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From: fleischmann@hrz1.hrz.th-darmstadt.de (Dirk Fleischmann)
Subject: Where is HPDJET.EXE?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 10:39:43 GMT
Organization: Hochschulrechenzentrum, TH Darmstadt 
Keywords: Deskjet, HPDJET.EXE, JP350.EXE, WDL

Hello,

I've searched two files from the WDL (Windows Device Library):
  JP350.EXE and HPDJET.EXE.
I haven't seen them neithe at CICA nor with an archie request.
If anyone knows where I can find the files on the INTERNET, please mail me.
If you have the files, please upload them (e.g to CICA) (If you have no
INTERNET access, you can mail (uuencoded) them to me?).

Many thanks in advance
Dirk Fleischmann
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Notice! OS2 will Execute Win3 programs Without having to have Win
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:40:50 GMT

In <1hr27lINNafq@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:

>>>I am an MS-DOS/MS-WIN user.  
>>
>>I am an MS-DOS/Win31--OS/2--Solaris--VMS--IRIX--RISC/os--OS-9--MVS
>>user (I quite using VM/CMS a while back).
>>

>Shucks, if someone puts up a VAX/VMS, CDC/NOS, Alliant/FX implementation
>of DPMI/DOS which supports ms/windows I'd be interested in seeing setup
>information posted here.  It would make a lot more sense than posting the
>same compatibility information to a variety of newsgroups.

And what would make even more sense would be putting it in the group
for VAX/VMS, CDC/NOS, Alliant/FX, et al.  Or, if it becomes a big
deal, make a subgroup under those.

There are groups for promoting OS/2 and Windows (or bashing them,
depending on your viewpoint) and there are informational groups for
OS/2 as well.  After the raft of OS/2 postings here, can anyone really
be surprised when there is a raft of Windows postings in the OS/2
groups? 

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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From: straussr@acfcluster.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: How Big a Perm. Swapfile?
Date: 3 Jan 93 21:20:49 GMT
Organization: New York University

>> gary michael feldman writes:
>>
>> My question: SInce i installed windows on a pretty fresh drive,
>> it suggested a Permanent Swapfle of 16 megs!!! I said ok, but
>> now notice some hard drive spinning and mouse slow-down, which
>> i never had before when i only had a 2 meg swapfile.
>>
>> My computer: 386sx 16mhz, 4 megs ram, DOs 5.0, win 3.1.
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated! (Email would be great too)
>>
>>Gary

The problem with swapfiles is that the bigger you make it, the more Windows
will write  to disk. The smaller your swapfile, the more Windows will rely on
physical RAM. This is why your hard disk is spinning so much. The best thing to
do is to try to limit the swapfile to a more conservative size, such as equal
to your RAM or half of your RAM (4MB or 2MB). The best thing for Windows,
though, is for you to put in another 4MB of RAM. The more physical memory you
have, the better Windows runs.

Rosemary Strauss
From: palmer@icat.larc.nasa.gov (Michael T. Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: Kermit and Win 3.1 Terminal
Date: 24 Dec 92 13:50:36 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: icat.larc.nasa.gov

mliu@pt.com (Fred Liu) writes:

>In article <1992Dec21.043744.603@newstand.syr.edu> ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes:
>>Desperately need help on this one.  I can upload binary and text files to
>>a Sun/4 (running SunOS 4.2, I believe) from my 386 AT clone but I cannot
>>download either type of file.  When I log into the Sun, I get into Kermit,
>>start the server mode, and switch to "receive binary" in Terminal, but
>>the Kermit server times out after many retries.  Is anyone sucessfully
>>up/downloading file from a 386 to a Unix box with Terminal?
>>

>I had exactly the same problem when I first got my pc and tried
>to download files from UNIX.  It all truned out to be that no
>matter what type of the files are, you always use "receive
>binary" *and* don't start the server mode on UNIX.  Just type
>"send filename" and they go back to your pc.

I also had problems at first, uploading to a Sun Sparc 2.  But I successfully
uploaded hundreds of files the following way:

% kermit -i -r

<in Terminal, select the Send Binary menu option and pick the file>

I have never had a problem doing it this way, but frequently ran into
problems trying to start the kermit server mode.  Likewise, to download
files to my pc, I used:

% kermit -i -s filename

<in Terminal, select the Recieve Binary menu option and name the file>

Have fun!  And be sure to use at least a 9.6 kbps modem... life is too
important to waste waiting for file transfers.  :-)

-- 
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Voice: 804-864-2044,   FAX: 804-864-7793,   Email: m.t.palmer@larc.nasa.gov
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Notice! OS2 will Execute Win3 programs Without having to have Win
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:31:42 GMT

In <Dec28.083644.51002@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> hongv@CS.ColoState.EDU (vinh hong) writes:


> Yes, for those of you do not understand OS/2 doc, OS/2 will run any windows
> software( most) without having to install windows operating system.  

> What a great operating system, but BAD..BAD..BAD.. documentation. 
> I love os2, but if they not just limit to 386 and higher machine.

>   Dear Santa,
>      Please save IBM, my future job is depend on them.  Oh yeah, also
>   throw out those old thinkers.

WHY is this in comp.os.ms-windows.setup?  Note that it has nothing to
do with MS-Windows, setting it up, or anything else.

Get thee to a .advocacy newsgroup!

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 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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From: rickcl@pogo.wv.tek.com (Rick Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: COM3 in Windows 3.0
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:52:39 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.


In article <1992Dec16.162224.24606@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes:
>In article <7JoVVB1w165w@bluemoon.use.com> gerry@bluemoon.use.com (Gerard M. Foley) writes:
[...]
>>put the modem on COM3 and the external RS-232 on COM1.  The IRQ's
>>now are COM1 RS232 IRQ4
>>         COM2 Mouse IRQ3
>>         COM3 Modem IRQ5

>How were you able to install COM3 on IRQ5?  Were you using software or some
>other method ot re-assign COM3?  I didn't think there was anything you
>could do about the default IRQ assignments...

Some boards allow you to change your interrupts with a jumper.  I tried playing
with 3 COM ports a while ago.  (I don't remember if it was Windows 3.0 or 3.1.)
I could get Windows to recognize COM3 on IRQ5 SOMETIMES.  Both terminal and the
print spooler would hang up sometimes.  It APPEARED that Windows looked at
IRQ5 most of the time.

I gave up and got an old bus mouse.  I put it on IRQ5, got rid of the third COM
port and haven't had any trouble since.
-- 
Rick Clements (RickCl@pogo.WV.TEK.COM)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: mliu@pt.com (Fred Liu)
Subject: Re: Kermit and Win 3.1 Terminal
Organization: Performance Technologies, Incorporated
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:26:58 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.043744.603@newstand.syr.edu> ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes:
>Desperately need help on this one.  I can upload binary and text files to
>a Sun/4 (running SunOS 4.2, I believe) from my 386 AT clone but I cannot
>download either type of file.  When I log into the Sun, I get into Kermit,
>start the server mode, and switch to "receive binary" in Terminal, but
>the Kermit server times out after many retries.  Is anyone sucessfully
>up/downloading file from a 386 to a Unix box with Terminal?
>

I had exactly the same problem when I first got my pc and tried
to download files from UNIX.  It all truned out to be that no
matter what type of the files are, you always use "receive
binary" *and* don't start the server mode on UNIX.  Just type
"send filename" and they go back to your pc.

-- 
Fred Liu, Performance Technologies Incorporated		mliu@pt.com
315 Science Parkway, Rochester, New York 14620		uupsi!ptsys1!mliu
From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Sound Blaster
Date: 30 Dec 92 15:27:17 GMT
Organization: APG-Edgewood


I have a small window problem.
My system is a 486 dx 33 with 16 megs of ram. Windows 3.1 and normally
have a BBS running in the background at 9600 baud.

With that, I can still go to dos and play my favorite game, Wing Commnder 2, 
off my Sound Blaster pro CD-rom with now loss of speed, compared to my
386 sx I use to run with no windows nor anything runing anywhere. the game is
still faster. Now the music messes up alittle but I think thats due to
origins sound driver not being compatable with a 486.

Anyway my problem is this. certain other games, when playing sounds though
the sound blaster slow everything to a crawl and most others don't.
Case in point: Sierra's new game, The Increatable Machine.  
Works great untill the fan starts.
1. In windows, I was running my usual set up, and the fan started and
everything about forzen and my bbs lost carrier. 
2. I exit windows, play the game, fan starts, everything runs smooth as 
silk. Ah-ha! must be the bbs!
3. I run it from windows with nothing else running, and exclusive turned on.
when the fan starts, everything freezes. So, I begin to think. (that hurts too!
) I run may games with digital sound affects and complete music with no
slow down at all even with people downloading in the back ground. So I
decide that maybe its just to much math for the computer to compute the    
physics of wind and run window. So I sigh, and decide to run the program
only in dos, having to take down my BBS. :(
4. Few days latter, I'm over at my Dads and he just got the game, and
runs it from windows and with a 486 sx-4 megs of ram and a the exact same
video card, there is NO slow up! Now I'm confused. So I think for awhile again,
and it dawns on me that he has no sound card. So I run back home, configer
T.I.M. to play through the PC speaker, and guess what? Runs fine.
And TIM really only uses the adlib abilities of my Sound Blaster pro. So what
gives? 

Does anyone have any suggestions out there? (besides os/2 which is at the
moment not able to use a good part of my hardware. maybe with 2.1..)

Thanks in advance..
Rob Merritt
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: How Big a Perm. Swapfile?
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:55:59 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <1993Jan1.011819.19128@midway.uchicago.edu> gmf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>My computer: 386sx 16mhz, 4 megs ram, DOs 5.0, win 3.1.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated! (Email would be great too)

General rule of thumb, the swapfile shouldn't be more than twice the
available physical ram. Of course, in most cases this rule will be
bullshit, but at least it's a start.

Anyway, in your case I would use an 8MB swapfile. See how that goes
for a while. If you run out of RAM a lot, increase it.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: tracer@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu (Roger M. Wilcox)
Subject: Re: Notice! OS2 will Execute Win3 programs Without having to have Win
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 21:39:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.230354.17542@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>
>[Don't bother answering that -- it's a no-win position.]
                                           ^^^

There we go.  I *knew* this low-key flamewar belonged in this newsgroup for
*some* reason!

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

-- 
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From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Help! Bizarre System Error!
Date: 24 Dec 92 08:45:57 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


This is for the second time of asking. The first time I used the subject 
line: System Error Blues, so maybe it was too cryptic and no-one read it.
This time I'll call it "Help! Bizarre System Error."

        The Details - Standard Windows installation runs OK, until PC is 
attached to the network. Then the message comes up:

                        System Error
                   Cannot Read From Drive J.

        That is to say, boot PC, launch windows: Windows runs OK.
  But boot PC, *attach to network*, launch windows: System error.

        I'm using a standard PC-NFS v4.0a attachment that had worked with
many other PCs just fine. Windows doesn't need to access drive J. when 
launching, so why does it complain? MS Helpline say reinstall windows, but
I've done that and the results are identical.

        It used to say "Cannot Read From Drive H." until I changed
"Set temp=h:\" to "set temp=c:\" in the autoexec.bat. I've tried changing 
the lastdrive=j line in config.sys to lastdrive=z, with no result.

Any clues, anyone? Any miracle answers? Puullleessee?

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From: anibal@ee470.ee.mcgill.ca (Anibal Jodorcovsky)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Deleted File Manager by mistake!!!
Date: 25 Dec 92 20:49:26 GMT
Organization: EE Lab, McGill University EE Lab, Montreal

Hi everyone!!!

I was doing some cleaning up on my windows, and by mistake deleted
the File Manager program group.
How can I retreive it back again?
Do I have to run all the installation from scratch?

Any help greatly appreciated!

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!

-Anibal
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: hongv@CS.ColoState.EDU (vinh hong)
Subject: Notice! OS2 will Execute Win3 programs Without having to have Win
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 08:36:44 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University


 Yes, for those of you do not understand OS/2 doc, OS/2 will run any windows
 software( most) without having to install windows operating system.  

 What a great operating system, but BAD..BAD..BAD.. documentation. 
 I love os2, but if they not just limit to 386 and higher machine.

   Dear Santa,
      Please save IBM, my future job is depend on them.  Oh yeah, also
   throw out those old thinkers.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: yeo@thoth.Princeton.EDU (Boon-Lock Yeo)
Subject: problem with supervga.drv on win3.1
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:07:00 GMT


Hi, I tried to run win3.1 using 800x600 16 color mode (setup
with supervga.drv). Everything is fine until I tried to run
msdos-prompt from window. It switches fine to text mode; when I tried
to get back to window, the screen messed up. Even if I tried to
run msdos-prompt in window mode, the screen still messed up.

I wonder it there is any setup I am missing, or is it the some problem
with the hardware (I have a supervga card 512K ram and a supervga monitor)

I would be most grateful if you could reply by email. Thank you.


Boon-Lock
From: "ron kulick" <ron.kulick@execnet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: deleted file manager by m
Date: 28 Dec 92 03:34:03 EST
Reply-To: "ron kulick" <ron.kulick@execnet.com>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Executive Networks Information

         In article <1992Dec25.204926.20017@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
        anibal@ee470.ee.mcgill.ca (Anibal Jodorcovsky) writes...


AJ>I was doing some cleaning up on my windows, and by mistake deleted
  >the File Manager program group.
  >How can I retreive it back again?
  >Do I have to run all the installation from scratch?

Creating Groups

You can create a group in Program Manager to help organize your
applications and documents.

To create a group:

  1)    From the File menu, choose New.
  2)    In the New Program Object dialog box, select the Program Group
        option, and then choose the OK button.
  3)    In the Description box in the Program Group Properties dialog
        box, type a description for the group. This description will
        appear in the title bar of the group window and below the group
        icon.
  4)    Choose the OK button. Program Manager creates a .GRP file for
        the group, so you can leave the Group File box blank.

Creating Program Items

A program-item icon represents an application, accessory, or document in
a Windows group. By choosing the icon for a program item, you start the
application or accessory, or open the document. You can also create a
program item by using a mouse to drag a program or document file from
File Manager to a Program Manager group.

To create a program item

   1)   Open the group window that you want to add an item to.
   2)   From the File menu, choose New.
   3)   In the New Program Object dialog box, select the Program Item
        option, and then choose the OK button.
   4)   Fill in the Program Item Properties dialog box as necessary, and
        choose the OK button.

For help with the Program Item Properties dialog box, choose the Help
button or press F1 while using the dialog box.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: scottb@sun1x.actc.res.utc.com (TheLrdLovsAHngn)
Subject: Re: Problem getting mouse working in DOS windows
Organization: United Technologies Research Center
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 14:57:05 GMT

Check the version number on the mouse driver.  I had a similair problem
awhile ago.  After talking with several people, I found out that I needed
version 8.2 of the MS mouse driver.  I called MS, and had it shipped out.
If you are a registered dos/windows/mouse user, version 8.2 should be free.
I would give you the number, except its at work and I am at home (plant is
closed for xmas, new years, etc.) and I wont be back in till 1-4-93.  If
this thread is still alive then, I will post it, otherwise send me email to
one of the below addresses and I will send it to you.
-- 
Disclaimer:  I didn't do it!  Nobody saw me do it!  You can't prove anything! 
             My opinions are my own.   They do not reflect anyone/thing else!
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From: drkerns@sony7.sdrc.com (sean kerns)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: 32-bit acces problems
Date: 28 Dec 92 19:22:54 GMT
Organization: SDRC

Keywords: 

Hopefully this is the right place to post this. I have a 386-33 Laser (IBM clone)
tower PC with 6Mb of RAM and a 130 Mb IDE hard drive. I read a Windows tip in
PC World which recommended turning the 32-bit access switch on in Windows to make
it run faster, so I tried it, and sure enough, it seemed to work, so I left it on.

Well, about 2 months after this, I left my PC in a Windows session while I went
to look something up, and came back in about 10 minutes or so to find the 
generic Win 3.1 error screen up, with a message saying my hard drive had timed
out, and that it might not be compatible with 32-bit access. The only way out of
this was to reset the computer, which was messy, since the swap file didn't get
cleaned up. 

Interestingly enough, right about the same time, I had a hard disk problem, and 
CHKDSK looked and foundand marked 32,768 bytes in bad sectors. I truned off the
32-bit switch, and didn't have the problem again. I recently turned it back on, 
and everything was okay for a month or so until I had the same time out error in
Windows. Are the time out problem and the bad sectors related? Did the 32-bit
switch cause this? BTW, I also have the After Dark screen saver program, which 
loads automatically with Windows. Might his be the source of my trouble? 

I appreciate any help you can offer. Post or E-mail me as sean.kerns@sdrc.com.

Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern)
Subject: Kermit and Win 3.1 Terminal
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 04:37:43 EST

Desperately need help on this one.  I can upload binary and text files to
a Sun/4 (running SunOS 4.2, I believe) from my 386 AT clone but I cannot
download either type of file.  When I log into the Sun, I get into Kermit,
start the server mode, and switch to "receive binary" in Terminal, but
the Kermit server times out after many retries.  Is anyone sucessfully
up/downloading file from a 386 to a Unix box with Terminal?

						Thanks,
						Larry

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF)
Subject: can't add fonts under control panel
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:03:48 GMT

I have a strange problem.  I can't add fonts to me win3.1.

I have a disk with some fonts on it.  If I go to another machine, they 
transfer ok.  However, in my machine, they do not.

I can select add, the new fonts are displayed, select all, then ok.
Normally at this point, the fonts are read and updated into the system.  
However, on my machine it simply returns to the font screen.

Any ideas?  I think somewhere there must be a setting that is wrong.

ini problem?  all looks ok when compared to other machines.


mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS STAFF)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup