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From: kurtg@yang.earlham.edu (Son of Scribbler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: "CD \" returns "Invalid Directory" error.
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:48:37 GMT
Organization: Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana

In article <1goa7rINNsom@ope001.iao.ford.com>, mjo@iao.ford.com (Mike O'Connor) writes:
> For a friend:
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> 
> 	Occasionally, when I exit an application, and I type CD \ to
> get back to the root directory, I get the error message "Invalid
> Directory."

I get that when I'm in the root directory, and type cd\.

>  Also, when I try to do some directory listings, such as
> DIR /W I get Invalid switch - /w sometimes the error will just be
> garbage which may or may not include file names and lots of other
> wonderful characters.

Can't help ya there.

> 	I have DOS 5.0 on a PS/2 Mod 80 running with Token Ring
> drivers installed.  I am not running any compression programs such as
> Stacker.  I do have SmartDrive, but I've turned this off and still get
> it occasionally.
> 	Any hints or suggestions?  Please email me directly if
> possible since it will be easier for me to read your responses, etc.
> 	Thanks in advance....
> 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: dnicola@cs.vu.nl (Nicolaas D)
Subject: Re: Assign Help.
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:29:49 GMT

GEN3037@Husky1.StMarys.Ca (DARREN JOHNSON) writes:

>Can someone tell me how to assign one pathname to serve for another path.

>[...]
>I can only write to the directory c:\users\username and any subdirectories
>after that, and this program wants to write to c:\program, which the network
>won't let happen. So what I want is a way for when the program wants
>to write to the root directory will actually write to users\username
>(.ie make c:\program into c:\users\username.

There are three MS-DOS programs which let you cheat with drive letters and
path names: assign, subst and join.
assign is used to assign another drive letter to a drive, e.g. assign a=c
means that from now on every request for drive a: is redirected to c:.
subst d: c:\tmp assigns drive letter d: to the path c:\tmp. every read or
write to d:\ actually occurs on c:\tmp.
join a: c:\tmp means that from now on every read/write on c:\tmp occurs on a:.
This is called mounting in UNIX. c:\tmp needs to be empty before you 
execute the join.
The problem is that join only works on directories in the root directory, so
you can't join anything on c:\users\username. Another problem is that some 
of these utilities don't work on networks drives. See the DOS-manuals for
details. 

So I don't think it will work with standard software. Anyway, these utilities
are tricky since sometimes the directories in which they are cease to exist
when you use them, so you can't undo things. I wouldn't experiment with them 
in a network.

Maybe your network utilities can mount or link directories?

>Thanks for any help. 


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: medin@manta.nosc.mil (Ted Medin)
Subject: HELP - scanner question
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:27:09 GMT

 Thinking about getting a scanner & see mustek has a color scanner
model m-6000 cg
Anyone know what the resolution of this model is?
Anyone got one of these & care to comment?

 And while im at it any comments on the "perceive personal ocr" software?
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: lh7873@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: Re: MSDOS 5
Reply-To: lh7873@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 06:10:52 GMT

In article <724548752.AA00789@contrast.wlink.nl>, johannes.beekhuizen@contrast.wlink.nl (Johannes Beekhuizen) writes:

>There are several. I have been using Stacker with lots of success, average
>compression a bit over 2:1 - so I get 78 Mbytes on my 40 Mbyte disk drive.
>Others are DoubleDisk (which will come with MSDOS 6.0) and SuperStore.
>                                            111111111
					Is there such an animal???
>Regards,
>
>           Hans.
>
>fidonet  2:281/527.5
>yan-net  123:3183/0
>e-mail   johannes.beekhuizen@contrast.wlink.nl
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: kan@epas.utoronto.ca (Raymond Kan)
Subject: Harvard Graphics 3.0
Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:39:22 GMT

	Does anyone out there know to type greek letters and math symbols
	in Harvard Graphics 3.0.  Also, do you know an FTP site has the
	LaserJet 4 printer driver for Harvard Graphics 3.0.

	Thanks in advance.


Raymond

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb)
Subject: Lucky Computers??
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 22:35:46 GMT

Would like to hear from anyone who has purchased a computer from Lucky
Computers.  How good is their support?  Would be especially interested to
hear from someone who has bought one from one of their Pacific Northwest
stores, but any input at all would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: evans1@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Dan Evans)
Subject: Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyone? :-P )
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:44:52 GMT


> As stated above, I feel that some forms of software piracy are valid. 

> shareware concept - If one likes and uses the software, one should
> register (buy) it.  The distribution of cracked games on thousands of
> BBS's across the country helps prevent the unsuspecting buyer from buying a
> total lemon of a product.  How many times have you bought software only to
> find out that the package is ten times better than the product?  Caveat
> Emptor! 

You do raise some good points here. But with the onset of shareware, 
demos released from the software publishers, and return polices from
retailers like Egghead (30 day money back, no questions asked) your
valid reasons should all be addressed by the manufacturers in short
order. Those who do not will lose their buying market (at least in games).

Personally I think that the shareware concept is the greatest thing since
sliced bread.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Subject: Re: Telix Terminal emulators
Reply-To: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:25:59 GMT

In article <Bz82Dv.6pB@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>  
callison@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (James P. Callison) writes:
:-> 
:-> What I really, REALLY would like is VT100 emulation for Telix, but
:-> I would settle for decent VT102 emulation...(and no, I can't use
:-> the VT52 emulation; it's actually worse than the VT102...)
:-> 

Set your terminal emulation to ANSI-BBS.  It works the same as VT100.

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			     Marc Meltzer
		      President of The Meltz Inc
	 "Our job is to play games.  Our hobby is to consult."
From: patrick@lurch.turing.ac.uk (Vorgers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Print Screen to file - possble?
Date: 18 Dec 92 17:29:56 GMT
Organization: The Turing Institute, Glasgow, Scotland.

In article <1992Dec16.055204.9937@qiclab.scn.rain.com>, leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
|> ledwick@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Bill Ledwick) writes:
|> 
|> >Simple question, I hope...
|> >	Is there an easy way to cause print screen to go to
|> >	a text file rather than the printer?
|> 
|> No.
|> 
|> What you *can* do is load a TSR to take care of that sort of thing.
|> 
|> If it's a *text* screen you want to capture, grab a copy of Snipper.
|> I'm not sure what to recommend for graphics.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Leonard Erickson		      leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
|> CIS: [70465,203]			 70465.203@compuserve.com
|> FIDO:   1:105/51	 Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
|> (The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)

You have to redirect int 5, int 5 is the print screen interrupt.!!

Happy Xmas.

	Patrick Vorgers
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: a722756@roper.mc.ti.com (W. Donald Rolph)
Subject: Re: qemm
Originator: a722756@roper.mc.ti.com
Organization: Texas Instruments / Attleboro Mass / USA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:59:09 GMT


In article <1992Dec16.155222.16925@sarah.albany.edu>, cs5059@albnyvms.bitnet writes:
|> If some one has some free time, and has some knowledge about
|> QEMM, could you please tell me a little about it?
|> 
|> Like does it break the 640k barrier?
|> Any info would be appreciated, I have 4 megs of ram and I would 
|> like to use them efficiently.
|> Thanks, Larry
qemm, or any other expanded and  etended emmroy manager, will allow you to
utilize the 4Meg you have so long as the software can utilize either extended or
expanded memory.  many of these manager siwll also (on a 386 or above machine)
allow you to pput programs and devices drivers in unused space between 640 and
1meg.

qemm is nice in that it:
 
     dynamically allocated 1meg + memroy between expanded and extended memory

     allows you to control somewhat where between 640 and 1meg you load your
          device drivers and programs

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Regards.
 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka)
Subject: Re: A Frank Discussion on Piracy (Flames, Anyon
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:27:10 GMT

I think I'll stay out of this one, except for this comment:

 exuhag@exu.ericsson.se writes:
>...  You can get excellent software from
>less visible companies if you are willing to look around.  PC Write 
>is still a good deal.  Ditto for 4DOS, The $25 Network, Power BASIC,
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>etc.  Smaller companies who don't get the benefit of free
>adverstising often try harder to please their customers.

This is not always the case.

I bought the $25 Network, installed it for a client to provide printer
sharing, and discovered a few days later that it wouldn't work with
SHARE loaded (which said client needed for a CD-ROM.)

After many attempts I finally got through to the tech support line
(which I think actually rings on he programmer's desk) and was told
they knew about the problem and would ship an upgrade.  Did that 4 or
5 times.  No upgrade.  Am I a pleased customer?  No.  Do I
use/recommend The $25 Network?  No.

Perhaps this makes a case for releasing the $25 Network as
shareware...  I would have gotten the upgrade from a BBS, and then
would have registered as a satisfied customer.  Instead, I serve as
negative advertising.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: etorrem@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (engelbert.jgm.torremans)
Subject: Re: Media descriptor byte error
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:17:33 GMT

In article <1gnh9dINNpq3@crcnis1.unl.edu> hide@unlinfo.unl.edu (harry ide) writes:
>Two people in my department have had problems with floppy disks 
>intermittently for the last year or two. When I run Norton Disk Doctor
>on them, it says the media descriptor byte is invalid, and the FATs 
>are messed up (cross-linked, etc.). It's not (as far as I can tell) a 
>formatting problem; these disks were formatted in the same way as many
>others. (One good result: I think this has finally convinced them to 
>keep backups!) The two people this happens to are also the only two 
>people who regularly use both home computers and work computers. They 
>primarily use word processors; one uses WordPerfect and the other used
>to use wordcraft and now uses wp and has had problems with files in 
>both. Any ideas on what's going wrong?
>
>--
>Harry A. Ide                      |  `It's better to play dice with  
>(Dad to Andrew, born 4.iv.1991)   |  children than to play politics 
>                                  |  with you.' (Heraclitus)


I don't think it has something to do with the diskettes but it more
likely caused by WP. I have had the same problem long time ago. The
cause appeared to be that WP did not recognize that the diskettes
were changed. Either the diskette changeline is not operating
correctly, the diskdrive diskchange mechanism is not working 
correctly or WP does not handle the diskette correctly. 

This error causes WP to overwrite the diskette FAT with the 
contents of the FAT of the previous diskette to which the 
information of the new file is added. The result is a FAT that
is not related to the current diskette contents.

You can avoid this problem by letting wordperfect reread the diskette
before writing to it (F5) or make sure that the diskette changeline
is working again. However 360k floppy's don't have changeline support
and not all of 720k 3,5" diskettte drives have changeline support.

Engelbert Torremans
AT&T-NS-NL
Huizen
The Netherlands

Email: etorrem@cbnewsj.att.com / etorrem@hvlpa.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: LASTDRIVE fiddling - CAN'T CHANGE IT AFTER STARTUP
Organization: iX-Redaktion
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:48:02 GMT


|> If you have QEMM, it come with a program called lastdriv.exe (or .com)
|> that can add (but not subtract) the lastdrive.  The idea is that you
|> can start with a low lastdrive in config.sys and than load the rest of
|> the CDS high.  Similar things can be done to BUFFERS, FILE and FCBS.
|> I believe the programs work without QEMM as well, but that's where you
|> can get them from.

Same applies to Schulman's "Undocumented DOS" which contains 
a utility disk with some similar tools.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: sl14@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Stephen Lee)
Subject: Re: LASTDRIVE fiddling - CAN'T CHANGE IT AFTER STARTUP
Organization: Fantasy Zone Ithaca, Inc.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 01:47:34 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.004138.9571@ac.dal.ca> glad@ac.dal.ca writes:
>> Anyone able to tell me how to mess with the messydos lastdrive parameter
>> which can be set in config.sys ? I want to overcome a very boring
>> "feature" of silverplatter "multiplatter" which absolutely insists that
>> the lastdrive be set to J - this makes network login a pain and the
>> cdserver is on the network. I can survive with a boot disk for access but
>> it seems like a very clumsy way to use a very expensive piece of
>> hardware/software. I'd like to write myself a utility to kludge the
>> lastdrive temporarily while I access multiplatter, then undo the damage
>> after I've finished.
>> 
>
>For each drive letter that is defined in your system, DOS sets aside an 88
>byte block of memory to store info about the associated logical drive.  The
>block is called the CDS, current directory structure, which tells DOS what
>the current directory for the drive is, where DOS can find info about the
>drive's physical characteristics, and whether the drive is a network drive.
>
>So, with that in mind, you can see the difficulty in trying to change the
>lastdrive environment variable; since DOS allocates the memory needed to
>store environment information about drives when it reads config.sys file
>on boot-up.  So, to my knowledge, you can't change the lastdrive after
>the system starts.  Let me know if you find a way around this, though.

If you have QEMM, it come with a program called lastdriv.exe (or .com)
that can add (but not subtract) the lastdrive.  The idea is that you
can start with a low lastdrive in config.sys and than load the rest of
the CDS high.  Similar things can be done to BUFFERS, FILE and FCBS.
I believe the programs work without QEMM as well, but that's where you
can get them from.
--
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Internet: sl14@crux2.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Stacker and Hyperdisk, but how? 
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:50:25 GMT

fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>etxstfr@helix.ericsson.se (Stefan Frick) writes:
>>The 'README.DOC' that came with stacker claims that Stacker and Hyperdisk can
>>co-exist but they don't give any details, just that caching should be done
>>towards the uncompressed part of the disk.

>Um...Does Stacker perform an SSWAP function, thus swapping the
>compressed and uncompressed drives?  This might confuse Hyperdisk.
>Perhaps you should load it after Stacker has done it's SSWAP magic, or
>maybe stop using SSWAP if it's not too much trouble.

Stacker/Hyperdisk worked great for me for a long time.  The trick is
to stack the drive that the compressed "drive's" files is on, and not
the compressed "drive".   Thus, on hard disk C: I had a file,
C:\STACKVOL.000 that appeared as drive D: once stacker was loaded.
You should NOT tell Hyperdisk to cache "D:", just C:.  Never did it
with SSWAP...



-- 
Custom will often blind one to the good as well as to the evil effects of any
long established system.       -- Bishop Richard Whately
From: tedcrum@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ted Crum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Mouse Driver - where?
Date: 16 Dec 1992 07:28:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu
Keywords: microsoft mouse driver


Is that a better driver than the DOS mouse driver that comes on disk 6
of windows 3.1?

-TC
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jeffgus@netcom.com (Jeffrey Gustafson)
Subject: Re: MacSee Problem
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 07:19:19 GMT

mhatz@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Hatz) writes:


>Has anyone had any success with the application MacSee that supposedly reads
>Mac disks???  I put a Mac disk in and get a "not a Mac disk" message back.

	It will only read high density Mac disks.  The 800k disks are
CLV (Continous Linear Velocity), IBM drives are CAV (Continous Angular
Velocity).

---
Jeffrey Gustafson
jeffgus@netcom.com



Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: ian@stirling.hursley.ibm.com (Ian Stirling)
Subject: Anonymous FTP Sites
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:53:01 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16f by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: ian@vnet.ibm.com (Ian Stirling)
Organization: IBM, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Can someone give me a list of anonymous FTP sites which deal with
DOS software.  I am especially interested in games, music and graphics.

Ian Stirling                      Internet: ian@vnet.ibm.com
CICS/ESA Systems Facilities         Bitnet: ian at vnet
IBM UK Labs Ltd, Hursley,         IBMIPnet: ian@stirling.hursley.ibm.com
England, SO21 2JN                  IBMMail: GBIBMJWB at IBMMAIL
                             International: + 44 962 844433

Disclaimer: This post represents the views of the poster, not IBM.
From: dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: diff between Ndos and 4Do
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:19:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
Reply-To: dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin) 

JC> .Is there any functional difference between Ndos (Norton Utils)
  > .by Symmantec, and the 4Dos shareware?

NDos is an earlier (3.x) version of 4Dos with a couple of Norton-isms
added.  The current 4Dos release is 4.something, and is a superset of
NDos.

        D/
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
Subject: Re: A survey: Your dream operating system
Organization: University of Helsinki
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:41:00 GMT

dmarer@td2cad.intel.com (Dennis Marer) writes:

>In article <18323@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer) writes:
>>Dream operating system to totally replace MS-DOS? To be run on a 386+ PC?
>>
>>It's been done! OS/2 2.0!

>It's just that most average 386+ systems don't have what it takes to run it.
>It's been suggested to me (be someone who uses and likes OS/2) that 8MB are
>just enough to run comfortably, any less presents performance problems.
>The base memory space on most run-of-the-mill PCs I find in computer ads
>start at 2MB...mine happens to have 4MB.

>It's not that I'm capping on OS/2...I just think there exists the possibility
>of something better.

Agreed. Anybody remember Geos for the C64 - or the PC verion, PC-Geos?
That was small, that was fast (tho' I remember it used only the Real
mode in the PC) - but it didn't have the corporate muscle behind it. How
come Macintosh owners survive with 40 Mb hard disks and I don't? (OS/2
takes around 30 Mbytes by itself - and my DOS/Windows configuration eats
up 15 Mbytes as well. Not much left of 40 Mb disk now is there..?)

All I want is something that allows me to run a wysiwyg word processor -
and lets me put that precious little "&"-sign at the end of the command
line...

Well, just my two bits.
-- 
               Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
              University of Helsinki,  Dept. of  Lost Souls
           "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." - Sledge Hammer
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: dlanglan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (super-dave)
Subject: Re: qemm
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 06:28:39 GMT

cs5059@albnyvms.bitnet writes:

>If some one has some free time, and has some knowledge about
>QEMM, could you please tell me a little about it?

>Like does it break the 640k barrier?
>Any info would be appreciated, I have 4 megs of ram and I would 
>like to use them efficiently.
>Thanks, Larry

Larry,

QEMM is a program which streamlines the management of EMS and XMS as well
as the High Memory Area (HMA).  It is easier to use than DOS 5.0's
EMM386.EXE, but it achieves a similar result.  No program can break the
640k barrier in DOS.  DOS is inherently a 640k provider.  OS/2 in native
mode is an example of a OS that breaks that barrier (although when you
start a DOS session, you are still limited to conventional RAM). If
you have a 386 faster than 20MHz, I would recommend looking into using
EMM386.EXE (+HIMEM.SYS) or QEMM if you have the money.  I find QEMM very
worthwhile, but it is difficult to tweak it for maximum memory and
performance.

David S. Langlands

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