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From: alansar@ccs.northeastern.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Word for Windows 2.0a question... styles
Date: 16 Aug 92 10:16:58 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. @ NU

In article <mcdonald.209@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald) writes:
>I've been playing^H^H^H^H^H^H^Husing Word for Windows for three months
>now, and seem to keep running up against a fatal flaw:
>
>
>"Style files"don't actually work. That is, once you have written a
>paper, if you change the sytle file for it, the style does not change.
>If you add more to it, that go in in the new style, but the old part does
>not change.

I assume you mean that by changing the document template the text does not
change.  The documentation of W4W states that changing the document template
does not change the text and it only changes menus, glossaries, margins and
key assignments.  If you want the paragraph styles of a template to be
imported to a document you can do that by following the instructions in the
online help under "Copying Styles Between Documents and Templates".  Maybe it
is not very logical, but that's the way it works in W4W.

>Is this correct, or am I missing something basic? How do you do it? IF
>what I am saying is correct, this is a 100% fatal flaw... for most
>non-trivial things I'll have to go back to Latex.

The concepts of styles and document templates are not the same in W4W and
LaTex, but you can accomplish what you want in both of them.  By copying
styles as described in the documentation, all the paragraph styles of the file
you copy from become available in the other document and the text of those
paragraphs whose styles are overwritten by this copying is changed.

>Are there Windows word processors where style files work correctly ...
>like in Latex, where you can simple change the style and the whole
>document changes along? 
>
>Doug McDonald 

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From: grosse@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: amipro 3.0 and Diamond Stealth video card problems?
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:02:53 GMT

I have just recently installed the new AMIPRO 3.0 version and am
experiencing video problems which I did not encounter with AMIPRO
2.0. Specifically, when inserting text in paragraphs by typing which are fully
justified, characters will appear to overlap on each other as amipro
justifies the lines and often the location of the text cursor and the
actual place where text is inserted or deleted will not agree. For example,
pressing the backspace key will sometimes delete the first or even
second character AFTER the cursor. I can get rid of the appearance of 
overlapping characters by double clicking on the full page/enlarged view
icon. The cursor location problem seems to be fixed by inserting or
editing the paragraph text first in left justified mode, then after
making the required changes, justifying the paragraph. 

I have a an EISA 486/33 computer with 17in viewsonic monitor and
Diamond Stealth VRAM video board with 1 MB ram and their version 2.31
windows 3.1 drivers. The problem occurs in 1024x768 video mode,
perhaps its the drivers. It doesn't occur in 800x600x 256 color mode,
but the colors are all messed when I installed that driver.

If anybody knows of an affordable ($500 or less) 2 MB EISA video card
which supports windows 3.1,  up to 1280 x 1024 resolution mode and
the Viewsonic 7 17 in. monitor, I would be grateful if you would send
me the vendor name and phone number.


-Ian Grosse
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA


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From: rwilliam@mozart.helios.nd.edu (richard williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: WP 4 Win & WinFAX Pro
Date: 13 Aug 92 05:56:27 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame

In article <1992Aug12.220727.2071@adx.adelphi.edu> shopsis@auvax1.adelphi.edu writes:
>Someone recently posted a fix for the following problem.  Unfortunately, when I
>saw the fix, I didn't have the problem, because I didn't have a fax board.  I
>have now received (Finally!) Gateway Telepath Fax/modem, and find that when you
>selesct the FAX as your printer from within Word Perfect for Windows, it takes
>about a month for the program to update the printer driver.

WP creates a file with a .wrs extension, e.g. winfax.wrs.  Make this file
read only.  When you select the fax, WP will give you an error message
which you can ignore.

WP told me this was a widespread problem with fax software, and WP wasn't
sure why.  For some reason, WP thinks the file needs updating when it
really doesn't.

If you actually have made some changes which affect the printing (e.g.
added or deleted truetype fonts, or switched from landscape to
portrait mode) Wp said you should make the file not-read only, so it
can be updated.



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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: POP client for DOS and/or Windows?
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:56:06 GMT
Organization: Indiana University

In article <jdsurlow.15.713635644@uci.edu> jdsurlow@uci.edu (Jim Surlow) writes:
>In article <Don.Rainwater-060892112022@ucrain.san.uc.edu> Don.Rainwater@UC.Edu (Don Rainwater) writes:

>>I'd like to get some information about what is considered to be the 'BEST'
>>POP client available for DOS and/or Windows systems.  The client should be
>>fast and easy to use (especially for non-computer types), should talk to
>>POP3 servers, and should hopefully allow the option of leaving the mail
>>messages on the server.

>We use PopMail from the University of Minnesota (boombox.micro.umn.edu 
>POPmail/pc/version_2.7.3).  It can speak POP2 or POP3.  It does not allow 
>the option of leaving mail messages on the server.  However, one person who 
>has helped them quite a bit, has written a strickly POP3 client app called 
>NUPop (From Northwestern University).  I haven't looked at it much because 
>we use POP2 and the last time I checked it was a beta version.  I don't 
>remember the ftp site either.  However, you can ftp an older beta from 
>ftp.uci.edu in ntslib/msdos/mail/nupop.  I'm sure there is documentation 
>which will point you to the ftp site at Northwestern, so that you can get a 
>newer copy.

There is also something that they are testing here, but I don't
think it will be released to the general public. It runs on top
of the FTP PC/TCP transport layer and will therefore never be pub-
lic domain.

>Another option for POP3 which is Windows based (rather than the above which 
>are DOS based) is WinQVT.  This package is shareware and has POP3 
>capability.  It has many TCP/IP apps in it.  We tested version 2.2 and did 
>not find the Mail that user friendly.  But I here now they are up to 2.7.  
>I read in another news group that you can get it from ftp.cica.indiana.edu 
>in pub/pc/win3/uploads (that last directory I'm not positive on -- check 
>their index).

Its still very user unfriendly  9-)

Maybe we can get someone to port Eudora to Windows. Now there is a 
slick POP3 mail client!








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From: schuck@fraser.sfu.ca (Bruce Jonathan Schuck)
Subject: Re: Font Questions witn WinQVT/Net
Reply-To: Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 20:44:05 GMT

iceman@sequent.com (Ian Evans) writes:


>I am looking for font options with QVT.  At 1024x768 resolution
>the large font takes the entire screen and the small font is WAY
>TOO SMALL!!!

>We use 17" screens all at 1024x768 with 256 colors.  Has anyone
>found a way to get decent size fonts that work at 1024x768???

>I have used versions 2.6 and 2.7 and the fonts are the same.


I have a 17" monitor with an ATI Graphics Ultra using the small font, 
large desktop.

This is what I use.

terminal=VT200
charset=IBM  
#font_size=LARGE                 # I just leave this commented out
win_height=tall  

The tall window and the IBM character set seem to fit nicely.

I don't maximize my telnet window.

I set my unix signon to around 50 characters so that I get 50 lines 
in emacs and nn. It's too bad the nn menus only go up to 36 [A-Z,0-9] :)


Give it a try.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: mfprf@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Paul R. Falzer)
Subject: AmiPro questions
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:08:32 GMT

My copy of AmiPro 3.0 arrived late last week, and while I'm
generally pleased with some of the improvements that Lotus has
made to the product, I've got some questions that neither the
program nor the documentation seem to address.  Can anyone in
netland provide some information with the following items?

1.  I would like to make, edit, and update endnotes in a separate
document, rather than in the same document as the main text. 
While AmiPro does have the convenience of automatic updating and
renumbering, this convenience is offset by the relative
inaccessibility of the endnotes (especially, the entire set of of
endnotes).  How can I retain the automatic feature and have the
convenience of working with two documents?

2.  I would like to do quick importing of unformatted text files
(7-bit ascii).  How can I do this?  Is there a way for the
program to recognize the type of file by its suffix?  

3.  Does anyone have any experience with the Lotus bulletin
board?  If so, I would really appreicate your providing any
information about its contents, so that I can determine whether I
should spend the money to access it.

4.  The manual's discussion of power fields is cryptic, to say
the least, and I just can't make heads or tails of it. 
Consequently, I may be missing out on one of the program's
outstanding features.  Can you point me to any other
documentation on the subject?

Thanks for your assistance.

  Paul R. Falzer
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: tdugan@odie.weeg.uiowa.edu (Tim Dugan)
Subject: Rockford 2.0
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:05:16 GMT

  Does anybody know where I might be able to FTP a business card creator
program called ROCKFORD.  I saw it written about in the Augest 1992 issue
of PC World.  I have checked cica to no avail.  It is suppose to be on
ComuServe but I don't have an account.  Any info would be helpfil.

                                     Thanks
                                     Tim
From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Winfax Pro and sharing COM1/COM3
Keywords: 3.1 WinFax patch COM sharing
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:25:37 GMT
Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Organization: The John Fluke Mfg. Co.  /a.k.a. The Gizmonics Institute/

In <1992Aug16.211332.4703@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mporter@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Matthew D Porter) writes:

>     I installed my new faxmodem (Gateway Telepath) on my second system (built
>from pieces parts, not a Gateway).  Anyway COM1 has mouse COM2 has serial 
>printer so I wanted to set up the faxmodem to utilize COM3.  Crosstalk for 
>Windows shared COM1/3 nicely under Win 3.1.  WinFax Pro, however insists that 
>the "current" (meaning 3.0) version of Windows does not support interrupt 
>sharing.  I am set up using COM3/IRQ5 at 3EFh.  My question is:  is there a 
>patch to correct this problem for Winfax Pro?  The install program claims it 
>cannot find the modem because I am sharing interrupts in enhanced mode.  Please
>tell me if I'm wrong, but, I'm positive that Winfax Pro can find my faxmodem 
>with the proper patch for Win 3.1.

Hmm, this is interesting.  I use Intel's SatisFAXtion/Faxability Plus
software with my Intel Fax/Modem card, and the software and card uses *two*
IRQs: one for the modem (i.e., COM1 or COM3, which can be shared with other
COM ports with no problem), and a separate IRQ for the Fax send/receive
hardware/software.  (I set this down to IRQ 10 or 11.)  I think they made a
point that this FAX IRQ can't be shared, but I'd have to check the
documentation. 

Sounds as if Winfax Pro, rather than breaking it down into two IRQs, uses
one, but demands that only the modem and fax machine can use it.

Given the choice, I prefer the SatisFAXtion method, particularly as they
give me the choice of one of the "lower" IRQs (i.e., >= 8), which I'm
definitely not using.

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From: R.M.Hepworth@bradford.ac.uk (RM HEPWORTH)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Making Progman Secure
Date: 20 Aug 92 08:08:05 GMT
Organization: University of Bradford, UK
Originator: 91609717@muser

First of all I apologise to the bloke who actually brought up the
subject of secure shells in the first place - I emailed you and then
lost your address so I have had to find the time to post this instead.

Anyway, on with the show. It is not necessary in Windows 3.1 to trwal
around for a secure shell. Progman can be fortified very easily by
simply making an addition to progman.ini.

To make your copy of progman free of dangerous edges simply add a
section in progman.ini headed [Restrictions].
The following security features are available:

NoRun=<number> -value 1 prevents use of File-Run command
NoClose=<number> -value 1 prevents exiting Windows from the Program
Manager
NoSaveSettings=<number> -value 1 prevents use of Options-Save Settings
NoFileMenu=<number> -value 1 removes File Menu completely
Edit Level=<number>

The following numbers are available for EditLevel:
1 prevents creation, deletion and renaming groups.
2 as 1 but also restricts the creation, deletion and renaming of program
items
3 as 2 but also stops the user from changing the command line for a
program item
4 prevents the user changing any program item information

Any features you don't want, simply set to 0 or don't enter in the ini
file.

Hope this is of use to someone.

Gratitudes to Mike Hardaker, contibutor to PCW and Windows USer, whose
booklet I gleaned this from.

RiK
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Font Questions witn WinQVT/Net
From: tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 22:30:11 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <1992Aug12.174943.3465@sequent.com> iceman@sequent.com (Ian Evans) writes:
>
>I am looking for font options with QVT.  At 1024x768 resolution
>the large font takes the entire screen and the small font is WAY
>TOO SMALL!!!
>
>We use 17" screens all at 1024x768 with 256 colors.  Has anyone
>found a way to get decent size fonts that work at 1024x768???
>
>I have used versions 2.6 and 2.7 and the fonts are the same.

Well, I just added version 2.7 - but I had to rescue the VT220.FON
file from an old backup.

I think I am using the font file from version 2.5 or older - it's the
one that is 102,912 bytes long rather than 125,440 (or whatever).
 
I like the fonts from that one better.
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From: danony@aix.rpi.edu (Yaron Danon)
Subject: Re: Stanford Graphics
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:20:13 GMT

>>> 
>>>IT'S  S L O W !
>>> 
>>*********************************************************************
>
>It seems I say this every month or so (and no - they're NOT paying me to say 
>it), but the best scientific graphing program I've seen is Origin 2.0. I was 
>just working on a graph with three data sets of over 11,000 data points 
>each, and the screen redraws on my 486/33 took less than 1 sec. An older 
>version is still (I think) available from the demo directory at 
>ftp.cica.indiana.edu. I haven't tried SG, but from what I've read here on 
>the net and in reviews in PC Mag an PC Week it's slow and buggy. Origin has 
>a few bugs, but none of them are killers, just annoying. AND it's fast.
>Just MHO.
>
>============================================================================
>|         Tom Carter                    |     carter@cemvax.cem.msu.edu    |
>|   Michigan State University           |     carter@msucem.bitnet         |
>|     Chemistry Department              |                                  |
>============================================================================
I am using ORIGIN 2.24 and it is very fast. It has the ability to limit
the number of points redrawn on the screen to make it faster. It is a very
good pakage with powerfull scripting language but is has some minor
bugs here and there. The new version 3.0 with 3D is coming soon (October),
you might get it as a free upgrad.
Yaron
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: WP for Windows or Word?
From: dmmatt@bigez (Mike Mattix)
Date: 17 Aug 92 08:09:28 GMT
Organization: Monsanto Agricultural Company
Nntp-Posting-User: dmmatt

In article <1992Aug14.163929.21455@dsd.es.com>, bsteinke@es.com (Bruce Steinke) writes:
> 
> As far as code based formatting, I find it useful to be able to locate those
> codes using REVEAL CODES so I can delete just what I want.
> 
> Anyway, this is just my perspective. No flames, just a happy user.
> 

I agree completely.  My wife uses Ami Pro and occasionally she has a problem
of the formatting not behaving the same way in two separate but apparently 
identically formatted sections of a document.  After 30 mins of looking, checking,
and cursing I finally had to delete the non-behaving segments and re-cut and re-paste
the properly behaving sections and modify the text.  My kingdom for reveal codes!!
Obviously there was a formatting code in there somewhere and the Ami Pro menus could
not easily identify it for me.

Just one person's experience..

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From: agoper@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Arne Grimstrup)
Subject: Re: Some more misconceptions regarding OS/2 and NT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:47:26 GMT

In <1992Aug14.100611.5490@microsoft.com> petesk@microsoft.com (Pete Skelly) writes:
[stuff deleted]

>a development system off of floppies, maybe 4 hours.  At a consulting
>rate of $40 an hour (for you, your computer, office, etc, and this is low
>priced, believe me), that comes to $160 for your install.  For a CD rom,
                                    ^^^^
>maybe an hour, at most.  That comes to $40.  The difference = $90.  You
                                        ^^^                    ^^^
>petesk@microsoft.com
>My Opinions...


I didn't know that PETE.EXE did numbers too!  Is this feature documented?
(I never really understood the new math! ;-) :-) :-))

Arne
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
Subject: Re: Microsoft's discrimination against the blind
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 05:37:00 GMT

In article <1992Aug16.021337.25337@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> jarober@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (DE Robertson james an 410-740-9172) writes:
>leeda@comp/os/ms-windows/advocacyps.msu.edu (Dae Hee Lee) writes:
>
>>crosoft is trying to discriminate the blind by preventing them from
>>accessing the computer.  Microsoft has already developed some versions
>>of MS Windows with GUI, and is now developing Windows NT. But they don't
>>have any plan to enable the blind to access their software at all.
>>  But IBM has already developed the screen reading program for OS/2 2.0
>>and the Presentation Manager for the blind.
>>  Microsoft is clearly making discrimination for the visually impaired.
>
>>Daehee Lee
>
>1) If you believe that, I have some prime real estate in Florida.
>2) Are you as dumb as you sound ?
>
>MS is not discriminating - they are leaving the development of access 
>software to 3rd parties, where it belongs.  MS is out to make money, NOT
>to be nice.  Since the blind account for a fairly small portion of the
>PC market, this is a fairly intelligent business decision.  I'm sorry
>if that sounds callous, but that's business....
>
>Jim Robertson
>jarober@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu

To add one more log on the fire...

Microsoft does the majority of it's business in the consumer side
of the market place, while IBM has a great deal of time money and
effort invested in Government contracts. IBM is not as
philanthropic as you would be lead to believe. The American
Disabilities act I am sure, coupled with the current Government
business gave them plenty of reason to develop many different kinds
of software support for the disabled. However, I have not know
Microsoft to not support a thrid party vendor in their endeavor to
develop an add on product that addresses this very issue. I would
ask the people at Microsoft first about this before casting
aspersions in their direction.

..Paul

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