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From: chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan)
Subject: Re: SX vs DX
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 07:15:16 GMT

gb03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (GEORGE PHILIP BLUHM) writes:

>You might try the cyrix 486dx.  I understand it is pin compatible with the
                            ^^
                       486SLC or DLC
No built in maths-co too...

>Int** 386 with the 486 instruction set and 1K cache on board.

>Phyle THEE McNasty

Sorry for nit picking :)

Sean Chan           Curtin University of Technology 
                    Bentley, Western Australia.  
E-Mail : chans@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au
         pchans@cc.curtin.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: djpg8931@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel Palermo)
Subject: Re: barcodes
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:31:47 GMT

In article <24598@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> bill@solaria.hac.com writes:
>If I remember correctly, the trutype font 'barcode39' used the '@' character
>for the start/stop character... but it doesn't really matter.  The font
>doesn't have the proper spacing between characters.  No matter what you do,
>it will not generate a readable barcode.

I haven't been able to try this yet, but if the only thing that is wrong is
the character spacing you should be able to compensate.  To generate a
readable barcode you can kern (insert spacing between the characters) by an
amount depending on the font size you are using.  In MS Word this can be
accomplished using the Format/Character operation (spacing of 4pt seemed
good at a font size of 44pt, but I don't have a reader handy right now)

Hope this helps,
  Dan Palermo

PS. Does anyone know how to edit the properties of a Truetype font.  It seems
    that this could also be corrected better by fixing the font itself.
From: dww@bnr.co.uk (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: How to install stacker
Date: 12 Jan 1993 22:06:45 GMT
Organization: BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, England.
NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.164.64.71

In article <1993Jan4.223742.11978@rei.com> fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
#>FJ>If you have let Stacker 'swap' the drives, so that your 390 MB stacked
#>FJ>drive is seen as C, you are simply asking for trouble (IMHO).
#
# .....  However, I do recognize that there is a class of users who have
#a use for SSWAP.  Users who have a LARGE amount of software installed
#may enjoy the convenience of not having to reconfigure the software.

Some time ago I reorganised one of the PC's I use to combine 3 partitions
(pre-Dos5) into one large DOS5 one, and then restored C: and D: backups
together to C:.  That moved most of my Windows stuff from D: to C:. 
It was a nightmare getting it all to work again!  In retrospect, it might
have been better to have put a day aside to reinstall Windows and all my
applications from scratch, and a second going through all the
reconfiguration and local setups I had.  I did have to re-install some
things in the end anyway.

The .ini files are text, but the .grp files are binary and they 'know' the
drive letters too.  I do have a binary editor but when I changed C: to D:
in .grp files Windows objected - I guess they are sum-checked in some way.

So when I bought STACKER and found it would put all my software into a new
drive (E: on my system), I was VERY glad that SSWAP would hide this from all
my programs.  Thankyou for your warning, but I'll take the risk that some
future drivers will get confused.   And I can see why using SSWAP is the
installation default - I don't think STACKER would survive the average user
installing it and then finding that Windows would not start!

I did have a problem with STACKER by the way; quite often it would be unable
to read a perfectly good file, with DISK ACCESS errors, then after doing a
retry it would work again.  I called the UK STACKER Technical Support, and 
was told to change /EMS to /NB in the first stacker line in my CONFIG.SYS,
which has solved the problem.  Aparently Stacker 3 has EMS contention on
some systems.  I'm not totally happy about this bug, as it means loosing 
more conventional RAM, but her fix has worked.

Regards, 
        David Wright  BNR Europe Ltd, London Road, Harlow, Essex  CM17 9NA, UK
dww@bnr.co.uk  <or> dww@bnr.ca  <or> uunet!stl!dww  <or> PSI%234237100122::DWW
<or> /g=David/s=Wright/org=STC Technology Ltd/prmd=STC plc/admd=Gold 400/co=GB
My other computer is a VAX but today I'm running on a Sun from this PC terminal
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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Stacker 3.0 Install Problem
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:43:55 GMT

In <rhughes.29.0@ucsd.edu> rhughes@ucsd.edu (Richard J. Hughes) writes:

>In article <1993Jan7.111806.9722%tonyle@Uz.nthu.edu.tw> tonyle@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (Tony Lee (CS 791529) TEL. 715131-4865) writes:

>>Someone know how to install the Stacker 3.0 ??
>>I run the setup program,but it tells me that "error running
>>setup1.com " ,I look the filelist.txt with the software,it says
>>that there is a setup.saf program which means the "SETUP ARCHIVE FILE",
>>and has some program in it including the setup1.com , but it doesn't
>>tell me how to unpack the archive file and get these problem !!

>This may be the same problem...If you have the upgrade, it will only install 
>when Stacker 2 is *running*.  I didn't notice any information to this effect 
>in the docs. but if you delete Stacker 2, it is impossible to install the 
>upgrade to Stacker 3.  Be warned!

It plainly said this.  You don't have to have any stacked drives
MOUNTED; you just have to have the Stacker driver loaded.  If you
delete Stacker 2, you will have to reinstall it before you install
Stacker 3.  Is this really so peculiar a requirement for folks who buy
the upgrade package?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: grickett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Gregory A Ricketts)
Subject: Disk Defragmentation, WinMaster
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:29:58 GMT


I would like to know if there is any shareware disk defragmentation
software on the net.  If there is, what experience have people had with
this software?  Also, I was thinking of purchasing WinMaster, which has a
disk defragmenter, what experience have people had with this program?
Thanks.  Greg.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Windows NT
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:40:34 GMT

In article <1993Jan05.061510.21021@microsoft.com> blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett) writes:
>Nope.  This would be prohibitively expensive.  There is an Intel emulator,
>but that is only for DOS and Win16 apps.  Win32 apps and the the OS itself
>are all compiled for the target platform.

So I take this to mean that you wouldn't be able to buy, say, Excel 
6 in a shrink wrap and run it on your choice of platform? You'd need
to get Excel 6 (Intel) or Excel 6 (Alpha) depending on the machine you
own?

Hmmmm....



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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.modems
From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: Mailbox Software for WIN 3.1 ?
Keywords: mailbox,windows,modems
Organization: iX-Redaktion
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:03:05 GMT


Does anyone out there know about some well-behaving and functional 
mailbox software for Win that allows me some multitasking while
online? A DOS program in a DOS box doesn't seem to do what I want.

Thanx.





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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: slahiri@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Santanu Lahiri)
Subject: Re: 24-bit mode of ATI Ultra Pro ***VLB***
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Summary: New Release of the Ultra Pro on Jan 10th?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:57:24 GMT

I was talking to a local vendor yesterday, and he mentioned that a new release
of the ATI Ultra Pro is scheduled for the 10th of this month, and that he
expected to have them at the latest by 15th.

Can anyone confirm this?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: America Online (and similar systems)
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:50:09 GMT

In article <margolin-281292182823@fp1-molbio-17.uoregon.edu> margolin@oregon.uoregon.edu (Brian Margolin) writes:
>In article <Bzz2BD.n0q@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu
>(Bob Rusbasan) wrote:

>> Is the CompuServe Windows interface out?  Has anyone tried that?

>Compuserve is releasing a Beta version of their Windows interface now and
>promise to send the final version to all who buy the beta for free.  They
>say that the final will be ready in February or March.

Oh????

I always assumed Compuserve had a Windows interface already since
the one on the TV ads looked really windows-like...




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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: sts@mfltd.co.uk (Steve Sherwood)
Subject: Adobie Fonts & WinWord 2.0
Keywords: Adobie Fonts Windows Word Stumped
Reply-To: sts@mfltd.co.uk
Organization: Micro Focus Ltd, Newbury, England
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:58:22 GMT

Can anyone help on a small problem of vanishing fonts.

I have some small labels I want to print on, So I adjusted the page
size so that I could fit one label per page (thus also numbering the labels)
But when I did that, all my fonts disappeared. (true type and fixed alike).
I am using the citizen propriatory drivers.  Adjust the page size bigger
again and they re-appear.

Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: dev@soils.ecn.purdue.edu (Larry Weeks)
Subject: A problem with windows and our modem
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 05:52:10 GMT

Hi there,

The company I consult for purchased a Gateway 486 machine with the
Gateway Telebit (?) fax/modem board. The modem works great in DOS,
works great in DOS sessions from Windows, and works great in Windows
enhanced mode.

However, in Windows standard mode, their preferred mode, the modem
totally locks up the machine when sending info back. You can send a
fax, and you can type commands to the modem when using a Windows
terminal emulator. But if you give the modem an ATZ command, it locks
the system immediately, or if the modem connects to the other end
after you initiate a dial, it locks the system up.

I've talked to Gateway about this, and we can't figure anything out.
The Windows port settings are all right, and the modem functions
properly in DOS. There is a network ethernet card installed, and I
noticed when configuring the system that, apparently, the modem may
overwrite its I/O buffer space. Originally, the network buffer was
positioned immediately following the modem port's buffer, and any
communications from the modem locked the machine up, in DOS as well.
I moved the network buffer up in memory on a whim, and the problem
disappeared immediately, except in Windows standard mode.

So, any ideas? Does this buffer overwrite sound reasonable? That
would be a modem firmware problem, and the Gateway techs say they
haven't heard of this problem before... it's got me pretty baffled. I
can return the modem the next time I'm there in a couple weeks, but I
want to see what else I can find out first. Thanks for any help any
of you may have.

Larry
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: iikkap@mits.mdata.fi (Iikka Paavolainen)
Subject: Failed to register server
Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 16:33:02 GMT

When I run Object Packger (and some other apps), I get the message "Cannot
register OLE server" or something of the sort. What is wrong? What can I do
to fix it?

Please reply in E-mail.

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From: m.bannach@ldb.comlink.de (Matthias Bannach)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Distribution: world
Reply-To: m.bannach@ldb.comlink.de
Subject: Re: Help: Formulas in Word
Date: 9 Jan 93 18:34:00 +0100
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## Nachricht vom 07.01.93 weitergeleitet
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## Ersteller: M.BANNACH@LDB.comlink.de

Hello bpburke,

You wrote on 05.01.93 at 15:10 to the Board /IN/COMP/OS/MS-WINDOWS/MISC
about "Help: Formulas in Word":

> I'm looking for information to help my brother fromat formulas for his
> thesis (which is due real soon!).  He has just simple math equations to
>
> I'm not sure what version of Word he is using, but he is using Windows 3.0
> Would it be helpful to upgrade to 3.1 to get the TT fonts for this
Try W4W version 2.0 it includes an equation editor which supports 100% mouse
funktions and is easy to use.

> Any and all suggestions would be helpful.
It's not a lot, but ....
> Thanks,
> -Brian

no problem Matthias

Oh annother Information, there is someone using W4W at the MIT too !
It's :

Daniel Silevitch                            dmsilev@athena.mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

I think you can ask him for further details !

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: SX vs DX
From: stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz (Stefan Olson)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 19:55:33 +1200

In <c.s.perezramos.29.0@larc.nasa.gov> c.s.perezramos@larc.nasa.gov (Carlos S. Perez-Ramos) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.130856.1@vax1.umkc.edu> edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>more heat than a DX. That is, a 50 MHz DX2 will heat up more than a 25 MHz
>DX. I am not sure that systems' manufacturers have necessarily made any
>changes to their designs to account for the extra heat produced by the DX2
>chips. This would result in decreased life of the computer. 

I know that the company I work for has fans over the chips of some
of the high speed machines, to try and make sure they stay cool...

...Stefan

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
Subject: Re: Corel 3.0 prints no landscape?
Keywords: Corel Draw
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:06:36 GMT

In article <rb.726492455@bambam> rb@dasc.nl (Remco Bruijne) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I am a satisfied Corel Draw 3.0 user, but landscape pictures keep
>printing portrait when I print via PostScript(tm) files (I do not have
>a PS printer at home).
>
>I succeed in getting a correct picture when I patch the PS file (an
>if statement and an X-offset), but maybe I just did something wrong during
>printing. It makes no difference if I specify "print_to_file" in Corel
>or in the printer driver, and I *did* specify landscape. I *did* RTFM.
>
>Any ideas?  Thanks for your response (preferably via email).
>

I think there is a statement you need to include in your WIN.INI file,
namely:

landscapeorient=270

This is to fix a bug in MicroSoft's postscript driver (it is not unique
to, or caused by, Corel Draw). WHat I am not sure of is exactly *where*
in WIN.INI you need this line - it's either in the [postscript,file]
section, or in the [<specific printer>, file] section. After getting the
updated postscript driver from MSoft's bbs, this problem went away, so I
have no way to check on it. I recommend getting that updated driver.
Call MSoft and get their bbs number.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: bradcox@sitevax.gmu.edu (Dr. Brad Cox)
Subject: Help: Procomm/Windows <-> Unix
Organization: George Mason Pgm on Social and Organizational Learning
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:00:37 GMT

A PC-based colleague needs help using ProComm for Windows to connect to a 
Unix host.

He's trying to use Notepad to compose email messages and paste them into
Unix Mail. The messages come out double-spaced, nomatter what we've tried.

We've tried all of the ProComm options (character translation tables)
but nothing we've tried affects translation during the paste command. 
The paste brings in CR/LF line terminator characters. Unix keeps seeming
them as double line spaces.

I've tried working from the Unix end via stty, but that doesn't work
either. The best I could do there disables the CR key altogether.

Surely this problem has a trivial solution. But I've been unable to find it.

If possible, reply by email, which I monitor more frequently than this group.
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From: cording@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Dean Cording)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Haywire mouse problem
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:01:46 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.12
Summary: Mouse goes haywire
Keywords: windows mouse

We have been experiencing a problem with Windows 3.1 where the mouse goes
haywire.  It becomes super-sensitive to movement in one direction and
un-sensitive to movement in the other direction. It also appears to start
sending spontanious mouse clicks. As a result the mouse jumps all over the
screen and causes windows to popup, close, change size, and generally cause
chaos. The condition can only be cleared by exiting Windows and restarting.  
No other operations in Windows are affected.

We have seen this problem occur on a variety of machines including Commodore
386/dx/sx/16/20/25, and Compaqs.  We use Microsoft and Commodore mice and
run Novell Netware v3.11 on all machines. 

The software setup is :
	EMM386.EXE
	HIMEM.SYS
	MOUSE.SYS  version 8.20
	DOS v5 loaded HIGH,UMB
	IPX  version 3.10
	NETX version 3.26
	Windows 3.1
	WinWord 2.0b
	Excel 4
	

The problem happens two or three times a month on our network of 430 machines.
We have not been able to find a way of reproducing it, apart from noticing
that holding down the shift key while moving the mouse can trigger it.

Microsoft Technical Support have never heard of this problem before and
where not able to offer any reason for it happening.

Has anyone else experienced a similar problem?  It would appear to be a
bug in the Windows mouse driver but it is very hard to isolate it if I
can't reproduce the problem at will.

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From: bill@solaria (Bill Neisius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: barcodes
Date: 4 Jan 93 14:55:11 GMT
Reply-To: bill@solaria.hac.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Roger F. Noia (rnoia@netcom.com) wrote:
: Hi...
: has anyone successfully used the truetype font: barcode39?
: Mine works.. but when I go to use the barcode.. the reader won't 
: read it.
: 
: Apparently barcode39 does not have the start of message code..
: if anyone knows how to put the start of message in (or which character it's
: located on).. drop me a line.. thanks.. roger
: 
: (note:reading the manual for the reader it says that the start of 
: message code is "*" but it also seems to accept "nul" but neither of these
: characters will work...
: 
: rnoia@netcom.com

If I remember correctly, the trutype font 'barcode39' used the '@' character
for the start/stop character... but it doesn't really matter.  The font
doesn't have the proper spacing between characters.  No matter what you do,
it will not generate a readable barcode.


Bill Neisius
bill@solaria.hac.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: homer@iastate.edu (John F Homer)
Subject: Microsoft Postscript Driver ??
Summary: Where to find Microsoft Windows 3.1 PostScript driver
Keywords: Microsoft PostScript
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:23:18 GMT

Does anyone know of an Internet (Anonomous FTP) source for the updated
PostScript printer driverfor Windows 3.1 ?
I thought there was an archive of Microsoft stuff but have forgotten
the address.
Thanks in advance
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From: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy - RADS 1001/2)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Help unistalling Windows NT
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:42:46 GMT
Reply-To: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy - RADS 1001/2)
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501

In article <2B48B2E8.2945@deneva.sdd.trw.com> reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert) writes:
>In article <1993Jan1.205854.6450@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> rwb@Turing.ORG (Robert W. Bingler) writes:
>>Hey,
>>	Can someone please help with unistalling Windows NT?  We've
>>tried deleting it but it remains in the boot equence, therefore
>>it locks the machine up.
>>
>>Any help would be great!
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Rob
>>
>
>WindowsNT (tm) has several hidden files that it deposits in the root directory
>of the C: drive, even if you are using the flexboot option and the C: drive is
>DOS (or something else). You'll need to get rid of all the NT files in the
>root directory on C:. Some of the NT files are not hidden, so just poke around
>and nuke files that don't belong there. 
>
>If you wanted to be REALLY sure, you could do a backup of your disk (which is
>good to do anyway), and exclude the NT files. Then reformat the disk.
>
>		Scott

The simplest thing to do is boot DOS, then run the sys program to reinstall
the boot sector.  This eliminates to the dual boot option and always goes to 
DOS.

Rion




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