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From: mekang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (MeeEun Kang)
Subject: Sharing EPSON-LQ570 with PC?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:47:18 GMT

Hi,
I have been a PC-AT users for several years. Recently, I'm planning 
to buy a Mac. Has anyone have experience on sharing EPSON-LQ printer 
with PC and Mac?
I would appreciate any comments on that matter.
Thanks in advance.

-- 
MeeEun Kang                         mekang@bottom.acs.magnus.ohio-state.edu
Grad. Student of School of Journalism
The Ohio State University
From: IP05996@portland.caps.maine.edu (Rene Braun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Can Paradox Do Multi-Table Reports
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:50:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: portland.92097.235001IP05996
Organization: University of Maine System

Hi,
Can you help me?
I'm using Paradox and want to create a invoice. That invoice
will have customer information from one table and billing info
from another table. My manuals do not mention ability of putting
two tables on report.
If you are using Paradox and know how to do Invoices, please help me.
Thanks, Rene Braun
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:7581 comp.unix.msdos:631
From: sparap@jim.mscs.mu.edu (Rodney Sparapani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.unix.msdos
Subject: ZIP  Re: compress & tar on PC?
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:52:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: spool.2853
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Distribution: comp
Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS

In article <ZHOU.92Apr14170516@ANACIN.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU> zhou@cs.cmu.edu (Frank Lei Zhou) writes:
>Hi PC world,
>answered before.  I would like to know if there is any program on PC
>which can uncompress and untar a file that is tar'ed and compress'ed
>on a Unix machine.  The key is that the compress and tar programs on
>BOTH Unix machine and PC must recognize the file previously processed
>at the other end.
>
>
>Frank
To: zhou@cs.cmu.edu


We recently had a similar problem.  Files were zipped(PKZIP).
One of the problems was the differences in the ASCII file formats
of DOS and UNIX.  To get around this(in HP-UX), there are two
commands ux2dos file1 > file2 and dos2ux file1 > file2.
The problem remains:  were the original files UNIX or DOS?
Are the zipped files UNIX or DOS?  I don't know how to get around this
problem except to go through all the possible permutations until
the program works or looks correct.
--
Never cheat on a woman, they hate that.

DISCLAIMER:  If you believe this message is offensive, illegal, immoral,
or otherwise politically incorrect, then you probably get my drift.
From: snowjm@nicklaus.unx.sas.com (Bill McKeown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: PC/XT ESDI card
Keywords: XT ESDI
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:43:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: unx.1992Apr6.154314.1903
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Originator: snowjm@nicklaus.unx.sas.com
X-Bytes: 590

I have a Micropolis 170mb ESDI hard drive that is physically located
in an old  workstation.  I would like to connect this drive to an
IBM PC/XT to use as a second hard drive.  My questions are:

 1. Can this be done?  Does the PC/XT support ESDI?
 2. If it can be done, can anyone tell me where to find
    a good ESDI card/software?  Preferably mail order, but
    I live in the Raleigh/Durham, NC area if anyone knows of
    a place around there.

Thanks in advance,

Bill McKeown

SAS Institute, Inc
SAS Campus Drive
Cary, NC  27512-2414
(919) 677-8000 x7957
SNOWJM@SDCMVS.MVS.SAS.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: neuwirth@ferranti.com (howard neuwirth-hirsch)
Subject: Re: Can Paradox Do Multi-Table Reports
Reply-To: neuwirth@ferranti.com (howard neuwirth-hirsch)
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:27:16 GMT


Paradox version 3.5 handles multi-table forms and reports.  If
you have an earlier version, you will need to upgrade.

H.
-- 
Howard Neuwirth-Hirsch

neuwirth@ficc.ferranti.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sbradley@rs015.scic.intel.com (Seth Bradley)
Subject: Speedstor Wanted
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro OR.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 16:01:48 GMT

My copy of Speedstor (version 5.11) has failed.  A call to Storage Dimensions
phone number yielded a disconnected number message.  It looks like they are
out of business, but I'm not sure.  Does anyone know?  If they are out of
business, I'd like to find an equivalent product.  Failing that, does
anyone have a copy of SpeedStor they'd be willing to copy for me?  I'd
be happy to send a photocopy of my floppy as proof that I am a legitimate
owner of the software.  Please e-mail, and thanks in advance!
Seth J. Bradley
Internet: sbradley@scic.intel.com
UUCP:     uunet!scic.intel.com!sbradley
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From: robert@solan.unit.no (Robert Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: DMP Spooler doesn't work!!
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:23:19 GMT
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology

Has anyone tried the DMP Printer Spooler (version 2.03) ?

I can't get the 'spool to disk' (/DC:) option to work!!  When the internal buffer
(6K) is filled up, everything hangs just like without any spooler, until
the printer has done enough to free that small buffer up...

DMP always reports the free disk space together with the internal buffer,
but seems to refuse using the disk (I had nearly 20Mb free).

Until anyone clears this out for me, I'll be satisfied with the spool to
extended memory option...

-- 
Regards from Robert Schmidt, PC C/asm is my game, fast graphics is my 
pain  -  Watch for my VGA/SB demo!
     e-mail to robert@solan.unit.no
 snail-mail to Stud.techn. Robert Schmidt, stud.post 170,
               Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, NORWAY
From: grooth@prl.philips.nl (groothuis e)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: PCX-pictures and WordPerfect 5.1
Keywords: PCX, WP51
Date: 6 Apr 92 08:29:25 GMT
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven, the Netherlands

Hello,

I have a little problem I can't solve: When I'm using a old XT with
hercules-card and 512Kb of memory, I have totally *no* problem with
importing PCX-pictures in WordPerfect 5.1.
But... When I use a 286 with VGA-card and 1 Mb of memory, I get 
several "divide errors", and the picture is NOT displayed/imported.

Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

 _
(_
(_dwin Groothuis
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:7260 comp.terminals:632
From: umthom61@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Adam Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.terminals
Subject: Re: VT340 emulation on MS-DOS PC
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:40:22 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

I have a couple of suggestions:
 
1) Zstem-340 : made by KEA Systems Ltd, of Richmond, BC (CANADA).
    - excellent VT340 emulation.  It has one or two bugs in ReGIS mode, the
      most notable being that it doesn't require ESC / to escape back to
      'VT' mode, only ESC ... this causes problems where the software
      expects a terminal to support both modes simultaneously, for text
      overlaid on graphics.

2) 340gold - don't remember who ... supposed to be good, but is slow.

3) kermit.  Supposedly supports 3xx series, don't know details.

4) QVT340.  Shareware, can get address if you want.  Supposed to be
   released 'REAL SOON NOW'.  If it follows the tradition of QVT220, it
   will be an ***excellent*** package.  Available for LAN's, Windows, 
   extensible with additional license.


Zstem is pretty damn expensive, but you get a complete package.  It has its
drawbacks, but is able to use hi-res capabilities of SVGA cards to really
-get- ReGIS resolution. (800x360 or something)   If you convert to SiXel,
it just can't be beat.  (expensive - >$5000 for multi-user lic.)


-Adam Thompson
 umthom61@ccu.umanitoba.ca

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.windows.ms,misc.forsale.computers
From: carlos@odie.cs.mun.ca (Carlos Borges)
Subject: SimEarth for MS Windows for sale
Organization: Kilbride Liberation Organization, the KL0
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:28:30 GMT

I have SIMEARTH by Maxis software, for Windows, for sale.
I'm asking $30.00.  It comes on both 3.5" & 5.25" disks,
including original packaging.

E-mail me for details.
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From: roland@turing.acs.virginia.edu (Kevin R. McGrail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: RE: mouse, memory, management, high
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:32:47 GMT
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.

Ok well its been a long time since i messed with loading things high
but lets see if i cover all the bases:
config.sys file must have in this order atthe beginning
device=c:\dos\himem.sys
device=c:\dos\emm386.exe RAM NOEMS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
devicehigh=mouse.sys etc... etc... etc...

in the autoexec.bat file you do
loadhigh mouse.com

Hope this helps
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From: rmitchel@BBN.COM (Rob Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Whatsa .PIF file?
Date: 17 Apr 1992 15:59:27 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: rmitchel@BBN.COM (Rob Mitchell)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

    Does DOS .PIF file have something to do with icons for Windows?
    (Please excuse if this is wrong news group, I'm new to DOS world
    but not to Macintosh world).

    TIA!



Rob Mitchell                  (rmitchel@bbn.com)                  617-873-4041
Macintosh and Unix Software Engineer
These opinions are mine and mine only.
From: colorado@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Martin Snow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Undeletable File?
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:52:00 GMT
Organization: NASA/GSFC-Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

Is it possible to make a file "undeletable"?  I basically just want
to make certain files have greater protection so that they are not
accidentally deleted.  Making a backup copy on a floppy is one thing,
but it would be better if I could just increase the protection on my
hard disk. (For individual files, not the whole thing!)

(I'm using DOS 5.0 and 4DOS 3.0)

Martin Snow

snow@lyrae.dnet.nasa.gov
snow@cololasp.bitnet
msnow%cygnus@vaxf.colorado.edu
From: au483@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Adrian Drollinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Any experiences with PCUSA (Walnut, CA) ???
Date: 12 Apr 92 10:26:10 GMT
Reply-To: au483@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Adrian Drollinger)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)


Hi everyone!
I recently ordered a Gateway 2000 486 system, but since they
have problems with the 17" monitor ($195 upgrade) it would
take 4 weeks to get it plus the Telepath modem is not shipping
until May and I wasn't even able to order it, since, apparently,
it is not approved for overseas...
So I might cancel the order and buy from PCUSA in Walnut, CA
(800) 354-5566 which has a very good offer, too.
It's a 486-33 ISA with 8MB 70ns RAM (up to 64MB), 2 TEAC Floppies
245 MB 10ms SEAGATE (6MB data transfer rate), 256k Cache, 
Diamond Stealth VRAM SVGA, 15" MAG 15F 1280x1024 NI Monitor,
Focus 5001 keyboard, MSDOS, Windows, Mouse.

Price: $3050

The only problem is that I have never heard of PCUSA before.
Does anyone have any experiences with the company? They offer
a two year limited warranty and lifetime tech support. How is
their support? How long has the company been in business and
how's their reputation?

Any information is very appreciated.
Thank you in advance

Adrian
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drollinger@elde.epfl.ch (Adrian Drollinger)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mjg51721@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael James Gebis)
Subject: SCHEME/LISP for free?  Shareware?  Cheap?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 19:02:45 GMT

Is there a freeware version of SCHEME for the IBM?  How about a freeware version
of LISP?
Baring that, how about shareware/el cheapo ware versions of either program?
Thanks.

Mike Gebis  mjg51721@uxa.cso.uiuc  OR  m-gebis@uiuc.edu
"AIM MY SMILING SKULL AT YOU"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: NOTE81B
From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:23:00 GMT
Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) 
Distribution: world
Organization: The Courts of Chaos * Jacksonville AR USA * 501-985-0059

 Microsoft is also yammering about an "object-oriented environment to
sit on top of Windows."  Uh... something like HP's New Wave?  Some
entirely new interpretation of "object-oriented?"  Like, if it's so
great, why not put it into Windows in the first place?  How does this
square with the holy grail of CUA?  They're also talking about another
new version of Windows, this one to have built-in peer-to-peer
networking.

 By the way, Microsoft is accepting upgrades for 3.1 now at $49.95.
They claim they'll start shipping on April 6.

 Microsoft Wins in Court:  No, not the Apple case, but the sex
discrimination suit brought by former employee Dorothy Russell and the
unfair competition suit brought by Alalamiah Electronics in Kuwait.  The
long-standing suit from Apple looks like it's grinding to a close.

 Compaq and Dell have been suing each other all over the world, with the
latest contest being in British court.  Compaq claimed Dell was running
misleading ads, and Dell files counterclaims, etc.  They've reached a
worldwide settlement, no details were given.

 Intel has joined virus paranoia with Intel LANprotect anti-virus
software.

 Bondholders for Miniscribe (who, as you may remember, shipped bricks in
hard drive boxes at the end) were awarded $550M in damages by a Texas
jury.

 IBM trimmed 25% of its Hursley, England division.  Hursley was
responsible for much of OS/2 1.0 and DOS 4.0.  DRI's Hungerford UK
division is expanding and is working on a flash file system for
DRDOS, networking goodies, and other odds and ends.

 The latest word is that Microsoft C 7.0 will be bundled with Qualitas
386-to-the-Max (I verified this) and with NuMega's SoftIce/W debugger.
(not verified)

 Latest OS/2 rumors:  IBM still claims they'll ship on the 31st.
Seamless Windows is supposedly in.  Though it uses Windows 3.0 code for
Windows, it adds parameter checking like Windows 3.1.  OS/2 *can* use
more than 16MB of RAM, but only on the PS/2 Model 95 or EISA machines
with 32-bit DMA.

 For a good time, call:  Microsoft is offering personalized online
developer's support for Windows for only $150 per question.

=======================================================================
 Dave Williams can be found on BIX as 'dave2', CIS as 72571,3542,
on RIME at ->CHAOS, at The Courts of Chaos BBS, (501)985-0059, or
as dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us
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From: waldman2@husc4.harvard.edu (Bruce Waldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Word Perfect 5.1 encrypted files
Date: 9 Apr 92 10:02:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Apr9.060205.10873
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Is there any possible remedy for someone (a
student in my course) who encrypted a Word Perfect 5.1
file and now has forgotten the password he used?
(Not using WP myself, I would hope the answer is no...
but perhaps there are some tricks for this sort of
inevitable accident).
 
Bruce Waldman
bw@gnu.ai.mit.edu
B.Waldman@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 6 Apr 1992 12:41:12 CDT
From: <U30776@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: RE: Teledisk compression? What is it?

>
>   I have recieved some files that have been compressed using the
>   teledisk format.  Does anyone know what programs will uncompress
>   this format?
>
>   Thanks!
>

Teledisk is kind of like a camera. It takes pictures of your disks and keeps
their images in files. So it's very useful for archiving bootable disks.

Teledisk is actually a shareware released by Sydex (up to version 2.12; 2.13
can be obtained by registering the older version). I don't know if there's
any other utility that can uncompress teledisk format. You can find the
program in wuarchive.wustl.edu under the directory "mirrors/msdos/dskutl",
filename: teled212.zip. Of course, you have to use ftp anonymous service.

===============================================================================
Benson Lo                                   WARNING !!!
u30776@uicvm.cc.uic.edu                     DATA ON C: DRIVE IS LOST,
                                            IF YOU RESTART OR REBOOT.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: hofer@urz.unibas.ch (Remo Hofer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.terminals
Subject: VT340 emulation on MS-DOS PC
Date: 6 Apr 92 10:02:56 MET
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland

Our DEC VT340 terminal died and we are considering to use a personal computer
as a terminal emulator. We know that there are some VT240 emulators around, 
and that kermit has as pretty good terminal emulation. But we need a color
VT340 emulation that emulates full VT340 regis color graphic. Is there such a
beast around? Bye the way, we are using the terminal on a pdp 11 hooked up to
an electron spectroscopy analyzer (ESCA).

Please reply by mail, I will summarize the result. Thanks in advance
Regards Remo Hofer
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From: ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Huppertz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Software for QIC-80 (Colorado Jumbo 250) tape drive
Date: 7 Apr 92 08:06:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: rs6000.1992Apr07.080604.7820
Organization: Illinois State University

Hello netters,

What software will run a QIC-80 tape drive?  I have a Colorado
Jumbo 250 internal, and I'm not happy with their software.  The 
software MUST HAVE MACINTOSH FILE SUPPORT--we're on a Novell network.

Thanks! 

-- 
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Daily Vidette, Illinois State U.  |  got cold out. The weatherman said 'I don't 
ejhupper@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu     |  understand, it was supposed to be 80  
(309) 438-8565                    |  today,' and I said 'Oops.'"  -S. Wright
From: lowey@jester.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey,159 Physics,(306) 966-4826,(306) 249-3232)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SIMEARTH
Date: 14 Apr 92 02:41:00 GMT
Reply-To: lowey@jester.usask.ca
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Originator: lowey@jester.usask.ca

From article <93014@muvms3.bitnet>, by rcbi107@muvms3.bitnet (Charles Kyle):

> Does anyone know the entry code for the question "How many days are
> in an earth year?" for SIMEARTH?

Here's how you find out.  Note today's date.  Then each day from now
to the same date next year, take a crayon and write a mark on your
wall.  On the same date next year, add up all the crayon marks.

Or, if you want it quicker, you can always look in the manual that you
must have if you bought the package.

- Kevin Lowey
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Any questions?     - juan@noyles.pha.pa.us (Juan Jose T. Noyles)
From: holsberg@pilot.njin.net (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: TCF'92 THIS WEEKEND!
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:14:11 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


The Trenton Computer Festival 1992 will be held at Mercer College on
Saturday, April 11 (9-6) and Sunday, April 12 (10-4). 

This year's festival features:
	- The world's largest outdoor personal computer FLEA MARKET
	- Over 170 National Vendor and Commercial Booths, featuring AST,
          Adobe, Aldus, Borland, Microsoft, Lotus, Corel, Micrografx,
	  Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, WordPerfect, Intel, Symantec, 
	  Software Publishing, and local vendors.
	- More than 125 FREE Seminars, Forums and Talks on all aspects of
	  computing.
	- Thousands of dollars worth of door prizes, including an AST 386SX
	  notebook computer, an HP color printer and an HP color scanner.
	- Saturday evening banquet features keynote speaker, Paul Grayson,
	  CEO of Micrografx. Tickets are $20 each.
	- Admission:
		General: $7 for both days; $5 for Sunday only
		Students and Seniors: $3 for both days
		Preschoolers accompanied by adult: FREE
		Other Children Under 12 accompanied by adult: $3 for both days,
			FREE on Sunday only

Files with all kinds of good information are available for anonymous
ftp from pilot.njin.net (128.6.7.38) in pub/TCF/tcf.  They include:

	what.is.TCF - history and description of TCF
	gen.info - general info about TCF, directions, parking, etc.

Pete Holsberg
TCF 92 Steering Committee
From: toft@ddg.sony.co.jp (Rolf Toft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Paralel printer port control - help wanted.
Date: 16 Apr 92 02:18:45 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Organization: Sony Corp. Display Development Group.



   I'm trying to use the ROM-BIOS service to control the printer port.
Basically I just want to send out a streem of characters at high
speed. I'm trying to use the interrupt call 17H to send out my bytes -
but it dosen't work properly. My test program looks like this :


code  segment
      assume cs:code

start:  mov  ah,01h    ;+ Initializing printer.
        int  17h       ;-
        mov  ah,00h    ;+ Send out one byte.
        mov  al,34h
        int  17h       ;-
        mov  ah,00     ;+ Send out one more byte ..
        mov  al,44h    
        int  17h       ;-
        mov  ah,4ch    ;+ Terminate program.
        int  21h

code    ends

        end  start


  I'm compiling this program using IBM's macro assembler and then
using IBM's linker. Everything seems fine - and when I load the
program into the debugger the program is there all right. I can then
step trough the program or run the program in the debugger without any
problems - it's working just fine (I'm monitoring the port with a
logic analyzer). But when I'm running the COM file or the EXE file
from the DOS shell nothing happens - I get the control back without
any problems though. When I compile other programs using other BIOS
calls I have no problems !! 

  I've tryed to poll the printer status after sending a byte out, I've
tryed to insert delay's after sending a byte - It dosen't help.

  I'm using an IBM system/2, model 50.

  I would be very greatful if anybody could direct me to what I'm
doing wrong - and/or suggest any other method. It is my impression
that using the DOS printer output function (21H - AH=05H) is much more
slow, and I need speed.

                                         Thanks in advance,
                                                            Rolf.

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Display Development Grp.
Sony Corporation.
6-7-35 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku,
Tokyo 141 Japan.
Tel : 81-3-3448-7952.  Fax: 81-3-3448-4249.  Email:toft@ddg.sony.co.jp
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