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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: Visual c++
In-Reply-To: David A. Fuess's message of 26 Apr 1993 14: 22:55 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.8.210.197
Organization: Pelican Software Corporation
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To clarify:  

VC++ *is* considered an upgrade for C7.  There will be no product
called C 8.0 .  C7 is not a "DOS"-only product -- it is a C/C++
compiler capable of producing executables for DOS or Windows, as is
VC++ .  The  difference is that VC++ comes with
many Windows-hosted tools  which assist developers in
creating Windows executables much more quickly .  Initial
impressions have been very favorable.

Everyone who is a registered user of C7 should have received a
considerable amount of info regarding the specifics of C7. If you
haven't, call Microsoft and I'm sure they'd be happy to send you some!

-Jefrem Iwaniw
Pelican Software Corporation
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: Anyone know stacker's email address?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Waldbronn, Germany
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> Does anybody know if stacker has a e-mail address and if
> so, what it is?  I know they have a BBS and something on
> compuserve, but I'm hoping someone know's their e-mail
> address.

John White from STAC Electronics can be reached at compuserv as 72370,1005.
For me  would as email address work from Internet.

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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Windows Disk Drive Test availabel?
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Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Is their a pd/freeware hard drive utility that can handle
a compressed IDE drive without screwwing it up?

Need to document occasional failures in reading/writing,
check overall integrity of disk's hardware and sectors.

I believe that all of my problems with DOS/Windows can
be isolated to my drive.  Getting occasional corrupted
files, even with smartdrive, 32 bit access turned off.
Had these problems under DOS 5.  Only with drive C.
Drive D may have had one failure, but that file was
under the control of Win/Winword on drive C.

All utilities available to me report no problems.
DOS, NDD .  Another symptom, SD took forever
on C, and kicked me out with a suspension till NDD run
6 to 8 times.

Thanks.

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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: ATM
Organization: AT&T
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In article <1r1jq4$>   writes:
>
>I've been reading, with much confusion, about whether or not to use
>ATManager. Lately, all the packages I've been buying have all
>included ATManager as a "bonus"
>I do some desktop publishing using PageMaker and Coreldraw.
>Coreldraw comes with a nifty laser disk that contains over 200 diff
>types. Add that to the TTfonts that come with win31 and you have a
>decent amount of fonts. I print my creations out on an HP4
>Postcript, at 600 dpi resolution with the "Resolution Enhancement 
>Technology" and ..  well ... I get some darn good copies. 
>So good that there isn't any diff whether or not ATManager is turned
>on or not. Is it worth it to run ATM at all? Especially with these
>better printer technologies ... and TT?

ATM will do nothing for your TrueType fonts.  If your TrueType fonts are
sufficient for your needs, don't run ATM.  I have a lot of fonts that I can
install either as Type-1 PostScript  or as TrueType.  I have
noticed that:

    1.	TrueType font files are at least 1/3 larger than their Type-1
	equivalents.  If you are using a disk compressor, though, be aware
	that TrueType fonts will compress, whereas Type-1 fonts will not
	.

    2.	With a 300 dpi laser printer, the "artificial bold" version of a
	TrueType font is indistingishable from the original, forcing me to
	install the actual bold  variants if I want
	to use them.  Type-1 PostScript fonts under ATM generate a visually
	distinct bold variant from the base font.  I realize that the
	artificial bold font that ATM generates is aesthetically inferior
	to the hand-generated bold TrueType variant, but it is sufficient
	for my needs, and not having to install bold variants saves me 50%
	on disk space .

--
Bob Nichols
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Any video gurus feel like attacking this quirk...?
Article-I.D.: shelley.1qsce9INNgd0
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Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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Hi there,
I'm having a bizarre video problem within Windows 3.1.  I have a 286 with
a GVGA-16 video board.  I've been using the standard Windows VGA driver
with other similarly configured computers.

I am thinking that my problem is with the way Windows refreshes it's screen.

The problem is that once Windows has been envoked, the colors start
changing themselves.  At first I thought it was hardware, but if you open
a full screen DOS program from within the Windows session, you don't have
any problems until you get back to Windows - however, when you initially
return to Windows, the original colors get refreshed properly.

Also, it is not a uniform color change - so if you are in solitaire, the
design on the back of the card maintains it's original color scheme, but
the white fronts of the cards will turn grey, then blue, etc.

The color changes keep getting darker until finally everything is a dark
purple-ish black.  If you pop out to DOS and exit back to Windows - the
screen gets refreshed again.

If I don't log into Windows and just do DOS things from the Novell
network, everything is fine.

I originally loaded the software by bouncing it down to the net from the
other machine I had just finished configuring, then from the net to this
machine.  When I ran into problems, I deleted everything on this machine
and the net, and tried bouncing it again.  When that didn't work, I tried
reloading Windows to no avail.

Any thoughts on things to check out?  I am totally baffled!

Thanks in advance for any assistance and instruction!

Linda Cornell

UW Office of Research
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: Win NT - what is it???
Article-I.D.: shelley.1qnaesINNemf
Organization: University of Washington
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NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu

  writes:

> writes:

>>Chicogo is what I want to use.  It is, like NT, a true OS with thrue 
>>multitasking and multithreading, but has much smaller hardware requirements, 
>>and does not meet DOD security specs .  there are a few otehr differences, but those are the 
>>main ones.  There was an article about Chicogo in PC Week last August.
>>	The Chicogo and NT development groups at Micro$oft are in intense 
>>competition, so it is said.  However, I think a different relationship will 
>>arise: NT will be the server , Chicogo will be the 
>>client machine.  It is entirely possible for different OS's to work together, 
>>partly because Chicogo is just a small NT .  
>>
>>	Anyway, don't expect it soon.  Windows 4 and DOS 7 are supposed to be 
>>released next year , so I expect that Chicogo won't be out 
>>til '96.
>How does Chicago differ from the  announced Windows 4. My understand-
>ing, at least from the InbfoWorld accound of Windows 4 is that it's sort
>of NT Lite--a full-fledged operating system but lacking server and security
>features that make NT such a bear. Is W4 not true multithreading?

 
	Can anyone tell me how Chicago/Windows 4 would differ from
OS/2 2.x?  Believe it or not, I'm not trying to start a flame war,
here.   I'm simply curious  if there is going to be any feature
advantage in either of these products
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Diamond Speedstar 24X Driver Bug?
Reply-To: 
Organization: Metaphase Technology, Inc.
Keywords: Speedstar
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Since swapping out my generic VGA card for a Diamod Speedstar 24X, I have 
noticed two new problems:

* if I create a windowed MS-DOS session , when the text starts 
   to scroll, rather than printing characters it starts to print
   horizontal lines that spill out to the desktop and trash the entire 
   display.  Ctrl-alt-del terminates the dos window and restores the 
   desktop

* after a short time in NCD's PC X-remote for windows, all characters  
  displayed on the desktop are changed to be unreadable; I am unable to
  restore without rebooting.

These are in both 256 and 16 color 800x600 drivers, large and small fonts.
DOS 5, Win 3.1, emm386 and smartdrv installed.

I like the speed of the card and have had no other problems.  Any ideas?
Thanks!
-- 
Steve Chesney                                         
Metaphase Technology Inc.                        612-482-4662 
4233 North Lexington Avenue                      612-482-4001 
Arden Hills, MN  55126
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: Windows Help
Nntp-Posting-Host: beta.edb.tih.no
Organization: Trondheim College of Engineering
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Mario Veraart  wrote:
:   writes:

: >Hi, it's an *easy* question for you Windows gurus.  I'd appreciate any help.

: >We need to write an on-line help for our application.  We don't have
: >Windows Software Developer's Toolkit  ). Since we just want to build
: >a .HLP file around Windows' help engine, I hope it won't be that complicated?
: >Anyway, could someone kindly give me some hints of how to build such an
: >on-line help, if it does not take 100 pages to explain? Or if it is complicated,
: >would you help to point out what I would need to do it?
: >-- 


: >Vincent Q. Yin
: >

: Hi,

: If you have developed your own windows application you must have a 
: SDK of some sort that contains the HC.EXE or HC31.EXE file to 
: compile and generate .HLP files out of .RTF files.

****------->  No, U can download what??.zip from ftp.cica.indiana.edu
              This package from MS is all U need to buid  .HLP
              files from Rich Text Format Files . This package
              also contains .DOT tamplates for MS Word4Win.
 
: RTF files are generated by a wordprocessor like Word for Dos or W4W.

: If this is not the solution be more specific about your application.

: Mario
: -- 
: Mario Veraart                  TNO Physics and Electronics Laboratory
: email:         The Hague       The Netherlands
: "If all else fails, show pretty pictures and animated videos, 
:  and don't talk about performance",  David Bailey
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: PC/Geos, Windows, OS/2, and Unix/X11
Reply-To: 
Organization: Dept. of Physics, Memorial University
Lines: 61

In article <>,   writes:
|> ---
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> With my limited knowladge about the PC Geos, I came out with following 
|> comparison:
|> 
|>                  PC Geos      Windows       OS/2    Unix/X11
|>                 ________      _______       ____    _______
|> 
|> 1. Can run dos
|>    programs        yes           yes         yes     yes
|> 

[lines deleted]

|> 
|> 7. price          $120          $70         $120     free-$1000s
|>                                                      A good one
|>                                                      costs $400-$700 
|>                                                      avaliable on Ext.
|>                                                      card too.
|> 
|> 8. C compiler Don't think so    yap          yap     yap
|> 
|> 9. C++           no             Yap          Yap     Yap
|> 
|> 10. Fortran      no             yap          yap     yap
|> 
|> 11. debuger      ?              yap           yap    yap
|> 
|> 12. min to run   dos        2M & 10Mb-Hard     ?     386
|> 
|> You guys and gals add to this list, so we do not throw our many down the 
|> tubes.
|> 
|>                       With highest regards,
|>                            Babak   Sehari.
|> 

This list appears to imply, that MS-windows that has a cost listed
above at $70, comes with a C compiler, C++ and Fortran. It does not, of
course. These are expensive add-ons that drive the price WAY beyond $70.


As far as unix is concerned;
There is a free unix, linux, that has cc, ~c++, fortran ,
Xwindows and many other features besides, with a large number of utilities
that can be optionally added. And there is also a free 386BSD I believe.
Both these unix's are quite robust. You can check out comp.os.linux

If you don't want to "throw our many down the tubes", you've got to break
that list down a little more.

-- 
Roderick Campbell
Department of Physics
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NF, CANADA
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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

Organization: University of Central Florida - Computer Services
Mark Woodruff <>Bigger window headings
Lines: 8

Does anyone know of bigger raster fonts?  I'm using a Mag 15H monitor with
a Diamond SS24X in 1280x1024 mode and would prefer to have larger characters
for the windows heading .  I'm already using the
8514 character sets.

mark

Any idea of the difference between the 15H and the 15F?
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

Subject: Is SMARTDRV.EXE causing bad sectors on my hd?
 
Organization: NetLink Online Communications, San Diego CA
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        I am having something very unusual happen.  First 
some background on my system.  I have a Mitsubishi 63 meg Hard Drive, 
and am running Smartdrv  on 
it.  I rarely use Windows.  I use a program called Disk Technician 
Gold v1.14 to do diagnostics live time on my hard drive.  It works by 
having a device driver detect whenever more than one read is 
necessary for a file, or if there is anything else is wrong with it, 
and minor problems are fully checked out upon rebooting.  My hard 
drive is notorious for bad sectors.  I usually end up with 8 new bad 
sectors a week.
 
        Here's what happened:  I ran a program, and DTG broke in with 
an Emergency Warning and recommended I reboot.  It gave me this 
message twice before the program was fully loaded.  I exited the program 
and did just this.  DTG went through its bootup process, examining 
for new errors etc., and a screen popped up and said something about 
sectors for a brief period of time.
 
        I then went back to the program, executed it again, and the 
exact same error was detected.  I rebooted and tried again, and the 
same error happened again.  So, I removed DTG from memory, and went 
to the program to see if I could detect anything wrong.  Sure enough 
there was a number of read attempts.  So I rebooted and reloaded DTG, 
but removed the cache.  I executed the program.  No read errors, 
either audible or detected by DTG.  I quit the program, loaded the 
cache, and ran the program again.  The errors were detected.
 
        Ok, so the errors are there, and DTG detects but doesn't fix 
them, when the cache is loaded.  When the cache is not loaded there are 
no errors.  So, to see if the cache was interfering with any other 
files, I went into xtree gold and tagged all files, and searched them 
for a random string .  Before I got through 
the c's DTG had detected at least six errors and recommended I reboot.
 
        Does anybody, have any idea why Smartdrv is causing misreads on 
my hard drive?  Oh, there are exactly two misreads per file, and 1 in 
about every 100 files are affected.  
 
        I originally posted this message to Disk Technician Corp.'s 
system, but I figured someone out in netland may know enough about 
smartdrv to help me out.

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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Gatewaying Microsoft Mail/Workgroups via 9600 modem?
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

Our student association runs a small Novell network which has a subnetwork
of Windows for Workgroups and Microsoft Mail. The Director of Finance, en
electrical engineering student, would like to gateway this system, either
via SLIP or not, into the University's network and thus the Internet, at
the very least to exchange e-mail, but possibly also to do ftp's etc. For
now, this would be done via a 9600 bps modem.

He would like to set it up so that it would periodically call in to check
mail, but would otherwise connect whenever needed.

What is the best way to do this? Gatewaying software is available, but
what works best?

Please reply to me: 
 or the D of F    : 

with a cc: to the other. I don't read all of these groups regularly, so mail
is best. If this is a common question, please pot me to a FAQ or ftp site.

      :=:=> Derek K. Miller                 
      Researcher, Alma Mater Society        
      University of British Columbia, Canada
      Room 230B - 6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1
      Campus Mail Zone 1  phone  822-6868  fax  822-9019
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Netware 3.11 & win 3.1 fileman
Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc.
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	Is there a update or something that will allow a person when
using novell 3.11 and windows 3.1 file manager to view the files with
the name of the person who created it or changed it like the novell
command ndir ?

tim osburn



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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: Diamond SS24X, Win 3.1, Mouse cursor
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In <>   writes:
>Anybody seen mouse cursor distortion running the Diamond 1024x768x256 driver?
>Sorry, don't know the version of the driver  but it's a recently
>delivered Gateway system.  Am going to try the latest drivers from Diamond BBS but wondered
>if anyone else had seen this.

Sporadically, yes.  It seems to flicker, or change shape into snow
briefly.  Not enough to impair functionality, just call attention to
Diamond's professional sloppiness.

Rob

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light blue right Bondage r.e.m. DTP Steely Dan DS9 FNM OWL Genesis In the
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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: More Diamond SS 24X
Organization: Michigan State University
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NNTP-Posting-Host: horus.cem.msu.edu

From article <>, by  :
> Has anyone experienced a faint shadow at all resolutions using this
> card. Is only in Windows. I have replaced card and am waiting on 
> latest drivers. Also have experienced General Protection Fault Errors
> in WSPDPSF.DRV on Winword Tools Option menu and in WINFAX setup.
> I had a ATI Ultra but was getting Genral Protection Fault errors
> in an SPSS application. These card manufactures must have terrible
> quality control to let products on the market with so many bugs.
> What a hassle. Running on Gateway 2000 DX2/50.
> Thx Dave L
> 
>  
You're using drivers version 2.02 or earlier. The latest is 2.03, available
from their BBS or by snailmail. It at least fixes the WfW problem.

The reason I wanted to reply in public instead of private mail is because
of following: I talked to their tech support a few days ago and was told
that I can expect a new version near the end of the month. Which should be
about now...

However, I have a problem when switching back from a DOS session in standard
mode. Apparently they don't know of this problem and seem to be surprised
why anybody would want to use standard mode at all.


It's a great card for the price, at least when I bought it. Now there may be
better alternatives.


Bo Peng
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 How to fix Word subscript spacing?
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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Hi,

I have a problem when using subscripts with MSWord.  The
problem is the subscripted characters get cut off on the display,
but print out ok.  Anyone know how to fix the subscripts so
I can see them on the screen?

Many thanks,
-- 
-Howard
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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: Procomm Plus for windows problems....
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
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NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net

  writes:

>Hi,
>  I have normal procomm plus for dos, but I've been considering buying
>the windows version....it got really great reviews in computer shopper.
>I have a friend who connects to the mainframe and unix machines here
>using it, but the screen seems to have a problem keeping up with the
>modem....he has a 14,400 modem on a 486 50 Mhz machine.  I can't
>see it having trouble keeping up.  His pcplus for dos works great,
>but the windows just seems to always screw up....Is this common
>and is there a fix?  Or is something just screwed with his machine?
>					Kent

I have no trouble running Procomm for Windows at 14.4 v.42 on a considerably 
slower 486sx. Could be a video problem but only if he has incredibly slow
video.
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: Telephone # of Cirrus Logic
Organization: Malaspina College
Lines: 14

In article <>,   writes:
> Is there anybody who knows the telephone number of Cirrus Logic Co., 
> maker of a graphic card? Please reply to 
> Thank you very much.  
> 
> Hua Chen
> Center for Astrophysics
> 


BBS number
510-226-2365

Ron
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 
Reply-To: 
Distribution: worldRe: Out of environment space running BAT files from Windows
Organization: Aspen Technology Group
X-Mailer: UUPC/bsnews 2.1 modified
Lines: 42


>I have a .BAT file that I run under a Windows Icon.  I have set up a PIF
>file to run the BAT file in exclusive mode and to use the entire screen.
>The first line of the BAT file sets an environment variable.
>
>My problem is that on some of our machines , the SET command in the BAT file fails with the
>OUT OF ENVIRONMENT SPACE error.  I have raised the amount of environment
>space to 2048 bytes using the SHELL command in CONFIG.SYS so I know that
>I am nowhere near to running out. 

(From the Windows Resource Toolkit ), add an entry to
your "system.ini" file under the [NonWindowsApp] section:

    CommandEnvSize=NNNN

"This sets the COMMAND.COM env size, where NNNN must either be 0 or
between 160 and 32768.  A value of 0 disables the setting.  If this
value is too small or too big, it is rounded up to 160 or down to 32768.
If the value is less than the current size of the actual environment,
this setting is disabled, as if it were 0.  If you specify the
environment size in a PIF file for COMMAND.COM, the PIF setting
overrides this setting.  The default is 0 with MSDOS versions earlier
than 3.2.  Otherwise, the default value is the /e: option in the
SHELL= command in CONFIG.SYS.  To set this value, you must edit your
SYSTEM.INI [and reboot]."


I have used this entry, as well as relied on the default /e: from
the CONFIG.SYS shell= line, and both give larger environments.  If
you don't use one of these, then the environment passed by windows
to each new DOS box is just a little bit bigger than the environment
_variables_ present when windows was started.    This should allow your batch file to run,
but your mileage may vary.

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