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From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: PKZipFix - query
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 20:32:12 GMT

In article <3119@accucx.cc.ruu.nl> nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries) writes:
>In <9OCT199216144042@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> puc@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bernard Puc) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Oct5.205003.43605@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
>> writes...
>>>Anybody know what PKZipFix is and/or an anonymous ftp source that
>>>might have it?  TIA
>
>>Pkzipfix can be found at ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu in the 
>>directory /mirrors/msdos/zip.
>
>It is also (as almost anything) available on garbo.uwasa.fi. Notice 
>that it SHOULD be included in the PKZIP 1.10 distribution package.
>

To the original poster.... if you ask about PKZipFix because you tried
to unzip a file and got an error suggesting you use PKZipFix.... it
just happened to me.  Seems I forgot to set an ftp to "binary" before
getting a zip file.  I got the error when trying to unzip it.   Try
again using binary mode.

-- 
Pierre von Kaenel	| Skidmore College	     | pvonk@skidmore.edu
Math & CS Dept.		| Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | (518)584-5000 Ext 2391

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: bchristo@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Brian L. Christopher)
Subject: Re: Problem removing directory
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 00:58:07 GMT

Followup-To: poster
Subject: DOS 4.01/ PCtools V6/ Virusafe forsale
Newsgroups: dc.forsale,misc.forsale,gmu.local,comp.sys.tandy
Keywords: DOS PCTOOLS Virus

Sorry about the mixup.  I apparently swtiched two articles that were
supposed to be posted to different newsgroups.  For those who read my
autobiography, please feel free to respond; however, the following is
what should have been posted.




For Sale:

	Tandy Dos 4.01 and DeskMate interface $40  (paid $120)

	HP DOS 4.01 and HP Personal Application Manager ($40)

	PCTOOLS V6  ($50)

	BRAND NEW Virusafe Virus detection/ cleaning program
		**Latest version/ unopened ** ($60)

	All software includes original disks and manuals.
From: bstarr@clyde.ics.uci.edu (Brian Joseph Starr)
Subject: The Tape and Disk Backup portion of MS DOS 6.0-Opinions?
Summary: Anybody want to comment on that program/tool?
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
Date: 10 Oct 92 15:05:08 GMT

Hi,

For those of you who have seen MS DOS 6.0 (in beta by now, right?), I'd really
appreciate your honest comments about the Tape and Disk Backup Utility portion
of it!  I have a special interest in it, since I wrote most of it while I was
still out in the real world (at Peter Norton).

I'm also very happy to answer any of your questions regarding that piece of
code, or Norton's Backup Utility for DOS.  For those of you who haven't tried
MS DOS 6.0 yet, it's killer, and I suggest you find/make a friend who's got it!
Microsoft has definately got some cool stuff in the pipeline-too bad the new
Codeview that comes with C 7.0 bites it really pitifully!

Brian Starr (bstarr@ics.uci.edu)
Xref: sparky comp.os.msdos.misc:5600 comp.sys.ibm.pc:675 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:13545
From: hwstock@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov (stockman harlan w)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: INGRES
Keywords: INGRES, ingres, SQL, QUEL, database
Date: 9 Oct 92 14:47:15 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA

I'm looking for a version of INGRES that will compile for MS-DOS,
MS-Windows, or SVR4/386. In particular, a version that would work with
(and take advantage of) an extended (flat memory) DOS compiler like
Zortech C++ 3.0 /386 or djgpp would be great.

I tried compiling the Unix distribution ingres89.tar.Z under SVR4, but
it became clear that it would take a lot of work to modify the source
and makes; furthermore, I was scared off by the warnings about
incompaibilities and bugs.


If this is the wrong newsgroup for this request, please let me know (and
suggest an alternative).

Thanks, Harlan Stockman.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: gtb6038@summa.tamu.edu (BILES, GREG THOMAS)
Subject: Upcoming MS-DOS version.
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:20:00 GMT

If this question is asked often, please forgive me, since I just joined this 
newsgroup.  Anyways, here goes.  Is there a new version of DOS in the makings
or is MS devoting its energies toward Windows(NT)?  

Thanks,
Greg

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jeffgus@netcom.com (Jeffrey Gustafson)
Subject: Re: Good 256 color paint programs, on the nets or commercial? 
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 06:05:23 GMT

kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) writes:

>Does anybody know of a paint program that will work in VGA (256 colors)
>on windows or msdos on the PC's. We have some 386-33 Gateways with 
>640x480 256 color graphics cards and I'm trying to find 
>something spiffier than PC paint to paint with. I 
>know that support for 256 colors is only a small change in the number
>of bits that are used to define the screen and the palette, but 
>I don't know how to get PC-paint to support it (the one that 
>comes with windows) if it can and I don't know where 
>to look for a paint program that does this, on the nets. 

	Look for a program called Improcess.  I saw it on
oak.oakland.edu: pub/msdos/graphics.  There version there is 3.2 but
I've seen 4.0.  The program supports up to 1024x768x256. 

---
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.apps
From: rdhunt@sandia.gov (Richard D Hunt)
Subject: Request for Help on Device Drivers?
Organization: Sandia National Laboratories
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 22:17:05 GMT


I found that the best way to capture the output from CONFIG.SYS
as my PC boots up is to write a device driver to do it.  So, I
looked at a book titled:
 
      Writing DOS Device Drivers in C
      by Phillip M. Adams/Clovis L. Tondo
 
and they had a number of ideas as well as some source code.  
Consequently, the source code can be obtained for $20.  Since I
am a thrifty engineer I was wondering if anyone knew where I
might get my hands on the source code from this book or a list
of anonymous ftp sites which have good device drivers in C.

RICHMAN


Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: bsn@world.std.com (Brent S Noorda)
Subject: MSCDEX Unloading and reloading
Summary: How to unload MSCDEX, then reload
Keywords: MSCDEX
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 13:15:17 GMT

I found no option in MSCDEX to unload itself, but often want it out so
I can get the memory back.  So I am using INSTALL.COM and REMOVE.COM to
unload it, but then this leads to the problem of MSCDEX to not load the
next time because it says there are no drive letters available.  So I
patched MSCDEX to not do the check on whether drive letters are available.
This works.

Does anyone have a more straightforward method for unloading and reloading
MSCDEX?  Is there a version that uses XMS or extended memory (not EMS)?
Should I post this patch, and if so, what is the best method for patch-
posting?

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan)
Subject: Re: SLOW 1.44 FD on 486-50 ! help
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 03:47:25 GMT

xxfdh@utagraph.uta.edu (Mr. Dustin Fu) writes:

>hello Howard,

>I have a Chinon 1.44 floppy drive on my 486/33, it takes about the same
>amount of time to do a DIR like yours.  At the place where I work, there
>is a 386/33 machine with a Teac floppy dirve.  It can do a DIR much
>faster than Chinon.

>I recently saw a ad on PCMagazine, a mail order company sells a Sony
>1.44 floppy drive for $45.0.  The ad claim that the Sony drive has a
>access time of 49ms.  I am wondering whether this is a fast floppy
>drive.?

>xxfdh@decster.uta.edu

I was wondering if it's the drive that makes the difference. I had a
386DX-33 and it read drives pretty fast (both a: and b:). However, I
changed my motherboard to a 486SX-25 and it slowed down quite a bit.
I've mucked around with the Advanced BIOS setup and the Advanced Chipset
Setup and couldn't increase the speed of drive access.

What gives?? Any ideas??

Sean
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: q1hl@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Nameless CS Student)
Subject: Re: IRQ questions.
Organization: Nobody is THIS disorganized.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:20:23 GMT

In article <ardtlong.718439433@adam.adelaide.edu.au> ardtlong@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Dale T. Long) writes:
>I would like to know what the [cascade] of IRQ2 means and why MSD shows it as
>a 'second 8259A'. As well as why MSD shows IRQ9 as being a redirected IRQ2.
>What does this all mean? Why is it redirected? Is this something all 286
>achines have or is it something particular to my machine (HT12A)?
>Dale Long.

On the early XT's, there was only one 8259 IRQ controller, which meant
that if too much hardware was connected to the machine, the software
had to arbitrate interrupts to find out what device was calling, or
use memory blocks to avoid the need for interrupts.  On the early
machines, IRQ2 was usually open, and often used for mice, tape
cartridges, or add-on clocks.

With the 286, IBM realized their mistake and added another 8259.
Any time an interrupt from IRQ8 to IRQ15 is triggered, the second
8259 passes that fact on down to IRQ2, so that older software can
still recognise that an IRQ is waiting, even if it can't resolve
the actual device calling.  Newer software can look directly at the
second 8259 to see what's up.

With this change in design, it became possible to have tape drives
and mice and extra serial and parallel devices all in the same box.
From: lasgout@solaris.inria.fr (Jean-Marc Lasgouttes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: How can I use my High Memory ?
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:39:56 GMT
Organization: INRIA * Rocquencourt BP 105 * F-78153 LE CHESNAY CEDEX* France

I have a no-name 286 with 4 Meg and MSDOS 5 loaded High. I understand
that part of the HMA (64K at the begining of extended memory) is used
by DOS for its system and buffers(I think there is still
something like 20K free in there). That buys me some conventionnal
memory. But since I installed Stacker, I am low on conventionnal memory
and wonder if some TSRs (Doskey, Mouse.com.Stacker, SmartDrv...) could
use HMA and give me more space for DOS program. I am aware of the
utilities like QRAM or TheLastByte, but my Chipset (VLSI 82C100) is
just too clunky to use them.  


I tried to use LOADHI, but I came to the conclusion that it cannot load
something in HMA. What shall I try next ?

Any help would be appeciated.

Jean-Marc

-- 
-------------------------------------------------
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e-mail : jean-marc.lasgouttes@inria.fr
From: dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: exceptions, processors & motherboards
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:33:17 GMT
Reply-To: dspascha@eos.ncsu.edu (DAVID SCOTT PASCHAL)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Originator: dspascha@c00578-1403br.eos.ncsu.edu


In article <14148.2ad40473@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>, colovas@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:
>Help!
|> I have been running up against a bunch of general protection faults while
|>trying to use the Borland C++ 3.0 compiler. after trying a number of things to
|>correct this problem, all suddested by borland in the CIS forum, I have decided
|>to come here.

|>This is not the first one. The thing is, it runs perfectly fine on my 386 w/387
|>system at home, so what gives with this? (This is a 486. Both are 33Mhz
|>machines, too) borland is the only thing that gives me headaches. Can anybody
|>help me out here? any tidbits would be greatly appreciated.
|>
|>Also, does anyone know if there is some software I can run to either make 
|>sure my CPU/motherboard is running properly or check the compatibility of 
|>the motherboard with the 100% clone standard? TIA 
|>-Pete

Hi.  I too have had problems with GP faults in BC++ 3.0, but it seems to be
connected with the editor.  Every now and then when I first load the program and
try to insert or delete a line it dies with a GP fault.  If I close all my
windows or all but one window and start over I don't have any more trouble
for a while until it happens again.  Sometimes I can have 10 or more windows
open without any problem.  I noticed that when BC++ gets GP-happy I can run it
in a DOS box in Windows 386-Enhanced mode and not have any problems, so perhaps
it's a problem with the DPMI server built into BC++.

Tschuess,
David Paschal
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: kasycz@geod.emr.ca (Ray Kasycz)
Subject: Re: Upcoming MS-DOS version.
Organization: Dept. of Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:27:54 GMT

gtb6038@summa.tamu.edu (BILES, GREG THOMAS) writes:

>If this question is asked often, please forgive me, since I just joined this 
>newsgroup.  Anyways, here goes.  Is there a new version of DOS in the makings
>or is MS devoting its energies toward Windows(NT)?  

Rumour has it that they may be delaying NT because of 6.0 . Obviously they
will not release them at the same time. Does not make good market sense. I
heard a supplier speculate that they will stagger the releases. I would
take that to mean 6.0 first followed by NT. Aspects of NT could hinge on 
6.0 . NT is at the alpha stage I think and they are ready to go beta...

They can delay as long as they want as far as I'm concerned. I'd sorta like
to go away and stick my head in a hole in the sand somewhere...

attitude problem,

Raymundo


>Thanks,
>Greg

--
Ray Kasycz                                          
Geodetic Survey of Canada       \  " the matrix looks good today but  \
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada           \    I'm gonna punch the simstim      \
Internet: kasycz@geod.emr.ca        \    and go check on Molly... "       \
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Upcoming MS-DOS version.
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:22:09 GMT

In <Bvus9G.HJv@acsu.buffalo.edu> viswex@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Bob Wexler) writes:

>In article <8OCT199215205476@summa.tamu.edu>, gtb6038@summa.tamu.edu (BILES, GREG THOMAS) writes...

>>If this question is asked often, please forgive me, since I just joined this 
>>newsgroup.  Anyways, here goes.  Is there a new version of DOS in the makings
>>or is MS devoting its energies toward Windows(NT)?  

>MS-DOS 6.0 is currently in beta testing... as reported in several magazines.

True, but from what I've heard there is really no reason to upgrade if
you already have DOS 5.0, since what the 'new version' basically
amounts to is DOS 5.0 with some utilities to bring it up even with
DR-DOS 6.0 (disk compression, stuff like that -- that most people
already have if they need it).

-- 
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From: hargrove@nobelium.asc.slb.com (Jim Hargrove)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Communications package?
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:26:00 GMT
Organization: Schlumberger Austin Systems Center
NNTP-Posting-Host: nobelium.asc.slb.com

I  I have also heard/read
>      that Procomm Plus for Dos is excellent but the Windows version is not
>      quite as good.  Any experiences?  
-- 
I find Procomm Plus for Windows to be excellent. It fits nicely into the Windows environment, works in the background, etc. I recommend it highly.
        -- jwh
From: nevries@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Nico E de Vries)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: PKZipFix - query
Date: 10 Oct 92 12:02:19 GMT
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht

In <9OCT199216144042@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> puc@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bernard Puc) writes:

>In article <1992Oct5.205003.43605@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
> writes...
>>Anybody know what PKZipFix is and/or an anonymous ftp source that
>>might have it?  TIA

>Pkzipfix can be found at ftp wuarchive.wustl.edu in the 
>directory /mirrors/msdos/zip.

It is also (as almost anything) available on garbo.uwasa.fi. Notice 
that it SHOULD be included in the PKZIP 1.10 distribution package.

For what the program does: PKZIP uses TWO directory entry's for each
file in an archive. One before each file and one on the end of the
archive (the "central directory"). PKZIPFIX rebuilds the central directory
with the onformation spread around the archive.

>Bernard -

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: cmick@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Baldy)
Subject: Screen save
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 09:59:21 GMT

I was wondering if there was a way to use a random statement on dos.
It is not very important, but I have a lot of cool screen savers and graphics
programs I would like to use.  I would like to type a letter and have
it select one of the programs at random.  Is there an easy way to do this?

I was thinking also I could have it look at the time and then do a
"if time=whatever then 'whatever'"

I would really like a program that would do this on its own after a certain
period of time.  Is this possible?

Thanks,

	Craig
cmick@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
-- 
Later,
	Craig

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: IRHANV00@UKCC.UKY.EDU
Subject: Cluster & Sector editing help
Organization: University of Kentucky
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 19:19:15 GMT

                                                            Help!
                                                               I need to find some application that will allow me to remove any information
                                                            from a disk in a particular sector. This is including any msdos partitioning
                                                            information, as well as any data in an area. I have tried Norton utils., but
                                                            that leaves the dos info in the area there, even if I remove everything else.
                                                            Anyone have any ideas? Basically, I need to remove all disk formatting from a
                                                            single sector, without disturbing any other information on the disk. Thanks for
                                                            any suggestions.
                                                                                                Forrest
                                                            P.S.> please respond to me directly, since I don't regularly subscribe here.
From: johnl@yang.earlham.edu (John Fiskio-Lasseter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Books on PC electronic/circuit repair?
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:12:39 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

Okay --  my end goal here is that I would like to be able to do digital 
electronic work on PC's without feeling like I'm going to electrocute 
myself through some mistake or another.  I'm interested in stuff like 
rebuilding power supplies, chip-level repair, and working on monitors.  
Could someone point me toward a book or books that cover this sort of 
thing -- kind of what Larry Pina's books do for Macintosh repair.

It need not be terribly basic:  I fix PC's for a living (though you never 
really get into detailed electronic work here -- the labor costs more than 
new parts).  I know very little about electronics, however, including most 
of the basic safety precautions, and this is what I would like to learn.

Thanks,
-- John
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk)
Subject: Re: (another) problem deleting files/directories
Organization: Warsaw University Physics Dept.
	<1992Oct4.135208.26467@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
	<1992Oct5.044140.12700@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 18:41:13 GMT

>>>>> On Mon, 5 Oct 1992 04:41:40 GMT, fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) said:

Fuzzy> rvanderb@nyx.cs.du.edu (Rian van der Borgt) writes:
>I did try del *.* or attrib -h *.* but the response was always '
>'file not found' , so there are files, but DOS can't find them. 
Fuzzy> When this happened to me (files with illegal characters in them), I
Fuzzy> pulled out Norton's DiskEdit and changed the filenames to something

If there is a directory without anything "good" in it, use DiskEdit
(or Norton Utility, or other similar program) to delete directory
by replacing first char of its name by 0E5h, then run CHKDSK/F.
Can also do same if there is single useful file, CHKDSK will restore
it as FILExxxx.CHK (but will lose its exact size (round up), name,
creation date/time, etc., so would need use DiskEdit again to put
the info in directory (it will be on one of recovered files) :-).
Usually it takes less time than modifying each file name...
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: gmanning@dale.cts.com (Gary Manning)
Subject: DOS? error
Organization: Titan Linkabit Corporation
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 03:33:20 GMT

Hey,

Does anyone know what a "General Protection Violation" error might be
indicating?  It is occuring under DOS 5.0 on a 386/33 clone, mostly
during compiles using ALSYS ADA.

Thanks for any help!!

** Gary **

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Titan Linkabit
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