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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Mouse in DOS boxes
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:09:55 GMT

In <sph0301.145.726792062@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu> sph0301@utsph.sph.uth.tmc.edu writes:

>I've noticed something strange recently while trying to use the mouse
>with DOS applications running in a window.  I tried this with three
>DOS applications (WordPerfect 5.1, Paradox 4.0 and Quattro Pro 4.0)
>and got different results with each one.

>Paradox: mouse works fine in a window

>Quattro Pro: mouse doesn't work at all in a window

>WordPerfect: I have two cursors on the screen, the normal mouse arrow and
>  also a block cursor - they sort of track each other but don't usually
>  coincide.  If I can get them to coincide or move the mouse so that the
>  block cursor is at the top of the screen, then clicking the mouse
>  button will activate the menu. Unfortunately, the block cursor is
>  usually about 1/4 inch below and to the right of the arrow cursor.

>I'm using a Microsoft mouse and the driver says version 8.2a.  PC is a
>Gateway 486DX.  Any ideas why this should be happening?

Is your mouse driver loaded high?  Some applications don't handle that
very well.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jkf@Franz.COM (Sean Foderaro)
Subject: WFW 2.0b Getting Started  hangs
Organization: Franz Inc., Berkeley, CA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:27:09 GMT

 I just installed Word for Window 2.0b (I did a full installation).  
Since I'm new to Word I tried the Getting Started and  Learning Word options 
under the Help menu.  Both hang the machine and I have to pretty 
cntrl-alt-delete to get control back.   Is there a fix for this?
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Request for MS window UI style or guide line
From: yshuang@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Yongshan Huang)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:41:01 GMT
Organization: Concurrent Engineering Research Center



I am working on an User Interface Project. I am trying to
collect information on User Interface style or guide line.

If someone have these kinds of information, please let me
know.

Thanks

yshuang@cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: INFOSELECT FOR WINDOW
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:53:45 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.052432.6205@midway.uchicago.edu> spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund) writes:

>Steve Gibson (of SpinRite and Infoworld fame) has called Info Select "the
>most useful software program I have ever owned."  If it helps me get a
>handle on the great mass of information I face in my day-to-day work
>(programming and Unix system administration), I would have to agree with
>him.

Being a user of the DOS version I'll have to agree totally. It was
the first piece of software after Lotus that I was actually excited
about. 

Does Egghead have the live upgrade for users of the DOS version? I
need to get the upgrade but its $69.98 from the factory.


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From: chris@visionware.co.uk (Chris Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Problems with Xserver software and Matlab 4.0
Date: 6 Jan 93 16:00:42 GMT
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Mike Barrett (barrett@chrome.scr.slb.com) wrote:
: I have tried both Xvision and eXceed xserver software but get similar results.
: With Xvision the program crashes (all clients die) and has to be restarted.
: With both programs I am using FTP's PCTCP.

: Has  anyone  any suggestions or has had similar problems with
: Xserver software on PC's?

Have you tried contacting the technical support departments at either
Hummingbird or VisionWare to report this problem with the X servers?

For VisionWare you can either use the phone or fax numbers below, or
email support@visionware.co.uk

I don't know offhand how you would reach Hummingbird - but I'm sure
it's in their documentation, or someone else may enlighten you.

Chris
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From: tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Design Cad, plotter drivers
Date: 12 Jan 93 18:39:11 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

A friend wants to know if American Small Business,
the manufacturers of Design Cad 2d and 3D have
an internet or compuserve address, and whether
they'll be coming out with a windows version.

Does anybody know whether Design Cad or windows
has drivers for the Roland Plotter DXY880A and
the Summa Graphics Professional Digitizer
12 inch by 18 inch?

thanks.

-dennis turner
tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il
Xref: sparky comp.os.ms-windows.apps:6754 comp.os.ms-windows.setup:2595
From: swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
Subject: After Dark gap
Date: 8 Jan 1993 00:36:20 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: boogie.cs.utexas.edu


I've just installed After Dark on a Gateway 2000 with a SpeedStar Plus
video card and CrystalScan 1024ni monitor.  When AD blanks the screen,
it leaves a vertical gap along the left edge of the screen that
appears to be about 3 pixels wide.  Can someone suggest what might be
causing this?

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: dcarriga@NoFC.Forestry.CA (Dave Carrigan)
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Mouse in a box - HOW???
Keywords: mouse
Organization: Forestry Canada, Northern Forestry Centre
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:51:51 GMT

In <C0GBou.77p@acsu.buffalo.edu> dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Cybard=) writes:

>I have an Insight 486DX-33 with 4 MB RAM and an Insight MS-compatible
>mouse.  How do I get the mouse to work in DOS windows (ie: CADKEY, Quattro

In system.ini, there's a mouseindosbox (sp?) option that you should
make sure is set. It doesn't work with all video card, but it should
with the more common ones. It works with my old ATI card.

One thing that threw me off is that I was expecting a DOS-style mouse
cursor - the big square box - to show up, but it doesn't. You use the
regular windows mouse cursor to click on the menus.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Subject: Re: Help: Formulas in Word
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:03:07 GMT

In <C0G76G.KJz@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> mgcbo@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Charles B. Owen) writes:
>I have been using Windows 3.1 and Word for Windows 2.0.  It has a very
>powerful equation editor that produces excellent results.  But, you
>really need to use it with Win 3.1 or a good type manager since it
>produces dozens of font sizes.  If you have W for W 1.0, forget using
>the field codes.  They are impossible.
>
>Also, you really need 3.1 for the OLE since the equation editor uses it.

It works fine with 3.0 either. The OLESRVR.DLL and OLECLNT.DLL files will
be installed on your Windows 3.0 system, when you install Winword 2.0.
Also there are bitmapped fonts for MT Extra, MT Symbol and Fences, so
you don't need ATM.

Christoph
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ksl@cfm.brown.edu (Kiseok Lee  )
Subject: Xtalk 2.0 Bug Fix B
Organization: Brown University Center for Fluid Mechanics
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:12:39 GMT


Hi

I bought the new version of Crosstalk windows communications V2.0.
I encounter handful of bugs here and there, but I heard there is a
revision B.

Would any kind soul who has/received the revision B, please upload to
any convenient site like CICA?

Thanks in advance,
Kiseok
From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu ( )
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: (Summary)  Word/W4W/WP:  Which is best?
Date: 13 Jan 1993 01:27:51 GMT
Organization: Department of EECE, Marquette University
Reply-To: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsf.csd.mu.edu

In article <1993Jan08.191626.28426@eng.umd.edu>, lindor@eng.umd.edu (Lindor 
Eric Henrickson) writes:

 I don't think I'd equate field codes (a macro thing, right?) with an
 equation writing language, like the one used in Wordperfect (which is
 similar to something like Tex)

	I think its a matter of getting used to. Actually, the {eq } field
	has an advantage. One can split the document into two panes and
	type field codes in one pane and view the results in another. The
	field codes are pretty much similar (but not same) to equation 
	writing codes.

>>        One very important draw back (IMO) of wordperfect (5.?) is that
>>        even it is a windows app, it can not use some custom fonts that
>>        other win apps like WfW, Ami pro, excel, ... can use.
>
 Like what for instance?  WP4WIN supports True Type fonts (via windows),
 ATM fonts, etc....  Maybe there's something else I'm not aware of, though..

	I use some bitstream (actually bitstream compatible) fonts that
	allow me use a foreign language alphabet via windows applications.
	But those fonts could not be used in WP (dos) because it does not
	support 'screen font.' I was hopping that WPfWIN would support it,
	but does not. I donno if wpfwin 5.2 does it. Can somebody give me
	this info?


 Yes, I agree, choice of a word processor involves many factors,
 a very personal kind of thing.  Actually, if you're planning to
 buy a wordprocessor, my advice is to see if the various companies
 have 30/60/90 day money back guarantees, then buy the wordprocessor
 you think you'll like and try it out.  If you don't like it, send it back and
 try the next one on the list.  Or, find a friend who has
 the wordprocessor you're interested in, and fiddle around with it
 for awhile.( yes, this takes a little time, but if you're a serious
 writer it'll be worth it).  That's what I did, and I found that
 I liked WP the best...  but again (as I stated before) this is just my opinion,
 you may find that you hate it, love it, or whatever...
 

 LH
 lindor@eng.umd.edu

	That's the whole purpose of posting such a question on the net
	so that the net-friends can throw their experience they have
	already earned. 

	-Anis.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mgcbo@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Charles B. Owen)
Subject: Re: Help: Formulas in Word
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:51:52 GMT

I have been using Windows 3.1 and Word for Windows 2.0.  It has a very
powerful equation editor that produces excellent results.  But, you
really need to use it with Win 3.1 or a good type manager since it
produces dozens of font sizes.  If you have W for W 1.0, forget using
the field codes.  They are impossible.  

Also, you really need 3.1 for the OLE since the equation editor uses it.

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From: akm@atlantix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: MS Word upgrade worth it?
Date: 5 Jan 93 07:19:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1993Jan5.071933.22337
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.


another advantage of word 2.0 is that you can run more than one
instance of it. Not always useful, but with OLE, sometimes you do end
up with another instance of word without expecting it.

kartik
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From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Windows-Based UNIX Email Reader
Date: 5 Jan 1993 07:38:01 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

We have several PCs running PC-NFS 4.0a to connect to our
Unix box.  Unix Sendmail is reliable, but have a difficult
to use interface (esp. for those who have no exposure to
Unix at all).  We have also installed cc:Mail with a SMTP
gateway, but it's been just too unreliable.  

Can anyone recommend a Windows-based package that can get 
the mail from the /usr/mail/spool file on Unix and allow 
the mail to be read from the PC?  It seems that there is 
a version of WinQVT that might be able to do this....can 
it? Others?

Thanks for any info.

Terry Chan
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Energy and Environment Division   | Internet:  TWChan@lbl.gov
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory      | 
Berkeley, California  USA  94720  | Yeah, right.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: adykes@jpradley.jpr.com (Al Dykes)
Subject: Wanted: Recommendation for a TEXT DBMS
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:18:35 GMT
Organization: Unix in NYC

Can anyone recommend a text dbms that can store a couple of thousand
text objects, index them and allow keyword search with logical operations
like AND/OR, and NOT on the full text?

Features like the following would be nice:

	Warning for collisions of document names
	on-the-fly compression/decompression of the text.
	long document titles 
	good browsing facilities for titles and contents
	Ability to sort, index, and recover files in popular WP
		formats would be a real plus.

I know of packages like BASIS that do this in the mini/mainframe
world. I'd like a MS-Windows friendly package. This is for my own use
so $$$ is an issue.

Thanks.

Al Dykes
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adykes@jpr.com
From: twcaps@tennyson.lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: SUMMARY: Unix Mail Readers [Long]
Date: 8 Jan 1993 23:13:44 GMT
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
Reply-To: TWChan@lbl.gov (Terry Chan)
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.117

I made a similar request for information last week.  I have received
a few suggestions which I have posted on comp.protocols.nfs.  You
might want to take a look there.

Terry Chan
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu (Oliver Weatherbee)
Subject: speedstar24x and Dr. Halo Imager
Reply-To: oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu
Organization: Marine Studies, University of Delaware
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:10:40 GMT

I have a question for anyone who purchased the Diamond Speedstar24x card
package which included a copy of Dr. Halo Desktop Imager software. I am
having a problem with the software in that after a load an image, I can't
do any processing or filtering. 

When I select "filter" from the menu, all of the options are unavailable ("greyed
out"). I don't get it, is this "crippleware" or what. Right now the only thing its 
good for is to view and convert existing files to other formats.

Has anyone else been able to get the thing to work?


Thanks
 	Oliver Weatherbee

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: pschwrtz@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Paul Schwartz)
Subject: Re: Microsoft distribution printer drivers SUCK! SUCK! SUCK! (Was: Word 2.0, small caps and underlining...)
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering Dept., Univ. of Washington, Seattle
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 07:21:19 GMT

Fabbian G. Dufoe, III (fgd3@nifty.UUCP) wrote:
: In article <1hqs7oINNkfh@shelley.u.washington.edu> tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu writes:
: >Let me add that I think the printer drivers Microsoft includes with
: >it's products SUCK! SUCK! SUCK! They treat almost *every* printer like
: >it's a draft printer. For example, BJ10ex printers support an italic
  
	I've had some problems with their Panasonic (KX_P2123)
drivers.  Some of the fonts they list as resident aren't and one of
them isn't listed as a font but as a print option.  One slightly
strange thing is that there is a program called the programers editor
(a very worthwhile windows editor avialible via ftp) that does list
the fonts correctly.  I assume that it uses the windows print program
and drivers.  Go figure.

Paul

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From: crane@coral.bucknell.edu (The Whooping Crane)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Printing problem win WFW2.0, KX-P1124i
Date: 7 Jan 1993 16:57:14 -0500
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: coral.bucknell.edu

Hi.

I got WFW2.0 back when I still had windows 3.0 and everything worked
okay with my Panasonic KX-P1124i 24 pin printer.  When I finally got
Windows 3.1 the whole page was shifted about an inch down on the paper thus
making it harder to print.  I am now NOT able to use the paper cut button.
I have to manually set the paper farther down in the printer so the page is
centered correctly or I have to set the top margin very small and the bottom
margin very large.  Has anyone else had this problem and/or found a solution?
I have tried the Panasonic 1124 and 1124i printer drivers.  I have a recent
version of it and still no success.  Even the Epson driver from windows 3.0
doesn't change anything.

Thanks,
Curt

crane@coral.bucknell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Subject: Re: A standard in wordprocessing interface?
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 13:08:12 GMT

Bo Peng (bo@horus.cem.msu.EDU) wrote:
: Would it be nice if some of the leading wp companies sit down together and
: work out some sort of standard, and make it so that there's some sort of
: logic or systematic catagorization in it? Or some sort of standard in the
: definition of the function keys?

however havinf incompatible function keys can be seen as an advantage
from the manufacturers point of view, assuming that they have a
reasonable market presence to start off with. This is because in
the business world when someone hires a secretary who says that
they have skills in WordSomething then it is quite likely that 
they will be set up with WordSomething. If all word processors had the
same interface then as the secretary would just have skills in the generic
word processor interface that they would get whatever word processor
that was on special offer.

: Of course, everyone has his own personal definition of what is intuitive. Yet
: I very much doubt that there's ever been a human being born with the instinct
: to recognize shift-ctrl-F7 as being UnhangIndent. 


Personally I don't think that any function/control key sequences are particularily
intuitive (apart from a handful for basic navigation through a file) - that's
why I find Ami Pro with it's Smart Icons and mouse driven formatting menus
fairly easy to use (though I still have some preference for emacs and LaTeX!)
- however, my wife who's used to a word processor that was totally control
key driven ignore most of the icon/mouse stuff and does it via the keyboard!

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ASIMMOND@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA
Subject: Transferring Docs from Mac Wrd5 to Winword 2.0
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:31:33 GMT

I am trying to port a document in the font Geneva <- a silly font that Macs see
m to be the only ones to use, to Winword 2.0. I have transfered a truetype copy
of Geneva from Mac sys 7.0 using TTCONV for the mac, (converts Mac Truetype fon
t to PC etc.) but spacing etc. STILL gets screwed up between the transfer.
ANY suggestions would be greatly appreciated, please e-mail as the news-reader
I use is IBM-VM based and basically SUCKS! (actually this is a good descriptive
term for most of VM).   Andrew - Dept of Genetics U of A, Edmonton, Alberta
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From: keele@skyfox
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: RE: Almanac for Windows problem
Date: 5 JAN 93 16:25:36 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
NNTP-Posting-Host: sask.usask.ca

In a previous article, govindg@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Girish Govind) wrote:

>I am trying the "Almanac for windows 3.0" filename alm30f.zip or alman30f.zip
>depending upon whether you get it from oakland or the cica archive.
> 
>The filesizes are different. And both of them do not print. They flag an error
>like unable to find "Dynalink". 
> 
>Is it that because it is shareware one cannot print from it until the amount
>has been paid? I defintely would have wanted to try it out completely before I
>send the money.

This is unusual because I got my copy of Almanac from cica and it worked 
perfectly fine before I registered it. Perhaps you should try to ftp the 
archive again and then re-install. Did your original install process complete 
successfully ? I guess you should just try it again.

Best of luck.

///Ross

A. Ross Keele                 | Keele@Sask.Usask.CA
Dept. of Psychology           | 46 Arts Building
University of Saskatchewan    | (306) 966-6696
From: weikl@ee3ds1.ilt.fhg.de (Dr.B.Weikl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: AmiPro 3.0 Question
Date: 11 Jan 1993 12:30:38 GMT
Organization: ilt-fhg
Distribution: world
Reply-To: weikl@ilt.fhg.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: ee3ds1.ilt.fhg.de
Keywords: AmiPro Header Chapter caption


Hi all,

in a large AmiPro text I'm trying to put the current chapter number into the page header and have not found a way to do it automatically - only found the possibilty to type it in. This is disgusting when changing chapter numbers. The problem is that I found no way to make a chapter number a bookmark.

Has anyone found a possibiliy to reference the current chapter number with a macro or function? What am I missing?

Thanks for your help!

-- Bruno
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