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From: jcberger@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Jean-Claude Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: qpro4w and WP4w loaded slows down 486
Date: 14 Dec 1992 19:45:09 +0100
Organization: INSA Informatique, Lyon, France
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In article <1gbehmINNqsm@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes:
>
>I use QPW every day on an 8 meg ram system and it runs just fine.  Describe
>your system configuration.
>
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A 486 33MHz with 16 Mb of RAM. The problem is not in RAM size.
It is in resources. When you play with graphics, QPW takes more
and more resources, slowing more and more the machine. Before I
load QPW, I have 82 % left. After, I have 52 %. When I open a sample
called something like Home Finances (I don't have the english one),
resources fall to 42 %. Using some documents will bring us to 20%.
Windows slows down, you can't open other apps and you must leave Quattro.
I have called Borland France and the guy was loading things as
I just described it. He got the same figures.

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From: ehammers@stein.u.washington.edu (Erick Hammersmark)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Help: Procomm Questions
Date: 14 Dec 92 03:31:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec14.033141.10038
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


>Second, is there some kind of sleep command in the script language?  Right now
>I'm just using an empty for loop.  I have a script that gets run upon
>connection, but I want it to wait about 2 seconds before doing anything.  It
>sends a couple of carriage returns as it's first thing so that I get a prompt.
>Yet, if it sends them right away, they get lost.  I have the for loop at
>1 upto 1000, seems to work most of the time, but I'd prefer to just wait lik
>e 1-3 seconds.

Try "pause 3".

Erick.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
Subject: Re: More questions about 'Access'
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:32:36 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.195337.19474@pbs.org> rfutscher@pbs.org writes:

>     Part of this is the different tax systems.  In the US taxes are paid as
>corporate income taxes when the product is made.

No, corporate income taxes are paid on (aha!) income.  Although there
may be an inventory tax on goods which just sit around unsold, that's not an
income tax.  The income tax doesn't happen until there's income. 

>The VAT is added when the 
>product is sold.

The US has sales taxes, not value added taxes. 

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From: desktop@flash.ATC.Olivetti.Com (Jon Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: vanishing headers/footers
Date: 17 Dec 92 12:59:48 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino CA, USA

Hi there,
I would like to know how to call a function in a DLL 
using AMIPRO 3.0 macros.

Thanks,

Anyone ?



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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: chungy2@aix.rpi.edu (Yau Felix Chung)
Subject: Sidekick and Lotus Organizer...
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:08:15 GMT

Hello all!

Do anyone know if there is a shareware or public domain software that will
change Borland's SideKick phone files to Lotus Organizer file format?  If there
is one, could someone tell me from which ftp site I can get it from?

Thanks in advance   

-F.
From: brian@mbf.UUCP (Brian Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Path name in WinWord
Keywords: WinWord fields
Date: 8 Dec 92 17:58:12 GMT
Organization: MAI Systems Corp.,  Tustin, CA

I know about the "File Name" field in WinWord, but what I want is the
document's full path name.  Is there any way to do this?
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: W4W Equation Editor Fonts
Keywords: w4w, font
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 15:58:04 GMT

ez008579@othello.ucdavis.edu (Dudley McFadden) writes:

>I use Word on my computer at home, but don't have a printer.  On my home
>computer, I have my default printer set up to an HP LaserJet on FILE:, so
>that when I print I actually write a file to a floppy disk.  I then can take
>the disk to work and print out there using the DOS COPY/B command.

>My problem is that whenever I edit an equation using the nifty Equation Editor,
>I get an Equation Editor Warning saying that the Fences font and the MT Extra
>font are not installed on the default printer.  No matter how many times I
>reinstall the Equation Editor using Setup, it keeps giving me this message.
>This never happens when I use Word on the Macintosh, at work.  Any ideas?

This has *got* to be the most-asked question about a Microsoft product in
all of net.land.  (Not the issue of printing to a file, but the one of
fonts for Equation Editor.)

Can someone from Microsoft who reads this newsgroup state whether this will
finally be fixed in WfW 2.0c, and if not **WHY NOT**?

Try this:  (assuming that you're running Windows 3.1, and you're using a 
standard printer PCL printer driver (there are updates available for HPPCL
but they shouldn't affect this problem)

 1.  Using MAIN -> CONTROL PANEL -> FONTS, delete the MT EXTRA and FENCES
     fonts (of all flavors).  DO NOT check the box which offers to delete
     the font files.

 2.  From the FONTS dialog select ADD, then select and add the MT EXTRA
     and FENCES TrueType fonts.

 3.  Reboot (just to be sure).

And no, I haven't tried to output an equation image to a print file, but
the symptom you cited matches exactly problems which are fixed by this
procedure.

Joe Morris
From: denised@pogo.wv.tek.com (Denise DiGiovanni)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: W4W 2.0: "Waiting server to release object"???
Date: 11 Dec 92 20:58:43 GMT
Reply-To: denised@orca.wv.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.

In article <1992Dec6.193109.22296@klaava.Helsinki.FI> jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen) writes:
>
>My friend has a 386SX-33, 16 Kb cache, a Trident 9000 card, and a
>standard IDE drive. The system has only 2 Mb of RAM installed. It has

My coworker had the same problem with a 2MB system. I had the same
problem with a 4MB system, although I have to say less frequently
than she did on the 2MB system. We both have 386-20s with standard
VGA monitor, and running Windows in standard mode (386-enhanced mode
is not at all stable on these machines, I think due to an incompatibility
with 1989 AMI BIOS, but that's a whole other problem...)

>Now, when I click on the "insert graph (or drawing)" icon on Word, I go
>perfectly well to the application in question. I draw what I draw, and
>click "exit and return," then "yes, update document." After this the
>computer whirrs and purrs for a moment (cursor is an hour glass,) and
>then Word pops up a notice "waiting for the server to release object -
>[retry] - [help]."
>
>OK, I click a few times on retry, and sometimes it works, sometimes not.
>When it doesn't work, I have to kill both Word and MSDraw from Task
>Manager.

Consider yourself lucky; the only thing that would work for me is
Control-Alt-Delete. I couldn't kill them from the Task Manager.

I've called Microsoft on this several times (and so did my coworker),
but to no avail. The only problem they knew about (I can't remember
the details) had no connection to this problem. 

I'd love to know the answer as well. Anyone from Microsoft read this
newsgroup?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts)
Subject: WinFax Pro vs. ATM font
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:07:48 GMT

I'm having a problem where Win Fax Pro will not send an Adobe Type
Manager font in a fax. The font displays fine in COrel Draw or
PageMaker, prints fine on my PostScript laser printer, but simply
doesn't appear on faxes. I called Adobe, they said they had heard of the
problem but had no clues. I quote the tech-support idiot:
"It's something to do with the fax/modem, we think, but we don't really
know what, because we aren't allowed to have any modems around here."
Very helpful; remind me not to buy any fonts from Adobe in the future.
Anyway, has anybody else run into this? Any ideas for a solution?
From: jsegal@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Jonathan Segal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Global (persistent) variables in WordBasic
Date: 13 Dec 92 01:54:36
Organization: The antithesis of chaos.
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: cogsci.berkeley.edu

I've just started used WinWord2.0b.  I've sent away for the WordBasic
manual (which hasn't yet arrived), and have scoured the help files
unsuccessfully.   Here's my dilemma:

I've written a macro, and I want to keep a value between macro
invocations.  As far as I have been able to determine, all variables
in WordBasic are local, automatic variables.  Is this true, or have I
just not looked hard enough?  Are there really no global, or at the
very least no persistent (i.e. like "static" local variables in C)
variables in WordBasic?  If, in fact there are, how does one declare
them?

I realize that I could hack something up by storing the value in some
non-variable (like a macro, or even a text buffer), but it
seems like an extension language should have some sort of persistent
variables.

(In particular, for the task I'm doing, I'd like a persistent variable
associated with a text buffer/file/window, analogous to a buffer-local
variable in emacs...).

Thanks in advance for any info...

-JAS

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rccarm00@nx19.mik.uky.edu (ron c carman)
Subject: Re: Videoblaster only works in Low Resolutions
Keywords: videoblaster
    <1992Dec15.214646.23434@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: nx19.mik.uky.edu!rccarm00
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:07:50 GMT

wolfi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Schwanke) writes:

>There is no problem, that's normal behaviour. Only use 640x480 drivers
>with no more than 256 colours.

     The advertisement I'm looking at says it will display 14 million
true colors on a standard VGA monitor... Either you are mistaken, or
someone is engaging in false advertising.

RC Carman

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From:  (Tim Keitt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: re: W4W 2.0: "Waiting server to release object"???
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:27:15 GMT
Reply-To: tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM

In article <747.2B26E40D@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG> deitch@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG (David Deitch) writes:
>Dateline Sun, 06/Dec92 19:31.
>In , Juha-Matti Liukkonen of jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI  wrote to All at 1:133/411,
>
> JL> Can anyone tell me what gives? What could cause this 
> JL> message? I've got a pretty similar setup on my own 
> JL> machine, and have never seen this notice. (And I used to 
> JL> run Word with only 2 Mb myself for about a month or so
> JL> almost daily... Good heavens did the few extra Mbytes 
> JL> help!)
>
> JL> Anyway, this is getting pretty annoying since my friend 
> JL> knows nothing about computers, and he'd need to learn 
> JL> (read: me to teach) to use Word before January, when 
> JL> he'll begin his grad paper. Any and all help would be 
> JL> *greatly* appreciated!
>
>     I have had the same problem, and I am in the dark too.  I think it is a bug in the program sharing between Word and Draw.
>
>          David Deitch, (GIS) Atlanta
>

I've recently been seeing this message as well when working 
between word and excel.  This happens when I load the autosave 
addin to excel.  If I'm working in word and double click on an 
embedded excel chart I'll get this message *if* the autosave 
macro has poped up a dialog (ie excel can't service OLE 
requests until the dialog box is cleared). But you **can't** 
cancel the OLE request from word which will continue to attempt 
a connection! So your stuck looking at the word dialog with a 
retry and help button (but no cancel -- go figure!).  The trick 
is of course to choose help so that you can regain control of 
the keyboard and switch to excel, clear the dialog box, at 
which point the embedded object from work will appear (are we 
having fun yet!).

I don't know why draw would refuse to service OLE requests, but 
you might retry working with the objects while both program 
windows are tiled on the screen so that you can see the status 
of both the client and server app.

--
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From: vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Printing with a bubbles!!
Date: 19 Dec 92 10:26:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco) 

SP>If anybody can help please mail me!!
SP>Also if anybody has a BJ-10ex WORKING please mail me.

Marcus, I have a BJ-10ex that seems to be working great
(for more than 6 months, now), but I don't understand 
the description of your problem.  Describe it again and 
include the name of the application you're running as 
well as a description of the contents of the page and 
the settings you've got set in the Print Setup window.
I'll try to help.
L8r.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rkl@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (kevin.laux)
Subject: Re: Videoblaster only works in Low Resolutions
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:24:43 GMT
Keywords: videoblaster

In article <rccarm00.724460870@mik.uky.edu>, rccarm00@nx19.mik.uky.edu (ron c carman) writes:
> wolfi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Schwanke) writes:
> 
> >There is no problem, that's normal behaviour. Only use 640x480 drivers
> >with no more than 256 colours.
> 
>      The advertisement I'm looking at says it will display 14 million
> true colors on a standard VGA monitor... Either you are mistaken, or
> someone is engaging in false advertising.

	Don't confuse what the VGA card can do with what the VideoBlaster
card can do.  Remember what's displayed on the monitor is the composite
output of both the VGA and VB cards.

	By the way, that 14 million colors is just a *theoretical* number,
i.e. if you had a display resolution that consisted of 14 million pixels,
each could be a distinct color.  There's only 307,200 pixels at 640 by 480.
If you went full screen with the VB then you would need 921,600 bytes for
24 bit color, hence the VB's 1 MB frame buffer.

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From: peterse@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Erik Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Printer driver needed
Date: 16 Dec 92 03:00:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: flop.1gm63qINNppp
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.
NNTP-Posting-Host: prism.cs.orst.edu

In article <1429@bridge2.NSD.3Com.COM> kat@keith.NSD.3Com.COM (Keith Tomkins) writes:
>
>	I need to get a printer driver for a Star Micronics Gemini 10-X
>printer. None of the drivers that come with the Windows 3.1 distribution
>will work. I have called Microsoft, and they have suggested that I try
>any of the Epson FX series drivers. This did not work. 
>	If you know the location of a driver on the net, please e-mail
>me the ftp site that I can get it from. Or, I could also use the source
>code for the Epson FX driver. I can modify it and recompile it myself.
>	Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond via e-mail
>as I do not always get a chance to browse through this newsgroup.

I too would like this information. I have a printer that may or may not
be compatible with a Gemini or a Mannesmann(spelling?) Tally-80.

Erik Petersen
peterse@prism.cs.orst.edu



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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen)
Subject: re: vanishing headers/footers
Organization: Faculty of Administration, University of New Brunswick
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:39:27 GMT

In article <1992Dec17.3149.3729@dosgate> "james gillen" <james.gillen@canrem.com> writes:
>This is not a problem of inserting a file - this is a GENUINE BUG in
>Word for Windows.
>
>Periodically, working in only one document and not merging anything from
>anywhere, the headers and footers disappear and the document repaginates
>(if this option is on).
>
>This has happened to me at least two dozen times - and is so aggravating
>that I often store a shadow copy of the file with a different name while
>working with it to recover from the problem (open shadow copy and copy
>back the headers and footers).  I'm thinking of actually writing a macro
>to automate this (ugh!).
>
>By the way, to avoid the insert file header/footer trash problem, you
>can insert a section break/next page before the merge and it keeps the
>new headers and footers in the insert file from disturbing the old
>header/footers.

I believe that if you turn off "Allow fast saves" in the option menu 
that this will also solve this problem.

>
>A realted bug to the above - often the font in the headers changes
>between page flips in the same document.  Lately it has taken to
>replacing my Lucida with Wingdings!  This also has repagination
>consequences.  Oh well, maybe 2.0x will fix these annoyances.
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From: Don.Bueltmann@f119.n8012.z86.toadnet.org (Don Bueltmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: windows databases - c
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 22:34:00 cdt
Organization: FidoNet node 86:8012/119 - Millennium, O'Fallon MO


 MPM> everything Microsoft does is good, and it is only $99 for a while.
 MPM> But should I wait for Paradox for Windows. I have Paradox 3.5 for DOS,
 MPM> so I get the upgrade here too I think. I can't define my needs
 MPM> precisely but any opinions would be greatly welcome - before 12/30.

 MPM> Thanks alot in advance.

 MPM> Mike Maley
 MPM> maley@cs.umn.edu


Mike I too am a registered user of Paradox 3.5. I really have not used paradox
that much just a few personal data bases. I knew that I preferred working in
Windows and therefore I wa eagerly waiting for Paradox fro Windows. At a
Windows Exhibition in St. Louis I asked a couple of Reps from Borland what
Paradox upgrade to Windows would probably cost. Their unofficial and I stress
unofficial guess was that it would cost between $150 to $190. I sulked about
this but was willing to pay it until I started hearing about Access. Access is
great! In case you don't already know this the December issue of PC Computing
gave Access the Winners award in new Databases produced this year the
runners-up were Paradox 4 and Paradox for Windows. Try it you'll like it, at
$99 you can't go wrong! Hurry up and get your order in before it is too late.


... To err is human. Obviously humans have bugs in the source code.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Subject: Re: WP/win 5.2
Reply-To: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:42:42 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.222240.10290@unixland.natick.ma.us>  
bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) writes:
:-> The "Winter 1992" "WordPerfect Report" claims WP/win 5.2 would be
:-> released in November.  Anyone know if this is out yet, and what the
:-> availability is?
:-> 
I just saw an ad for CompUSA that is selling it for about $250.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: skarp@leland.Stanford.EDU (George Marino Skarpelos)
Subject: Apparrel Industry Software
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:36:37 GMT

I was wondering if anyone has heard of any software product that
is used in the apparrel industry. We are specifically thinking about
something that would be used to track Purchase Orders, inventory and
manufacturing.

E-mail on this subject would be prefferable to posting this.

Thanks,

George M. Skarpelos
skarp@leland.stanford.edu  
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