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From: desikacharyk@wl.aecl.ca
Subject: Why does Winword replace some chars in the font by its own?
Organization: AECL RESEARCH
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:50:29 GMT

Hello Winword Experts:

	I have a problem with Word for Windows (V2.0), running under Windows3.1.
I have a foreign language  PS font, in which all the slots in the range 32-255
are populated. I can type and print all these characters in WRITE, but when I 
port this file into Word for Windows, 5 of the characters do not display/print
well. These correspond to codes 0147, 0148, 0150, 0151 and 0160, respectively.
On exploration, I found some clues to this behavior on Page 92 of the Word 
Manual. Accroding to this manual, Word associates four of these codes with 
the following chars:

Code	Char
0147	left curly quote
0148	right curly quote
0150	en dash
0151	em dash

	When I port my file from WRITE, I see that windows has substituted
the original chars in the font by the above chars (I have converted the file
into my font after importing it into word, and also confirmed this behaviour 
by directly entering the above codes from the numeric keypad while NUMLOCK
and ALT keys are depressed). So, it appears that I can solve my problem if I 
can override this default behavior of the WinWord and retain the chars from the 
original font. However, I found no way of doing this in the manual. So, I am 
appealing to the experts here to let me know if they know a way of doing this.
Can somebody from Microsoft please comment on this. I think that this a case
of the program thinking that it is smarter than the user. 

Regards,
Desikachary.
From: rjm@inf.rl.ac.uk (Roger May)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Internal PC-speaker
Date: 15 Oct 92 06:38:25 GMT
Reply-To: rjm@inf.rl.ac.uk
Organization: SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratories

SPEAK.EXE is a self extracting ZIP that extracts into a PC internal Speaker driver
for Windows 3.1

I found it in the following place...

micros.hensa.ac.uk in the directory /micros/ibmpc/win/b/b007/b007speak.boo

Its BOO'ed so you will need deboo (Obviously)

Roger

P.S

It works, but the internal speaker is useless. Better to buy a soundblaster card....
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: cmg@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Christian Gersch)
Subject: WFW2 printing on a DeskJet 500
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:34:39 GMT

I am having trouble printing graphics from embedded in WFW2.0 documents on my
HP DeskJet printer. The graphics come out all black, and/or missing bits.

The graphics were originally created in CorelDraw (ver 2), and I have tried
importing them via the clipboard and as .WMF files. Sometimes, when I try to
edit them using the WFW Draw program, it gives me an error like "invalid picture
object" or something, and then removes the graphic from my document (they
display okay in WFW).

I am using the Windows 3.1 DeskJet driver, and am running Win 3.1 on a 486 with
4 meg of ram and a 12 meg swap file.

H E L P !
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Error bar in scatter plot with Excel 4.
From: dmmatt@bigez (Mike Mattix)
Date: 8 Oct 92 11:45:22 GMT
Organization: Monsanto Agricultural Company
Nntp-Posting-User: dmmatt

In article <g7gp69+@lynx.unm.edu>, tkeitt@algodones.unm.edu (Timothy Keitt) writes:
> 
> Of course, for a large data set you'll need to write a
> macro (unless you really like copying and pasting cells :-)
> Better yet call MS and complain about the excel's
> ridiculously anemic plotting routines. Excel's great
> if you want to do silly picture graphs, but almost
> worthless for many scientific plots. I've found ways
> to overcome many of excel's limitations, but its getting
> old, quick!

 I have to admit amazement at the lack of scientific plotting
features in a business tool like a spreadsheet.  I guess the
thing does load too fast currently.  We certainly need to fix
that..

-- 
Mike Mattix
Agricultural Group of Monsanto
P.O. Box 174
Luling, LA 70070
INTERNET Address: dmmatt@bigez.monsanto.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: traiger@cheshire.oxy.edu (Saul Traiger)
Subject: Re: Hypertext
Keywords: hypertext
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 01:57:44 GMT

In article <1992Oct2.204849.17418@u.washington.edu> rene@hardy.u.washington.edu (Rene Magritte) writes:
> 
>	I am very interested in Hypertext as a tool, and have been
>playing with a progrm called Magic that works under DOS.  What I need
>now is a similar program which works under Windows.  I have yet to
>find any reasonably priced program which does this.   

I have used Guide by Owl International for several years, and I
recommend it highly. Version 3.1, which was just released, allows
royalty free distribution of the hypertext documents you create. Guide
isn't cheap, but it is a serious product produced by a company which
listens to its user base and makes steady improvements.

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From: roth@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Need assistance with Microsoft Mail 3.0 for Windows
Date: 13 Oct 92 20:09:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: skyler.1992Oct13.140926.1
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center

Hi - 

We've been trying to install Microsoft Mail 3.0 for Windows for a while.  We
seem to be running into corrupt .mmf files.  We've tried checking the box that
tells mail to copy the Inbox (synchronizing the DOS and Windows mail) to no
avail.  We've been told that there might be a problem since we're using NFS to
connect to the mail files.  I find that somewhat hard to believe since the 
DOS version works fine.

If anybody has any assistance - I'm open to new ideas/answers/whatever.

If it matters, we didn't have any problems with Microsoft mail 2.1, either
DOS or windows.

Steve
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: s_fuller@iastate.edu (Steve Fuller)
Subject: Suggestions for shareware PIM
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 03:48:25 GMT

What are people's suggestions for a good shareware / freeware
PIM???

I'm mainly using it for names and addresses, but some
appointments and info about each person will be kept as well.
Email replies welcome, but followup here is fine if you  thinks
this a broad enough topic for discussion...


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Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.apps:3533 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:5614
From: jbg@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Jeff Gehlhaar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Eudora for Windows?
Date: 8 Oct 92 00:20:38 GMT
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson) writes:

>I found a year-old reference in comp.archives: "...someone is porting Eudora to
>the Windows environment."  I love Eudora (a pop3 client) on the Mac, I want it
>for Windows too.  Anybody know anything about it?  TIA.

Qualcomm is in the process of cloning Eudora to the PC. Both the DOS and
Windows version are in early testing.

If you need more info, send mail to pc-eudora-info@qualcomm.com.

Jeff Gehlhaar
PC Eudora Development Team
Qualcomm Inc.
San Diego, CA USA
jbg@qualcomm.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: marotz@IMD.Sterling.COM (Chris Marotz)
Subject: Converting TrueType fonts to Autocad .DXF format. How?
Reply-To: marotz@IMD.Sterling.COM
Organization: Sterling Software
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:03:36 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 7ca36c82eae3c276336b8a683552cfe7

Hi all,

I wondered if anybody had heard of any shareware/freeware Windows programs
that could convert TrueType fonts into .DXF format. If possible, would said
programs also allow extrusion of the Font in 3-D?

Please respond via e-mail, or to this group.

Thank you in advance...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: stu@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Stu Brown)
Subject: NDW: How do I set the Desktop Editor windows size/location?
Organization: Mentor Graphics, Silicon Design Division
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:03:40 GMT

When I open the Desktop Editor by launching aith a file, I would like 
the edit window to be a particular size and position. In particular,
I would like it to be as wide as the Desktop Editor application
window - whose size is remembered by the system.

Any hints? Thanks.
-- 
Stuart Brown
Mentor Graphics Corporation
I.C. Group, Warren NJ
stu@warren.mentorg.com or uunet!sdl!stu
From: matt@Turing.ORG (Matthew L. Kreger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Windows & Telnet/News/FTP from remote
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:20:58 GMT
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.

In article <BvoAo8.Atr@sti.com> westes@sti.com (Will Estes) writes:
>
>Unless, of course, you are using NetManage Chameleon.  Chameleon has a
>built-in scripting language that will connect to the SLIP port, provide
>your userid and password, and connect, all invisibly without any
>intervention on your part.  All under Windows without needing to load
>anything before you enter Windows...Very slick.
>
>-- 
>Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com

So is this Chameleon public domain, commercial, what?  Give us the scoop.

-- 
Matt Kreger (matt@turing.org) is not affiliated with anyone. INFP
From: calloway@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Frank Calloway)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:11:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Word vs WordPerfect
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

I was a fan of WordPerfect for DOS for many years before making the
transition to Windows.  Thus, I expected to like WordPerfect for
Windows.  Instead, I found it to be incredibly slow (on a 386-25), 
buggy (even the interim "bug-fix" release), and lacking in features 
when compared to its competitors.  WordPerfect's "serial stream of 
text" approach to formatting seems especially clumsy under Windows, 
where most programs are object-oriented and enjoyable to use. 

I now use Word for Windows 2.0b.  Ami Pro is very nice, especially 
if working with graphics is a major interest, but Word is more 
powerful for serious text editing.  

But you don't have to take my word for it.  Reviews in computer
magazines pretty much agree with my experiences (except they're 
somewhat kinder to WordPerfect for Windows than I am). 

Frank Calloway
From: lawson@mdc.com (Jim Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Questions about WinWord 2.0b
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:08:27 GMT
Reply-To: Lawson%ssdvax.decnet@lbgwy.mdc.com
Organization: MDSSC-SSD
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

I got through to Microsoft this morning, they are now backordered
on W4W 2.0b and I'll be getting my missing disk in a week :-(

They aren't getting too many brownie points from me on this one !

--
Jim Lawson	Lawson%ssdvax.decnet@lbgwy.mdc.com
		Alt:	Lawson@netsun.mdc.com or Lawson@mdcbbs.com

Opinions/Comments expressed here are my own and no one elses !!
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: dickerso@fester.dell.com (Russell Dickerson - X2787)
Subject: Windows Genealogy Program?
Reply-To: dickerso@cpat.stortek.com
Organization: IO SpecialistsConsulting
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:21:46 GMT

Does anyone know of a Windows-based genealogy program available?

reply>dickerso@cpat.stortek.com

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From: ryba@ll.mit.edu (Marty Ryba)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Printer driver for Apple Imagewriter II (incl. color)?
Keywords: help!
Date: 16 Oct 92 16:24:12 GMT
Reply-To: ryba@ll.mit.edu (Marty Ryba)
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Organization: Group 101, MIT Lincoln Lab.
Originator: ryba@ll.mit.edu (Marty Ryba)



   Anyone out there get their hands on a printer driver for the good 'ol
Imagewriter II?  It's such a nice little printer that I'd hate to throw
mine out, but being limited to plain text is a real shame given the
abilities of the printer.  Any leads?  I tried cica to no avail.

-- 
Dr. Marty Ryba                     |	Generation X:
Group 101 - Air Defense Techniques |
MIT Lincoln Laboratory             |  Too young to be cynical,
ryba@ll.mit.edu                    |		too old to be optimistic.
From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu (K. M. A. Rahman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Soft & Hard fonts...pro's and con's...
Date: 16 Oct 1992 13:03:27 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsd.csd.mu.edu

In article <1992Oct15.135527.1511@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>, z_rasmusseam@ccsvax.sfasu.
edu writes:
|>I work for the library computing department at my school.  Currently
|>we are running (on the clone side) novell 386 and windows as the shell, if you
|>will.  We've got two *sigh* Texas Instruments MicroLaser Pluses in
|>HP Laserjet II 'compatability'.  They are woefully slow.  They also have
|>a tendency to 'lose' jobs if the job contains a difficult font or heavy
|>graphics.  We've just ordered an upgrade to a 4MB memory set for each of
|>them.  What I'm intrested in is are there 'soft' fonts out there for these
|>guys?  Would an HP cartridge font set do the trick?  Are softfonts better
|>than cartridge?  Anyway, you get the idea...  Thanx in advance...
>    
>     | Adam Murrell Rasmussen                               |

	There are tons of soft fonts for HP II and compatible printers
	(and other upgrade printers). Try, for example, ATM. If you have
	ATM manager, you can use 'millions' of shareware fonts available
	on ftp sites such as cica.indiana.edu.

	In all respects, you'll be better of investing in a soft font
	manager (like atm ~90 bucks) than buying cartridge. Cartridge fonts 
	are costlier and limited in varities per cartridge.

	-Anis.
From: sgw@boy.com (Steven Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: FrameMaker pricing question
Date: 9 Oct 92 20:35:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: boy.1992Oct09.203508.10053
Distribution: usa
Organization: Beach Systems / RTFM UN*X Solutions, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

D. Paul Benjamin writes:
>I've been trying for weeks to get the educational discount
>price for framemaker for windows. I've called and left messages
>at frame tech. but nobody ever calls back. Is there anybody out
>there who can tell me the price? Thanks in advance.

Email them at  comments@frame.com


----
 Steven Warner  (34W 36L)
 sgw@boy.com    [ ess gee double you at boy dot com ]
   "...anything but a hayse modem..."
From: reamer@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Sean A. Waiss)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Questions about WinWord 2.0b
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:32:34 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <46mpj-m@lynx.unm.edu> Lawson%ssdvax.decnet@lbgwy.mdc.com writes:
>Did yyou get the full package of disks ? I only got 1,3,4,5,6 :-(
>
>I'm gonna have to get them to mail me the missing disk 2, are there any
>after 6 I'm missing too ?
>
>Thanks :-)
>
>--
>Jim Lawson	Lawson%ssdvax.decnet@lbgwy.mdc.com
>		Alt:	Lawson@netsun.mdc.com or Lawson@mdcbbs.com
>
How many other people has Microsoft screwed up like this?  I ordered
the upgrade over a month ago, and finally received it this past week.
But lo and behold, when I opened the package, I found that I was missing
disk number 2.  Come on Microsoft, I've never had these kind of problems
with any other company (though I've never attempted contacting Symantec),
and for a corporation your size, they are unexcusable!!  As a registered
user of at least six, yes, count them, SIX, Microsoft products, if this
is the kind of service I can expect from now on, then maybe I'll go
back to using inferior Lotus products.  At least I've never had them
forget to send me one disk out of six.  And to think that the entire
Management Grad School here is almost completely a Microsoft house,
yet it only has Word ver 2.0.  No a, no b, just 2.0.  That also applies
to all of the IBM-compatibles on campus here at Purdue.  Maybe we should
consider a change.

Hey Netters out there, do you think Microsoft would pay attention if
a Big Ten university decided to drop the Microsoft products from over
five hundred pc's?  Not to mention at least four seperate networks?
Well Bill Gates, would that get your attention?



Sean Waiss (reamer@sage.cc.purdue.edu)

These comments have no affiliation with the views of the Purdue University
Administration or Computing Centers - the students can't get any kind of
statement from them, so why should you?
From: schles@whatever.cs.jhu.edu (COMP NERDS R US)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Postscript Printer (another thing)
Date: 9 Oct 92 19:28:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: blaze.1992Oct9.192817.5027
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD

Hi folks - another question...why don't I see in the Advanced area of the
options area of the printer setup of the Postscript Printer driver an
option that's listed in the help file called Native TrueType?  I see the
Bitmap (Type 3) and the Adobe Type 1 choices and then there's an empty line
below where Native TrueType would be.  What's going on? - Phil

-- 
Philip Schlesinger                         schles@cs.jhu.edu
------------------------------------------------------------
"How'd you get that Cray II to run slower than my old C-64?"
"Oh, that took a bit of doing.  Take a look at /bin/session"
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: petes@icarus.ifsm.umbc.edu (Mr. Peter C. Schuyler)
Subject: WINQVT/Net 2.8 and Mail
Keywords: mail
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:58:01 GMT

Has anyone had any luck getting the new mail check to work in 
WINQVT/Net 2.8.  Mine never seems to check every five mins or
whatever the limit is.  I have to to exit then re-open to get it to
check for new mail

--

Peter C. Schuyler
University of Maryland Baltimore County
petes@ifsm.umbc.edu (NeXT)
PH# (410) 455-2648 FAX# (410) 455-1073
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: chan@biostat.washington.edu (Benjamin Chan)
Subject: Any MS Works for Win users?
Organization: Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Univ. of Wash.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 19:20:23 GMT

(Sorry if this is a repost)

I am currently thinking about purchasing MS Works for Windows and
wondered what users thought about the current version (2.0 I believe)
My system is:

386sx, 16Mhz, 4 Mb RAM
40 Mb HD
Mono VGA monitor
V7 Fastwrite VGA card w/ 256 Kb

It's not an extremely fast system and have limited disk space, which
is why I'd like to get the most bang for the buck.  Please don't tell
me to get a bigger disk or a disk compaction thing, I'm a student with
a limited budget.  My primary use would be for word processing, small 
spreadsheets, and small databases (nothing more complicated than an
address book for example).  My main concern is what features the word
proc. module has.  I`m also concerned with what file format each
module can read/write.

Please e-mail

Thanks is advance

- Benjamin Chan, chan@biostat.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: bdeskin@cognos.com (Bob Deskin)
Subject: Re: Norton Desktop support from Symantec is terrible!
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa CANADA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:18:36 GMT

Symantec is sending out an update disk. I also called with a problem in 
June/July and was told that I'd receive an update. When it didn't come
I phoned back in August and was told that it was shipping. I finally got it
a week ago or so. It fixed the problem I had (dragging more than one 
directory in the tree pane to copy didn't create the directories in the 
right order). I don't know what the revision number was but it said
"Compatibility Update" on the disk (a printed disk label for the update).
What it did not have was a list of everything that this was supposed to
fix. I called Symantex support and was told that all the fixes were 
internal, not to the interface. I couldn't believe that in this day and 
age someone would say that to me when the bug that I had certainly had
to do with the interface. They also would not list the fixes nor would 
they send me a list. He wouldn't even admit one existed. If anyone has
compiled a list of the fixes, I'd appreciate a copy. By the way, I think
Symantec is sending these updates out to all registered users since 
another fellow in the office got an update but never asked for it.

-- 
Bob Deskin                    Cognos Incorporated   
(613) 738-1440                P.O. Box 9707, 3755 Riverside Drive
FAX (613) 738-0002            Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1G 3Z4
bdeskin@cognos.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: chan@biostat.washington.edu (Benjamin Chan)
Subject: Any users of MS Works for Win?
Organization: Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Univ. of Wash.
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 19:06:45 GMT

I am currently thinking about purchasing MS Works for Windows and
wondered what users thought about the current version (2.0 I believe)
My system is:

386sx, 16Mhz, 4 Mb RAM
40 Mb HD
Mono VGA monitor
V7 Fastwrite VGA card w/ 256 Kb

It's not an extremely fast system and have limited disk space, which
is why I'd like to get the most bang for the buck.  Please don't tell
me to get a bigger disk or a disk compaction thing, I'm a student with
a limited budget.  My primary use would be for word processing, small 
spreadsheets, and small databases (nothing more complicated than an
address book for example).  My main concern is what features the word
proc. module has.  I`m also concerned with what file format each
module can read/write.

Please e-mail

Thanks is advance

- Benjamin Chan, chan@biostat.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: thigpen@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Keith Thigpen)
Subject: Availability of Windows-based newsreader?
Summary: Looking for Windows newsreader for uupc
Keywords: windows news newsreader
Organization: NASA/MSFC
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:52:20 GMT

I'm looking for a Windows-based newsreader for uupc. Is anyone aware of 
such a beast?

TIA
Keith

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