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From: burge@qdeck.com (Bill Burge)
Subject: Re: DESQview/QEMM Frequently Asked Questions: READ BEFORE POSTING
Organization: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Santa Monica CA
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 16:42:32 GMT
Keywords: faq Q&A

>>I have been trying to determine if my VGA card system is DV/X compatible.
>>I have a couple of minor questions remaining after readimng the FAQ.
>>
>>|          Manufacturer             Chipset Number      Highest Resolution
>>|          ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>|          Western Digital Imaging  PVGA1a, WD90C00,
>>|                                   WD90C10, WD90C11    800x600
>>|     please forward the information to bodoh@xraylith.wisc.edu.
>>

The WD90C31 can also be added this list as supporting the modes for
the WD90C11.  DVX will NOT detect its presence but you can put the
values in using Setup / Advanced / Display / VGA Custom

800 600 256 305C

and then save your changes.

Bill	burge@qdeck.com
From: anos@elmrd6.ineab.ikea.se
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: dv/x on packet driver
Date: 6 Nov 92 13:25:39 +0200
Organization: IKEA Northern Europe AB

>>
>>I hv got dv/x without network manager, is it possible to get dv/x to
>>work with a packet driver? I hv a WD8003e card and the packet driver.
> 
> You've got to have more than just a packet driver.  We don't talk to anything
> at the packet interface level.  We need a network protocol like TCP/IP or
> IPXSPX or NETBIOS to talk to.  If you have a supported instance of one of 
> these protocols loaded, we don't know or care of it is packet driver or
> ODI or NDIS or whatever underneath.
> 
> Gary Rich 	<support@qdeck.com>
> 

Gary, could you please explain a little more on this. I'm sure there is a
large interest around the globe among DVX users on this subject. Include 
real info as product names, functional requirements etc.

Thanx in advance

/Anders
 
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From: support@qdeck.com (Technical Support)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Help with DVX needed
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:56:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Santa Monica CA

In article <1992Nov9.031954.14760@usl.edu> pml@cajun18.cacs.usl.edu (Patrick M. Landry) writes:
>I have got DVX running on my PC (sorta). My current problem is that 
>after opening up one remote xterm any subsequent requests to open
>windows from a remote process gets the error message
>	Error: Can't Open display
>
>I am running PC/TCP 2.05 pl4 PPP version. DVX.EXE is dated in may of 1992
>I have 20 megabytes of memory in the machine. Before stating DVX I have > 500K
>available below 640. t the time I get the error messages I have
>> 14 meg of expanded memory. 

Check to see how many sockets your network software is defaulting to. It's
usually quite low (which is fine for a single-tasking environment, but bites
for multi-tasking). You can go into setup, Advanced, Network, Advanced,
Control Network Manager, and enable the diagnostics. This will show you
a screen with, among other things, the number of sockets you have used and
how many there are total. If it's less than, oh, maybe 8, you probably need
more. The way to increase them depends on the network software you're
using, so check the approptiate manuals; if you still can't find out how,
drop me a line at support@qdeck.com...

-- 
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    For questions or Technical Support, write to support@qdeck.com
From: field@cs.pitt.edu (Brian Field)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: installation / setup problem
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:32:02 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science



I'm trying to get Deskview/X up and running on a 486 box with 8Mb.
I've got two network cards installed in the box.  One card connects to a
Novell network, the other to the campus TCP/IP backbone.

I'm trying to setup Deskview/X such that I can pop up X applications
running from machines on the backbone on to my PC.  I have LAN Workplace
for DOS up and running on my PC.

During the installation process (and when I try to run setup
separately), I get the following error message:

		     LAN Workplace Network Error

- Improper setup of NET.CFG file
- Invalid/missing 'localhost' entry in HOSTS file for the 'ip_address'
  specified in NET.CFG
- Mismatch of the 'localhost' information and information reported by
  a network name server

After going over these files numerous times, I can't seem to locate
anything obviously wrong.  The documentation doesn't give me any
information as to how to track down the problem.   

Suggestions on what I may have misconfigured or steps to track down
the problem?

Thanks
Brian
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: bergman@panix.com (Mark Bergman)
Subject: Re: Graphics programs under DV
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:49:15 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Nov10.225249.13794@qdeck.com> garyrich@qdeck.com (Gary Rich) writes:
>In article <1992Nov10.074153.2401@sol.UVic.CA> jdboer@sol.UVic.CA (Johan deBoer) writes:
>>Hi,
>>I have been using DesqView for some time now, and am wondering about
>>the use of graphics programs under DV. Everytime when I have say
>>Freelance or some other program running in graphics mode, the screen
>>goes out of wack whenever I call up the DV menu.
>>Am I using improper settings somewhere, or is this unavoidable?
>>
>
>This is unavoidable if, and only if, the graphics program is running in a 
>non standard (SVGA) mode.  If the app runs 640x480 16 colors, it should not
>do this.
>
>Gary Rich		<support@qdeck.com>


This sounds like the behavior I get when I run MS-Word 5.5
under DV. I've got a SVGA card, but not monitor--so I know
that I stick w. VGA modes. When I run Word in 30 or 34
lines/Graphics mode, DV does not seem to recognize that Word
is in a Graphics mode. I must explicetly go through:
	{desq}RV2
to get correct graphics.
----
Mark Bergman
718-855-9148

bergman@panix.com
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From: luwsm@lehigh.edu (Wayne S. Mery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: DV, Novell Net and Messages  (e.g. send...)
Summary: any way around Ctrl-Enter?
Keywords: Novell, Mail, DV, missing keystrokes
Date: 12 Nov 92 13:57:24 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University Computing Center

>Somebody sends a broadcast 'Let's get to lunch', or you get some email
>and nothing goes anymore because that little message that's supposed to
>be down there at the bottom of your screen arrived in another window,
>probably hidden (running in the background, like my Norton Commander 
>usually) yet waiting for an acknowledging Ctrl-Enter.

I don't have the item which 'catch' the sends another window.  But it 
seems to me since I installed the PKTMUX packet multiplexor program 
that none of my applications have hung, especially my Attachmate 3270 
emulator.  I haven't done a definitive study to determine if it really 
is the PKTMUX that resolved this problem.  I'm just satisfied that it works.

Wayne
wsm0@lehigh.edu
From: burge@qdeck.com (Bill Burge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Lantastic and DESQview/X
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:48:00 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Santa Monica CA

In article <QUAIROLI.92Nov4171735@betty.cs.widener.edu> quairoli@cs.widener.edu (Patrick Quairoli) writes:
>
>is anyone using DESQview/X under Lantastic?  I know that DESQview/X
>should work with NETBIOS but i haven't tried it.  
>
>if you have successfully (or unsuccessfully) implemented this please
>let me know, i'm planning on setting up a Lantasic Net but i want to

DVX can operate properly with Lantastic's Netbios as long as you have 
DVX ver 1.01 AND the machines that are running DVX are NOT configured as
Lantastic Servers.

Bill	burge@qdeck.com
From: burge@qdeck.com (Bill Burge)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Disk caches & QEMM+SF:???
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:34:37 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Santa Monica CA

In article <1992Nov2.235239.20388@inmet.camb.inmet.com> gjs@corsica.camb.inmet.com (George Snyder) writes:
>| Are there any disk caches out there that support the correct page
>| frame restoration required for them to co-exist in "advanced mode"
>| with QEMM using Stealth? ...
>
>I have had good luck with HyperDisk (hyper386.exe).  I had to exclude a
>portion of ROM from stealth to get advanced writing to work.  
>
>A shareware version of HyperDisk is available by anonymous FTP from
>SIMTEL20 mirrors (msdos/dskutl/hydk432.zip).  If you like it but can't
>stand the 5 second startup delay, you can order a licensed copy for
>$49 plus shipping.
>
>I use version 4.21, but the release notes in the 4.31 shareware version
>mention:
>
>  * Automatic QEMM 6.0 Stealth support. Set VI:- to disable.
>
>So the current version may not require my workaround.  The notes for
>4.32 mention various fixes for stealth mode with MS Windows.
>

SuperPCKwik in it more recent versions (last 8-10 mos.) also support
Advanced Disk Features with QEMM's Stealth features.

Bill	burge@qdeck.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
Subject: Re: DV/X and DJGPP Xlibraries--locations
Summary: Yup, it's a DJGPP/DVX archive site!
Reply-To: pynq@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: D. J. Dougherty & Associates
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:47:06 GMT

In article <1992Nov06.204154.209@qdeck.com> garyrich@qdeck.com (Gary Rich) writes:
...
>I did and archie search last night ant turned up the following sites
>for the 1.01 libraries.  We're still hoping to get them available again
>from barnacle.erc.clarkson.edu (especially since that's what our ads
>say :-[, but hasn't happened yet.

There is a (stateside) DJGPP archive at:

	ftp.math.niu.edu:/pub/msdos/djgpp.stuff

Version 1.09 can be found in a subdir of the above, called v109.

Since this site has much faster throughput than clarkson, and does not
have any restrictions on the distribution of qddvx101.zip, it would seem
to me that this could well become the new standard.  They also have a
growing collection of DJGPP compiled programs and ports.

Note: The administrator of this site, higgins@math.niu.edu, has
advertised his site on the DJGPP mailing list, so I assume he wants it
publicized.  Please let me know if I am wrong about this...

>Wayne, and eveyone else:  We at qdeck would love it if you would send
>all your public domain DVX ports or better yet, original DVX apps to us.
>Send them to me (garyrich@qdeck.com) or to tech support (support@qdeck.com)
>and we will put them on our bbs, post them to comp.binaries.pcarchives, show
>them to people at tradeshows; and otherwise spread your fame far and wide.
>Speaking of fame, Tom Pierpoint's port of Xview 2.21 is still the qoolest
>thing that's been sent in from outside qdeck, IMHO.  Let his name resound
>thoughout the net!

Hopefully, these ports can be posted to ftp.math.niu.edu, so that they
can be obtained w/o an LD phone call.  Also, my port of the IJG DJPEG
and CJPEG programs can be found there.

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From: system@memalph.UUCP (Woody Harper)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: DV/X and Waffle 1.65
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 10:51:02 MST
Organization: Memory Alpha BBS - Phoenix, AZ -

Is anyone out there using Waffle 1.65 with Desqview/X? I would like to 
hear from folks that are and get some performance pointers. Thanks.

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From: livigni@bldrdoc.gov (David livigni 303-497-5898)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Game problems with Desqview
Keywords: Desqview Games
Date: 11 Nov 92 00:24:44 GMT

I am having problems running games under Desqview.  I use a large
graphics window with no virtualization, no background processing,
displays graphics, writes directly to screen, don't share CPU,
don't share EGA, etc.  When I run BLOCKS (a 3-d tetris thing) or
Railroad Tychoon all is fine until I switch away to another window
and switch back.  With BLOCKS, the border dissappears and the blocks
flash on and off whenever they move.  In Railroad Tychoon the colors
change (expected) but stuff dissappears.  With SImCIty when I load a
scenario the icons for the developed areas are BLACKED OUT and the roads,
while mostly visible, flash on and off when cars move.  Since it runs
fine under Desqview on a friends machine, my configuration must be at fault.
Any ideas on what the problem is?  It uses an older Orchid Prodesigner VGA
card with 512 K of memory (max).  If you need more info I'll assemble a
file using mark and transfer.

Thanks in advance.

David Livigni

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From: chchen@stat (Ching-Hsiang Chen)
Subject: XDVI
Organization: Florida State University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 19:43:18 GMT


Article 18857 of comp.text.tex:
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: ryoung@utdallas.edu (Ryu Young)
Subject: xdvi for PC/MS-DOS
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:25:17 GMT

For people who use TeX with MS-DOS:

xdvi for pc, compiled by Eric Ho, using djgpp (MS-DOS version of GNU C/C++)
is available from:

	ftp.math.niu.edu
	pub/msdos/djgpp.stuff/pkgs/xdvipc.zip

To run it, one needs:

	(1) 486DX OR 486SX + 487SX OR 386 + 387
	(2) DESQview/X
	(3) NO Extra fonts, if you have fonts for printers (e.g. 300 dpi)

(1) is due to djgpp that supports 32 bit processing only, but
    does not support math coprocessor emulation smoothly.

(2) DESQview/X is an X Windows system (including server) for
    MS-DOS.

Note: djgpp and DESQview/X library support X-Windows programming
      under DESQview/X. djgpp & DESQview/X library are also available from
      the above site. The combination of djgpp & DESQview/X is
      highly compatible with Unix X-Windows systems.

My experience:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I use emTeX 386, etc with 300 DPI fonts. I use .pk fonts, not .fly
(emTeX font libraries). Note that xdvi does NOT support font library
files.

I use DESQview/X to open multiple windows, one for emTeX 386,
another for EMACS, and the third for xdvi.

Note: I have .pk files in C:/TEXFONTS/PIXEL.LJ/300DPI/
                          ...... ...... ...... 328DPI/   etc. etc.

In my AUTOEXEC.BAT I included the following lines:

	rem *********************
	rem * xdvi environments *
	rem *********************
	SET XDVIFONTS=C:/TEXFONTS/PIXEL.LJ/%%dDPI/%%f.%%p
	SET TEXFONTSUB=C:/EMTEX/TEXFONTS.SUB

The documentation of xdvi for pc does not explain how to set
the above environment variables.      ^^^

I had to look at the source codes to find names of the environment
variables.

Notice two consecutive %%. Guess why?

Young


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: russ1066@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Russell J Mellon)
Subject: Re: Multiuser access of DV/X on NetWare.
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:09:08 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.204928.1574@ERA.COM> abooth@ERA.COM (Alan Booth) writes:
>I would like to load DV/X on a NetWare 3.11 File Server for multi-user access.
>I have read the Qdeck white paper on setting up DESQview this way.  Has
>anyone done this with DV/X?  If so, I would like to find out what files have
>to be in the users directory and any other changes that had to be made.
>
>Thanks...
>
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I could use this too.  send me a copy at russ1066@sage.cc.purdue.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: sam@csi.compuserve.com (Sam Neely)
Subject: Re: problems with "`" and "~"
Organization: CompuServe Incorporated
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 06:35:35 GMT

In article <If05N_q00WBMA8fHdo@andrew.cmu.edu> Matthew Edward Patton <mp52+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Also you might want to look into a new version of the window Manager. 
>Seems the original one masked/hid those keys in xterms.  Other keys that
>wouldn't work were Ctr-S.  The new/updated WM.EXE fixed all that.

Where might one find the updated WM.EXE?  I did not see it on
the Quarterdeck forum on CompuServe...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: silvia@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu
Subject: DesqView windows
Reply-To: silvia@rcf.rsmas.miami.edu
Organization: RSMAS
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 01:57:06 GMT

I just finished loading my DOS file handles buffers and FCBS into High Memory.But When i go To desqview 2.42 I get The same size that I had before 525k while my conectional DOS mem is 622.6k (wow!). Any ideas on how to increse a Desqview window Memory size???




        Manolo
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: sngoetze@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Sebastian Goetze)
Subject: DV, Novell Net and Messages  (e.g. send...)
Summary: any way around Ctrl-Enter?
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 20:23:33 GMT
Keywords: Novell, Mail, DV, missing keystrokes

We use DVC 4.24 and Novell Netware 3.11 (numbers from memory...) at work
and if you do too, then perhaps you know this feeling:

Somebody sends a broadcast 'Let's get to lunch', or you get some email
and nothing goes anymore because that little message that's supposed to
be down there at the bottom of your screen arrived in another window,
probably hidden (running in the background, like my Norton Commander 
usually) yet waiting for an acknowledging Ctrl-Enter.

It's in the background waiting and you think (at least I do) 'Oh no,
my darn program has crashed the system again' and I boot, only to find
some messages when I log in again. 

Or you DO press Ctrl-Enter. No need switching through windows, the 
message is gone, like it promised, ... but you never read it.

----> Is anything out there, that catches SENDs like that ??
----> Opens a nice iconlike window or something ??

It has to be compatible to the non-DV rest of the company. (In fact I'm
the only one USING DV. Till now... I keep on working on them...) They 
wouldn't twist the system for me...

Thanks in advance

Sebastian

P.S. If you reply to the net, an emailed copy would be very much apreciated
     'cause I don't log in so often (This is not my company here...)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: jwfourie@rkw-risc.cs.up.ac.za ()
Subject: Using interrupts
Summary: Calling a program with interrupts
Date:  9 Nov 92 14:48:33 GMT
Organization: University of Pretoria, South Africa
Keywords: Interrupts

I'd like to do the following

Run to programs under DOS simultationsly - one program uses the other
one by making an interrupt call to interrupt 0x7f

Does Desqview have this abilty for programs to share the same interrupt table 
- this means that the programmed being called (with the interrupt) must be in memory when it is called

Could anybody who posts a reply please forward it to me via personal eMail.

Thanx

Johann W. Fourie
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Help with DV/X + DR-DOS 6 + mono X-terminals
From: phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 05:56:12 GMT
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

I'm having trouble with DX/X on a 386 running DRDOS - I've got it going with
a packet driver and (from memory) ODIPKT and Novell's Lan Workplace, but it 
keeps crashing (I would have had a DOS window on my Sparc here to copy all 
the useful configuration information from, but - you guessed - it crashed!).

The main problem is that I can't run some software (especially winx) from a
monochrome (1 bit) X terminal, and a few other configuration problems that the
manual doesn't help with.  The problem with crashing might be solved by going
to a different DOS or another 386, but any help with that would also be
appreciated.

What I'd really like to do is to contact somebody with a similar configuation 
that has got it working (absolutely nobody locally runs DV/X, let alone as
an X client for Sun 3 & 4 workstations, nor runs DR-DOS with DV of any sort).

For what it is worth, I've removed SuperPCK, SuperStore, and everything else
that is out of the ordinary. I'm desparate - I must get it going soon or we
can't use it.

Mark Aitchison, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: gt@rundart.demon.co.uk (Giles Todd)