of course.  But for what it's worth, as the person who originally
>UPLOADED the files to wuarchive, I will say that before doing so I
>scanned them for viruses with McAffee's version 99.  But you shouldn't
>take my word for it -- scan anything you download.-- 

I always think that /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS is good and I check it daily to
see if they are any new programs worth trying ... 

Some tips ...
1) read the accompanying *.txt (if available) to see if the compressed file
   is worth to be downloaded ... This is especially important for large files
   as you probably don't want to waste your terminal time ...

2) if probable, uncompress the file on your "mainframe" system to see 
   the contents (for *.zip file, you can also zipinfo *.zip) ...

3) read any README or manual.doc to see if the accompanying programs
   are likely to be respectable ... The better the quality the 
   documentation is, the more reliable the programs will be ...

4) then download the compressed file to a floppy (should be saver than to 
   your hard disk) and scan it with an antivirus program ... (even though
   luckily I haven't found any files I downloaded from /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS 
   contaminated with virus) ...   

BTW ... Thanks John for putting Telix 3.20 in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS ...
and now we can all use it before it is being available on Simtel20
and Garbo ... I think every one with new bona-fide files should upload
them to that directory for the many impatient users (like me :) ...

Samuel ... The Smart Bozo ...
From: stanworthdjh@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Dave <Rubicon>)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Rogets Thesaurus shell
Date: 18 Dec 92 13:36:51 GMT
Organization: University of Birmingham
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.bham.ac.uk

Can anyone point me to a shell for Rogets thesaurus that will run
under DOS?

I find it hard to believe that no one has written one, as the text file
has been around for ever!

Any help would be appreciated,
Dave

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From: vijghen@ids1.fynu.ucl.ac.be (Philippe Vijghen)
Subject: monthly .idx files & simdir.
Organization: Free University of Brussels (ULB) - Astrophysic Dpt.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 10:13:12 GMT

I think there is a bug in the monthly .idx files describing
the new files uploaded to simtel for the last monthes:

when I use simdir 2.2 when these files the category classification
is not right for the last items: the last file displayed for a 
specific directory is de facto a file owned by the "next directory".

I insist that the bug appears only for the last items of the .idx file.

Philippe VIJGHEN (vijghen@fynu.ucl.ac.be)
Searcher at the Free University of Brussels
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: krlynch@athena.mit.edu (Kevin R Lynch)
Subject: dos emulator
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:29:58 GMT


	Does anyone out there have a clue if there is a publically available 
msdos emulator for the IBM RS/6000?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in
advance!

Kevin Lynch
krlynch@athena.mit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: jiliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jian Liu)
Subject: Re: dos emulator
Reply-To: krlynch@athena.mit.edu
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 06:04:42 GMT

krlynch@athena.mit.edu (Kevin R Lynch) writes:
>
>	Does anyone out there have a clue if there is a publically available 
>msdos emulator for the IBM RS/6000?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in
>advance!

I thought it had a built in DOS emulator already.  We had a demo box from IBM
several months ago, and I remember installing wordperfect on it.

Jian


Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: dpifko@navier.UVic.CA (Daniel  Pifko)
Subject: RE: ICON DRAWING Utility 
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 06:47:01 GMT

In response to a request for an icon drawing utility on comp.binaries.that's.a.
really.long.name:

There is a neat little utility called ICONDRAW at simtel:

PD1:<MSDOS.WINDOWS> ICONDRW.ZIP.1     (yes, it's all in caps)

ftp to wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
cd PD1:<MSDOS.WINDOWS>
binary
get ICONDRW.ZIP.1
bye

No guarantees as to its usefulness, since I've just started to play with it 
myself.

Daniel.

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From: gabe@msgpad.uucp (Gabe Helou)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: simibm.zip corrupted?
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 11:16:58 EST
Organization: The Message Pad

w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen) writes:
> Tony Roder <TONY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> writes:
> >In the past week, every copy of simibm.zip I have ftp'd from oak has
> >failed the crc check when I have attempted to unzip it.  I know that
> >my unzip program works with other zipped files.  Is there something I
> >should know that I obviously don't?
> 
> Yes, your PKUNZIP is outdated.  Most recent files on SIMTEL20 require
> PKZUNIP ver 1.10, which has been available for over two years.

Sounds more like he's been doing ASCII transfers instead of BINARY.
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: hil@cs.brown.edu (Hsueh-I Lu)
Subject: Lex wanted
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:25:30 GMT


Can any one so kind to tell me where can I find LEX for Turbo C
under DOS? 

Thanks.

Hsueh-I
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Looking for educational software w/anon ftp
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 06:36:06 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.060633.13806@rat.csc.calpoly.edu> mwormley@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Matthew A. Wormley) writes:
>    I am looking for a good source of PD/Shareware educational software
>for grammar school level (4th grade to be exact).  I have looked through
>the simtel20 archives.

You could also see
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/INDEX.ZIP
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/INDEXTS.ZIP
and look at the following directories:
 /pc/education
 /pc/educgames
 /pc/ts

"If you do not know how to go about getting this material, users are
welcome to email me for the prerecorded garbo.uwasa.fi instructions
(long, circa 29Kb).  North American users are referred to the Garbo
mirror on wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Australian users are referred to the
archie.au mirror.  For the Asian users there is the NCTUCCCA.edu.tw
mirror.  The mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not have all the
files.  If you do not receive my reply within five days, please ask
your own site's system manager to construct a returnable mail path
for you". 

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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: a1001032@cdf.toronto.edu (Fiona Wong)
Subject: Bug in Zmodem download for Telix 3.20??
Originator: a1001032@eddie.cdf.toronto.edu
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:58:33 GMT

Hi,netters:

	When I try to download an ASCII file of 40 bytes size using Zmodem
protocol, run-time error occurs (integer divide by 0). Nothing happened when
I use Telix 3.15 to do the same job. What happen??


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From: frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow)
Subject: Is there a SIMLIST.ZIP for the <MACINTOSH> side of Simtel20?
Organization: Odetics, Inc., Anaheim, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 19:29:34 GMT

Hi,

I use the <MSDOS> part of Simtel20 regularly and in fact pull in a new
SIMLIST.ZIP about once a month.  I recently got a request from a friend
of mine for some Macintosh stuff.  I can not seem to find anything
similar on the <MACHINTOSH.*> side of Simtel.  There must be an index.
Can somebody point me at it?

Thanks

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Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: Recent msdos uploads to SIMTEL20 (between 921122 and 921211)
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 10:16:53 GMT

In article <9212160106.AA24303@tacom-emh1.army.mil> w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen) writes:
>VIRX26.ZIP    B  103915  921207  VIRx, v2.6: Easy to use free virus scanner

I am having problems with this one.  After running the new VIRx from
within a batch file, my PC crashes when it should finally exit the
batch.  The exact conditions are very elusive, but this did not
happen under any circumstances with version 2.4.  I have no way of
knowing for sure, but usually problems by this are cased by the
program overwriting memory because some array overflows its indexes. 
In general, such a bad programming with insufficient index range
checking is very common, whether or not it is the case with the VIRx
dilemma. 

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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: sphughes@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Shaun P. Hughes)
Subject: Re: Welcome to comp.archives.msdos.d and the projected FAQ
Organization: San Francisco State University
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:30:26 GMT


	Could someone point me towards a decent public domain or 
inexpensive shareware "C" compiler. I am new to C and will be spending
winter break in an attempt to learn it if I can find a worthy compiler.

Thanks in advance.
 
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From: chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Chaim R. Dworkin)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Re: WNMAIL10.ZIP
Date: 17 Dec 92 17:28:28 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1go69dINN3gh@fido.asd.sgi.com> autry@magellan.stlouis.sgi.com (Larry Autry) writes:

>
>Meanwhile, I need Windows compatible software that allows me to
>get my internet mail at home without costing me a fortune.


Try Cinetic Mail Manager, it's wonderful, runs under windows 3.1, and is
available in simtel20 and all its mirror sites in the msdos/windows3
directory as cmmxxs.zip where the xx is some number that I've forgotten.




Chaim R. Dworkin
chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: simibm.zip corrupted?
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 18:44:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.150500.13029@sernews.raleigh.ibm.com> murray@rocky.raleigh.ibm.com (Charlie Murray) writes:
>|> >> Yes, your PKUNZIP is outdated.  Most recent files on SIMTEL20 require
>|> >> PKZUNIP ver 1.10, which has been available for over two years.
>|> >
>|> >Sounds more like he's been doing ASCII transfers instead of BINARY.
>
>ASCII versus BINARY does not matter for ftp.  I just ftp'ed /unix using ascii
>and binary, and then did a cksum and sum.  The files were identical.  The
>ascii transfer just took longer.  I don't know if this is specifc to AIX,
>but I doubt it.

No, Charlie.  I would say that the preceding comments are still
correct.  What you are telling must be a special case.  Under the
prevalent transfer situations I can assure you that the difference
matters.  Did you explicitly set the trasnfer ascii and then binary,
because the default may vary from site to site. 

   All the best, Timo

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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: wdcg6607@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (William David Cizek)
Subject: Re: dos emulator
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 19:52:52 GMT

jiliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Jian Liu) writes:
>krlynch@athena.mit.edu (Kevin R Lynch) writes:
>>	Does anyone out there have a clue if there is a publically available 
>>msdos emulator for the IBM RS/6000?  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in
>>advance!
>I thought it had a built in DOS emulator already.  We had a demo box from IBM
>several months ago, and I remember installing wordperfect on it.

AIX has a pc simulator (curiously named 'pcsim'), try 

man pcsim (or look for it under info explorer :)

Bill

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