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From: kxj6@po.CWRU.Edu (Kijin Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Stacker and XtraDrive
Date: 7 Nov 1992 00:08:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: kxj6@po.CWRU.Edu (Kijin Jung)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


Hello, I own Stacker 2.0 but I've never permanently installed it
on my hard disk because of reliablity problems. I also find it VERY
awkward to have an extra compressed drive created for each uncompressed
logical drive that exists. I have C: D: E: and F: partitions on two
drives - Stacker then creates G: H: I: and J: !

Lately, I've heard some sketchy information on IIT's XtraDrive, but
it looks promising. For those who have it, could you comment on it's
compatibility with Window's swapfile, and whether I can use PC Tools'
Compress or Norton's defragger on an XtraDrive compressed disk? For
those who say that it is slow, _how_ slow? And if I understand correctly,
XtraDrive does not require you to have an uncompressed partition?

Thanks in advance...
                -Kijin
From: haymoree@bones (Edward Haymore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Telix 3.15 question
Date: 11 Nov 92 01:20:24 GMT
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka) writes:
:  haymoree@bones (Edward Haymore) writes:
: >: it is called "Backspace sends DEL", that should be Yes )
: >
: >You're correct -- that takes care of it.  Now does anyone know how to make
: >this option _stay_ no when I run the program the next time?  (And no,
: >"Write setup to disk" doesn't do it.)
: 
: This is one of the (several) confusing "features" in Telix.  You have
: set this in the "Terminal Options" screen, right?  Well, if you use
: the dialing directory there is _another_ setting which overrides
: this.  It's good, in that you can have BS destructive for some systems
: but not others -- but it's still _very_ confusing.

Gordon's right -- it was the dialing directory entry that was overriding
the "terminal options" setting.

--
Ed Haymore
ed_haymore@byu.edu
From: sadapalli@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Help : Vertical Sync ....
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:01:33 GMT
Organization: USAF AL/CFH, WPAFB, Dayton, OH

-- 

"The opinions and views expressed here are strictly my own and do not 
necessarily reflect the official position of either the U.S. Air Force 
or its contractors."
From: gummi@rhi.hi.is (Gudmundur Bjarni Josepsson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Boot protection
Date: 10 Nov 92 09:29:26 GMT

In <ferch.721327235@swiss.ucs.ubc.ca> ferch@ucs.ubc.ca (Les Ferch) writes:

>You can still boot a PC protected with DiskLock using a floppy, but you
>will not have access to the hard drive.
>  
Duh, that was what I meant, of course :)

Gummi
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Even more Stacker questions
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:44:32 GMT

In <1992Nov5.004716.656@Princeton.EDU> phoenix.Princeton.EDU!carlosn (Carlos G. Niederstrasser) writes:

>- will the DOS or PCTools (or Norton, or....) work properly with Stacker?

Everything I've tried seems to work correctly except for programs to
coallesce the drive (Speed Disk, et al).  Stacker includes its own
version of one of these (Norton's I believe) which is INCREDIBLY SLOW
on my machine.

>-  Will the FastLock password protection program (it doesn't let your machine  
>boot) work.  I assume it would have to be in the uncompress section of the  
>Stacker disk?

No experience with this one.

>- I am still a little unsure of which direction you can change the size of the  
>stacked disk?  Can you increase unstacked space, or only decrease it?  (I need  
>the space if I am to put FastLock on it)

You can only SHRINK the STACKER DRIVE.  In other words, you can shrink
the Stacked portion of your disk so as to have a larger unStacked
disk, but you cannot go the other way.  Once you make the Stacker
drive smaller, if you want to make it larger again the only way I know
of to do so is to back up everything on it, delete it, and then
reinstall. 

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
From: your-email-addr@a1.mscf.upenn.edu (Jesse Goldman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Wanted: Script writing program
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:58:09 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.apps
Organization: University of Pennsylvania



A program named "Collaborator" can assist in screenplay writing but it
costs in excess of $200.  Anyone know of any cheaper?

                 Thanks

                  Jesse
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From: cee1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Charles Evans)
Subject: Re: Which Menuing System do YOU use?
Organization: Mississippi State University
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:40:30 GMT

frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow) writes:

>Hi,

>I recently ran across the Novel MENU commands which basically allows
>me to easily create menus and run programs based on the user's selection.
>I really need it only to help my three year old son access his games so
>I decided to find something shareware for use at home.  I decided to
>look on Simtel20 unders MSDOS.MENU, but there are SO MANY choices.  I
>don't want to download and evenuate them ALL.  Which one or two are the
>most popular?

Obviously you want to choose Stereo Shell.. do archiving on the fly, show
two directories side to side, quick move, delete, copy, quickstarting
of files. It's all i have used for 3 years.

chuck


>Frank
>-- 
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>= Odetics Inc, Broadcast Division  (Work) (714) 772-1000 Ext 3860 =
>= 1515 S. Manchester Avenue        (Fax)  (714) 535-8532          =
>= Anaheim, CA 92802                (Net)  frank@odetics.com       =
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+--------------------+-----------------------+------------------------+
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: bilodeau_r@cubldr.colorado.edu
Subject: How to decompress?Help for beginner
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:11:56 GMT

Dear Netters,

Please excuse this somewhat ignorant question but I am new to the
net and am not very sure of my way around.  I would like to know
how or where I can obtain a program which decompresses ftp'd software.  I have
been reading postings which mention ZIP and pkzip: what are these?
Thanks in advance,
Bob Bilodeau
Bilodeau_r@cubldr.colorado.edu
 





From: Bob.Dickey@altern8.mi.org (Bob Dickey)
Sender: FredMail@altern8.mi.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: PKWARE Version 3.05
Date: 09 Nov 92  02:27:10 EST

RM>This morning there was a note on my desk about a virus, PROTO-T.  It was
foun
RM>in two files: "TEMPLE" and an unauthorized version of PKZip(version 3.0 and
RM>3.1).  The undersigned of this note is THIEVCO INC, San Francisco Bay.  I
RM>don't even know who put this thing on my desk.

PROTO-T is not real and PKZip 3.0 & 3.1 is also a hack according to the
latest HacRerport. Again, PROTO-T, PKZip 3.0 & 3.1 are NOT real. Please
make a note of this and read the HackReport. I am just tring to save you
some headachs. I am not with Lee Jacskon (yet) but he has said the virus is
a fack in the last 2 reports.


 * OLX 2.1 TD * Abswers: $1, Correct answers: $5, Dumb looks: still Free!

From: Bob.Dickey@altern8.mi.org (Bob Dickey)
Sender: FredMail@altern8.mi.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: STACKER disk compression
Date: 09 Nov 92  02:20:08 EST

BP> Does anybody has know
BP> 1.) How much slower is it when developing (compiling,linking,debuging)
BP> 2.) When running programs (Windows).
BP> 3.) What about reliability,
BP> Now  sometimes after I to Alt-Ctrl-Del I find some of the
BP> files damaged.
BP> What if a block gets lost from one of these STACK??? files,
BP> do I loose all my stacker logical drive and have to restore
BP> all stacker logical drive from backups ?

I have it set at a high comprestion rate witch is NOT a good idea but with
only a 40meg HD and about 100meg of software it works. I do run into lost
clusters alot. It only seems to happen of files that are already compresed
by PKzip or ARJ or when I do alot of moving files and what not. If a block
or cluster is lost, it can be recovered but I don't know how to do this
from the "FILE0000.*" that is saved in the root from CHKDSK. Hope this
helps.


 * OLX 2.1 TD * Warning!  COLDBEER.CAN found, programmer probably loaded.
From: v053qhyx@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Jeremy A Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: STACKER.. CRASH--! HELP!!!
Date: 9 Nov 92 05:49:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hi..
I'm hoping someone can answer this.. I've left a message with stac electronics
and I'm awaiting a reply..My norton diskcache failed while I was using stacker 
2.0... Now When I boot up I'm told my C:Drive (the stacked drive) is write
protected.. and it tells me to run scheck... when I run scheck /f it tells me it
cant do anything because its write protected.. if I run scheck by itself it 
tells me my win386.swp file is bad... How can I unprotect my drive and fix these
problems??? I know my files are intact, I'm in crosstalk for windows now.. but
I cant write to anything and I keep getting system write errors!!!
   HELP!!
      Please email. Do NOT post on here!! because I have limited time before my
computer crashes to be searching news!!
    Thanx
       Jeremy
From: Tom_A_Thackrey@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Children Learning Educational Games
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 01:45:05 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

>I need to find some educational programs/games for kids...
>
>READING:      age group 5 to 6
>
>MATH:         age group 5 to 6
>
>Also some things to help improve fine motor skills and eye/hand
>coordination.

Try KidSoft @ 800 354-6150, ask for their catalog.
If you have a CD-ROM drive, call Texas Caviar @ 512 346-7887.
I saw a new Mag called Kids and Computers on the news stand yesterday.

Tom
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From: keith@aisg.com (Keith B. Kee {AISG} )
Subject: Telix 3.15
Reply-To: keith@aisg.com (Keith B. Kee {AISG} )
Organization: Accura Innovative Services Inc.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 23:16:52 GMT

Where can I get Telix 3.15? 

Thanks.
			Keith
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From: derwin@mach2.wlu.ca (Daryl Erwin)
Subject: FOXPRO2 & DRDOS & 10MEG Memory Question
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 16:32:32 GMT

Whats is the best memory configurations for using FoxPro(X) with
DRDOS (and sstor) with 10 meg memory?

What parms should be use with EMM386.SYS?

What about windows3.0?
-- 
Daryl Erwin                                     Net Address: derwin@mach2.WLU.CA
Computing Services                              Surface Mail: P4-1, Main Campus 
Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario 
Bus:(519) 884-1970 x2910                                          ... Go Hawks!
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: sci30139@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN CHYE HEE)
Subject: Re: Stacker and XtraDrive
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:20:01 GMT

Kijin Jung (kxj6@po.CWRU.Edu) wrote:
: 
: Lately, I've heard some sketchy information on IIT's XtraDrive, but
: it looks promising. For those who have it, could you comment on it's
: compatibility with Window's swapfile, and whether I can use PC Tools'
: Compress or Norton's defragger on an XtraDrive compressed disk? For
: those who say that it is slow, _how_ slow? And if I understand correctly,
: XtraDrive does not require you to have an uncompressed partition?
:

I have tried out IIT's XtraDrive.
As for its compatibility, I must say it is very good. I have not had any
problems with it. It actually createsa separate compressed file for each
file you have, and so is actually more transparent than other
compressors. (or so they claim) 

PcTools compress and Nortons Speedisk also work fine with XtraDrive
installed. XtraDrive also comes with its own defragger, but it is very
slow.

Yes, XtraDrive does not require you to have an uncompressed partition.
What it does is that it compresses the whole of your harddisk into half
the space and use the remaining half as another extra harddisk of the
same capacity.



	Gilbert
From: dbarber@crash.cts.com (David C. Barber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Stacker Answers
Keywords: stacker
Date: 7 Nov 92 21:15:14 GMT
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA

A lot of Stacker questions come up here.  If you are a registered 
owner with your serial number handy, their technical support people
can be reached at: 619-431-6712, and have been *very* helpful when
I've need to talk to them.


Without change,                         *David Barber*
   nothing can ever get better.            @}-->----

UUCP: ucsd!crash!dbarber
INET: dbarber@crash.cts.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: mporter@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Matthew D Porter)
Subject: Graphing Package
Summary: what is the best graphing package?
Keywords: graphing shareware
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:28:31 GMT

Hello,

     I was wondering what the best shareware package for graphing is.  I have 
been told to look for something similar to CricketGraph for the Mac (yuck).  I 
want something that I can graph cartesion, semilog, log-log stuff on VGA and 
print it all out on a dot-matrix.  I assume any of these type packages can just
take input as data-points and provide a graph of a certain type.  In the 
future, I may want the package to do more complicated things, like 3-d 
plotting.  Any help with this would be appreciated.

Thank you,
-- 
 Matthew D Porter       (mporter@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu)
     "Arrogance and Ignorance go in hand . . . "
          -Metallica (Holier Than Thou)
From: HLR002@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Manfred Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Children Learning Educational Games
Date: 12 Nov 92 11:54:56 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

There is a nice game by Apogee Software. It is called
          "Rescue the Words"
It is definitely for the age group you mention, but my 10 year old
daughter, who has had English lessons for 2 months now, also enjoys
it a lot. The first episode is available as shareware. It is
at nic.funet.fi, but I am sure that you can also find it at some
major places in the US.

Manfred Kremer

hlr002@djukfa11.bitnet
From: sadapalli@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Oops!, Posting again, Vertical Sync....
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:10:22 GMT
Organization: USAF AL/CFH, WPAFB, Dayton, OH

Hi

Please disregard the previous posting.  Made a boo boo !!!

This might be a simple problem to solve, for some, but since I am new to DOS, I
don't know how to do it.  
I want to increment a counter everytime a vertical sync pulse occurs, while my
real-time simulation is off doing something else. Also, I want the simulation
software to read the counter at periodic intervals.  How should I go about 
doing this?  

I have another question.  With "time" function, I get only 10 msec. precision, 
can I read the system clock with more precision? 

Sridhar
-- 

"The opinions and views expressed here are strictly my own and do not 
necessarily reflect the official position of either the U.S. Air Force 
or its contractors."
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Subject: Re: Telix 3.15 question
Reply-To: tsand@vipunen.hut.fi (Tapio Sand)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:11:33 GMT

In article <1992Nov9.204342.25092@vpnet.chi.il.us> cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka) writes:
> haymoree@bones (Edward Haymore) writes:
>>: it is called "Backspace sends DEL", that should be Yes )
>>
>>You're correct -- that takes care of it.  Now does anyone know how to make
>>this option _stay_ no when I run the program the next time?  (And no,
>>"Write setup to disk" doesn't do it.)
>
>This is one of the (several) confusing "features" in Telix.  You have
>set this in the "Terminal Options" screen, right?  Well, if you use
>the dialing directory there is _another_ setting which overrides
>this.  It's good, in that you can have BS destructive for some systems
>but not others -- but it's still _very_ confusing.
>
>Also, I think some versions of Telix have a bug which prevents the "BS
>Destructive" selection in the Terminal Options menu from EVER being written
>to disk...  The Dialing Directory option works, though.

If all else fails, you can manually edit TELIX.CFG, an ASCII text file.
Close to the end there is a line reading

swapbs=0

where 0 = don't swap outgoing backspace (ascii 8) with del (ascii 127)
      1 = swap
-- 
                                                           tsand@vipunen.hut.fi
TEX disconnects, dial again for another session.
D;+vC)?iH%"
NO.CARRIER
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From: perfred@gullregn.idt.unit.no (Per Fredrik Solberg)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect Problems
Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:56:19

In article <1dojpuINNlag@manuel.anu.edu.au> cxd653@huxley.anu.edu.au (Chunping Ding) writes:

> I am learning WordPerfect. Could someone please help me answering the
> following questions?
> 
> ...
> 
> 2. In a header/footer instruction, which is the command for automatic
> page numbering?

Ctrl-B (Assuming you are using the DOS version; the Windows version
has an on-screen button)

> 3. What keystrokes can be used to prevent text becoming seperated as a
> result of wordwrap?

Ctrl-SPACE

> Thank you very much in advance.

You're welcome.


Per Solberg
pso@si.no / perfred@idt.unit.no
From: birecree@bissun.kodak.com (Jack Birecree (D47 69629) OCR group (63771))
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Reload Device Drivers?
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:21:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: pixel.1992Nov13.162110.4159
Organization: Eastman Kodak
Originator: birecree@bissun


    I am in the process of writing my first DOS device driver. Very interesting
and very tedious. I seem to be spending a lot of my time rebooting
my PC to reinstall the DD after I make changes. 

    Is there a utility to reload the driver
without <ctrl><alt><del>?

     Please EMAIL to birecree@bissun.kodak.com
From: abhinava@sco.COM (Abhinav Aggarwal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: WordPerfect <---> Post Script
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:35:54 GMT
Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.

Is there a conversion tool for wordperfect to postscript ?

Please reply via email.

Thanks.  
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:30:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Floppy viewer/editor for non MS/DOS formatted disks
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps

  I wrote:

>   I am not absolutely (My PC is at home. I am typing this at the
> office.), but quite sure that a program like InfoPlus (author? (Andy
> Ross?)) can determine that my system has 5.25"/1.2MB and 3.5"/1.44MB
> drives without any diskettes in the drives. Since I have a 386, it might
> get this info from the CMOS memory, but I don't think so. Perhaps the
> InfoPlus (great program!) author can comment.

  I tried it last night and indeed InfoPlus (1.55) can, without any
diskettes in the drives and without any visible (access light) access to
the diskette drives, determine the following "BIOS disk parameters:"
(Page 14) for my A/B drives: 1.2MB 5 1/4" / 1.44MB 3 1/2", 2/2 Heads,
80/80 Cylinders, 15/18 Sectors/track and 512/512 Bytes/sector.

  So if InfoPlus can determine these physical specifications of the
drive, then so could the MKS dd(1). With these physical specifications
of the *drive*, it can try to determine the same physical specifications
of the *diskette in the drive* (of course "Sides" instead of "Heads").

  As far as I know the source of InfoPlus is freely availble, probably
on SIMTEL (I got my binary and old source from comp.binaries.ibm.pc), so
if you want you  can have a look at it.

  I think that the information screen (whatever it is called) of
Norton's NU /M (maintenance mode) can also determine the physical
specifications of (some, i.e. the ones which are hardware compatible)
non-MS-DOS diskettes, at least for the 360KB/5.25" case I reported
earlier (I haven't tried it with 180KB/5.25", 720KB/3.5", 360KB/3.5"
(single-sided, MSX-DOS), etc..).

Frank "Never say 'It can't be done!'!" Slootweg
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: lowell@locus.com (Lowell Morrison)
Subject: Re: WordPerfect Problems
Organization: Locus Computing Corp, Los Angeles
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:11:06 GMT

In article <1dojpuINNlag@manuel.anu.edu.au> cxd653@huxley.anu.edu.au (Chunping Ding) writes:
>I am learning WordPerfect. Could someone please help me answering the
>following questions?
>
>1. In the merge function, which keyboard character is used to
>eliminate a blank line from being printed where the field is empty?

Sorry, I don't remember that one.
>
>2. In a header/footer instruction, which is the command for automatic
>page numbering?
>
Enter a "^B" and you will get the page number, of course you may need to 
set or reset the number in the "shift-f8" menu.

>3. What keystrokes can be used to prevent text becoming seperated as a
>result of wordwrap?

[home] [space]


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From: eric@suncis.ycc.yale.edu (Eric Bird)
Subject: Floppy disk "image" software available?
Organization: Yale University, Computing & Information Systems
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:53:43 GMT

I'm looking for software which will allow me to make "images" of floppy
disks--i.e., copy all the contents of one disk into a single file, and then
reproduce the disk, sector for sector, later on.

Shareware or Commercial is fine.  Compression is not important.

It needs to be extremely easy to use--menu driven, not command line.  I have
looked at all the utilities at Simtel, and found a lot of acceptable but not
great stuff.  The one package I did like, Teledisk by SYDEX, is a problem in
that when I called SYDEX they were extremely rude and told me that "it's no
longer shareware" and is only available for $150.  Teledisk isn't THAT good.
:-)

Any ideas?  thanks.

-eric

bird@yale.edu (or reply to address above)
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