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From: mike@win3 (Michael Paull)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: serial printer problems
Date: 11 Jan 93 09:42:16 GMT
Organization: Victoria University of Technology
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Has anyone experienced any problems using DTR control with serial printers
in Windows 3.1 .. The setup we have is as follows ;

			* Apple LaserWriter ( running as a HP )

			* Standard PC Comm port config as Com 1

Pinouts of our serial cable are ;

		2 & 3 Crossed
		4 & 5 crossed
		6 & 20 crossed
		7 straight through

This cable works fine under DOS, when trying to print through windows how-
ever, windows responds with "printer not ready - retry or cancel"

And Windows has been configured for hardware handshaking, so there should be
no reason why it works under dos and not windows. Does anyone know if there
is a bug with relation to this setup, and if so, is there a bug patch? 
Or, have we left something out of our cable ??

Any help appreciated.

			Mike

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From: jwu@cs.ubc.ca (Joseph Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: TrueTypeFont-Bug!
Date: 8 Jan 1993 00:25:21 -0800
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: cascade.cs.ubc.ca

rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols) writes:

:In article <1ce6da9b@p7.f7521.n241.z2.fidonet.org> in comp.os.ms-windows.setup
:   Kai_Rohrbacher@p7.badendoor.fido.de (Kai Rohrbacher) writes:
:>
:>  I  discovered  a  very  annoying  bug with Windows' 3.1 TrueTypeFonts
:>  (TTF's) and I can't imagine being the first one:
:>  When  using  complex  TTF's  (especially  the  three ornamented fonts
:>  "CarrickCaps",  "KonanurKaps" and "Starburst"; others too), the chars
:>  display well at the screen, but get printed out as empty, rectangular
:>  boxes!
:...
:>  I  suspect  that by default, Windows doesn't set aside enough RAM for
:>  the font-handling; does anybody know how to fix that?

:The problem doesn't seem to be just with Windows drivers.  I ran into
:this exact problem with some of the fonts you mentioned and various
:others.  I tried to use Atech's Alltype conversion utility to convert
:the offending fonts to type-1 PostScript, but it died with a general
:protection fault on every one!

:The other fonts that gave me trouble were:

:	EileenCaps		Elzevier-Caps
:	EileenCaps-Black	Uechi

:If anyone can point me toward a working version (PostScript or TrueType)
:of any of the above fonts, I'd appreciate it.

:Bob Nichols
:AT&T Bell Laboratories
:rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com

There was a point in time when the faces mentioned above
were not available as TTF's (well, at least "CarrickCaps"
and "KonanurKaps").  I was forced to convert them from Type
1 using AllType. The conversion did not go well, and I
ended up with the same results as was described in the
first post. I suspect that the TTF versions of these faces
that are now floating around are simply AllType conversions
of the original Type 1 versions and have suffered through
the same sort of conversion error.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb)
Subject: Re: INCREDIBLY SLOOOOOOOW PRINTING IN WINDO
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:50:26 GMT

Does Microsoft have a new printer driver for the HP Laserjet Series II?

-- Richard
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: rockford@zombie.oulu.fi.oulu.fi (Petri Kekkonen)
Subject: Re: CGA-driver for Win31/30
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 11:45:05 GMT

I need CGA-driver for use with Orange-386 (pc-card) on my friends Mac!!!


- Petri Kekkonen - rockford@phoenix.oulu.fi - University of Oulu, Finland -
From: cjohnson@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Christopher Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: Re: RealTek VGA Windows 3.1 D
Date: 12 Jan 1993 01:04:30 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au
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jonathon.twigg@oosight.status.gen.nz (Jonathon Twigg)  writes:

>TF>I have a RealTek 1 Meg VGA Card.  I purchased it in March, 1992.  I
>TF>need to get the updated drivers for use with Windows 3.1.  Does anyone
>TF>have the drivers or know of an FTP site where I can grab them?  Or how
>TF>to get in touch with RealTek?  I've tried the place that I bought my
>TF>card, but they no longer deal with RealTek.  Thanks.
>TF>--
>TF>Thomas V. Frauenhofer, WA2YYW
>TF>tvf@cci.com, ...!uunet!uupsi!cci632!tvf, tvf@cs.rit.edu
>TF>Mandlebratwurst: The Meal that Eats Itself!

>I have a 512k card but no drivers at all. sO if you find so new drivers 
>let me know, cause I can't find any over here.

>        Jonathon.

>--- WinQwk 2.0 #0
> 

I believe there are some rt windows drivers at wuarchive.wustl.edu in /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS

look for rtwin or something.  these drivers in 64k color ones, but I dont think they are for 3.1

If anybody has 256 color drivers that allow cga dos graphics give me a call, because mine dont. (16 colors ok, not 256)

Hope this helps,

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: claebaur@shell.portal.com (Tony S Annese)
Subject: Re: Windows Exit MSGBox
Organization: Portal Communications Company -- 408/973-9111 (voice) 408/973-8091 (data)
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:24:05 GMT

In article <SIMMONS.93Jan5173324@hydra3c.utkcs> simmons@hydra3c.utkcs (Paul T Simmons ( Doc )) writes:
>
>	It may be a FAQ but our news server is acting up so I
>missed it if it was.
>	How does one get rid of the annonying Exit Windows
>OK--Cancel box?  I know it must be something to add in the
>.ini file (win or system).
>	Please help me!  Thanks!


There is a file called redbutn or something to that affect that you put in
your startup group and run minimized. Then you just double click on this icon
and it closes windows. You can set an option to ask you if you are sure you
want to close windows or you can tell it not to ask you if you are sure.

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From: kenji@rcac.astem.or.jp (Kenji Rikitake)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Support for hardware floating point - when?
Date: 6 Jan 93 01:41:07 GMT
	<9301051013.AA08451@invid.mwc.com>
Organization: RCAC Project, ASTEM RI, Kyoto, Japan
In-reply-to: ed@invid.mwc.com's message of 5 Jan 93 16:59:18 GMT

In article <9301051013.AA08451@invid.mwc.com> ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo) writes:
]   In 4.01r65 what you are seeing is the system looking for the coprocessor only.
]   Hardware FPU should appear in the next release.

Thanks for letting us USENET readers know that MWC is doing something
for FPU support. :)

// Kenji
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From: hcpiv@GRUMPY.CIS.UOGUELPH.CA ("Harry C. Pulley IV")
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Coherent does have graphics!
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:13:33 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

> Last time I checked, there was one *major* disadvantage to Coherent:
> No graphics support!  Makes running X kind'a difficult ?

Not so!  I ported MGR with help from Udo, Vance, Grant and others.  I am
running MGR in VGA 640x480 mode as I type this message in a window!

Work on X is also going well, I am told...  We are trying to coordinate some
work on the graphics for both X and MGR so that it will run on the same cards
and modes.

Harry

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From: GECELOV@csearn.bitnet (Kamil KUKURA)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: looking for database
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:50:57 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

Hi Stephan,

dbMAN V is a name of one. The VersaSoft company has published an ad about
this. By their offer it is dBase III compatible relational database designed
for various UNIX systems and for Coherent as well.
The price for unlimited number of users is 99.95 $S

I suggest you to look at Byte magazine from November 1992.



Enjoy...
Kamil KUKURA
From: rick@EE.UWM.EDU (Rick Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent-Linux
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:51:39 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
Organization: Just me.

In <199212220940.AA12882@pcs3.iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de> you wrote:
>[...] Then, as I have NO FTP access,
>could anyone supply me a complete Linux forum email address ? I have some ques-
>tions for the boys downthere... (I think comp.os.linux is not complete for me).

comp.os.linux *is* the central contact for Linux... the linux-activists mailing
list is used for more arcane communications.  It can be reached by sending an
empty message to "linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi".

Rick Miller   <rick@ee.uwm.edu> | <rick@discus.mil.wi.us>   Ricxjo Muelisto
Occupation:  Husband, Father, WEPCo. WAN Mgr., Discus Sys0p, and  Linux fan
Xref: sparky comp.os.coherent:6661 comp.os.linux:23164
From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: cannot login at all!!!
Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:17:26 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Peter Pui Tak Chiu) writes:

>hi everyone...

>i deleted /etc/utmp in a virtual console and tried to login from another
>VC, but linux said "/etc/utmp: no such file or directory" and i was not
>allowed to login...

>then i created /etc/utmp with a single carriage return in it and tried
>logging in aain.  this time it said:
> 	must start from the lowest "sh"... something like that...

>i thought a reboot would fix it but it didn't.  the same message shows
>up when i want to login.  so now i can't login.

>can anyone give me a hand?

>thanks in advance

>peter

Try rebooting from floppy and then deleting the /etc/utmp file. Then touch
/etc/utmp and try rebooting and loggin in again.

James
From: aa535@FREENET.CARLETON.CA (Ken Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent graphics
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:00:46 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

Please send me any information you are willing to share
on the subject.  I have just ordered 4.0 and want to
work on a bitmapped graphics display.  I have done
extensive graphics for OS/2 and Macintosh so I do have
some experience.  I have also worked in X so I'm familiar
with that territory as well.
My goal is a protocol that would work locally as ell as
over a serial connection.

Thanks in advance,
Ken Walker

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EMAIL: aa535@freenet.carleton.ca | ken@oti.on.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux
From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
Subject: Re: Linux v. Coherent: Comments
Organization: Messina Software
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:04:51 GMT

rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:

>'out-of-the-box'.  With Linux, you've got a whole net-full of consultants
>who know various aspects of Linux inside and out (as opposed to the one or
>few who *really* know Coherent).  They're even fairly friendly and helpful!

Let's not get into OS wars here.  It's silly, let's leave it to
comp.editors.  Both systems are great, I am sure.  As to consultants,
Coherent also has professional tech support which is simply
outstanding (Thanks, Jim!).  Coherent and Linux seem to be aimed at
different markets, and I find it very positive.  I need a small
commercial UNIX-clone for commercial work for the current project, and
COherent seems to fit my bill just fine.  In the future I may have a
need for Linux.  

>Maybe some Coherent-guru would care to expound upon its virtues as compared
>to Linux?  ...but I really don't think they're even in the same league.

I can't understand this attitude.  Imagine a carpenter who would only
use one hammer for everything, using the same logic that the rest was
not in the same league because they were not as heavy and the handle
was not as long.  OS is not a ^%&$, the tasks it is applied to are too
varied to use one measure.  You still haven't learned it? 

t.
From: sforseil@is2.vub.ac.be (FORSEILLES STEPHAN)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re : Master Boot
Date: 12 Jan 93 12:58:33 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Brussels Free University (VUB/ULB)


	To remove the MasterBoot, just ask to somethink
like Norton DiskDoctor. He'll tell you that your boot
sector is corrupted and will ask you if he must write
a new one.
From: shendrix@PCS.CNU.EDU (Charles Shannon Hendrix)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent graphics
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:33:08 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

> Hello Shannon,
>
> I have a graphics driver running on Coherent - 640x480x256 - which works just
> fine.  It is configured as a library of routines that link with the
 application,
> which sounds like what you are talking about.  The library is very small,
 right
> now, but might/would be easy to expand.  Please let me know a little more
 about
> what you have in mind and I'll consider if I have time to contribute.  By the
> way, my graphics driver is part of porting X to Coherent...
>
> Regards, Jon.
>

        Sounds good.  I gave a copy of the Linux vgalib to... well I forgot
the poor guy's name...  it was hpciv from somewhere in the 'ca' domain.  I
hate that I can't remember.  Anyway, he said he would take a look at that
and port it.  I was looking for something that was common between Linux
and Coherent so we could write programs for both systems.

        If we could get the driver you are talking about running under Linux,
then I suppose that would be great too.  No problem with multiple choices
as long as they are available for both systems.  Do you think porting would
be a problem?  The vgalib for Linux is about 32K of source code and is
pretty good from what I read.  I hope the guy ports it with no problem.

        So, I really just want a common graphics interface for Linux and
Coherent (or any other OS it can be ported to but I lean towards Linux/Coh)

        Also, how long before your X port is running?  Did you use Xfree86 as
a starting point or just start right from MIT source code?  I use X but would
like to be able to do graphics without it sometimes.

Csh
From: DSTEWART@DALLAS.ROCKWELL.COM (DAN STEWART)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Linux v. Coherent: Comments
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:51:00 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

Please, enough of the Linux v. Coherent arguments!  This is the Coherent
list, if you're a Linux fan and can do nothing but bad-mouth Coherent,
then WHY are you on this list?
From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Coherent graphics
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:09:39 GMT
Organization: DarkTower Software
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Charles Shannon Hendrix (shendrix@PCS.CNU.EDU) wrote:
:         I was thinking that it would be great to make a call-compatible
: vga library for doing console graphics under Coherent.  That way, programs
: developed for either platform should run fine.  Right now, the vgalib is
: pretty simple but includes most everything you need graphics-wise.  I
: could provide a list of functions if someone with the DDK would like to
: try a port.  It has been written to support SVGA only so one doesn't have
: to worry about configuring for the wild array of graphics hardware.  All
: modes are currently 640x480 and under.

Why would you need the DDK to write a library?  You don't.  The graphics
driver written by Harry, Udo, et al. works fine.  You could just
write the library for that.  Plus, it works with MGR which has also
been ported.

On top of it all, the loadable drivers aren't in there yet, so you
need the DDK to rebuild the kernel to install the graphics card driver
anyhow.

:         E-mail me if you want more information.  This just seems like a
: good way to make porting easier and I'm sure a lot of people would like
: a graphics library for Coherent without needing X or MGR.

Yep.  It's a good idea.

-Louis
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From: tundra@eskimo.chi.il.us (Tundra Tim Daneliuk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Processing texinfo files (how?)
Date: 12 Jan 93 12:12:16 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
Organization: TundraWare

There is a supberb port of TeX for MS-DOS called emTeX out on the net.  I
move my texinfo files to DOS and process them there.  For those with
ftp access, I believe you can find emTeX at shsu.edu.

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From: clemens@ms.uky.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Some Nettiqette (was Re: Is there any hope left?)
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:01:34 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

But I find having the whole message so helpful :)


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From: stephan@forthdv.rmt.sub.org (Stephan Forth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Charles Lidderdale
Date: 7 Jan 93 08:37:42 GMT
Organization: Forthdv
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Hi Charles, couldn't reach you via Mail (Host unknown?)

thanks for your information about SQL/ESQL development for coherent 4.0
Are you going to make it available to the networld?? It sounded VERY
interessting.

bye bye Stephan
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From: stephan@forthdv.rmt.sub.org (Stephan Forth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Small tiny Editor wanted
Date: 7 Jan 93 08:55:00 GMT
Organization: Forthdv
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Hi networld,

is there a VERY small editor available it should be:

	-very simple fullscreen editor
	-only a few commands (e.g. New, Save, Save as, Quit)
	-NO ability to shell out

I need such an editor for little guest accounts on the system. BTW I am running
Coherent 4.0

Thanks for all information...Stephan
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From: acorn@cs.tu-berlin.de (Andre Fornacon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Coherent does have graphics!
Date: 7 Jan 93 10:04:02 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

>Not so!  I ported MGR with help from Udo, Vance, Grant and others.  I am
>running MGR in VGA 640x480 mode as I type this message in a window!
         ^^^
         were it is availuable ?


acorn@cs.tu-berlin.de
Xref: sparky comp.os.coherent:6751 comp.os.linux:23753
From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Support for hardware floating point - when?
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:59:18 GMT
Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>

>
> Tony Porczyk (messina@netcom.com) wrote:
> : Quick question for MWC - since Coherent practically begs to be used
> : in small financial offices, are there any plans to add support for
> : hardware floating point?
>
> On Coherent 4.0.1r65 (Bug-fix unsupported release from MWC), I see
> a string "80x87." appears when I boot the kernel. So I think MWC
> is surely doing something on it.
>
> I also want to have a robust 80x87 support.
>
> // Kenji
>

In 4.01r65 what you are seeing is the system looking for the coprocessor only.
Hardware FPU should appear in the next release.
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent,comp.os.linux
From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver)
Subject: Re: Linux v. Coherent: Comments
Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:55:25 GMT

Um, where did people decide that the code was going to be copied?

I mean if linus and the 386BSD people wrote it, I'm sure other people
can too.  Also, isn't 386BSD released into the Public Domain for what it
is worth?

-Erik
From: las@r-node.pci.on.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: test
Date: 11 Jan 93 10:25:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: R-node Public Access Unix - 1 416 249 5366

test
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From: kestas@lith.UUCP (Kestutis Sliupas)
Subject: sa floating pt. error
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Date: 6 Jan 93 06:05:50 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Vacaville, CA

Hi:
	I was checking out my process accounting, and
using the command 'sa -t' I can generate a core dump.
Is this the famous floating point bug, or something new?
				Regards, Kestas

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