HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: steve.silverwood@filebank.cts.com (Steve Silverwood) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Procomm 1.00 update?
Date: 21 Dec 92 06:24:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The File Bank BBS - Fallbrook, CA  619-728-4318
Reply-To: steve.silverwood@filebank.cts.com (Steve Silverwood) 

 >From: rme81977@zach.fit.edu (Brian Fritz/ ADVISOR Russell (MAE))
 >Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
 >Subject: Procomm 1.00 update?
 >Message-ID: <4501@winnie.fit.edu>
 >Date: 8 Dec 92 13:47:07 GMT
 >
 >A while back (before I had Procomm for Windows), there was a file to
 >update V1.00 to the latest version.  Does anyone know where I can find
 >this file?
 >Thanks
 >Brian
 >
 >--
 >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >                             Brian D. Fritz
 >                    Email Address: RME81977@ZACH.FIT.EDU
 >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Try the DATASTORM forum on CompuServe.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: cj@lib.washington.edu (Cindy "Cyberpunk" Jenkins)
Subject: Re: Stacker 3.0 woes
Organization: University of Washington Libraries
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:21:27 GMT

I posted this solution a bit ago, but will repeat it here. 

STAC Electronics has bugs in version 3.0, you should contact them for the
updated disks (I think they are at verion 3.01 (or2)).

Try running CHECK /=d /f

This "undocumented" (and I quote from the STAC Elec. Co. Tech Support Line)
will catch file errors that CHECK can't normally find.  

The updated disks have this fix built in so the documented 
CHECK /d /f  works as it should.

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From: ianbjor@argon.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Ian D. Bjorhovde)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: W4W to Word for Mac - Help!
Date: 25 Dec 92 00:48:37 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson

In article <1992Dec24.085913.21140@lut.ac.uk> A.D.Bailey@lut.ac.uk (Adrian D.Bailey) writes:
>Much better than Apple FIle Exchange, and far easier to use is
>PC Exchange, which installs as an extension to the system, and allows
>your Mac to read PC disks "transparently".  The only way you'll know
>the disk is in PC format is that its desktop Icon has PC written on it.
>The product costs around 50 pounds here in UK, I believe it will be bundled
>in the near future.

Another such program is called DOS Mounter - this works just like PC
Exchange...  I have used it a lot, and have had no problems.



--Ian D. Bjorhovde
  ianbjor@gas.uug.arizona.edu
  Department of Materials Science and Engineering
  The University of Arizona
From: burgoyne@access.digex.com (J. Robert Burgoyne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: WinFAX PRO v3: OCR
Date: 1 Jan 1993 22:19:50 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com

In article <C0699s.A5r@hkuxb.hku.hk> h8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk writes:
>
>	I got WinFAX Pro v3 running, it's very good, but the OCR does
>	not seem live up to what I expect. It can recognise mostly
>	on courier font, once I change to other fonts, it seems
>	that the SPACE character is not recgonised at all, all
>	words scrabble into one. Any ideas?

There are high end OCR products which don't do a whole lot better.
I think the whole idea of trying to recognize any random FAX that comes
in and decode it with OCR is pie in the sky. I could see printing and
distributing a survey, with responses FAXed back and recognized, but
not just anything that comes over the line.

Convince the senders to just send you the file with a modem!


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: manz@ee.ualberta.ca (Brett {Druid Queen} Manz)
Subject: Re: Printer driver needed
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 09:25:08 GMT

In <725780372.0@ttlg.ttlg.UUCP> Rick.Stangeland@ttlg.UUCP (Rick Stangeland) writes:

> KT> Date: 15 Dec 92 20:55:21 GMT


> KT>  I need to get a printer driver for a Star Micronics Gemini 10-X
> KT> printer. None of the drivers that come with the Windows 3.1 distribution
> KT> will work. I have called Microsoft, and they have suggested that I try
> KT> any of the Epson FX series drivers. This did not work. 
> KT>  If you know the location of a driver on the net, please e-mail
>Try the Star Micronics BBS @ 714-454-6748. 
>I have found the printer drivers from star to be of rather poor quality but you may do better.
>        rs

> * Origin: The Keep BBS * Edmonton, AB * -Windows- (403)450-1405 (42:100/19)

I recently saw in comp.archives.ibm.announce that a Gemini 10-X driver for
Windows was uploaded to one of the major FTP sites.  It probably has had time
to propogate to many of the mirror sites by now.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ad749@yfn.ysu.edu (Rob Bakos)
Subject: Re: Goodies shown on CNN (star trek screen saver & windows events)
Reply-To: ad749@yfn.ysu.edu (Rob Bakos)
Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:22:53 GMT


In a previous article, ddavies@ddbeezer.Dundee.NCR.COM (Derek Davies) says:

>I have recently seen some Windows applets on the Future Watch programme
>on CNNI. One is a Star Trek screen saver which plays scenes from the
>original Star Trek with sound effects. I have also seen a program that
>allows more events to have sounds attached to them eg. Maximize, Close,
>click etc. rather than the six or seven that Windows allows as default.
>
>The Future Watch program does not seem to take into account that people
>might want to buy these things and provide details of how to obtain them,
>they just show them and say "Isn't that neat!", damn good program though.
>
>Anybody have any details on either of the above goodies ?
>

The first is the After Dark Star Trek screen saver, a stand alone or add
on to After Dark. It lists for like $38. IMHO, its not worth it. The screen
savers aren't that good at all, and a few aren't really even screen savers.
Definately a look real good at it before you buy.

The second can be one of three things, Wired for Sound Pro, Whoop it up!, or
Icon-Hear it. All 3 are *EXCELLENT* with the first 2 being shareware, and
the last selling for around $28.

Hope I helped.

Merry Christmas...

Rob
-- 
  "Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it."
                                      -- Henry Ford
From: logan@neuro.usc.edu (Christy Logan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Bibliographer/reference manager
Date: 31 Dec 1992 14:32:50 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: neuro.usc.edu

In article <1992Dec31.065957.29928@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@atlantix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
>
>The "state of the art" bibliography manager (what ever that means...)
>is Procite. 

Another option is Reference Manager by Research Information Systems, Inc.
in San Diego (phone (619) 438-5526.) It runs around $500 as I recall.
It is a DOS application but runs fine in a window. As was mentioned for
Procite (which I've never heard of so I can't compare the two), RefMan
will read in searches from many on-line systems. RIS is good about
providing a capture option for the system you use if they don't
already have one available. If you're the first person to request it,
you get it free.

You can also generate bibliographies formatted for a number of
different journal styles. You create a manuscript and include the
RefMan reference number in the text in curly brackets, then run
it through the bibliography generation part of the program and
it will change the cites to the appropriate format as well as
create a properly formatted bibliography. Then if you want to
format your manuscript for a different journal, you can change
it easily.This is especially useful if you're changing from 
a journal that alphabetizes and numbers its references to one
that numbers them in the order cited. RefMan includes journal
formats for all the major biomedical journals, but I've never
paid attention to whether it covers other technical journals.

We tried out EndNote and RefMan in demo versions before we
purchased RefMan and finally decided on RefMan because it
supported more word processors and download formats and
was overall more powerful. However, there were some things
I liked better about EndNote, and both will do the basic
things I described above. Both were about equally easy
to use as I recall. However, EndNote is significantly less
expensive ($99 for the basic module in our university 
bookstore + extra for the downloading module). As I recall,
they were planning to come out with a Windows version,
which may be out by now. EndNote is from Niles & Associates
of Berkeley, CA.

Hope this helps,

Christy Logan
Dept. of Neurology
University of Southern California
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rjhoffma@iastate.edu (Richard J. Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: Post-it type prog. for Windows
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:37:55 GMT

In article <1992Dec29.002919.15232@midway.uchicago.edu> gmf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:

>It was a program that created Post-it's for your windows desktop,
>you could put them anywhere, make them different colors. etc.
>It even had a screen saver feature that left a "pad" of post-its
>ont eh screen so people could leave you mesasges while you are gone.

You might like WinPost 3.2.  It's shareware at $30, and it does what you
want (I'm not sure about the screen saver).  It's at cica in the
utilities or desktop directory, but I can't remember the exact file
name.

Dick
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From: carlos@infoserv.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: WPWIN 5.2 and WINFAX 3.0 bomb!
Summary: Merging a TIFF graphic in WPWIN/WINFAX.. NOT!
Keywords: WPWIN, WINFAX, TIFF, GPF
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 22:48:42 -0500
Reply-To: carlos@infoserv.com
Organization: Dominguez UseNet, Brooklyn NY, USA

It seems that while I was importing my signature to a fax I was
sending out, (which I captured in TIFF format), it caused a
GPF within WPWINFIL.

It seems that WPWINFIL collided with the DLL that winfax uses
to import TIFF graphics, and caused WPWIN to shut down, 
(ignore didn't work) and locked WINFAX up.

Any ideas?


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From: reznick@acf3.nyu.edu (Daniel Reznick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Lotus ORGANIZER/Sharp WIZARD
Date: 31 Dec 92 23:19:49 GMT
Organization: New York University

Has anyone had any luck/experience with moving data back and forth
between Lotus Organizer and a Sharp Wizard?  I would be interested
in any comments you may have on using the two products together,
especially with the Scheduling functions.

Please respond via e-Mail, and I will summarize if there is any demand.

Daniel Reznick
reznick@acf3.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: long@twg.com (Jeng Long Jiang)
Subject: WinVN over Winsock 
Organization: The Wollongong Group
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 02:14:58 GMT

 I have placed a Winsock compliant WINVN NNTP newsreader to
microdyne.com for anonymous ftp. This version of WINVN should be
compatible with Winsock 1.0 & 1.1.

WINVN was originally developed by Mark Riordan and modified by
Sam Rushing.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: qiang@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Qiang Zheng)
Subject: Fax template in WFW20, how to make a new one?
Organization: Columbia University, Dept. of Biological Sciences.
Distribution: Columbia
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:56:19 GMT

When you apply the fax template from Word for Windows 2.0,
it not only gives you a nice formatted fax cover page, but
also brings up a dialog box asking for input of various 
items such as name and phone number.  My problem comes when 
I tried to modify the appearance of the fax cover page.  
After I inserted some drawing to customerize the cover page, 
I saved it as a new fax template.  However, every time when 
I apply the new template, it does give a nice fax cover page 
but not the dialog box as original fax template does.  
Anybody knows the solution?  Basically I'd like my new fax 
template to behave exactly as original fax template which can 
bring up a dialog box to prompt input.  Please reply by e-mail.
Thanks in advance.

James Zheng
From: 00gwmichelin@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Microsoft and the American Dream
Date: 31 Dec 92 12:35:21 GMT
Organization: Ball State University, Muncie, In - Univ. Computing Svc's

Let me add my two cents worth to this long talk of how bad the American Free
Enterprise System is.  It seems that we have gotten to a point in this country
that we look down on people (or companies) who "make it".  And if the do become
a success like Microsoft, we feel that they own the rest of us something.  This
is America.  This is the land where we all have the chance to make it and end
up in the gutter.  Mem and women died to give us that right.  I know I sound
that Ross Perot but that's how I feel.

On another note, people have been saying if you don't like Microsoft, don't buy
thier products.  It reminds me of a similar situation here.  People were upset
with the local cable company over rates.  Cable TV is a service--a luxury--not
a necessity.  Bill Gates and his group offer a service.  He has some of the
best products in town but not the only ones.  Microsoft created this software
but they are not the only ones who can.

There . . . I will now make room on the soapbox for the next speaker.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Walk)
Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmar
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:17:35 GMT

ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>As for Mac hardware being superior to clones, why do I see so many
>broken Macs? The mouse controllers on maybe 20% of our Si's have 
>gone crazy. (The machines aren't exactly unusable but they do things
>like "press" and "let go" the mouse button when you don't want it 
>to. The menus flash on and off and on and off... The machines are 
>just over a year old.) I can't even count the number of Mac Pluses 
>with burned out video or bad power supplies I've seen. No, mac 
>hardware is pretty cheap and manufactured in Taiwan just like the 
>clones. And just like the clones, it gets assembled in the states.
>So whats the difference?

I won't comment on the si's except to say that it sounds like someone
has been unconnecting cords while the power is still on.

The Plusses are all 6-7 year old machines, and you're going
to have problems with ANY computer that old.  With PCs you usually
don't worry about fixing it, but just "dispose" of it somehow
and buy a new one.

					Todd Walk
					walk@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK)
Subject: Re: FTC after Microsoft???
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:35:00 GMT

In article <C01K2H.5xv@inews.Intel.COM>, rkeel@fnugget.intel.com (William R Keel) writes:
> Govt doesn't always take that into as much consideration.  Look at AT&T.
> The poor slobs weren't engaging in Monopolistic activities, it's just that
> no one could enter the market.  The govt broke it up 'cause AT&T was
> in a position to take advantage of the consumers.  Not only in unfair,
> high prices but in a lack of responsiveness and growth.  

There was no question that AT&T was a natural mononpoly, that's why they
were heavily regulated by state and federal goverments.  They were broken
up because the market had been entered by a group of competitors like
MCI that were sucking the cream off the top by providing business services.
The breakup was as much to benefit of AT&T and the government as it was
to us poor hapless consumers.

> Seriously,
> how long would AT&T have taken to install fiber optics?  Surely not
> because they would loose customers if they didn't have high quality
> communications...loose customers to whom?  

In a regulated monopoly there is a great incentive to invest in new technology
because your profit is normally based on your capital investment. That's one of
the big problems with power utilities.  In most states, they aren't rewarded
for conservation programs, but they are reward for building additional 
capacity.

--rick
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu (RICHARD HOFFBECK)
Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:31:00 GMT

In article <1huvviINNq4p@transfer.stratus.com>, jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com writes:
> In the Applications market, MS doesn't control the market
> (unless you count the Mac Applications market, where they
> do control a significant share of the word processor and
> spread sheet markets).

And they don't even have source for the OS :-)

--rick
From: gardner_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (andy gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: WfWG Marketing Decisions
Date: 29 Dec 1992 11:38:02 GMT
Organization: Wellington City Council (Public Access), Wgtn, Nz
Reply-To: gardner_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
NNTP-Posting-Host: kosmos.wcc.govt.nz

Could someone from Microsoft please explain why on earth you offer
a 5 user pack of Windows for Workgroups for people who have Win 3.1
already, but don't offer a 5 user pack for people requiring Win 3.1
bundled with WfWG?  This doesn't make sense to me!


Andy Gardner,
Wellington, New Zealand
Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara, Aotearoa
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
Date: 28 Dec 1992 15:34:12 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Distribution: na
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: gondolin.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1992Dec24.175117.12752@pcatsc.UUCP> palmer@pcatsc.UUCP  
(Doug Palmer) writes:
> You are *completely* missing the point. It's not the hardware  
vendors
> who are adversely affected by MicroSoft's predatory practices, but  
the
> competitor OS vendors. In effect, when MicroSoft enters into an  
agreement
> to tie royalty payments to units sold, they are forcing the  
hardware
> vendor to add the price of DOS/Windows to any other bundled  
operating
> system. This is an "unfair" practice in re the OS vendor, not the
> hardware vendor. They have effectively increased the cost of all  
other
> operating systems. That's illegal.
> 

The various parts of this paragraph don't hold together. First
off, many companies, not just Microsoft, provide volume discounts,
which is what I assume you mean by "tie royalty payments to
units sold."  (Or are you somehow saying that Microsoft should
NOT charge for every unit sold?)  I'm sure Goodyear gives
Ford a discount for buying millions of tires, and that Ford
can pay less for tires by putting Goodyear's on all their cars
rather than Goodyear's on some, Michelen's on others, and Dunlop's
on yet others, since Goodyear will give a far bigger discount if
Ford buys all (rather than 25%) of their tires from Goodyear.  
(Warning to the literal minded: this is a hypothetical example.
I don't know if Ford actually uses Goodyear.)

Second, you keep using the word "forces."  Microsoft is not
"forcing" anyone to bundle DOS/Windows. They are just giving them
bigger discounts if they do.  And, in a market where almost
everyone is asking for Windows and DOS, it is probably cheaper
for a hardware company to put DOS/Windows on every machine
(and load every machine from the same tape) than to customize
every machine someone orders.

--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
Date: 29 Dec 1992 14:51:22 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: gondolin.pubs.stratus.com

In article <wiegand.725577960@lido16> wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert  
Wiegand) writes:
> Have you actually tried to buy a PC? Many of the major hardware  
vendors
> include MS-DOS and Windows with their hardware. You get it if you  
want
> it or not. Why should I be forced to buy software I don't want just  
to get
> the hardware?
> 
> The hardware vendors do this because Microsoft requires it. 
> The Microsoft contract requires payment of royalties per *computer*
> sold, not per *copy* of the software. 

No, the hardware vendors do this because 90% of the potential
buyers (including me) won't buy the machine if I have to go out
and buy DOS and Windows separately: it would be more expensive
and much more of a hastle that way, and I won't put up with
it.  

Besides, you don't know that you are paying more for it. The amount
of money the hardware company saves by installing the exact same
system on each machine may make up for the small cost of the
software itself.

If you want a machine that you can install the OS on yourself,
by the pieces and put together your own machine, then install
your own OS.
 

--
Jim Mann            
Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: dwightm@microsoft.com (Dwight Matheny)
Subject: Re: SPA Data, was Gates Interview
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:45:53 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.

>>Then do you agree that WordPerfect for DOS consistently outsells DOS 5 and 
>>Windows 3.1?

Was this supposed to be to me? I don't know anything about what Wordperfect sells.
I've never had a reason to look for the info.

-Dwight

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy