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From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Re: How to install stacker (was Re: Stacker Misleads)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:43:17 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

ps@uta.fi (Pertti Suomela) writes:

>> 	Stacker allows you to stack your boot drive.  If you do this,
>                                              ^ partition, I assume
>> 	you are _asking_ for trouble (at worst)

>I have a Maxtor 7213 IDE drive (about 210 Mb formatted) which I have
>only one partition on. I have left about 15 Mb unstackered for files
>necessary for booting and for windows swap file. I have given the rest
>of the partition (about 195 Mb) to stacker and it produces now about
>390 Mb space and the whole setup works just fine. I do not understand,
>why I shouldn't do it like this.

The original poster was suggesting that you should not stack your C:
drive into a D: drive and then SSWAP the C: and D: drives.  This
confuses many install programs and many users as well.  If your original
uncompressed drive was C: and after installing Stacker your uncompressed
drive is still C:, then you have done yourself a favor.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 15:17:18 GMT

In <1992Dec29.004615.20098@netcom.com> ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:

>In <1992Dec28.185555.16798@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>>In <1992Dec22.194817.25666@kodak.kodak.com> thomas@acadia.Kodak.COM (Thomas Kinsman) writes:



>>>    "A Friend" told me that an 80387 would help Windows/3.1  run  faster
>>>    because there are a lot of floating point calculations involved.

>>>    Can anyone verify this?

>>No, because it isn't true.  A math coprocessor will do absolutely
>>nothing to improve Windows performance.

>*Almost* true.  

Well, no.  What I said is exactly true.

>If a Windows program does no intense floating point
>and relies on the Windows Graphic Device Interface for all its
>graphics calculation, an 80387 will have no effect.  Graphics output
>requires a lot of number crunching, but the GDI manages to do it
>entirely with integer instructions.  But most programmers aren't as
>good at this sort of thing as are the GDI's creators, so they just
>rely on floating point.  I don't know about any of the heavy drawing
>software, but I've played with that stupid "Manniquin" 3-d modeling
>program, and it's totally unusuable without a math chip (with one,
>it's merely as slow as molasses).

But that isn't a matter of *WINDOWS* performance; it's a specific
program.  That's not what he asked about.

>The bottom line is this:  check the system requirements for the
>program that you hope will speed up.  If it doesn't say "math
>coprocessor recommended", then a 387 is probably a bad bet.

The bottom line is that a math coprocessor does ZERO for Windows
performance -- the bottleneck is generally video.  Of course, that
doesn't mean a coprocessor won't help some specific programs do things
more quickly (spreadsheets, CAD, etc.); of course, that's independent
of whether a program is under Windows or not.

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From: margolin@oregon.uoregon.edu (Brian Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: America Online (and similar systems)
Date: 29 Dec 92 01:32:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: fp1-molb.margolin-281292182823
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Distribution: usa
Organization: Institute of Molecular Biology
NNTP-Posting-Host: fp1-molbio-17.uoregon.edu

In article <Bzz2BD.n0q@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, rusbasan@expert.cc.purdue.edu
(Bob Rusbasan) wrote:
> 
> 
> Is the CompuServe Windows interface out?  Has anyone tried that?

Compuserve is releasing a Beta version of their Windows interface now and
promise to send the final version to all who buy the beta for free.  They
say that the final will be ready in February or March.
From: michael@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Michael)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
Date: 2 Jan 93 20:29:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: glia.michael.726006583
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington
NNTP-Posting-Host: glia.biostr.washington.edu

In <1992Dec29.151718.6115@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>In <1992Dec29.004615.20098@netcom.com> ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:
>>In <1992Dec28.185555.16798@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>>>In <1992Dec22.194817.25666@kodak.kodak.com> thomas@acadia.Kodak.COM (Thomas Kinsman) writes:
>>>>    "A Friend" told me that an 80387 would help Windows/3.1  run  faster
>>>>    because there are a lot of floating point calculations involved.
>>>>    Can anyone verify this?
>>>No, because it isn't true.  A math coprocessor will do absolutely
>>>nothing to improve Windows performance.

>>*Almost* true.  

>Well, no.  What I said is exactly true.

Ah but he was referring to what the first person said.  And he meant that
the idea had merit but didn't apply in this case.  You are being over
defensive.

>>If a Windows program does no intense floating point
>>and relies on the Windows Graphic Device Interface for all its
>>graphics calculation, an 80387 will have no effect.  Graphics output
>>requires a lot of number crunching, but the GDI manages to do it
>>entirely with integer instructions.  But most programmers aren't as
>>good at this sort of thing as are the GDI's creators, so they just
>>rely on floating point.  I don't know about any of the heavy drawing
>>software, but I've played with that stupid "Manniquin" 3-d modeling
>>program, and it's totally unusuable without a math chip (with one,
>>it's merely as slow as molasses).

>But that isn't a matter of *WINDOWS* performance; it's a specific
>program.  That's not what he asked about.

True, but this explanation does serve to explain why the reasoning may
be sound in many cases but not in this one.  Relax.  Just because someone
answers a question differently, doesn't mean that you need to defend your
first answer.  No one attacked you. :)

    Michael Stanley (michael@glia.biostr.washington.edu)
From: gibsonst@sonoma.edu (Stephen Gibson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: re: EMM386 and MS-Windows Hanging
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:19:43 GMT
Reply-To: gibsonst@sonoma.edu
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA


In article <1992Dec21.215121.13802@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> creacy@yuppie.enet.dec.com (Chet Creacy) writes:
>
>I have a 386sx-20, 5meg of memory, SVGA, and 120meg disk.  I'm having a problem
>with MS-Windows hanging when it comes up and EMM386 is installed.
>
>The first part of my config.sys is:
>
>	DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
>	DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE noems
>	DOS=HIGH,UMB
>	...
>
>I can only get my windows to come up when I remove/remark the EMM386 line from
>the config.sys file.  I've even tried the Windows version of EMM386.EXE in the
>Windows directory.
>
>Can anyone tell might what could be the problem?  Am I loading too many devices
>in high memory that windows needs to function?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Chet

Use the versions of HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE that came with Windows 3.1.  If 
you are using SmartDrive, use the version that came with Windows 3.1 as well 
(SMARTDRV.EXE).  If your machine has a static ram cache, use your setup 
utility to disable it and any BIOS/video shadowing.  Hope that this helps.


Stephen Gibson
System Support Specialist
Sonoma State Universtiy
eMAIL:  gibsonst@sonoma.edu
        Stephen.Gibson@sonoma.edu
From: bill@solaria (Bill Neisius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Star 10X printer driver
Date: 28 Dec 92 16:46:53 GMT
Reply-To: bill@solaria.hac.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Erik Petersen (peterse@prism.CS.ORST.EDU) wrote:
: 
: Recently, someone posted a note that a printer driver for the Star
: 10X was available on wuarchive.wustl.edu. This person said that
: the driver is a modified version of another driver; I would like to
: know how this person modified the driver. My printer is not quite
: a Gemini nor is it an Epson, but it's close...

The SG10 driver is the original Star 10X driver from Windows 1.0.
The modification was simply running it through MARK30 to remove the warning
message that accompanies old Windows applications; and creating an
OEMSETUP.INF.  The really difficult part was finding a set of the Windows 1.0
disks....


Bill Neisius ("that person")
bill@solaria.hac.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: PostScript Viewer
From: ioffe@ivory.bgu.ac.il (Ioffe Nicolay)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:46:41 GMT
Organization: Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel



Hello!!
I need to view and print some postscript files on non-postscript printer.
Does somebody know any program to do it which runs under windows?(preferable
- windows 3.0)

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: tomboy@netcom.com (Thomas Miller)
Subject: Re: America Online (and similar systems)
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:23:57 GMT

As far as I know, America Online for windows is not yet available on wide
scale.  It is in beta testing right now.  It is supposed to be available
early 93 I believe.
From: sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu (SPROLES)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: RE:Online services
Date: 28 Dec 92 15:13:18 GMT
Reply-To: sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Florida  (ufl.edu)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4



I've noticed that hardly anyone mentions Delphi when they talk about online
services.  I use Delphi and Compu$erve.  I've tried AoL, GEnie, and ProdGee.

Delphi wins, period.
It does have an old style interface (if you use internet and the vax, or
unix, ie, if you are logged onto a system and you're sitting there reading
THIS post, then you can use Delphi). And there are front end
programs (both DOS and Windows) you can download to autoread, and allow
offline message stuff etc..

Main difference is what you get for your dollar.  On Compu$serve the interest
groups are extra bucks and cost the extra for downloading files, etc. On Delphi
almost everything is for the flat rate, SIGs, conferencing, downloads, bunches
of stuff.  You can get Delphi for varying rates but I use the 20/20 plan of 
20 HOURS use for $20.  Compare that to Compu$erve's $7.95/mo basic access BUT
$12.80 an hour for any of the stuff that Delphi gives you in basic such as
forums, conference, databases.

Why do I post this. One months bill from Compu$serve, that why.  I spent just
a bit of time downloading some gifs, and joining the science fiction SIG on CI$
and was charged nearly $65.  CI$'s charge for 20 hours in science fiction SIG
is $7.95 + 20(12.80) = $263.95.  Delphi's rate for 20 hours in the SF SIG is
$20.00, period.  Go figure.  :)

P.S. I don't work for Delphi, I use it.

Judy Sproles

SPROLES@PINE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: gerry@bluemoon.use.com (Gerard M. Foley)
Subject: COM3 and IRQ5
Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[024])
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 05:16:08 EST

   I find that my terminal program QModem 4.2 appears to have COM3 and 
IRQ5 selected.  The manual for the modem refers only to the standard 
assignments of IRQ4 to COM1 and COM3 and IRQ3 to COM2 and COM4.  It has a 
diagram showing a jumper to select the IRQ which appears to have four 
possible positions, but does not identify the significance of the four 
positions.  I do not want to pull the card to find out if there is any 
informative marking on the board itself and where to jumper is currently 
set.

   If anyone can post a simple explanation of IRQ's and serial ports, I 
for one will appreciate it.


gerry@bluemoon.rn  My amateur radio callsign is K8EF, and my
packet radio address is K8EF@W8CQK.OH.USA.NA
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
Organization: UESPA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 00:46:15 GMT

In <1992Dec28.185555.16798@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>In <1992Dec22.194817.25666@kodak.kodak.com> thomas@acadia.Kodak.COM (Thomas Kinsman) writes:



>>    "A Friend" told me that an 80387 would help Windows/3.1  run  faster
>>    because there are a lot of floating point calculations involved.

>>    Can anyone verify this?

>No, because it isn't true.  A math coprocessor will do absolutely
>nothing to improve Windows performance.

*Almost* true.  If a Windows program does no intense floating point
and relies on the Windows Graphic Device Interface for all its
graphics calculation, an 80387 will have no effect.  Graphics output
requires a lot of number crunching, but the GDI manages to do it
entirely with integer instructions.  But most programmers aren't as
good at this sort of thing as are the GDI's creators, so they just
rely on floating point.  I don't know about any of the heavy drawing
software, but I've played with that stupid "Manniquin" 3-d modeling
program, and it's totally unusuable without a math chip (with one,
it's merely as slow as molasses).

The bottom line is this:  check the system requirements for the
program that you hope will speed up.  If it doesn't say "math
coprocessor recommended", then a 387 is probably a bad bet.
-- 

	ergo@netcom.com 			Isaac Rabinovitch
        {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo	Santa Cruz, CA
	
	Abstinence makes the heart grow rounder.
		-- Prescot Gooberstein
From: ralpht@meaddata.com (Ralph W. Trickey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Superstor VS. Stacker...You Make The Call
Date: 30 Dec 1992 13:31:27 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: retina.meaddata.com

In article <1992Dec30.022204.2768@Comtech.com>, aga@Comtech.com (Alan G. Arndt) writes:
|> I too figured I should say that I have had no real problems with Superstore
|> 2X or Now Superstore Pro.  Both worked fine and continue to.  I am very
|> pleased.  The one problem I had was that Smartdrv wouldn't cache my

I bought Superstore 2X bundled with DR-DOS, and have had nothing but
troubles. I have an Irwin tape backup, so I backed up the partition,
Superstored it, and the process died part-way through, I Superstored a
blank partition and tried to restore my backup. I spent a week sending
faxes, sending in a copy of the bad partition, etc. At that time
dealing with their tech support was like dealing with a black hole. I
left messages that weren't returned, etc. I finally gave up, and the
problem was never fully resolved. I was able to partially restore the
partition, but I have never trusted the package fully, and no longer
use it.

I believe you can recreate the problem, though I haven't tried it
recently, just sstor a 40 Meg blank partition and install Borland C++
3.1. I actually pinpointed it down to a 1 Meg partion that was
guaranteed to work fine until you tried to compress it further, then
it would blow up. I sent this to them on a floppy disk.

In addition, my father lost his sstored disk (multiple crosslinks,
followed by a blank disk).

You would be better off investing in a cheap tape drive.

If you insist on using a compression scheme, first call their tech
support and see if they can answer some simple questions, remember
that if a partition goes down, your computer will be down until you
get through to them.

-- 
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Mead Data Central   | x4870                           |  Disclaimer
P.O. Box 933        | ralpht@meaddata.com             |  My opinions are my own
Dayton, Ohio  45401 | ...!uunet!meaddata!ralpht       |
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: SmartDrv vs HyperDisk
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:22:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will) 

NA>Could some please let me know that which HD cache program is better--
NA>SmartDrv.exe or HyperDisk.exe?

You trying to start a religious war? :-)  There are folks that will take
both sides, personally, I use HyperDisk and I'll never look back.  
SMARTDRV 4.0 is a decent cache, but I'm a HyperDisk man.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: leary@progress.COM (James Leary)
Subject: Re: Stac Software Customer Service (comments welcome)
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:59:54 GMT

mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>In <BzxzA9.JyI@ucunix.san.uc.edu> dayja@ucunix.san.uc.edu (James A Day) writes:

>>During the installation process it asks you how much to compress a
>>file(ie 2:1, 3:1) but even if you say 3:1 it still only compresses to
>>2:1 although the drive says differently install WordPerfect takes up
>>twice as much to install on the hard disk(or at least enough to cover
>>the fact that the compression of stacker doesn't work.)  Any suggestions
>>for solutions to this problem?

>I'm not sure what you're talking about here, but what it is asking you
>for is ESTIMATED COMPRESSION, not how much it should compress.  The
>file will only compress as much as it will compress, and that's all
>there is to it.  What do you think they do, simply magically throw
>away 2/3 of the data if you tell them you want 3:1 compression, or
>what?

>Since I don't see what your problem is, I'm not sure what you're
>looking for in the way of a solution.  Why do you say "the compression
>of stacker doesn't work"?  

>Do you know what you're doing?

By answering the way you did, do you?  If you cannot answer the person's
question without insulting them, then shut-up and don't answer at all.

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From: rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Richard Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Superstor VS. Stacker...You Make The Call
Date: 28 Dec 1992 21:59:46 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: attila.pubs.stratus.com

I tried using SuperStor Pro on my 110Mb IDE C: drive and took the defaults so  
that it compressed the whole thing, except for a small area with boot files  
that could be accessed only with SuperStor utilities while SuperStor was in  
operation (i.e., the SuperStor drive got swapped in as the C: drive).  I found  
that disk access was so slow without a cache, that I first tried Windows 3.1  
SMARTDRV (which appears to disable itself for the stacked drive, and so was a  
null op), then Norton Cache 6.01 (AddStor expressly warned against Norton Cache  
6.0; but Symantec claimed that 6.01 was O.K.).  The latter combination worked  
O.K. for a while, but then I started getting cross-linked files and found  
myself running the SuperStor repair utilities, CHKDSK, and Norton Backup  
(restore) a lot.  With insufficient disk space to back out of SuperStor, I  
blitzed the whole C: disk and started restoring stuff from my pre-SuperStor  
backup (NEVER try one of these things without a backup!).  By not restoring a  
lot of the seldom-used stuff on the backup, I gained 35 Meg (a cheap  
alternative to compression!)!  I'm tempted to try SuperStor again on a smaller  
piece of the drive, but having been burned once...
-----
Richard Scott
Stratus Computer, Inc.
rscott@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: rioj7@fel.tno.nl (M.L.M.Veraart)
Subject: Re: Increasing cursor size...
Organization: TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 08:09:23 GMT

tspila@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Tim Spila {Romulan}) writes:

>Using a laptop computer, the cursor in windows can be hard to see.
>Specifically, the cursor that is used in WordPerfect for Windows.  I was
>wondering if there was anyway in windows to increase the mouse pointer
>and/or the I-beam cursor that is used in so many windows apps.  I think
>the I-beam is windows based, and not WordPerfect based.  

>If there is someway to do this in windows, how?  Or is there a shareware
>or freeware program that can modify the cursor?

>Thanks,

>Tim.

One program I have seen that can do the job is the Microsoft mouse driver.
The latest version I have seen is 8.20.
It comes with a setup program that allows to change the default size of
the cursor and the size of the cursor when it moves. Another feature is
the Raster Operation that is used: SourceCopy, ExclusiveOr, and both 
Inverse version.
If it's hard to find I can mail you a uuencoded file.
(I am not sure it works with Windows 3.1, it did with Windows 3.0)

Mario Veraart
-- 
Mario Veraart                  TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
email: rioj7@fel.tno.nl        The Hague       The Netherlands
"If all else fails, show pretty pictures and animated videos, 
 and don't talk about performance",  David Bailey
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Windows & Math Coprocessor
Keywords: Windows Coprocessor 80387
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:20:28 GMT

In <HuRkwB1w163w@connect.com> root@connect.com (Niles Mills) writes:

>Greetings,

>Does anyone know whether or not Windows 3.1 is able to take 
>advantage of a math coprocessor?  Ie., will screens be drawn
>more rapidly with an 80x87 on board?

>Thanks in advance for the info.

No.  The video card is doing all the work for Windows.  For faster
screen updates, you will need to go with a faster video card (or a
faster processor with the usual dumb frame buffer video).  I'm using a
Diamond Speedstar HiColor (dumb frame buffer) with an i486-DX50 and
seem to get acceptable video speeds.  If you have a slow machine (with
slow being defined as 'it takes too long'), you will have to change to
a coprocessed video board (S3, Mach8, TIGA, and their ilk) to see any
increases in video speed.

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