HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lpeters@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Leslie D Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Let's speculate about the 586
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:50:48 GMT
Reply-To: lpeters@marge.hq.af.mil
Organization: 7th Communications Group

In article <1992Oct28.174037.5404@tandon.com>, tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct27.032122.29849@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> bradleyt@spot.Colorado.EDU (Todd Bradley) writes:
|> >No such device.  There has never been and will never (most likely)
|> >be a "586".
|> 
|> Actually... it would not be surprising if AMD and/or Cyrix
|> used this numbering scheme.  Intel has been threatening all of
|> their customers against using it, but that doesn't mean that
|> it can't be used by another company.
|> 
|> >| Todd Bradley -- Official Microsoft Spokesman
|> 
|> From UCSU? hehe. Yeah, right.  I'd be worried about the GG (read as
|> SS) knocking at your door.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Tom Barrett (TDBear)    tdbear@tandon.com          voice: 805-378-6207
|> Tandon Corporation      609 Science Drive          Moorpark, CA  93021 
|> Sr. HW Design Engineer  "War is Peace, No is Yes, And We're All Free!" 
|> [Note: TDBear is heading for Austin Texas in November!]

Unless someone beats me to it, let me be the one to post the OFFICIAL
name of the next Intel production...........Pentium (from InfoWorld
blurb).  

/============================================================================\
|                    ___                     |                               |
|       ___....-----'---`-----....___        | I haven't lost my mind --     |
| =========================================  |                               |
|        ___`---..._______...---'___         |  it's backed up on            |
|       (___)      _|_|_|_      (___)        |   tape somewhere.             |
|         \\____.-'_.---._`-.____//          |                               |
|           ~~~~`.__`---'__.'~~~~            | lpeters@marge.hq.af.mil       |
|                   `~~~'                    |                               |
\============================================================================/
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted -- Postscript Convertion program
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:09:35 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Nov8.183431.22620@ee.eng.ohio-state.edu> wkwong@lyapunov.eng.ohio-state.edu (Waihon Andrew Kwong) writes:
>
>Greeting,
>
>I'm looking for a document to Postscipt convertion program. I usually
>type papers up using wordprefect and I would like to convert the output
>to postscript file so that I can print it throught the postscript
>printer in school.

Configure WordPerfect to use a PostScript printer, and print to
disk. Then take the disk file to school.

There is no easy way to "convert" WordPerfect files to PostScript ...
any moree than you can, say, "convert" Pascal to German.


-- 
_______________________________Mike Schuster________________________________
NY Pub. Access UNIX/Internet: schuster@panix.com | 70346.1745@CompuServe.COM
The Portal (R) System: schuster@shell.portal.com | MCI Mail,GEnie: MSCHUSTER
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From: bfschler@puma.cat.syr.edu (Barry Schlereth)
Subject: Re: ftp site for DOS programs
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 12:09:51 EST

In article <BxB23M.BHM@m2.dseg.ti.com> anderson@dseg.ti.com writes:
>Is there a particular site for DOS specific programs as there is on CICA for
>windows specific?
>

One which I've used is oak.oakland.edu. It has the SIMTEL20 and other
mirrors.

Do an 'ftp oak.oakland.edu' 
login as 'anonymous'
then use your complete E-mail address as the password.

there are README files to help you navigate the directories.

Barry
From: mppu3@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Conor McMenamin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Help! How to get tar to read UNIX archives??
Date: 11 Nov 92 09:03:52 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Hi,
	Does anyone out there use Unix tar on 1.44Mb floppies to
transfer files to a PC? If so could you tell me how to do it, because I
keep getting directory checksum errors and the like on archives that are
fine on the 'side' (Unix or PC) that created them. I have tried a few
TAR's on the PC, of which tar4dos gets closest. Close but no cigar that
is....

		Conor
From: robl@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Rob Laddish)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:04:41 GMT
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 how to get thru?
Organization: Division of the month club
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc, sasbge@unx.sas.com (Gantt Edmiston) writes:

>robl@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Rob Laddish) writes:


>>I think it depnds on who gets your call. Some of their sales people seem
>>real slimey, some seem nice. I was able to get all my questions answered
>>via email. Try gatway@aol.com, it worked for me.
>                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Did you mean:  gateway@aol.com  ??  Just checking.

Yup! Use gateway@aol.com instead. I mis-typed it.

Robl
From: bi927@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Yi Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: 486 vs. 386
Date: 12 Nov 1992 01:56:10 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I used to use WordPerfect5.1 on my 286-12 1MB ram system. Although CPU
is slow, but it does not involve much disk activility. I did not even
have disk cache on it. WP5.1 was doing quite well on it. Now I switched
to 486DX-33 with 8MB ram. I use WP5.1 for Windows now. I have Hyperdisk
cache program installed. But WP5.1 (for windows) seems really slow:it
just keeps fetching data from the harddisk.

So I guess the situation will be the same for 586: WP6.0 on 586 with 
Windows NT will probably not be much faster  than WP5.1 on a 286 system!

YJ
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: anderson@dseg.ti.com (John Anderson)
Subject: ftp site for DOS programs
Organization: TI-DSEG Spring Creek
Reply-To: anderson@dseg.ti.com
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 17:33:22 GMT

Is there a particular site for DOS specific programs as there is on CICA for
windows specific?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: todd@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara)
Subject: Re: PC Tools 8.0-No Windows apps!
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:01:00 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.074242.20715@news.Hawaii.Edu> todd@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara) writes:
>Anyone know why the Windows version of CPBACKUP was removed from PC Tools
>8.0?

To answer my own question... Shortly after posting the message above I
received a phone call from a survey firm hired by Central Point. The person
calling wanted to know if I had received the upgrade notice (yes) and had
ordered the upgrade (yes). She also asked if I was satisfied with the
upgrade (sort of). I told her I was very unhappy that Central Point had
removed all the Windows apps from PC Tools 8.0 and did not mention it in
the upgrade offer.

Her final question was: What I buy "Central Point PC Tools for *WINDOWS*".
My answer: "Not after this treatment. I already have Norton Desktop for
Windows 2.0 and am very happy with it."
--
Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii, Psychology Department
BITNET:		todd@uhunix
INTERNET:	todd@uhunix.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU
From: brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Backup software for SCSI/DAT drives
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:51:13 GMT
Reply-To: brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com
Organization: Schlumberger/Anadrill Sugar Land, TX

I have a SCSI 4mm DAT tape drive that is to be shared between several systems
including VAX, Mac and PC (running Windows).  It works fine for the VAX and
Mac platforms.  I have discovered that of all the 'major' PC software
companies offering backup and utilities (like Norton/Symantic
Backup/Desktop/Utilities, FastBack Plus, PCTools, CP Backup...), all will
write to either floppy disk or QIC tape, but nothing for 4mm DAT or even any
kind of SCSI tape.  I found one vendor called Corel that has something of
interest, but surely they aren't the only vendor in this potentially large
market?

Does anybody know of other vendors offering backup solutions to 4mm DAT
drives?  I'm most interested in Windows software.  DOS is of interest as well.
_______________________________________________________________
Harvey Brydon         | Internet:   brydon@dsn.SINet.slb.com
Dowell Schlumberger   | P.O.T.S.:   (918)250-4312
Kubrick fans will note that the HAL 9000 became operational on 12-JAN-1992.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: 4224_5276@uwovax.uwo.ca (Chris Walden)
Subject: Re: Help needed with Medom program for IBM
Organization: University of Western Ont, London
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:16:55 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.191112.4004@wvnvms.wvnet.edu>, un032176@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:
>         I was wondering if someone could give me a hand.  I have an OLD ibm
>      portable personal computer with 256k of RAM *cry*.  I need a good modem
>      program that will run on this much memory.  I currently have procomm (no
>      zmodem or i would like it) and qvt(zmodem but no backscroll).  My
>      requirments are:
> 
>      1) MUST have zmodem
>      2) MUST have backscroll ability (the more the better)
>      3) MUST have at least a vt100 emulation and any other vt's higher than
>         100 would be gladly accepted (would be really nice to have a 320)

Does PROCOMM not have the ability to use external protocols?  I know that
PROCOMM PLUS does.  Although you have to pay for PROCOMM+,  there is a
test-drive version around.  Then you can use an external ZMODEM.  Or is this
the problem?  You don't have enough memory to use an exteral Z-modem??

Chris Walden

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu (Pradeep K Tapadiya)
Subject: Re: Can software be 486-specific?
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:30:56 GMT

From what I know, 486 has six more instructions compared to a 386.

My question is, can't each of these instructions be simulated by
a set of 386 instructions such that the functionality is not lost?
This way we just need to write a parser which will go through
the 486 specific executable file looking for these unique
instructions and replace it with the equivalent set of 386
instructions, thus producing a 386 specific executable file.

Pradeep
tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: eriktog@hsr.no (Erik Toegersen)
Subject: looking for XMA system file "pcsx2ems.sys"
Organization: Rogaland University Centre
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:40:29 GMT

Keywords: 

I have erased my xma-board system file .(PCSX2EMS.sys).
Could anyone send a copy to me...????.
or could i use someting better to manage my XMA Board.??

Erik Toegersen...
From: kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: PD Org. Chart Software?
Date: 7 Nov 92 16:47:20 -0600
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

I'll entertain any/all suggestions/warnings.

--jim
kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
Subject: Re: Humdrum Conundrum...
Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 19:59:24 GMT

Michael C Mccarty writes
> I have a fairly basic question that I want to make the
> answer clear to myself and possibly others.
> 
> Why should I buy a 486SX-25 or 486DX-25 or 33, when I can
> buy a 386DX-33 for the same money or much cheaper and later
> upgrade to a 486DX2-66?
> 
> I keep hearing all of this propaganda that I should buy a
> 486SX-25 or even a 386-40 and all I can say is 'why?' ....
> Where is the advantage to buy these machines?
> 
> "Oh, but the 486SX offers 2 to 3 times the speed!"  Yeah,
> but who cares...  The software today is slow on any machine
> and I don't see the software of tomorrow being any better.
> That increase in speed and increase in price with the decrease
> in upgradability just does not justify the cost. 
> 
> Oh sure, there are the luxuries of local-bus video and
> such associated with the 486's, but the way the video cards
> are optimized around Windows (Windows must die!!!), who knows
> what kind of benefits, if any, you are going to get from the
> extra couple hundred of dollars spent for it.

One good reason that you may want to go the 486 way (as long as you  
also go the LocalBus etc way; which may not be possible on a limited  
budget) is that you can then use cool things like NeXTSTEP 486 rather  
than xxxx things like Windows.

> (Windows must die!!!)

Exactly.  But 386s won't give you many options other than going back  
to DOS (if you consider that an option (shudder) ) and even Windows  
and Windows apps will soon need the power of 486+ to run adequately.

All these new things require not just speed but also fast video and  
fast data throughput, and lots of RAM.  No point doing all this and  
saddling it with a 386.

Bottom line:  If your budget is limited, stick with 386s, but  
recognize you're also stuck with Windows/DOS.  If you can afford  
more, get not just a faster chip but also better components.

--
-
Stefano Pagiola
Food Research Institute, Stanford University
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: hvisage@rkw-risc.cs.up.ac.za (Hendrik Visage)
Subject: Re: FDFORMAT and 1.2-meg disks
Date:  6 Nov 92 14:52:56 GMT
Organization: University of Pretoria, South Africa

sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:

>After seeing the chatter about FDFORMAT, I picked up v1.8 from (I
>think) a local BBS.  It works fine with 5.25" double-density
>disks...it formatted one of those to 800K with no problems.  It's also
>supposed to be able to format 5.25" high-density disks to 1.48 megs.
>However, the formatting process freezes early on whenever you try to
>put more than the usual 15 sectors per track on a disk.  (Yes, I am
>using real high-density disks.)

>System software: DR DOS 6.0.

  When you format more than 15 sectors per track, the inter sector
  gaps get too small for the disk drive to read the next sector in
  sequence ( resulting in another revolution), so FDFormat makes use
  of interleaving to create larger intersector 'gaps'. I'm using
  800K for any none standard disks (FDRead hangs my system (DOS5.0)
  when there's no disk in the floppy and I try to access it), FDFormat
  Didn't gave me ANY PROBLEMS, so I presume there's problems with
  DR-DOS6.0 & sector interleaving on floppies.


  Hendrik Visage


Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,connect.audit
From: sgaun1@ibmpcug.co.uk (Stuart K Gaunt)
Subject: Re: Remote configuration tool? (HERMES?????)
X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author
	alone and may not represent the views of the IBM PC User Group.
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 17:51:53 GMT

In article <1992Nov3.205601.21323@autelca.ascom.ch> dhuber@autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber) writes:
>Does anybody know, if there is a remote configuration tool for
>networked PC's available somewhere (commercials welcome..)?
>
>The idea is to be able to change/edit any *local* file (on the local ...

Try Symantec's PCAnywhere and the LAN extension pack - it may be what
you are looking for. Our initial impressions are favourable!
You can even cause a remote re-boot to ensure chabges are effective.

Luck
Stuart Gaunt

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From: graham@visionware.co.uk (Graham Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,connect.audit
Subject: Re: *** DYING ***:PCNFS 4.0/eXceedw 3.1.1/Windows 3.1
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:53:18 GMT
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

Excuse me, but did you know that the IDC report of June 1992
credits the VisionWare XVision product with a 46.6% market share
of the Microsoft Windows based X server market ?

Also this product has been on the market for the last 4 years, it
was therefore the first product of its kind and this is reflected 
in how robust and feature rich the product is - that's why it's the
market leader worldwide !

If you haven't tried it and would like to then please let me know !

Regards
Graham

--
            Graham Porter, Distribution Sales Account Manager
         VISIONWARE LTD, 57 Cardigan Lane, LEEDS LS4 2LE, England
    Tel +44 532 788858.  Fax +44 532 304676.  Email graham@visionware.co.uk
----------- "VisionWare:   The home of PC/UNIX/VMS/SQL/X integration" -------------
From: un032176@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Help needed with Medom program for IBM
Date: 12 Nov 92 01:06:57 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing




     Hello,
        I was wondering if someone could give me a hand.  I have an OLD ibm
     portable personal computer with 256k of RAM *cry*.  I need a good modem
     program that will run on this much memory.  I currently have procomm (no
     zmodem or i would like it) and qvt(zmodem but no backscroll).  My
     requirments are:

     1) MUST have zmodem
     2) MUST have backscroll ability (the more the better)
     3) MUST have at least a vt100 emulation and any other vt's higher than
        100 would be gladly accepted (would be really nice to have a 320)

     If anybody has any information on where I could obtain a program like this
     PLEASE inform me soon (I hate having to change back and forth between my
     two programs so often--now I need zmodem--now I need backscroll--now I
     need zmodem--It gets very monotonous.)

     Thanks for any info available.
From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: IBM PC/AT - HPLaserjet III Problems
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:37:14 GMT
Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <1992Nov9.150930.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>, cldavi01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
> 
> Need some assistance...
> I have just purchased an HP Laserjet IIIP for use with my IBM compatible
> (supposedly) PC/AT.  The problem is, try as I may, I cannot get a "screen
> print" (by pressing shift-printscreen).  
... deletions ...
If you use DOS 5.0 you can tell GRAPHICS that you have an HP Laser printer 
and everything should work fine. For other versions of DOS I think you are 
stuck with text only screen dumps unless you get a 'third party' screen 
dump program. It helps to set your default font to PC-8 so you can print 
all the IBM line draw characters etc.

			Allen Mulvey
			mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim -- DTN 223-5747 -- MLO5-2/13A)
Subject: Fiscal News - Quarterdeck Office Systems
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 06:54:35 PST
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 Quarterdeck Office Systems - 4th quarter earnings $0.07 vs. $0.16 a year ago.

	{The Wall Street Journal, 2-Nov-92, p. C6}

   The software company blamed the decline on rising costs associated with an
 expansion of its business. It's stock dropped 1 1/4 to 5 7/8 on the news.

--
Jim Reisert                     Internet:  reisert@mast.enet.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corp.         UUCP:      ...decwrl!mast.enet.dec.com!reisert
146 Main Street	- MLO5-2/E45	Voice:     508-493-5747
Maynard, MA  01754		FAX:       508-493-1890
From: grohol@novavax.UUCP (John Grohol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Stacker 3.0 Beta
Keywords: stacker
Date: 9 Nov 92 19:54:33 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL


Recently reviewed a copy of Stacker 3.0 on a friend's machine...

Let me tell ya, it is much more user-friendly than old Stackers,
and has a Remove-stacked volume option that actually works!

As for re-stacking a drive that was stacked under 2.0....
My friend claims he got a spare 20 megs on his 300 meg hard
drive, when restacking under 3.0. Stacker 3.0 has an option
where you can specify the degree of compression you'd like
in a trade off with speed. Low compression, high speed,
medium compression, medium speed, high compression, low speed.
In truth, we found very few differences between the three 
settings...

Not sure the official release date of this, but look for it
soon, as this copy was stable as a table!

-John

-- 
  "Evil will not destroy            \_\_    John M. Grohol, M.S.
   When love is in your hand         \_\_   Center for Psychological Studies
   Now can we make believe            \_\_  Nova Univ, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
   The mysteries we understand." -SBH  \_\_ grohol@novavax.nova.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: pham@ecf.toronto.edu (PHAM CHARLES TUAN CUONG)
Subject: Dual hard disk installs question
Summary: IDE and MFM together in one pc?
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:09:29 GMT

Is it possible to install a MFM with controller and an IDE with controller on   the same computer (386-16Mhz)? 

If so, then how?

Please reply to pham@skule.ecf.toronto or to this newsgroup.

Thanks,

Charles.
ps. Sorry, no interesting signature here.
 
: x

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer)
Subject: Re: cheap PC and pirated DOS/WINDOWS
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:02:01 GMT

The problem also involves Non FCC approved systems.  It's about time the FCC
and Microsoft clambed down to prevent stores from selling pirated DOS &
Windows and non FCC approved systems.  Both are illegal  and are unfair
competition to the legal stores.
From: Rick_Michael_Cortese@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Interleaving in hard disk
Date: Sun,  8 Nov 92 18:07:58 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: na

$.02, Double check to see if your BIOS supports automatic interleave. AMI on
my clone does. There's also so PD stuff running around BBS's that'll tell you
your I/O speed. For instance, I just recently formated an old RLL drive on my
back-up computer. Reccommended setting was '5, but '7 produced the best
performance (Hey! it's an ancient computer & drive). Went 5 times as fast
using 7 vs 6.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc