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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Continuing problems with Win 3.1. HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: jdcarmack@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Date: 1 Jan 93 21:24:34 -0500
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"

>. Now I _can_ run DOS apps, but the system is very unstable:
> Telix 3.2 for DOS hang up while running thru Windows and hang the entire system
> as well... O.K. netlanders, I am bummed! Any ideas??? I will appreciate any
> input on the subject... I am suspecting that for some reason Win was unstable
> to begin with and memory management has little or nothing to do with it...but
> I am willing to give any wild guess/idea a shot... I am using a 486DX33 w/ 
> 4 MB mem and a Trident SVGA 1MB card....
> Thanx in advance...

I have a similar system: 486DX33 w/8 M and Triden 8900C.  Telix 3.15 used
to hang my system occasionally.  Actually, it was hanging my mouse so that
I could not point and click at anything.  God forbid if I tried to switch
applications.  I've noticed several comm packages do that.  So, I switched
to WinQVT and TeleMate.  WinQVT has given me NO problems, and cleared up
several that my old DOS Kermit package was giving me.  Telemate is not
really a Windows program, but it is Windows-aware.  It hung my mouse
once, and that was when I was playing around with memory anyways.

I've never used QEMM, so I can't tell you anything about it, or what
could have been wrong before.  It sounds like you _could_ have problems
with your memory chips, but I would doubt that.  If the DOS apps you are
having problems with are comm programs, I'd advise you to play around with
the PIF and avoid switching apps while using them.  Or, try another 
package.  

If it's not a comm program, then I suspect it is something entirely
 different.  You should take out ALL drivers, TSR's, etc., and bring
up your system, adding one at a time.  When you can replicate the 
problem, that's when you know at least one of the driver/TSR's that
isn't working with the others.

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From: Jack.Minshull@ttlg.UUCP (Jack Minshull)
Sender: postmaster@ttlg.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: COM3 in Windows 3.0
Date: 01 Jan 93  14:08:00 mst

FR||The reason is that you're reading Internet news through a BBS, naturally
FR||all the messages are addressed to ALL. There is no "TO" variable.

  I guess my next question is...

    How do I read the Internet news other than through a BBS?
    Forgive my ignorance, I have just become involved in Internet
    message conferencing.

  Thanks for your help,
                       Jack
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 X SLMR 2.1a X All wiyht.  Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?

 * Origin: The Keep BBS (42:100/19)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: nathans@pacifier.rain.com (Nathan Silva)
Subject: Re: How do I change group icons?
Organization: Pacifier BBS
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:58:45 GMT

In article <1992Dec31.152011.2080@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> anibal@ee470.ee.mcgill.ca (Anibal Jodorcovsky) writes:
>Hi!!
>
>I am setting up my windows applications and non-windows app. and
>want to change the icons for the Program Group. How can I do it?
>
>thanks a lot in advance!
>
>-Anibal

I use a shareware program called Group Icon.  It's available by ftp
from ftp.cica.indiana.edu. (filename: /pub/pc/win3/icons/gpicn103.zip).

Also, there is a program called Plug-In that's supposed to let you
change the group icons. (filename: /pub/pc/win3/util/plugin10.zip).

Nathan
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: law30056@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN KEN HWEE)
Subject: TT Fonts - BIX ones?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:51:33 GMT


Recent Byte Magazine mentioned that there were >100 TT PD fonts
available on BIX.  Have these been brought onto some ftp site by some
kind soul?

Would appreciate e-mail response + post to this newsgroup.  There's
sufficient interest in the matter.  [But I may not check the group again
before it is cleared - seems to be done much more frequently these
days...]

KenHwee Tan
National University of Singapore
Law30056 @nusunix.nus.sg
Law30056 @nusvm.nus.sg

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: EEY9JJT@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (John Talbert)
Subject: Re: Microtek ScanMakers
Date: 29 Dec 92 15:26:07 PST

Have you considered the HPIIC using OmniPage Pro?
HP offers high quality reliable products.


John Talbert
jtalbert@saonet.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: How to install stacke
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:30:34 GMT

In <5751.1100.uupcb@satalink.com> john.will@satalink.com (John Will)  writes:

>JL>Hey Fred, get a life and stop trashing people out here on the network.
>JL>I've been reading your foolish and unnecessary comments out here for
>JL>some time now, and it is tiresome.

>Not to mention that he's all wet! :-)  I have no idea what stupid thing
>he did to trash himself with SSWAP with Stacker, but I've seen it running
>on many systems, including one of mine, and it's never given me, or anyone
>I know any problems.  I often wonder where people get some of the ideas 
>they have... :-)

I've never done it to myself because I never ran SSWAP on my machine.
I've seen a number of people around here hose themselves with it,
though.  Why make things unnecessarily complex so you can load another
device driver?

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: David N. Howard <howard@gandalf.etdesg.trw.com>
Subject: Print Driver for ImageWriter
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A75BA086D7012804@dhoward.etdesg.trw.com>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 21 Dec 92 16:25:42 GMT
Organization: TRW, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 00:28:03 GMT

Does anybody out there know where I can find Windows printer driver for
an Apple Imagewriter?

Thanks.

Dave Howard
howard@gandalf.etdesg.trw.com
From: loureiro@fiu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
Date: 28 Dec 92 20:18:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Florida International University.
Originator: loureiro@serss0

In article <1992Dec28.185555.16798@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>In <1992Dec22.194817.25666@kodak.kodak.com> thomas@acadia.Kodak.COM (Thomas Kinsman) writes:
>
>
>
>>    "A Friend" told me that an 80387 would help Windows/3.1  run  faster
>>    because there are a lot of floating point calculations involved.
>
>>    Can anyone verify this?
>
>No, because it isn't true.  A math coprocessor will do absolutely
>nothing to improve Windows performance.
>
>-- 
>"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
> in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.


A coprocessor will not improve windows performance, but may help programs
running under windows that use floating point calculations ...  


                      Leo
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: Bob Zigon <bobz@truevision.com>
Subject: Need more disk throughput under Win 3.1
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:36:20 GMT
Organization: Truevision, Inc


Q : I have run some tests that show I can get about 2mb/sec out of
       my hard disk controller on my EISA machine under DOS. I have
       written a simple Windows 3.1 app that is showing that I can't
       get anymore than 350kb/sec on the same machine. What can I
       do to improve the through put under Windows. Please get 
       creative. I would like to come as close to 2mb/sec as possible?


Bob Zigon
bobz@truevision.com
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From: surendra@plsparc.UUCP (Surendra Goel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: MS Word for Windows File Format
Keywords: W4W, Word, File Format
Date: 31 Dec 92 17:16:53 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Personal Library Software Inc., Rockville MD

Given a file how to tell that this document is in MS Word 1.0 or 2.0
format? Is there any special magic number or combination of magic
number and some other keys? What are the values for these numbers
for 1.0 and 2.0?

Please e-mail your reply to me.

Thanks

-- 
Surendra Goel (surendra@pls.com)
Personal Library Software, Inc.  2400 Research Blvd. Suite 350, Rockville, MD 20850   Phone: (301)926-1402 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: Should I leave it on?
Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:14:17 GMT

daavid@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Daavid Turnbull) writes:
> Not only have you got the cost of running the hardware, but you also have
> to cool the room down which also chewws up watts..... there is more to a
> computer system than just the cpu and box :-).

Hey, if you live in a country with *snow*, heating the room is a benefit,
not a problem!  :)  (At least in winter...)

[ \tom haapanen    "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
[ tomh@wes.on.ca                   "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
[ waterloo engineering software      "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
From: rwallace@nebula.mentorg.com (Richard Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: New version of win_phone
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:48:43 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Organization: Mentor Graphics

I am announcing the newest release of win_phone.  The newest version has
international character support, the ability to copy the contents of one
of the text fields to the clipboard.

ARCHIVE NAME:  winphn12.zip
FTP LOCATION:  ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/pc/win3/uploads
	       oak.oakland.edu
	       WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL

This is shareware with a $5 registration fee.  This release has a nag
screen when the program is first started, which only appears on non-
registered copies.

Any problems, questions, or constructive criticism to Richard Wallace
at richard_wallace@mentorg.com.
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>< Richard Wallace                             richard_wallace@mentorg.com ><
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From: fonts@halcyon.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.announce
Subject: |~  TrueType Fonts  ~|
Date: 23 Dec 92 07:27:51 GMT
Followup-To: poster


                             TYPE SOURCE 
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^ 

                      Shareware TrueType(tm) Fonts:

                        134 FONTS FOR ONLY $45.00
                            & We pay shipping!


           These fonts are for use with Microsoft Windows(tm) v3.1



ORDER A CATALOG NOW!:
   For a catalog please email us your complete POSTAL MAILING address
   in a standard form (see example below):
                  
                  John Doe
                  (Company Name if applicable)
                  123 ABC St.
                  City, State/province/etc...  ZIP 
                  Country

This form is much prefered over extracting your address from a signature file.

Send Adresses to:
fonts@halcyon.com
From: SASTPH@vm.sas.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: How would you program this ?
Date: 21 Dec 92 14:02:55 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.

In article <1992Dec19.023047.26119@news.ysu.edu>, doug@cc.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell)
says:
>
>I have to retrieve three related numbers from a user (they're the count
>of two-dimensional tables, and the dimensions of the tables).
>
>The number of tables ranges from two to four.
>The columns range from two to four, for each of the tables.
>The rows in each table range from five to ten.

Why not do something really graphical?  Put up a dialog box that "shows"
the two, three, and four table choices (or a simplified pictorial
representation thereof) and let the user click on her choice.  To choose
rows and columns, display a ten row by four column grid.  Superimpose
a five row by two column rectangle on the upper left corner of the
grid.  Let the user choose the number of rows and columns by grabbing
the lower right corner of the rectangle and moving it until the
rectangle covers the number of rows and columns to be used.

Happy holidays!
From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Re: Highlight text/graphic
Date: 23 Dec 92 10:38:45
Organization: Natural Language Incorporated
NNTP-Posting-Host: remarque.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: phshl@wombat.newcastle.edu.au's message of Sun, 20 Dec 1992 22:57:14 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.095714.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au> phshl@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (S.H. LEE (61) 49 21 5566) writes:
> would someone please outline the way to implement "highlighting"
> (I am trying to implement cut/paste function)

SendMessage(hwnd, EM_SETSEL, NULL, MAKELONG(start, end)):

hwnd should be an edit control.

Muffy
--

Muffy Barkocy                      | ~Can you tell me how much bleeding/it
muffy@mica.berkeley.edu            |  takes to fill a word with meaning and/
"amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm   |  how much how much death it takes/to give
not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.|  a slogan breath?~ - Bruce Cockburn
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: jim@visix.com (Jim Edwards-Hewitt)
Subject: Re: HP's Dashboard
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:35:24 GMT
Reply-To: jim@visix.com
Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA


The only problems I have seen with Dashboard (on a Northgate 486) were:

Installation programs that try to create program groups or add icons do not
work and may lock up (MSC7 and Windows SDK, for example).  I presume this
is because Dashboard does not handle the DDE messages that Program Manager
does.  This is a serious oversight on HP's part, but can be worked around
by switching back to ProgMan before running a Windows-based installation.

Dashboard gets confused if you have sub-groups with the same name under
different groups (it brings up the same group for both, even though it has
created group files with unique names.)

I have not seen any of the problems that you mentioned, and I have been
using Dashboard exclusively for about two months now.

>WEIRDNESS : i know of a person who uses an HP VECTRA and dashboard an he
>             thinks i am crazy because he does not see these problems.  
>            that is, it was probably created on an HP VECTRA and not really 
>            tested with a host of hardware configurations.

I think it is more likely a conflict with other software than with
hardware, but I don't have any specific suggestions.

	-- Jim

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: ttoupin@zephyr.cair.du.edu (Tory Toupin)
Subject: AUX Problem in Windows 3.1
Originator: ttoupin@zephyr.cair.du.edu
Organization: University of Denver
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 17:26:02 GMT

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc         
comp.os.ms-windows.misc                      


HELP :

On occasion I get an "Unable to write to AUX" message in Windows 3.1.  I can't
find any reference to such a message in the Windows Resource Reference(s)
and related documentation.

I have AMI Bios (1990?), 386/33, 4Meg Ram,  serial ports, INTEL MathCo.

The problem started after I got the serial cards installed.  The original
installation screwed up the INTs and used the wrong adrses (i.e. COM1=COM2=COM3).

Any help appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Ed Toupin
toupine@casi.cba.du.edu
ttoupin@zephyr.cair.du.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: maurice@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au
Subject: Re: RTF specs?
Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:47:10 GMT

From article <1993Jan2.182827.22290@wariat.org>, by sjsobol@wariat.org (Steven J. Sobol):
> 
> Does anyone know how to get ahold of the specs for RTF?
> 
> -- 
> Steve Sobol   Head Cheerleader, APK Public Access *nix/Internet

Apparently Microsoft had a publcation containing those specs, unfortunately,
it does not seem to be available. 

When I requested this publication from Microsoft Australia the first response 
I got was that they would mail it to me, after a few weeks of recieving 
no news, I called Microsoft again and was told that the publication was not
available and had not been for quite some time.

Microsoft then guided me to the Microsoft Word for Windows and OS/2
Technical Reference. ISBN 1-55615-290-6. (c) 1990. Chater 10 gives a 
fair rendition of what you need to know about RTF, and almost enough 
to build RTF files for windows help.

Conclusion: Step 1. Phone Microsoft and see if they will send you a copy
of the appropriate document (make sure it is actually available). Failing
that Step 2. purchase the technical reference manual.
-- 
Maurice Castro                 |  "In hardware engineering, Ohm's
maurice@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au |   law and Maxwell's equations pale
                               |   in importance and influence next
                               |   to Murphy's Law" Gordon Bell
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: torstein@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no (torstein hansen)
Subject: Re: Borland-izing Common Dialogs
Organization: Dept. of Chem.Eng, Norwegian Inst. of Tech
Date: 21 Dec 92 10:31:32

In article <2B31FB9F.88D4@tct.com> jeff@tct.com (Jeff Witzer) writes:
   I'm writing an app that uses Borland style dialog boxes and buttons.  I
   would like to keep the interface consistant but haven't found a way to 
   Borland-ize the <commdlg> File Save and File Open dialog boxes.

   Does Borland have their own version?  (I couldn't find any public alternative
   like thier BWCCMessageBox...I hoped to find a BWCCGetOpenFileName () and 
   BWCCGetSaveFileName ())

   I also tried to run Resource Workshop on my .exe but, of course, couldn't find
   those dialogs to modify.

   Should I give up and use the bland MicroSoft standard dialogs or is there hope?

   jeff@tct.com

There sure is hope...

In Borland Pascal for Windows you would do something like this:
(Shouldn't be to different from C should it?)

var
  ofn         : TOpenFileName;
  DialogHandle: THandle;
  .
  .

begin
  DialogHandle:=loadResource(hInstance,
                  FindResource(hInstance,pchar(dialog_id),rt_dialog));
  .
  .
  with ofn do begin
    {other initialisations}
    hInstance:=DialogHandle;
    Flags:=....or ofn_EnableHook or ofn_EnableTemplateHandle;
    lpfnHook:=FileDlgHook;
  end;

where FileDlgHook is the adress of your custom dialog handling
function. All messages would now go to this function before
COMMDLG.DLL get its hands on them. Do whatever you want and return 1
if you have handled a message, and zero if not. 

BTW.  I: in this example I have copied the dialog resource from
COMMDLG.DLL to my executable and given it an id of dialog_id.
pchar(dialog_id) is just a typecast equivalent to the winAPI's
MakeIntResource. 

BTW. II: If there are enough interest I might do some refinement on my
code and put it up on Garbo, or some other ftp-site. At present it
uses X-windows-like listboxes with 3-dimentional selection
highlightning, but that may easily be ruled out. If there are any
interest, please email me, and state if you would like it to be in
either Pascal or C, as a linkable unit or as a standalone DLL
(whatever that is?)

BTW III: If a user selects (in an open file dialog box) a non-existent
file, COMMDLG.DLL puts up a warning message box.
 How can I intercept this? (to make a 3-dim box instead)
 Should I take care of this myself?
 Do I even have to bother?
 Who am I?
 Why am I here?

Good luck

Torstein
   
    
--
Torstein Hansen
torstein@itekiris.kjemi.unit.no
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
From: duvalld@liberty.uc.wlu.edu (Danek Duvall)
Subject: MFC Additions?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:59:09 GMT
Distribution: local,world
Organization: Washington & Lee University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


I have been working with the MFC for a little while now, and I have some
suggestions, but I thought I'd post them, just to see if there weren't any
conceptual flaws.

I have been using the collection classes (Lists, primarily) right much,
and have found the need to convert from a POSITION variable to an integer
index. I know there is a function to do the opposite conversion, but this
would be handy, too, without having to do a sizeof() of an object and flip
through the list...

Another thing about the Lists is why isn't there  DeleteAll() function? I
know the one in the XUG, and I use it, but is there any reason why this
isn't built in?

The most important thing (to me, right now) is some support for DOS based
windowing. Although I'd write only Windows programs if I could, not
everybody here has access to Windows. The ease of things like dialog boxes
should be available to those people, too.

Well, my $.02...

Danek

-- 
Danek Duvall: Washington and Lee U.
Internet: duvalld@liberty.uc.wlu.edu
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