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From: cs_micko@uxmail.ust.hk (mICHAEL cHAN hO mING)
Subject: Load Borland C program twice...
Organization: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:04:58 GMT

When I load a Borland C shareware, only bwcc.dll is loaded and the shareware
is not loaded.  Then I run the program again and it is ok.  After I exit it and
start a Borland C program (the same program as before or not), it is also ok.  
When I have retarted the windows or have used some program to terminate the
bwcc.dll, the problem happens again.  I have to load a Borland C program twice.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: viel@msdrl.com (Jonathan Vielhaber)
Subject: Wanted: AST/Paradise Win Drivers
Organization: Merck Research Laboratories
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 14:53:58 GMT

Could someone please point me in the direction of some more current
Windows 3.1 drivers for AST computers with the Paradise chipset on the
motherboard? After spending 2 hours on the phone with AST, I finally
got to talk to a human being, who then pointed me to their BBS.
Unfortunately, they only have drivers from 10/24/90, which is what
Windows 3.0 shipped with. Any help would be appreciated.

			Jon Vielhaber
			viel@merck.com
			viel@msdrl.com
			jpv4904@cs.rit.edu
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.misc:6527 comp.os.ms-windows.setup:2872
From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu ( )
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1740 & Smartdrv
Date: 24 Jan 1993 20:31:17 GMT
Organization: Department of EECE, Marquette University
Reply-To: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsf.csd.mu.edu

In article <C18BCp.A28@ibeam.intel.com>, gweil@ibeam.intel.com (Garry Weil) writes:
>Does Smartdrv require double buffering when using the Adaptec
>1740 EISA SCSI disk controller?

	I have a DTC EISA SCSI controller. In the config.sys file I have
	the line

	device=c:\aspi3x90.sys /Q256

	I don't need smartdrv to load at all. If you have a similar 
	aspi driver (from Adaptec) and if the 1740 has some cache memory
	on board, smartdrv should not be needed.

	-Anis.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: hrmrklc@hkucc.hku.hk
Subject: Re: Speed up Game Video ???
Organization: The University of Hong Kong
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:11:38 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.025706.13268@mlb.semi.harris.com>, wlg@homey.mlb.semi.harris.com (Bill Gallucci) writes:
> 
> 
>    Do Video Accelerator Cards speed-up other apps. (games like Comanche, 
>    Falcon ...)
>    or are they just for windows?
> 
>    Thanks
>    Bill
>    wlg@homey.mlb.harris.semi.com
Yes, but insignificant!
James
From: mcglob@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Brian.McGloin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: simple windows finance program????
Keywords: finance
Date: 28 Jan 93 15:25:34 GMT
Reply-To: mcglob@usissc.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Brian.McGloin)
Organization: DaytonOH.NCR.COM

In article <servis.728167495@author.ecn.purdue.edu: servis@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Brian K Servis) writes:
:Can someone recommend, if there is one, a simple finance manager for win3.1.
:All I really want to do is keep track of bills and paycheck and the like.
:Nothing real fancy for loans and stock, etc.  I have access to ftp so just
:the name of a site and file name will do with maybe a quick blurb on the
:program.  Thanks for all the advice. Just email to me. Lets not clog the
:net with this one. Thanks.
:
:Brian (servis@author.ecn.purdue.edu)

Try Microsoft Money or shareware called WinCheck.

Money sells for about $10 - $20 and is extremely easy to use.

WinCheck is built along the same lines, but I "think" it costs more than $20
to register.

Good luck!!!

_____________________________

BILLS 31	COWGIRLS 21

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Brian T. McGloin	| Lift your glasses, friend, with mine 
NCR Corp.		| And raise your hand with me 
USG/ISS-OLS		| I'm England stole, I'm Ireland spent 
Miamisburg, OH 45342	| I'm an outlawed rapparee 
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.misc:6529 comp.os.ms-windows.apps:7474
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Norton Desktop: Not Enough Memory for DOS Apps
Date: 24 Jan 1993 17:27:56 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: gondolin.pubs.stratus.com

I finally upgraded to Norton Destktop 2.0 last week. It's worked
fine except for one problem: every now and then, when I try to
open a DOS application or a DOS window, I get a "not enough
memory to run correctly" message.  This occurs when I have
no other Apps running, and when System Info says I have
plenty of free resources left. Any suggestions as to what might
be wrong?

In case it matters, here's the setup:

386/33 with 4 M
2 M swapdrive
smartdrv.exe disk cache (512K under Windows)
Norton screen saver used as screen saver 




--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
From: pkarrer@bernina.ethz.ch (Peter Karrer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: SYSFON10.ZIP - Create your own Windows System Fonts
Date: 25 Jan 93 01:16:11 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH

I have uploaded to the FTP site wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]:

SYSFON10.ZIP - Create your own Windows System Fonts.

SYSFON 1.0 is a free utility which lets you create your own Windows
system fonts from existing Windows screen fonts (Bitmap, TrueType,
ATM etc.).  The "System Font" is the typeface Windows uses for window
titles, menus and some dialog boxes.

SYSFON10.ZIP resides in the pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/windows directory at
wuarchive.  It will be uploaded to ftp.cica.indiana.edu as soon as
this site accepts uploads again.  Perhaps it will also show up in the
comp.binaries.ms-windows newsgroup.

Enjoy,
-- 
Peter Karrer                                   pkarrer@bernina.ethz.ch
From: stu@suntan.tandem.com (Stuart Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: PrintIt! V1.2 now available!!!!
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:57:10 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Organization: Tandem Computers

PrintIt! V1.2
-------------

PrintIt! is a utility that allows you to view and print text files.  Its
primary audience is programmers and other professionals that have frequent
need to use text files under Windows.

With PrintIt! you may view multiple files at the same time or print text
files in a variety of modes.

PrintIt! was written to enable you to print text files speedily and
economically without too much paper.  PrintIt! prints files in terms of
logical pages; you can instruct PrintIt! to print several logical pages
on a physical page.

Using PrintIt! you can print one, two or four logical pages per physical
page in either landscape or portrait mode.  Two up mode is best for printing
source files for review or documentation.  Four up mode is useful to view
large files quickly.

Preferred one line description:

PRTIT12.ZIP	- Text file viewer and printer formatter

Watch for next release!
-----------------------

PrintIt! V2.1 is under development and will bring many
new features....

	- Drag & Drop support to print files
	- Menu command to determine how many pages to print
	- Headers enhanced to include file date & time stamp
	- Save/Restore all configuration parameters as defaults

Watch for announcement.

Availability
------------

PrintIt! V1.2 can be obtained via anonymous FTP from:

	ftp.cica.indiana.edu: pub/pc/win3/uploads
		expected to move to....
			      pub/pc/programmr	

	[as soon as cica re-enables uploads!]

	tandem.com:	      pub 

File name: prtit12.zip


Change History
--------------

V1.2 (1/25/93)
	- Problems printing with Postscript printers.  Neither
	  Print Setup... or Print... dialog boxes appear when
	  corresponding menu commands selected.

		Fixed; method of obtaining printer device mode
		       structure changed to avoid 'missing device'
		       error.

	- Selecting font sizes smaller than 7 pt caused PrintIt!
	  to succesively reduce the point size by 1 on every 
	  subsequent invocation of the Format|Font menu item.

		Fixed; incorrectly translated point size after
		       Font selection.

	- When using 'Terminal' font, Format|Font must be selected
	  after PrintIt! starts before font is correctly displayed.

		Defer; due to PrintIt! storing only partial font
		       information in it's profile file.  Will be
		       fixed in release 2.1.

V1.1 (1/18/93)

	- Selecting certain printers as default printer would cause
	  PrintIt! to abort during startup with a "Square root of -1"
	  error message.

		Fixed; defective printer driver over writes certain
		       input only parameters causing later divide
		       by zero condition.

	- Selecting certain printers as default printer would prevent
	  PrintIt! from displaying Printer Setup... or Print...
	  dialog boxes.

		Fixed; certain drivers require more memory to be
		       allocated for internal data structures than
		       PrintIt! V1.0 allocated.

V1.0	- Initial release
From: jkb@suned1.Nswses.Navy.Mil (John K Bunk)
Organization: NSWSES Code 4g13 - Opinions: Are Mine Alone
Subject: MFC Question:  can I get a DC from a CDC?
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:30:43 -0800
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X-To: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc.usenet

I'm currently learing C++ and MFC by creating a
Device Independant Bitmap (DIB) object which reads
a .BMP file and displays the bitmap via a CDC
object.

The problem:  SetDIBitsToDevice needs a DC for
it's first argument.  SetDIBitsToDevice is not
a member of the CDC class.  The DC attribute
within the CDC class is probably a private item
(can't find it in the Class Libraries Reference
manual).  I cannot find any CDC member which gives
me a DC.  So, how can I get a DC from the CDC 
passed to my DIB paint routine to give to the
SetDIBitsToDevice call?

Thanks in advance for all responses!
John Bunk

P.S.  If someone has already written a DIB object
which can read .BMP files, please let me know!

-- 
                      John Bunk, Code 4G13, NSWC-PHD 
                       jkb@suned1.nswses.navy.mil
    Any statements / opinions made here are mine, alone, not the Navy's.
              But that's OK, the Navy is usually wrong anyhow.
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc:5289 rec.games.programmer:5494
From: rsl11@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.windows.misc
Subject: PROBLEMS WITH STACKER......
Date: 28 Jan 93 18:04:42 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
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)
Subject: Re: Viewer for postscript doc files on NT sdk. 
Distribution: world
Organization: None
Reply-To: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:43:57 +0000

In article <1324@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu> manaster@yu1.yu.edu writes:

>I  understand that there are some viewers that one can use to view
> all the postscript documentation files on the NT sdk CD_ROM.
>[ stuff deleted ]
> Why on Earth did microsoft put this out in this fashion without a
> viewer. It almost seems like this is part of some mad plan to
> force people to BUY the docs.
>

Because the CD-ROM *also* contains the same information in Windows Write,
and in "Help" format.  Lots of people have a PostScript printer, and for
those people, supplying the documentation in PostScript format allows them
to directly print the documentation without the bother of having to go via
a word processor.

> Thank you very much for the help.
>
> Henry Manaster
>

Best wishes,

Chris
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)
Subject: Re: Drawing many different objects 
Distribution: world
Organization: None
Reply-To: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:28:19 +0000

In article <TAC.93Jan26103859@rena.inesc.pt> tac@rena.inesc.pt writes:

>
>
>Hello
>
>I would like some advice on the following problem.
>
>I need to draw may graphical objects, which use different 
>pens, brushes, fonts and bitmaps(used for custom brush patterns).
>
>The objects can be created dynamically, so I don't now at start how many
>pen/brushes/*,  I will need.
>
>Should I, Each time I need to draw, use the Paint DC or the dc from GetDC(hWnd)
>and create the pen/brush/* selected it to the dc, draw, and then deselect it?
>
>What are the penalties of using allways GetDC() (instead of the Paint DC)
>even when processing PAINT events?
>

It's not a question of *penalties* - it's a question of what works!
BeginPaint/EndPaint doesn't only give you the DC; more importantly it
validates the invalid region and clips to it.  If you respond to WM_PAINT
using GetDC your invalid region will *never* get validated, and you'll
get an endless stream of WM_PAINT messages!

>Would it be faster (since I need to draw many graphical objects) to draw
>first on a bitmap and then BitBlt it to the window?
>

If you have a static complex scene then yes - draw it once to a bitmap or
metafile, then blit/play it back on receipt of WM_PAINT.

If you're only going to be drawing it once, then it'll be faster if you 
paint directly to the screen.

>Should I have lists of pre-created pens/brushes/* and each time I need to
>perform a graphic operation try to find on those lists the best matching
>pen/brush/* instead of creating it?
>

That depends how many you're talking about.  Creating a few hundred pens
when you draw is insignificant; creating half a million takes a long time.
If you really have a *lot* a creating/deleting to do (>100,000), create
the pens once and store them in an array or something.  If you have less,
create and destroy them dynamically.

>        Thanks for any info.
>
>Telmo Carmo - tac@inesc.pt
>

Best wishes,

Chris
>--
>=============================================================================
>Telmo Carmo -- tac@inesc.pt           | 'Old programmers never die,
>Tel: +351-1-3100085 FAX: 351-1-525843 |  they just branch to another address'
>==============================================================================
>

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk (Chris Marriott)
Subject: Re: MS-Fortran: filename from cmd line? 
Distribution: world
Organization: None
Reply-To: chris@chrism.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:38:05 +0000

In article <davidw.727655487@auck.irl.cri.nz> davidw@auck.irl.cri.nz writes:

>I recently upgraded to MS-Fortran 5.1, which can generate Windows
>programs. 
>
>I wish to associate the input files for my Fortran simulation with 
>the Windows .EXE file, AND get the input filename into the 
>simulation for character manipulation to generate corresponding 
>output filenames. 
>
>Eg, associate *.INP with SIMULATE.EXE. Now I want to be able to
>double-click on XYZ.INP (in FileManager) to run SIMULATE, opening
>XYZ.INP as input and generating XYZ.OUT for output. 
>
>My local Microsoft support provided information about accessing
>the PSP or PDB at the start of the app, and a Windows call:
>GetCurrentPDB(). Before looking into something that seems rather
>complex to me, has anyone solved this one already?
>
>david white                           davidw@auck.irl.cri.nz
>
>--
> david white    (engineer, Goon fan & son of my Dad)
> Internet davidw@auck.irl.cri.nz  Fax +64 9 443-4737
>

I've converted quite a number of FORTRAN codes to run under Windows.
My advice would be to convert your main program to a SUBROUTINE, and
add a small front end program in C which calls the FORTRAN code. That
way you can use all the standard C command-line parsing stuff.

Best wishes,

Chris
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: Alastair_McColl@mindlink.bc.ca (Alastair McColl)
Subject: Re: Drawing Text on its side in BC++?
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:44:04 GMT

> Steven Greco writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <C17xG3.DMw@cs.uiuc.edu>
> Posted: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:14:2
>
> Org.  : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
> I need to draw text on its side and was wondering if it is possible to
> do this with Borland C++ and owl.  Right now I am using DrawText to draw
> my text, but it just produces normal text, not text on its side.  Is this
> possible?  Is there any way to rotate a bitmap possibly?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> ^ Steven Greco ^           "I've got a real indication of a laugh coming
> on..."
> greco@cs.uiuc.edu                  -Thought Gang
> s-greco@uiuc.edu


There are two arguments to DrawText() that control the angle of the type
characters. One is referred to as "escapement" and I can't remember the other
one off hand, but the difference is subtle... I don't want to look it up
right now, but they're there.

--
Alastair McColl, Bird's Eye PMSB
------------------------------------------------------------- email:
a2111@mindlink.bc.ca  | "GRAVITY: NOT JUST A GOOD IDEA,
tel/fax: (604)873-8434       |            IT'S THE LAW"
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: rioj7@fel.tno.nl (M.L.M.Veraart)
Subject: Re: Changing window background colour
Organization: TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 07:49:31 GMT

ee_d270@ceres.kingston.ac.uk (Richard D Knight) writes:


>Hi, my mian windows background colour is light gray, and I want my 
>child windows to have a standard white background, but when I create
>the windows, they all have a gray background. Can anyone tell me how to
>make the childwindow white?

>thanks

>ee_d270@king.ac.uk

If you register a new window class you can set the background color
to white. Then create the child windows using this class. An other possible
solution is to process the WM_ERASEBACKGROUND message for the child windows.

Mario Veraart
-- 
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email: rioj7@fel.tno.nl        The Hague       The Netherlands
"If all else fails, show pretty pictures and animated videos, 
 and don't talk about performance",  David Bailey
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: stu@Tandem.COM (Stuart Phillips)
Subject: GDI printing problems with PSCRIPT.DRV ??
Reply-To: stu@Tandem.COM
Organization: Tandem Computers, Cupertino - USA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:39:09 GMT

So it appears that GDI isn't as device independent as you might expect!
I have a program that prints just fine on a whole bunch of different
printers but doesnt print correctly when output to a printer driven
through PSCRIPT.DRV.

The first page prints just fine but subsequent pages are missing my page
headers and some dividing lines on the page.  Inspection of the Postscript
generated by the driver shows that the header information is generated
correctly for the first page but is missing for subsequent pages.

It almost appears as if the driver recognized a common sequence across
different pages and tried to macro'ize the headers.

The code that I have driving the GDI looks something like this:

	StartDoc(hDC);	// Issues Escape(STARTDOC)

	while (!bDonePrinting) {
		StartPage(hDC);
		PrintHeaders(hDC);

		< Print body of page>
		EndPage(hDC);
	}

	EndDoc(hDC);	// Issues Escape(ENDDOC)

Has anyone else seen this kind of problem with PSCRIPT.DRV and if so,
do you know what magic incantation generates a work around ?

Thanks!
Stu

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