HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: dave@monitor.larc.nasa.gov (Dave A. Hinde)
Subject: Re: DV/X Keyboard Lock Program Needed
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:06:27 GMT

In article <1992Oct4.145123.23082@cbnewsk.cb.att.com>, rbk@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (R. Brad Kummer) writes:
|> Is there a program or procedure available which will lock the keyboard
|> (secure the computer, disallow any keyboard input, disallow opening
|> or switching to any windows, etc.) under DV/X but still allow access
|> to the PC from a network?  (I'm using the TCP/IP interface.)
|> 
|> 	Thanks,
|> 	R. Brad Kummer  rbk@akguc.att.com
|> 	AT&T Bell Laboratories  Atlanta, GA

I use a version of "xlock" started on a Sun workstation.  This locks my screen,
putting up a moving "screensaver" type display, and locks my keyboard.  Any input,
either a key-click or mouse click, prompts for my Sun password.  While locked I
have network access to my PC.  I have logged into the Sun from home, "ftp-ed"
to my PC, and moved files to my home system.

I agree that DV/X needs such a utility to run on the PC.  How about someone with
a little more programming experience converting "xlock" :-)
                                              
                                          ___/,@___  Dave Hinde
                                         /_o_____o_| dave@monitor.larc.nasa.gov

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: bodoh@cae.wisc.edu (Daniel Bohoh)
Subject: Re: Old DESQVIEW on AT 286
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 15 Oct 92 14:22:17 CDT

In article <1992Oct15.122754.29776@goya.uu.es> echeva@dit.upm.es (Fernando J. Echevarrieta Fernandez) writes:
>	HI. Does anyone know if Desqview 2.3 (not Desview X) running
>	on an AT 286 would use a second Mb of memmory? (extended).

This is well convered in the FAQ list:

The DESQview/QEMM Frequently Asked Questions list can be obtained
from a variety of places.  First, it is posted montly to 
comp.os.msdos.desqview and news.answers with the subject line
"DESQview/QEMM Frequently Asked Questions: READ BEFORE POSTING".
Use your newsreader to search backwards for an article with this subject
line.

Second, it is available via anonymous FTP from SIMTEL20 and mirrors
in the DESQVIEW directory.  On WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL get
PD1:<MSDOS.DESQVIEW>DVFAQ8.ZIP.  On OAK.OAKLAND.EDU get 
/pub/msdos/desqview/dvfaq8.zip.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: aml@world.std.com (Andrew M Langmead)
Subject: Re: Help in C
Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 19:09:01 GMT

dsa1+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Stephen Stellenberg) writes:

>I wrote a set of programs in C using Quick C and the API Library.
>Program A starts and renames it's mailbox.
>Program B starts, finds the mailbox of A and sends it mail.

>Program B consists of basically three functions:
>    1.)  Desqview initialization stuff... get mailbox object, win object...
>    2.)  Send the mail
>    3.)  main

>If I have all three functions in one file, everything works fine.
>If I have each function in it's own separate file, declaring the object
>pointers as global ulong in the file with main, and extern ulong in
>the other files.... I can only send mail from within the
>initialization function.  The program halts with a programmer error
>if I try and send mail from either main or the send mail function.
>Again, everything works correctly when I have the functions in one file.
>It's when I try to modularize that theproblems start.

>-dan

DESQview's "Programming Error" message only pops up when it is handed
an invalid object handle, (or inappropriate like a mailbox handle being
handed to tim_len()). Try printing out the handle in each module
(I know borland has a %Fp printf option for printing far pointers, this
is a good way to look at DESQview handles. I'd assume Microsoft's printf
has the same.) or putting a api_isobj() call before the API calls that
have problems.

I think it is more of a C related, not DESQview API related problem.
Would you be willing send the parts of the code where the handle is 
declare in each module? (or if it is small enough, all the modules) I'd
be willing to check what I can.
-- 
|Andrew Langmead - A frustrated Mac/Unix programmer stuck in an MS-DOS job    |
|Usenet=aml@world.std.com      |S. O'Conner "We Live in a dangerous Age       |
|bix=a.langmead CI$=72411,1560 | To say how you feel is to lay your own grave"|
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: hshlswe1@w222zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Hilmar Schlegel)
Subject: Re: Quarterdeck refuses to answer my E-mail!!!!!!
Keywords: QEMM, customer support
Reply-To: hshlswe1@w222zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Hilmar Schlegel)
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:39:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct8.193755.4698@nwnexus.WA.COM>, ralphs@halcyon.com
(Ralph Sims) writes:
> geoff@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes:
> 
> >Should I just give up trying to get QEMM to work?  (It is totally useless  
> >in its current form.)
> 
> >Or should I give up on Quarterdeck in general?
> 
> Drop the dime and call them direct.  As a registered user, you deserve
> to talk to a person.  You can not expect email to get delivered.
> 
This helps not so much at Qdeck's-as I expirienced.

I would say you should pay for it after successful installation.

Hilmar Schlegel (hshlswe1@w250zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de)
###
From: storner@diku.dk (Henrik St|rner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Latest version of QEMM386
Keywords: QEMM386 Updates
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:25:47 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

derek@foster.actrix.gen.nz (Derek Foster) writes:

>D.Burns@massey.ac.nz (David Burns) writes:

>> What is the latest version of QEMM386?  As a registered of user of
>> several versions of QEMM, I'm displeased that I don't receive
>> update notices.  Is this lack of notification common?

>I think the latest version is 6.02.. and likewise, I have yet to
>receive an update notice from Quarterdeck since I purchased it way
>back with v4.23.

It's in the FAQ. Version 6.02 is the latest, *except* if You have DESQview/X,
which comes with ver. 6.03. If You don't use DV/X, don't be sorry that You 
haven't got 6.03 - the only changes done are specifically to accomodate
DV/X (according to the docs.)
--
Henrik Storner (storner@olivetti.dk)
Tech. Support
Olivetti Denmark.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: snowden@cray.com (Jim Snowden)
Subject: Re: Displaying Bitmaps as Backgrounds in DV/X
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: 9 Oct 92 05:50:06 CDT

In article <1992Oct8.161243.29177@inmet.camb.inmet.com> gjs@corsica.camb.inmet.com (George Snyder) writes:
>
>I couldn't find XV in my "usual places", i.e. the desqview and dv-x
>directories at the wuarchive and oakland FTP sites (listed in the FAQ).
>I couldn't find either in the list of files on the QuarterDeck BBS.
>Could you be more specific about file, directory, and conference names?
>

xv was at zeus.ieee.org in /pub/fidonet/dvn until a couple of
days ago:

Host zeus.ieee.org   (140.98.1.1) 
Last updated 21:33  1 Oct 1992

    Location: /pub/fidonet/dvn
      FILE      rw-rw-r--    158866  Sep 23 07:28   xv.zip

I downloaded it, but I notice it isn't there now.  I could uuencode it
and mail it though if you'd like and if noone minds.


Jim Snowden
snowden@hemlock.cray.com

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: garyrich@qdeck.com (Gary Rich)
Subject: Re: QEMM memory conflicts
Organization: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Santa Monica CA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:30:04 GMT

In article <books.21.0@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu> books@fsunuc.physics.fsu.edu (Roger Books) writes:
>My 3c507 board just decided it wasn't going to work with QEMM.  I had it
>set to adx d0000 and it worked fine for a while.  If I unload QEMM it works
>fine with NCSA telnet and FTP.  I seem to have a memory conflict.  I would 
>just disable QEMM but then I couldn't run DV/X.  I tried the following.
>
>1. Disabled Stealth
>
>2. With stealth disabled tried both ARAM=D000-D800 and X=D000-D800, not
>   at the same time of course.
>
>Neither seemed to have any affect on the problem.
>
>If anyone has any idea what I can do to fix this please let me know.
>

Try running OPTIMIZE /AUTO.  This will have optimize try to determine
how the NIC is responding.

support@qdeck.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: garyrich@qdeck.com (Gary Rich)
Subject: Re: Quarterdeck refuses to answer my E-mail!!!!!!
Organization: Quarterdeck Office Systems, Santa Monica CA
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1992 23:33:24 GMT
Keywords: QEMM, customer support

In article <44821@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> geoff@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes:
>I have sent several desperate messages to support@qdeck.com almost two  
>weeks ago and have still not received any responses.  I have severe  
>problems (machine lockup and file corruption) with QEMM. All the obvious  
>troubleshooting procedures (e.g. NO everything flags) do not work.


??  The only contact I show from you is 30 days old, where you were
given the no everything flags.  The record indicates that you would
get in touch with us if the problem persisted.  Sounds like your
mail has bounced.  I'll send some more info along to you and we'll see 
if the mail bounces going the other direction.

>
>As anyone ever gotten a response after E-mailing to QuarterDeck?
>
Oh, I hope so.  Other wise I and several others are wasting an awful 
lot of our time....  Y'all are getting your mail aren't you?



Gary Rich		<support@qdeck.com>
From: swf@teradata.com (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: QEMM and MSCDEX (CD extensions)
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:08:02 GMT
Reply-To: swf@tdat.teradata.com (Stanley Friesen)
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR Teradata Database Business Unit


|In article <1992Oct4.102739.4260@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at> A4422DAB@vm.univie.ac.at writes:
|
|this might be a FAQ, but its not on the list, so i dare to ask it.
|is there a way to load MSCDEX.EXE high under QEMM.
|this is the "device driver" for accessing CD-ROM drives
|under MSDOS, it is a TSR, and it takes away precious base memory (below 640K).
|it would be a natural to load it high, but i dont manage.
|is there something special i could try to achieve it?

A related question (perhaps even an answer at the same time).

I have discovered that older versions of mscdex do not load properly *after*
Desqview - trying to load it inside of a window gets a 'must run SETVER'
message.

My problem is I have been unable to get the latest version of mscdex, which
is supposed to fix this problem.  The Microsoft BBS does *not* have it
on line.  So how do I go about getting it?  If I must contact MS directly,
what is thier phone number? (I do not even know what city they are in,
so I cannot ask directory information).

Now, to the original user's problem - is it possible that this is another
problem with the earlier, less copperative, versions of mscdex?
-- 
sarima@teradata.com			(formerly tdatirv!sarima)
  or
Stanley.Friesen@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
From: fyu@fyusparc2.us.oracle.com (Francis H. Yu)
Subject: Running WINX on monochrome SPARC display, etc.
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:42:08 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

My version of DV/X could send WINX to a single-color display of my
SPARC.  I was told that it would be fixed soon.  Is it fixed?  My
latest set has files files 04-27-92.  Is this V1.0.2?
-- 
Francis H. Yu
Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Box 659504, Redwood Shores, CA  94065
Email:  fyu@shanghai.oracle.com  Voice:  (415) 506-3129  FAX:  (415) 506-7103
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox)
Subject: Help using DOSMAX ?
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:47:12 GMT
Organization: Recognition Equipment, Inc.

I am attempting to use a utility called DOSMAX (oak.oakland.edu :
/pub/msdos/sysutl/dosmax15.zip).  This utility moves DOS out of the HMA
and into a UMB, which frees up the HMA for other purposes.  However, no
matter what switches I give to the program, DOS always ends up in the
HMA, even though the program's documentation says that won't happen.

My configuration:

DOS           v5.0
HIMEM.SYS     v3.07   for XMS
UMB_DRVR.SYS  v5.22   for UMB's

EMM386.EXE    v4.44   tried this for UMB's, still didn't work.

I have an application that would like to load itself into the HMA, but
it will not load there while DOS is using this area.  I can load DOS
low, but that does not give me any more free memory.  Is the author of
DOSMAX out there, or can anyone who has successfully used this utility
give me some pointers as to what to do?

-- 
#ifdef TRUE        | Fuzzy Fox (a.k.a. David DeSimone)       fuzzy@netcom.com
#define  TRUE   0  |
#define  FALSE  1  |   "If you can't take the heat, you haven't learned
#endif             |      a damn thing from USENET!"  -- Rao V. Akella
From: efinley@infoserv.com (Elliot Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: FOR SALE.  Stacker + Master*Key
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 23:32:50 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Personalized Programming

I have the following for sale.

Stacker 2.0 with plug-in de/compression board, manuals etc.

Master*Key Ver. 486.  <-- This is an intelligent disassembler.

Make me any reasonable offer on either of them and they are yours.

             Elliot Finley
               (efinley@infoserv.com)

P.S. The reason I'm selling these is because I switched from
     DOS 5.0 to OS/2 2.0.
From: kirby@pyramid.unr.edu (Stephen Kirby)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Trashed FAT. Want to reconstruct
Date: 10 Oct 92 07:48:02 GMT
Reply-To: kirby@pyramid.unr.edu (Stephen Kirby)
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno  Department of Computer Science


	A friend of mine recently had a floppy go down. It was listed as
a bad FAT according to Norton Disk Doctor. I Low-Level formatted the
disk and re-ran NDD, but to no avail. NDD say the disk is fine and
unerase lists no files as being unerasable.
	The data relates to a thesis, and could be reconstructed, but it
would take some time. (I know, and I told her to back-up but...)
	I have looked at the disk, again with Norton's Disk Edit, and
a number of sectors list data. I want to know if I can reconstruct this
by hand.
	Can I make an EXACT duplicate with diskcopy? To play with
	All of the files were data files. The most in First Choice
Spreadsheet (whatever that is).

	I am planning on looking at other files First Choice has created
and tweaking them, but I'm sure I could use more pointers.

	If someone can tell me great! If it's deep, then if you could just
direct to some good books.

Steve

Also, if this belongs in a different newsgroup please crosspost and let me
know.

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
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From: dunham@devnull.mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.unix.msdos
Subject: uudecode/uuencode
Date: 13 Oct 92 23:28:33 GMT
Reply-To: dunham@mpd.tandem.com (Jerry Dunham)
Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.misc
Organization: Tandem Computers; Austin TX
Originator: dunham@stud


Forgive me if I'm posting to the wrong newsgroups.  I am not primarily an
MS-DOS user, so don't read these.  This is posted for a friend who has no
net access, so please reply to me directly by e-mail.

Would someone be so kind as to point me at a location on the net from which
I might FTP copies of uudecode and uuencode for MS-DOS systems?  My Atari
uucoder is of no use on my friend's MS-DOS machine.  I've already poked 
around a bit in places where I'd seen some MS-DOS stuff, but found nothing.

Thanks for the assistance!

-- 
Jerry Dunham                   DoF #1.5             dunham_jerry@tandem.com
Tandem Computers, Inc.                                dunham@mpd.tandem.com
Austin, TX                                                    (512)244-8598
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: bchristo@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Brian L. Christopher)
Subject: Re: Problem removing directory
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:46:43 GMT

        HI!  My name is Brian Christopher.  I'm a sophomore Presidential
Scholar at George Mason University, which is in Fairfax, VA.  My major
is electrical engineering with a possible minor in physics.
        This past summer, I was a Baptist Student Union Summer
Missionary serving
in Richmond, VA.
	I enjoy working with computers and talking with people.     
	As a bit of a personal note, I'm a person who puts Christ
first in my life.  I value my faith very highly and enjoy sharing it
with others.
	I'd love to hear from you.

Until next time,

Brian L. Christopher

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
From: rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols)
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0 COPY bug?
Summary: Just use the /B switch
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 11:19:08 GMT

In article <rccarm00.719002720@mik.uky.edu> rccarm00@mik.uky.edu (ron c carman) writes:
>franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC) writes:
...

  (symptoms and description of COPY treating binary files as ASCII)

...
>p.s. Try it this way:   copy zombies.* *.wp0 (This will throw errors
>                                              up on the screen, but
>                                              the files are copied fine)
>     Or better:         copy zombies.wp a:\zombies.wp0   ;-)
...

Or, you can be straightforward and force binary treatment with:

	copy zombies.* /b a:zombies.wp0

I wholeheartedly agree, though, that it is brain-dead for COPY not to
give any indication of a premature end-of-file when a source file on
disk, for which the size is known, gets truncated because a CTRL-Z was
encountered.

(The whole issue of treating CTRL-Z as an end-of-file mark even for
block devices is one of compatibility with what was arguably a mistake
in ancient DOS versions that acted this way.)

Bob Nichols
AT&T Bell Laboratories
rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com
From: islej@acad2.alaska.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: MSDOS v6.018
Date: 7 Oct 92 03:59:17 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska

Are there any BETA testers out there that can tell me the stability on MS-DOS
BETA v6.018?

Please send personal, thanks.
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From: mcohen@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Marty Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS Word 5.0 output
Date: 8 Oct 92 13:50:45 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity

>I've got MS Word 5.0 and want to be able to take the output of that and
>send it to my fax modem for delivery.

I've got the same problem with WordPerfect 5.1: I want to include
graphics in my fax.  Quicklink III accepts WP format, but uses only
the text portion.  I tried writing a postscript file from WordPerfect
and converting it with Quicklink (which accepts .EPS files), but
postscript is not encapsulated postscript.  I think there is an easy
way to convert, but I wasn't paying attention when I heard it.  Does
anyone know what it is?
-- 
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From: gill@eagle.sangamon.edu (Warren Gill)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: upgrading from 3.3 to 5.0
Date: 17 Oct 92 02:52:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bw8vz3.C8G
Organization: Sangamon State University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]


  The BIOS formatting program is NOT always at C800:5.  I have seen some at
CC00 (Western Digital ESDI, I think).   You should try to find some documentation
on  the drive itself.  Your formatting code may be somewhere different.

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