HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi)
Subject: Re: <None>
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:09:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.011346.4111@wkuvx1.bitnet> waltoml@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:
>Can someone on here tell me something about Geos as a substitute for 
>Windows?? I want to multitask and have separate windows, yet, I have a
>286 and it will not support Windows (not enought RAM); besides, I
>really don't like Windows and would rather use all of the DOS programs
>that I have. 
>
>Please don't tell me that Windows has a DOS window...I know this.  I
>am interested in Geos because its GUI looks nicer than Windows and the
>icons "seems" to be clearer.
>
>Don't tell me the good stuff..tell me how many times it crashes, etc.
>and what "tools" or "add-ons" do you recommend?

I've only used the inexpensive demo version ($10, I think) which was
somewhat crippled -- i.e. no ability to save files.  But GeoWorks
seemed like a well designed and useful product.  The windowing system
is much nicer looking than Microsludge Windoze(tm), and almost
unbelievably much faster.  The applications seemed well integrated --
and though the wordprocessor seemed somewhat anaemic on some key
features (footnotes lacking, for example), they were all much better
that the Windoze utilities and microapps which come out of the box.  I
never managed to crash it, unlike Windoze which I've literally never
gone two hours on without at least one application freaking out
(sometimes locking the whole machine to require a cold boot, sometimes
just losing one or two applications, but always a problem).
	The drawbacks of GeoWorks are pretty major.  It DOES NOT
multitask DOS apps, nor even (if I'm not mistaken) task-switch them
(though apparently there is some kind of integration with the DR-DOS
task switcher -- like a menu to access the task-switcher or
something).  It does provide a pretty front-end menuing program for
DOS apps, but that's all.  When it launches a DOS program, however,
there is never any conflict because GeoWorks takes itself COMPLETELY
out of memory. (And restarts itself from the batch stack at
termination of the app).  The bigger problem is one that one should
basically blame on The Prince of Darkness over at Microsludge: namely,
while there are a million third-party Windoze programs (some not
available in other versions), there are ZERO third-party GeoWorks
apps.  As much better as GeoWorks is technically, to solidness and
speed of the underlying operating environment doesn't do you much good
if you can't DO ANYTHING in that environment.  Hopefully this will
change, but the fact it hasn't yet is why I haven't bought it myself. 


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From: a7657@mindlink.bc.ca (Stephen H. Kawamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Floppy disk "image" software available?
Date: 15 Nov 92 20:05:11 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

2File and 2Floppy are two program from PCMagazine which will do what you
want: make an image of a floppy disk and store it onto hard disk as a file.
DR DOS 6.0's diskcopy can also do this. the former software is free; the
later is part of Novell (was Digital Research Inc) DR DOS 6.0

 Any questions?

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From: fragante@unixg.ubc.ca (Gv Fragante)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: HP Laser Jet II - paper source problem
Date: 18 Nov 92 00:49:01 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

We output a report to a HP Laserjet II printer. The report requires two
sources of paper (one for a plain paper, the other for paper with company
header).

We managed to incorporate the proper escape codes in our report programs to
switch between automatic and manual feed sources. The problem is that after
switching, it always ejects a blank page. How can this blank page eject be
disabled ?

Also, is there a way or perhaps an undocumented escape code to turn the printer
offline/online ? We are trying to make the printer pause so that the user can
feed the printer with the proper paper. Unfortunately, our reportwriter program
(SQL*REPORTwriter) is so inflexible we cannot make the report pause. So we
have to play clever tricks with the printer to simulate the pause.

Any ideas/help is much appreciated.

Thanks.
From: simonofb@wmavm7.VNET.IBM.COM
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 12:11:34 EST
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Pctools 8.0
Reply-To: simonofb@wmavm7.VNET.IBM.COM
Organization: IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

Question on Print Shop Delux.  What file format are the picture
and font libraries.  Is there a way to IMPORT pictures and fonts
from sources other than Print Shop Libraries?

Thanks
Robert Simonoff
simonofb@wmavm7.vnet.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Subject: SStor 2.0 -> Pro Upgrade.  Worth it?
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 19:18:13 GMT

I am running Superstor 2.0 and a Hyperdisk.  What would I gain/lose from\
using the disk cache included in SuperStor Pro.

Any other comments on SS Pro???

Thanks in advance.

John Garland
jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca
From: rme81977@zach.fit.edu (Brian Fritz/ ADVISOR Russell (MAE))
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: PKWARE Version 3.05 ?!
Keywords: PKZIP305
Date: 21 Nov 92 21:21:19 GMT
Organization: Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne USA

In article <Bx4x97.A3E@hermes.hrz.uni-bielefeld.de> ittschir@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Tim Tschirner) writes:
>In article <t923593.720499722@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>, t923593@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Hades Kong) writes:
>|> I downloaded PKZ305.EXE from wuarchive the other day.
>Where did you find that? I'd really like to have it, too!
>I couldn`t find it in the pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS directory!
>Any help is appreciated!
>
>Tim
>
>ittschir@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de

Sorry guys...isn't it kind of odd jumping from V1.1 to 3.05???  I believe the
PKZ305.EXE is a hacked version...beware...
Brian

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: nwalczak@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Nick)
Subject: Wanted: PD CAD program
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:26:57 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for a Shareware of PD CAD package that would be useful for
doing architectual drawings and streetplans, it must work with an EGA
monitor in 640x350 mode and must run in 640k.

Does anyone know of an ftp site where I could find one?

Thanks in advance,

Nick Walczak
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: nghoff@albert.monsanto.com (Norman G. Hoffman)
Subject: Wanted: tsr to periodically simulate a keystroke
Organization: Monsanto Company
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:43:26 GMT

Can anyone recommend a public domain tsr to simulate
a keystroke on a periodic basis, say every 10 minutes?
I'm running DOS 5.0.

Thanks.  I'll summarize.

Norm Hoffman
nghoff@bb1t.monsanto.com
From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: WANTED: Memory resident comm program
Date: 21 Nov 92 20:12:37 GMT
Followup-To: /dev/null
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

I haven't looked into this for about 2 or 3 years. Back then, there did
exist some TSR comm programs which could transfer in the backround...
but they were really cheesy.

Does anyone know of any recent ones which are fairly stable and support
Zmodem?

Reply via e-mail please.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard M. Warner)
Subject: Re: Pctools 8.0
Organization: San Jose State University, Math & CS
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:30:46 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.161006.20507@nuscc.nus.sg> sci30139@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN CHYE HEE) writes:
>Path: sjsumcs!octopus!satyr!apple!usc!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!nusunix3.nus.sg!sci30139
>From: sci30139@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN CHYE HEE)
>Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
>Subject: Pctools 8.0
>Message-ID: <1992Nov19.161006.20507@nuscc.nus.sg>
>Date: 19 Nov 92 16:10:06 GMT
>Sender: usenet@nuscc.nus.sg
>Organization: National University of Singapore
>Lines: 13
>Hi,...
>How is PcTools 8.0?
>I heard that it has got a whole lot of improvements.
>
>There is even this program called Ramboost which is supposed to increase
>your upper memory usage by a great amount. Is it true? How does it
>happen? (sounds too good)
>
>Is it worth getting?
>
>	Gilbert

Is it worth getting?  That would be subjective, but I think everyone
should have one of the major utility packages.

RAMBOOST may or may not increase the amount of RAM you have available
for applications.  I have tried it a few times, and how much it does
depends in large extent on what you have in your config.sys and
autoexec.bat when it starts.  Depending on configuration I went from
-20Kb to +10Kb available.  But I had my system pretty well tuned.

One area of improvement is in the CPBACKUP program.  Especially in 
device support.  It now has support for SCSI tape drives, and even
includes a license for the Adaptec ASPI managers.  Theoretically, this
will allow you to hook up a 25Gb Exabyte drive and back it up with
CPBACKUP.  

Another addition is in machine<->machine connectivity.  PC-TOOLS now has
some peer-to-peer networking capabilities.  It can run over IPX
or NetBIOS.  This is an extension to the COMMUTE program that already
allowed one to do remote access (a la Carbon Copy).

PC-TOOLS 8.0 also includes a license for CP Anti-Virus with a coupon
for one free update.  They sell updates on a subscription plan, or you
can download them from CP's bulletin board or CI$ forum.  The scanner
is OK, but not on par with F-PROT (my standard).  But it does have
some integrity checking features, and it is a wise thing these days to
do integrity checking AND scanning.

I guess the thing that most people are keying on with this upgrade is the
lack of native Windows clients.  Central Point was up-front about this,
and they are merely following the lead of their major competitor,
Symantec's 'Norton' series.  Symantec unbundled their DOS and Windows
versions last year, now CP is doing the same.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: grusin@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GRUSIN MICHAEL)
Subject: WANTED: small hotel/motel management software
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:19:06 GMT


I'm looking for a software package for the management of a small
hotel.  Prime considerations are (1) ease of use, and (2) flexability
(ease of cancellations, room-changes, etc).

Any information will be appreciated; if you don't know of any specific
packages but know of a good place to look for one, that would be
appreciated too!

Reply via email, I'll send a summary to anyone who requests it.

Thanks very much, -Mike (grusin@tramp.colorado.edu)
"I'm surrounded by idiots of my own design" -Joel, MST3000


Organization: Masters student, Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
From: lawson@ecst.csuchico.edu (M. Todd Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Project help please..
Date: 19 Nov 92 18:21:21 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: guzzler.ecst.csuchico.edu



   Hi!

     I am a student at Calif. State Univ. Chico studying computer engineering.
  I am currently looking forward to a career in the field of technical
  writing and documentation. Because of this, I have decided to start 
  a journal for the most frequently asked questions about computers. I
  intend for it to be a bi-monthly publication with the purpose of answering
  all the most often asked questions new and semi-experienced computer
  users have. It will not be for those of you with off the wall, obscure
  questions, because I will not be able to answer many of those.        
  
  Try to remember when you were a new computer user and some of the questions
  that you had.

    For me to get started, please send me any question that a new user is
  likely to ask; i.e. What is the speed of my computer? 386 or 33mhz?
  I know that seems simple, but you would be surprised to hear what
  new computer people will ask. 
  
    Below is a subscription form and question
  sheet.  All I ask is that you send me a question, and your name will go
  into the mailing list. However, as I am a student, I have limited funds.
  The journal will only be mailed to people without and email address.
  That obviously won't be anyone who reads this...
  

    Thanks for your participation, and I look forward to hearing from you.

    Todd Lawson.

    Lawson@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

    1245 Esplanade Ave. #10
    Chico Ca. 95926

    Please send me your name, address, (including country, for all of you
                                        overseas people. )
    
    email address and a question or two or three..








    .......................................................


   Thanks again.

   Todd.
  
   
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: dlittlej@beach.csulb.edu (Darren Littlejohn)
Subject: Anyone using SPSS for Windows?
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:23:21 GMT

If anyone is using SPSS for Windows, please do email me today.

dlittlej@beach.csulb.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: sci30139@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN CHYE HEE)
Subject: Pctools 8.0
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:10:06 GMT

Hi,...
How is PcTools 8.0?
I heard that it has got a whole lot of improvements.

There is even this program called Ramboost which is supposed to increase
your upper memory usage by a great amount. Is it true? How does it
happen? (sounds too good)

Is it worth getting?



	Gilbert
From: chris@neon.rain.com (Chris Perez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Using dosRCS, and need help...
Date: 17 Nov 92 20:52:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: neon.Bxvon5.3n5

I've grabbed the ' .exe' stuff off wuarchive and can't get 'ci' to work.
It's looking for (and not finding) 'diff'.  Where do I find it?  Or how
do I implement this function?

I also grabbed the source (it's a little older, like April '92) that was
the original dosRCS stuff that came across the net.  I can't get it to
build and would like to talk with someone further about this as well.

Off-line, perhaps?  Thanx.

Christopher Perez - chris@neon.rain.com
"Do NOT use this brain.  Abnormal."  The warning Igor ignored...
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: kwatson@pdx.mentorg.com (Keith Watson)
Subject: Request for DisplayWrite to DOS converters
Originator: kwatson@kwatson
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:53:14 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: engr

A friend of my dad is looking for some way to convert DisplayWrite formatted
files to standard ASCII files.  Does anyone know if there is a converter or
some other word processor which can handle the conversion?

Please respond by e-mail since I don't read this group.

Thanks in advance.
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From: johnc@muppet.bt.co.uk (John Cummins)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: CASE tools for Dos/Windows
Date: 20 Nov 92 09:04:24 GMT
Reply-To: johnc@muppet.bt.co.uk
Organization: BT


Does anybody know if there are any public domain case tools for either Dos or
Windows for doing such tasks as entity relationship modelling, data flow diagrams etc
and how/where to obtain them ???


Thanks in advance

John Cummins
British Telecom Research Centre
Martlesham Heath
United Kingdom 
johnc@muppet.bt.co.uk
From: dranch@ecst.csuchico.edu (David Ranch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: STACKER W/RLL Drives
Date: 20 Nov 92 23:25:21 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: flambe.ecst.csuchico.edu

>>  > |> I have been having problems getting stacker v2.0 to work on my RLL drive.
>>  > |> Has anyone else out there had this problem, I is it just impossible ?
>


I ran Stacker 2.0 on a Seagate st-277 RLL drive for a long time w/o any
sort of problem.  What are the difficulties are you having...I might be
able to help you out...


Please reply via e-mail using the 'r' command since I rarly have time to
float through the news groups..

David
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Humberto Humbertoldi)
Subject: Re: GeoWorks
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:13:35 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.190316.6067@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
>In article <By0yBs.59o@nic.umass.edu> quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu
>(Humberto Humbertoldi) writes:
>>The bigger problem is one that one should
>>basically blame on The Prince of Darkness over at Microsludge: namely,
>>while there are a million third-party Windoze programs (some not
>>available in other versions), there are ZERO third-party GeoWorks
>>apps.
>
>     Well, there is ONE:  Borland's Quattro spreadsheet which you can
>either buy by itself or bundled with GeoWorks (the "Pro" package).  Note
>that I know nothing about this except what I've read in the magazines,
>so don't ask me :-).

Well, I've only read the magazines myself, so I could be wrong.
However, what I remember reading in the review of GeoWorks v.1.2 is
that a somewhat stripped down version of Quattro pro came in the box
-- but that this program was still a regular DOS program; all GeoWorks
does is put Quattro as an icon to launch, but once launched, GeoWorks
gets out of the way like it does with any DOS app.  I.e. no
multitasking, no clipboard capability, etc.

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From: rhw@att.com (Robert Wentworth)
Subject: Need help locating MicroTyme Network Inc/"Easy Order"
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 05:09:43 GMT

I'm trying to track down a company called

	The MicroTyme Network, Inc.

which makes an "order-fulfillment" software product called

	"Easy Order"

The company that used to market "Easy Order" for MicroTyme no longer does
business with them.  Says they used to be in San Diego, but perhaps have
since moved to Atlanta.  We haven't been able to locate this company in
either place (though if it's a small company, we could have missed them).  A
relative of mine desperately wants a copy of "Easy Order" (which is the only
inexpensive mailorder order-processing product he has heard of).

If you have any pointers on how to contact this company or where to find
a copy of this product (or perhaps something similar), please let me know.

Please respond by E-mail as I don't read this newsgroup very often.

Thanks in advance,

Robert Wentworth
rhw@hoh-1.att.com
(908)888-7195
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.compression
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: PKWARE Version 3.05 ?!
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.apps
Keywords: PKZIP305
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:09:32 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.044550.10519@wam.umd.edu> gisie@wam.umd.edu (Satan) writes:
>***** BEWARE ***** I remember someone at work or reading something
>that said that PKZ305.ZIP has a virus in it!!!!  It is a hacked
>version, not released by the original publishers.  The virus
>supposedly creates lost clusters on your hard drive over a period of
>time, eventually causing severe problems.  Get rid of it...

Since there are so many hacks around, the users will find the
following information file of interest
  40850 Nov 7 01:23 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/virus/hack1192.zip

"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), Keith Petersen (w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu) for
SIMTEL20 information, or Craig Warren (ccw@archie.au) for Australian
Garbo mirror information.  North American users are advised first to
search on SIMTEL20, its mirrors OAK.Oakland.Edu, ftp.uu.net, or the
SIMTEL20 & Garbo mirror wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Australian users are
referred to archie.au, Asian to NCTUCCCA.edu.tw.  Some of the
mirrors may lag occasionally, or might not have all the files. 
   If you send email to me for the Garbo instructions and do not
receive my reply within five days, please ask your own site's system
manager to construct a returnable mail path for you". 

..................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
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Faculty of Accounting & Industrial Management; University of Vaasa
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From: mbb@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (martin.brilliant)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: GeoWorks
Date: 23 Nov 92 20:49:06 GMT
Organization: AT&T

From article <1992Nov20.190316.6067@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>, by mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel):
> In article <By0yBs.59o@nic.umass.edu> quilty@titan.ucc.umass.edu
> (Humberto Humbertoldi) writes:
>>The bigger problem is one that one should
>>basically blame on The Prince of Darkness over at Microsludge: namely,
>>while there are a million third-party Windoze programs (some not
>>available in other versions), there are ZERO third-party GeoWorks
>>apps.
> 
>      Well, there is ONE:  Borland's Quattro spreadsheet which you can
> either buy by itself or bundled with GeoWorks (the "Pro" package).  Note
> that I know nothing about this except what I've read in the magazines,
> so don't ask me :-).

From actual experience: first, the Quattro bundled with GeoWorks Pro
is not a GeoWorks app, but a DOS app.  Second, America Online is a
third-party GeoWorks app - if you buy it separately, it comes with the
GeoWorks runtime environment.  Third (from hearsay), the reason there
are so few third-party GeoWorks apps is that GeoWorks didn't release a
development kit; it has nothing to do with Microsoft.

So how was America Online created?  I don't know.

							Marty
marty@hoqaa.att.com		hoqaa!marty
Martin B. Brilliant		(Winnertech Corporation)
From: mulcihy@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (David Mulcihy [483-1884 coopes])
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: megaback
Keywords: Error: RESTRECTREC
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:34:04 GMT
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company

I called PatriSoft and learned two things. Version 2.0 of Megaback is
available. My error was caused by running Megaback from a floppy. Megaback
creates several temporary files and I was running out of diskspace on my
floppy. Solution: run Megaback off the hard disk.