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Subject: Re: Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer 2.0
From: sciamanda@edinboro.edu
Date: 1 Jan 93 12:14:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Edinboro University of PA

In article <1992Dec21.175400.3200@power.amasd.anatcp.rockwell.com>, eduardo@power.amasd.anatcp.rockwell.com (Eduardo Malamut) writes:
> A friend has recently purchased a copy of Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer
> version 2.0.  The program refuses to run on his computer.  When you start it up,
> it asks for some password from the manual;  once you enter the password, it will
> flash a view from the cockpit for a fraction of a second, and then return you to
> the DOS prompt.  It looks like the program puts a 'Divide Overflow' message on
> the screen just before it dies (it clears the screen as it crashes, so it's hard 
> to tell for sure).
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated, e-mail if possible.
> 
> Ed Malamut
> Rockwell International
> eduardo@amasd.anatcp.rockwell.com

Ed,
	I have the same problem on a DTK 486/33.  Program runs OK
on my son's XT.  Please let me know if you get an E-mail solution.
(I've not noticed the "Divide Overflow" message, but then the screen clear 
is almost immediate.)
	-Bob Sciamanda
	Edinboro Univ of PA
From: miner@panix.com (Ed Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Looking for PC User Group in Manhattan!!!
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:24:50 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

Hello,

Does anyone know of any pc user groups which meet in Manhattan?



thanks,
ed
From: 93jay@williams.edu (Jonathan Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Searching for HP LaserJet 4 Drivers
Date: 23 Dec 1992 04:35:31 GMT
Organization: Williams College, Williamstown, MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: hancock.cc.williams.edu

In article <BzMEI0.AE8@ecf.toronto.edu> cces@ecf.toronto.edu (Congress of Can Eng Students) writes:
>In article <cZq4VB2w165w@quink.in-berlin.de> mtheil@quink.in-berlin.de (Matthias Theil) writes:
>>a friend of mine bought a HP LaserJet 4. But he is missing drivers to
>>use it under Windows or generally with some applications. However, the
>>drivers-disk which came with the machine is not very completely.
>HPIV.  The disks do include a WP driver though.

My dad just got one of these for his new practice... he said that the
disks did not include wp drivers. He's a bit ticked off that HP is
making him wait a couple weeks for them to ship it out. I'd like to
get these for him by christmas - can anyone point me to an FTP site?
Or, email them to me or email a site name where they could be picked
up. If someone is nervous about opening their machine for an evening
to some wierdo off the net (that would be me :) I could make one of
the machines here writable by anonymous. Just as long as I undid it
before anyone got back from break!

Please help, I want to impress him with the value of Usenet.
All I need are Word Perfect 5.1 drivers to be run under DOS.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mukasa@panix.com (Michael K Mukasa)
Subject: SHIVA net modem and clones
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:59:21 GMT
Organization: Panix, NYC

Please e-mail me direct with your answers as I do not read this group often.

We have Macs and Clones on an Ethernet and Appletalk (not Novelle) network
and have two Shiva Netmodems (one 2400 and one 9600).  The software they
provided for the PC's only works if you have a Novelle network while all
ours are either on local talk or 10 base t ehethernet.
How can I get the PC's to access the net modems.

PLEASE CROSS POST THIS ARTICLE TO THE RELEVANT GROUP IF THIS IS NOT IT>

Thank you in advance.

Michael
mukasa@panix.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
From: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell)
Subject: Re: 1280x1024 in 256 colors under OS/2 (Any Suggestions)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 05:23:38 GMT

cn0gr8af@hydra.unm.edu (Student Class Account) writes:

>I would like to use OS/2 in 1280x1024x256colors , and would welcome any and
>all suggestions on how to do this.  I have come up with two options so far:

>1.  Buy a New Monitor and card.  ATI Ultra Pro with 2 MB should do, with a 17"
>monitor to go along with it.

>or:  I have a nice FIXED FREQUENCY 19" 64KHz Trinitron Monitor.  Digital sells
>a card made by Appian based on the TIGA 34020 chipset that will do all VGA modes
>and Several SVGA modes at this FIXED FREQUENCY.  Also, Appian is planning
>to release a Rendition IV card that may have this capability built in.  These
>cards are about $1700 US at present.

>2.  Buy the $1700 TIGA card, and hope for drivers for OS/2 from digital or Appian.
>Appian.

>I would like to limit the total cost of the system upgrade to $1700 US.

>Does anyone have any suggestions?  Any and all input would be appreciated.


Don't waste your money on an ATI card.  They're nice hardware but,
their support for OS/2 2.0 is lacking.  I really regret buying a Graphic
Ultra.  If you want mine, I'll sell it for $100. :-)

Going the TIGA route is dangerous in my mind.  I don't see a lot of
support for it.  Even the Windows 3.1 support is funny. (I couldn't get
it to work with my DECpc 433/ 19" Trinitron monitor).  It looks to me
like TIGA is slowly going away.

I would look into XGA cards (that's what I want). But, I don't know if
they will do 1280x1024. 

Basic rule of thumb:  make sure there's a driver for the card before
you buy it. I wouldn't gamble $1700 on the availability of a driver.
Also, make sure the resolution/color you need is supported.  This is
what got me with my Graphics Ultra.

-- 
Dan Cogswell               Or as we say in Michigan:  "Dee-troit"


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jdlail@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Jack D Lail)
Subject: Opinions on Occidential
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:18:05 GMT

	Anyone have any experience with Occidential Computers, the
low-budget line of Zeos International? I have never seen a review of one
of these systems and would like to know if they are any good at all.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: bsardis@netcom.com (Barry Sardis)
Subject: Re: How to use Entended memory effectively
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:14:06 GMT

ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M Toth) writes:


>	So, does anyone know when Windows NT will be out?

mSoft says 1H93

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From: omegas@digsol.jpunix.com (Mark Mooney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: PKZIP 2.01
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 04:53:35 CST
Organization: Digital Solutions, Inc. Houston, TX.

Lauri, In case nobody has resopnded to you, DO NOT USE IT.  2.01 is a 
hacked version, and Phil Katz is aware of it.  PK has released a 
statement that Version number 2.01 will NEVER be used in an official 
release of PKZIP because of this.  The latest Release version is 1.10, 
and 1.93 is a beta release.

Hope this helps,
Mark
From: rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Pizza Hut erases diskettes
Summary: Disks are tougher than you might think
Date: 30 Dec 92 21:32:11 GMT
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Dec30.000429.24047@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
>I'd often wondered about the magnetic safety of mailing diskettes.
>Wondered how many diskettes that arrived unreadable were really
>due to exposure to magnetic fields during transit.
>
>Today in my mailbox was a post card from Pizza Hut. Taped to it was
>a magnetic sticker, suitable for posting on your refrigerator door,
>with the phone number of my local store.
...

Diskettes are not as sensitive to stray fields as you might have been
led to believe.  I just ran a quick experiment, using a large piece of
material similar to that from which those magnetic stickers are made.

A 3.5" HD diskette wiped thoroughly with the magnetic material was
still readable with NO errors or retries.  The disk was protected only
by the separation imposed by the thickness of its own plastic shell.

At the other end of the sensitivity spectrum, a 5.25" DD disk was
rendered totally unreadable by the same procedure.  However, repeating
the experiment with a single layer of corrugated cardboard (thin)
between the magnet and the disk left the disk still readable, again
with no errors or retries.

So, while it is advisable to minimize exposure to external fields, a
floppy disk protected by a disk mailer is likely to remain unscathed by
magnetic things that are likely to come into contact with it in the
mail.  Things like water and physical damage would seem to be the
greater danger.

(Interestingly, the steel hub of the 3.5" disk was magnetized pretty
strongly during the experiment.  I degaussed it later.)

Bob Nichols
AT&T Bell Laboratories
rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com
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From: jdlail@sacam.OREN.ORTN.EDU (Jack D Lail)
Subject: Re: XYWrite->AnythingElse
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 00:11:34 GMT

Jason Pascucci (jasonp@bungee.NoSubdomain.NoDomain) wrote:
: Are there any programs which will transform XYWrite documents
: to something a little more portable? (XYWrite2PostScript would
: be most perferable.:)
: 
: I don't have XYWrite, and the $445 pricetag in ComputerShopper
: for XYWrite3.0 is insane for what it appears to do. I'm
: getting some documents in either Ascii or XYWrite format,
: and I'd prefer to keep any pleasant formatting
: that has been worked on, but I'll just take the ASCII
: if it's too much of a pain. 
: 
	XyWrite files are pretty close to pure ASCII except for the formating
commands. How difficult it would be to convert depends on how mcuh
formatting is in the files. Simple stuff could be easily handed with a
search and replace function in most any WP. That would be cumbersome with
a lot of formatting. If the person is sending you XyWrite files, tell them
to use the ASCII printer file. It will set margins and put in running
headers and footers and be all ASCII. Maybe that helps.
	I use XyWrite and its updated version, Signature. Signature has
the ability to save and import a number of formats with some built in
stuff from Word for Word.
	-- jack
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From: xchen@staccato.rutgers.edu (Xinghao Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: three copies of command in memory
Keywords: help wanted
Date: 24 Dec 92 06:05:34 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I am new with PC. Recently my wife and I put together a 386/33
compatible with 8MB RAM and 170MB HD. We have load MicroSoft DOS 5.0.
When we used mem /c to check the drives in memory, we found three
copies of COMMAND files with different sizes in the conventional memory. 
We tried loading the DOS with and without the option of STARTING
DOSSHELL.

Without the option of STARTING DOSSHELL, there would be only one copy
of COMMAND of 2.6KB in the conventional memory. With the option of
STARTING DOSSHELL, there would be two copies of COMMAND files
following the DOSSHELL file. One is of size 3.0KB and the next is of
size 2.7KB.

Could someone out there give me some hints in terms of why there were
three copies of the COMMAND files and why the DOSSHELL would bring in
two copies of COMMAND file even though there were placed next to each
other?

Thank you and Marry Chrismas!

 -Chen          xchen@caip.rutgers.edu

PS: Please reply by email since I do not read this news group often.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: How to create a "more" batch file?
Organization: Indiana University
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 20:42:24 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.162702.9385@iscsvax.uni.edu> kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:

>Here's how to fix it.
>
>1)  Make sure that your MORE.BAT is ahead of your MORE.COM in your PATH.
>2)  Give your MORE.BAT the full path to MORE.COM.
>
>For example:
>
>MORE.BAT
>-----------------------------------
>C:\DOS\MORE < %1
>
>Of course this still wouldn't work of C:\DOS was your current working
>directory, it would get the MORE.COM before it began searching the path.
>
>To combat these problems, it would suffice to create a batch file with a
>different name than MORE, so there wouldn't be any danger of tripping the
>MORE.COM or of entering some non-ending recursion in a batch file.
>
>If you want a way to type multiple filenames with pauses in-between, let me
>know and I'll put it together for you.  It involves some intentional batch-file
>recursion and is IMHO, very interesting.  It's exposed in the User-to-User
>column of a recent PC Magazine.

Hmmmm

Could one perhaps rename more.com to nomore.com (9-))? Then 
your more.bat would read:


nomore < %1

(with c:\dos on the path of course...)




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: mkatyal@opie.bgsu.edu
Subject: Help (Procomm)
Organization: Bowling Green State University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:06:09 GMT

Help!..........................Help!.................................Help!

Dear Whiz Kids,
	
I have an IBM 386 and am using Procomm plus 2.0.
I followed the instructions in the manual for uploading/downloading files;
but it just won't work. It says ABORTED.(I was downloading files from the 
my main frame account). I have no clues as to what to do!
	Please respond..........mkatyal@andy.bgsu.edu
				mkatyal@opie.bgsu.edu
From: v923137@vms.ucc.okstate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: dropped characters
Date: 2 Jan 93 05:49:36 GMT
Organization: Oklahoma State University Computer Center

In article <1992Dec30.193133.3446@cid.aes.doe.CA>, ynecgan@cid.aes.doe.CA (Greg Neill) writes:
> 
> Hello,
>   I am having some trouble with my communications software under
> Windows.  I have tried XTALK as well as the TERMINAL program that comes
> with Windows, and both show symptoms of not being able to keep up with a
> 9600 baud interface.  The hardware platform is a '386DX at 33MHZ with an
> internal Hayes 9600 baud modem.
> 
>   Typically if, say, a full page of output is being received, then
> portions (whole lines) will be missing.  Refreshing the page
> (retransmitting it) sometimes works, but most often there are other
> 'holes' left in the data.  Looks suspiciously like a buffering problem.
> 
>   So what gives?  Is it the software?  Is Windows sucking so much CPU
> that my machine can't handle 9600 baud transfers?  
> 
>   Maybe someone can recommend a NON Windows communications package?
>  

I have successfully used a 14,400 baud fax/modem under windows, while
multi-tasking other semi-CPU intensive apps (Word 2.0, Lotus 4 win, XTGold).
I have had no problems like the one you describe.  I am using a 386-40 with
4MB RAM, and Windows 3.1.  My comm program is PC-Plus for Windows.  A friend
of mine using the same exact setup with a different modem and different
m/b manufacturer (still 386-40 though) cannot do this, he drops characters
as you describe.  The only explanation I can think of is that my modem uses
the new 16550 UART chip and his has the older 16450 UART chip.  You might
check this on your modem (if it's internal).  If it's a 16450, you are out
of luck.  However, if you have an external modem, you should be able
to replace the UART chip on your I/O card with the 16550 for about $12.
The 16450 only has a 1-byte buffer, whereas the 16550 has 8 or 10 byte buffer,
I don't recall which, that seems to solve this problem.  The only other
thing I could think of is that the 33Mhz is somewhat slower than the 40Mhz that 
I use, so it could be bogging down more.  9600 baud is a substatial 
transfer rate, and it requires constant attention to catch all the characters,
and/or a larger buffer than 1-byte (hardware buffer).

I don't think that using a DOS-based comm program under Windows will help,
it will probably actually hurt your chances of multi-tasking while downloading.

-Jason Worley
From: dplatt@ntg.com (Dave Platt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: DR DOS 6.0 EMM386.SYS vs. control-alt-DEL
Date: 21 Dec 92 23:15:39 GMT
Organization: New Technologies Group

Under DR DOS 6.0 on an Epson Equity 386SX Plus:  if I enable the
EMM386.SYS memory manager in CONFIG.SYS, the control-alt-DEL sequence no
longer does a warm boot - instead, it locks up the machine.

Fiddling around with the EMM386.SYS options doesn't seem to make any
difference.

Is this a known problem with the EMM386 provided with DR DOS?  Specific
to the BIOS used in the Epson?  Recommendations and suggestions,
anybody?

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From: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Question on video boards!
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 22:48:29 EST
Reply-To: gwp@dithots.Gwinnett.COM (George W. Pogue)
Organization: Deep In The Heart Of The South!

I have an ATI Graphics Ultra board in my pc and am looking into 
purchasing an additional video coprocessing board of some kind to hook 
vcr, tv, and camcorder into. The ATI board doesn't have a feature 
connector that I know of... and some add on video boards hook into the 
system via the feature connector. 

Does anyone have any recommendations on a video addon that will work with 
my system? What about Win/TV, VideoSpigot. Desktop TV? I want a windows 
based product. 

Any assistance you can give is greatly appreciated!
Please email responses.

bill

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From: miller%defun.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Cliff Miller)
Subject: Educational Gameland CD-ROM
Date: 29 Dec 92 17:33:28 MST
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept

            Educational Gameland CD-ROM Project

We are a small group of graduate students at the University of Utah,
working on a few projects to learn some new skills (and maybe help
subsidize our student loans at the same time).  We've just recently
made a CD-ROM for the PC, called 'Educational Gameland', which has a
variety of learning-oriented shareware games and programs (over 100
games and 1000 files).

The programs on the CD are divided into directories by topic:

  Geograph: programs for learning US and world geography
  Grabbag:  a miscellany (typing, telling time, memory games, etc.)
  Language: basic language tutors for French, Spanish and Latin
  Math:     several math games for add, sub, mult, div
  Music:    programs to help learn notes
  Spelling: several spelling games for different levels
  Storybk:  2 Hans Christian Andersen stories with sound recordings
  Teacher:  programs for teachers (gradebooks, quiz makers, crossword
            puzzle makers, computer glossary, etc)
  Toddler:  programs for very small kids (shapes, sounds, letters, etc.)
  Wordgame: crosswords, cryptograms, etc.

We're hoping this CD will be useful in classrooms and at home, for
helping kids to learn some basic skills and have some fun in the
process.  We are quite happy with how the disc turned out as a whole,
and we're offering it to the public for a nominal fee so it will be
accessible to schools and to families with young kids.

If you have any suggestions, or if you want some information about
what we're doing or how to get a copy of the CD, please give us a call
or send us a message at CompuServe.  (We've set up a company in our
basement, called Pacific HiTech.)

Cliff and Randy

   email   71175.3152@CompuServe.com
   tel.    800-765-8369
           801-278-2042
   fax     801-278-2666

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: seamin@icaen.uiowa.edu (Seyamak Amin)
Subject: Help: My PS2 does nor recognize drive C
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 16:54:31 GMT
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa

I have problem in setting up a PS2 Modl 70 (386).
The problem is that the system does not recognize
the drive C: (the hard drive). When I turn on the 
system, it gives me the initial screen of Basic, 
and I can not get anywhere from there. If I boot 
the system from drive A:, then I cannot access C:
(it is not recognizable).

I tried to setup the system using the available
"Reference disk" at hand. I could not figure how
to set the the hard disk. The configuration option
just gives the floppy drives setup.

My questions:
1. What BIOS comes with these systems (since I am 
unfamiliar with PS2)?
2. How can I configure the system with a hard drive?
3. What kind(s) of disks do I need for all setup
procedure?

Please respond by emial to me. I appreciate any and 
all comments.

Seyamak Amin
<seamin@icaen.uiowa.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: keiths@cae.wisc.edu (Keith Scidmore)
Subject: Re: How to use Entended memory effectively
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin--Madison
Date: 25 Dec 92 09:42:11 CST

>> ctoth@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Christopher M Toth) writes:
>> ..
>> ....
>> The best that I've been able to determine is to get a real OS - UNIX, OS/2, 
>> NT. The problem is that DOS can't address beyond 1MB....

Pardon me, but NT isn't real yet?  If it is half as buggy as Windows 3.0 I'd
stay away from it until the second revision.  Microsoft seems to rush their
products to market before testing them well.  Windows 3.0 was the buggiest
OS I've ever used. I helped many people who couldn't even get it to load
without crashing - and with no error messages at all.
 
    For those who have lots of DOS or windows software a 
switch to OS/2 2.0 will free you from the DOS memory crunch.
OS/2 2.1 will be out in (about) March. OS/2 2.1 beta copies
are available now to the general public for $15!  If you want to
know more on this read the OS/2 newsgroups.  

     I just made the switch to OS/2 2.0.  As a frequent user of Unix 
I find OS/2 2.0 to be a breath of fresh air.  I'd rather have
Unix but it won't run Dos or Windows applications and I can't afford
to buy a lot of new software.

     The biggest problem with OS/2 2.0 is that it takes a 
lot of resources to run it.  Reports on OS2 2.1 indicate that it 
is better in this regard.  Again, if you want to know more about 
this, read the OS/2 newsgroups.  It is probably best not to start 
too many OS/2 threads in this group.

Keith R. Scidmore