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From: jkam@cs.ubc.ca (Johnny Kam)
Subject: General Protection Fault Problem
Summary: windows crashed
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 20:16:48 GMT


Hello netters,

I have a serious problem runnning win 3.1 on a 383/33 computer. The
problem is that windows crashed very frequently with a "General
Protection Fault" error. 

I have DOS 5 installed, and I've tried almost every options with
HIMEN.SYS and EMM386.EXE (both windows version), and still windows
crashed, even when I tried "win /d:x".

The computer passed the diagnostic checks on both the system board and
memory, so I suspect that there might be a problem with the high
memory management...

Do you think that putting in a newer version of BIOS would help? since
the AMI BIOS is quite old.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


-- 

   Johnny Kam			University of British Columbia
<jkam@cs.ubc.ca>		Department of Computer Science

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.graphics
From: scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY)
Subject: Re: NEED TO CONVERT GIF TO W4W PIC FORMAT
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 12 Aug 1992 17:29 EST  

In article <0X7DPB2w165w@micromed.com>, diskount@micromed.com (don hirschfeld) 
writes...
>sassoj@vccsouth22.its.rpi.edu (John J. Sasso Jr.) writes:
> 
>> 
>>    Does anyone know of a program for the PC which will convert a GIF format
>> file to a .BMP or any other picture file format that is compatible with
>> Microsoft's Word for Windows?  If there is something I can grab from an ftp 
>> site, I would like to know.
>> 
>>                   Thanks,
>>                  John
>> 
> 
>There are several pd programs like WinGif and gif2bmp on PC BBS's.

Paintshop Pro is a pretty good one also.  However, last time I checked 
WinGif (and Paintshop Pro) is shareware and not necessarily pd.

JD
From: reczek@acsu.buffalo.edu (Tim Reczek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: HELP: PC keeps rebooting whenever phone rings!!
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:10:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Revelstone Preservation Society

Does anyone know why my PC (a 386/40MHz AMD chip, 4MB RAM, 130 MB hard drive)
reboots sometimes when I am in Windows 3.1 and the phone rings?  I haven't
been able to reliably duplicate the problem every time yet, but it has
happened both before and after I have used Windows Terminal.  My 2400 baud
Hayes compatible modem is connected to COM2.  I never had this problem
under Windows 3.0, only since installing 3.1 has it occurred.

Any help is appreciated.
Tim




-- 

  Those who resist temptation have no one to blame but themselves...

  reczek@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu
From: shayden@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Sean Lee Hayden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Windows & Soundblaster 2.0
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:33:51 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio


Does anyone know where i can find the correct drivers for windows and my 
Soundblaster 2.0 (* not the pro *).  I seem to be having some minor problems
with the 1.5 drivers.

And has anyone got the file winjam to work with their soundblaster?  No music
will play when i tryit.

Sean
From: kw_simpk@csd.brispoly.ac.uk ( Keith Simpkin )
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Paradise/Western Digital drivers for Win 3.1
Date: 14 Aug 92 09:40:00 GMT
Reply-To: kw_simpk@csd.brispoly.ac.uk
Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, England.

Please, does anybody have Windows 3.1 drivers for the Western Digital 
Paradise vga as fitted to oem boards, using the WD90C30 chip and
1 Meg of video ram?  
The parad31.zip file from ftp.cica.indiana has drivers which only utilise
512k of video ram and do not give a 1024x768 256 color mode.
Also, drivers for 640x480 256 color 1 meg and
                  800x600 256 color 1 meg
should be much faster than 512k versions ( as they were with Windows 3.0 ).
I have had the old Windows 3.0 drivers UAE on me many times now under 3.1
and my hardware manufacturer seems unable to help saying that the 3.0 
drivers are all they can offer. Any help please to 
						Keith Simpkin
			email  ( JANET ) kw_simpk@uk.ac.brispoly.csd
			    ( INTERNET ) kw_simpk@csd.brispoly.ac.uk


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
Subject: Another annoying SMARTDRV crash bug
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:25:10 GMT

Smartdrv obviously completely crashes the system when a write error 
occurs on a drive with write-cache enabled. I actually consider this 
unacceptable for professional software. You can try it if you turn on 
write cache for a floppy disk drive (which is sometimes very convenient) 
and either put in a bad disk or even only a write-protected one - 
smartdrv doesn't even recognize that and takes no reasonable consequence.
Hasn't anyone noticed this problem before?
Thomas Wolff
wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de
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Subject: Re: Changing colors in winhelp
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 10:24:59 +0000







> Message-ID: <yuval.713683461@shum>
>Good day!
> How does one change the colors of hyper-text link or popup help in WinHelp.
>It seems that these colors are fixed to green which is very nice when working
>in the default color scheme, but looks horrible (or actually bearly looks at
>all) when the background color is not white.
>Thanks
> Yuval Rakavy
>  yuval@shum.huji.ac.il

You need to edit win.ini to do this. In the [Windows Help] section you can
add

JumpColor=r g b
PopUpColor=r g b

where "r", "g" and "b" are the RGB values of the colours you want.

Does anyone known how an application can find out the current values for these
colours. I've been calling GetProfileString to read win.ini but there must be
a better method.

James M. Ross

(j.m.ross@man0507.wins.icl.co.uk)
From: dp2r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Denise Pullen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Trident and DTC
Date: 16 Aug 92 19:48:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.seXm62S00WB9A7KmNp
Distribution: usa
Organization: Drama, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.ms-windows.misc: 14-Aug-92 Trident and DTC
by David Eastwood@inline 
> Could some kind soul provide me with either telephone numbers
> or addresses (or even both) for Trident or DTC? I'm trying to
> get hold of all the stuff I *should* have got when I bought 
> the machine, like docs and utility disks..... 

Trident BBS: 415-691-1016

-D-
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 01:25:18 EDT
From: <FWR100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Park the Disk

>Does anyone know of a program that parks
>the disk, for Windows 3.0 ?

Why do you want to park your drives from Windows?  As far as I know, the only
time you park your drive heads is before turning off your computer.  Turning
it off from inside Windows is a Really Bad Idea, and exiting Windows accesses
the disk, unparking your heads.  Is there another reason you want your heads
parked (laptop sleep mode,etc.) and is it really necessary? (most new drives
autopark).

-Frank
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: s9874203@titan.ucc.umass.edu (s9874203)
Subject: Re: WINSPEED DRIVERS LOCATION
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 02:21:01 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.222204.7088@wam.umd.edu> macole@wam.umd.edu (Mario A. Cole) writes:
>In article <1992Aug21.123008.1@vax1.umkc.edu> edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu writes:
>>The location of the winspeed drivers is in Japan:
>>
>>isfs.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp
>>
>>You could also try archie (if available) to see if it is anywhere else.
>>archie -r winspeed.zip
>>
>>Eric Dowdy
>>University of Missouri
>
>That's it!  Japan!!!!!  That's where I got the drivers from!  Thanks Eric.
>In fact you just saved me from digging through my disk library (semi-
>catalogued).  Well, folks...use it in good health.
>
>Mario
>

Excuse me, there is a file winspeed.lzh in that site, but that is window
performance analysis, not a driver if I understand it correctly. How can
it improve the windows performance? BTW, winspeed.lzh is in the
directory MSDOS/WINDOWS/uitls.

H.Y.

Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Mine Sweeper cheating
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:36:47 GMT

In article <1559@anagld.analytics.com> sammy@anagld.analytics.com (Sam Blackburn) writes:

>Using the cheating method, you can find a square that has a mine underneath
>it.  However, when you click on that square, the mine magically moves!

I just wonder whether the mine moves or whether it just goes away. The
cheating method + some recordkeeping ought to tell you...




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From: Dave.Beaujean@davespc.mi.org (Dave Beaujean)
Sender: FredGate@davespc.mi.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Wanted GIF VIEWER for MS-DOS/Windows Machines
Distribution: world
Date: 16 Aug 92 23:38:00 EST

Hi All!

In a msg of <17 Aug 92>, Naren Bala writes to All:


 NB> Hi,
 NB> Does anyone know of programs to view gif files on MS-DOS or Window
 NB> machines ? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks ** Naren **

A program called wingif14.zip is great for windows. I got
it from ftp.cica.indiana.edu. Sorry, I don't remember where
I found it but you can try using archie.

Dave

Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,bit.listserv.win3-l
From: cballen@hubcap.clemson.edu (charles allen)
Subject: Re: printing postscript files
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 21:42:45 GMT

skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok) writes:

>>||
>>||How could a .ps postscript file be printed  in the Win 3.1 
>>||environment? Since we can't use an editor to open it and print
>>||from  within  editor.
>>||
>>|
>>|Shell to dos, then type:
>>|copy /b FILENAME.ps LPT1
>>|                    ^^^^
>>|                      |
>>| Use the number for the port that the printer is attached to.
>>|
>>
>>... Or how about dragging and dropping it onto the print 
>>manager?
>Naah, it won't. Dropping a file on the printmanager will start the
>program that is registered for that file type (-extension) and call the
>corresponding print command. You'd have to have a dump-program that you
>could register for the *.ps-files in order for drag and drop printing to
>work.

Could the DOS copy command be manually added to WIN.INI as the command
to call for all .PS files?  In the Extensions section I think?  Or
was that only for Win 3.0?  That way you could double-click the name of
the file from filemanager and boom, it prints.
 
-Charles Allen
CBALLEN@CLEMSON.CLEMSON.EDU
8/15
From: gb03@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (GEORGE PHILIP BLUHM)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: LOTS OF ADVICE SOUGHT
Date: 23 Aug 92 14:38:30 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <BtF75p.n15@chinet.chi.il.us>, prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts) writ
es:
>
>Inspired in large part by my wife's needs as a free-lance graphic
>designer, we are about to buy a new home computer (I am slightly stunned
>to discover that our 386-25 with 80meg hard drive is getting strained,
>but at least the hardware prices keep dropping, sigh). Anyway, there are
>a couple of key decision points that I'd like to throw out on the floor
>for comment and discussion, and maybe get a good flame war or two
>going...-;)
>

>2) Regarding a scanner: what should we look for in a scanner? Say, for
>black-and-white, as opposed to color? Are these cheap hand-held scanners
>claiming to do 256 shades of gray worth a damn, perhaps at least for
>line art and drawings? What kind of dpi rating is considered the minimum
>to be useful for light professional use?


>

I use the Chinon ds3000 for color scanning.  It has the advantage of scanning
3d object upto 3/4" high.  It can scan in gray scale only.  However, a color
filter is avaiable to do 3 color scan at 8 bit per color(256 levels).  The
scanner includes a program to merge the three scans.  This also cost less than
flatbed scanners ~~ $800.00









>3) Other than daisy-chaining peripherals, is there a reason to get a
>SCSI hard drive instead of IDE? I though there was a speed boost, but
>the salesmen say it ain't so, say a good IDE drive will be just as fast
>as a SCSI one, and save the $200 cost of the SCSI controller.
>

The last scsi controller I bought was less than $100.00 from Jameco.  Drives
are not the only thing to consider with a scsi controller.  There are other
devices such a tapes, printers, scanner, plotters, and other device to hook to
the controller.  With a scsi II controller, the data transfer rate can be a
high as 10 megbyte per second.  Also most removable media SyQuest, IOMEGA, etc
are scsi based.



>Thanks in advance!
>Paul Botts
>prb@chinet.chi.il.us
>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Subject: Re: Cyrillic font (tt maybe)??
Reply-To: aa699@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tony Thomas)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 92 21:11:44 GMT


In a previous article, veikko@vipunen.hut.fi (Vesa J Pyyluoma) says:

>
>Hi.  This could be a FAQ, but has anyone ever come across a *truetype*
>cyrillic font??  Or any other fancy variations of the same theme?
>
>cheers,
>
>Vesa J Pyyluoma		veikko@vipunen.hut.fi		DoD# 200h
>Avionics rules!				 Helsinki Univ. of Tech, Finland
>
>
If you could find one in another format (Adobe, Agfa, etc.), one would
not be difficult to make using Atech's AllType program or something
similar...


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From: claborne@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM (Chris Claborne)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI drives and Windows (problems)
Date: 20 Aug 92 05:05:46 GMT
Organization: NCR Corp., Network Products - San Diego

In <18AUG199210434176@summa.tamu.edu> kbm8572@summa.tamu.edu (BRYAN MILLIGAN) writes:


>	I have a 386/33 with an Adaptec 1542A SCSI controller, a 120MB Maxtor,
>installed Windows 3.1:
>	1.  Creation of a permanent swap file causes Windows to be unstable
>	    (lost groups, numerous crashes, a lot of general protection
>	    faults, etc.).
>	2.  I think that the new SMARTDRV.EXE is causing erratic behavior in
>	    programs when I'm not in Windows.
>	3.  SMARTDRV.EXE does not behave according to the documentation.  There
>	    is no way for me to disable the write-cache; it's either all or
>	    none.
>Has anyone else with a similar setup had these problems, or (better yet) does
>anyone have a fix?  BTW I'm using the ASPI driver from Adaptec not AHA1540.SYS. 
Ther is a problem with smart drive if you don't start it like:
  device=C:\WIN3\SMARTDRV.EXE /double_buffer

Do you have the /double_buffer in ther?


    2
== C  ==
chris.claborne@sandiegoca.ncr.com                    CI$: 76340.2422
From: cellis@ds5000.DAC.Northeastern.edu (Charles Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: Win 3.1 & ATI Driver(s)
Date: 13 Aug 92 22:41:18 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston MA. USA 02115

In article <1992Aug12.231334.12270@meaddata.com>, marc@meaddata.com (Marc Kuperstein) writes:
> Help!!!
> 
> I have tried to connect with ATI's BBS and had no success.  I need to
> download drivers for their video cards.
> 
> Anyway, I have set my modem an 8N1 at 19.2, 9.6, and 2.4 -- I can't
> seem to get anything legible.  It looks like a parity problem and/or
> baud rate.  I have changed the settings around ... still no luck.
> 
> Clearly I am missing something!!!
> 
> Can anyone help point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Marc
> 
------------------------------

Rather than try their BBS, all the drivers are available by FTP at

ftp.cica.indiana.edu

in directory   pub/pc/win3/drivers/video

win31acc.zip    920614  ATI Windows 3.1 Accelerator Drivers
win31vga.zip    920425  ATI Wonder, Graphics Ultra, Graphics Vantage VGA Drvrs
win31xtl.zip    920719  ATI Crystal Font Driver  for Win31 (7/16/92 ver)


It also appears that very recently ATI themselves uploaded the same files
which are in directory /pub/pc/win3/uploads, along with short *.txt files 
which identify ATI as the source.

Good luck.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: rb450@rbhp64.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Guenter Schwaninger)
Subject: WinHelp macro
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 07:23:39 GMT
Organization: TH Darmstadt

In the Microsoft Win. 3.1 Programmer's Reference Vol 2 (Functions),
they discuss the API function WinHelp. On page 987, there is a command
mentioned with the name HELP_COMMAND. This executes a Help macro with
dwData containing a long pointer to a macro name.

I haven't found out yet what macros I can execute in WinHelp. Does anyone
know of any macros WinHelp is able to execute ?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance, Guenter.



Guenter Schwaninger
rb450@rbhp24.rbg.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Windows and Sound Blaster
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:20:04 GMT
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.


   Please forgive me if this is a FAQ, but...
   I have a 386DX/20 running Windows 3.0, and I've solved many of the problems
I've faced (I even got the damn thing to recognize COM4).  However, when I run
an application which uses the Sound Blaster, the sound is *very* slow.  It's
like playing a 78 RPM record at 33.  Why is this happening (other than the fact
that Windows always makes everything slower!)?  Is there any way I can
configure my system to get around that?  Is Windows 3.1 similar in its treat-
ment of sound boards?

Tim Irvin    j056600@lmsc5.is.lmsc.lockheed.com
From: nauck@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Detlef Nauck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI drives and Windows (problems)
Date: 20 Aug 92 10:20:46 GMT
Reply-To: nauck@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Detlef Nauck)
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany

In article <5666@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM> claborne@npg-sd.SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM (Chris Claborne) writes:
>In <18AUG199210434176@summa.tamu.edu> kbm8572@summa.tamu.edu (BRYAN MILLIGAN) writes:
>
>
>>	I have a 386/33 with an Adaptec 1542A SCSI controller, a 120MB Maxtor,
>>installed Windows 3.1:
>>	1.  Creation of a permanent swap file causes Windows to be unstable
>>	    (lost groups, numerous crashes, a lot of general protection
>>	    faults, etc.).
>>	2.  I think that the new SMARTDRV.EXE is causing erratic behavior in
>>	    programs when I'm not in Windows.
>>	3.  SMARTDRV.EXE does not behave according to the documentation.  There
>>	    is no way for me to disable the write-cache; it's either all or
>>	    none.
>>Has anyone else with a similar setup had these problems, or (better yet) does
>>anyone have a fix?  BTW I'm using the ASPI driver from Adaptec not AHA1540.SYS. 
>Ther is a problem with smart drive if you don't start it like:
>  device=C:\WIN3\SMARTDRV.EXE /double_buffer
>
>Do you have the /double_buffer in ther?
>
>
>    2
>== C  ==
>chris.claborne@sandiegoca.ncr.com                    CI$: 76340.2422

I think Smartdrv 4.0 has a general problem with SCSI controllers. After
I installed it my 486-50 Mhz (the same with my 33 Mhz machine) was 
incredibly slow in accessing all drives (HD and floppy). Nothing changed,
when I disabled write caching and floppy caching. One machine needed
double buffering (33 Mhz) the other (50 MHz) not. At least smartdrv told
me when I called smartdrv /s after it was installed properly.

I went back to smartdrv 3.x that came with my MSDOS 5.0 and tossed the
version that came with Windows 3.1 out. Everything works fine for me now.
Perhaps you should give it a try.

Detlef.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: c2s4027@tamsun.tamu.edu (Cedric Sims)
Subject: Re: Windows and Gemini 10x?
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:03:54 GMT

In article <1992Aug7.215121.8340@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> dww2@po.CWRU.Edu (David W. Woodward) writes:
>
>Has anybody used an old Star Gemini 10X printer with Windows 3.1?
>What driver should be used?
>
>Thanks!

Back with Win 1.0 <yes, 1.0> MS decided to distribute a driver for
the 10X. It still works with Win 3.1. You haven't seen anything
until you've seen a 10X do TrueType! Of course I rely on my new
Hp IIIsi, but I had to find out if my 10X still worked. Just drop
me some email and I'll send a uuencoded file to you. I might put it
up on cica if there is enough demand.

Good luck,
Cedric.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: ekl@fics.uucp
Subject: Re: Why DOS 5.0 for Windows 3.1 ???
Organization: Kvam data as
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:38:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy

In article <1992Aug15.220853.13034@udel.edu> duzan@braindamaged.cis.udel.edu (Gary D. Duzan) writes:
>In article <sauron.713912919@femto.engr.mun.ca> sauron@nano.engr.mun.ca (Patrick Ryan) writes:
>=>fox@rei.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
>=>
>=>If your use something like QEMM with it as well, the savings go a bit
>=>higher.  I can get 610464 bytes of memory free, and that's with
>=>soundcard drivers, mouse driver, ANSI...  I'm impressed.
>=>
>   Just make sure that you don't load SMARTDRV.EXE high. When I first
>set up 3.1 it was crashing quite regularly, which rather annoyed me since
>it was supposed to be more stable than 3.0. I traced the problem to
>SMARTDRV and 3.1 has behaved itself pretty well since then. (I'm still
>looking forward to poking around with OS/2 2.0, but that is another
>story. :-)

Talking about memory -- I have 6108512 bytes free in my dos session,
together with MB after MB of extended and expanded memory. I am logged
on to a LanServer network, have TCP/IP drivers loaded, use my PC as
an X-server, function as an NFS client. If I want to, I can export my
disks as NFS file systems. I also have Multimedia support, and 
currently listen to John Farnham (Pressure down).

The system is very stable, and hardly ever crashes.
The drawback is, of course, that I only have Windows 3.0 support. I run,
of course, oh ess two. I guess I should redirect followups...

Eirik
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc