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From: lance@hartmann.austin.ibm.com (Lance Hartmann)
Subject: Problem with missing drives from disk dialog boxes.
Summary: File Manager and other apps don't find floppies A: and B: in Win 3.1
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:32:24 GMT
Reply-To: lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com
Organization: IBM, Austin
Keywords: 3.1 floppy disk
Followup-To: poster 

Has anyone else encountered a problem with "missing" floppy drives from
dialog boxes in Windows 3.1?  Sometimes all my drives C: and D: (hard drives)
and A: and B: (floppies) show up fine in various dialogs and other times
not at all.  If I do specify the drive identifier as part of the file name
then I am successful in getting the file, but occasionally a desired drive
(usually, but NOT always floppy) does not show up in a dialog box.

Anyone else see or hear of this?

Thanks to all in advance,
Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
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From: dat92bro@ludat.lth.se (Bjarne Rosengren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: PRIMABASE, ANY ONE, PLEASE!
Date: 6 Jan 93 11:51:44 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden

I would like to have your view on this program! It's a 
Windwos-database and I must get some more info on it 
before I buy it!

/Bjarne Rosengren
(dat92bro@ludat.lth.se)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Corel3: rotating pictures
From: goldsborough@brandonu.ca (Gordon Goldsborough)
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:20:47 CST
Distribution: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Organization: Brandon University

In article <92Dec22.182004.20250@acs.ucalgary.ca>, kfvanomm@acs.ucalgary.ca (Fintan VanOmmen Kloeke) writes:
> I have a query that I hope someone can help me with. 
> Whenever I want to rotate pictures that I have imported into
> Corel 3 (tiff or gif mainly), all that I get after rotating them,
> is a grey filled box. 
> 
> Why is this?
> 
> Is there anyway around the problem without having to trace all my
> clipart?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any info,
> 
> Kfvanomm@acs.ucalgary.ca

As far as I know, Corel doesn't allow you to rotate bitmaps. However,
several bitmap editor do this, including (I think) the Corel PhotoPaint
that comes with Corel 3.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: cmclaren@warp.UWaterloo.ca (Chris McLaren)
Subject: Pagemaker 4.0 W/ Truetype fonts
Keywords: Pagemaker, PM4, DTP, Truetype problems
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:33:45 GMT

I am encountering a serious problem using pagemaker 4.0 under windows 3.1  
with Truetype fonts. The problem is this: The Type!Font List box is  
automatically sized vertically to match the number of fonts available to  
the system. Since I have installed numerous Truetype fonts, the box is now  
larger than is visble on the screen (1024 X 768).

The most annoying part is: THERE ARE NO SCROLL BARS! So I can only access  
the few fonts that appear early in my list alphabetically.

Any help would be appreciated

Cmclaren@zeus.uwaterloo.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: (Summary)  Word/W4W/WP:  Which is best?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:16:01 GMT

In article <19930107134926EEY9JJT@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU> EEY9JJT@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (John Talbert) writes:

>How easy would it be to switch from WordPerfect for Windows to
>Word for Windows? The people in my department are not technical
>people, so I am concerned that learning a new interface maybe
>too much. Has anyone made this switch?

In my experience it takes a fairly long shaking out period before 
you learn all the tiny little tricks you knew in Wordperfect, eg.
how do you indent a paragraph? It helps to have someone around who 
knows it. The more features you use the longer it takes getting 
used to, but its no big deal.

WP4W isn't nearly as good as Word, but it isn't actually all that 
bad (except for speed - but they're supposedly working on that).
If you have a bunch of people to retrain perhaps its best to hold
on to it and hope for the best as far as upgrades go (one thing WP
Corp is _really_ good for, besides its phone support, is getting 
interim releases out with bug fixes. WP 5.0 and 5.1 for DOS sucked 
too in their first release. After a year and three quarterly updates 
they had improved to an incredible degree).





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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: a722756@roper.mc.ti.com (W. Donald Rolph)
Subject: Re: X terminal server for MS Win 3.1
Originator: a722756@roper.mc.ti.com
Organization: Texas Instruments / Attleboro Mass / USA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:12:13 GMT


I would also note that we have uncovered the following bugs in eXceed:
 
     -  occaissional genral protection faults.  One of the testers has apparently
            traced this to large packet size problems

     -  a divide by zero fault when executing pro engineer in the sketch mode

We are using tha lanman2.1 or pathworks 4.1 tcpip stacks.  My client is a
DECStation 5000/200. 
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Regards.
 
Don Rolph  a722756@pan.mc.ti.com WD3 MS10-13 (508)-699-1263
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: nuspljj@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joseph J. Nuspl Jr.)
Subject: Starting recorder minimized
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:54:14 GMT

Is there a command line switch to make Recorder start in minimized mode?

Thanks.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: perrocho@inf.ethz.ch (Louis Perrochon)
Subject: Re: Windows-Based UNIX Email Reader
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:52:54 GMT

In article <28218@dog.ee.lbl.gov> TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan) writes:
>Can anyone recommend a Windows-based package that can get 
>the mail from the /usr/mail/spool file on Unix and allow 

Install a POP server on the unix-host and take NUpop. It was far the best in
my personal evaluation last autumn.

It's Mouse driven, runs in a DOS-window, reliable and user-friendly

you get it at ftp.acns.nwu.edu in pub/nupop.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: EEY9JJT@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (John Talbert)
Subject: Re: (Summary)  Word/W4W/WP:  Which is best?
Date: 7 Jan 93 13:49:45 PST

In article <145353@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, on 7 Jan 93 17:16:54 GMT,
booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian) writes:

>
>A couple of days ago, I asked for opinions on Word, Word for Windows, and
>WordPerfect.  I received a tremendous response (thanks to all who took the
>time to send me mail).
>
>By and large, the overwhelming majority recommended Word for Windows.  Many
>pointed out the interface was very similar to that of Word for the Mac (which
>was important to me).  Almost everyone said steer clear of Word (no graphical
>interface).
>
>A couple of people were very happy with WordPerfect, but most had negative
>things to say about it.  Several people talked about AMI Pro and, were it
>not for my desire to maintain an interface with which I was familiar, I might
>have seriously considered buying it.
>majority of responders suggested.
>
How easy would it be to switch from WordPerfect for Windows to
Word for Windows? The people in my department are not technical
people, so I am concerned that learning a new interface maybe
too much. Has anyone made this switch?
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle)
Subject: terminal can't find my modem!
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:40:55 GMT

I am the proud new owner of a new 386dx-40MHz machine which happened
to come with windows installed.  I thought 'what the heck it might come in
useful' so I set about setting it up.  I haven't had any problems until
now, I am trying to set up terminal just to see what it is like.  I don't
often use my modem under windows, but it also might come in handy.  I have
an internal modem set to com4.  I have a multi-io card that has com1 and com2
on it and  no current com3.  Can anybody suggest some possible fixes here?
Maybe it just doesn't like skipping over a com port.  Procomm Plus and
some other of my applications find it easily.

Ed
From: lester@bestsd.sdsu.edu (THE ONLY MISTAKES ARE HUMAN MISTAKES)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Word/Word for Windows/WordPerfect:  Which is best?
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Date: 10 Jan 1993 21:01 PST
Organization: San Diego State University - Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: bestsd.sdsu.edu
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  

In article <145133@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, booloo@framsparc.ocf.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian)               writes...
>I'm about to buy a word processor for my new 486 system but don't have a
>heck of a lot to go on.  We've had a Mac running Word for years and my
>inclination is to go with MS Word (how similar is the user interface to
>that of the Mac version?).  I've seen Word for Windows advertised but know
>nothing about how it differs from Word.  What benefits do you derive from the
>Windows version?  And how does Word compare with WordPerfect?  Is it possible
>to import/export files between Word and WordPerfect (I think Word 5.0 on the
>Mac could at least read WordPerfect files).
> 
>Any information is greatly appreciated.  Price isn't an issue.  Email is
>preferred.
> 
>Advance thanks and best regards,
>mb
>-- 
>Mark Boolootian		booloo@llnl.gov		+1 510 423 1948
>Disclaimer:  booloo speaks for booloo and no other.

Better than those is Ami Pro 3. It has a built in grammar checker, a large
dictionary, doc templates, a great graphics capability etc. Check it out
From: carter@cemvax.cem.msu.edu (Tom Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: re: Word count in Word for Windows
Date: 5 Jan 1993 13:13:33 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, Chemistry Dept., E. Lansing, MI
NNTP-Posting-Host: photon.cem.msu.edu

In article <1993Jan5.122018.15372@infodev.cam.ac.uk> mos11@cus.cam.ac.uk (Mark Scase) writes:
>How do you count the number of words in a file using Word for Windows
>2.0?  This seems a basic thing to do but I can't see any reference on
>how to do it in the WFW manual or help file.
>
>One way is to run the grammar checker.  At the end of the run a screen
>comes up giving document statistics - one item is the number of words.
>However, this method is very long winded.
>
>There must be a simple way to do this!
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>-- 
>Dr M.O. Scase,                     email:  mos11@cus.cam.ac.uk
>Dept of Experimental Psychology,
>University of Cambridge,
>Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EB, UK.

Try this command sequence:

File Summary Info
Statistics
Update

This should give you the current word count in much less time than a grammar
check!
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From: mic@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Marc Clarke)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:16:46 GMT
Subject: Re: PIMs for Win3.1 ???
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Ft. Collins, CO
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

I run Ami Pro 3.0 on a 286/8MHz with 5 Mbytes of RAM.  It works fine,
but is rather slow.
From: cgk26737@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (C G Kolar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: DIAMOND SPEEDSTAR 24 X
Date: 10 Jan 93 17:25:09 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


>In <1993Jan9.193025.6788@netcom.com> larryb@netcom.com (Laurence Badagliacca) writes:

[specific problem deleted]

>>  I left mail on DiamondStar
>>support BBS and have not received any reply for about 2 weeks.  I returned the
>>card.            


After conferring with Diamond Tech Support and having them declare my board
  to be hopelessly shorted I tried to get it replaced through their 
  customer service.  Four weeks and five messages later I finally took
  to yelling at the phone operator who went and got one of the managers
  (who had not returned my call from 4 days earlier). 

He told me that their new policy (which would not have mmade it into my
  documentation) was not to ship a replacement and that i would have to
  send in my card for them to look at.  He said that they would have 
  something back to me in about 7 days.  When I explained that I did not 
  want to be down for those 7 days, he suggested that I "purchase another
  card" to use while they check out the bad one.

Prior to this experience, I had never cared about product support because
  nothing had ever gone bad on me.  This experience, however, has turned 
  me off of whatever good products they may produce.  While you will probably
  never have to call up their support services, you should keep in mind 
  that this service, or lack thereof, is part of what you are paying for.

--chris

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From: frederic@cs.unc.edu (Robin Fredericksen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Equation spacing in WrdFW 2.0?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 11:13:52 -0500
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
NNTP-Posting-Host: ambrose.cs.unc.edu

In article <GHENNIGA.93Jan11103928@ampere.ampere> ghenniga@NMSU.Edu writes:
>
>	Some time ago I posted about a problem with Word spacing the
>equations rather strangely, it turned out that the problem is that MS, in
>order to get around some other problem, treated the equations as
>subscripts. Well, I find myself back at the writing table and was wondering
>if any of the "maintenance" releases have fixed this problem (what are they
>up to anyway, has 2.0c been released yet?). The problem for me is that if
>you correct the character format so that an equation is not subscripted it
>makes it difficult to place an equation number anywhere that looks good.
>
>Just wondering,
>Gary Hennigan
>---------
>PhD Student, Computational Electromagnetics
>New Mexico State University
>email: ghenniga@NMSU.Edu

And I would like to add to this.  I have WFW 2.0 (no a,b, or c) and
Windows 3.1.  I have seen the de-install/re-install fix for strange
equation editor behavior, and that worked in my friends case but 
not mine.  The symptoms in my case are:  when I type in more than
one character they are spaced very wide apart, and some are placed
over top of each other.  Has anyone else seen this?  Might it be
the driver for my ATI Graphics Ultra Pro?

Thanks for any help,
Eric Fredericksen
frederic@cs.unc.edu

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From: begolej@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (James Begole)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: quick (and basic) download question
Date: 6 Jan 93 00:14:28 GMT
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA

In article <1993Jan5.073404.8505@beaver.cs.washington.edu> pschwrtz@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Paul Schwartz) writes:
>edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu wrote:
>: Hi all,
>
>: I have a FAQ: I have pc+ for windows and wp4w 5.2. I am downloading file
>: from a vax that I uploaded in dos (ascii text). Now when I download this
>: into wp4w, I have no problem except that I get hard returns on some lines
>: where I did not have them. So I have to go through the document and delete
>: them.
>: I know this is my ignorance. What do I need to adjust either in the upload
>: or bringing the doc into wp to alleviate this? Oh I am using the Kermit prot.
>
Word Perfect stores soft returns as Line Feed characters.  If you saved
the WP file as an ASCII file before you uploaded it, WP converted all of
those soft returns to hard returns.  There are two ways to import ASCII
files in WP.  One preserves all of the hard returns (<CR><LF>) and the
other converts hard returns in the hyphen zone to soft returns.  Try
that.
If you simply upoaded a WP file to the vax, then the following answer
from Paul Schwarz should help:
>When you download with kermit try using "kermit -i -s foo.file"  The help
>on kermit will explain what the '-i' does and even though I was told to use
>it for binary files it also keeps things clean for ascii files.
>
The '-i' switch preserves all of the characters in a file as they are on
the vax.  If you do not use it, then Kermit sends the file in text mode.
One of the differences is that in text mode, all Line Feed characters
are converted to Carriage Return - Line Feed, because that's what DOS
uses to end a line.  Other operating systems, including Unix use just
Line Feed.  Anyway, that's how your WP files end up with hard returns in
them after you download tem from a Unix system.  The -i switch should
fix it.

	-Bo



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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: floydb@rpi.edu
Subject: Re: Latest version of QVTnet?  Where or who?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:44:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.224438.14066@datamark.co.nz> thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
>In article <j4+3b=k@rpi.edu> floydb@rpi.edu writes:

stuff deleted

>
>I had some problems with QVTNet/NFS running under PC-NFS 4.0, speaking
>to an RS6000 running AIX. Namely, QVTNet/NFS kept crashing on me. The
>terminal performance wasn't as good as it had been either.
>
>I decided to drop NFS and keep using the original WinQVTNet.
>-- 
>    Thomas Beagle | thomas@datamark.co.nz           Work: 64 4 233 8186
>Datamark Intl Ltd | thomas@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz     Home: 64 4 499 3832
> Technical Writer | Yes, I do have long ears, a black nose, and a tail.


We have two Sun SPARCstation IPC file server/workstations connected to our
campus network. QVTNet/NFS performance and reliability have been very good.
Compared to Sun's own telnet and ftp clients I would rate QVTNet/NFS 
'outstanding'. 

Subscribing to newgroups and using the ftp server are the only time QVTNet 
has given me (infrequent problems). The last two upgrades have all but 
eliminated these problems. On both counts I suspect the other hosts as much as
QVT, though. 

I have been sending QPC suggestions for several years and lately they have 
been rather minor aesthetic user interface problems (primarily with their
news reader and the "more" button...). Compared with some of the earliest
releases its like a different product.

2 cents

barry

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jbfraz@bb1t.monsanto.com
Subject: Re: Latest version of QVTnet?  Where or who?
Organization: Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 20:58:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec30.182214.2811@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, greenie@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:
> Say!  Anybody out there know where I can send away and register for the
> latest version of QVTnet 3.xx?  I've got 2.85 now and I'd like to register
> and get the latest version - or is it available for FTP somewhere?
> 
> Andy

You can register for WinQVT/NET Ver. 3.0 at:

		QPC Software
		P.O.Box 226
		Penfield, NY 14526

They apparently can be accessed via Internet Mail:

		djpk@troi.cc.rochecster.edu

This is my first posting, I hope it works.
From: neiger@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Neiger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Is WinWord 3.0 coming soon?
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:10:03 +1100
Organization: Monash University, Australia

In article <19159@mindlink.bc.ca>, Nicky_Lum@mindlink.bc.ca (Nicky Lum) writes:
> However, some people are saying version 3.0 will be available sometime in the
> summer.  One feature is TEAR-AWAY toolbars much like Excel 4.0 or AMI Pro.

Can someone else confirm whether WinWord 3.0 is only a few months away.  MS have
had lots of trouble with WinWord 2.0 (a,b,c...) so if there is a new version
coming it might be worth the wait.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: larryb@netcom.com (Laurence Badagliacca)
Subject: Re: DIAMOND SPEEDSTAR 24 X
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:30:25 GMT

vince.maiocco@satalink.com (Vince Maiocco) writes:

>I saw several posts concerning conflicts between the above video 
>card and WIN 3.1 over the last few weeks.  At the time, they 
>weren't important to me, so I sorta skipped over them(Sorry, but 
>there are only so many hours I can spend in the conferences... 
>I'm married<G>).  Now, I'm interested in hearing the problems 
>and the solutions(if any) because I may have an opportunity to 
>upgrade to this card from a Trident 8900c at little or no cost.  
>I would really appreciate anyone with specific knowledge of the 
>24X's behavior under 3.1 at the high resolutions(1024X768, 
>specifically) and on a 486/33, without a local bus to please 
>reply to me wth what they know.  
>TIA, I really need this stuff.
>L8r.


>--- WinQwk 2.0 a#0
>
I purchased a 24X about two weeks ago.  The supplied drivers did not work properly with 256 bit color at any resolution:  When using Word For Windows 2.0b a general protection fault was created when you select tools then the last item on that menu [options or setup I think].  I left mail on DiamondStar support BBS and have not received any reply for about 2 weeks.  I returned the card.                                       
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Mouse in a box - HOW???
Keywords: mouse
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:23:16 GMT

Don't know about a mouse in a box but you can get a cat
in a box 9-)

Download one of the various neko clones from ftp.cica.indiana.edu. The
best one is wneko.



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