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Subject: Re: FAST! WIN 3.1 Terminal P
From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Lawrence Chiu)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 02:24:00 GMT
Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand

In article <1515.29E923F5@weyr.fidonet.org> Norman.Russell@f43.n140.z1.fidonet.org (Norman Russell) writes:
>
> On 04-08-92 Briand T Sanderson wrote to All...   
>   
> BT> WOW! The Terminal Program is MUCH MUCH Faster. My 9600 looks   
> BT> like 9600 baud now!   
>   
>What terminal program are you using Briand?   
>I'm looking for a good one to use under Windows, preferably one   
>that handles ANSI and ZMODEM file transfer.   
>   
>   
>   Norm   i
Well you could try Unicom3.0c available on cica and perhaps its mirrors.
It's a fully fledged Win3 comms program supporting ANSI and ZMODEM
as well as the other ?MODEM protocols. It nags you a bit if you don't
register it and the $69(?) fee is a bit high but it seems to work okay.
The other choice (shareware that is)is Microlink 1.01 which again is
available on cica (I think). Look for MLINK101.ZIP or something like\
that. Cheaper but not so powerful and has an awkward dialling directory. 

Note the Unicom's VT100 emulation is flawed and Microlink's is not
available until you register so I can't report on that.


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From: pbrown@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
Subject: WfW 2.0 -- You cannot be serious!
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 15:44:04 GMT

Okay, this is some kind of cruel joke, right?  I discovered yesterday, that
one of the properties of WfW 1.1 which I really liked, namely, give a
graphic or paragraph a position, and then you can move it around to your
heart's content in PrintPreview mode -- NO LONGER WORKS!!!!

That is, I've assumed that Frames replace the Format Position action, and
Frames can only be moved around in PageLayout view.

WHY OH WHY OH WHY????!!!!  This isn't perhaps fixed in the 2.0a version?
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From: landy@cco.caltech.edu (Brian R. Landy)
Subject: Help with Windows 3.1 memory management
Summary: Windows 3.1 is allocating too much memory to DOS
Keywords: memory
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 05:22:59 GMT


   Please help me.  I am running Windows 3.1 on an IBM PS/2 with a 16MHz
386SX, 2MB of RAM, and a 4MB permanent swap file.  After installing
Windows, I usedd the hDC Memory Mapper utility and noticed that it
had DOS taking up 2.5MB of memory.  Windows 3.0 sure didn't do this!
I have tried removing all possible TSR's, except HIMEM and STACKER,
since I need both to run in 386 enh. mode.  I also did not remove my mouse
driver, which is the one supplied with Windows 3.1, as is the version
of HIMEM.  Can anyone help me?  The Microsoft tech. line is constantly busy.

Brian Landy
landy@globie.caltech.edu

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From: emartins@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Eduardo Martins)
Subject: Re: Pagemaker 4.0 and MS-Win 3.1
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 17:47:59 GMT

fab4536@hertz.njit.edu (Freddy A. Balady) writes:

>Does Pagemaker 4.0 run under MS-Win 3.1?  
>-- 

Yes, I've beem using PageMaker 4 under Windows 3.1 without any problems
at all...

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From: centaur@terminus.gatech.edu (Anthony G. Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 Bugs - Threat or Menace?
Keywords: windows 3.1 bug
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:24:21 GMT
Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing

Ah! So you're saying that _maybe_ all the problems I had, from Word 2.0
to Big Desk, could have been caused by an interaction between WFS and Win3.1?

Excellent. Although that doesn't fix Backmenu and Progman fighting over
program groups ...
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From: thomasg@epx.hscs.umn.edu (Thomas Gasser)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Novell and IPX
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:02:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: epx.thomasg.503
Organization: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota

In article <jcmorris.703366232@mwunix> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:

>pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:

>>To make a long story short....  Win3.1 update complained about my
>>current IPX.  But have continued using it with no problems.  What
>>incompatibilities should I expect?   Also used MS' IPX.OBJ to generate
>>a new IPX.COM, no go.. the system hangs.  Anyone successful at
>>generating a new IPX??

>I too have seen no problems (so far) using an old copy of IPX.  Mine is
>IPX version 3.02.

>Our local NetWare specialist built me a new IPX.COM which I've installed,
>but I don't see any difference in the way the system works...again, so far.
>I have not seen any system hangs; in your case where does the hang occur?

>One question: what NETX.COM are you using?  And does its version match
>the NetWare option specified in Windows SETUP?  Remember that a copy 
>of NETX.COM V3.26 is probably in your \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.

>Another question: you *did* tell Windows that you are using a network, no?
>Windows (at least at 3.0) did strange things if NetWare was active but
>Windows had not been told about it.

>Joe

If you are using the PDIPX from intel there is a new version out.  If you 
updated the old one with the IPX.OBJ that can with Windows it did as you 
said locked up the machine.



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From: lisbon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gerry Swetsky)
Subject: Re: Egghead: Win 3.1
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:27:17 GMT

In article <1992Apr6.221921.10947@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>johnson@spectra.com (boyd johnson) writes:

>: The salesman at our local Egghead said they would be selling it April
>: 6th as an upgrade for $49.99, the same as Microsoft.
>
>Fry's (here in Bay Area) has Win 3.1 upgrade for 48.95.

    CompUSA has them all beat!  $44.97!  Bring your manual with you.

    The install, though easy, will drive you crazy.  I *finally* have
    my MIDI port installed after over an hour of screwing with it.

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From: bewhite@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (The Cleaner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows NT is Vaporware ( was Re: Why I'm sticking with Windows)
Date: 15 Apr 1992 23:42:00 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

randy@rss.dl.nec.com (Randy Bullard) writes:

>Give me a break.  Windows NT is a promise, vaporware, hand waving, blah blah blah.

  Y'know, I just had a thought.  Suppose, just SUPPOSE that MS feels that
OS/2 is a threat to the customer base they have already established with
Windows 3.0 and now 3.1.  What better way to try and ensure that you
keep the users using Windows than to promise a new operating system
that is more capable than OS/2?  Of course, whether the OS ever actually
appears is not really that important...
  Just a thought people I'm not trying to accuse MS here.  But you may
want to use the software that's here now rather than wait for what
is promised.  This is the only strategy that makes sense to me.
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From: frush@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Raymond Frush)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Trident SVGA drivers for 3.1
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:46:42 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colorado State U. Engineering College

Probably a FAQ, but is there a updated driver set for the Trident 8900
for Windows 3.1?  If so, either e-mail me the FTP address to find it, or 
E-mail me where you got it from.
From: lchang@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ling Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: WFS1.0 and Win3.1 (also Re: Bugs 3.1 aka win3.1)
Keywords: Incompatible
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:39:08 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

If you guys are having some problems as mentioned in the bugs
article, try removing Wired for Sound version 1.0.  Don't run
it in Win3.1 because it seems to be incompatible (uses some
call that Win3.1 doesn't like).  FOr example, if I run it, 
Progman will crash when I try to delete icons.

I called Aristosoft and they said an upgrade will be available
next month.

I would also advise people to read all the readme files such as
*.wri (readme.wri, etc) , setup.txt, apps.hlp because they're very
helpful in trying to avoid some problems.

Hope this helps,  Win 3.1 works great!  Can't wait to explore more
when the resource kit comes (and after my exams).  Also to pass the
info on, for those of use too poor to have a sound card but wants
to use the sound capabilities of Win3.1, there's a driver for the
pc speaker in MS BBS (look for the number in your doc).  I'm eager
to get my hands on it.

Have fun!
Ling S. Chang
lchang@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
Xref: sparky comp.windows.ms:12041 comp.windows.ms.programmer:5286
From: ash@mlacus.oz.au (Ash Nallawalla)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Colour bitmaps in Help text
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:59:34 GMT
Organization: Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Melbourne

A colleague is trying to place colour bitmaps in help files using
WinWord 1.1, Windows 3.0a. The files are in PCX format. When
compiled, the colour info comes out B&W. The compiler is HC300B.

Winword 2.0, Windows 3.1 etc are not viable options for this job.
(Long, irrelevant story).  However, if they are the answer then 
please say so, but she would prefer to know the technique, if any,
using existing tools.

The images are pasted into the text from the clipboard as opposed
to being included.

Please email. Thanks
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From: comptec89033@camins.camosun.bc.ca
Subject: Re: Multiplatform devlopment packages (Windows, OS/2, UNIX)
Organization: Camosun College
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 08:34:01 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.152532.15963@mixcom.com>, Dean.Roth@mixcom.mixcom.com (Dean.Roth) writes:
> 
> I am looking for windowing, multiplatform development tools.
> ... what is your opinion/experience with the package(s)? Thank you.

I just finished a port of a DOS application to Mac and Windows with 
XVT 2.0 and thought I'd add my two cents worth...

XVT is a very useful tool. It does do what it says : an XVT app can 
work on multiple platforms with one set of source code.

Provisions :

XVT does not provide platform-independent support for timers and timer 
events. Tough to program animation. XVT does not allow 'peeking' at 
the event queue, either. Implementing this will require 
platform-dependent code.

XVT does not provide portable implementation of aspects unique to a 
given windowing environment (ie no DDE support for Windows, etc) and 
if you want your app to have all the flavour of a Windows app you have 
to add significant platform-dependent code.

XVT has very limited platform-dependent support for fonts; it's 
difficult to say that you want the text for this window to be in 
12-point Times Roman, eg. Only 4 fonts are specified : small, normal, 
large (all proportional fonts) and fixed.

You must do concurrent testing in all environments you are programming 
in to make sure the app is consistent across environments; for 
example, we wanted to let people stop an animation routine by 
clicking the mouse or hitting the ESC key (rather than have a dialog 
box which takes away screen real-estate)  and were trapping the mouse 
while this was going on; unfortunately, when the mouse is trapped on 
the Mac XVT doesn't transmit character events and the ESC key didn't 
work.

Bonuses:

Because XVT doesn't provide all the features of every environment, it 
is much, much simpler to program a basic application in XVT than in 
'pure' Windows.

XVT apps exhibit no measureable slowdown.

XVT apps are not less stable than native apps.

XVT 3.0 (still in beta release, I think) will provide more of the 
features currently lacking.

The only other multi-platform tool I have experience with is Matrix 
Layout version 1; this is NOT a good tool. It works on the 'flowchart'
paradigm and doesn't easily adapt to encapsulation and/or OOP. Version 
2 may be better; I haven't seen it.

Jeff Johnson
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: leadfoot@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Mark Curtis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win 3.1 install warnings
Date: 9 Apr 92 00:17:29 GMT

Ami Pro 2.0 included these files and installed them in your windows/system
directory.  I did the samething you did and overwrote them.  Ami Pro still
works, but the cursor seems to vanish randomly.  It takes a little doing to
get it back.

Mark
From: town@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Brian R. Town)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:49:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 Review
Organization: Hewlett Packard Company, Spokane, Wa.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms

In comp.windows.ms, leadfoot@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Mark Curtis) writes:

    Does anyone know if the new smartdrv handles disk manager partitioned
    drives correctly.  I mean the ones the old smartdrv couldn't because
    of the number of cylinders (over 1024) or the bios not matching the
    disk params.  I have a friend with a system that will not work without
    disk manager to fool the silly bios.  It only seems to know about MFM
    drives.

I too would be very interested in knowing the answer to this.  I thought it was
a Windows problem though (as opposed to smartdrv).  Anyway, I have a MFM drive
with 1024 cylinders partitioned for drive C: and the rest for drive D:.  When
I run windows, I simply don't load the disk manager driver (but don't get to
use the D drive ;-( ).  I tried the NOHDIRQ (or whatever it is) option in
the system.ini file, but would rather not see drive D if it means taking such
a big hit in system performance.

    Mark

Brian

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From: huot@cray.com (Tom Huot)
Subject: Re: W4W 1.1 and True Type Fonts
Summary: How can you use them? 
Keywords: Word for Windows True Type Fonts
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:19:52 CDT

Anyone know how to get the True Type Fonts to work with W4W 1.1?
I used the Control Panel method to install and deinstall fonts
and when I use Word, I still get the old fonts listed. Is there
a file I can edit somewhere or something. BTW, using the Control
Panel is the way to do it according to the Book and help file.
E-mail if you have the answer, and thanks in advance.
 


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From: bruce@ais.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 and Stacker, NOT!!
Date: 15 Apr 92 11:28:37 GMT
Organization: Applied Information Systems, Chapel Hill, NC

In article <1992Apr11.084717.18583@unixg.ubc.ca>, martell@ucs.ubc.ca (Jonn Martell) writes:
> In article <1992Apr7.211321.27934@alw.nih.gov> donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) writes:
>>I found that the new Windows 3.1 disk cach doesn't work well with
>>my hard disk setup: a ST225 mfm + ST296N SCSI and stacker.  If you
>>are having problems with Stacker "GET RID OF FASTDISK" and your
>                                               ^^^^^^^^^
>>problems will go away.  (They did for me.)  I reported this as
>>a problem under the beta but it must be something they missed in the
>>final release.
>>--
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> 
> FASTDISK - what's that? Never seen it... 8-)
> FASTOPEN - probably, should not be used with Windows 3.0 nor 3.1
> 
> Humm, again mis-information from DAL...  That's two post in a row -
> not bad for today Donald...  8-)

In defense of Donald, there IS a Fastdisk with Windows 3.1 ... it's
the infamous "32-bit disk access" feature where Windows will use 32-bit
code for its hard disk accesses.  You turn it on in your SYSTEM.INI
file with the 32BitDiskAccess, device=*int13, and device=*wdctrl lines.

This was consistently called Fastdisk during the Beta.  I don't think
the released version uses that particular term ... at least I can't
find it in any of the *.txt and *.wri files (though I may have missed
one).  It's probably mentioned in the WRK (I haven't had a chance to
look at the released version of the WRK yet, all I have are various
pre-release programs and documentation on it).

> [sorry Folk, but some people are determined to flood the net with garbage -
> they have to be stopped!;-)

Yeah, right, you might want to be a little more careful before assuming
that he didn't know what he was talking about.  I can see where you might
not have been familiar with the term but that doesn't automatically mean
that *he* wasn't familiar with it either.

Bruce C. Wright
From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Tastes gross/more fattening (repost (last attempt only got ~1 site))
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:28:00 GMT
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com

A few months ago, the OS/2 fanatics were telling us that DOS isn't
really an operating system. It's just a program loader and 
primitive file system.  Now, they tell us that Windows is not
an OS because it needs an OS (DOS -- the same DOS a few months
ago several folks claimed wasn't really an OS) to run.  

Definitions are not hard and fast.  Is a 486/33 a PC or is
it a workstation?  Is Windows an OS or an application (or some
fuzzy middle ground called an operating environment)?  Who
knows.  Does it matter that much?

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From: t06@clark.edu (Torry Schreiner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Pause before you consider OS/2 (was Re: Win 3.1 not THAT great.)
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:05:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: clark.1992Apr14.030555.13453
Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.  USA

In article <DEMILLO.92Apr10140113@egeus.juliet.ll.mit.edu> demillo@juliet.ll.mit.edu ( Robert DeMillo ) writes:
>Well...before you consider...
>
>According to InfoWorld:
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I would much rather listen to IBM about OS/2 than InfoWorld (In my opinion a
cheesy magazine.)

>
>OS/2 2.0 will *not* be compatable with Windows 3.1
>OS/2 2.0 will *not* support SVGA or XGA graphics modes. (The
>	 above poster's comments about OS/2 supporting a 32-bit 
>	 SVGA engine, notwithstanding.)
>OS/2 2.0 Windows emulation will support only one Windows application
>         per Window, and they are several orders of magnitude slower
>	 than just running in Windows. You can switch OS/2 2.0 to
>	 full screen Windows mode, and your Windows performance
>	 goes way up.
>OS/2 2.0 will not support full-blown pre-emptive multitasking for
>         another 12-18 months. (Not sure what they meant by this,
>	 but it didn't smell right.) At that time, Windows NT
>	 will be on the scene.
>
All of these are probably based on a very early beta.  Totally different than
the GA release.

>Moral: If you are buying OS/2 for OS/2...great. Do it..multithreading
>       is a good thing, and OS/2 has it. If you are buying OS/2 
>       'cuz you want to run mostly Windows applications in OS/2's
>       PM...you might want to rethink that.
>
The first part is true but the last, I don't know.

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From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: WIN31 VS WIN30, HELP
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:41:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Satalink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324

TO: sinenmaa@cc.helsinki.fi
S >Hi, on the last saturday I upgraded my Win30 to win3.1. Soon after it
S >I had doubts about the speed of the new upgrading. Yesterday I did
S >the following things;
S >   QEMM386  &  HYPERDISK (registered );
S >Main System;                DOS5          WIN3.1         WIN3.0
S >Video Speed(chr/s)          6180          5536           6039
S >Math Speed(whetstones)       75.8          70.5           75.8
S >Harddisk;
S >Seek Time  (ms)              0.1            0.2           0.1
S >Track to Track (ms)          0.1            0.2           0.1
S >Transfer Speed (k/s)        4920           2460.1        4100.1

I'm not sure what you're trying to prove here, but running DOS benchmarks
under Windows will normally yield totally bullshit numbers.  Since the
time slicing is primitive, to say the least, benchmarks seem to end up
outputting useless numbers.  Obviously, the raw speed of your video 
hardware did not change when you installed Windows...
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