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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: PC/Geos, Windows, OS/2, and Unix/X11
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.cs.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: 's message of Tue, 6 Apr 1993 11:41:36 GMT

In article <>   writes:
=>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

i dunno about linux, but for 386bsd, don't forget networking
, NFS, a fast, incredibly stable filesystem,
and the list goes on...  8-)

for us 386bsd folk, look in comp.os.386bsd.*.




chris
moderator of comp.os.386bsd.announce, anti-politician, and sometime evangelist
--
Chris G. Demetriou                                    

   "386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
       find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: Workspace Manager for Win 3.1 ?
Organization: University of Canberra
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In article <1r5uml$>   writes:
>Are there any Workspace Managers out there for Windows 3.1 ?

Try WorkShift by Karl Thoreddson. The latest version is 2.0  but
the following is at Cica in the Desktop directory.
WRKSFT16 ZIP : WorkShift Graphical Virtual Desktop 

Or email Karl and ask him to put version 2.0 up
Karl's email:  

I was Beta tester for WorkShift and must say it is very good
.
It'll even remember your WorkShifts  between
Windows sessions.

>Thanks in advance.
Your Welcome.
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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Info on Books on BIOS, 286 etc.
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Hi Everybody,

      I am interested in the following topics.

1)BIOS programming on 286 and 386.
2)Memory management in 286 and 386.
3)Developing Visual Basic Custom Controls.

     I would like to have your valuable opinion on the books
that are best in the above topics.  Please send a mail to
 . I will post a summary of the 
suggestions.

  2**32-1  thanks in advance.

-Rahul Mehta
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: Wallpaper in Windows 3.1
Organization: University of Joensuu
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  writes:
>>Is there any utility available that will make Windows
>>randomly select one of your windows directory's .BMP
>>files as the wallpaper file?

>There are a couple.  I am personally using screenpeace, which is a

If you need just to change the wallpaper, then I've written a short
program in VB that does this by using SystemParametersInfo-function.
The bad news is that you need VBRUN200.DLL to run it, and the DLL is
some 350kb . The order of pictures depends
on the system date and the number of BMP-files in the directory, so
the picture remains the same if you execute the program multiple times
during the same day and the number of BMPs has not changed.

If you feel this is what you need then I could uuencode it and email
it to you. 

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|     Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!      |
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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

Need help with WordPerfect for Windows...
Distribution: usa
Organization: Milwaukee School Of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI USA
Lines: 19

I have two questions:

1) I have been having troubles with my Wordperfect for Windows.
   When I try to select and change fonts, etc. some of the text
   disappears.  I tried to center two lines once, and the second
   line disappeared.  I can not find the error, and I do not
   know how to correct it.

2) Is this the right newsgroup?  Where should I go?

E-mail prefered...
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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: Mouse on Com3OM3 or COM4 in Windows
Organization: Cloud Nine BBS, Melbourne, Australia.
Lines: 53

  writes:

> I am having a problem configuring the mouse in windows to use COM3
> with IRQ5.

I don't believe IRQ5 is the problem. I tried a mouse on COM3, IRQ4  and it still did not like it. Simply, Windows seems to only
support mice on COM1 or COM2. The funny part is, though, that
Microsoft's own mouse driver  was quite happy with my mouse
sitting on COM3. Why can't Windows use the mouse driver, or at least
support COM3? :-)

> COM2Irq=3
> COM3Irq=5
> COM4Irq=7
> MaxComPort=4

I've tried this too. Actually, I wanted to be able to use my second
modem  from Windows. It still will not talk to that modem. I
created two profiles, AMSTRAD  and
MAESTRO . It will not talk to the Maestro
at all.

>  that their driver does not support COM3 and COM4 in windows.
> Their suggestion was that the 'MicroSoft or PS/2' setting in windows
> setup would work. It does not.

Nor here. .

> I can not believe that it is not possible. At worst, you would need a special
> version of 'a' mouse driver that looked at COM3 and COM4 instead of COM1
> and COM2. I know that IRQ5 and IRQ7 are normally printer port IRQs, but I

I've seen nothing like that. I've experimented with Logitech's mouse
driver too, with no sucess.

> have no printers attached. A side note is that I would really like to assign
> COM4 to some higher IRQ, because my SoundBlaster board uses IRQ7 , but no modem that I know of allows settings other than
> IRQs 2,3,4,5, and 7.

If you have a SoundBlaster Pro, it should support IRQ10 as well.
Finally, a board that supports IRQs >9. The only one I have .

hamish


Hamish Moffatt,        APANA: The Australian Public
Cloud Nine BBS,      3:635/          Access Network Association.
Melbourne Australia  58:4100/         Mail 
Titanic Software.    Voice: +61-3-803-1326      for information.
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 ATM
Organization: University of California at San Diego
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Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu


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?
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-- avDean
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

Subject: What about SMARTDRV /DOUBLE_BUFFER?

Organization: Miami University Academic Computer Service"
Lines: 9

I am curious:  what does the /double_buffer parameter in smartdrv actually do
for me?  I seem to have less problems in Windows when I leave it out.

Using a PS/2 with an ESDI drive, but also a PS/2 with a SCSI.

Any response is welcome.

Peter Sweeney
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 For Sale: Harvard Graphics for Windows
Keywords: Harvard Graphics, sale
Organization: Xerox PARC
Distribution: us
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For Sale:
	Brand new, shrinkwrapped

	HARVARD GRAPHICS FOR WINDOWS

	List Price: $500
	Cheapest pince in Computer Shopper : $315
	My Price: $250

This is really a slick package, but I won it in a bike race so I
can't return it for credit. My dilemma is your fire sale.

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** Internet:     XNS Net: Tapscott:PARC:Xerox
** 415 813-6885
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 exit codes (dos--sorry for wrong group : (
Organization: George Washington University
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Hey now.  First of all, sorry to post this DOS question in a WINDOWS
group, but I'm in kinda a hurry, so I can't scramble to find the dos
groups' names.  

Anyway, anyone know where I ccan find the exit codes to DOS commands?
the manual doesn't seem to have all of them.  I'm particularly looking
for COPY, in order to make a "move" batch file, such that if the file
wasn't coppied properly, it won't be deleted.


please e'mail 
Thanks, I.A,
Mickey
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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 ?? DOS font size in windows??
Organization: NC State University
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	I have an 8514/A card, and I am using windows in 1024x768 mode 
	.  In the 386 enhanced mode
	the DOS window font is too small for my 14" monitor. Is there a 
	way to spacify the font size for the DOS window? You'll have to 
	excuse me if there is a trivial answer, since I am fairly new to
	MS Windows world.

	Thanks.

	
	======  S. Alavi    []  467-7909   ========
						  515-8063
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

WIn 3.0 ICON HELP PLEASE!
Organization: University of Northern Iowa
Lines: 10

I have win 3.0 and downloaded several icons and BMP's but I can't figure out
how to change the "wallpaper" or use the icons.  Any help would be appreciated.


Thanx,

-Brando

PS Please E-mail me
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

Organization: University of Central Florida - Computer Services
Mark Woodruff <>Why I'm not using Dos 6 anymore
Lines: 18

I've been running Dos 6 for about a month.  I was generally impressed with
the improvements:  the multiple boot configurations were great, the
new commands were nice, and DoubleSpace worked fine .

Until now.

This morning at 4 am while I was working on my research paper, I had to
reboot a hung Dos program  from within Windows 3.1.
When my machine finished rebooting, I found my windows directory and about two
thirds of my other directories were irreversibly corrupted.

I cannot afford problems like this.  I'm returning to Dos 5.

mark

P.S.  I've also noticed bad sector errors from DoubleSpace where none should
      exist.
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: More Cool BMP files??
Organization: George Washington University
Distribution: usa
Lines: 27

>
>
>>BEGIN ----------------------- CUT HERE ---------------
>>begin 666 ntreal.bmp
>>M0DTV5P<      #8$   H    ( ,  %@"   !  @                     
>>M            $    ! @@P![; &N+L0 #UH BV
>
>Deleted a lot of stuff!!!!!!!
>How do you convert this to a bit map???

You're supposed to delete everything above the "cut here" mark, and
below the lower cut here mark, and uudecode it.  but 
*I was not able to: unexpected end of file encountered at the last line.

could you please re-post it, or tell be what I'm doing wrong?

thanks,i.a.,
Mickey


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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Turbo C++ Visual Edition adn request was Re: absolute newbie questions...
Organization: KIT Iizuka, AI Dept, JAPAN.
Lines: 52
NNTP-Posting-Host: mickey
In-reply-to: 's message of Fri, 16 Apr 1993 06:16:54 GMT

In article <>   writes:

>BTW, how would you rate the new "Borland Turbo C++ Visual Edition for
>Windows," anyone?

Time for a new discussion, maybe ? I asked in these groups some time ago
what about the TC++/VE, and got no answers, so I decided to try. My brother
who lives in the US bought and sent it to me, and I'm still trying to get
used to it.

Before I put my good/bad points list, consider I am a Turbo Pascal/DOS
programmer, and sometimes try to make something in Unix with C . I used to make some programs in
Microsoft C version 5  because we used some third-party libraries
that required that. 
- I like Borland. It seems to me much more easier to use than Microsoft,
  specially the debugger. I tried to learn Codeview sometimes, but never
  felt confortable with it.
- TC++ V/E seems very nice to create simple apps, like the examples on the
  ObjectWindows book. So far, no problems. Lets see next week or so, when I
  will try something more complex.
- It works nice even in my "weak" machine 386/16Mhz, 6 Mb Ram. 

But.....

- The manual for the Resource Workshop seems to be from a different version 
  from the Workshop itself. Some of the windows that appear on the manual
  have more itens than in the manual.
- I think I will run into trouble since I got this TC++/VE from my brother
  as a present. I didnt wanted to buy the Japanese version because 1) I 
  suspect that the manuals will be in Japanese :- I believe it
  will be far more expensive here. So he bought it as a present and sent to
  me, I send the registration card to the Japanese branch of Borland, but...
  who knows.

So, I'd like to ask some questions for you all;

- I know that there are some Microsoft guys around here in this group. Is
  there anybody from Borland ? Is there any e-mail address that we can 
  contact the technical support ? Not for stupid questions, but to ask
  for example, why the RW manual seems to be different from the RW itself ?
- Is there anybody else using it around here ?
- Will the book of Petzold be useful for me ? I intend to use RW and ProtoGen
  to make the interfaces and then work on the code itself. 

Answers to my e-mail or comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools, please.

Thanks in advance,

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

 Re: Canon BJ200  and HP DeskJet 500...
Organization: Hewlett-Packard VCD
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Lines: 26

Justin Whitton  wrote:
: In article <>   writes:
: 
:    @nd.edu wrote:
: 
:    I think the ink now used in the DeskJet family is water-fast. 
: 
: I've had pictures ruined by a few drops of rain. These were colour pictures
: from a DeskJet 500C. Mind you, it could have been acid rain:-)

The black ink is waterfast, but the color isn't

: 
: I use a BJ10ex. Ink dries fast, but it really doesn't like getting wet.
: 
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Bob Taylor
HP Vancouver
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: Permanaent Swap File with DOS 6.0 dbldisk
Distribution: git
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Lines: 58

In comp.os.ms-windows.misc you write:

>While reading through the DOS 6.0 book, it states that the Windows permanaent swap file will not work correctly when placed on a compressed drive.  To make things compatable,
>I removed my Permanent swap file before starting the upgrade.  However, when all the dust settled, and I go into windows, it says that the temporary swap file is right where it always was, in the Windows directory.  My question is:  How come the temporary swap files works OK with a compressed drive, and the permanent one doesn't?

you might want to look in windows FAQ for this one, but here is my best
explanation.  But I can't guarantee that I'm not way off base...

The permenant swap file is read/written to by windows by talking
directly to the hard disk controller card.  The controller card must
use the protocal set up by western digital .
Windows creates a file called spart.par in your windows directory that
points to that file.  It then uses the physical information about your
disk to index to information in that file.

compressed disks are actually "logical" disks.  These disks have different
characteristics than the actual physical disk.  Furthermore, the information
on the compressed disks must be uncompressed before it is used.  .  Because of this "inbetween" program, windows
cannot use direct methods to read from the "logical" disk.

a permenant swap file is only there to "reserve" an area of the disk that
windows can use and to block that space from DOS.  Windows would theoretically
not even have to access the file from DOS to use that disk space. 

a temporary swap file is just a normal DOS file that is accessed by windows
via DOS and the BIOS.  If a disk compression program or other TSR is loaded
the file access must go through DOS...TSR'S ...and BIOS in
order to be access. 

more on permenent swap files...

i'm sure everyone who has an uncompressed part of their compressed hard disk
has seen the message "you have selected a swap file greater than the suggested
size...windows will only use the size suggested...do you wan't to create this
swap file anyway" or something like that.

well, a friend of mine  called microsoft and asked them what and why.
what they said is that windows checks the amount of free disk space and
divides that number by 2.  Then it checks for the largest contiguous block
of free disk space.  Windows then suggests the smaller of the two numbers.

They also said that under absolutely no circumstances...NONE!...will windows
uses a swap file larger than the suggested size.  Well...that's what he 
said!

I call bull@#$#.  If this is true why does windows report the memory is
available to me if it's not going to use it?

any takers?

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

RE: Need Windows-logo
Organization: Clark University
Lines: 46

In a previous article,  wrote:
>In article <1qjqed$>,   writes:
>> Markus Maier  wrote:
>> : Hi,
>> 
>> : Well I'm searching for the Ms-Windows logo, u know the picture when u
>> : start Windows, in some suitable grafics-format, like gif or jpg,...
>> 
>> C:\windows\system\vgalogo.rle.  If my memory serves me correctly,
>> *.rle is a compressed *.bmp format.  
>> 
>  An is readable by WinGif, Paintshop Pro, Paint, and god knows how
>many other programs.

That isn't enough to change your Windows startup logo.  vgalogo.rle is not 
needed after you have installed Windows.  It is incorporated as a part of 
win.com.
	To make a new win.com, you have to concatinate three files together, 
using the /b option for a binary concatonation.  I beleive it is

copy /b win.cnf+vgalogo.lgo+vgalogo.rle mywin.com

Make sure you backup your win.com file in anotehr directory before you do this 
-- I absent-mindedly typed win.com instead of mywin.com and had to resinstall 
Windows!
	Anyway, substitute whatever .RLE file you want.  The win.cnf has the 
info needed to start Windows  and vgalogo.vga has 
video information.  Just make sure that the .RLE file doesn't tip the whole 
COM file size over the 64k limit of a .COM file!
	So anyway, I use mywin.com to startup MS Windows.  Now instead of that 
annoying Micro$oft advertisment, I have the Joker  taking 
yoru picture from the screen, saying "Smile!"  Also a little bit of text: 
"Micro$oft Windows: The world's first commercially sucessful virus."  I added 
that because of the frequency of crashes. <grin>

Rob

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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 Re: Any good sound formats conversion program out there??
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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NNTP-Posting-Host: uclink.berkeley.edu

In article <>   writes:
>Hi all,
>
>Does anyone know if there is a good sound formats conversion program out
>
>there???  
>
>Please send me a copy of your reply!!!
>
>thanks a lot
>
>Bel
>

Hi...

	THe best sound conversion program I've ever seen is SoundTool, which
is shareware from Germany.  I found a copy somewhere in wuarchive.wustl.edu
a long time ago, but I don't know offhand what directory it was under.  It's
GREAT at converting files of all types, including Mac, NExT, Sun, and
various PC formats... It's also a great player and editor, with various
special effects that put Windows' Sound Recorder to shame.  It requires a
driver for various sound cards... The only builtin one is for the pc speaker
, but if you're just using it to convert
things, you can convert them in SoundTool and then play them in Sound
Recorder.

Give it a try!

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

ma90jjw% Re: Canon BJ200  and HP DeskJet 500...
In-Reply-To: 's message of Sat, 24 Apr 1993 22: 31:30 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host: hayle
Organization: DRA Malvern, Worcs., UK
Lines: 24

In article <>   writes:

   @nd.edu wrote:

   : The key issue that I bought my BJ-200 on was ink drying speed.  You really 
   : have to try awful hard to get the BJ-200 ink to smear.  The HP DeskJets need 
   : 10-15 seconds to completely dry.  In both cases, however, do not get your 
   : pages wet.  Unlike laser printers, the material on your pages is INK, not 
   : toner.  But that should go without saying.

   I think the ink now used in the DeskJet family is water-fast. 

I've had pictures ruined by a few drops of rain. These were colour pictures
from a DeskJet 500C. Mind you, it could have been acid rain:-)

I use a BJ10ex. Ink dries fast, but it really doesn't like getting wet.

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|I'm a student => intelligence = 0.                                           |
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Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

Re: Utility for updating Win.ini and system.ini
Reply-To:  
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Lines: 11

In article <>   writes:
>I nead a utility for updating  *.ini files for Windows. 
>
>Do I find it on any FTP host?
>
>Svein
>


In Windows 3.0 there is a built-in called sysedit.exe that is just what you
need.   Windows 3.1 I don't know......
Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

 EMM386.EXE and Windows and Dos6
Nntp-Posting-Host: piaget.cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Organization: Dept. Computerwetenschappen
Lines: 17

In Windows I created a permanent Swap-file of 7771Kb as win3.1
recommended me to do that .
If I use EMM386.EXE, after win3.1 startup I have 6689K of memory
free, if I leave EMM386.EXE out of my config.sys I have 9935K
of memory free, and windows recommends me a swap file of 11769K.

I use DOS6, with memmaker, have 4MB of internal Memory and a 486DX,

Does anybody knows why this is happening 

I need an optimized DOS-environment, because i develop applications for
DOS using a windows programming environment.


Rudi