HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: More questions on WinQVT/net
From: Michel.Davidoff@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff)
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:06:58 PDT
Organization: Sonoma state university

In article <18o6uhINN29g@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> brettw@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett D. Watson) writes:
>Subject: Re: More questions on WinQVT/net
>From: brettw@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett D. Watson)
>Date: 10 Sep 1992 14:16:33 -0500
>elee969@elroy.uh.edu (Brown, William J.) writes:
>
>>Thanks to all who responded to my earlier post about the config file for
>>WinQVT.  I have another question.  The news option in the services menu is not
>>available.  I have the news server listed in the config file.  Is there anything
>>else I need to do?
>
>  I had the same problem until I had my IP address put into the host
>database, ie. the news server.  I went ahead and assigned my machine a
>domain name as well.  Might be your problem.
>
>-=- Brett
>-- 
>  Brett Watson, 915 Calflin Rd. Manhattan, KS  66502, (913) 776-5951
>  ==================================================================
>	brettw@matt.ksu.ksu.edu | brettw@holonet.net
Must be if you are not a valid host you do not have priviliges to a NNTP
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: manz@ee.ualberta.ca (Brett {Druid Queen} Manz)
Subject: Re: Is GATES gay? Only a Fag could make windows
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 11:00:43 GMT

In <1992Aug31.031138.12213@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umsalte2@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Mystery) writes:


>Windows sucks!  All window lovers are suckers.....love OS/2 you fools.

>dont be sucker any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just what are you trying to prove with this little bit of idiocy?
That OS/2 (half an operating system) users are biggoted buttheads?
If so, then you're doing an exceptional job.



<> Why on earth would you assume that insulting someone by comparing
<> them to a radish is in anyway insulting to radishes?
<> -- Dana Bergen
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From: whare@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Opinions on ATI VANTAGE...
Date: 5 Sep 92 00:30:25 -0300
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Does anyone have any experience in operating a computer that
had an ATI Vantage card? I am thinking of purchasing one but
was wondering if anyone had any string opinions on it. The
reviews that I have read seem to be quite favorable. Also,
what are the mice like on ATI cards?

Thanks.
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From: ballerup@diku.dk (Per Goetterup)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Weird problem with PC-SPEAKER...
Keywords: pc-speaker
Date: 14 Sep 92 10:48:34 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones) writes:

=>In article <1992Sep11.151829.4829@news.iastate.edu> rjhoffma@iastate.edu (Richard J. Hoffmann) writes:
=>>In article <1992Sep10.092028.22042@odin.diku.dk> ballerup@diku.dk (Per Goetterup) writes:
=>>>
=>>>I get my tada sound when starting windows and my chime sound when
=>>>exiting windows - otherwise nothing!. As I understand it, I should get
=>>>my assigned sound (chord) when for instance a dialog box appears with
=>>>an exclamation mark in it, but nothing happens. Am I misunderstanding
=>>>something fundamental or what?
=>>>
=>>>Help please!
=>>>
=>>>Reply via e-mail if possible... otherwise please post.
=>>
=>>*****I'd appreciate a posting on this subject.********

=>Pretty straightforward: if an application invokes the function
=>MessageBeep with the parameter corresponding to the MessageBox icon,
=>then you get the sound.  If it doesn't, and most don't, then no sound.

That's how I understood it as well - If the asterisk-, information-
(etc.) or question mark icon is included in a dialog box, then I
should get the sound. Only I didn't - and still doesn't, apart from
occational 'happenings'.

=>The icon parameters are: MB_ICONASTERISK (same as MB_ICONINFORMATION),
=>and MB_ICONEXCLAMATION.

I know. I wrote a small, simple test program (using TPW 1.0) which
pops up a dialog box with several of the icons included (one at a
time!), with the word 'test' and only an 'OK' button.

But nope. Only sound in about one in ten attempts, seemingly random.
But the Windows Start and Windows Exit sounds always work... Why only
those?

=>You can get the Exclamation sound very easily: just do something stupid.
=>No, take off the funny red plastic nose: I meant do something in an
=>application that is stupid.  Try pressing Page Up when you're at the 
=>beginning of a file.  That sort of thing.

I've tried that also, and it seems to work every time. I think the red
nose did it... ;-)  ..... 

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From: tuan@wright.seas.ucla.edu (Tuan Pham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: [HELP] How to increase virtual memory space!
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:35:21 GMT
Organization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles

Hi everyone,

Can anyone tell me why I cannot increase the virtual memory space on my
computer? I have 40Mbytes of free disk space, but everytime I tried to
change the memory configuration, Windows complained that I can only
have up to 7,796 KBytes of memory. I would like to allocate at least
12Mbytes of virtual memory for a very memory-intensive program.

Thanks.

Please forward your reply to tuan@seas.ucla.edu
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From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Memory parity error d & MS slack code
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:51:37 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki

In <2787.1100.uupcb@satalink.com> john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:

>JW.>	SYSTEM ERROR: Memory parity error detected. System halted.
>  .>
>  .I had the same problem.  Apparently, Win 3.1 is much more sensitive to
>  .certain hardware problems than previous versions.

>The reason that Windows 3.1 is more sensitive to parity errors is that
>Windows 3.0 had them disabled most of the time!  Actually, many of the
>hangs that people cursed Windows 3.0 for were probably hardware failures.

Hmm.  I believe that this memory parity syndrome is _not_ hardware-
related (as a bad SIMM), because I've experienced it, and replacing the
SIMMs for a few times didn't help.  Then the errors suddenly went away
by themselves, while I had the _original_ SIMMs installed.  _And_ no
other software complained about my memory.  _And_ I most definitely ran
every single most thorough test program available to me to each set of
SIMMs I used - and according to them all the SIMMs were 100% OK. 

OTOH, I do agree with you about the Win 3.0 note. Then again, I wonder
whether the makers of Windows actually use the hardware in some non-
standard way, 'cause Windows seems to be the #1 error detector in the
market today - it crashes on errors that _no_ other piece of software
can find!

And on a side note, I happened to run SDIR on my /win/system dir. Quess
what? WIN386.EXE, compression ratio 2.2:1. Talk about slack. >250 Kb of
waste. It does the job, and relatively well IMHO, but still I'd say that
_some_ optimization wouldn't be bad! (In general, the /win/system subdir
has the highest compression ratio on my disk - e.g., the _most_ slack
files.)

Oh well, just my 0,80 FIM worth...

-- 
               Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
       University of Helsinki, Dept. of Paranormal Investigations
           "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." - Sledge Hammer
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: multitasking?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:16:28 GMT

In <1992Sep15.123533.9102@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mfabbri@nyx.cs.du.edu (Massimo Fabbri) writes:


>MS Windows 3.1 is, according to Microsoft, a multitasking operating 
>environment. Yet some say it does not provide *true* multitasking.
>Who's right?

Microsoft.

>If it's multitasking, is it preemptive or non-preemptive?

Depends.  It does preemptive multitasking in Enhanced mode between the
single Windows environment and each DOS box.  It does cooperative
event-driven multitasking between Windows applications in the single
Windows environment (which is meanwhile being merrily preemptivvely
multitasked with any DOS programs you have running).

>Are DOS and Windows applications processed in a diferent way? How?

Yep.  DOS applications are preemptively multitasked.  Windows
applications are cooperatively multitasked using an event-driven
paradigm. 

>What are the main differences between Win 3.x and the forthcoming Win NT?

Win 3.x exists and runs this year.  :-)

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From: steveo@mel.dbce.csiro.au (Stephen Oakes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: multitasking?
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:40:53 GMT
Organization: CSIRO, Div. Building Constr. and Eng'ing, Melb., Australia

In article <1992Sep15.123533.9102@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> mfabbri@nyx.cs.du.edu (Massimo Fabbri) writes:
>
>MS Windows 3.1 is, according to Microsoft, a multitasking operating 
>environment. Yet some say it does not provide *true* multitasking.
>Who's right?

Both.  See below.

>If it's multitasking, is it preemptive or non-preemptive?

For windows programs, it is non-preemptive.  This means that Windows
programs must be written in such a way as to "give up" the CPU to
allow other programs to run.  Some people also say that this is not
*true* multitasking.

Each DOS program runs in its own "virtual machine", and Windows
interrupts it to let other programs run.  ie. preemptive multitasking.

>Are DOS and Windows applications processed in a diferent way? How?

See above.

>What are the main differences between Win 3.x and the forthcoming Win NT?

From the user interface point of view, not much.  However, there is a
*huge* difference in the underlying system.  Such as:
	- NT is a *true* Operating *System* (whereas Windows is not a
		complete operating system - it relies on DOS)
	- NT provides *true* preemptive multitasking for all programs
	- NT runs on different hardware platforms
	etc...

>I'd be grateful to anyone who answered my questions even if partially.
>
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ms86817@cs.tut.fi (Matti Suokko (OH5MRM))
Subject: Memory parity error detected. SYSTEM HALTED.
Originator: ms86817@kaarne.cs.tut.fi
Keywords: WINDOWS 3.1, CRASH
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:37:17 GMT

	SYSTEM ERROR: Memory parity error detected. System halted.


	What will cause the error message above ?
	When I upgraded WIN 3.0 to WIN 3.1 it worked fine, but then
	I formatted my HD and installed WIN 3.1 again, and 
	now it crashes 50 times a day. 

	Should I install 3.0 first and then upgrade it again to 3.1 ?
	

	--Matti Suokko 

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From: robf@pacifier.rain.com (Rob Fulwell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Cheap LAN for Win 3.1 capable machines
Date: 5 Sep 92 21:38:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: pacifier.1992Sep5.213824.10552
Distribution: na
Organization: Pacifier BBS

I'm looking for an inexpensive way to network 3-4 Windows 3.1 machines.  These
vary from 1 286 w/1meg to 2 386-33 with 4megs and a possible 386/486 addition.

All that is really required would be e-mail and fast file transfers.  File
sharing would be nice but is not necessary.  The key point is minimizing the
cost.  Thanks.

E-mail to robf@pacifier.rain.com preferred.

Rob Fulwell - Admin - McMahon H-net.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: chawdry@toto.cis.ohio-state.edu (rehan nisar chawdry)
Subject: Lotus BBS #
Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 14:06:34 GMT

Can anybody tell me what Lotus' BBS # is?  The number that I have seems
to be outdated in that after dialing, the operator tells me it has been
changed.  Then when I dial the changed number, it calls the voice tech support.

	-- Rehan --
From: stanton@athena.cs.uga.edu (Catherine Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: wav files in PC-speakers.
Date: 8 Sep 92 12:50:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Sep8.125058.19767
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

In article <2624.1100.uupcb@satalink.com> john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:
>AN.Remember earlier I asked how to play the wav files armed
>  .with only the PC-speaker. And I get a lot of replies on
>  .that. But 99% said "if you find out tell me too!"
>  .Luckly enough the 1% solved the problem!
>
>Kinda' boggles my mind that 99% of the Windows users here haven't heard
>about the speaker driver! :-)
>---
> . KingQWK 1.05 # 97 . I have dynamic memory, it needs refreshing...
>                                                                                                                        

Well, add me to the aforementioned ignorant 99%.  Course I've only had
my machine running, with Windows, for 3 weeks.  And before that I didn't
even know what you could do with .bmp files, .gif files, or most anything
else.  I ftp-ed to cica at your advice, just for kicks (Like *I* knew
what to do with a sound driver! HA!) and got it.  Then downloaded it and
had it up and running in 20 minutes.  The best thing is, my local "computer
guru" was ASTONISHED to hear how easy it was and that he could run sounds
with only a pc speaker too.  By far, the best result so far of the sound
driver, was having it set to "TADA" loudly when the machine was booted
up, I FINALLY caught my father sneaking in to play Minesweeper early in
the morning while I was still asleep! =)  Thanks for the advice!

Cat Stanton
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: PKUNZIP v.2.0 ??
Organization: :noitazinagrO
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 19:04:58 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.141252.3073W@lumina.edb.tih.no> ketil@edb.tih.no writes:
>
>There is a file at ftp.cica.indiana.edu in the win3/sounds directory,
>called muzika.zip, that requires PKUNZIP v.2.0 for uncompressing,
>according to the info in the file. I haven't seen v.2 anywhere, but would
>very much like to decompress this file. Where can I find PKUNZIP 2.0,
>or alternatively, an uncompressed version of muzika.zip?
>
>(If the answer is that v.2 is a fully commercial product rather than
>shareware, then I think it is a bad idea using it to compress files
>uploaded to anonymous ftp sites!)

Possibly the file's creator got fooled by the notorious "v2.01" hack of PKZIP,
which was really the v1.93 alpha release.  Yes, it is a bad idea, even
if v2.0 is available as shareware.  The release date for 2.0 was either
Sept. or Oct, and putting up a file in v2 format this soon after release
is ridiculous.  You might try unzipping it with v1.93 alpha.



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From: n9130193@honeydew.cc.wwu.edu (don j. schindler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Is GATES gay? Only a Fag could make windows
Date: 4 Sep 92 23:25:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: honeydew.n9130193.715649158
Organization: Western Washington University

>>>Windows sucks!  All window lovers are suckers.....love OS/2 you fools.
>>
>>>dont be sucker any more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>Don't you love it when the Freshmen hit the net?
>>

>Ah yes...

>It's fall again and time to endure another round of "It's only the
>NET and it's free, because I go to school here..."

Uh, guys, isn't there an attribute or some mail switch or something to block
freshmen and other User Headspace Errors????

--- Don Schindler (n9130193@henson.cc.wwu.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: dwoo@news.cs.uah.edu (Daniel Woo)
Subject: Re: VT100 emulation
Reply-To: dwoo@laser11.UUCP (Daniel Woo)
Organization: Computer Science Dept. - Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 13:42:59 GMT

In article <BuIyJA.MKK@infoac.rmi.de> siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck) writes:
>JOEL@jach.hawaii.edu (Joel Aycock) writes:
>
>>PS- if you have any other tips on VT100/200/300/Tek4014 emulation, I'm 
>>not above learning something new...
>
>Give MSKERMIT a chance. It's the best emulation I have ever seen,
>it's highly configurable, and - it's free.
>
>-ws
>--
>siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)
>

I have written a keyboard remapping utility that allows the Windows
terminal program to perform VT100 keypad editing, usings NumLock, /,
*, and - as PF1-PF4, among other things.  I posted vt100.zip at
ftp.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/pc/win3/uploads as shareware for $10.
You can e-mail me your comments about any problems or suggestions
for improvements.  I have not tested it with any other communications
programs, but if they behave like the terminal program they should
work with my program. 

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: dj@ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones)
Subject: Re: PKZIP Co. Windows Unarchiver?
Organization: :noitazinagrO
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 19:10:38 GMT

In article <1685EC828.PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> PRAETHE@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Ethan Evan Prater) writes:
>I rember reading some months back in PC Magazine about a Windows program from
>the people who make PKZip. It replaced Zip Manager, their earlier attempt at a
>Windows front end. This new version was supposed not to have to shell to DOS
>for un/archiving as well as supporting ARJ along with ZIP (maybe LZH too, I
>don's know.
> 
There've been a couple of efforts in this direction over the past couple
of years.  I wouldn't waste time on PKWare now that XTree for Windows is
out.  It allows you to mount a ZIP as a drive, so not only do you get
transparent file access, you can probably build ZIPs with drag-n-drop!


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: glee@glee-ss2.cisco.com (Glenn Lee)
Subject: Re: Request for Experience Information on Windows X Servers
X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message are those of an
	      individual at SRI International, and do not necessarily
	      reflect those of the company.
Organization: cisco Systems, Inc., Menlo Park, Ca.
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:46:29 GMT

In article <60073@mimsy.umd.edu> davecarr@cs.umd.edu (David Carr) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I am about to purchase an X server and wonder if anyone has any
>experience (good or bad) with one of the following products:  Xvision,
>Vista-eXceed/W, HCL-eXceed/W, and PC-Xview for Windows?  I am
>interested in performance, post sale support, and ease of
>installation.  Also, there may be feature differences between them
>that are not obvious from the sales fliers.  I would appreciate
>hearing from anyone with expericence with any of these products.
>
>
>Thanks in advance,
>David Carr

I have evaluated a few X-servers (PC-Xview, HCL-eXceed/W, and Xvision), and
the best Windows X-server is PC-Xview.  This now is a division of NCD.
They can be reached at (800) 800-9599.

The program supports Windows as the window manager, and also remote
window managers, such as twm, openlook, and motif.  It also has "virtual
windows", so that you can have X-clients off the side of the screen, and
then move your mouse, and the screen will move to expose the "hidden"
clients.

HCL-eXceed/W had a few bugs, and Xvision was not as well done as PC-Xview.

Glenn
From: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Memory parity error d
Date: 13 Sep 92 12:59:00 GMT
Reply-To: john.will@satalink.com (John Will)
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434

JW.>	SYSTEM ERROR: Memory parity error detected. System halted.
  .>
  .I had the same problem.  Apparently, Win 3.1 is much more sensitive to
  .certain hardware problems than previous versions.

The reason that Windows 3.1 is more sensitive to parity errors is that
Windows 3.0 had them disabled most of the time!  Actually, many of the
hangs that people cursed Windows 3.0 for were probably hardware failures.
---
 . KingQWK 1.05 # 97 . That .HLP file is no HELP!
                                             
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc