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From: zureick@utasys.uta.edu (Rami Zureick)
Subject: Sound Blaster drivers for W3.1!
NewsSoftware: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
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MessageID: <17JUL199211373176@utasys.uta.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1992 16:37:00 GMT
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Are there Sound Blaster drivers for Windows 3.1? I saw the ones for the
professional version. If not, are there alternatives?

                                         Rami

Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: hlpell@torsqnt.tor.sequent.com (Howard Pell)
Subject: Re: RTF Editor
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems (Canada) Ltd.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:39:20 GMT

holst@mrl.arc.nasa.gov (Laura Holst) writes:

I have tried just this thing (using WPWIN to export RTF for VBPT) and I
can't get it to work.  I have just purchased MS Word for Windows and
have not yet had a chance to try it out.  I'll post a follow up when I
can tell you how successful I am.

Howie

>Hello Windowers ---

>I just received the Microsoft Professional Toolkit for Visual Basic and
>want to create a help file for my application.  However, in order to create
>help files, one needs a "Rich Text Format" editor.  The manual lists:

>- Microsoft Word for Windows
>- Microsoft Word for the PC
>- Microsoft Word for the Macintosh
>- Other word processors that support RTF (of course none are listed)

>I have WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS, which is about to be upgraded to WPWIN.
>Does any one know of any "other word processors" that support RTF ?

>Thanks in advance,

>Laura Holst.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: remke@cs.tu-berlin.de (Jan K. Remke)
Subject: Re: NT vs. UNIX
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 01:31:00 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.184703.17635@infonode.ingr.com>, knightf@infonode.ingr.com (Frank Knight) writes:
> This certainly brings up a question of availability of low-cost 
> high-end PCs outside of the U.S.?>

ARE there *ANY* high end machines running under DOS.
A HIGH END MACHINE does definately *NOT* run under such
a single tasking system, and the very slow multitasking
emulation called MS Windows... :-)

Greetings:
Jan.

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From: sparap@jim.mscs.mu.edu (Rodney Sparapani)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer,sci.astro,sci.space,sci.edu,comp.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Need Testers for MS Windows Astronomy Program
Date: 21 Jul 92 13:40:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: spool.3618
Followup-To: comp.windows.ms
Organization: Marquette University - Department MSCS

I know that I shouldn't post this to the list, but that mailer is OOO.

I would like to beta test astro lab.
Rodney Sparapani
5027 W. National Ave., #205
West Milwaukee, WI  53214

rodney@hp01.biostat.mcw.edu

CPU:  Intel 486/33 with math coprocessor
MEM:  4M
Graphics:  SVGA with 1M card
Printer:  Panasonic 1124
DOS:  MS-5.00
Windows:  3.1
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From: apland@mala.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Spanish in MS Word for Windows
Date: 30 Jul 92 23:58:03 -0700
Organization: Malaspina College

> The procedure that you outline does the job, but it is no good for Spanish
> typing (or any other foreign language). Accents in Spanish are frequent, so
> you don't want to have to do the insert-menu routine every time.
> 
> What I've done in the past, is to reconfigue the keyboard from the control
> panel to a Spanish (or is it Latin American) keyboard. After that, the keys
> will be as in a typewriter/computer bought in Spain or Latin America. The
> accent will not advance the carriage, and if the next letter is a vowel, it
> will place the accented version. Some of the symbols change position, so
> unless you have a keyboard chart, keycaps, or good memory, it can be somewhat
> confusing.

Yes, this is what my family has been doing with French and it works well.  My
kids can (and I guess, so can I) type almost as fast in French as in English -
if you touch type then you don't look at the keys anyway.  We just got the
French dictionary and I discovered that if you type in English and mark the
paragraphs as French (Spanish in your case) then the speller will find all the
letters requiring accents and change them for you.  Since we haven't worked 
with this in a productive setting yet (school's not in) I don't know which is
better - changing the keyboard through control panel or putting in the accents
with the speller.

If you want to set a macro within W4W to get to control panel try the 
following: 

Sub MAIN
  ControlRun .Application = 1
  SendKeys "i"
End Sub


Ron
From: cjmarsha@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Charles Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: ET4000 video drivers!!  Help!
Date: 25 Jul 92 23:13:21 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

Has anybody successfully gotten windows into a 1024x768x256 mode?  I can
use Windows supplied VGA and SVGA drivers and ONE Tseng supplied VGA
(640x480x16) driver.  What's going on? 

The zip files I tried using were TSG40627 (Win3.0 basically), W31ET4, and
ET4_W31.  I'm using Win3.1 so the TSG40627 file was useless.  Actually,
everything was useless.  Either I would get divide overflow errors or I
would get (during installation) that a VGAxx.DRV could not be loaded.  I
placed the DRV's in every conceivable location.  

I am trying to do this from a network - but so what?  It should still work.
What's the word on getting more colors and higher resolution with TSENG
ET4000 drivers?

Charles

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: thayne@unislc.uucp (Thayne Forbes)
Subject: Re: NT vs. UNIX
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 05:01:35 GMT

From article <CFC5GMB@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de>, by remke@cs.tu-berlin.de (Jan K. Remke):
> In article <1992Jul21.223603.26154@unislc.uucp>, thayne@unislc.uucp (Thayne Forbes) writes:
> 
> (...stuff deleted...)
>  
>> Things are obviously a lot different in Germany than they are here.
> 
> NOT only in Germany (I'm not German, I only live there, I'm DUTCH.),
> but all over Europe... PCs are the game machines of the kids here,
> that's about it. If the people in the U.S. of A. are not that far,
> (I mean using more sophisticated machines) then it's not my problem :-) ...

I'm sorry, I wasn't going to post any more about this but I was just
overwhelmed by the irony of your post.  The last time I checked, one of
the most popular machines in Germany was the atari series of machines.
You can't even find these machines here, much less software or support.
Why?  Because they were dismissed as nothing more than game machines,
and we gave them to our kids who promptly destroyed them.  I am not
making value judgements, I just thought it was ironic.
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From: ccasm@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Spanish in MS Word for Windows
Date: 29 Jul 92 03:27:47 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA

In article <2308.2a547f70@vger.nsu.edu>,
> g_harrison@vger.nsu.edu (George C. Harrison, Norfolk State University) writes:
> In my [very] old home word processor, my wife could use Spanish characters and
> have them printed directly to our ancient Star printer... .......??:  How
> can I redefine keys to use the accented vowels and tilde on the n's and the
> reversed ! and ? characters in MS Word?  Can I use the anykey mapping on a
> GATEWAY; can I use Accessories in Windows????  
> 

George, the simple answer is :
 
1. Under the  INSERT menu of W4W 2.0, select SYMBOL
2. The window that opens asks "Symbols from..." and shows you
   an ASCII code chart. You can select any font and see its code chart.
3. Select Normal Text. You will see every character you asked for in your
   post above. (Hold the mouse button down to see the character better).
4. Click OK to insert the character in your doc. You can copy/paste later if
   you don't want to select it each time.

For other symbols, try other fonts (including Symbols) if you don't find what
you are looking for. Wingdings are worth a look.

One more point. If your printer is properly supported by Win 3.1 (you are using
3.1 aren't you?) then by sticking to TRUETYPE fonts ONLY, your old printer
will be given a new lease of life. Better still, buy yourself the cheapest
secondhand HP-laserjet compatible (e.g. Toshiba PageLaser6) and get better
results than with a new postscript laser (if you use True Type only). Symbols
will be scalable to any point size, so will your text. So will the fantastic
Wingdings characters & symbols.... and you wife will love you even more  ;-)

Allan Milgate
Assistant Director,
University Computing Services,
The University of Newcastle, Australia.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,bit.listserv.win3-l
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Separate prog and file managers better (was: Re: Windows Future)
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 17:17:56 GMT

In article <1992Jul27.043832.15349@cc.uow.edu.au> u8515682@cc.uow.edu.au (Wayne Jefferson Doust) writes:
>mikew@hpwarha.wal.hp.com (Michael Williams) writes:
>
>>Personally, I welcome the development of an integrated Program and File
>>Manager, but I see no technical reason that Microsoft couldn't retain
>
>One of the big problems is that you have to store the icon info and
>other info somewhere. You can't store them inside the dos programme
>so you have to store them somewhere else. My guess is that MS is
>consciously avoiding this problem to help the migration to windows
>NT. To me thta would be a BIG drawcard - having only a system manager
>or whatever that does the lot.


Actually thats what PIF files are for. In an integrated 
manager one might still click on PIF files to launch DOS
apps. Then you can stick all these PIF files in a common
subdirectory so they're easy to get at.

Which brings me to another point. I don't see why an inte-
grated manager would be better than separate program and 
file managers. The last thing I'd want to do is wade through
a bunch of subdirectories to find an app that I want to 
launch. I've used Macs for a while and this is really annoy-
ing. I've noticed that the "power Mac users" always resort 
to some strategy or other to get around this: using some-
thing like Launcher, or else putting dummy documents on the 
desktop or in one easily accessible folder. Voila! Instant
Program Manager. The same argument says something about 
why a Program Manager shouldn't have folders-within-folders,
eg. like Sloopman. Its supposed to be a quick way to launch
apps, not some super pigeonhole organizer. 

Want an integrated file/program manager? Remember MS-DOS 
Executive? Remember how painful Windows (2.11) was to use 
back then? I thought the HdC program manager was such a 
hot thing back then - imagine! One could actually launch 
an app without hunting high and low for an Exe file! I'd 
say I really started using Windows all the time for pro-
duction when this product showed up.

If you want a really nice, object oriented file+program 
manager better than a Mac's, you already have it. Its  
called File Manager! Edit all the associations you want, 
and you can launch any app by double clicking on a data 
file. You can even set it up as your Shell in system.ini.
I have a co-worker who actually works like this.

Me? Until the hot new OO shells come along I'll use 
Progman. Its fast, its pretty and its fun.







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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg)
Subject: Transfering sounds
Summary: Looking to go from Mac to Windows 
Keywords: sound, mac, aiff
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 19:30:04 EDT

Can anybody suggest a way to translate Mac sound files
generated by SoundEdit to .wav files for Windows?  Are there
any programs (commercial or shareware/pd) that will translate
aiff format sounds into .wav files?
Thanks for your help.
--Gerry
ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu
From: marrevola@iris-dcp.es
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: MCI commands to switch input from SBPro
Date: 30 Jul 92 12:55:20 GMT
Organization: REDIRIS, Red Nacional de I+D

What are the MCI commands and device to switch between inputs (Line, MIC and
CD) of the Sound-Blaster Pro2 card?

Manuel Arrevola
manuel.arrevola@taf.fundesco.es
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: NT vs. UNIX
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:52:27 GMT

In article <RZD57PU@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> remke@cs.tu-berlin.de (Jan K. Remke) writes:
>In article <83fm9ha@lynx.unm.edu>, jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth) writes:

>In Europe that was the case five years ago. Now nearly no PC is sold
>without sound, graphics, joystick and mouse. (Windows included.)
>Amigas, ST, are 'OUT' here. The game port is standard equipment,
>see: Multi I/O Card... (Don't they know that in the US...) :-)

>Serious work is done on MULTITASKING / MULTIUSER systems. What else ?
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Single tasking single user machines? Depends on the work you need
done.

Your statement may be true for: 

- Universities
- Hackers
- Computer companies
- High end power users
- Engineers
- CAD/CAM 

But I'll bet that most businesses still use far more PCs than 
anything else. After all, why would anyone need a Sparc for 
wordprocessing when Wordperfect 5.1 will run perfectly well on
a 286 PC? The 286 will cost a tenth of what the Sparc goes for
anyhow.







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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: stephen@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Stephen Schimpf)
Subject: Re: RTF Editor
Organization: UCLA Dept of Astronomy
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:09:59 PDT

In article <1992Jul23.101442.26153@highlite.uucp> burgoyne@highlite.uucp (J. Robert Burgoyne) writes:
>
>This question is probably in the FAQ for comp.windows.ms.programmer, but
>I want to caution you about RTF and WPWIN. Most people who have used
>WPWIN and Word for Windows 2.0 prefer Word for Windows. In addition, it
>supports RTF better than any other program, according to people who try
>to do really weeny things with their help files.
>
>I've authored 2 different Help files using Word for Windows and have been
>entirely satisfied. I used to be a die-hard WP5.1 for DOS user, but now
>I've kicked the habit.
>
>Robert

I agree with this. I used WordPerfect for Windows for about half a year and
wrote three or four help files. I regularly had problems with this. For
example, many times I indented text a certain way and would find that the
text in Windows Help didn't look like what I wrote. I tried making all my
topic headings blue and found that some where blue and some remained black.
I eventually discovered that the order of the codes to turn bold on and
to change to blue makes a difference. Also, it took me longer than it should
have to figure out how to make footnotes with K, $, # and so on.

About the time of the WP4W interim release I decided to switch to Word for
Windows 2.0a. What a difference! I no longer have problems with my help 
files. Creating footnotes is much easier. Typing hidden text for jump terms
is much easier than dealing with comments in WP4W.

Stephen



Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: pnorman@kean.ucs.mun.ca (Peter T.  Norman)
Subject: HELP: Win3.0/Comport3 Terminal problem
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 00:44:45 GMT

Could someone please help me?

My modem is installed under Com3.  The Windows 3.0 Terminal program
refuses to work from com3.  It reports that com3 is assigned to a
DOS application; it asks if I want to change the com port to the
Windows application; replying yes does nothing.

There ARE dip switches on the card to change the port, but I am not
certain that this works.  As well, my mouse is under com1; leaving
com2 in-between.  Odd, isn't it?  What can I do?  Any information
I receive will be GREATLY appreciated.  Thank-you very much.

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From: mmccolli@ess.harris.com (Mike McCollister)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: DosPrint in win.ini
Date: 28 Jul 92 10:57:56 GMT
Reply-To: mmccolli@ess.harris.com
Organization: Harris (Government Aerospace Systems)

I was nosing around in my win.ini file and found this line:
   DosPrint=no
Does anyone know what this does and what will happen if I change it to yes?

Thanks for the help.

Mike


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From: mike@datmuc.UUCP (Mike Zeiner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ms.programmer,sci.astro,sci.space,sci.edu
Subject: Re: Testers for Astronomy Lab: NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS!!!
Date: 22 Jul 92 07:19:10 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.ms

>In article <1992Jul21.004739.22910@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, ebergman@nyx.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell) writes:

>*************************************************************************
>* Sorry about the unreliable e-mail address.  I have a new one that     *
>* should work: uunet!edoc9!erict                                        *
>*************************************************************************

Sorry for posting this, but I'm also playing mail-ping-pong!
Even with the new e-mail address.


Name:
German Mail Address: Michael Zeiner; Halmsrieder Str. 21; D - 8064 Altomuenster;
                 Germany
E-Mail Address: mike@datmuc.dat.de
Version of MS-Windows: V3.1
Version of MS-DOS: V5.0
CPU: 80386-SX (16 MHz)
Math Coprocessor (not required): none
Memory: 4 MB
Graphics Card: TSENG VGA (1 MB)
Printer: NEC P20

Thanks in advance

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
From: elejaya@nuscc.nus.sg (Jayasooriah)
Subject: MS Proofing Tools
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 02:42:12 GMT

In PowerPoint 3.0, the proofing tools were organised in .../MSAPPS/PROOF
directory.  However, for WFW 2.0a, they are still in WINWORD directory.
Furthermore, PowerPoint 3.0 allows you to select British or American
dictionary at install time.  After that, Spelling in WFW automatically
switches to UK dictionary (my language was set to UK).  Grammar,
hypnenation and thesarus are still the old US ones.

Does anyone know if WFW would follow suit - I dont like the trouble I
have to go to just to *pay* for the English (UK) proofing tools as
an add-on after I have paid for the WFW.

As I already have a WFW licence, would I be contravening any copyright
laws if I siphon out the UK proofing tools from anyone who has it?
After all I can get them from Microsoft if I pay the adminstrative fee
(about S$50.00) but as I am now in the process of relocating, I cannot
afford to sit and wait for it to be delivered.  I am prepared to pay the
adminstrative charges if someone can send me these electronically.

Thanks.

Jaya

P.S.  Powerpoint 3.0 is great - I believe it has all the functionality
of Harvard Graphics and more (like on-line story-board style
presentations).

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From: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Second try: XGA and windo
Date: 29 Jul 92 11:21:00 GMT
Reply-To: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Organization: SataLink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324

RW>I have a friend, who has a ps/2 model 95, and he has just bought an 8214 xga
RW>monitor. OK, so this works for everything except win 3.1, he installed the
RW>relavent win 3.1 driver (8214/a as far as I can remember), but when he goes to
RW>start up win 3.1 he just gets the windows title screen. Then it hangs. But
RW>everything works ok for win 3.0. Anyone a have any idea what's up?

Neither Windows 3.0 nor Windows 3.1 has an '8214/a' video driver.  They
*do* have '8514/a' video drivers - for IBM's 8514/A video adapter.
That's *not* an XGA-compatible video adapter.  Your friend is mistaken
if he thinks he was using an 8514/A video driver with an XGA adapter
under Windows 3.0.

Windows 3.1 comes standard with several XGA drivers.  Just CD over
to your WINDOWS directory type "SETUP", move the cursor over to the
"Display" entry, and press ENTER.  Then press the down-arrow key
(a lot) until the XGA entries appear.

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From: earley@modular.com (Joe Earley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Buttonless mouse tracking in TNT 3.0
Date: 23 Jul 92 22:46:23 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Modular Mining Systems, Tucson, AZ

I would like to implement a curved line editing capability much like
the (very) old TNT 1.0 rubber program used to have.  I can't figure
out how to track the mouse movement in a TNT 3.0 canvas without making
the user press the select or adjust button.  Is this possible with the
tracking methods provided with TNT 3.0 or am I going to have create
my own mouse tracking methods?  Has rubber been converted from TNT 1.0
to 2.0 or better?  And if so then where can I get it?

Joe Earley