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From: ahmad@norooz.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Ahmad Alavi)
Subject: Microsoft Systems Journal Question
Reply-To: ahmad@norooz.b17a.ingr.com
Organization: " "
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:51:31 GMT

I like to subscribe to MSJ and need to know about the price and
address/phone.

Any info is appreciated.


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Ahmad Alavi
Intergraph Corporation
ahmad@norooz.b17a.ingr.com
FAX (205)730-7296
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From: enno@efborg.hobby.nl (Enno Borgsteede)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Running the PATHWORKS USE command in an MS-DOS Windows hangs system
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 20:10:04 GMT
Organization: ABC - the FsFan connection

        Hi Don,

16 Aug 92, Don Katz writes to All:

 DK> We are running Pathworks 4.1 (server and client) on a heap of PC's. I
 DK> find that when I am running Windows 3.1, if I open an MS-DOS window
 DK> and then run the Pathworks USE command in the window, the USE command
 DK> gives the correct output. If I then type exit, I receive a message
 DK> from Windows that

 DK> "The application was communicating on the network when you terminated
 DK> it. Windows was unable to restore the state of the network. You need
 DK> to restart your computer."

I don't know what's going on, but I think that the best way to avoid is to
use the Windows file manager. It has all commands that you need to connect
or disconnect drives and printers. You have to installe Pathworks as a part
of Windows first, off course.

        groeten!
                Enno

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth)
Subject: Re: Park Disk
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 18:40:19 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <1927.1100.uupcb@satalink.com> john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:
>
>Which drive is it that automatically parks the heads during normal
>operation?  The last one I saw was an ill-fated Miniscribe, and the
>autopark was nothing but trouble!  Most drives only park when you
>power down.

Most of the power-down parking mechanism that I've seen don't actually lock 
the read/write heads down and secure the disk.  Instead, what the ones I've 
seen do is pull the heads away from the disk by de-energizing a simple sol-
enoid device.  When they're powered up, the solenoid puts the heads very 
close to the disks, but when they're turned off, the heads move away.


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: c2s4027@tamsun.tamu.edu (Cedric Sims)
Subject: Re: Park Disk
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:37:59 GMT

In article <ss#nsk+@lynx.unm.edu> jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth) writes:
>In article <86601@netnews.upenn.edu> jer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Joel Ratsaby) writes:
>>
>I mailed the following:
>
>>There are many different parking programs for pc's.  But you need to remember
>>one thing,  EXIT WINDOWS BEFORE TURNING OFF THE PC.  Windows keeps a couple
>>of files open while it's running.  If you shut off the pc while windows is 
>>up, it is possible that those files can become cross-linked and thrash the
>>hard disk.

<< Stuff deleted >>

>The safest thing to do would be to exit windows, then park the hard disk.
>This will reduce the chance of corrupting the FAT to nearly zero.
>

Look folks... Of course you shouldn't shut down the computer before
Windows (or any program) has exited. All of my drives park themselves,
but some don't. I think what he was asking for was a program to park
the heads while the disk is just idle and spinning. That would be
of some use if your heads don't park automatically.

Cedric.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: yuval@huji.ac.il (Yuval rakavy)
Subject: Changing colors in winhelp
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Distribution: comp
Date: 13 Aug 92 05:24:21 GMT
Summary: How does one change the color of hyper-text link and popup in windows
Keywords: winhelp colors help

Good day!

 How does one change the colors of hyper-text link or popup help in WinHelp.
It seems that these colors are fixed to green which is very nice when working
in the default color scheme, but looks horrible (or actually bearly looks at
all) when the background color is not white.

Thanks
  Yuval Rakavy

  yuval@shum.huji.ac.il


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: veikko@vipunen.hut.fi (Vesa J Pyyluoma)
Subject: Re: Cyrillic font (tt maybe)??
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
	<1992Aug22.211144.10826@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
	<1992Aug22.224531.25589@DSI.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 92 10:50:39

In article <1992Aug22.224531.25589@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
 > Well, Corel Draw on their 3.0 cd has a ATM and a TT variant of their
 > Cryillic font.

Ahh... to graduate.  To get income.  Work.  To have Corel Draw on CD.
Hmm.  Maybe cows fly.  Meanwhile, I continue my quest for PD sources... ;-)

But nevertheless, thanks for the info!

Vesa J Pyyluoma		veikko@vipunen.hut.fi		DoD# 200h
Avionics rules!				 Helsinki Univ. of Tech, Finland

P|rr p|rrrr p||||rrrr ........................................... XV535!
(For all you life you may have lived in the false belief that | is a
vertical bar.  Well it's not.  It's a lower case \! )
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: weinkam@fraser.sfu.ca (James Lawrence Weinkam)
Subject: Re: Windows == OS
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 17:24:41 GMT

>>Granted, Windows does go around MS-DOS to do many things (as it very well
>>should), but it is still dependent upon DOS for disk-I/O and for EMS/XMS
>>memory management.

>Yes for disk I/O, no for XMS. 

You mean that to run windows I do not need to load himem.sys.  If this is
true then why would the windows setup program add himem.sys to my config.sys
file since windows does not need it to run.
From: gt8389a@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott E. Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted GIF VIEWER for MS-DOS/Windows Machines
Date: 17 Aug 92 11:27:25 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <6565@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> naren@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Naren Bala) writes:
>Hi,
>Does anyone know of programs to view gif files on MS-DOS or Window machines ?
>Any help would be appreciated. 
>Thanks
>** Naren **

WINGIF is a great one for Windows.  Check ftp.cica.indiana. 


-- 
Scott E. Harris
Georgia Institute of Technology
Internet:  gt8389a@prism.gatech.edu
From: leefi@microsoft.com (lee fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: Windows NT DDK and October conference announcement
Date: 20 Aug 92 19:34:50 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: microsoft corp., redmond, wa

MICROSOFT to Release Windows NT Device Driver Kit In Conjunction With 
Three-day Developer Conference Oct. 26-28

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MICROSOFT Corp. Tuesday announced the
Windows NT Device Driver Kit (DDK) will be available in pre-release form 
Oct. 26 in conjunction with the MICROSOFT Windows NT Device Driver 
Developers Conference in Anaheim, Calif., Oct. 26-28.

The conference will feature highly technical information needed to write
hardware drivers for Windows NT, including NDIS, SCSI, display, printer,
input and communication drivers.

  Sessions topics at the conference will include:

  * Multiprocessing Support for Windows NT
  * Enhanced Graphics Support
  * NDIS 3.0
  * SCSI Support

Developers can register for the conference by calling 800-MS SHOWS
(677-4697) or by faxing 800/936-7329 `Attention Department 747.' The
registration cost is $795 for developers who attended the Win32 
Professional Developers Conference in July.

For all others, the registration price before Sept. 21 is $845. From 
Sept. 21 on it will be $895. Registration costs include lunch each day, 
and conference attendees receive a copy of the Windows NT DDK.

MICROSOFT is a registered trademark and Windows and Win32 are
trademarks of MICROSOFT Corp.

CONTACT:  Waggener Edstrom, Portland, Ore.
          Erin Holland, 503/245-0905
            or
          General Sales and Product Information, 800/426-9400

12:00 ET   AUG 18, 1992

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Copyright (c) 1992 Business Wire
Received via NewsEDGE from Desktop Data, Inc.: 08/18/92 09:14
From: herbing@netmbx.netmbx.de (Kai-Uwe Herbing)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: New version (1.20) of Windows Exit Button uploaded to cica and garbo
Keywords: Windows Exit
Date: 16 Aug 92 16:21:52 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Organization: netmbx, Berlin, Germany

Today I have uploaded to ftp.cica.indiana.edu, /pub/pc/win3/uploads
and to garbo.uwasa.fi, pc/incoming:

WEXIT12E.ZIP - Windows Exit Button Version 1.20 (English)
Copyright (c) Kai-Uwe Herbing 1985-1992.  All rights reserved.

This replaces Version 1.10 (WEXIT110.ZIP) and fixes a minor bug
in the About... dialog, which causes some text to be truncated
with standard VGA resolution (640,480).

Windows Exit Button is a tiny program, which draws a bitmap
button on the desktop, which shows an open door.  To exit
Windows, click on it with the left mouse button, the door
closes and Windows will exit.  To move it, drag it with the
right mouse button to its new position.  To see the About...
dialog, where you optionally can configure, if the Windows
Exit Button should be Always on Top, double click on it with
the right mouse button.  The position and configuration of the
Windows Exit Button are automatically saved to and retrieved
from its private profile file WINEXIT.INI.
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From: paulb@harlqn.co.uk (Paul Butcher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: Dropper - New version on Cica
Date: 17 Aug 92 15:10:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: pitt.1992Aug18.111341.43.comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: Harlequin Ltd, Cambridge, UK

I've just released a new version of Dropper which includes a number of
new features and a few bug fixes.  It's available in the uploads directory
of cica as drop_02.zip.

Dropper is a small program which allows you to perform drag and drop to
the Windows desktop.  It is similar in many ways to the NeXT style
"icon dock" programs around at the moment.  Rather than requiring that
drag and drop is performed to a strip along one side of the screen
however, Dropper allows any part of the desktop to be used as a target.
Dropper requires Windows 3.1.

Paul Butcher (paulb@harlqn.co.uk)
From: WKWINKEL@ibm.rz.uni-passau.de (Olaf Winkelhake)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: snark.zip
Date: 13 Aug 92 14:46:22 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Organization: University of Passau - Germany

Hi,
I have uploaded SNARK11.ZIP to ftp.cica.indiana.edu
(In fact I sent a uucoded file to M.Regoli who was willing to place it
 there for me - so I hope it will be available soon   - thanks Michael)
 
Snark is a NeXT like application launcher, but has (unlike the zillion
other ones) an extra button to HIDE a program, instead of iconifiing it.
I wrote it, because I was not satisfied with the icon management,
cluttering my already small screen with icons.
 
Snark is freeware and written in TOOLBOOK. This means you have to have
at least the run only version of toolbook installed. This is ought to
be no problem since this version is available at cica too.
 
Regards,
Olaf Winkelhake
University of Passau, Germany
Dept. of Economics
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.windows.ms.programmer
From: themos@umbc5.umbc.edu (Mr. Themos Pentakalos; ADMIN-COMP)
Subject: More surveys. Protecting software development from programmers
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus, Academic Computing Services
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 01:07:30 GMT

Hi everyone.
I have a question, which I hope you can help me with. This, once again,
is material for a research which I am doing on computing, etc.

Currently, there are companies in the US which are making use of
programmers abroad (Russia, etc.) for software development at
low man hour costs. How can these companies protect their software
from getting stollen by the programmers themselves and getting sold
to other companies?

The big question is that the American companies have no way of using
US law to protect them outside the US.

Are there technological means of protecting software as it is being
written? As in password protected hardware, etc??? I don't know...

Any ideas?

Thanks and please reply to    themos@umbc5.umbc.edu


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk ("Malcolm S. Muir")
Subject: Documentation for Win3 decompression DLL? 
Distribution: world
Organization: Muir
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 10:51:54 +0000


In article <713943691snx@lancea.actrix.gen.nz> lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz writes:

>Most of the replies were of the "me too" variety.  Others pointed
>me to sources for zoo/lzh.  These I have or can get.  One reply
>pointed out that LZEXPAND.DLL may do what I want.  This DLL
>comes with Win3.x, but it appears to be undocumented.
>
>Does anyone know if documentation for the DLL and the compression
>algorithm is available?  The compression would be done on a VMS
>system, so C source-code would be most useful.

LZEXPAND.DLL and COMPRESS.EXE are documented in the SDK manuals.
The compression algorithm would appear to be proprietary and undocumented.


--
Malcolm S. Muir                       EMAIL: malcolm@muir.demon.co.uk
Sunderland, England                   CIX: mmuir BIX: mmuir CSERVE: 100012,31
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 15:41:21 +0200
From: Thomas_Hornschuh@softstream.fido.de (Thomas Hornschuh)
Subject: Re: Question : TPW and TC++ code in the same application
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
X-Comment-To: (Pauletti Andreas)
Organization: SoftStream Development, Dortmund, Germany 

PA> I am developing a Windows Application under TPW. I would like to use
PA> C++ in the future. Is is possible to write some parts of den application
PA> with OWL under TPW and some under Borland C++ (or Turbo C++) without
PA> writing DLLs for that specific part. but still be able to call C++ routines
PA> fro TPW and the other way round.

There is practically no way, to link TPW and BC++ Code statically together: But 
it works very well if the code resides in different DLL's. It is not that hard 
to do. Because of different object mapping between TPW and BC++ (and the 
inability of TPW do export or import class interfaces) both languages can only 
work together at the procedural level trough standard windows FAR PASCAL 
convention functions.
From: cchapman@matd.gatech.edu (Charles H. Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Enter key ignored in Multiline Edit Control?
Date: 12 Aug 92 13:05:08 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I know there is probably an easy solution to this problem but I'm
trying to write a Windows program using Borland C++ 2.0.  I've set
up a dialog box with a multiline edit control but when I hit the
Enter key while in the edit control nothing happens.  If I hit
Control-Enter or Control-M a carriage return-line feed is entered
but if I just hit Enter nothing happens.

I set a breakpoint in the dialog procedure to see what messages
I was receiving.  The only message I get when I hit the Enter
key is 0x0400 which is defined as WM_USER.

I also have an edit control in the main window and that works fine.
Only in the dialog box are Enters ignored.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Chuck

Charles H. Chapman  (GTRI/MATD)             (404) 528-7588
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: wilcox@swarm.wustl.edu (Don Wilcox)
Subject: DMA in Windows
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 12:53:30 GMT

I have do develop an interface for an acquisition card which does DMA directly
into a buffer.  I have almost no docs on any of this stuff (that would make the
task too easy :-)), and I have a couple of questions.

First, what would be a good doc on the PC's DMA interface in general, and any
limitations on that interface in Windows?

Second, the source code that I have (for DOS) wants the input buffer to be
aligned on a 256K boundary.  Any ideas why?

I have a DOS app that interfaces with the board, and when it is run from DOS,
it works just fine.  When I run it in a window in Windows, the acquisition is
garbled.  I've tried munging with PIF file settings, but I cannot seem to get
a combination that works.  2 questions here:  since the DOS app is running in
a VM (this is enhanced mode Windows), could the DMA buffer be mis-aligned and
this cause the problem; and second, any ideas on PIF settings?

I'm certain that this is not an unsolvable problem, I just cannot seem to get
to the correct references.  Any help that anyone can provide (including source
for doing DMA in Windows) would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Don

-- 
Don Wilcox                         | "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of
Washington University in St. Louis |   Christ, for it is the power of salvation
email: wilcox@swarm.wustl.edu      |   to all who believe."
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From: kalakota@ut-emx.uucp (Ravi Kalakota)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
Subject: BC 3.1 -- TListBox Problem
Keywords: borland, windows, listbox
Date: 14 Aug 92 06:18:39 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas


I have been encountering a problem which appears to be a bug. 

I have been unable to get the Horizontal Scroll Bar to appear in a
TListBox even when the line exceeds the boundaries of the listbox.

I am setting the attribute style as follows:

aListBox->Attr.Style |= WM_HSCROLL;

I noticed that this is a problem even in the listboxes that
Borland Dialog boxes contain. An example of this is 
WINDOWS/More Windows. 

If this is a known problem, is there a patch available?

I would really appreciate any help in solving the above problem as
the application that I am writing relies heavily on being able to
scroll horizontally in a listbox.

Thanks in advance,

-- Ravi
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: scott@ods.com (Scott Harper)
Subject: Change App's Icon On The Fly [SOLVED]
Organization: Optical Data Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:25:40 GMT

Regarding my previous posting:

> I need to change a (minimized) application's icon "on the fly", and
> have the new icon displayed.  In Win 3.0 I used to call
> 
>    SetClassWord(hWnd, GCW_HICON, hNewIcon);    then,
> 
>    if (IsIconic(hWnd))
>       InvalidateRect(hWnd, NULL, TRUE);
> 
> and it worked like I wanted it to.  However, since I've switched
> over to the 3.1 SDK, it no longer works.  Any suggestions?

I think the problem I was running into was that InvalidateRect invalidates
the *client* area of a window, but a minimized window's icon is actually
part of its *non-client* area.

So now I call 

   RedrawWindow(hWnd, NULL, NULL, RDW_FRAME | RDW_ERASE | RDW_INVALIDATE);

This call with these flags invalidates a window's non-client area.  The
RDW_ERASE forces a WM_ERASEBKGND.  I needed this because of the two icons
I was switching between, one had a transparent background.  So when I
switched to it, if I didn't erase the background, the old icon's background
still showed through the transparent areas.

If my assumption about the non-client vs. client area repaint is correct,
I don't see how anyone gets this type of operation working using 
InvalidateRect and UpdateWindow.  Did the way an application's icon 
gets painted (client vs. non-client) change between 3.0 and 3.1?

Thanks to Geoff Lamb for getting me pointed in the right direction.

-- 
Scott Harper                       Optical Data Systems, Inc.
scott@ods.com                      1101 E. Arapaho Road
(214) 234-6400                     Richardson, TX  75081
From: marty@cs.utexas.edu (Marty J. Sirkin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: What is the windows call to find the video mode?
Date: 14 Aug 92 09:49:13
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Austin, CS Dept.
NNTP-Posting-Host: predator.cs.utexas.edu
In-reply-to: whedon@netcom.com's message of Wed, 12 Aug 92 20:30:21 GMT


'Dude' Bill Whedon:

1) Thank you very much for answering my question.  I appreciate you taking the
    time to write and post the response.

2) Take a valium :)

***FLAME ON***

In article <m44mt-p.whedon@netcom.com> whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon) writes:

> [an answer to my question, along with an attitude, including:]

> You can also see the SDK Reference for the specific index parameter
> values for each tidbit of data you wish to request.  I don't recommend
> using the SDK docs as a textbook, but a quick glance through them on
> occasion sure wouldn't hurt.  Take 'em to the head with you, or to the
> opera when your wife/husband/friend drags you along.

Gee, thank you for explaining how 'Real Manly Programmers' (TM) work.  Thanks
for the programming lesson.  Why do you assume that I don't do this already?
As it so happens, I'm mainly an OS/2 programmer who is just playing with 
Windows.  I just tend to take other (non Windows) manuals to the head with 
me.  And besides, I'm the one who drags my wife to the opera (she has to bring 
*her* manuals) :)

> Now.  I've not only bitched at you to  RTFM, but also provided an
> answer for your question.  I hope you appreciate the fact that many of
> our colleagues would only have done the former.  RTFM, dude.

What is your problem?  Two people posted replies to my question, and quite
a few sent me E-mail.  You are the only one who patted himself on the back,
while suggesting that others would bitch at my 'dumb' question (nobody else
did).

It so happens that I read through 2 different books (as well as the 
Borland manuals) for the answer before I posted.  I knew what I wanted was
a device context call (of some sort).  I looked in the DC sections and did
not find the call (it is in a *different* section for some odd reason).  Go
figure.  So I missed the call when I looked, and asked for a little help.
So sue me.

As I mentioned before, I tend to program other environments.  I tend to 
answer (mainly via E-mail) other people's questions when I can (most of 
which are from beginners or experimenters).  I can only hope that I am
more polite than you were.  When I suggest a reference (such as Petzold
for OS/2), I try to do it in the proper spirit.  I don't tell people
to "stop programming until they get it", I merely suggest that it would
make their life a lot easier.

I would suggest that while it is nice that you help people by answering
their questions, you really could stand to do it in a more mellow fashion.

***FLAME OFF***

Peace,
Marty Sirkin