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From: walls@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Gerald Walls)
Subject: Re: printing PS files
Keywords: PostScript
Organization: Honeywell Air Transport Systems Division
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 16:37:12 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.175134.14302@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> q1hl@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Nameless CS Student) writes:
>Unlike a regular graphics or text file, which is printed using
>bit-map or character-generator graphics, PostScript (PS) is
>actually a programming language, and PS printers are really just
>a 680x0 computer with no keyboard or display, attached directly
>to a standard laser engine.  This computer/printer downloads
>the program from your computer and interprets (runs) it to
>generate the bit-map for the printer-portion.  (Sounds schizo, eh?)

many PS printers use the AMD 29000 RISC chip.

I have no relationship to AMD except that I own a small amount
of stock ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: UPDATE: Problem removing directory
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:30:41 GMT

What happens when you run CHKDSK/F  ?

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From: mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com (Mickey Ferguson)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 10:32:34 PDT
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS Word 5.0 output
Organization: Rolm
Disclaimer: This note represents my views, not those of Rolm or IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0
            <1992Oct5.180240.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>

In <1992Oct5.180240.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> cctr132@csc.canterbury.ac.nz writes:
>In article <19921002.153019.69@almaden.ibm.com>, mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com
>(Mickey Ferguson) writes:
>> I've got MS Word 5.0 and want to be able to take the output of that and
>> send it to my fax modem for delivery.  My fax modem software supports the
>> following file formats:  BMP CUT DCX IMG MacPaint PCL PCX TIFF.  The problem
>> is that MS Word 5.0 only provides output in RTF or plain text.  Does anyone
>> know of a freeware (or at least shareware) program program which can take
>> either MS Word 5.0 *.DOC raw format, or even RTF format, and convert it to
>> one of the above mentioned formats?  I know that if I had WFW, it could do
>> this, since I believe it will output in TIFF, if nothing else.  Well, I
>> don't have WFW.  :(  Any help?
>
>Quit looking for what you asked for -- I'd start by installing a
>LaserJet printer driver (LaserJets normally "speak" PCL - Printer
>Control Language), making it the current printer driver (<Esc>, Print,
>Options, etc), then print to a file, rather than to a port (i.e. select
>Print, File rather than Print, Print).
>
>Presumably, after leaving Word, you have some way to "dump" the file to
>the FAX card.

That is precisely my problem.  I already know about printing to a file,
but the problem is that whatever format I print, my fax software (a piece
of junk IMHO - QuickLink II) can't work with it.  Of course, I could just
save the file as text, and then fax that, but that defeats the purpose of
having it formatted nicely.  Looks like I may have to resort to a useful
fax software program.  :-(

Mickey Ferguson -- Rolm -- FergusoM at scrvm2 -- mickeyf@vnet.ibm.com
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From: willy@hale.cts.com (Tom Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Quality of DR-DOS 6 (was BEWARE SUPERSTOR!!!!!!)
Keywords: DR DOS, SSTOR, SUPERSTOR
Date: 26 Sep 92 13:26:22 GMT
Organization: Hale Telecommunications San Diego CA

fenner@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (JWFENNER) writes:

> *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***
> 
> If you are using DR DOS 6.0 and SuperSTOR, then beware.  If the SuperSTOR dri
> is completely filled, then your SuperSTOR drive may be CORRUPTED.  According 
> Novell (Digital Research), they know that the problem exists.  They say that
> whenever the drive is filled up, it automatically wraps around and starts
> writting stuff at the BEGINNING OF THE DRIVE again, OVERWRITTING YOUR FAT and
> ... It also makes me wonder about the quality of the
> other DR DOS utilties...
> 

IMHO, DR DOS 6.0 has but the one failing.  Who wrote SuperStor?  I 
understand that the Stacker folks did, and the two utilities are 
extremely similar.  Maybe THEY are the ones who need to make the 
correction.

I won't let you assume I have had no problems (though it is the case), 
because I don't have a hard drive on my laptop (where the good DR is 
loaded).  What it DOES provide me is a direct interface to GEM and the 
DRIVPARM function for my floppies (Tandy 1400LT respondes with 360k as 
drive size to any system other than their own for formatting, etc.).


HALE TELECOMMUNICATIONS - Public Access Node, San Diego CA 619/660-6734 HST
willy@hale.cts.com (Tom Williams)   26-Sep-92 at 6:32a
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: xxfdh@utagraph.uta.edu (Mr. Dustin Fu)
Subject: DR DOS 6.0 and 386MAX question
Organization: University of Texas at Arlington
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 18:08:20 GMT

Hello,

Does anyone know whether there are known problems installing 386max
version 6.01 on a 486/33MHz machine running DR DOS 6.0?

I have tried five times to install 386max on my machine, all without
luck.  Any suggestion is apprecicated.

Dustin Fu
U of Tx at Arlington
jhsegal
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Comunication programm
From: jhsegal@wiscon.weizmann.ac.il (Livy)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 13:18:12 GMT
Organization: Weizmann Institute of Science, Computation Center

  Does anyone knows if there exists any comunication programm for DOS,which
have the possibility to set the speed to MORE than 19200 Bauds.It have
to be shareware,and to exist somewhere on ftp.
Thanks a lot.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
Subject: Re: Pathological subdirectory read/create/delete time under DOS 5.0
Date: 01 Oct 92 03:49:46 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <124.74.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)  writes:
>
>-> One problem here is DOS buffers. Each one holds 16 directory entries,
>-> if the number of files in a directory exceeds 16*buffers then DOS
>-> starts to thrash doing file name lookups on the directory structure.
>
> The reason, of course, was that DOS takes a noticeable amount of time
>to open or create a file and another chunk of time to negotiate
>directories.  The various DOS versions I tried (all Microsoft; I didn't
>have DR6 then) were almost identical in their timings.

The fat file system is not designed for large directories (1000+ files).
The fat file system was designed for 160K floppies. DOS 2 grafted subdir
support.

The reason creates are so slow is that DOS sequentially searches to
be sure that the directory/filename isn't already in use by another
file or directory. Any time the directory gets more than 500 or so files,
things start to slow down.

HPFS was supposed to fix this problem, but of course, it was incompatible
with the existing apps installed base......

Increasing disk buffers can help; with DOS 5 loaded high, increasing
buffers won't decrease conventional memory until you get to ~48 or more
buffers...

-jen



Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: mrmarcel@eos.ncsu.edu (MICHAEL RONN MARCELAIS)
Subject: Re: Why doesn't msdos have a rename-directory command?
Organization: North Carolina State University
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 18:21:28 GMT

In article <1992Sep27.050311.23650@microsoft.com>, jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer) writes:
|> In article <9031@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil> mcohen@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Marty Cohen) writes:
|> >
|> >There is a rename-file command.  One would think that all
|> >you would have to do to rename a directory would be to
|> >change the entry in the parent directory.  
|> 
|> Marty, you're quite right. There is a rename-file command.
|> THERE IS ALSO A RENAME DIRECTORY COMMAND. It's in MS-DOS
|> versions 4 and later, as part of the dosshell. 
|> 
|> Why doesn't the rename-file command from the command line
|> handle directories? I don't know, I don't make those decisions....
|> 
|> -jen
|> 
|> 

There is a command that comes with DR-DOS called rendir that renames
directories.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: ricky@mindvox.phantom.com (Richard Velez)
Subject: Putting two files together
Organization: [Phantom Access] / the MindVox system
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 10:38:00 GMT

HI, Can someone tell me how I could append two binary file together, my 
lack of memory on my system, wont let me append both files into one, cuz 
each file is over 180,000 in bytes, Thanks, Please reply by email :).

===============================================================
 Richard Velez                      Electronic Mail
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 Born and Raise in New York City     Ricky@MindVox.Phantom.Com
===============================================================
From: phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Floppy disk format
Date: 29 Sep 92 23:31:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: csc.1992Sep30.113107.1
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

In article <1992Sep29.180601.1204@linus.mitre.org>, dsb@mbunix.mitre.org writes:
> It is my understanding that on PC floppy disks (specifically 1.44MB) that after
> issuing the dos format command the layout is the following.
> 
> Track 0 : Boot Record, File Allocation Table, Root Directory
> Track 1-79 : Data Storage
> 
The order is correct, but the root directory need not finish at the end of
track 0, it usually ends with 3 sectors left on track 0 on a 1.44Mb diskette.

The general answer is:
  look at the contents of the Bios Parameter Block in the boot sector
  (if it is invalid go by preset defaults for the diskette's capacity),
  to see how long the boot record is (almost always 1 sector; very old
  MSDOS on 8" diskettes might be longer), and to see how many copies of
  the FAT there are (almost always 2 for diskettes and hard disks, 1 for
  RAM drives), and how long each copy of the FAT should be, in sectors.
  The number of root directory entries can be used to tell the size of
  the root directory (at 32 bytes per directory entry).

> How big are each of the entries in track 0 for a 1.44 MB diskette ?
> 
Boot record:   1 sector (track 0, head 0, sector 1)
FAT:           2x9 sectors
Root dir:      224 entries=14 sectors
data clusters: 2847 (1 Sector/cluster)

Hope this helps,
Mark Aitchison, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: speedy@engr.latech.edu (Speedy Mercer)
Subject: Re: Uninstall Stacker 2.0
Organization: Louisiana Tech University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:03:39 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.142220.4114@rei.com> fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:

>bruhn@uxe.wu-wien.ac.at (Peter Bruhn ) writes:

>>Has somebody tried to uninstall Stacker 2.0?

>I'm sure that many people have.

>>How can I do this?

>The method with the least headaches is to do a full backup, remove
>Stacker, then restore the backup.  Backups are always a great idea in
>any case.

>>Is it possible to lose data?

>There's always a chance.  That's why you do a backup.

I have un-installed Stacker 2.0 by using the Shrink/Grow option.
I un-Stacked a 100meg Stacker partition on my 212meg drive using this.
I first "Shrunk" my Stacker drive to its smallest possible size.  I then 
moved all of the files from my Stacker drive to my "real" drive that would 
fit.  Irepeated the process till my Stacker drive was empty.  This took 3 
passes for my 100meg Stacker drive.  After the Stacker Drive was empty, I 
removed it using Stackers Sremove (or something like that) function.

CAUTION!

Use CHKDSK on your "real" and Stacker drives to make sure that there will be 
enough space on your "real" drive to hold all the files transfered from the 
Stacker drive.

Speedy@Engr.LaTech.Edu

P.S. I called Stacker and they are working on a Un-Install option for the 
next release.  Also they have an up-dated release of 2.0. 2.01 has fixed the 
problems encountered when running QEMM's Optimize.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: (another) problem deleting files/directories
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 04:41:40 GMT

rvanderb@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rian van der Borgt) writes:

>I did try del *.* or attrib -h *.* but the response was always '
>'file not found' , so there are files, but DOS can't find them. 

When this happened to me (files with illegal characters in them), I
pulled out Norton's DiskEdit and changed the filenames to something
reasonable.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
Subject: Re: Why doesn't msdos have a rename-directory command?
Date: 27 Sep 92 05:03:11 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Distribution: na

In article <9031@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil> mcohen@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Marty Cohen) writes:
>
>There is a rename-file command.  One would think that all
>you would have to do to rename a directory would be to
>change the entry in the parent directory.  

Marty, you're quite right. There is a rename-file command.
THERE IS ALSO A RENAME DIRECTORY COMMAND. It's in MS-DOS
versions 4 and later, as part of the dosshell. 

Why doesn't the rename-file command from the command line
handle directories? I don't know, I don't make those decisions....

-jen


Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: don.updyke@stpaul.ncr.com (Don Updyke)
Subject: re both badsectors and stacker
Organization: NCR NPG St Paul Minnesota
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:28:04 GMT

If you read the book that comes with stacker II it will inform you that
unless you really know what is what, the stacker utils sdefrag scheck etc
are better suited to their disk methods than norton,pctools or any other 
utils and any person that I know guessing what sector/fat/disk entry to 
change/repair.

I also had a small problem with a large stacked vol, but I read the book
and followed instructions and used the utils provided with the software and
recovered my stackvol with no problems scheck /f is similar to chkdsk /f
and sdefrag is worth the time if you del a lot of small files or expand 
existing

For marked bad (but NOT really) sectors try spinrite II, it can clean up a 
disk nicely.

I will suggest that a full backup before you start is proper pocedure, 
because in our any thing can and will happed world a backup done is a 
headache avoided.  

These are my opinions/flames and not where I work, or the vendors.

I'm sorry if I sound like a grouch but I just had someone who did not read
the book on stacker and wiped out a 100M stacked vol and blames the 
software.  This is without a backup on their system at home and they said
" Well I can fix anything with norton why is stacker so special"
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: SVGA question
From: f67700241@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin)
Date: 4 Oct 92 17:01:24 MST
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona
Nntp-Posting-User: f67700241

>> Now I've got the following question: My VGA-card should be able to handle
>> 1024x768 resolution, shouldn't it? If it does, are there special drivers 
>> available so that I really can use this feature? I ask this because there
>> are several (S)VGA test programs on FTP-sites, which I've tried, but which
>> let me not choose the 1024x768 256 color option. 

A good general test for any VGA adapter/monitor combo is (get this)
Fractint for DOS.  It's a fractal generator that autodetects most SVGA
adapters and offers an array of standard and non-standard resolutions.

It's free and available via FTP....if you can't find it, let me know.
-- 
Greg "Mockingbird" Franklin      Interviewer: "Sir, how do you spell relief?"
f67700241@ccit.arizona.edu               Dan: "R-O-L-A-I-D-S-E."

"[George Bush is] the most ruthless white man in the history of the planet."
	-- Richard Ben Cramer, author of _What It Takes_
"The President scores much better than Bill Clinton."
	-- Dan, comparing Bush's record of marital infidelity to Clinton's
From: camdna@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Darren Natale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: (another) problem deleting files/directories
Date: 4 Oct 92 20:54:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Oct4.135208.26467@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, rvanderb@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rian van der Borgt) writes...
> 
>I did try del *.* or attrib -h *.* but the response was always '
>'file not found' , so there are files, but DOS can't find them. 
> 

If I remember correctly, a file that has both hidden and system attributes
set can only be unset if these attributes are changed simultaneously. That is,
attrib -h -s *.* . Considering the bizarre nature of these files, maybe they
have been set as system files, and so can't be deleted.

DN
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: Tweaking EMM386.SYS for max conventional memory
Organization: Foxes 'R' Us - Seven locations to serve you
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 02:50:44 GMT

sjm2458@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Steve McCarthy) writes:

>1.  What is the significance of setting the page frame (FRAME=E000)?

EMM386, by default, will not use memory from E000-EFFF, even though this
memory area is free on most AT-class machines.  By forcing the frame to
this page, you free up an extra 64K of UMB space.

>2.  In DOS, how does setting aside (1024K) of expanded (?) memory affect
>    memory availability to applications?

It reduces XMS memory by 1 Meg.

>3.  I noticed that running a DOS shell in Windows (3.1) and doing a 
>    mem/c gives totally different results than in regular DOS.  What
>    does Windows do with the expanded/extended memory?

Windows in enhanced mode creates virtual memory, and this is what your
DOS session sees when it's in a window.  There is no way for the virtual
DOS session to know how much real memory you have, since Windows is
fooling it into seeing virtual memory.

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#define  TRUE   0   | a.k.a. David DeSimone      an207@cleveland.freenet.edu
#define  FALSE  1   |   "Verily, thou art indeed a fool."   -- Chuckles the
#endif              |         Jester, moments before his untimely death.
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: 14,400 bps
Keywords: MODEM SPEED BAUD BPS
Date: 1 Oct 92 19:24:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Sep29.061505.2299@wixer.cactus.org> roadhog@wixer.cactus.org (Lindsay Haisley) writes:
>I have seen several references to a data transfer speed of 14,400 bps,
>both on BBS listings and in ads for modems (one of which I'm con-
>sidering).  My telecomm software (Telix) supports data transfer rates of
>9600 and 19,200, but 14,400 is not listed.  I also note that all my DOS
>technical manuals fail to list this speed as an available system option.
>Do I need new telecomm software to support 14,400 bps, or is this speed
>spec just a euphamism for an "actual" speed of 9600 bps with data
>compression?

No. It's not your telecom software; it's the hardware limitations of
the PC that does not provide infinitely variable baud rates at the
serial ports. But this doesn't matter. You simply set your term software
to 19200 bps or above and the modem will buffer the difference using
flow control. 



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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
Subject: Good 256 color paint programs, on the nets or commercial? 
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 18:26:21 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Does anybody know of a paint program that will work in VGA (256 colors)
on windows or msdos on the PC's. We have some 386-33 Gateways with 
640x480 256 color graphics cards and I'm trying to find 
something spiffier than PC paint to paint with. I 
know that support for 256 colors is only a small change in the number
of bits that are used to define the screen and the palette, but 
I don't know how to get PC-paint to support it (the one that 
comes with windows) if it can and I don't know where 
to look for a paint program that does this, on the nets. 

I am an AMiga user, so I don't keep up with PC's graphics 
programs very well, but I know what PC's  and Amiga's are limited
to and would prefer doing my art on a PC. But I don't have a PC 
at home.  

Later

Kiernan Holland
From: slang@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: User interface builder query.
Date: 6 Oct 92 17:21:18 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

I am trying to find a sort of 'generic' User Interface builder that will
compile with Microsoft C, and Borland C etc. and provide text based overlapping
windows etc. commercial or otherwise.

One we are looking at trying to get is C-Worthy, but haven't had much luck yet.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers -

	   Drink is the curse		Steve Lang
	of the working class man	Systems Programmer Analyst
	Work is the curse of the	University of Waikato
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I am not responsible for my employers opinion (thank heavens,) and neither are
they for mine.
From: ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Reading Japanese disks
Date: 1 Oct 1992 07:24:56 GMT
Organization: Centre for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Sheffield
NNTP-Posting-Host: athena.berkeley.edu

In article <30SEP199208365338@sscvx1.ssc.gov> dlittle@sscvx1.ssc.gov (DENNIS LITTLE) writes:
>Recently, one of the contractors we have in Japan has started
>sending us strangely formatted disks (at least by US standards
>which are quad density.
>I can tell that the disk does have the files on it with norton
>utilities, but I can't seem to copy them... any suggestions?

presumably these are NEC PC98 format.  if they are 3.5 inch
disks, you will not be able to copy them.  not only is the format
different (number of tracks and sectors), but the rotational
speed of the drives is different.  dual speed drives are
available in japan although i have not tested these.  the simples
thing is to ask for 5.25 inch disks, preferably in the 1.2 meg
format.
-- 
earl h. kinmonth, centre for japanese studies, university of sheffield,
sheffield, england s10 2tn  jp1ek@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk