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From: mokler@desert.in-berlin.de (Claudius Mokler)
Subject: Re: Helpfile text extract utility wanted.
Organization: Private Site
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:33:59 GMT

The Help file format is somewhat proprietary to MS; it is NOT possible to
'get at the text' with Borlands excellent Resource Workshop, and there is no
known (known to me) tool to do things like that. For completely unknown
reasons MS won't let information about the .hlp format get out of them.
As for the printing method via Winhelp, that's not as good as it should be;
you can only print a so-called 'theme' and not the whole story, and you cannot
change the fonts used to somewhat more legible.

A 'help' workshop is urgently needed !
-- 
Claudius Mokler
e-mail mokler@desert.in-berlin.de
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Beginner needs help re-installing(?) windows apps
From: strauss@unca.edu
Date: 23 Jan 93 10:16:09 -0500
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville

Perhaps someone can help me:
I'm a new user of Windows, and was running Dashboard. When I loaded the ftp
demo version of Freelance Graphics, the computer froze when loading windows
(3.1, 486sx, 8MB ram).  Dos is fine.
I called Dell tech support (obviously I have a Dell) and they said "re-load"
windows, which I did. But I lost alot of the configured groups for Ami Pro and
Excel 4.0. 

Q: Doas anyone have experience on recreating these groups, and also getting
Adobe TYpe Fonts to load automatically?  I fear I'll have no choice but to save
my work, delete the programs, and re-install them.

Please respond directly, if possible. Thanks,
Bob Strauss
strauss@uncavx.unca.edu
From: sna@prophet.pharm.pitt.edu (Stewart Abramson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: POP-mail programs for Windows??
Date: 28 Jan 93 21:12:35 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


Hi out there.

I am looking for a simple free SMTP/POP-3 E-mail program for
MS-DOS windows.  I have Leemail and Eudora for my Mac, are there
similar programs for MS-DOS windows?  If so, where?

Thanks

Stewart
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: law40003@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN YEW KEONG)
Subject: Legal Discussion
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:42:22 GMT



Please ignore ALL my previous postings on the subject.

I am a final year law student planning to specialise in law regarding
all aspects of computing. I am computer literate and will be able to
understand most computer jargon except highly technical subjects like
Huffman coding etc.

It would be interesting for me to get to know real world legal problems 
regarding computers. If you have any legal problems or experiences,
post to me, and I will be glad to discuss them with you. The experience will
prove invaluable to me.

Disclaimers :

I will not be liable for any prosecution, both civil and criminal,
arising in any way connected to our discussion, whether it may be
your reliance on our discussion, or our discussion leading to criminal 
behaviour.

Nobody should regard our discussions as final and conclusive, and I do not
profess any expert knowledge whatsoever.

I disclaim responsibility for any losses you incur by relying on our 
discussions, and if any of our discussions lead to criminal behaviour,
let it be known that I have no knowledge of collaboration with any
criminal.

I wonder if this disclaimer works, but it sure sounds legal. But I mean
all this mumbo jumbo, and if my drafting skills leave much to be
desired, read it in spirit, not in form.
--

_________________________________________________________________________
Michael Tan Yew Keong | law40003@nusunix1.nus.sg | law40003@nusvm.nus.sg|
Final Year Law student - OH GOD, IT'S BEEN A HELLUVA LONG TIME!!!       |
________________________________________________________________________|
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_________________________________________________________________________
Michael Tan Yew Keong | law40003@nusunix1.nus.sg | law40003@nusvm.nus.sg|
Final Year Law student - OH GOD, IT'S BEEN A HELLUVA LONG TIME!!!       |
________________________________________________________________________|
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: bonobo@Ingres.COM (David Borgman)
Subject: Re: DIAMOND SPEEDSTAR 24 X
Keywords: diamond speedstar 24x
Organization: Ingres, an ASK Company, Alameda CA 94501
Distribution: na
Date: 23 Jan 93 02:14:19 GMT

Well, since everyone's been defending this card, let me attack it a 
little!  I've seen many problems since installing this thing in my
486/SX-25, and though the improvement in bringing up Windows 3.1 is
noticeable, I don't see much improvement in the other apps to really
warrant all the shouting...and more than this, the thing has got some
problems.

Diamond includes the Halo Desktop Imager program with the purchase.
While Halo is a nice package on its own, you'd think the reason they
included it was because it really shows off the 24X's performance.
Well, it's as slow as my Imagein program was with my old Trident 1MB.
Also, in my Turbo C++ for windows, when you return from the Turbo
Debugger, you get little blacked out pixels in various parts of the
screen which persist through any other apps you might start.

Another small problem with the normal Windows screen saver is that ever
since installing the 24X, the pointer arrow never disappears.  Of
course, I also ran into the well-publicized Word 2.0 Tools menu bug.

Overall, I'm still a real big fan of compatibility, and the Trident
never gave me these problems, though it is admittedly slower redrawing
windows (but not *that* much).  Oh well, at least now I have a spare
video card to start building my next system with! :-)

-David Victor
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: gilem@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: Re: WFW 2.0c
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:57:20 GMT

I have 2.0b and cannot get a simple thing to happen:

center a table inside of a frame!!!

does anyone know if they fixed this bug?  and if they ever test ANYTHING?

in any case, what is the phone # to order 2.0c?

Mike
gilem@rpi.edu
From: vorwerk@cs.utwente.nl (Manfred Vorwerk)
Newsgroups: comp.multimediam,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Multimedia Viewer
Keywords: Multimedia, Microsoft
Date: 27 Jan 93 14:19:53 GMT
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science

Hello,

Recently I've ftp'ed the multimedia viewer of Microsoft ftom ftp.cica.indiana.edu.
It's really looks nice, if I only could do something with it.
Can somebody give me some sample files, or point me to the direction of the place
of these files. 
The multimedia viewer seems to want *.MVB files.

Please help me,

Manfred


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Manfred Vorwerk				e-mail: <vorwerk@cs.utwente.nl>
Department of Computer Science		tel: +31-53-893688
Information Systems Workgroup		fax: +31-53-339605
University of Twente			home: +31-55-212047
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
From: ffritze@hpwad.WAD.HP.COM (Fromut Fritze)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 10:54:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Little-BigLan?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Waldbronn, Germany
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

> Does anyone have any information about a program called Little-BigLan,
> by a company called IModes?  It is supposed to allow file-sharing over
> a serial or parallel port.  That's all I know.

I use it at home to connect a PC and a Notebook. In germany it's known as
Kirschbaum Netz. It is said to allow up to 255 PCs connected by either
ARCNET, parallel or serial cable by a topology containing no mashes. It
redericts requests from one port to another on the same machine (if
necessary) according to routing info contained in a configuration file.
It allows redirection of printers in addition to share discs. It's a
peer to peer network, based on DOS device drivers and TSR, not too big
(I think it was about 30kbyte), runs under windows and comes with a
serial and a parallel cable. Only one licence per network needed.
Hope this answers your question - I'm by no means affliated with the
company.

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internet: ffritze@hpwbe007.wad.hp.com or ffritze@hpbbn.bbn.hp.com
phone:    Germany 7243 602296
address:  Fromut FRITZE, Waldbronn Analytic Division R&D,
	  Hewlett Packard Str, D 7517 Waldbronn 2, Germany
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From: peterj@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Peter Westley)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:02:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Borland C++ with Application Development Kit(?)
Organization: HP Australasian Response Centre (Melbourne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8.5]

John Anderson (anderson@dseg.ti.com) wrote:
: Does anyone know what the latest version of the Borland C++ with Applications
: and also the going competitive price.  I'm not sure if the right name is 
: "Applications..."  I mean the more extensive version.

The current version is BC++3.1 - this can include "Application Frameworks" -
provides libraries for TurboVision - DOS/Character based window stuff and
OWL (Object Windows Library) which is library for Windows programming.

As for the price, best talk to your local software suppliers - dOWNuNDER
here we get weird pricing......

Peter Westley			 .-_!\		Hewlett Packard
Phone: +61 3 (T)272 2440        /     \		Australian Support Centre
Fax: +61 3 890 0326      	\_.-.b/<--------31-41 Joseph St.
E-mail: peterj@hparc0.aus.hp.com     v          Blackburn, Victoria 3130
//
// The views, opinions, information or other data here is solely from the
// mind of myself.  It is not the official word from my employer.  While I
// endeavour to provide accurate information, no responsibility is taken
// for errors or omissions.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: kjf388@tijc02.uucp (Ken Fisher          )
Subject: ACCESS: computations with blank fields
Organization: Siemens Industrial Automation, Johnson City TN
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 19:47:51 GMT

I'm having a problem getting simple computed sums of fields to work
properly in an ACCESS report if any one of the referenced fields is
blank.  Paradox has a default option on whether or not to regard blanks
as zero, but I cannot find a similar option in ACCESS.  

For example the text in the control is: 

	=[OFFICE]+[HOLIDAY]+[TRAINING]

And the report shows a proper result if all three fields have a number
(even zero) in them.  But if any field is empty, the result field on the
report is blank.

On-line help says the "sum" function interprets blanks as zero, but that
does not seem to be the case.  

Gotta be a way, but I can't find it or get thru to the Microsoft ACCESS
hotline. 

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Ken Fisher                          | kjf388%tijc02@uunet.uu.net
Siemens Industrial Automation, Inc. | UUCP: uunet!tijc02!kjf388
Johnson City, Tn. 37605             | Phone: 615-461-2125
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: msfuller@cc.utah.edu (MARC S. FULLER)
Subject: Gridding in Sigma Plot
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: 25 Jan 1993 09:17 MST  

Does anyone know what capabilities Sigma Plot has for gridding (turning 
irregularly spaced 3-d data in regularly spaced 3-d data)?  Do they offer 
different algorithms, and which ones?
Thanks.	
					Marc Fuller
					msfuller@cardio.med.utah.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: law40003@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN YEW KEONG)
Subject: Re: ftp'ing CICA host problems..
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:49:21 GMT

harp (harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu) wrote:
: >
: >I tried to ftp to ftp.cica.indiana.edu several times and I either
: >get refused connection because of too many open ftp connections
: >to that host or something else. What I wanted to get from there is
: >the VWFRUN.ZIP files and some demo AVI files. 
: >    ^^^^^^^^^^
: >Could someone just uuencode these files and send it to me at the
: >e-mail address below, please. Or, is there a mirror for  CICA host
: >which may be better behaved..
: >
: 
I have uploaded it to wuarchive under the /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS directory.
Enjoy!
--

_________________________________________________________________________
Michael Tan Yew Keong | law40003@nusunix1.nus.sg | law40003@nusvm.nus.sg|
Final Year Law student - OH GOD, IT'S BEEN A HELLUVA LONG TIME!!!       |
________________________________________________________________________|
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.apps:7676 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:6698
From: rsl11@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: PROBLEMS WITH STACKER......
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:06:07 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Hello there,

	I am using stacker 2.0 for DOS and I have some problems. Everything was
running OK until I deleted some files with smartcan of Norton, the files I deleted
are not any system files or anything  that stacker is using or any files that dos
is using, and what happened smartcan kept on running without stopping. Then, I 
rebooted the computer and I got the following error:

Stacker drive write protected

I got the DOS prompt without any problem but when I loaded windows, with Norton 
as the shell, the computer freezes.

When I run the scheck on the stacker drive of stacker it tells me 

Sector allocation map invalid

	Do you think the stacker volume file, the compressed file, is corrupted?
Is there anything we can do to fix this problem? What would happend if I try to 
install stacker again, same version? Would it make any difference? I was planning
to try that but is it going to mess up anything?

	Does anybody have the telephone number of the company that developed
stacker? I had it but I cannot find it now. Also, is there any good book I can refer
to to get information about stacker besides the stacker manual?

	IS there any FAQ list for stacker problems?

	I would very much appreciate any relevant response.

Thanks,
Feel Free to send mail to :
Internet Address: rsl11@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Bitnet Address: rsl11@ukanvm.bitnet
From: 07pccl@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Auto Answer problem in WINFAX PRO 3.0
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:11:21 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Having just upgraded to DELRINA "Winfax Pro 3.0" I find it a wonderful
product...BUT: the 2.0 version would come up when WINDOWS itself came up
and be in auto-answer mode as it did so.  3.0, on the other hand, has a
configurable receive menu, from which you select "Auto Answer".  The 
problem is, there appears to be no way to SAVE this configuration, so I
have to re-enable auto reception every time I boot WINDOWS.  I've RTFM'd
and looked at the online help, to no avail.  Is there any way to save
the auto receive configuration so it becomes permanent?

John Howard OXLEY/OCO81945@DAL
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ezachris@zuni.ucs.indiana.edu
Subject: Ami Pro frames
Keywords: ami windows frames
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:02:01 GMT


Hi!

Does anybody know how to have a frame in the left margin that is anchored  
to the text next to it?

Anchoring it to the paragraph above is EXTREMELY awkward and frustrating,  
and sometimes the box doesn't line up correctly with the text.

Any suggestions?


Espen Zachrisen
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
ezachris@arapahoe.ucs.indiana.edu
From: avolio@tis.com (Frederick M Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Umail
Date: 23 Jan 1993 14:53:37 GMT
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
Reply-To: avolio@tis.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: gildor.tis.com
Originator: avolio@gildor.tis.com


Addendum to my posting...  You do not need to install anything in a
public area assuming you have an interactive login on The Portal.
Things will install fine in your local bin ($HOME/bin).

F
From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Importing TIFF files in W4W 2.0 ???
Date: 22 Jan 93 10:54:16 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

Hi there,
I've got a problem importing TIFF files into Winword 2.0. I wrote a program
that saves grayscale images from a CCD camera as TIFF class G files. When I try
 to import them in Winword I get no error msg but one strip of the image is
missing and every other strip is doubled. I then tried to import it in Macword
5.0 and simply got an error msg.

I seriously doubt this is my fault since I tried several other programs and
found none which had any problems with these files. Paint Shop Pro, Graphics
Workshop 4 Windows, Designer 3.0, Charisma, and BM2FONT on the PC and Canvans
3.0 on the Mac all are happy with my files.

So is only MS inable to read TIFF graphics or what is the deal?

Michael Bode.
From: f_langleyrh@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: GIF Viewers or Converters?
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:13:50 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

In article <downs.74.728015096@helios.nevada.edu>, downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs) writes:
>>convert GIF files to Windows Bitmaps?  And, is there any shareware graphics
>>program for Windows that reads JEPG format pictures?
>>
> For a good Windows JPEG viewer, try WinJPEG. It's shareware ($15 
> registration), will convert files between .JPG and .GIF or .TGA format, and 
> seems very stable. You can ftp it from wuarchive.wustl.edu in directory
> /graphics/trains/jpeg.
> 
> Lamont Downs
> downs@helios.nevada.edu

An even better program, IMHO, is Paint Shop Pro.  You can find it via anon. ftp
@wuarchive.wustl.edu.  I'm not quite sure of the directory, but I'll go look
and make a note in case you can't find it.  It reads just about every graphic
type that I can think of... JPG, GIF, TIFF, RLE, BMP, PCX, PIC, etc etc...
It also converts between any of them.  Oh, one more thing, _believe_ that you
can even set the compression on GIFs and whatnot, but I can't remember off of
the top of my head.  Good luck!
  --  Adam
	z_rasmusseam@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
From: IZZYOB9@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Bob Stocks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: NDW Quick Access window gone - help!
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:10:57 GMT

In article <C1CKwA.CC@ibeam.intel.com>, on 24 Jan 1993 07:31:22 GMT,
gweil@ibeam.intel.com (Garry Weil) writes:

>
>baileyc@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Christopher R. Bailey) writes:
>
>>I started windows today and when everything finished coming up, I had no
>>Quick Access window, yet my startup programs had started.  I have tried to
>>open it via the Window menu (Window-More...-Quick Access), but it doesn't
>>appear.
>        Hmm, that's what I would have tried. This method should work for sure:
>        1. Double click on the C drive icon. From the button bar on the bottom
>           or from the view menu, select filter. Select custom *.qag.
>        2. Browse your NDW directory, maybe its in your windows directory - I
>           forgot, and look for qaccess.qag. This is the group file. Just drag
>           and drop it into any other group for now.
>        3. Then drag it out to the desktop.
Make sure that Quick Access is loaded from Config/Pref/Advanced
Bob Stocks
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: scottb@sun1x.actc.res.utc.com (TheLrdLovsAHngn)
Subject: Re: Procomm for Windows & character sets
Organization: United Technologies Research Center
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:31:25 GMT

You are not alone in wondering what window size is going to come.
I also have to tell it to display full screen.  It would appear that
after x number of openings, the window size will eventually cycle
back to its full 80x25 size.  I can't find anything in prowin to change
this (or in windows itself).              
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From: wesiegel@cie.uoregon.edu (William Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Trident drivers for 8900C SVGA card for WIN 3.1
Date: 21 Jan 1993 07:48:35 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Campus Information Exchange
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: cie.uoregon.edu


I am looking for a site that has Trident drivers for the 8900C SVGA card
which are for the windows environment.  I am looking for the 800X600 
resolution drivers in particular.  I would appreciate any leads people 
might be able to give me.  

Thank you.

BTW, please e-mail me your responses.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky)
Subject: Re: Paradox for Windows prici
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:37:29 GMT

ian.baillie@stargate.actrix.gen.nz (Ian Baillie) writes:

> GF>In article <687.128.uupcb@oosight.status.gen.nz>, jonathon.twigg@oosig
> GF>> On the 01-20-93, Wailer At The Gates Of Da wrote to All:
> GF>> A>Paradox for Windows is shipping within a 
> GF>> WA>few weeks.  I suspect good
> GF>> WA>pricing. 
> GF>> 
> GF>>      $350 in New Zealand.
> 
> There is an introductory offer of Paradox for Windows at the moment until 
> the 30th April 1993 which costs NZ$320 + GST = NZ$360. It is going to be 
> availiable from around 12 Feb 1993.
> 

Business Week (Jan 23/93) says that Paradox for Windows pricing will
be $139.95 and Quattro Pro for Windows will go to $99.95.

psk

 __________________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: baileyc@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Christopher R. Bailey)
Subject: NOrton Dsktop icon menus won't come up
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:34:24 GMT


I can't seem to click on a norton desktop icon (such as Printer, Anti-Virus,
or SmartErase) and get their system menu.  It works fine on programs/icons
I've added myself.  So this means I can't change the label for my printers.

I talked to a friend who has Norton and it works for him.  

My system (poor computer is more like it) is: 286-16 4MB RAM, 1MB EMS, 160MB
total fixed disk space, Hercules monochrome, Logitech mouse.

Any idea how I can fix this?  Where do the printer label strings get stored, can
I change them in some file instead???

-- 
Christopher R. Bailey            |Internet: baileyc@dendrite.cs.colorado.edu
University of Colorado at Boulder|CompuServe: 70403,1522
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: pnorman@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Happy the Man)
Subject: STACKER 3.0 & NORTON DESKTOP
Summary: Stacker 3.0  Norton Desktop  Win 31 Compatibility  
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 12:08:30 GMT

Can someone please help?

Are there any compatibility problem between Stacker 3.0 and the Norton
Desktop running under Windows 3.1, that anyone has come across?  Is
there any reason, in theory, why these two would not co-exist?

I plan to purchase both soon, and thought I might save myself some $$$
by checking with people more in the know.  If you can reply to my email
address personally, I will post all the info I get in a summary form,
back to this group.  

Thank-you

Peter
I
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pnorman@morgan.ucs.mun.ca       | understand, and he who speaks himself
pnorman@kean.ucs.mun.ca         | does not understand, this is 
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