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From: tww40334@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dres)
Subject: smartdrv and windows 3.1
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:23:21 GMT

I have a 386 with 2 meg and when I run smartdrv with the
recommended settings for my system (smartdrv 1024 512)
windows runs slower!  For example, without a cache in windows,
Ms Word 2.0 took 35 seconds to load, WITH a 512k cache, it took
60 seconds to load, AND the hard drive would never stop running.

What is the problem here?  I was under the impression that a cache of
any size would speed up windows?   Am I wrong as it seems I am.




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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mtrottie@emr1.emr.ca (Marc Trottier)
Subject: Question on Running Windows on Novell Netware?
Organization: MPS, Energy, Mines & Resources, Canada
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:47:46 GMT

I'm running Windows 3.1 on Novell Netware 3.11 and I'm trying to find a way 
to setup Windows File Manager in a way that when a user run his file 
manager, only his home directory (on the LAN) and his local drives will 
appears. 

Is it possible to hide Network drives in any way that Windows File Manager 
won't see?

Thank in  advance.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: steimann@quando.quantum.de (Ulrich Steimann)
Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
Organization: Quantum Software GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:14:15 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.224822.11623@wam.umd.edu> mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
(Marc Meltzer) writes:
>In article <BxvMCB.LMM@ansoft.com> gupta@ansoft.com (Suvajit Gupta)  
>writes:
>:-> Is there a good public domain UNIX-style vi editor that runs under
>:-> Microsoft Windows?  Ideally, it should allow resizing of the window
>:-> it runs in.
>Pardon me if this sounds rude, but why would you want to use VI in  
>Windows?  It makes no sense to me to use only the keyboard in a
>graphical  user interface.  NotePad is a good editor, and if you
>don't think so, I'm  sure Write, or your other word processors can do
>a good job.

Pardon me if this sounds rude, but do _You_ know any editor better
than vi (oh, well, perhaps emacs...)?  Of course it depends on the
purpose, but vi has so many good features for programming and editing
quick things.  If you are used to it, it is very easy to work whith
it. So why no Windows-version? Cutting and pasting with the mouse
and resizing the screen are IMHO easy to put in vi.

And why _I_ like vi especially: I know every char it puts into a
file. Vi says "987 chars" and the file has 987 chars. It even
allows spaces at the end of a line!

Bye,
   UST
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.periphs.printers
From: cbuckley@unix1.tcd.ie (Colm Buckley)
Subject: Drivers for Star LC/24-20 for Windows 3.1 and WordPerfect 5.0?
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 12:29:51 GMT

Can anyone tell me whether (and from where) drivers for the STAR LC/24-20
dot matrix printer are available - for Microsoft Windows 3.1 (using Word
for Windows 2.0) and for WordPerfect 5.0 (on SCO UNIX, but I think the PRS
file is the same under UNIX as DOS). This printer works well using drivers
for the earlier version (the LC/24-10), but I would like it if new drivers
can be obtained to take advantage of the new printer's facilities.

Any help would be appreciated - please reply my EMail. I'll post a summary
if I get "me too" requests.

Thanks.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: jstall@dcl-nxt21 (Jeff Evan Stall)
Subject: Re: TV Windows
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:02:51 GMT

S.Culverhouse@lut.ac.uk writes:

>In article <Bxtutn.D1z@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ezachris@dakota.ucs.indiana.edu writes:
>>
>>Hi, netters/couch-potatoes!
>>
>>I'm using Win/TV from Hauppauge Computer Works, $439 from PC Connect.
>>It shows a clear picture in any Windows window with resolutions up to  
>>1024x768 (interlaced, 800x600 and 640x480 non-interlaced). Your VGA card  
>>must have a feature-connector to use Win/TV.
>>
>>It takes the output from your VGA card from the feature connector,  
>>super-imposes the TV image onto the computer-generated Windows-screen and  
>>sends the output directly to the monitor. As far as the computer is  
>>concerned the Win/TV window (fully resizable - it will even continue to  
>>display a TV picure as an icon) is just another window (static). 
>>
>>In fact, if you do a screen capture to grab the TV window, all you get is  
>>a pink window where your TV image is. This is because the Win/TV board  
>>uses the same technology that let's your local weather-man stand in front  
>>of the weather-map. If you do want to grab the picture Win/TV has a  
>>freeze-frame button.  
>>
>>Espen Zachrisen
>>Indiana University
>>ezachris@arapahoe.ucs.indiana.edu

>Does this board use a C&T chipset ?  There are several boards available in the
>UK which use the C&T set.  I have used one, called ELViS, which comes in two
>versions.  The older version of the C&T chip does not have sqare pixel 
>representation of the video, so the image seem slightly elongated in the 
>vertical.  The second version if fine, and uses a Philips ADC and DAC system.

>Overall I was very impressed, and the UK price is about #500 - #700 depending
>on the board version.  All you need to do is think of an application for it.


>Regards,
>Simon.

Also, with the board work with a Diamond Stealth with 1 meg.  I would love to
watch TV in a window, but do not want to get another board.

Please e-mail any comments

Jeff Stall
jstall@uiuc.edu

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: mcleod@fraser.sfu.ca (D'Arcy Dean McLeod)
Subject: Failuer code 13?
Summary: Failuer code 13?
Keywords: 13
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:17:30 GMT

 
Windows Netters
 
I'm having a devil of a time installing TRIDENT video drivers in a
Novell 2.2 LAN.  The user workstation has no local hard drive so
windows must run of the server with user custom files in a private
network directory.
 
SETUP /N and Change System Settings give me istallation errors and
when I examine BOOTLOG.TXT I get a Load Failure Error Code = 13
when windows tries to load a DRV file. Does anyone know what the
error code 13 means or is there anyone who has successfully
installed OEM Video drivers in a Novell LAN?
 
Thanks.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: JC924@uacsc2.albany.edu
Subject: Re: MS ACCESS vs PARADOX/Win
Organization: University at Albany, Albany NY 12222
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 09:10:06 EST

In article <1992Nov13.192808.12128@PacBell.COM>
jcwasik@srv.PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) writes:
 
>So now, what to do...  How will Access compare to Paradox/Win?  What does
>the Usenet community think aboout this?
>
And how does Access relate to FoxPro for Windows, which I had assumed was
going to be MS's database for Windows?
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:08:41 EST
From: <MALLETP@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Statistica/w opinions?

Has anyone had a look at Statistica for Windows. How does it run? Will it plot
error bars on bar and line graphs? Will it do your basic stuff (the Quick Stati
stica/W version) like ANOVA, MANOVA, pairwise comparisons, Geisser-Greenhouse a
djusted degress of freedom. Any input would be greatly apreciated. Thanks in ad
vance.
Paul Mallet
Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada K7L 3N6
MALLETP@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA
From: brianm@soda.berkeley.edu (Brian Markenson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Qmodem 5.01 in Windows
Date: 24 Nov 1992 04:41:37 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu

I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right place, but I'm trying to run
Qmodem 5,01 in a windows environment.  I'm having two problems with it.
First of all, If I try to run it with a pif file, then the full screen mode
has a very screwy looking character set...things get pretty messed up and
illegible.  The second problem (and more important one...I can always just
not run it from a pif file) is that when trying to download something with
zmodem, the download crashes if I so much as move my mouse.  I have the
program set on Foreground/background at 100, with background processing
enabled.
	Again, I don't know if this is the place to post this...if not,
please let me know where I should be... :-)
	Any help is appreciated.  thanks alot....


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From: lund@diku.dk (Henrik Lund)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! Windows and ET4000 drivers
Date: 23 Nov 92 12:06:32 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen

ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:

>In article <1992Nov5.172834.15777@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> wheinri@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Werner Heinrich) writes:

>> (windows trashed story deleted)


>Here is what I've done in similar situations:


>1) copy all .ini, .bmp, .pif and .grp fils somewhere safe

Why bother with all the .bmp files ?
(If you have great home made pictures you should back them up seperatly)

>2) trash the Windows directory and the System directory
>3) re-install Windows with the drivers that worked before
>4) copy the files back.

I use a .bat file which looks something like this (without comments)

c:
cd \
xcopy *.ini a: /s                  (* remember /s *)
xcopy *.grp a: /s
xcopy *.inf a: /s                 (* my vga board comes with an inf file *)
                                  (* that has to be located in the win dir*)

I run this bat file once in a while.
(especially before messing with the win.ini and system.ini files)

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Have fun
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: shopsis@panther.adelphi.edu (Charles Shopsis)
Subject: Video Problems
Organization: Adelphi University - Node: Boole
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:25:35 GMT

I have been experiencing an intermittent computer video problem, and I don't
know which of my components is responsible.

My system is:
     1. a Northgate 386 20 MHz computer with 4 Mb of RAM
     2. an ATI VGA Wonder card with 512 K RAM  (revision 1.03).  This card
     came with 256 K of RAM; the additional 256 K was added about 2 years
     ago and has caused no problems
     3. a Zenith 1490 flat screen monitor

The problem(s):
1. When I start the system, particularly if its been off for several hours or
overnight, the initial text on the screen indicating the BIOS and the memory
check is sometimes enlarged, garbled and completely illegible.  This malady
appears before the hard disk has been read.  If the boot is allowed to
continue, no legible text appears on the screen.  Re-booting sometimes 
results in thesame behavior, but eventually results in a readable VGA 
monochrome display. Turning the monitor off and then on again never helps, 
only a reboot (warm seems as effective as cold).  Eventually, after several 
reboots, the system appears normal.

2. While running this apparently normal system in Windows 3.1 configured for
640 X 480 with 16 colors, there are rapid, transient flashes of color change
on the screen, which then returns to normal.  Sometimes, when I run a DOS
program full-screen, the program behaves as if the computer is in EGA mode. 
When I run ATI's VCONFIG program (a utility that detects and sets the video
mode), it indicates that the computer is in EGA mode, even though Windows
was running in VGA.  If I exit the DOS window and return to Windows, the
Windows is in a different video mode, with text enlarged so that only part of a
full-screen window is visible.  If I then open up a DOS window, run VCONFIG,
and reset the mode to VGA, and then return to Windows, things appear normal
again (until the next time I run a DOS program, whether from a PIF or a DOS
window, at which point the problem recurs).

Are these two problems related?  Is it (or are they) due to the video card, the
motherboard, the monitor, or an improper diet?  Has anybody out there
experienced anything similar?
From: slegge@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Anyone have a DRDOS icon? What's a good icon maker?
Date: 24 Nov 92 03:04:19 GMT
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada

I'd like to replace the "MSDOS PROMPT" icon in Win 3.1 with a 
"DR DOS 6" icon.
 
Does anyone have or know where I can find a DR DOS icon?
 
Otherwise, can someone recommend a good ICON DRAWER program so I can
make one myself?
 
Stephen Legge
SLEGGE@kean.ucs.mun.ca
From: z_rasmusseam@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Needed IBM Printer Drivers
Date: 17 Nov 92 11:49:00 CST
Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University

	I have recently been digging around in the storage room of our
Library and I found a IBM 3812 Laser printer.  Would anyone out there happen
to know of any drivers (for windows) for this printer or of any that are
close enough so that I can use it?  It works fine (from the test function and
from Word Perfect (which uses its own drivers)).  Any and all help is
appreciated.  Thank in advance.    
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: robert@slipknot.rain.com (Robert Reed)
Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
Reply-To: robert@slipknot.rain.com.UUCP (Robert Reed)
Organization: Home Animation Ltd.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:59:54 GMT

In article <1992Nov19.232533.2725@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes:
|In article <1992Nov19.224822.11623@wam.umd.edu> mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu writes:
|>
|>Pardon me if this sounds rude, but why would you want to use VI in  
|>Windows?  It makes no sense to me to use only the keyboard in a graphical  
|>user interface.  NotePad is a good editor, and if you don't think so, I'm  
|>sure Write, or your other word processors can do a good job.
|
|Several reasons come to my mind:
|
|   1) Once you learn vi, it's hard to break the habit.  And if you can
|      have it on both Unix and DOS machines, why bother using a different
|      editor each time?
|
|   2) Notepad and most other text editors store the entire file in RAM.
|      This limits the maximum file size that they can handle.  Proper
|      VI clones use swap/temporary files for storage, so there is no
|      limit on the size of the file that can be edited.
|
|   3) Word processors are larger programs and take longer to load.  Of
|      course, if speed isn't an issue, I guess it doesn't matter.

One that you forgot, and would be probably the most important reason for having
such a tool, is GUI schitzophrenia reduction.  Even early human factors studies
on pointer-based direct manipulation interfaces demonstrated that having either
a purely pointer based or purely keyboard based application is more efficient
than having an application where the user must frequently shift between the
two.  There are a lot of cognitive actions which the user must perform to find,
say a mouse, relocate the cursor or the new point of interest, use the mouse to
bring the program focus to that point, and finally reestablish contact with the
keyboard.

Now, text editing is a classic case of the repeated cycle of changing pointer
position and then doing text entry.  As such, an editor that allows the user to
do simple cursor positioning without having to remove hands from the keyboard
is a big win.  And that means the home row, not even allowing the use of cursor
positioning keys.  Given that understanding, pick your model, vi, Emacs,
Wordstar, whatever.  I was an Emacs bigot for a number of years, and though I
still think it does some things better than vi, a couple of years of forced use
of vi brought me to realize the power of its command structure, and now for
most text editing I would prefer to use vi.
________________________________________________________________________________
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robert@slipknot.rain.com	5686 First Court, West Linn, OR 97068

I'll be damned if I'll love just to love--there's got to be more to it than
that.
--Humphrey Bogart
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From: bx953@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Cardfile Print -- help still needed
Date: 17 Nov 1992 03:20:03 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bx953@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David R. Cohen)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


This message is reposted, since I got no replies before.  Can anyone
suggest how to print a cardfile so that you get more than one or three
cards per page?  I am hoping that there is a way to print a cardfile and
not have to cut all the cards out with a scissors, in order to put the
cards into a rolodex. 
Any suggestions?  

I have a laser printer, if that matters.

Thank.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: jcwasik@srv.PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik)
Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
Organization: Pacific * Bell
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:03:10 GMT

>In an article mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu writes:
>>In an article gupta@ansoft.com (Suvajit Gupta) writes:
>>:-> Is there a good public domain UNIX-style vi editor that runs under
>>:-> Microsoft Windows?
>>
>>Pardon me if this sounds rude, but why would you want to use VI in  
>>Windows?  It makes no sense to me to use only the keyboard in a graphical  
>>user interface.  NotePad is a good editor, and if you don't think so, I'm  
>>sure Write, or your other word processors can do a good job.

Here we go again.  A religious topic.  I'd love to get vi for Windows --
I'd even pay for it.  Once you learn the keystrokes (too much work for
many, I know) it is a very fast fast editor.

Surely you jest when you say Notepad is a good editor.  That's not even
worth discussing.  And Write isn't even a text editor, it is a word
processor.  That won't work for us text types.

>ttyl,     | "My friends, no matter how rough the road maybe, we can and we  |
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>raistlin@wixer.cactus.org  \ -- Vice Pres Dan Quayle to Christian Coalition |
>wixer!raistlin@cs.utexas.edu\-----------------------------------------------+

I do believe the Bedroom Police lost the election.  Time to move on...

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin)
Subject: Is new Orchid Farenheight card any good?
Organization: Johns Hopkins Univ APL
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 17:46:51 GMT


I saw an ad for a new video card from Orchid that does 21 winmarks
and includes a microphone to record sound (? sounds wierd to me).
Does anyone have this card? Are there any reviews in computer
magazines for this card (espically to compare it with ATI). It
is time to get rid of my Trident 8900 :)

--
Don Rubin
Johns Hopkins Univ APL
rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu
From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Ligatures in AmiPro and TYPECHAR
Date: 20 Nov 92 14:24:38 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

I recently posted an inquiry about how to achieve automatic ligating in
AmiPro. That is, I would like to type single letters like <f><f> and
have AmiPro replace this when printing (and, if possible, on the screen
as well) with an <ff> ligature.

One reader commented that AmiPro couldn't do this. Another drew my
attention to the TYPECHAR macro provided by Lotus with AmiPro as an
optionally installable feature, commenting that this feature could do
"exactly" what I was asking for.

This macro does provide easier access to characters not traditionally
available through the keyboard, but it does not provide for _automatic_
ligating. That is, even using TYPECHAR, I still have to insert an <ff>
ligature explicitly; I can't get one by typing separate <f> and <f>.

Has anyone discovered a way of providing for automatic ligating in
AmiPro? Or am I just out of luck?

Thanks,

David

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From: yfwu@Uz.nthu.edu.tw (EE U780935)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Adobe "TypeAlign" for TrueType????
Date: 17 Nov 92 00:35:09 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: National Tsing Hua University (HsinChu)

cfw@unixland.natick.ma.us (Christopher Wroten) writes:
> I just discovered Adobe's "TypeAlign", which allows me to play with fonts
> in wonderful ways, such as twisting and stretching and all sorts of neat
> stuff.
> 
> Is there any similar program which is shareware?
> 
> Is there any similar program which works on TrueType fonts?
Just use Corel Draw's font boss to convert TrueType to ATM's postscript font
and you can then use TypeAlign.

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