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From: tmhoff@oogoody.Corp.Sun.COM (Todd Hoff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: PerFormPro Plus
Date: 27 Sep 1992 20:21:39 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: tmhoff@oogoody.Corp.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: oogoody.corp.sun.com

>I am mulling over upgrading my copy of Delrina's PerFormPro to
>the newly released PerFormPro Plus.  

Do you know if it is network capable? I need something usable by multiple
users at a time. Objectvision doesn't allow this.

Thanx
From: close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Diane Barlow Close)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Ami Pro 3.0 and Spanish dictionary....
Date: 6 Oct 1992 21:18:03 GMT
Organization: Self employed, eh.
Reply-To: close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com (Diane Barlow Close)
NNTP-Posting-Host: lunch.wpd.sgi.com
Originator: close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com

chungy2@aix.rpi.edu (Yau Felix Chung) writes:
>>>Spanish as an option; all I get is American and British.  Does anyone 
>>>using Ami Pro know what could be the problem?  I would hate to think that
>>>I have to upgrade the dictionary version for Ami Pro 3.0.

Call lotus and ask them to send you the files that cause Ami Pro 3 to
work with older dictionary files (ie. files from Ami Pro 2).  My
technical support note (from Lotus) says to phone (404) 399-5505
(Customer Service) and "request international dictionary program files
for Ami Pro 3.0" and they'll be sent out to you for free.
-- 
Diane Barlow Close
	close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com 
	I'm at lunch today.  :-)
From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu (K. M. A. Rahman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Groups in groups?
Date: 5 Oct 1992 14:46:28 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsd.csd.mu.edu

|In article <Bvn1yC.G6E@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (.) writes:
|>Is there any way at all that you can make a new group _inside_ of a group?
|>I hate having small groups like 'sound players', 'file utilities', and etc,
|>and ending up with around 13 groups, and having to deal with the 'more groups'
|>thing in the window switching dialog box.
|>
|>What I'd like to do is make a Utilities group , and inside that, have my
|>smaller groups.  
|>
|>Is there any program that can do this?  or am I just not making the new
|>group correctly?
|>
|>			Frank Wang
|>			ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

	Try the Norton's Desktop for Windows.

	-Anis.
From: medlin@srcvax.cem.msu.edu (Stephen Medlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Stacker and cache programs.
Date: 28 Sep 92 18:17:43 GMT
Reply-To: medlin@srcvax.cem.msu.edu (Stephen Medlin)
Organization: MSU_Chemistry

>> >> Now I remember.  No Stacker does not like caching of the stacker
>> >> drive.  I just discovered that mine was being cached even though I
>> >> told the cache program not to.
>> 
>> How do you accomplish this?  If I try to have SMARTDRV cache my
>> Stacker drive, it won't.  Period.  It evidently is Stacker-aware.
>> It will cache the *host* drive that Stacker resides on, however
>> (as it is supposed to.)
>> 
>> So how did you get it to cache your Stacker drive?  Of course if
>> you're using something other than SMARTDRV, never mind.
>> 
>> Dave Haertig
>> haertig@att.com
>> 
>
>I don't know if this is of any help in that I'm not familiar with
Stacker, but a friend of mine uses superstor and the only cache
program we've found that works with a compressed disk is the shareware
Hyperdisk (available at ftp.cica.indiana.edu). The ni > 
>Oliver Weatherbee
>oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu
>
I agree with the evaluation of HyperDisk.  It is faster than 
SmartDrive.  One correction, you can have the cache sizes in _NON_ 
1024KB sizes.  I have 3000KB in DOS and 2500KB inside of Windows.

     		********* Stephen Medlin *********
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: rccarm00@mik.uky.edu (ron c carman)
Subject: Re: 256 color driver for C&T in 640 by 400???
Keywords: Windows driver chips technology
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 02:34:40 GMT

   On a related note:  How can one make Windows' Paintbrush capable
of displaying 256 colors?  My monitor is VGA, so it seems to me
that this should be possible...
   Thanks in advance.

RC Carman

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From: johna@hpcvra.cv.hp.com (John Allen)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:54:46 GMT
Subject: Re: W4W: border around table
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps

Select everything on the page
Use Format Border to define the kind of border you want
Use the Border From Text option to offset the border from the text

Haven't tried this myself, but seems like it should work........

John Allen
johna@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: thail@seas.gwu.edu (Samuel R. Posten)
Subject: windows and high speed
Originator: thail@seas.gwu.edu
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 06:50:59 GMT

Is there any way to set MS Windows to allow comm settings higher than 19.2
k baud.  If not, then why bother having comm packages allow for 58.6 baud
etc with high speed modems if windows can't handle it?
Sam

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: GOETZER@nvdv01.ind.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.de (MARTIN GOETZER)
Subject: Re: Caching Controllers Versus SmartDrive...
Organization: University of Stuttgart, IND (FRG)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 10:34:52 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23

In <BvD4wn.F3J@sti.com> westes@sti.com writes:

> In designing a Windows workstation, what type of I/O cache offers the
> best system performance: a hard disk controller with the cache on the
> controller card or smartdrv.sys, the Microsoft-supplied cache that runs
> off extended memory?

This is an interesting question. Consider the CPU reading from disk.
Obviously, SMARTDRIVE should be much better because it doesn't have
to read from the slooooooow PC bus. CPU writing to disk might be more
interesting because data has to be squeezed through the bus anyway. Using
the cache on the controller, data has to be moved once; using SMARTDRIVE,
data has to be moved twice (move to cache, move from cache to controller).
The case seems to be clear, but it isn't. We can't use SMARTDRIVE for 
reading and controller cache for writing: SMARTDRIVE needs to be updated.

So I don't know the answer (but I'd like to).

> So for an EISA machine with > 16 megs of memory, is smartdrv.sys the way
> to go?  Are there other tradeoffs to be considered?  Thanks!
> -- 
> Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com

Martin Goetzer          Internet: goetzer@ds0ind5.bitnet
From: aa330@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Neil Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: PerFormPro Plus
Date: 2 Oct 1992 03:20:32 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aa330@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Neil Gould)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, tmyers@athena.mit.edu (Tracy S Myers) says:

>I am mulling over upgrading my copy of Delrina's PerFormPro to
>the newly released PerFormPro Plus.  PerFormPro Plus has a
>number of new features including a forms programming language and
>access to Paradox, Btrieve, and dBase databases.  I am particularly
>interested in any comparisons between PerFormPro Plus and Objectvision.
>I have a database front-end application in Objectvision parts of which
>I would like to move to PerFormPro Plus to take advantage of its
>better printing facilities.  With this release of PerFormPro the
>database connections allow many-to-one and one-to-many links which
>I hope will solve my current printing problems with Objectvision.
>I would like to have an idea how these connections are implemented.

Since I'm only an owner/user of PerForm Pro, I can't speak to the new
version. I'm glad Delrina didn't discontinue this product, as I think
it is pretty good as-is. An updating to include Paradox compatibility
makes it all that more attractive to me.

As for the one-to-many and many-to-one capabilities, these have been
a part of PerForm Pro since the beginning. I don't know why they would
implement the functions differently, except to make it a little easier
to do.

I hope that Delrina takes the opportunity to make the reporting functions
stronger and easier.

Re: Network capable; this product has always been so. It is one of the
many reasons to look at it seriously for Windows database work.

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		Opinions available at discount rates!
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: steven@unipalm.co.uk (Steven Vincent)
Subject: Re: FTP2.05 and Windows!
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:40:50 GMT

rme81977@zach.fit.edu (Brian Fritz/ ADVISOR Russell (MAE)) writes:

>I'm not sure if this is the correct area, so please don't scold me if it

No try posting to Support @ FTP.COM.  Still I will give you some hints 
as you have asked.

>isn't.  Anyway, here goes.  At work I'm using Windows 3.1 on a 386/33dx.  
>Anyway, we're using 3c503 cards which are directly hooked up to the Internet.
>To make a long story short,  we're using a program called Exceed/W that
>runs on the PC and produces graphics that are pulled down from a unix machine.
>Anyway, while this program is running, if I run FTP2.05, the windows just
>hangs there for about 30 secs and then says host unreachable or whatever and 
>will never connect.  Our 3c503 cards can support up to 15 connections, so 
>I know it's not the card.  There is one catch with this EXCEED/W program,
>I have to add a line to the system.ini [386enh] section that reads
>device=c:\direc\dir\vpctcp.386  - it seems that when this driver is loaded,

VPCTCP.386 is supplied by FTP and supports multiple PC/TCP applications
running under windows at one time. There are two other lines that you
should add to the [386Enh] section in order for things to work. These are:

UniquePSP=true
PSPincrement=true 


and a [pctcp] section to be added with a couple of other lines.

One thing, the VPCTCP.386 has to be pl5 to support Windows 3.1. Since
the VxD was a free upgrade for 2.05 ask FTP for the latest version and
installation notes.

>Exceed/w runs smoothly, but my DOS telnet doesn't.  Is there anyway I can
>correct this problem?  Can I move this program to a different area in memory
>or something...please help i'm desperate!
>-Brian
> 
>-- 
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                             Brian D. Fritz
>                     Florida Institute of Technology
>                           Melbourne, FL 32901

Steven Vincent,
Unipalm Ltd.
Cambridge England.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jloong@dnbf01.bram.cdx.mot.com (Jackson Loong)
Subject: GUI-base vs DOS-base Comm. S/W
Reply-To: jloong@dnbf01.bram.cdx.mot.com (Jackson Loong)
Organization: Motorola Codex, Canada
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:11:38 GMT

The subject says it all. 
Not to raise a flame war, but I'm interest to hear from you, real users, the opinions regarding GUI-base and DOS-base communications s/w.  Is there really any difference in terms of performance, useability, etc?

I'm currently using Procomm 1.1 (yes, it's old) and considering buying the ProcommPLUS for Windows.  Before people jump onto recommending which package should I use, I'd like to hear some generic non-partisan views.


Thanks in advance.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: varkki@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Varkki George)
Subject: Re: WinQVT: Any success stories?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 16:48:28 GMT

>In article <goudswaa.717821000@sfu.ca>, goudswaa@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Goudswaard) writes:
>>I've been tempted to try out WinQVT, but there seems to be an incredible
>>amount of problems with it, judging by the number of postings here.
>>
>>Is it worth ftping, or should I wait for a newer, bug-fewer version?

Reading mail in v2.7 has been improved. Unfortunately, i prefer the
background mail check of v2.6: it was more discreet. Also, i am having
problems connecting with the POP3 server using v2.7, something i did
not have with v2.6.

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From: rmeester@ncrcan.Canada.NCR.CA (Richard Meesters)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Problem in Sending/Receiving files
Date: 1 Oct 92 14:08:11 GMT
Organization: NCR Canada Ltd. Mississauga, Ontario

seamin@icaen.uiowa.edu (Seyamak Amin) writes:
: I have problem in sending/recieving files (text/binary) between my PC
: and a remote machine (a Unix workstation).
: 
: 1. Sending text file from PC to the remote machine:
: Text scrolls on the Terminal window. It has some garbage (the prompt of 
: the remote machine) in it. At the end, no file has been transfered.
:

What are you doing on the unix workstation to prepare the system for the 
file transfer?  From the sound's of this (above) you are'nt doing anything.
Try vi'ing a file on the host, then, once you're in insert mode (a, A or i on
a new file) send the file text mode.
 
: 2. Receiving a text file from the remote machine:
: No file is transfered. The following dialog box (with STOP sign on it)
: appears on the screen:
: 		Cannot create specified file. Make sure that:
: 		You have enough disk space
: 		The file is not read-only
: 		The filename is valid
: 

Again, what are you doing on the host to initiate the file transfer?

: 3. Sending in binary mode (from PC to the remote machine):
: No file is transfered. The sending window appears on the screen. At the
: bottom (bar) of the window, the "Tries" box changes up to a limit and then
: it terminates. A dialog box with the following message appears on the 
: screen:
: 	Terminal could not send the binary file ...
: 	Vrify that you are using the correct protocol
: 	and try again
: 
: 4. Receiveing in binary mode (from remote machine to PC):
: No file is transfered. A dialog box the same as one described in 2 above
: appears on the screen.

Similarly for binary file transfers, the host must be set up accordingly.  for
binary you have a choice of xmodem or kermit.  If you don't have kermit or
sz/rz (or a similar ft protocol), you are out of luck.

Hope this helps.  If I'm completely off base, let us know what you're doing
on the UNIX end and maybe there are other things you can try.

Regards,
Richard Meesters.
From: westes@sti.com (Will Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Any Windows-based Time Management Packages?
Date: 29 Sep 92 23:47:06 GMT
Organization: Mail Group

I need to find a Windows-based package, like the DOS-based Timeslips,
that allows me to keep track of hours spent on different tasks.  Does
anyone know of such a product, shareware or commercial?
-- 
Will Estes		Internet: westes@netcom.com
From: vqhec@westminster.ac.uk (Shabbir Hassanali)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Stacker and cache programs.
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:35:01 GMT
Organization: University of Westminster
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu (Oliver Weatherbee) writes:
: In article 20639@drutx.ATT.COM, dfh@dwroll.att.com (D461-David_F_Haertig(Dave)83040) writes:
: > From article <1992Sep22.115223.18736@ifi.uio.no>, by sigurdg@ifi.uio.no (Sigurd Gl{rum):
: > > 
: > > In article <1992Sep22.021224.43226@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, god@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
: > >> 
: > >> Now I remember.  No Stacker does not like caching of the stacker
: > >> drive.  I just discovered that mine was being cached even though I
: > >> told the cache program not to.
: > 
: > How do you accomplish this?  If I try to have SMARTDRV cache my
: > Stacker drive, it won't.  Period.  It evidently is Stacker-aware.
: > It will cache the *host* drive that Stacker resides on, however
: > (as it is supposed to.)
: > 
: > So how did you get it to cache your Stacker drive?  Of course if
: > you're using something other than SMARTDRV, never mind.
: > 
: > Dave Haertig
: > haertig@att.com
: > 
: 
: I don't know if this is of any help in that I'm not familiar with Stacker, but a friend of mine uses superstor and the only cache program we've found that works with a compressed disk is the shareware Hyperdisk (available at ftp.cica.indiana.edu). The nice thing about Hyperdisk is that not only is it faster than Smartdrv (subjective opinion), it's also smaller thereby freeing memory. The only disadvantage to it is it costs $69 and can only be set in increments of 1024 K.
: 
: Oliver Weatherbee
: oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu
: 
: 
: 

READ THE STACKER VERSION 2.0 DOCUMENTATION ABOUT USING IT WITH CACHEING SOFTWARE,
AND ALL WILL BE REVEALED ...
<SIGH>
WHY DON'T PEOPLE READ MANUALS????
:-)

Laters,

	Take Care,

		Regards,

			Shabs.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: h8915726@hkuxb.hku.hk (Loser)
Subject: Re: Procomm + and Zmodem
Reply-To: h8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk
Organization: who cares?
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:05:19 GMT

jel8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jason E Levine) writes:
: to5232@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
: :Has anyone got the Zmodem protocol to work in Procomm + for Windows. 
: :Everytime I try to do a download using the following commands on the mainframe
: :side: sz -b *.*, it automatically starts zmodem on my PC, but right away it
: :suddenly end.  I can download single files if I specify which file.  I know
: :this works.  I did it all of the time under WinQVT.  
: :
: :Any suggestions would be helpful.
: :
: 
: Can you download single files under PCP/Win?  If you can, then the problem is
: probably that you have some file in your mainframe directory that zmodem
: cannot handle.  (In other words, the filename has more than nine characters
: before a period, or some other problem that prevents Zmodem from correctly
: translating the name into IBM-speak.)  Check it out.
: 
: Jason
: 
	Actually PCP/WIN can smartly change filename from, say, 9 characters
	to 8 character by truncation, with exception of xxx.abc.123 (two
	"."s or more). Whether sz works in batch mode is quite depend
	on the OS and the version of sz itself.

--
Chris Lo
University of Hong Kong
H8915726@hkuxa.hku.hk
From: MJG8@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Reference Filer, Database program
Date: 1 Oct 92 00:28:26 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

I need a Windows program to keep track of my journal articles.  Is there
shareware program that does such or thing (or a cheap commercial product).
Some kind of database would be ok.  I have tried Windbase.zip from Cica and
it's not what I'm looking for.  Any help is appreciated.  Thanks


Martin Gutowski                       Bitnet: mjg8@psuvm
Penn State University                 Internet: mjg8@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ehammers@stein.u.washington.edu (Alison Blais)
Subject: Western Digital/Paradise 90c11 driver.
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:27:05 GMT

Does anyone know where to get Windows 3.1 drivers for the Western
Digital/Paradise 90C11?  I've got geneeric paradise drivers that work in
the low-res modes, but I'm interested in 1024x768x256.  Thanks.

Erick.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
Subject: Re: Importing Excel Spreadsheets Into Word Tables
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:11:25 GMT

In article <7139@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> naren@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Naren Bala) 
writes:
>Does anyone know of an easy way of importing an Excel (Version 4.0 worksheet 
>into a Word for Windows (version 2.0a) table ?

I ran into that problem last week.  I solved it by saving the worksheet in
Excel 3 format.

I didn't try pulling it in through OLE.  That might work, but I doubt it.

Perhaps 2.0b, which Microsoft is sending to anyone who has a need for it,
will have the fix.  Does anyone know?  (My copy is back-ordered -- maybe
I'll get it by the end of October.) 


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From: tracyb@bnr.ca (Tracy Blomquist)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Printing in Framemaker
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:06:10 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Bell Northern Research
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

In Framemaker for Windows there doesn't seem to be an option to 
print to a file (Postscript) as there is in the Unix version.

Is there any util that can capture the output from the Windows 
print driver to a file so that I can capture Frame's output and
save it "for later"?

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From: reimert@mamacass.etdesg.trw.com (Scott P. Reimert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: NDW 2.0 -> How do you speed up startup time???
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:47:02 GMT
Organization: TRW Inc., Redondo Beach, CA

In article <1992Oct5.151030.8987@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> walls@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Gerald Walls) writes:
>maybe I misspoke.  maybe your cache reads ahead and your programs
>used during startup are on the right tracks and are read in
>slightly before they are needed.  usually, though, a disk cache
>will hold stuff read in for quicker access *in the future* and
>don't do anything for the first access.

I don't know about (ahem) "Smart Drive," but SuperPCKwik will read the
entire track when making disk reads. If you run a Speed Disk (or other
disk defragger) and put DLL files in front, it works great.

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