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From: anicolao@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Alex Nicolaou)
Subject: small idraw bug
Keywords: interviews bugs
Organization: Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 09:57:11 GMT


idraw has a small bug with its redrawing: if you start entering text (but
don't finish the text), Iconify, then restore, the text does not get redrawn.
This happens on both architectures on which I have idraw compiled, so it must
be a software bug.

Does anybody care about such minor details, and if so is this the right
place to report them?

alex
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
From: Mandyam.Srinivas@HO13.ENG.UA.EDU
Subject: Are binaries available?
Reply-To: srini@aramis.cs.ua.edu
Organization: University of Alabama
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 21:41:40 GMT



Hi there,

We have a network of RS 6000's (520 AIX 3.1.5) and I was
wondering whether anybody has binaries for some of the
Interviews tools like doc, idraw, etc, that could be
obtained through ftp.


Thanks for any hints, pointers, ...



Srini
-- 
Mandyam Srinivas            |   " You are young and life is long and 
msriniva@buster.eng.ua.edu  |     There is time to kill today   
                            |     And then one day you find ten years 
                            |          have got behind you
(205) 349-4136              |     No one told you when to run, 
                            |         you missed the starting gun"
        	            |                                 -P.F.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
From: mcheng@dunlop.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Cheng)
Subject: glyph questions
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 15:44:04 GMT


I'm not very clear about using glyphs, and I hope somone
would be kind enough to answer the following questions:

1) I understand that in Glyph::allocate(Canvas*, const Allocation& allocation,
	Extensions& extension), the allocation informs the glyph how much
	space has been allocated. But what is the purpose of the
	extension? This was never explained.

2) I wish to write dynamic glyphs that change their
appearances as data is read from a file.
Is it safe to save the Canvas and the allocation passed in Glyph::allocate() 
for use in drawing operations?

Thanks for any help.

Mike
From: grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
Subject: Re: password editor
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:26:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: Unify.gtijx0t
Organization: Unify Corporation (Sacramento)

In article <9204021358.AA05217@sparc7.cnm.us.es>, juando@sparc7.es writes:
> 
> Jan Chang <janc@hplds3.sid.hp.com> writes:
> 
> >Does anyone have a password editor which doesn't echo the input?
> >Or does anyone have an idea to do it?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Jan
> 
>     Have you tried setting background and foreground to the same color inside
> a field-editor?
> 
> 

A problem with this approach is that if a user can cut and paste text, they
can cut from the "invisible" field and paste it into a field into which it
is visible, thus cracking the password.
-- 

---
Greg Pasquariello	grp@magpie.unify.com
Unify Corporation 	(916) 928-6258
From: eb@felix.Sublink.Org (Enrico Badella)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
Subject: Re: Making InterViews 3.0.1 with GNU C 2.1
Keywords: InterViews, GNU C 2.1
Date: 10 Apr 92 07:47:32 GMT
Organization: Soft*Star s.r.l, Torino, Italy

In article <garp.702552054@isy.liu.se> garp@isy.liu.se (Johan Garpendahl) writes:
>bakker@cs.rulimburg.nl (Harm Bakker) writes:
>
>
>>Result of making and installing InterViews 3.0.1. with GNU C 2.1
>
>My Doc comes up with no menus at all. Well, there are menus, but there is
>no text in them. I don't know why.
>

I had this same problem with the binary doc available from
interviews.stanford.edu. It would display strange menus with a
bunch of \hfill and it would't read the application defaults.

I got around this problem by including the DOc application default
in my .Xdefaults.

On this subject can someone tell me where all the app-defs go.
I put them in /usr/lib/X11/IV as I had in a very old (2.5?) installation
of InterViews.

-- 
Enrico Badella				Internet: eb@felix.sublink.org
Soft*Star s.r.l.			          eb@icnucevx.cnuce.cnr.it
Via Camburzano 9			Phone:    +39-11-746092
10143 Torino, ITALY			Fax:      +39-11-746487
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
From: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton)
Subject: Re: doc on SS1+ w/ X11R5, PostScript problem...
Keywords: SS1+, X11R5, PostScript, Doc, Fonts,...
Reply-To: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton)
Organization: sgi
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 18:55:21 GMT

In article <SENOL.92Apr14222027@caroline.ee.pitt.edu>, senol@caroline.ee.pitt.edu (Senol Kucuk) writes:
|> 
|> 	Howdy. I just picked up the shared libraries and the binaries
|> for doc and idraw programs. I am running SunOS4.1 on SS1+ and my X
|> server is X11R5. 
|> 
|> 	Everything works fine, except that I cannot print the
|> PostScript code generated by doc since it refers to fonts by their X
|> names like,
|> 
|> 	14 /-adobe-times-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-p-77-iso8859-1 sf
|> 	10 /-adobe-times-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-54-iso8859-1 sf

You need to set the idraw_font_metrics resource off.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
From: michael@ewd.dsto.oz.au (Michael Balin)
Subject: Please remove me from the mailing list.
X-Unparsable-Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 16: 03:41 AUS	#
Organization: Internet-USENET Gateway at Stanford University
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 06:37:00 GMT

Please remove me from the mailing list. Please...

Michael Balin.
michael@ewd.dsto.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
From: arrouye@IMAG.FR (Yves Arrouye)
Subject: French (8bits) chars with InterViews
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 13:43:36 GMT


  InterViews is apparently unable to display diacritic chars, such as
accentuated vowels, neither can it read them from the keyboard, even after the
invokation of xmodemap. Is that due to the use of signed chars, and how is it
possible to change that ?

-- 

----------
Yves Arrouye                                              arrouye@imag.imag.fr  
Ensimag
From: EB@CNUCE.CNR.IT
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
Subject: Help me with doc
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:29:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: ICNUCEVX.01GINGUX8FWG0009F2
Organization: Internet-USENET Gateway at Stanford University


I humbly request your help because I'm just a user
of doc. I downloaded the binaries from interviews.stanford.edu.

In these days I have tried in vain to include a postscript
file generated with xpr and all the possible combinations
of flags, but the window dump will not appear. 8-(
I'm using X11R5 patchlevel 9 + SunOS 4.1.1B

Help, help, help
From: tiller@solace.me.uiuc.edu (Mike Tiller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews
Subject: Gouraud Shading
Keywords: gouraud shading
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:56:35 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana)


	I was curious if anyone had implemented a system for
rendering gouraud shaded polygons (in IV2.6 preferably).  I
could probably use IV3.0.1 except that I made my version
with gcc2.1 and I don't think it is very stable.

	I suspect there is probably an easy way to do this
and I haven't seen it.

Michael Tiller
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
From: rick@mathcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Why I'm sticking with Windows
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:54:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: mathcs.1992Apr16.155417.16232
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.

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

>In article <1992Apr15.142857.27595@alw.nih.gov> donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn) writes:
>>Another perspective on why to stick to Windows.  I have 5 IBM Model 80
>>PS/2's with 2 mb ram and 80 mb hard drives.  These machines are perfectly
>>adequate Windows platforms.  To upgrade to OS/2 2.0 for these machines
>>would require 4 mb ram ($600.00) and at least another 80 mb hard disk
>>($800.00). 

>Good reasons.... but I just can't see how you are surviving Windows
>with only 2 mb.  I couldn't get a DOS and a Windows program going with
>reasonable speed without upgrading from 2 to 3 mb.  The disk activity
>really slowed things down.  And.. Win3.1 has not speeded (sped?)
>things up noticably either.  By the way, if you ever do try OS/2 and
>use the HPFS file system, I'm told you should have 6 mb or more.

>($600 for an additional 2mb ram??)

I agree.  All of these "it costs less for Windows hardware" arguments are
specious.  Windows 3.1 is MS's TEMPORARY platform - they want to start 
moving everyone to NT within the next year or so, and according to MS's
own listed hardware requirements for NT (min. 486/33, 8 Mb RAM, >100 Mb
disk) those who think they can continue to live in the MS Windows world
with the hardware they bought before 1991 are living in a a world
of pseudo-reality.  Even today, I would not dream of running Windows
on less than 4 Mb of RAM and a 100 Mb disk (geez, 7-8 Mb for Windows,
10-15 Mb for a Windows word-processor, 5-10 Mb for a spreadsheet, 
5-10 Mb for a drawing package, plus space for swap files, utilities, etc.)
.....

(NO flames please.  I STILL run a 1986 vintage XT clone for much of my
work, and still have a Z80-based CP/M machine I use as an intelligent
terminal.  I eke every dollar out of my old hardware; but it is 
obvious that the new OS's and operating environments are being written
for current high-end hardware - not last years, or 1987's or 1980's.
So if you want the latest/greatest OS/Operating Environment, better get
out the checkbook.)

>-- 
>Pierre von Kaenel	| Skidmore College	     | pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu
>Math & CS Dept.		| Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | (518)584-5000 Ext 2391

>"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical" - Yogi
From: leeh7@fel.tno.nl (Ed van Leeuwen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Windows 3.0 and comm. ports 3 & 4
Date: 13 Apr 92 12:51:52 GMT
Organization: TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory

Dear Windowers,

I know this is a FAQ, but I am still not able to address my
modem which resides on COM4.

Would anybody be so kind as to summarize the things to set
in the .ini files.

Configuration:
	Mycomp 386/40 with 4Mb and 2 serial ports standard.
	Hayes compatible Bausch CN3522-PC internal modem 
	on COM4.
	Mouse on COM1.

Thanks in advance.



					Regards,

					Ed.
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FEL-TNO                               |  TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
's-Gravenhage                         |  The Hague, the Netherlands
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
From: pingshan@leland.Stanford.EDU (PINGSHAN WEN)
Subject: Re: Games
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 19:59:54 GMT

Yes, but can you format a diskette when play Solitair under Windows 3.1?
From: pbrown@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: re: WfW 2.0 -- "Can't be serious" mistake
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:47:36 GMT
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.

Tom Carter writes:
> In article <1992Apr6.174404.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> pbrown@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:
>>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 is this a problem? Think of it this way: you can now move
> things around to your hearts content WITHOUT having to switch to Page 
> Preview mode, AND be able to edit and format the text as you do it! You CAN 
> set page layout view to show the whole page, AND drag framed objects around 
> to your heart's content, so what's the difference? Am I missing something?

Yes, thanks to Tom Carter for the correct answer to my dilemna -- I had 
just figured out on my own (read: "I read the fucking manual") that page
layout view can be zoomed out to see the whole page, and planned on 
writing in to say, "Oops -- never mind!", but Tom caught me before I could
do so.  So Tom -- what you were missing was that I had assumed that the 
ZOOM function simply put us into print preview, and feeling adept with 1.1,
had been trying to avoid the manual for 2.0 as much as possible...

My mistake.  Thanks for all the fish!  =-)

--Paul
/************************************************************************/
/* Paul V. Brown                 *   "I hope you know that this will go */
/* pbrown@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi   *    down on your permanent record."   */
/*                               *                     -Violent Femmes  */
/************************************************************************/
From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Interesting(?) Quirk of Windows 3.1 SMARTDRV.EXE
Date: 8 Apr 92 21:16:28 GMT
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA


I use a couple of batch files to control which AUTOEXEC.BAT and
CONFIG.SYS my machine boots with.  (I use PC-NFS, but there isn't
enough room left to compile with the network on).  The batch files
I use do something like:

    COPY C:\AUTOEXEC.NFS C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
    COPY C:\CONFIG.NFS C:\CONFIG.SYS
    c:\NFS\REBOOT

Suddenly, this morning, they stopped working!  The files were no
longer being copied over to AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS -- and
there were no complaints from DOS -- it behaved as though the
COPY command had completed correctly.

The problem is that Windows 3.1 has a new disk cache, SMARTDRV.EXE.
The default configuration when you upgrade from Windows 3.0 to
Windows 3.1 apparently puts SMARTDRV.EXE in a state where the
write cache doesn't immediately put the results back to the disk,
unless there's been some delay of some sort.  Putting the command
\WIN31\SMARTDRV /C before the REBOOT command forces write cache
to be written to the disk, but I suspect that any command that
gave DOS some time to write the write cache to disk would do the
job.
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer  My opinions, all mine!
"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a
favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace
of God." -- Thomas Jefferson
From: huang@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Shan-Chiao Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Mouse.Sys V8.20?
Date: 11 Apr 92 06:06:46 GMT
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Originator: huang@maui.cs.ucla.edu

Hi,

I just installed my Windows 3.1. It is great. However, I need some
help for the mouse driver coming w/ Win 3.1.

According to the info line display on my screen, it should be
mouse.sys v 8.20. So, I replaced my mouse.sys 8.10 w/ it. However,
the new one does not support /U which I can enforce the mouse.sys
8.10 put itself in high mem instead of using devicehigh. Moreover,
I cannot find any info about the mouse driver in the windows manual.

Therefore, is there anyone out there can tell me the available
parameters for the mouse.sys coming w/ Windows 3.1?

Thanks in advance.


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beam me up, my Lord.
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huang@cs.ucla.edu   ..!{uunet,ucbvax,rutgers,cepu,trwspp}!cs.ucla.edu!huang
From: meep@wpi.WPI.EDU (A Son of the Silent Age)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Upgrade prices
Date: 12 Apr 92 03:58:45 GMT
Article-I.D.: wpi.1992Apr12.035845.21437
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute

In article <1992Apr10.022518.20556@ncsu.edu> eagle@catt.ncsu.edu (Daniel L'Hommedieu) writes:
>I have heard some of you mention that the Windows 3.0 to Windows 3.1
>upgrade price of $39.95 is the cheapest.  I assume you're talking about
>Windows vs OS/2 upgrade prices.  

Ummm...no, I don't think they were...after all, this _is_ comp.windows.ms,
so most people here are talking about Microsoft Windows. (Seemed pretty
obvious to me.)

				  Under that assumption, you are very
>misinformed in your "cheapest upgrade price" talk.  The upgrade for OS/2
>1.x (any version) to OS/2 2.0 is free.  Yes, free.
>
>Of course, you should have already known that, but some of you don't
>seem to.

I hate to seem over-critical, but this is just the sort of gratuitous "OS/2
is _soooo_ much better than Windows" posting that annoys me in this
newsgroup (and yes, I'm sure Windows people do the same thing in OS/2
newsgroups, but that doesn't make it any less annoying).

Why are so many people out there convinced that we don't know what we're
doing? Honestly, folks, if I wanted to know the prices for OS/2,
performance stats on OS/2, release dates for OS/2, or _anything else_ about
OS/2, I'd subscribe to a newsgroup dedicated at least in part _to_ OS/2,
rather than one dedicated specifically to another worksystem (my euphemism
for "not quite an operating system but I still like running it"). Okay?

Grrrrrrr...

doug
--------------
From: axa12@po.cwru.edu (Ashok Aiyar)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Fastdisk or 32 bit access in Win 3.1
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:24:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: po.axa12.120
Organization: Department of Biochemistry, CWRU Medical School

In article <14387@pitt.UUCP>, cap@mb5000.anes.upmc.edu (chris pilewski) 
writes:>> WHAT IS FASTDISK?
> FASTDISK is not a 32bit disk cache.  It is not even a utility.
> FASTDISK is a 32 bit disk accessing protocol.  It allows disk
> access with 32bit device calls that bypass the computer's bios
> and communicate directly with disk controller. This method is
> MUCH faster.

This is correct.  According to the Windows Resource Kit, FastDisk
traps INT 13H calls and passes them directly to the hard-drive
controller (bypassing the BIOS)

> 
> WHAT IS FASTDISK FOR?
> At the moment, FASTDISK is used only in 386 enhanced mode for
> fast access of virtual memory (the swapfile).  FASTDISK will
> not speed up any disk operations that don't use virtual memory.

It speeds up *all* disk operations when it is enabled, including
swapping to the swap-file.

Ashok
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                             Ashok A. Aiyar
                       Department of Biochemistry
                         CWRU School of Medicine
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: hargrove@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (mark.allan.hargrove)
Subject: Test page prints first on Epson 9-pin
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 11:58:01 GMT
Keywords: bug? epson test-page

Hello,

Win3.1 seems like a good improvement over 3.0 but I've had some
problems with printing that don't seem to be addressed in the
documentation:

	- When I print to my Epson-compatible I get a test page
	  printed before the print job.

	- When I try to print a HP Laserjet II job I don't get the
	  option of being able to print in graphics mode.

Any obvious things I'm overlooking?

Thanks for your time,

Mark Hargrove
AT&T Bell Labs
mah@fjtlb.att.com
From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Why I hate [insert here] Re: Pause before you consider OS/2
Date: 12 Apr 92 19:42:05 GMT
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <s8rrvINNcgj@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) writes:
>WARNING: OS/2 discussion follows.  Sensitive Windows users may wish to skip
>	 the rest of this article.
>

	Patronizing trash.  My origional point.

>May I ask what "patronizing bullshit" you are talking about?  John merely
>made a statement which is based on technical fact -- that Windows has
>less system security than OS/2.  If you feel his statement is wrong, then 
>come up with some technical evidence to refute him.

	The comment was not directed ENTIRELY at whomever the origional
poster was.  It was just directed at the general attitude of some of
the comments in his posting, and those that MANY other people, both windows
and OS/2 fans, have posted.

>Only from a TECHNOLOGICAL standpoint OS/2 has more strong points and less
>problems.

	There you go again.  "This one is better than that one in terms
of viewpoint X"


>Would you tell us just what you find to be stupid?

	The continual fanaticism of the users here, and those who insist
on telling other people that their choice of windowing system sucks.
-- 
  storm@cs.mcgill.ca           McGill University         C program run.  Run  
  Marc Wandschneider           Montreal, CANADA          Program run! PLEASE!
Ever wonder how Worf got to be Security Officer on the Enterprise when the 
Capt gets kidnapped from the bridge every two episodes and Troy Beats him up?
From: magid@ocf.berkeley.edu (Paul Magid)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Genoa Systems is a slug again with Windows 3.1
Date: 9 Apr 1992 02:33:11 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

I called Genoa systems 2 days ago to find out about their 3.1 drivers for the 
Genoa 6400 board.  The guy I spoke to told me that the driver was still in Q&A.
Yet again they are a slug.  When Win 3.0 came out it took months for the drivers
to surface.  I believe it will be the same story again.  This is unacceptable
since it seems it is industry standard for many video manufacturers to 
make their drivers available to beta testers, and they release them promptly
after the release of the main prod.  Call (408) 432-9090 to lobby for change or 
find out what the case is.  Their bbs is (408) 943-1231.


Paul
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: donnel@helix.nih.gov (Donald A. Lehn)
Subject: Re: Boo Hiss MicroSoft
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:23:07 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.002110.9996@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu 
(Douglas A. Bell) writes:
/>
/>At least IBM does not charge me for the upgrade to 2.0,
/>for the product or the shipping.
/>-- 

Seems appropriate.  I guess this just shows that people are willing
to pay for Windows.  ;-)

--
Donald A. Lehn, Ph.D.                      Phone: (301) 496-2885
Bldg.37 Rm 3D20                            FAX:   (301) 496-8419
National Cancer Institute / NIH            Email: donnel@helix.nih.gov
Bethesda MD 20892
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: garygm@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gary Brainin)
Subject: Help - Win 3.1 dies in 800x600x16 (probably my card)
Organization: Stanford Law School, Stanford University
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 07:32:03 GMT


   I was all excited to hear that Win3.1 had an 800x600x16 driver, but
of course it didn't help.  Windows works fine in that mode, but if I
try to run the DOS prompt or any non-windows app, the screen blanks
and the system locks up so bad it needs a cold boot.  A little
experimentation showed that it was the SVGA mode that did it, as VGA
mode works perfectly.  My card supplier's pathetic excuse for a Win3.0
SVGA driver was, of course, ineffective.

   The card in question is by a company called Vision Logic, and runs
some form of "Oak" chipset.  Does anybody know of a proper Win3.1/SVGA
driver for this card?  Alternately, does anyone have a suggestion for
a decent, but not too expensive, replacement card from a company that
provides better customer support?

			sigh,
			-Gary

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