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From: dmelczer@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Dr. David Z. Melczer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Remote X windows via modem with DV/X
Date: 19 Dec 92 02:08:10 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Does anyone know if the following is possible:

We have Desqview/X running on a 386 w/8meg of RAM.  We would like to link
into an Ethernet-based network which is based on a SUN Sparstation 10 server.

Can this be done using a standard PC and modem under Desqview/X and get X windows support.  The network does have SL/IP.  We have heard of using ftp's TCP/IP
2.11 software.  Does anyone know what else is necessary and how exactly to set
the hardware and software up?  Thanks in advance for any help you can give us.

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Subject: dv/x
Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:10:15 EST

<D>can someone please tell me where i might find a copy of desqview/x

<D>i have looked in the faq but it didn't help me...  (one entry even
<D>had a site listed with the file(s) in the /tmp directory...  /tmp's
<D>get wiped out every so often...)

DESQview/X is a commercial application, and thus is available either
directly from Quarterdeck or from your favourite dealer.

Quarterdeck Office Systems
150 Pico Boulevard
Santa Monica, California
90405

Customer Service (800) 354-3222

The libraries that you saw are development tools, not DESQview/X itself.

Regards,

Michael Bolton
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From: st1vn@elroy.uh.edu (Fontenot, Kenneth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Windows Problem
Date: 15 Dec 1992 09:59 CST
Organization: University of Houston
Distribution: world
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News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

  I have a problem opening Procomm Plus for Windows. When I open it
the title screen comes up and then the computer locks up. I am 
running windows in Desqview 386 when this problem occurs. I have
given windows all the extended memory that I have in its setup.
My total expanded memory is 2676 as shown when I call on the 
memory status in DV. My computer currently has 4 Megs of RAM.
Do I not have enough memory to open Procomm up in Windows?
It works fine out of DV. 

                           Kenneth  st1vn@uh.edu

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From: @arrakis.denver.co.us (Bob Hood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Desqview-X and PC/TCP 2.1
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 21:20:29 GMT
Organization: Bob's Programming Paradise
Reply-To: thor@arrakis.denver.co.us

In article <1992Dec10.175546.9082@linus.mitre.org> fjr@dec-netman-k.mitre.org writes:
>
>
> Greetings all,
>
> This may be a FAQ, but I'm trying to install DVX on a PC running PC/TCP
> 2.1.
> When I try to run the setup it gives me the "PCTCP Network Error". I have
> ifcust.sys and ipcust.sys loaded in in config.sys file, but I still get
> this error.
>
> Has anyone got an easy fix for this (besides going back to PC/TCP 2.05??

I have just gone to 2.1 from 2.05 with DV/X 1.02.  You will need to use the 
device drivers (I?CUST.SYS) that come with 2.1 (although, I used the 2.05 
drivers for a short while), and you will need to change the "use-old- 
init-scheme" parameter in the PCTCP.INI file to yes (and, yes, you'll need to 
actually *have* a PCTCP.INI file).  You will also have to manually configure 
the drivers using IFCONFIG.EXE and IPCONFIG.EXE (just like in 2.05).

DV/X will not recognize PC/TCP 2.1 unless the device drivers are loaded
(I've been told by Tech Support that DV/X will not support the new
PC/TCP 2.1 configuartion [sans drivers] until probably 1.03).

>
> Thanks for the help!!!
>

My pleasure.

Bob
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: garyrich@qdeck.com (Gary Rich)
Subject: Re: Qemm/DV slow down HD transferrate
Organization: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Santa Monica CA
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 21:11:46 GMT

In article <723817592.F00003@krypta.in-berlin.de> koka@krypta.in-berlin.de (Konrad H. Knauer) writes:
>
>My second system for the BBS is a small Neat 386SX with 3 MB. The AT-Bus HD
>is quite fast, around 1400 kB/s when using Himem.Sys.
>
>After installing Qemm it goes down to 1000 kB/s. If using Qemm stealth its
>around 500 kB/s and after loading DV around 280 kB/s remain. Thats 20% of
>the possible speed, 80% are lost with Qemm and DV.

best guess on why it goes down so dramatically with stealth is that you
are now missing your interleave.  If by "AT-Bus" you mean an IDE 
controller, you may be out of luck, since one can't normally adjust
the interleave.  If your interleave can be adjusted by Spinwrite or
Norton's Calibrate this may solve the problem.  Otherwise, the only thing
with much promise might be to set up QEMM with "RAM ST:M XSTI:76 X=F000-
FFFF X=C000-C7FF [add any other ROMs as well] FSTI".  If that restores 
the transfer rate, then check out our STEALTH.TEC technote to help narrow
down the excludes (send mail to support@qdeck.com and we'll send you
the technote).

A 50% slowdown inside a multitasking environment is pretty normal.

>
>Transferrate with Coretest. I did try another pgm which writes and reads
>big files, the results are comparable. 

I don't know anything about Coretest, but if it's a benchmark program,
I'd ignore it's results.  Bob only knows what it's _really_ measuring.
XCOPY and a stopwatch is the only thing I'd look at.

Gary Rich		<support@qdeck.com>


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From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Subject: efax and qemm
Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 12 Dec 92 02:49:10 EST

GF>Does anyone out there use QEMM with EFAX (Everex)? Ever since I installed the
GF>FAX driver I get strange hangups in unralated software (Xtree Gold) and Int13
GF>Errors in others (WordPerfect).
GF>I know my hardware is not state of the art (386DX clone, 8MB ram, IDE drive
GF>and a 120MB tape - The disk controllers and RS232 cards are low quality), but
GF>could the problem be software, and if so, is there a fix?

The problem could be software.  It's unlikely to be QEMM.  To eliminate
the programs that you mention from suspiscion, make sure that you have a
version of WordPerfect dated 12/90 or later, and make sure that your
version of Xtree is up to date, too.

In the unhappy event that you still have problems after the above are
are found to be in order, a little research might be needed.  Does the
problem go away if you remove Stealth?  If yes, download the file
STEALTH.TEC.  Does the problem go away if you remove the RAM parameter?
If yes, download the file EXCLUDE.TEC.  Does the problem go away if you
use DOS's HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE (and you must use BOTH, and EMM386
should be providing at least a meg or so of exPANded memory).  If yes,
download the file TROUBLE.TEC.  All the files mentioned above are
available on the Quarterdeck BBS at (310) 314-3227, Compuserve (!GO
QUARTERDECK), or large local BBS systems, and also via our Q/FAX fax
retrieval service; from the handset of your fax machine, call (310)
314-3214, or in Canada, (416) 665-5070.

Regards,

Michael Bolton
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From: cho@cho.gsis.co.kr (Tai-Hoon Cho)
Subject: Running MS-Windows Applications on Sparcstations 
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 12:43:44 GMT

I have a Sparcstation and a 386PC connected via Ethernet.
I can open a DOS window on the Sparcstation that communicates with the PC running Desqview/X.
But I don't know how to run a MS Windows Application on the PC and display it on the Sparcstation.
Any help about this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Tai-Hoon Cho
Goldstar Industrial Systems, Co.
e-mail : cho@cho.gsis.co.kr
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: gt@rundart.demon.co.uk (Giles Todd)
Subject: DVX, Motif and file handles
Distribution: world
Organization: Rundart Limited
Reply-To: gt@rundart.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.19)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 06:37:49 +0000

My problem with consumption of file handles appears to be associated
with setting print spooling to "Y" in DVX setup.  If I set it to "N"
then the problem goes away.  So does print spooling.  That's two bugs
associated with DVX 1.02's print manager found in my first session.

Are these known bugs?  Are there workarounds?  If not, when will they be
fixed and how much extra will I have to pay in order to get the working
software Quarterdeck's documentation advertises?

Giles.
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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: RCONSOLE under DV/X?
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:11:49 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Dec14.190535.13803@news.uiowa.edu>, phenning@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Paul Henning) writes:
> 
> Has anyone else had problems running Novell's Rconsole under DV/X?  I
> have the DV/X Network Manager for LWP.   I keep the binaries of DV/X
> on my fileserver (yes, only I can see them) due to lack of space on
> my hard disk, so I load all of my networking software before I load
> DV/X.
> 
> The symptoms I see are that the RCONSOLE program will start, either
> as a DVP or running in a DOS window, let me select the server and
> type in the password, then will die.  Sometimes it will hang the 
> entire system, sometimes just it's window (also tried it full
> screen, same nonsense).  I have upped it's minimum memory requirements
> but that didn't seem to help.
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul Henning					paul-henning@uiowa.edu
--------------
	Yup. Pretty much the same here under DV/X. I get to answer "n" to
the multiple screens (displays?) question then DV/X dies. Much fiddling once
got it to say up over FTP Inc's stack but I lost some video attributes such
as cursor reversed video choice bars. Running it on via a regular Unix machine
works perfectly. To get it to live even momentarily I have to keep shrinking
my RAM disk size (peculiar indeed on an 8MB system). The IP connection is
aborted with a broken pipe, so says my NW 3.11 server, meaning the PC side IP
stuff died.
	Joe D.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Subject: downloading with dv/x
Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 17 Dec 92 19:39:36 EST

JF>quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com ("quarterdeck canada") writes:

JF>: SJ>I have been using Desqview/X for a while and Desqview in the past and I am
JF>: SJ>having trouble doing a download from a bulletin board while I am running
JF>: SJ>another application,under Desqview/x

JF>: SJ>I have successfully downloaded files with Regular Desqview using Qmodem
JF>: SJ>Download in the background.
JF>:
JF>: SJ>I have read through the manual that I have and I might be stupid, but am I
JF>: SJ>missing something?  is it possible to do a download to my computer, while
JF>: SJ>running another app in the background....
JF>: SJ>this all with Desqview/X as I have gotten it to work with Desqview 2.32 I think
JF>: SJ>is the version.
JF>:
JF>: Quarterdeck Technical Note #237, Communications Programs and DESQview
JF>: (COMMPROG.TEC) should help you to diagnose any problems that you're
JF>: having.  It's available on the Quarterdeck BBS at (310) 314-3227,
JF>: Compuserve (!GO QUARTERDECK), or large local BBS systems, and also via
JF>: our Q/FAX fax retrieval service; from the handset of your fax machine,
JF>: call (310) 314-3214, or in Canada, (416) 665-5070.

JF>I downloaded this and it didn't help me.  I was already doing everthing that
JF>was in this file that dealt with DV/X.  Any other ideas?  I am using Procomm
JF>Plus with 8MB of memory.

Neither you nor the original correspondent have noted the actual
problem.  What kind of modem are you using?  Internal or external?  What
speed?  Does the comm program crash?  Do you get download errors?
Upload errors?  Do you have a 16550A UART?  How fast is your computer?
What kind of processor? What are your clock ticks set at?

Regards,

Michael Bolton
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: zisi@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Andreas Zisowsky)
Subject: Re: Desqview unstable
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:59:15 GMT

silvia@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu writes:

>I have been having some problems with Desqview 2.42. It has been crashing evenwith the best of behaved programs. Say I load Prodigy I don't think its unstable, It will run fine for awhile and then crash. Even with a small program it will go down and i have to press the rest button no ctrl-alt-dlt. I am using Qemm 6.02 and MS-DOS 5.0 and NDOS 6.1. Help! I really want this to work I think Desqviewis a great program except for these problems.

Do you use mirror? For example in your Autoexec with the /t option to recover
deleted files? I found out that this option makes DV hang quite often (but not
always). 

Ciao.
Andreas

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From: grettir@pension.UUCP (Grettir Asmundarson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: RCONSOLE under DV/X?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 09:08:24 MST
Organization: The Pension Grillparzer +1 801 375 7679

[...a bit deleted...]

> The symptoms I see are that the RCONSOLE program will start, either
> as a DVP or running in a DOS window, let me select the server and
> type in the password, then will die.  Sometimes it will hang the
> entire system, sometimes just it's window (also tried it full
> screen, same nonsense).  I have upped it's minimum memory requirements
> but that didn't seem to help.

I have exactly the same problem with old-fashioned Desqview v2.42.  
Sometimes I can even type in a few characters before the window freezes. 
Then if I close the window, exit Desqview, and re-enter RCONSOLE I find 
the console sitting there with my few typed characters.

Very odd.

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From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Subject: can too many applianc
Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 12 Dec 92 02:49:09 EST

KS>I have been experiencing complete and total random lockups in desqview, my
KS>friend thinks it could be that the circuit is over loaded and could be causing
KS>a power flux and therefore locking up the computer?  I dunno. but i went down
KS>fliped the breaker off and noticed that we have two computers, (486 33 and 50)
KS>a stereo, and several other appliances on this 15 amp circuit,  it does
KS>seem to be a large load for the circuit, but yet we have never tripped it.
KS>Could a power flux cuased by another appliance really lock up a computer
KS>that is multitasking??

A power flux caused by a computer that is multitasking could lock up
another appliance, on the same theoretical level, but I'd sure post my
CONFIG.SYS, my AUTOEXEC.BAT, and a few details about my machine before I
started unplugging my CD player.

Your friend is to be congratulated for his confidence in the robustness
of all your software, though. :)

Regards,

Michael Bolton
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From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Subject: why no stealth?
Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 12 Dec 92 02:49:11 EST

SA>I like many people purchased my computer with a Diamond Stealth Windows
SA>Accelerator card. This card was recommended by such popular and widely
SA>respected magazines such as PC Magazine and PC World. This card works
SA>great with windows, as I can get the 1024x768x256 display I desire.
SA>  Now I am getting into X-Windows, and so I am using Desqview/X, however
SA>I 800x600x16 is the maximum display I can get it to work with. Why can't
SA>I get a better display, isn't Desqview/X a "windowing" system. Are there
SA>drivers I am missing? If not why haven't these companies developed them
SA>yet? If Desqview/X wants to become as popular as Windows, shouldn't they
SA>have drivers for every card manufacturer?

Sure, and in a perfect world, we would not only have drivers for every
card released, we would have drivers for all the cards yet to be
released as well.  Alas, the pace of development in the computer world
makes the former difficult and the latter impossible.  

I note that you refer to this as a "Windows" accelerator card.  I don't
know what Diamond means by this.  It could mean one of two things:  1)
that the card has been specifically designed with proprietary technology
to provide better performance under Microsoft Windows -- which is itself
a proprietary operating environment, and therefore caveat emptor if you
want to use the card for other environments; or 2) that the card
provides better performance under all environments -- in which case, why
should it be called merely a "Windows" accelerator card?

In any case, enhanced support for video under DESQview/X is a very high
priority, and you can expect improvements as time goes by.

Regards,

Michael Bolton
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From: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Subject: qemm 6.02 optimize an
Reply-To: "quarterdeck canada" <quarterdeck.canada@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 20 Dec 92 23:10:17 EST

(Continued from the previous message)

  *          Copyright (C) 1992 by Quarterdeck Office Systems            *
  ************************ E N D   O F   F I L E *************************
Regards,

Michael Bolton
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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: How does Phar Lap DOS Extender 286 allocated its memory from QEMM?
Date: 19 Dec 92 11:35:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: ralf.2b331710
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Originator: ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU

In article <1992Dec17.225657.3463@qdeck.com>, garyrich@qdeck.com (Gary Rich) wrote:
}In article <1992Dec14.222004.594@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
}Um, no.  The Phar Lap extender uses VCPI.  A much more robust spec than
}XMS (or DPMI for that matter)

VCPI simpler than DPMI?  Definitely.
VCPI more robust than DPMI?  Doubt it.	VCPI runs clients in ring 0 (most
privileged), so a VCPI app can bring down the entire system.  DPMI runs clients
in ring 3 (least privileged), so it has a fair chance of keeping the crash to
a single client, assuming the host is well-implemented.

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From: pkarrer@bernina.ethz.ch (Peter Karrer)
Subject: QEMM 6.02 Optimize and NETBIND
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:22:00 GMT

When I try to run OPTIMIZE for a configuration which uses NDIS network
drivers, NETBIND.COM (or .EXE) v1.1 produces an "invalid instruction"
exception at 8800:0CAF. This happens during the "detection phase", and
it can be reproduced by trimming the configuration down to:

  DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM ROM
  DEVICE=C:\LANMAN\PROTMAN.DOS

  C:\LANMAN\NETBIND

I can usually "t"erminate NETBIND, but this prevents OPTIMIZE from being 
useful because other network drivers in AUTOEXEC.BAT won't load.

Hardware is a Compaq Deskpro 50M, but it "works" on my home EISA clone
as well.

Is this a known problem? Workarounds?

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From: jbrehm@acpub.duke.edu (John Brehm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Memory leak under twm in dv-x
Date: 17 Dec 92 16:14:03 GMT
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

I've been working on porting ctwm to dv-x, and all is well except for
a very serious bug.  As far as I can tell, ALL variants of twm (uwm,
vtwm, ctwm) spring a significant memory leak.  The symptoms are
as follows - after about one minute, dv-x memory status reports a 
drop of 64k in expanded memory; after that, every 15 seconds, another
16k (*exactly*) disappear from expanded memory.
 
I've chased down all the malloc, calloc, etc. calls, and nothing is
happening at 15 second intervals.  Identical symptoms arise with
the network support off, screen saver off, apiPause() calls put in
the mainloop.

I should mention that I needed to make two changes to twm, but I can't
imagine why either should be responsible for the leak.  One change was
to comment out the fcntl() call marking the display as close on exec;
the other was to replace the system() calls with an equivalent
function that calld pifStart().

Has anyone successfully ported twm (or a variant) without the memory
leak?  Can anyone think of what happens at 15 second intervals to
pull exactly 16k of memory from expanded memory?  Any other thoughts?
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