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From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Bizarre Error Interim Report !*****************************************
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:15:49 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


                        Help!! Bizarre System Error!!
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

                    Interim Report (Not Solution Summary)
                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

        I haven't found the answer to this problem yet, in spite of the 
excellent help I have been getting from you netters. I didn't want anyone 
to think I was ungrateful, so many sincere thanks from the heart of my 
bottom to everyone who took the time out to reply to my post ; and 
here's a summary of the stuff I've tried so far.

1).     Remove "lastdrive=" statement from the config.sys.
        
        If I do this the PC won't attach to the network. Maybe this
        would work for Novell, but for PC-NFS it's a no-no.


2).     Set "lastdrive=" to the letter that is before the drives the
        network need to work.

        Again, the PC fails to mount the network.


3).     Remove any "subst" drives.

        None are set up.


4).     Load the network drivers ahead of windows.

        I do.


5).     Do you run Win 3.1 rather than 3.0 ?

        Yes.


6).     Is file manager or an application trying to read the j: drive     
        on Windows launch?

        No.


7).     Set up Win31 for PC-NFS : special TSRs & tell Windows 
        'there is no network'.

        I am using the standard setup for windows & PC-NFS which
        works on 100's of PCs on campus every day. {But not this 
        one *sob* :( } It does include theose TSRs & Windows is set
        up for 'no network'.

Thats most of it. Finally, I have reinstalled Windows, and reinstalled the     
network connection software, and no joy. I even tried running the network 
version of windows, rather than this guy's local version, and that 
displayed the same symptoms. The network version is definately set up OK,
so I am beginning to believe the problem is not with Windows.

I think I'll check out the PC-NFS newsgroups, and see if anyone there 
can suggest anything else.

A big thanks once again to all who replied. As a guy posted to me the 
other day: "What a pleasure to work in a community where people
help each other, like here on the Internet."

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: isc10192@nusunix1.nus.sg (KOH KHANG WEE)
Subject: TrueType and HP LaserJet IIP Plus
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:30:40 GMT


Is the above a problem ?

Does True type print on all Printers ? Including Hp's LaserJet without
Postscript ? Please Reply ASAP if u can advise....

regards
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		 isc10192@nusunix.nus.sg
	     national university of singapore
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Online services
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:54:39 GMT

In article <38066@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> sproles@pine.circa.ufl.edu writes:
>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.

Wow! Sounds like just the thing! Is there an Internet gateway and
News access?

There was a post in soc.culture.celtic about Internet access in GB -
strangely enough halfway down there was a service based in the US.
You get mail, news, ftp, etc. for a flat fee per month and no connect 
charge if you live in a "class A city". If you live in a "class B city"
you get charged an hourly fee.


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From: c.s.perezramos@larc.nasa.gov (Carlos S. Perez-Ramos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: SX vs DX
Date: 5 Jan 1993 20:49:42 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA  USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cperez.larc.nasa.gov

In article <1993Jan5.130856.1@vax1.umkc.edu> edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:

>>> J.>One other thing, some dealers are offering something called a DX2.  I
>> J.>forget exactly what they are at the moment, but stay away from them.
>> 
>>         I don't know about staying away from a DX2.  It would come down to 
>> a personal choice.  
>

The only concern I would have in buying a 486DX2 system is that since the
DX2 runs at twice the clock speed internally, it obviously will generate
more heat than a DX. That is, a 50 MHz DX2 will heat up more than a 25 MHz
DX. I am not sure that systems' manufacturers have necessarily made any
changes to their designs to account for the extra heat produced by the DX2
chips. This would result in decreased life of the computer. 

I guess if I bought a 486DX2 I would consider buying a "heat sink" for the
DX2 chip, that is, a little fan which sits on top of the 486 chip to cool
it down.
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  ////   Carlos S. Perez-Ramos
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(: < :)
 : o :   Opinions expressed herein are exclusively my opinions and
  ---    in no way represent NASA nor the U.S. Government. Anybody
         who thinks otherwise is just itching for a fight!
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From: bill@solaria (Bill Neisius)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Star 10X printer driver
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:57:27 GMT
Reply-To: bill@solaria.hac.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Iskandar Taib (ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: In article <24590@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> bill@solaria.hac.com writes:
: >Erik Petersen (peterse@prism.CS.ORST.EDU) wrote:
: >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....
: 
: Hmmmm
: 
: Doesn't this thing emulate another printer, perhaps an Epson 
: MX80 or IBM Proprinter?

Well, yes and no.  The original Star 10X was somewhat compatible
with Epson... but not enough that it could use Epson graphics drivers.
One problem was the vertical increment on the Star was 1/144 versus
1/216 on the Epson.

Later models of the 10X greatly improved the emulation; a switch 
was added to select "IBM mode" or "Star mode",  the IBM mode being
Epson compatible.   The models that have the mode switch are usually
called 'SG10', the models without the mode switch 'Star Gemini 10X'.
The models changed around 1984-85. 


Bill Neisius
bill@solaria.hac.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: lapena@athena.cs.uga.edu (Chito Lapena)
Subject: COM ports and Windows 3.1
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:33:37 GMT


Hello, All:
I am using Windows 3.1 as an integrated programming environment
for a microcontroller. The MCU board communicates with the PC
through COM1. At one time I was able to use Kermit for DOS in its
own window along with a DOS command window. I would edit 
in Windows Write (not very good for programming), compile
in the DOS command, then see the results in my Kermit window - beautiful!

This is how I download to the MCU:
(Kermit is set for COM1)

1. In Kermit window, the MCU is put into load mode (it remains in Kermit)
2. In the Dos window, I type
	type myprog.s19 > com1

That used to work OK. One time I got a contention error message
from Windows for COM1, but I ignored it and eventually the problem
just vanished.  Then I noticed that line #2 above suddenly stopped
working after I run Procomm (set for COM3) in the DOS command window.
I would reset, restart Windows, and everything is fine again.

But today it won't do it at all. I still get a good DOS command window
and the Kermit window still talks to the MCU. But the DOS command
window can't talk to COM1 at all. I haven't changed any setting in
Windows throughout the whole time.

Does anyone have any ideas why this could be happenning?

thanks

-chito 
lapena@athena.cs.uga.edu
From: carlos@carlos
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: New SpeedStar 24X drivers!!!!!!!!
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 21:32:27 -0500
Reply-To: carlos@infoserv.com
Organization: Dominguez UseNet, Brooklyn NY, USA

In <1993Jan9.114120.1156@ultb.isc.rit.edu> yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Fractalman) writes:

>Hi all.. I was just calling BBS's and I saw that they have the Diamond
>SpeedStar 24X drivers version 2.03! And it's marked as (12/92). So I
>immediately tried to call Diamond's BBS but have not been able to get
>through yet. Does anyone have this yet? Does it fix the stupid bug with
>the icons? If no one has it yet and if I get it I'll send it up to cica.

Could you be more specific? Which BBS's did you see it on?

Inquiring SS24x owners want to know!


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From: gt7692b@prism.gatech.EDU (Constantinos Malamas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: What is the Win equivalent of MacDraw ?
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:40:01 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


	The header pretty much says it all... I am looking for an app that will
behave close to Claris's MacDraw for the Mac, preferably by Claris. I heard
of MS PowerPoint and CorellDraw, but I wanted to get the opinion of the net :).
Thanx in advance....


Costas Malamas________________________________________________________________
Georgia Institute of Technology
Internet: gt7692b@prism.gatech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jprice@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jeffrey R Price)
Subject: Re: barcodes
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 14:49:42 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.025014.23272@netcom.com> rnoia@netcom.com (Roger F. Noia)
writes:
>Hi...
>has anyone successfully used the truetype font: barcode39?
>Mine works.. but when I go to use the barcode.. the reader won't
>read it.
>
>Apparently barcode39 does not have the start of message code..
>if anyone knows how to put the start of message in (or which character it's
>located on).. drop me a line.. thanks.. roger
>
>(note:reading the manual for the reader it says that the start of
>message code is "*" but it also seems to accept "nul" but neither of these
>characters will work...
>
>rnoia@netcom.com
>
>
I never did get barcode39 to work... I ended up purchasing
a product called "Code39" from RiversEdge tel 512-590-9528.

It works the way you'd think it should, although it is a
bit expensive.....

Jeff Price   price.9@osu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Windows NT
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:26:33 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.154448.18823@wraxall.inmos.co.uk> des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) writes:
>Vassilo Walluschnig (Vassilo.Walluschnig@f55.n7101.z5.fidonet.org kibo) wrote:
>: Hi All,
>
>:   Okay, I got a question for all those people "in the know" about
>:   Windows NT. What would happen while running NT on a RISC machine, say
>:   the DEC Alpha, and running a DOS application in NT, and that DOS
>:   application makes a direct call to the video card? How would NT go
>:   about handling such a situation? Would it hang the application
>:   or would NT come back saying that it cannot run the program and
>:   promptly shuts the application down?

>i'd expect that NT would stop the program with a memory protection 
>violation. NT, like OS/2, and unlike DOS is a "real" OS where things
>like i/o are handled via system calls to drivers ... writing directly
>to a device register is not allowed.

Windows 3.1 seems capable of intercepting the direct hardware calls 
and opening up DOS graphics windows. It doesn't look pretty, but it
works. I assume it assumes that the DOS program assumes (9-) )that the 
machine has standard VGA. 

Here's another question for you NT experts out there. What happens 
when you run NT on a non-Intel machine? My impression has always been 
that NT uses a microkernel specific to that machine - sort of like a 
CPU driver. Therefore the Windows shell that sits on top of the micro-
kernel has a constant interface no matter what hardware you are running
it on. The application software doesn't make machine specific calls ei-
ther, but makes either Windows calls or microkernel calls. 

Someone else posted, though, that MS has written Intel emulators for
the other platforms that sits between Windows NT and the hardware. The
software (both application and system) makes Intel machine calls which 
are translated to the native cpu's language.

Who is right? 


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mjb@netcom.com (Martin Brown)
Subject: Re: Is the Microsoft WDL on an FTP site?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:36:56 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.033444.19714@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> sloth@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak) writes:
>Does anybody know if the Microsoft Windows Driver Library is available
>by anonymous FTP, and, if so, where from?
>

Microsoft puts alot of their developer stuff at ftp.uu.net /vendor/microsoft/ .

Try there.  No guarantees though.

-- 

                                   - mjb -

                                mjb@netcom.com
From: mmm@cecux1.cec.uchile.cl (Monica Mendez Miquel)
Subject: Re: Alternative to cica ?
Originator: mmm@cecux1
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 14:57:15 GMT
Organization: Centro de Computacion, Universidad de Chile

In article <1hq29eINN6h4@menudo.uh.edu> citew@menudo.uh.edu (Seung Hyun Kim) writes:
>
>Hi.  Is there any alternative ftp sites to cica ?
>

Alternative ftp sites to cica:
ftp.cica.indiana.edu  
wuarchive.wustl.edu
gandalf.umcs.maine.edu
wsmr-simtel20.army.mil

nic.funet.fi
garbo.uwasa.fi
ftp.uni-paderborn.de

(anonymous ftp sites for Windows 3.x PD and shareware).



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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: phoenix.Princeton.EDU!carlosn (Carlos G. Niederstrasser)
Subject: System sounds with PC speaker
Originator: news@nimaster
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:07:23 GMT

Is there any way to get system sounds (other than the beep) using only the PC  
speaker and no sound card?


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From: rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Visual Basic/Microsoft Access
Date: 7 Jan 93 17:30:06 GMT
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ APL


In article <C0FwrJ.I6M@fig.citib.com>, jeb@fig.citib.com (James E. Bergman) writes:

|>
|>Does anyone out there know if there is a way to use an Access Database from Visual Basic?

From what I understand Microsoft is working on an ODBC driver for Access. Until
it is released you can only use VB with SQL. (PS I would be happy to be a beta
site for it).

--
Don Rubin
Johns Hopkins Univ APL
rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Windows NT vs OS/2: D
Date: 7 Jan 93 10:52:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

RB>I use OS/2 because I LIKE a command-
RB>line and I need DOS. OS/2 gives me MUCH more reliable DOS session with gobs 
RB>of available memory. My DOS sessions under Windows have about 349K free. 
RB>Under OS/2, over 600K. On the other hand, Windows is a much more 
RB>"comfortable" environment.

I think you need some work on your Windows configuration, I have loads
of drivers and I get lots more than that!  I can really get more, but
I'm too lazy to tweak it anymore.

Psp  Cnt   Size Name       Command Line        Hooked Vectors
---- --- ------ ---------- ------------------- --------------------------------
      2  38,880 DOS                           
   ... stuff deleted ...
1291  2 579,696 ---free---                    
        655,360 ---total--
---
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
Organization: iX-Redaktion
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:51:42 GMT


In article <1993Jan4.071210.991@hparc0.aus.hp.com>, doug@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Doug Parsons) writes:
|> 
|> Shut up, all of you.
|> 
|> Shut up, shut up, shut up.
|> 
|> douginoz.

That's Australian speech culture, is it! ;-)

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From: mail_vieglai@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Environmental Software DLL
Date: 2 Jan 93 11:48:59 AEST
Organization: University Of Queensland

This is to notify of the availability of a windows 3.1 DLL which
provides routines for calculating Julian Time, solar position,
direct insolation, plus a few other goodies.

The library is designed to be used with MS Excel 4.0, though can
also be used with other software designed to link with DLL's, 
including of course, code written with C or Pascal.

For further information, contact me at:

   MAIL_VIEGLAI@uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au

Happy '93
Cheers, DV :-)

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Fractalman)
Subject: Re: SX vs DX
Originator: yxl5388@ultb
Keywords: avoid DX2, otherwise what will you use it for
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 07:48:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan3.232410.14842@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> jdcarmack@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu writes:
>In article <1993Jan3.171534.24834@news.uiowa.edu>, dhmadsen@icaen.uiowa.edu (Donald H Madsen) writes:
>> Is the extra cost of a 486 DX cpu justified over a 486 SX?  Your cpmments
>> will be appreciated.
>> 
>> dhmadsen@icaen.uiowa.edu
>> 
>
>Guess that depends on how much of a difference they are asking :)
>
>Seriously, there is so little difference in the price that I bought a
>486 DX myself.  With prices going back up (or, is it just an appearance
>so they can sell more?), I'd think it over.  Will you ever need a math
>co-processor?  If so, I'd advise the 486.  If it was me, and I wasn't sure,
>I'd buy the 486 anyways.  If I knew I'd never do database or spreadsheet
>calculations that required huge amounts of data, I'd go for the SX.
>
>One other thing, some dealers are offering something called a DX2.  I
>forget exactly what they are at the moment, but stay away from them.

A DX2 is a double speed DX. So the rest of the motherboard might be
still running at, say, 25Mhz, but the CPU is double of that so it's a
50Mhz chip. Makes the system about 70% faster.

And what's wrong with a DX2 system? I know a bunch of people who have
DX2-66's and they've never had any problems. I'm considering a DX2-50
motherboard myself since they're cheaper than a full DX-50 and is faster
than a DX-33.

=Fractalman


Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mgcbo@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Charles B. Owen)
Subject: Windows 3.1 problem/Word for Windows equations
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 23:44:10 GMT

I have had a problem with Word for Windows on my system.  I think the
problem is related to Windows 3.1 since a few other applications act
screwy.  If I invoke the equation editor and type, say, x, then select
reduced size superscript, then select the fraction (fraction in a
superscript), the fraction is several screens tall and is unusable.  I
get a black line from the fraction down several pages as iff Windows is
rendering the font extremely tall.  

Now, I have access to other machines, simularly configured, but with a
different CPU.  They work perfectly.  This is the only machine I have
problems with.  My configuration is:
	25 MHz 386SX.  No-name motherboard, AMI bios (64K)
	8 M ram
	106 Meg HD
	VRAM VGA 512K video card (Video-7)
	HP Deskjet printer.

Like I said, I think the problem is related to the CPU.  Is there some
setting in Windows anyone would suggest.  I have stripped the system to
nothing but basic DOS-5 and a new Windows and WFW installation, to no
avail.  I updated WFW from 2.0a to 2.0b, also with no effect.

Any ideas?

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen)
Subject: Need memory testing software
Organization: Faculty of Administration, University of New Brunswick
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:16:06 GMT

If I recall correctly someone posted the name of a memory test utility 
on the net a month or so ago. I cannot remember if it was shareware or 
not. Could the poster or someone else reccommend a good memory test 
program .... I think I have a bad and erratic SIMM. 

If it is freeware or shareware could you also post the address of a 
bulletin board where I could download it.

As this seems to be a topic of interest I will post any information I 
get.

Thanks

Hugh Whalen                     | Where all men think alike, no one
Faculty of Administration       | thinks very much.
University of New Brunswick     |               - Walter Lippmann			


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