HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg)
Subject: SLIP Questions
Organization: The College on the Other Side of U. S. 1
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:01:25 GMT

I have a few "kindergarten" level questions about SLIP, mainly contained
in this one:

	How do I set up Trumpet to read news over a SLIP link?

Thanks,
Pete
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.databases
From: int559r@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Misha Verplak)
Subject: Re: Need Help to Identify PC based DB Product
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:39:49 GMT

tomk@animal.er.bell.ca (Tom Kanary) writes:

>I have encountered a small business application which runs on a IBM PC
>under DrDos which appears to be built on a database product like dBase, etc.
>There is only one executable (application.exe) which is a forms based
>data entry/query program. As far as I can determine it was built by a part-time
>programmer for this business. When the business changed hands the new owner
>had no means of contacting the original programmer. In short, the new owner
>would like to extract the company business records from this database 
>and insert them into a supportable package like dBase, etc. Needless to say
>there is no export to ascii feature. When the package starts up there
>is a copywrite notice refering to "Drafton" (?). I don't know if
>this refers to the forms package, the company name of the programmer,
>or the database package. The database is made up
>of files with *.dra, *.dps, *.drm and *.ndx files. 

>Does anyone recognize this package? If so I would appreciate some advice as
>to how to extract the data. My two options now are to "print forms" to
>a file and parse the data but there is no "print all" command or to
>write some code to read the raw data files by guessing the record 
>format.
>-- 
>Tom Kanary

This sounds like a variation of "Clipper", which also produces an .EXEcutable
program but uses .DBF for the data and .NDX for the indexes;  this is
supposed to be based on dBase IV (or under).

I would suggest stripping the data files with some handy stripper (you or I
can write a quickie in C) and keeping just the ascii, then look at how the
data is represented & try to parse it into proper format.  Several packages
can do such parsing, but it is often simpler to write your own than try to
decipher their (often) cryptic macro instructions & formats!

Good luck!

Misha.
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Can software be 486-specific?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:05:11 GMT

In <139@complex.complex.is> frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes:

>spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:

>>: Will NeXTSTEP 486 run on 386 machines?
>>: No. NeXTSTEP 486 uses several 486 specific features that enhance
>>: the performance of NeXTSTEP. NeXTSTEP 486 will support any true 
>>: 486.
>>: 
>>: Will NeXTSTEP 486 run on the Cyrix 486SLC?
>>: No. The Cyrix chip not a true 486.

>>IMHO, if there are in fact processor-specific advantages to requiring  
>>a 486, doing so makes sense.

>Yeah, but I don't see any sensible reason for not making 386+387 the
>minimum requirement - the differences between a 486 and a system with 386+387
>are not exactly major, from a programming point of view.

All this means is that you haven't looked hard enough.  For a system
requiring a lot of power and making heavy use of the math processor,
it makes perfect sense to restrict it to the i486.  This lets you
specially optimize for the i486, use the (few) extra i486
instructions, optimize pipelining for the known timings of the
instructions, etc.  If running on a 386+387 results in such poor
performance as to be virtually unusable, why not simply target the
hardware that the user is going to need anyway?

>No, I would guess that something else is going one here.  This actually
>reminded me of something - what seems a long time ago, some programs checked
>the PC ROM, and refused to run, unless they found an IBM copyright message
>there.  Of course, other BIOS manufacturers found a way around this - one
>BIOS even contains the text "Some software expects to find Copyright IBM here"
>with "Copyright IBM located in exactly the right position"

>Well, the only benefit I can see for making the software 486-specific is that
>it would help selling '486 processors.  And who would benefit .... right,
>Intel.

So Intel owns NeXT (which produces its own Motorola-based machines)?
I don't think so.  There are times when a conspiracy theory makes
sense and times when one doesn't.  This is one of the latter.

>Letting the program to run on only true 486's does not help the end-user much,
>but it is sure to hurt Cyrix and AMD....time to sell their stock :-) I guess.

If AMD produces a close enough clone, it might run NeXTStep.  It's
going to have to be REAL close, though, I would bet.

>Now, I am not suggesting that Intel may actually have paid for having them
>make the software '486 specific...it wouldn't be nice to say that, but........

It also probably wouldn't be legal (to say OR to do).

-- 
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 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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From: syy@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com (Sang Y. Yum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: USENET reader for PC
Date: 17 Nov 92 14:35:41 GMT
Reply-To: syy@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com
Distribution: world
Organization: Teradata/NCR

In article qAcGBh105h@contempt.brisnet.org.au, rob@contempt.brisnet.org.au (Rob Amos) writes:
>In <1992Nov4.204736.5064@jussieu.fr> kbs@ccr-p6.ccr.jussieu.fr (SMUP7 Administrator) writes:
>>Hi,
>
>>I'm looking for a newsreader on DOS and/or Windows.
>>Is there any? If yes can u point me on to somewhere
>>I can get it.
>
>There's an EXCELLENT newsreader I can think of...
>It's called HELLDIVER and runs on DOS machines under windows in
>conjunction with the Waffle UUCP news transfer system.
>
>Contact the author (Rhys Weatherley) by mailing to: rhys@cs.uq.oz.au
>
>He's put it on FTP somewhere, but I can't give you the site name
>(sorry!)
>
>-- 
>__________________________________________________________________
>This is where it ends     _  _  [_     Rob Amos
>There ain't no more      [  (_) [_)    rob%contempt%meteor@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au
>                                       Brisbane, AUSTRALIA


Hey, what do you know!  I just happened to donwload helldivider from ftp site.

ftp site name: halcyon.com
directory    : /pub/waffle/news
filename     : helld107.zip

Hope that helps!

Sang
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: csg021@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Micky J.)
Subject: Shareware/PD LAN (peer-to-peer) available??
Organization: Coventry University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:55:12 GMT


Does anyone know where I can get shareware/PD LAN software?

I want to be able to connect two PC's (a 386SX and 486SX) together via
the serial port. All I really need is the ability to share hard drives.

I've tried EASY-NET, but it just hangs the computer (it also reports that
it hasn't been tested on my DOS version (5)).

Thanx
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From: cliff@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Cliff Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: stacker 3
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:43:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: jhunix.1992Nov18.164356.16392
Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

In article <SKNKWRKS.92Nov17192505@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu> sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter) writes:
>By tuning v3.0 to emphasize compression over speed, they say you can
>get about 10% better compression.  Overall speed is supposed to be
>about 25% better.  I just won a copy at COMDEX today...I'll have a
>chance to play with it a bit. :-) (Don't know how much extra space
>it'll create on a drive full of ZIPs, GIFs, etc.)


	Well, I'm wondering if Stac has copied Superstor 3.0 and included
JPEG image compression into their software.  Now, while this is nice if you
want compressed images at a quality LOSS, I personally am not willing to
sacrifice quality for disk space.  For those who have either Stacker of
Superstor, can you turn off the JPEG image compression?  I mean, if I
wanted JPEGs then I would have converted my GIFs myself.

						Cliff Chen
						cliff@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: stacker 3
Organization: Skunk Works Software Co.
Date: 18 Nov 92 02:25:05 GMT

In article <BxvyyF.2sB@cup.hp.com> runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan) writes:
>As for the Windows interface, it is suppose to have a nifty
>display to show how much of your disk is in use.

It does have that...and it works in real-time, even if the
"Stackometer" is iconized.  I don't use Windoze, though, so the
benefit of that (for me) is nil.

>But, I don't think you'll see the compression is any better.  If I'm
>wrong, I'll be pleasantly surprised.

By tuning v3.0 to emphasize compression over speed, they say you can
get about 10% better compression.  Overall speed is supposed to be
about 25% better.  I just won a copy at COMDEX today...I'll have a
chance to play with it a bit. :-) (Don't know how much extra space
it'll create on a drive full of ZIPs, GIFs, etc.)

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From: aesba2rmos@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:09:16 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

Stacker 2.0
   When i type chkdsk i have 43megs free
but when i type dir i have 3 megs free

( on the C drive) 
60 MEGS HDD stacked

Compaq LTE 386s/20 running Compaq Dos 5 and Win

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jbc@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (CASSEL J BRIAN)
Subject: why buy 586? No 64-bit software!?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords:  586,P5,Pentium,ZEOS,P24T,overdrive,hype
Organization: Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, New York
Date: 20 Nov 1992 12:50 EST  

I would like to move up from my 286 to a 486, and am intrigued
by the new ZEOS machines which offer an easy chip upgrade to
the "overdrive" version of the 586 (32-bit externally).  Gee,
I say to myself, that kind of upgrade doesn't just provide more
speed, but would allow me to run any future 64-bit software 
without buying a whole new machine.  

However, although it's been known for some time that the 586 can
handle 64 bits internally, no one (in the magazines I've read) 
has announced the development of software to take advantage of it.
Is there such software available from mini computers that will be
ported to PCs?  If we've waited several years after the 386 was
introduced until there were true 32-bit operating systems and
software, how long until there's software that really puts a 
586 to the test?

So, I know the 586 and a 586sx would be faster than a 486, but
will the make a qualitative difference in what I can do with a
PC?  

And is anyone taking bets on the true compatibility of ZEOS's
new machines with the 586sx? 


Brian Cassel
jbc@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu
========================= disclaimed as my own opinion.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: scarnie@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au (Stuart George Carnie)
Subject: Re: Can software be 486-specific?
Organization: University of Tasmania at Launceston
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 12:25:43 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.153056.7950@tamsun.tamu.edu>, tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu (Pradeep K Tapadiya) writes:
>
>From what I know, 486 has six more instructions compared to a 386.

Well, you are certainly right, but I've just looked at the asm mnemonics, and
_none_ of them would benefit the operation of something such as Windows NT so
greatly, as to completely wipe the 386 area of the market.  I see that programs
which say "requires" a 486 wouldn't even use these instructions, and would
only say this if speed was a major requirement.
I have also seen ratings of 386-40's
of 9.74 mips, and it is common for 486-33DX's to have a rating of 10.7mips,
although I won't forget that 486's have internal cache, which _does_ help.

>
>My question is, can't each of these instructions be simulated by
>a set of 386 instructions such that the functionality is not lost?
>This way we just need to write a parser which will go through
>the 486 specific executable file looking for these unique
>instructions and replace it with the equivalent set of 386
>instructions, thus producing a 386 specific executable file.

I've looked at all the instructions, and they would certainly be easy to
implement on a 386 system, without CPU time loss.CM2J;N
-- 
scarnie@esk.compserv.utas.edu.au

"On a distant planet, a creature strums his guitar..." {:-)
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From: syserror@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Artificial Intelligence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Stacker- password option?
Date: 19 Nov 92 02:42:49 GMT
Organization: The Superior Silicon Race


Does anyone know about a password option in the versions 1 and 2 of Stacker?
I've heard the new V3 is supposed to have a password option.  However, many
months ago when I was looking through the STACKER.COM file from V1.10, I
noticed text such as "Enter password".  I disassembled code near the text and
discovered code that did print the text and take input.  I then tried finding
any code that called this segment, with no luck.  Version 2 also has the
"Enter password" text and code which prints it and accepts input, but I've not
traced any code that calls this area of the program in V2, either.  Has 
anyone else noticed this?  The first and second versions are not supposed to
support passwords protection of Stacker volumes; their manuals make no 
reference to this.  Do the versions 1 and 2 of Stacker actually have
an undocumented password option?  Or was this code perhaps an abortive attempt
at adding a password option that they never implemented until V3?  

Thanks-


Aaron
-- 
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The frailties of carbon based life shall yield
To the superior permanence of silicon...
From: 01lucas@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Emulators for the IBM
Date: 20 Nov 92 17:59:45 GMT
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hi. I was wondering if there are shareware emulators that will let my IBM run 
software for Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari (computers), or Macintosh computers 
available via anonymous FTP?  If so, could someone tell me the addresses of
the site(s).

Thanks.
Lucas Dambergs
From: Kenneth.Goh@f357.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Kenneth Goh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Floptical Drive
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:27:03

CC>From: chuckc@fc.hp.com (Chuck Cairns)
CC>Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site

CC>Eric Lambert (esl1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu) wrote:  :  I read in a
CC>magazine yesterday about a new (?)  disk for IBM's.  :  It is the size
CC>of a 3.5" disk, but optical, so the TPI is :  somewhere over 1000.  It
CC>stores 21MB of data, and each disk costs :  about $25.  The drives are
CC>standard size 3.5" drives and can :  read/write to 720K.  1.44meg, and
CC>21meg Floptical disks.  All for :  about $500.  Is this new?  Does it
CC>work?  Does anyone have one?  :  :  Thanks.  :  :  -------- :  Eric
CC>Lambert esl1@cornell.edu

CC> It exists.  Relatively new.  Rumor has it that it will go to ~40 meg
CC> soon.  One of these technologies which has been "coming" for a long time.

CC> Consider however that floptical is (I believe) much slower and has less
CC> capacity than either a Bernoulli Drive or a Syquest/SyDos drive!  Both
CC> of those can be gotten in the 88-90 Megabyte range for ~$500.  The
CC> removable media is ~$110 a pop for ~90 meg so it is slightly more
CC> expensive per byte but faster and larger.  The 44 Meg Bernoulli and
CC> Syquest drives are less $$ and the media is also less $$.  Beroulli
CC> claims that their media is very impervious to shock.  I think Syquest is
CC> somewhat faster.
CC> (see ads in Computer Shopper, Hard Drives Intl for examp)


I don't believe it is slower. It (the floptical) uses a SCSI interface
which enables it to actually read and write faster than the usual 1.44M
drive. After all, it has to for it to be a competitive product - who
wants a snail of a product!

I take it that you're talking US$ here 'cause of the impossible price of
$500 for a Bernoulli Drive in Aussie Dollars. In this case, then the
$500 tag on a floptical seems high compared to DownUnder because it
comes to A$770, when it is actually selling for close to A$700, though
I've heard of getting it for A$550 with some "arm-twisting".
  SLMR 2.0   Seeing is believing ...
 * Origin: SexyLegs Line2 SBBS Rego & Support Australia (3:633/357)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jcwasik@srv.PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik)
Subject: Re: XTREE for Windows
Organization: Pacific * Bell
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:11:26 GMT

In an article mvolo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) writes:
>Regarding file managers for Windows other than PC TOOLs, does
>anyone have any experience/recommendations regarding XTREE for
>WINDOWS?. I gave up on PCTOOLS after version 4 when you no longer
>view the contents of a file before you marked it.

I bought Xtree because I saw it cheap at my local discount store.  It's an
Okay product.  A lot better than File Manager, but somewhat lacking:

-- JOIN a second harddrive onto a directory of the first harddrive, and the
   second drive disappears from Xtree, but the directory remains empty.
-- Latest Zip file format not supported.
-- It takes at least three mouse clicks to remove a file.  Defaults for
   verification are wrong and can not be reconfigured.
-- There is no PRINT function.  What happened here?  Xtree asleep at the
   wheel?
-- Limited drag and drop, i.e. in File Manager you can take a file name
   and drop it onto a notepad icon.  Same for other apps, you can drag
   an Excel spreadsheet onto an Excel icon.  Xtree cannot do any of this.
-- Xtree cannot edit a file.

My advice: wait for Xtree's next release.
-- 
Joe Wasik, Pacific Bell, San Ramon, CA (510)823-2422, jcwasik@pacbell.com
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:14948 sfnet.atk.ms-dos:761
From: mellman@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Bill Mellman)
Subject: Re: help for PC purchase.
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:28:23 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.024252.5725@kum.kaist.ac.kr> byun@concerto.kaist.ac.kr (Byun Sung-Hyuk) writes:
>I suggests Gateway2000 486DX2-66V which consists of 486DX2-66 CPU, ISA with two local bus slot, one for VGA Card and the other for HDD, RAM 8MB, 210MB(or more) HDD, 3.5",5.25" FDD, windows accelerator, 15" CrystalScan S-VGA noninterlaced Monitor and windows 3.1 + some windows applications.
>
>Its price is FANTASTIC!!  only $3100!!
>It is a best-recommended product of PC World...


PC World said it was the FASTEST PC they had ever tested.

Incidentally the HDD controller (an IDE) does NOT use one of the VESA
local bus slots, it's built right onto the Motherboard on some other
type of local bus (32 bit).  Also the ad I saw listed the same system
with a 340 Meg HD for $3000 (shipping is $100).


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From: noam@techunix.technion.ac.il (noam amir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: windows on a novell network
Date: 18 Nov 92 15:26:06 GMT
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

has anyone tried to install windows on a novell network
out there? we tried it here and it ran very slowly-
30 seconds till it came up, and then everything ran
much slower than on local disk based version. the
net is very fast, so there should be no reason for this
behaviour.
any ideas?

please reply here or by email to:
noam@techunix.technion.ac.il
or
yoavy@carmel.technion.ac.il

thanks,
             noam.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Need Serial buffering program
From: sraarsk@marc.cri.nz
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 03:45:16 GMT  
Organization: Mt Albert Research Center, Auckland, New Zealand

Hi,

Does anyone know of a Public Domain Serial Port Buffering module, 
either in C/C++ or a standalone .COM or .EXE ? Must be able to handle
no handshaking. Either post your replies here or mail me at:

rogerk@irl.cri.ac.nz (Roger Kay)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: dbarber@crash.cts.com (David C. Barber)
Subject: Re: Stacker 3.0 Beta
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Distribution: comp
Date: 15 Nov 92 17:42:36 GMT
Keywords: stacker

In <4219@novavax.UUCP> grohol@novavax.UUCP (John Grohol) writes:


>Recently reviewed a copy of Stacker 3.0 on a friend's machine...

>Let me tell ya, it is much more user-friendly than old Stackers,
>and has a Remove-stacked volume option that actually works!

>As for re-stacking a drive that was stacked under 2.0....
>My friend claims he got a spare 20 megs on his 300 meg hard
>drive, when restacking under 3.0. Stacker 3.0 has an option
>where you can specify the degree of compression you'd like
>in a trade off with speed. Low compression, high speed,
>medium compression, medium speed, high compression, low speed.
>In truth, we found very few differences between the three 
>settings...

>Not sure the official release date of this, but look for it
>soon, as this copy was stable as a table!

>-John

>-- 
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>   When love is in your hand         \_\_   Center for Psychological Studies
>   Now can we make believe            \_\_  Nova Univ, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
>   The mysteries we understand." -SBH  \_\_ grohol@novavax.nova.edu

Stacker 3.0 is out.  I got my upgrade copy on Friday.


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