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From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
Subject: Where do I get the NT manuals?
Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:52:04 GMT

A colleague of mine went to the European Developers Conference in
Brussels, Belgium in July and came back clutching a couple CD-ROMs and a
sheaf of papers.  He also put business cards in 3 boxes, labelled "Win
an NT T-shirt", "documentation" and "slides".

I'm currently trying to track down documentation on the compiler and
linker and can't find it in any of the postscript files.  Someone told
me documentation could be ordered from Microsoft, but there wasn't an
order form in the sheaf.  Will the business card in the box get me the
stuff I'm after, or have I got do make a more direct approach?
--
Kevin Broadey <kbroadey@edscom.demon.co.uk>
EDS-Scicon, Wavendon Tower, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, MK17 8LX, England.
Phone: +44 908 284198 (direct) or +44 908 585858 ext 4198
These opinions are mine: others available on request.
From: lopes@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (alann lopes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Booting NT from from a Boot Manager Partition
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:59:47 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


   Has anyone successfully installed NT in a boot partition
   managed by OS2's boot manager or some other boot manager?

   Thanks very much -- alann


   alann lopes:        alopes@ucsd.edu       -- internet
   (619) 534-7417      ALOPES@UCSD           -- bitnet

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: rupertb@is.morgan.com (Rupert Brown)
Subject: The Vanishing Ghostscript 2.5
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:08:37 GMT

Several people have mailed me saying they cant find Ghostscript 2.5
on cica or wuarchive.
I am trying to find out whether its been deleted for a good reason
in the meantime you could try ftp to /pub/gnu on doc.ic.ac.uk where
a copy has been spotted.
I'll post an update when I know more.

- Rupert
From: eli@Metaphor.COM (Eli Lauris)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Multithreading support in Win32s
Keywords: win32,win32s
Date: 1 Sep 92 20:04:42 GMT
Reply-To: eli@Metaphor.COM (Eli Lauris)
Organization: m4


Does anyone know whether Win32s interface on Windows 3.1 and above will support multithreading in a process ? I would very much appreciate a definitive answer.

Thanks,

Eli Lauris
Email: eli@metaphor.com
From: thg@cam-orl.co.uk (Tim Glauert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Looking for NT remote access services!
Date: 3 Sep 92 08:47:35 GMT
Organization: Olivetti Research Ltd, Cambridge, England.

In article <1992Sep02.211813.14491@microsoft.com>, michaelw@microsoft.com (Michael Winser) writes:
|> Why do you need remote login in the classic unix sense?  Setup a make (or
|> compile server) that uses RPC or named pipes.  The server side whould use
|> the client impersonation API to get an ACE (access control entry).  No login
|> required.

Since you Microsoft people seem to be stuck on this solution, I'll re-phrase
the question:

When can I get the servers for my NT machine which will let me do what I want
from my UNIX workstation?

I would like:

1) FTP files to/from the NT machine, initiated by the UNIX machine.

2) List, edit, rename and delete files and directories.

3) Compile all types of applications.

4) Test and run character-based applications.

5) Lots of other things that I've forgotten :-)


|> It would be trivial to write a start server daemon (for RPC, telnet
|> or whatever).

I think this is the problem that some of us are having. On the one hand,
everyone is saying "it is trivial" but on the other hand no-one can actually
be bothered to do it! I don't consider it trivial myself because I know very
little about programming NT.

Don't get me wrong. It's great to have all these MS people here to talk to.
But there does seem to be a genuine need for the services we are talking about
and this need is not being met at the moment,

	Tim.

Tim Glauert, Olivetti Research Limited,		|	thg@cam-orl.co.uk
24a Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England.	|	+44   223  343232
From: schliwi@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (William Schlichtman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Paging file
Date: 26 Aug 92 23:21:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Aug26.232133.15012
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept.

Is there a way to get NT to use the space reserved by Windows 3.1
permenant swap file instead of tying up 40+ meg in disk space, 20
of it sitting idle?
From: SXMRP@orca.alaska.edu (Michael R. Platzke)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: OLE 2.0 specification
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:30:28 GMT
Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network

It was mentioned on this group that the OLE 2.0 specification was unveiled
at the NT Software developers conference in July.  I have yet to read about
this in any of the trade rags or hear about it from any other sources.  Can
anyone post more information about the OLE 2.0 spec?  Is there a paper
available on it anywhere on the net?  I checked ftp.uu.net but did not see
anything recent.

Thank you for help you are able to provide.

-Michael R. Platzke (sxmrp@orca.alaska.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: themos@umbc5.umbc.edu (Mr. Themos Pentakalos; ADMIN-COMP)
Subject: CD roms for NT
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:29:26 GMT

HI everyone.
We just received our Gateway 2000 486DX2-50Mhz so we can start
working with NT. However, we still haven't baught a CD drive.
We asked for an internal but Gateway wouldn't put one in.

I am aware that NT has some prerequisites in CD specifications and
would like to find out about them from you all out there. Can you
point me in the right direction, in ordering a CD for our system?
External will be fine. I just don't want to order something that
will not work.

Thanks in advance! Please reply to     themos@umbc5.umbc.edu

Themos.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: File system switches
Date: 01 Sep 92 01:34:14 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <98160004@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com> edwardm@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Edward McClanahan) writes:
>So, is this do-able with the SDK, or is the DDK required?
>
>> Driver layering is useful!
>
>Exactly!

Device Driver layering information is in the Device Driver Kit -- Alistair
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.GOV (Brad Hines)
Subject: Solved! NT/Ultrastor/0x00000069 error
Keywords: NT Ultrastor install
Reply-To: brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.GOV
Organization: JPL Spatial Interferometry Group
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:05:36 GMT


I am posting this in case it turns out to helpful to someone else.
My problem with the Ultrastor 12F controller was due to an out-of-date
disk controller BIOS.

We got a new 12F here at work, and I stole the ROMS from it to test in
my controller (actually, my reason for doing this was to get the
Ultrastor Windows 3.1 FastDisk 32-bit disk driver to work - no 32-bit
access without a driver on the 12F if you have a disk >528 MB).

In addition to giving me 32-bit disk access in Win 3.1, the I/O Error
0x00000069 that I was getting during the Windows NT install process
went away, and now I'm up and running!

Thanks to those who offered ideas.

-- 
Brad Hines
Internet: brad@huey.jpl.nasa.gov
Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: Looking for rshd, telnetd, ftpd etc.
Date: 04 Sep 92 00:58:56 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <m0NgqB2w164w@underg.UUCP> max@underg.UUCP (Max Cray) writes:
>pbrooks@mentorg.com (Phil Brooks) writes:
>
>> While these capabilities might be less useful on a 386 with 8MB, they will be
>> extremely useful (perhaps indispensable) on Sequent and NCR multiprocessor
>> boxes and on the DEC Alpha box.  I would imagine that a well configured Alpha
>> system would do very well competing with IBM AS/400's in the minicomputer mar
>> It will need to deal with terminals, multiple concurrent users, and remote ac
>> in order to do that though.
>
>Hmm..good question. I would think NT would have to deal with terminals, etc,
>to run on a mini. Maybe the scenario would be a Sequent connected to a
>bunch of 486s all running their own copy of NT?
>
>I agree with you, though. I think remote login would be very benificial.
>Maybe it is a fading concept, but a new OS should be backwards campatible
>in features. I mean a new OS ought to be able to do MORE things, not LESS.

If someone thinks this dumb-terminal redirection of the command-line from
Windows NT will server a significant market, then please write the code! With
the Win32 SDK you've got all you need to do it. Create a process which listens
to the comm port, pumps out a login: prompt when appropriate, takes a password,
authenticates the user, then starts up a process with redirected stdin/stdout
to that comm port. It sounds easy to me! -- Alistair
From: patman@olympus.ctron.com (Pat Mancuso)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Problems with NT PlayMetaFile
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:00:25 GMT
Reply-To: patman@olympus.ctron.com (Pat Mancuso)
Organization: Cabletron Systems INc.

I am working on an app which contains code like:

HDC bar(HMETAFILE hMetafile)
{
  HDC hMFDC = CreateMetaFile(NULL);

  PlayMetaFile(hMFDC, hMetafile); 
  return(hMFDC);
}

Basically, it's just playing a metafile into another metafile.
I'm doing this as part of some OLE server OnDraw code.
This works fine under 3.1, but fails (PlayMetaFile returns FALSE)
under NT.  The manual says this should work (API Ref vol 2, pg 12)
but so far I can only get it to render to non-metafile DC's.

Bug?

---
Pat Mancuso (patman@ctron.com)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: duwors@csi.uottawa.ca (Robert J. Du Wors)
Subject: X Server/Xlib for NT? (Repost)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 01:25:06 GMT

Looking for X-Server and X client software to run on NT. 

I followed up on a previous response and spoke with NCD PC/X Division
(nee GSS) about such a project.  They did...but they don't now.
(How's that for record product cycle, come and gone before NT reaches
 FCS?)

They claim that MS would love somebody (else, naturally) to do it.  :-)

So how about it Congruent Corp, shareware hordes of the world, any
takers?  Just let us hear, and the roar of thousands (or at least one
hand clapping) will cheer you on!!!!

Rob D.

P.S. Any leads still gratefully received.

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duwors@csi.uottawa.ca  aka  Robert Du Wors    Tel:613.831.1930 Fax:613.831.0272
                            141 Country Lane, Kanata, Ontario, Canada   K2L 1J6
From: lothar@cyrcle.uucp (Bob Trembley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Reading UPC (Barcode Number) from Audio CDs
Summary: How do you read the UPC from Audio CDs
Keywords: Windows NT Audio CD UPC Bar Barcode
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 21:33:39 EDT
Reply-To: lothar@angus.mi.org
Organization: Cyrcle Systems

I would appreciate it if I could get some example code on how to read
the UPC code from an Audio CD using MSCDEX under Windows / DOS.

I can't seem to be able to find any MCI command that will do it, and
the MSCDEX documentation is rather cryptic...

Also, how does one read this info under NT since there is no MSCDEX?


--==>>BobT>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Boot Problems - NTLDR
From: marc@dwp.la.ca.us (Marc Hall x4735)
Date: 27 Aug 92 14:28:08 GMT
Organization: Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power


>   I have installed Windows NT on the D: drive of an IBM PS/2 Model 70
>using the dos2nt utility. The CD was installed in an IBM RS/6000 cd-rom 
>device and mounted with the following command (actually via smit)

>  mount -v'cdrfs' -r'' /dev/cd0 /nt

>   The /nt directory was exported by the RS/6000 and mounted as Drive E:
>on the PS/2 via PC-NFS 4.0.

>   The following commands were then issued from the PS/2

>   cd e:\dos2nt
>   dos2nt d:

>   This appeared to be succesful and installed the Windows NT into the
>d:\winnt and d:\mstools. I then performed the steps 3-6 outlined in 
>Section 2.2 (Alternate Installation - DOS2NT) of the July 1992 hardcopy 
>release notes modifying the registry.ini, boot.ini, hal.dll and 
>d:\winnt\system\config\system to conform to the above setup.

>   Step 7 (Create Registry) states to reboot the system, when I do I get
>the following error message

>   BOOT: Couldn't find NTLDR
>   Please insert another disk


    I found the soulution to my problem and wonder why this problem hasn't
been mentioned in the past.

    In the script file dos2nt.bat the in the dos2nt directory on the cd is
the line

    copy .\ntldr c:\

This is attempting to copy dos2nt\ntldr to c drive. On my cd dos2nt\ntldr does
not exist but dos2nt\ntldr. does. So I copied it manually to c:\ and I am
able to boot in Windows NT.


    New problems

     When Windows NT boots for the first time I get the following 3 messages 
     displayed

     1) NtOpenKey[\Registry\User\.Default\Environment] failed 
        [Status == c0000034

     2) NtOpenKey[\Registry\User\.Default\ProgramGroups] failed 
        [Status == c0000034

     2) NtOpenKey[\Registry\User\.Default\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\
                   CurrentVersion\ProgramManager\Settings] failed 
        [Status == c0000034


     When Windows NT boots from this point on the Program Groups are not
     found and I an booted into the Program Manager with no icons displayed.


     Any clues ??

     Marc

-- 
                           Marc Hall    213-481-4735
                     Engineering Computer Support & Development
                       Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power
                            marc@manta.dwp.la.ca.us
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: FORTRAN for NT?
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:09:23 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Keywords: FORTRAN win32 NT

In article <1992Aug20.140450.5676@uceng.UC.EDU> bmeranda@uceng.UC.EDU (Brent E Meranda) writes:
>Is there a 32-bit FORTRAN available for Windows NT?

Whatcom and one other, whose name eludes me at present, have Win32 Fortran
compilers available now, in some form of pre-release -- Alistair
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: schiers@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Carsten Schiers)
Subject: Re: CD roms for NT
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:16:29 GMT

You may buy it at your local Microsoft Office. It is about
US$90 in Germany, e.g.

Carsten Schiers
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: duwors@csi.uottawa.ca (Robert J. Du Wors)
Subject: Re: An NT Neophyte Asks...
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 00:20:17 GMT

In article <joiner.715373168@myria> joiner@myria.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner) writes:
>
>I ordered the CD Technology package deal for NT. You can get an internal
>drive for $400 and controller for $100.  There's a coupon when you
>order NT.

Hmm, this seems to have been limited to the U.S.  Does anyone know if
Microsoft Canada plans a similar deal?

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                            141 Country Lane, Kanata, Ontario, Canada   K2L 1J6
From: huddy@canon.co.uk (Richard Huddy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: ET4000 Video driver
Summary: Looking for 256 colour driver for ET4000 under NT
Keywords: et4000 video 256-colour
Date: 3 Sep 92 08:47:31 GMT
Organization: Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd


Does anyone have a generic ET4000 256 colour device driver for NT yet?
I'm looking for support for the 640x480 resolution mode and above.

Thanks,

Richard Huddy.

huddy@canon.co.uk
Tel : +44 483 574325
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: Looking for rshd, telnetd, ftpd etc.
Date: 04 Sep 92 01:14:00 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Sep2.142010.28953@csi.uottawa.ca> duwors@csi.uottawa.ca (Robert J. Du Wors) writes:
>
>
>I strongly suggest that remote login is a fundamental network primitive for
>the construction of distributed (read "heterogenous" and "majority of")
>applications.

Please look longer and closer over Windows NT - one of its most imporant
features is the inclusion and use of RPC. Remote access by terminals of
character or graphic type does not constitue distributed processing. RPC
seperates the location of the execution of code and its caller. If apps
are built around RPC, then the location of the execution can be distributed
around a number of seperate machines on a network. Indeed, a key focus of
the Windows "Cairo" work is to allow instances of classes to execute at remote
locations, as defined at runtime

Remote login has absolutely nothing to do with distributed processing - it
is a poor-man's way of starting remote tasks, by forcing the user to
choose location through archaic means. Windows NT allows you to start
remote tasks, at a given location

Remote access is not itself without uses - when users wish to be guided
through a task by a distant "helper", when a rude "overseer" wishes to
spy-in on a subordinate worker, etc. These are niche special cases, but
they're important, and they're well coverred by products in the Windows
3.x world, and I expect will be coverred by similar products for Windows NT

-- Alistair
From: gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: minimum requirements for NT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 00:00:14 GMT

1) is it really necessary to have 12M to run NT, or can you do it in 8

2) i know that you need a CD-ROM to install NT.  I have access to 
an apple CD-ROM drive to read it, is it possible to use this to 
install NT, and if so, what type of SCSI controller would I need
.             

3) when are more svga drivers coming out?

gilem@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: heller@netcom.com (MAMA DAEMON)
Subject: Re: Microsoft NT staff please read
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 03:59:41 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Aug24.224712.14187@microsoft.com> alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks) writes:
>In article <r#_ndcl.heller@netcom.com> heller@netcom.com (MAMA DAEMON) writes:
>>
>>  Personally,
>>  I found it difficult to muck around in CompuserveLand.  I can't browse 
>>  quickely and easily.  Not like with a good news reader (trn is my current
>>  favorite).
>
>You should download "Compuserve Information Manager 2.0" from the CIMSOFT
>forum on Compuserve - its a useful compromise between the 100% off-line
>mode of TAPCIS & OZCIS, and the 100% online mode of a terminal emulator. CIM
>gives you the ability ot upload & download all your messages at once, and
>do off-line creation of new threads and answers. It also gives you the ability
>to browse through the tree-view of the converstation threads. I think you'll
>find it compare most favourably with trn

	OK.  I'll check this one out too. Thanx to everyone with all their
	suggestions (even the playful ones! :-)  )

>> Hang in there, everyone.  The Sept. release is just around the corner (or
>> so they tell me!).
>
>Late sept, they said -- Alistair

	I can't wait... I feel like a little kid waiting for a new toy to
	replace her broken one.  (yeah, I'm still trying to get tcpip working,
	we made a little success today.  didn't quite have it, though)

	deb!


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: baruch@nynexst.com (Robert Baruch)
Subject: NT, 3.1, and Global Memory
Keywords: global memory
Organization: NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 13:09:50 GMT

After reading countless paragraphs on how Windows supports only 
a few means of data transfer between applications, I have come to
the conclusion that if I didn't want to use DDE, I could use a DLL,
and GlobalAlloc memory which could then be shared between
all the applications using that DLL.

My questions are:

(1)  If I GlobalAlloc in the DLL, and get a handle using one application,
     then another application accesses this handle, will I get the data from
     the first application UNDER WINDOWS NT?  I know that it works
    under Windows 3.1.

(2)  Are global variables declared in a DLL shareable between
     applications under Windows NT?  Again, I know it works under 3.1

(3)  If a DLL enters a message loop on behalf of an application, will
     that message loop receive messages posted to the application
     properly under NT?  Once again, it works under 3.1.

--Rob

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: michaelw@microsoft.com (Michael Winser)
Subject: Re: Where do I get the NT manuals?
Date: 03 Sep 92 17:18:51 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Distribution: comp

In article <KEVIN.92Sep1165204@runningbear.edscom.demon.co.uk> kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey) writes:
>A colleague of mine went to the European Developers Conference in
>Brussels, Belgium in July and came back clutching a couple CD-ROMs and a
>sheaf of papers.  He also put business cards in 3 boxes, labelled "Win
>an NT T-shirt", "documentation" and "slides".

All attendees will receive a fulfillment from their local sub for the
printed manuals.  The slides from some of the other speakers (DEC, Olivetti,
Oracle) and some corrected slides from some MS speakers will also be sent
to all attendees.  Note this only applies to the attendees.  If your
colleague put *your* business card in the box, you're not going to get
anything.

I hope this helps,

Michael
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: RFowler@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert A. Fowler)
Subject: Please up load to cica, was: fixes for NT withoutz compuserv
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:48:22 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.083738.7321@wega.rz.uni-ulm.de> RUESS_M@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Ruess Michael) writes:
.
>As someone wiht no access to compuserv i'd linke to know
>if it is possible to access NT bug fixes over internet?

>My problem is to get the driver for the WD8003E Ethernet
>card (wdplus.sys I think) over the Internet, or can someone
>mail it to me?

Having just notesed that there is now a NT subdirectory on ftp.cica.indiana.
edu, would everyone with internet access upload to cica all the drivers/
updates/bug fixes/proceedures that they down load from compuserv, when 
thay have time?  

This poceedure seems to work ok for windows hardware/software that is not 
supported on internet (ATI drivers/Tsung drivers/ WfW patches etc.).
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