HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Crosstalk
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:18:03 GMT

In <8944@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> nazareth@malibu.janet.ucla.edu (Sean F. Nazareth) writes:

>I have Crosstalk for Windows ver 1.2.  I run windows in 1024x768 mode and was
>wondering if there was any way that I can fit more lines on the screen.  Right
>now, the bottom ~2inches of my screen are not used.  I am using vt102 terminal
>emulation.  

No.  You can't get there from here in Version 1.2.  Note that there is
a new verson of XTalk for Windows out (2.0); I don't know if it fixes
this shortcoming or not, since I haven't gotten mine yet.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: ferrux@carmen.ICO.OLIVETTI.COM (Ferruccio Palmerini)
Subject: This is a test please do not read
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 11:44:43 GMT

void'

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: rkl@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (kevin.laux)
Subject: Re: Videoblaster only works in Low Resolutions
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 18:42:30 GMT
Keywords: videoblaster

In article <rccarm00.724359622@mik.uky.edu>, rccarm00@nx19.mik.uky.edu (ron c carman) writes:
> In <1992Dec14.161828.3309@rdg.dec.com> bowen@esdeng.enet.dec.com () writes:
> 
> >I'm having problems with my Videoblaster.
> 
>    I have a few questions for anyone familiar with this product as well.
> I recently received an advertisement for Videoblaster; listed under the
> System Requirements section was:
> 
>             VGA card with feature connector
>             not more than 15MB of system RAM
> 
>    Now, I know what a VGA card is, but what is a feature connector??
> Is that 15MB the minimum required for performance?  

	The feature connector is a way to get the digital VGA data before it
gets to the VGA card's output stage i.e. the DAC registers.  The VB board
needs a digital VGA feed so it can do the Digital to Analog conversion and
chroma key the NTSC Video (VGA overlaid on the video).

	The 15MB memory requirement is not the minimum, but the *maximum*
system memory.  The VB board needs a frame buffer and must map it into system
memory space.

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From: carlos@carlos
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: HellDiver for Waffle/UUCP Win 3.1
Summary: Awesome front-end to Waffle!
Keywords: WAFFLE, usenet, uucp, news, reader
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 22:13:11 -0500
Reply-To: carlos@infoserv.com
Followup-To: comp.os/ms-windows.apps
Organization: Dominguez UseNet, Brooklyn NY, USA

Anyone using waffle and uucp to get a usenet/email feed to their
machine must try HELLDIVER!
 
Its an awesome front end that's a true Windows app, that just
blows away the clunko waffle news/mail interface that I've
gotten used to only by necessity!
 
Address books for email, automatic cross-post capability,
file attachments (uuencoded and binary), and too many
features to list..
 
FTP this gem from Halcyon.com or at a local site near you..
 
I'm using it, and no I didn't write it or sell it, in fact
I have nothing to do with it, except use it!
 
email is welcomed! flames are not

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Organization: The American University - University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:29:19 EST
From: <ZHAO@auvm.american.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Off-line print big file in W4W. How ?

Could anyone give me a hint on how to off-line print a big W4W file. I have
a 20 page paper in W4W format, I can print-to-a-file but have trouble to
print that file to HP laserjetIII. I have tried using COPY and PRINT command
under DOS, but it only works on small file. Is there any utility program
for that purpose ?

Thanks in advance.

Ching-Hua
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From: tom@ismdqa.intel.com (Tom Soukup ~)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: LAN Application manager needed
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:51:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Intel Corp.


Hi All,

I need to find an utility that can track the usage of applications from a
LAN (Banyan in this case).  Can anyone suggest a utility that will track
how many instances of a particular application have been started, ideally
with a way to determine who is using the application?

I need to be able to use this with Windows applications.  Any suggestions
would be appreciated, PD, shareware or comercial.  

Please resopnd via mail and I'll post a summary if there is enough
interest.

Thanks,
Tom Soukup
DISCLAIMER:  Intel doesn't agree with much of anything that I say.
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ARPA:	tom%ismdqa.intel.com@relay.cs.net       CSNET:	tom@ismdqa.intel.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: jensen@groucho.cc.fsu.edu (Phil Jensen)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP, WFW, ethernet, and internet mail
Organization: Florida State University Academic Computing and Network Services
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 20:16:28 GMT

emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) wrote:

..Does the WorkGroup Post Office support gatewaying file attachments
..and other binary stuff out of WfWG to the Internet using MIME format?
..Will it accept inbound mail in MIME format and do the right thing
..with it as well?

I got the priviledge (?) of attending a statewide teleconference with a Microsoft
person (Kirk Poffenburger) concerning WfWG, and one of the questions I got to 
ask was about attachments to/from the Internet. He (sort of) demoed the ability 
to send binary messages parts to the Internet, and when I quizzed him about
details he confessed they were uuencoded. 

He also seemed to indicate that uuencode was the basis for most message 
structures within WfWG as well, but that didn't seem to make much sense
to me at the time.

I asked about other attachment types, like binhex and MIME, to which he
responded with "future" support for MIME (none for binhex). He said they were 
working on this but gave no time frame for availability.

I'd be interested if anyone has heard more about WfWG with binary message parts
since it's likely to become a popular mail package (by weight of numbers if
nothing else).

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
Subject: Re: INFOSELECT FOR WINDOWS
Organization: University of Chicago, SSPPCC
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:12:09 GMT

I've been scouring the magazines for several months looking for mail order
firms selling InfoSelect for Windows.  Haven't seen any yet.  I have seen
the Micrologic ads and know that one can order the product from them
direct, but I don't want to pay list price.  Anyone know where one can
buy this product at a discount?  They do seem to be slow in getting it into
the usual distribution channels.

Bob Osterlund
berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
SSPPCC--University of Chicago

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: roberts@epas.utoronto.ca (Robert Sinkewicz)
Subject: Re: Iomega tape250 and backup software
Organization: University of Toronto - EPAS
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:41:12 GMT

I have the same setup (with the high speed controller) and I have
had no problems doing restores with CPBackup.

However, when I do backups and follow with a compare, I notice
that there are quite a few recoverable errors (ca. 5 per 30MB) and
often 1 non-recoverable error (most frequently on a .ARC file which
the software is not supposed to compress). Is this rate of
recoverable errors normal? This leaves me less than confident about
the security of my backups.

Bob Sinkewicz
Centre for Medieval Studies
University of Toronto
roberts@epas.utoronto.ca
From: Kevin McIsaac <playboy@earwax.pd.uwa.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Videoblaster only works in Low Resolutions
Date: 16 Dec 1992 00:47:51 GMT
Organization: SysAdm
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: u5.dialup.uwa.edu.au
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1a2

>I recently received an advertisement for Videoblaster; listed under the
>System Requirements section was:
>
>            VGA card with feature connector
>            not more than 15MB of system RAM
>
>   Now, I know what a VGA card is, but what is a feature connector??

It is an edge connector for the VB card.  The VB card works by taking a
signals from both the video source and the vga monitor, composing the two
and putting out a signal to the monitor.  The important point is the vga
card feeds into the VB card via the feature connector

>Is that 15MB the minimum required for performance?  

Not it says "NOT more than".  I've got 4 MB in my system and it works
well.  I've noticed that it works best in standard 600x480 (or what ever
the numbers are0 in higher modes the image suffers from tearing.  

If you are seeing "pink" on the screen, then you probably need to use
VBconf to set up the VB for that configuration.  The pink colour is the
croma key colour use by VB.  What is croma key you ask?  Simple, where
ever the croma key colour apears in the VGA image, the VB card replaces
it with video.  Think of the VGA as an overlay on top of the video and
areas in the croma key as transparent
From: bigdog@bones.et.byu.edu (Dan Canfield)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
Subject: Re: Confused about WordPerf and TrueType
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:12:21 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA

If you are on the first release of 5.1 (11/4/91) then the TT doesn't
show next to the fonts even though they are there.

Dan Canfield
bigdog@bones.et.byu.edu

DoD #0071,RP90
'89 FJ1200
'89 Indy707
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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
Subject: The last word
Summary: :-)
Organization: UIUC SCS
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 20:53:49 GMT

Question: Which will be a success, OS/2 2.0, or Windows NT?


Answer: I will reveal the answer on Jan. 1, 2000


However, in the same speech I will announce the end of the world.


God




























:-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Is that good enough for a last word on this subject????
From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Can we get the details of the benchmark setup? Please!
Date: 16 Dec 92 04:13:50 GMT
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab

jahonen@cs.joensuu.fi (Jarmo Ahonen) writes:
>Brian, 
>Please tell me how you have managed to get NT to run fast. I need
>to use it and I have not been able to get it to be more than 50-60%
>of the OS/2 speed. No, this is not anything like 
>"I think that NT is slow and OS/2
>is fine...". This is more like "how the hell could *both* of those
>systems to be so doggish?". 

From previous posts, it appears Brian is running NT on a 486 with 
20 MB of memory. If you are running with 12 or more, then supposedly
performance is OK with this beta form; if you have less than 12 Mb,
then NT will suffer. OS2, with no networking, is OK for me (ie. not
notably slower than Win3.1) on a 386 with 8 MB. 
 
If you see both running slowly, first guess is not enough RAM.

-- 
Tom Hatton
hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
(415)-476-7986
From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Gates Interview
Date: 13 Dec 92 05:26:27 GMT
Organization: SOCS - McGill University, Montreal, Canada

In article <1992Dec9.080123.10569@ousrvr.oulu.fi> ojtv@zombie.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho) writes:
>Re: interim releases for Word for Windows 2.0.
>
>At least for me it did not work that way. I wrote a letter to Microsoft
>Scandinavia describing the problems (and others) that were mentioned here
>in WfW 2.0 initial release asking for 2.0a. The only response I got
>was that "there are no general problems in WfW 2.0". Although it is

	Neat fact:

	They guy from MS wasn't lying.

	The 2.0a release was to just improve some code that was horribly
inefficient, but not buggy.

>And now I hear that there is 2.0b and even 2.0c (Microsoft does not
>seem to bother to tell about these to registered users). No wonder I have
>had (every now and then) miserable time with it!

	Don't forget that Microsoft affiliates around the world tend to take
a while longer to actually get a lot of the software, because of whatever
customs regulations and the like.

	I know that Microsoft Canada here is extremely slow, and I find it
far easier to just get stuff from the US....


	Toodlepip!
	Marc 'em.
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From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
Date: 17 Dec 1992 14:05:10 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Reply-To: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: gondolin.pubs.stratus.com

In article <1992Dec16.220010.20828@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>  
jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes:
> >    The mac mouse appears not to be accelerated.  The mouse  
pointer
> >didnt move as nicely as microsoft mice.  (Not to mention the mouse  
has
> >only one button.
> 
> 
> The single button is an advantage!
> 

Why?

By the way, I like simplicity in mice. I hate X systems, in which
all three mouse buttons mean something and sometimes the chords
(pushing more than one button at once) mean something.  But at
times 2 buttons are nice, as long as the second button has a
defined function.  Some apps use the second button for help, and
this is a nice feature.

--
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Stratus Computer   jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com  

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: Robert_Salesas@mindlink.bc.ca (Robert Salesas)
Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and m
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 09:49:55 GMT

> Harris Wulfson writes:
>
> Imagine that. MacDraw for Windows! I don't think it will happen
> because Claris is a spinoff of Apple Computer.
>
> --
> Harris Wulfson
> hjwulfson@amherst.edu


Nah, of course not...  I guess FileMaker Pro isn't really available... 8-)

Rob

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: uad1077@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish)
Subject: Re: Windows NT is VMS
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 16:26:16 GMT

guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:

>>you know the old story that HAL shifted one character gives IBM?
>>Did you ever try to shift WNT (Windows NT)?
>
>Yes, many thousands of people probably have tried to do so, at this
>point.  Hundreds of them have probably even posted the results of doing
>so....
>
>>(On the alpha-Roadshow they said
>>that the chief developer of VMS now works at microsoft...)
>
>Yes, Dave Cutler now works at Microsoft, and yes, Dave Cutler is, as far
>as I know, the chief architect or whatever of Windows NT.

Acutally, the fact that you have to type Ctrl-Alt-Del at it so as
to wake it up in order to log on sounds *FAR* more like VME/B.
(Almost-produced by ICL in the '70s).  On this, you had to type
Ctrl-A to wake it up to log in, and the end-of-line character was
(wait for it)....  Ctrl-C.

This was another too-large, too-late, virtual-machine-based OS, and
my previous least favorite OS.  Given the number of people who have
asked for our s/ware on NT, I do hope NT isn't going to displace it
in this odious position.

[My favorite anecdote about VME/B was when in the middle of a demo
the operators rang us up and asked us to log off as we were filling
up the system journal disc and no-one was quite sure what would
happen when it filled up completely:-(.  Given Microsoft's past record
on quality control, I am haunted by the spectre of a repeat
performance.....]

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
Subject: Re: "Windoze" slow? Naah...Re: pc and mac: was RE: 486 and mac benchmarks
Reply-To: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
Organization: Field Robotics Center, CMU
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:24:44 GMT

On the subject of Macs...

I heard something from a coworker today that is so funny, I thought
I'd share it with y'all.

If you buy a third party disk for your Mac and try to format it using
the Apple supplied utilities, guess what?  It won't format!  That's
right, Apple built in a check so that only disks from Apple can be
formatted by the utilities they supply.

P.S.  The people who told me this are the only ones in my organization
who still use Macs.  They have done research for Apple, etc.  I.e.,
the are very pro-Mac.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: 5692330@mcimail.com  (Robert Gammon)
Subject: re: SPA Data, was Gates Interview
Nntp-Software: PC/TCP NNTP
Organization: Texas Instruments Materials and Controls Group
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:31:46 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.175052.13053@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen) writes:

 >> In article <1992Dec12.085137.2160@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
 >> >In article <1992Dec10.184840.22816@microsoft.com>, dwightm@microsoft.com (Dwight Matheny) writes:
 >> 
 >> Whole bunch of stuff deleted.
 >> 
 >> >
 >> >There is no verification of sales data from companies that report figures to
 >> >the SPA. SPA data is only as accurate as the reporting company is honest. I
 >> >don't think I need to say any more about the integrity of corporations under
 >>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >> >FTC investigation.
 >>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 >> 
 >> Ahem, presumption of innocence? 
 >> 
 >> Now, if you want to argue that MS is sleazy (or maybe even dishonest) 
 >> because they dropped OS/2 support, you might have a case. However, I do not see 
 >> the connection between the fact that there is an SEC *investigation* and 
 >> the conclusion that MS is lying about the number of units they have 
 >> sold/shipped.
 >> 
[stuff deleted]

I was also at the same meeting and I agree with Zachmann about SPA figures.
I work in an unrelated industry, and here, the size of the total market, number
of units shipped, and total revenue (where department revenue is not reported 
separately from the corporation) are almost always inflated.  The point is to
influence analysts at DataQuest (or others appropriate to the respective 
industry), to reinforce market-share perceptions.  We do not need to accuse
Micro$oft of anything special here, we must recognize that it happens and 
discuss other things.  These figures are not worth worrying about.  Yearly 
profits are another matter entirely, not subject to marketing hype.

Note that I am not involved in reporting data to the analysts, I see what the
analysts report, and compare that with what I know about our business.
--
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
From: pkedrosk@student.business.uwo.ca (Paul S. Kedrosky)
Subject: re: SPA Data, was Gates Interview
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 20:51:01 GMT

hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen) writes:

> In article <1992Dec12.085137.2160@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.ed
> >In article <1992Dec10.184840.22816@microsoft.com>, dwightm@microsoft.com (Dw
> 
> Whole bunch of stuff deleted.
> 
> >
> >There is no verification of sales data from companies that report figures to
> >the SPA. SPA data is only as accurate as the reporting company is honest. I
> >don't think I need to say any more about the integrity of corporations under
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >FTC investigation.
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Ahem, presumption of innocence? 
> 
> Now, if you want to argue that MS is sleazy (or maybe even dishonest) 
> because they dropped OS/2 support, you might have a case. However, I do not s
> the connection between the fact that there is an SEC *investigation* and 
> the conclusion that MS is lying about the number of units they have 
> sold/shipped.

Not to mention that those lilly-white folks from Armonk did once upon
a time have their own garden party with the FTC. Far be it from me to
say that the fine people in an advocacy conference are disingenuous
but ...

Paul



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