Datasets:

beyond

/

20NG

like 0

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

ottomenu where can i get it i ve heard about ottomenu which should be a good desktop on windows can anybody tell me where i can get it it should be on cica in pub pc win util but it is not it is also not an wustl simtel and a great number of other sites just post it or mail me andreas gloege kazmaierstr bei klarmann muenchen email gloege informatik tu muenchen de

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

rfd comp databases access this is an official rfd for the creation of a new newsgroup for the general discussion of the microsoft access rdms name comp databases access moderation unmoderated at this time no need for a moderator has been assertained future evaluation will determine if one is needed purpose access is a new rdbms for the windows operating system it includes wysiwyg design tools for easy creation of tables reports forms and queries and a database programming language called access basic the purpose of the group will be to provide help to people who use access s wysiwyg design tools to create simple databases as well as to people who use access basic to create complex databases rationale eventhough access is a new rdbms it is very popular because of its graphical development enviroment and its initial low price been a version product means that all access users are novices for that reason a newsgroup is needed where access users can discuss their experiences with the product and answer each other s questions napoleon mau herky cs uiowa edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re atm or truetype which to choose tt for true effects for windows games max u washington edu writes in article apr seas gwu edu lai seas gwu edu william y lai writes in article ov rj gev gabriel keele ac uk csd keele ac uk c m yearsley writes i ve just bought a pc which came with a bundle of lotus stuff including adobe type manager version as a newcomer to windows i m confused about which i should be using atm or truetype there is a program called true effects for windows that allows you to define attributes for true type fonts and have them look like new fonts it will give your font different backgrounds or shadows or reverse etc it only works with tt fonts yes and the idea was ripped off from adobe which has had a program called typealign for a few years now typealign does the same thing for adobe type fonts and adobe has said that the next version will work with both adobe type and truetype and typealign does some things that trueeffects does not including some things you apparently want if you want to use it you best not want to use it with an atm type font oh yeah lest you think this is a really cool program none of the effects are scalable like the brick background pattern is the same size whether your font is point of point and it is not extensible i e you can not add pattern of your own and you can t rorate the background pattern and you can t make the pattern extend beyond one character every character in that new font has the entire pattern in it as opposed to having the same pattern run contiguously through a couple of characters it is however cheap maybe i will buy a copy when the next version comes out if they fix some of these gripes john

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

mirosoft office package i am in charge of purchasing some computer software for a small office and i have a few question about microsoft s office pack i was wondering are the programs that are packaged with the office pack winword power point excel and ccmail complete and the latest addition are the programs hobbled in any way can we update single programs at a latter date i e from excel to excel do you receive all of the necessary disks and documentation is there anything that i should be aware of that makes the office package less of deal that it seems sorry if i seem skeptical put the price for the office package on the street sounds like a great deal for the office that is purchasing its first computer and software but all four complete programs for less than makes me just a little suspicious maybe its just me thanks for your help in advance kirt wilson northwestern university internet kwilson casbah acns nwu edu bitnet kwilson casbah

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

dos doublespace stacker is it okay just as the title suggest is it okay to do that i havne t got dos yet but i heart doublespace is less tight than stacker what are disadvantage advantages by doing that any comments will be appreciated martin

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re amipro deskjet printing problem tom belmonte x tbelmont feds prime com wrote hello i recently tried to print some envelopes using amipro with my deskjet printer and i seem to be having a problem what happens is after i physically load the envelope into the printer per the user manual and then select the print envelope icon from amipro all of the proper options have been selected the printer just spits out the envelope without any printing of either a return address or the selected mailing address at this point the printer s online light begins to flash and the print manager shows the printer job as busy this is all that happens until i either shut the printer off or cancel the printing job from the print manager i have also tried this without the use of the print manager with similar results amipro shows the printer as being busy so does anybody have any idea solution regarding this problem i appreciate the help thanks yes ignore the manual just insert the evelope don t use the keypad to move it up the windows driver sends a message to the printer that tells it to load the envelope if it is already loaded it gets ejected and the printer tries to load another the instructions in the manual are for dumb dos apps that don t send the load envelople message tom belmonte bob taylor hp vancouver

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re winbench help graphics comparison in article pqd hinnbmi zephyr grace cri nz srg sir grv grace cri nz writes in article c zogd c news udel edu swyatt bach udel edu stephen l wyatt writes i have a question about winbench pc labs thing i have a and a ahead b k card and got these results windows vga driver million ahead b driver winmarks windows svga driver million winmarks i was thinking about upgrading to a diamond x card i read it had about million winmark on my dx mhz mb ram winbench x v m v m v v be very careful with these results as i recall numbers from winbench are calculated differently from and so these figures are not comparable however to answer stephen s question replacing the ahead b card with a diamond x will yield a cost effective dramatic speed increase for windows that or the ati graphics ultra plus greg franklin franklig gas uug arizona edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re winbench al col hp com al devilbiss writes jorge erex east sun com jorge lach sun bos hardware writes is there any ftp site that carries winbench results for different graphics cards in excel xls format what is the latest version of winbench and how do they differ is the source available and has anybody try to port it to x window at least in a way that will make comparisons possible on ftp cica indiana edu in pub pc win misc winadv zip is a writeup by steve gibson of infoworld with winbench and a number of other benchmark results for nine isa and four vlb video cards this is a very current upload and is likely to have any card you re currently giving serious consideration not in xls format latest version of winbench that i know of is ver i believe they try to maintain the same rating scale between versions and new versions are released to defeat the lastest coding tricks put in by driver programmers to beat the benchmarks don t know on the last one and why they are considering using winbench as a test they may want to read everything steve gibson has said on the subject in his infoworld column the past couple of month in short virtually every board manufacturer cheats on the test by writing things in the driver that is there only to make the board appear faster on the winbench suite so the winbench score has no bearing in reality to how cards stack up on real world tasks in the last pc magazine they benchmarked some of the new accelerators and admitted that many of them cheated on winbench interestingly they allowed one type of cheating behaviour caching for bitblt operations no matter how unreal yet did not allow a couple of other types of cheating behaviour that some of the cards used at least one card was eliminated from the editor s choice because of cheating on the benchmark al devilbiss al col hp com

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re is microsoft windows really and ope in article pr r t c agate berkeley edu neff garnet berkeley edu stephen kearney writes apparently not many people complain about the confusion that results from the filemanager progman split it s just a basic flaw i have one thing to say why does everyone say that spliting them up is such a bad thing i actually like my program launcher and file manager do be seperate it make things easier to figure out i mean take a look at os s wps no flames i personally hate it cause i just have too much trouble figuring out how to do simple things like file copy and don t say just drag the icon cause i hate icons in the first place i have too much trouble telling what all those little push buttons mean i want f ile c opy etc although i know i m in the minority swyatt brahms udel edu no disclaimer i blame everything on someone else

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re winbench ok so if everyone is cheating is there any tests that run some macro to load a huge drawing etc on the same machine that might then tell us what the real world results are i mean run the tests on the same machine with different video cards running word excel or something like that to see how fast the cards are swyatt brahms udel edu no disclaimer i blame everything on someone else

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re mouse on com om or com in windows in article c v p jyf bcstec ca boeing com isbell bcstec ca boeing com robert isbell writes jpaparel cs ulowell edu joseph paparella writes i am having a problem configuring the mouse in windows to use com with irq com and com are being used to support two hour bbs lines there you go com and com use the same irq therefore you can t use a mouse on com and a modem on com or vice versa it s a limitation of dos and in fact windows will not see a mouse on anything other than com or com accept this fact and either get a bus mouse or get a new computer i would also like to know if it is possible to use the mouse on ports other than com or com no the advice above applies greg franklin franklig gas uug arizona edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re ami pro and equation mode nagel ucsu colorado edu kurt nagel writes hi i m having a problem with amipro when writing equations if the equation extends past a certain point on a line the whole thing disappears if i then try to delete the equation or cursor beyond the equation ami goes nuts the line counter at the bottom of the screen increments repeatedly and the only way out is to ctrl atl del if i have been unfortunate enough to save a document with one of these screwed up equations the document is basically trashed although i have been able to fix them by going into an ascii editor and deleteing large chunks of the document has anyone else experienced this does lotus know about it and or have a patch thanks in advance kurt nagel fido colorado edu i contacted lotus about this problem today it has been reported previously and there is a fix apparantly the problem only occurs when tab characters are used immediately preceding the equation frame the work around when equations are expected to touch the right margin is to delete at least one preceding tab and use space to align the frame or use set frame where placed w no text wrap around unforutnately once the page run on has occured you are hosed so the moral of the story is use only space characters to align equation frames hope this helps the rest of you who have already contacted me with this problem kurt nagel fido colorado edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

hercules graphite has anyone used a hercules graphite adapter it looks good on paper and steve gibson gave it a very good review in infoworld i d love to get a real world impression though how is the speed drivers support looking for something to replace this ati ultra with tom haapanen tomh metrics com software metrics inc waterloo ont stick your index fingers into both corners of your mouth now pull up that s how the corrado makes you feel car january

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re does dos defragment in article apr seas gwu edu louray seas gwu edu michael panayiotakis writes well the subject saysit all does dos do defragmentation yes both dblspaced and non dblspaced drives can be defragmented i believe they use norton s speedisk brian t mcgloin lift your glasses friend with mine ncr corp and raise your hand with me usg iss ols i m england stole i m ireland spent miamisburg oh i m an outlawed rapparee

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re mouse on com om or com in windows jpaparel cs ulowell edu joseph paparella writes i am having a problem configuring the mouse in windows to use com with irq i don t believe irq is the problem i tried a mouse on com irq the usual place and it still did not like it simply windows seems to only support mice on com or com the funny part is though that microsoft s own mouse driver xx was quite happy with my mouse sitting on com why can t windows use the mouse driver or at least support com com irq com irq com irq maxcomport i ve tried this too actually i wanted to be able to use my second modem com irq from windows it still will not talk to that modem i created two profiles amstrad for my amstrad modem on com irq and maestro for my maestro on com irq it will not talk to the maestro at all that their driver does not support com and com in windows their suggestion was that the microsoft or ps setting in windows setup would work it does not nor here windows i can not believe that it is not possible at worst you would need a special version of a mouse driver that looked at com and com instead of com and com i know that irq and irq 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 com to some higher irq because my soundblaster board uses irq right now i m not using com but no modem that i know of allows settings other than irqs and if you have a soundblaster pro it should support irq as well finally a board that supports irqs the only one i have except my ide controller hamish hamish moffatt hamish cloud apana org au apana the australian public cloud nine bbs fidonet access network association melbourne australia intlnet mail info apana org au titanic software voice for information

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

version control for mac and pc lan we have a lan where we are doing development on product for multiple platforms for the moment we are only working on mac and dos windows the department has always used sneaker net to transport files to the mac since it requires a filter to strip out the lf characters until recently no one concidered using any version control to mediate and as a result the programmers spent a great deal of time merging files together at the end of each week so that a new system could be build we are now trying to streamline this process but are hampered by the lack of software that will allow us to share files across pc and mac platforms i understand that pvcs used to do this but that they no longer support the mac product anyone know why polytron i have seen people ask about development in multiple platforms so i assume that ours is not a new problem who has had to deal with it what solutions have you come up with thanks in advance for any and all suggestions via posting or email if there are enough email responses then i will post a synopsis of the knowledge charles emmons charles emmons charles trintex uucp these opinions are prodigy services co charles trintex uunet uu net mine alone unless white plains ny voice you would like to prodigy id kjrd a fax share them

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

file downloading as a beginer i just wonder how to transfer files from the sun system which is on the network to my pc at home not connected to the network i tried to use comit to do so but it was very slow and it seemed that getting multiple files at the same time was impossible could anybody give me some hints infomation thank you in advance liu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re permanaent swap file with dos dbldisk in comp os ms windows misc you write while reading through the dos 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 or something like that 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 i e it must go through the decompression program that traps disk reads at the operating system level or the bios level 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 i don t know if it does or doesn t but it checks for it somewhere everytime you boot windows 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 disk compression and bios in order to be access i e never use a temporary swap file never 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 robert 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 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 if this doesn t get to the net will someone post it for me thanks

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re help with winqvt this is the qvthost rc file the host file requires the names that you ll be using in addition to the ip address sucb as name server name name router name carols ohsu edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re hercules graphite in article apr metrics com tomh metrics com tom haapanen writes has anyone used a hercules graphite adapter it looks good on paper and steve gibson gave it a very good review in infoworld i d love to get a real world impression though how is the speed drivers support the pc world reviewers found out that the herc people had hard coded winbench text into the driver clever no in any case the winbench results are pretty much inflated when and if you get one send me mail i might buy that ati gu off you iskandar taib the only thing worse than peach ala internet ntaib silver ucs indiana edu frog is frog ala peach bitnet ntaib iubacs

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re help with winqvt swartzjh nextwork rose hulman edu jeff h swartz writes when i use a name such as rosevc rose hulman edu initiating nameserver query for rosevc nameserver query time out when i use the ip number local host or gateway not responding i know the nameserver is correct and the router is correct they work fine using ncsa telnet ftp they are working ok but your definitions in qvtnet ini and qvthost rc are incorrect see below the docs said if you are running concurrent packet software you need to load pktmux does this apply to me no i don t think so you are using qvtnet and novell concurrently aren t you they use different packet types so qvtnet tcp ip and novell ipx spx should be able to coexist just fine pktmux is required if you are using different tcp ip packages concurrently this is the qvthost rc file there is the first problem you didn t specify hostnames just ip addresses your file should look like this name of your nameserver name of your router this is the beginning of the winqvt ini file net name swartzjh test rose hulman edu here you should only specify your hostname without the domain part router instead use router name of your router as specified in your qvthost rc i know the release notes for say that ip addresses should work also but apparently they don t nameserver here too you should use the hostname of the nameserver instead of the ip address it worked fine for me that way although i could not specify more than one nameserver the relnotes say it should be possible to specify up to three nameservers separated by commas but it didn t work hope it helps richard dr richard spitz internet spitz ana med uni muenchen de edv gruppe anaesthesie tel klinikum grosshadern fax munich germany

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re windows general questions in article heimdall sdrc com crgruen sony sdrc com robert gruen writes i received amish utilities for windows when i purchased turbo c for windows what is amish utilities what can it do for me all i received was the disk no docs maybe it milks the dogcow i am running windows in x x mode using a driver that was supplied with my svga card the card is a boca svga card with meg ram and i think it has an et chip in it at least thats what some program tells me the driver is an old driver that was written for windows it seems to work fine but would i gain any benefits by switching to a newer driver if so which one should i use and where could i find it lots of drivers are available off ftp cica indiana edu in pub pc win drivers video i ve tried two et cview zip and et turbo zip these give you a choice of turbo and non turbo drivers the turbo drivers were fast but caused mouse problems with my machine which has a diamond speedstar card i finally got turbo drivers wndspeed by binar from diamond amazing blazingly fast for a non accelerated card and best of all no gpf s for a month or so iskandar taib the only thing worse than peach ala internet ntaib silver ucs indiana edu frog is frog ala peach bitnet ntaib iubacs

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

fall comdex does anyone out there have any info on the up and coming fall comdex i was asked by one of my peers to get any info that might be available or could anyone point me in the right direction any help would be appreciated dave stevens dls psuvm psu edu training and multimedia services dls psuvm penn state university

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re using microsoft foundation classes with borland c thanks for the info i assume that this is for mfc does anyone know if this will work with mfc or what else needs to be done thanks andy jacobs

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

how to fix word subscript spacing 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 howard moy

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

character codes problems help i am working on a project that involves using text with foreign language characters in this case norwegian i have been manipulating the data with excell and then exporting the data as comma seperated variable files to an rs workstation the norwegian characters show up fine under windows but appear as funny characters on the workstation the workstation is setup for national language support and we have problem entering the norwegian characters from the workstation keyboard on further investigation i found that the character codes used by windows are different for these characters than those specified by the msdos code page the msdos codes seem to be the same as the workstation what gives and how can get around it please reply by e mail as i will be out of the office the next few days and will not be reading the news thanks

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

faster oak vga drivers i m using an oak based vga card on my computer x x i ve downloaded the driver from ftp cica indiana edu and i ve had good luck with it however does anyone know if a faster driver is available for this card thanks mike michael j mccollister phone harris corporation email p o box mmccolli su l ess harris com mailstop palm bay florida i m not going to say anything stupid today not

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

word help hello i m having problems printing spanish characters with wfw i was using the celtic true type which has the accented characters and used insert symbol to put in in the document however when i put it in the doc i get a big square character and then it prints out just the same to my dismay thinking that was just the way it worked can anyone tell me if and how they have printed spanish characters i know wp has this built in but i do not recall ever seeing this option on wfw help robert s dubinski aliases include robb regal sir mr and i marquette university math computer science double major internet address a dubinski vms csd mu edu milwaukee wi

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

is there any documentation for microsoft diagnostics hi i found what i believe is an undocumented feature in my windows directory microsoft diagnostics ver i am specifically interested in a more in depth explanation of the legends in the memory mapping report thanks chak aw chakaw u washington edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re postscript view for dos or windows i ve been using version of ghostscript and i m quite satisfied with it there are actually versions a plain dos version a version and a windows version harvey stein hjstein math huji ac il

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re multiple desktops in article c bht qf news hawaii edu dmcgee uluhe soest hawaii edu don mcgee writes is there a free share ware package that will allow multiple desktops in windows what is desired is to have a desk top for several people that each can personalize by name and choice of programs etc there s a package called workspace on cica that has desktops i haven t done much with it yet but it seems to be able to do what you want it to don t have the exact archive name handy but it s something like wspace blah zip tom finn convex com i speak only for myself peace is the name of the ideal we have deduced from the fact that there have been pauses between wars jerry pournelle in the mercenary

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

nd rfd comp databases ms access this is the nd reguest for discussion rfd for the creation of comp databases ms access the discussion period started on april and it will last until april days this is an official rfd for the creation of a new newsgroup for the general discussion of the microsoft access rdms name comp databases ms access moderation unmoderated at this time no need for a moderator has been assertained future evaluation will determine if one is needed purpose access is a new rdbms for the windows operating system it includes wysiwyg design tools for easy creation of tables reports forms and queries and a database programming language called access basic the purpose of the group will be to provide help to people who use access s wysiwyg design tools to create simple databases as well as to people who use access basic to create complex databases rationale eventhough access is a new rdbms it is very popular because of its graphical development enviroment and its initial low price been a version product means that all access users are novices for that reason a newsgroup is needed where access users can discuss their experiences with the product and answer each other s questions napoleon mau herky cs uiowa edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

wanted dialog box to select file s for dos apps i m looking for a program that will let me use a windows common dialog box to select a file to use when running a dos app basically i have several dos apps that i use now and then with different files they all accept a file as a command line parameter but the only way at least that i know of to do this easily when running them from windows is to set up the pif file so that it prompts me for additional parameters at which point i type in the file name problems are sometimes i can t remember where the file is exactly located and it would be nice to browse my directories for it without having to use the file manager and i m lazy and hate to type long pathnames for files burried several directory levels deep if anyone can point me to such a program or let me know of some other way to handle this i d appreciate it thanks tim the net isn t organized enough to be considered an anarchy reczek autarch acsu buffalo edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

win nt what is it two part question what is windows nt a real windows os this past weekend a local hacker radio show metioned a new product from microsoft called chicago if i recall anyone know what this is that is it thanks a heap alan alan s olson swanson environmental inc e mail to alanchem csd csd uwm edu or alan alchemy chem uwm edu want some good music check out milwaukee s own bodeans

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re copy move files in file manager in article c tsf ye murdoch acc virginia edu rsc e orion lib virginia edu scott crittenden writes my understanding is that to copy files from one directory to another on the same drive in file manager using a mouse you hold down the ctrl key while dragging the file from one directory s window to the other this works for me about of the time the other the file gets moved rather than copied anybody else encountered this i tried to respond by email but all attempts bounced the condition of the ctrl key before you press the mouse button makes no difference whatsoever you have to be holding the ctrl key when you release the mouse button if you want to force a copy operation here s a simple experiment select a file and begin to drag it no ctrl key notice that the file s icon disappears from the listing window now watch what happens to that icon as you press and release the ctrl key keeping the mouse button pressed all the while in addition the icon that you are dragging will show a while you are holding the ctrl key indicating that the file is being copied rather than moved bob nichols at t bell laboratories rnichols ihlpm ih att com

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re can i change licensed to data in windows have you tried re installing the software otherwise i would be dubious about simple ways to change that screen is it not designed to be an embarassment to would be pirates charles charles emmons charles trintex uucp these opinions are prodigy services co charles trintex uunet uu net mine alone unless white plains ny voice you would like to prodigy id kjrd a fax share them

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re multiple desktops in article c bht qf news hawaii edu dmcgee uluhe soest hawaii edu don mcgee writes is there a free share ware package that will allow multiple desktops in windows what is desired is to have a desk top for several people that each can personalize by name and choice of programs etc amishware has one included in their package they were advertising here on the net a couple of weeks ago with a riduculously that is in a good way ted low price does anyone remember what it was charles emmons charles trintex uucp these opinions are prodigy services co charles trintex uunet uu net mine alone unless white plains ny voice you would like to prodigy id kjrd a fax share them

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re can i change licensed to data in windows in article apr trintex uucp charles tinman dev prodigy com writes have you tried re installing the software otherwise i would be dubious about simple ways to change that screen is it not designed to be an embarassment to would be pirates ahh yes this is a fun topic no once the name is incribed on the disk that is it it is encoded not even a hex editor will find it you can write over the licensed to but you can t change the name underneth it i think if you wish to change this you would have to be a pirate and we re not going to promote that here robert s dubinski aliases include robb regal sir mr and i marquette university math computer science double major internet address a dubinski vms csd mu edu milwaukee wi

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re ghostscript for win fonts servis author ecn purdue edu brian k servis writes that s me i just downloaded the windows ghostscript package gswin zip gs ini zip from ftp when i load a ps file it says it cant find font and substitutes a font called ugly it is substituting for basic fonts such as helv and cour i would imagine that these fonts are included in its font library is there something i am doing wrong or am missing these ugly fonts are not very clear and well defined as in sharpness etc basically they are ugly any advice is welcome ok i realize i have to get the font files from some ftp site i found them at cica but i now have another question are the zip fonts compatible with gswin please email brian servis servis author ecn purdue edu it happened this way actual quotes from insurance claims what i say may not be what i think what i say may not be the pedestrian had no idea which what purdue thinks way to go so i ran him over

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

diamond ss x win mouse cursor anybody seen mouse cursor distortion running the diamond x x driver sorry don t know the version of the driver no indication in the menus 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 post or email don lindbergh dabl lhc nlm nih gov

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

ati ultra pro drivers does anybody know the ftp site with the latest windows drivers for the ati gup thanks

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re hercules graphite in article c jbkf b usenet ucs indiana edu ntaib silver ucs indiana edu iskandar taib writes in article apr metrics com tomh metrics com tom haapanen writes has anyone used a hercules graphite adapter it looks good on paper and steve gibson gave it a very good review in infoworld i d love to get a real world impression though how is the speed drivers support the pc world reviewers found out that the herc people had hard coded i think it was the iit people who make the chip the card is based on who hard coded the string one of the weeklies looked into this an came to the conclusion that the iit chip was still pretty fast winbench text into the driver clever no in any case the winbench results are pretty much inflated when and if you get one send me mail i might buy that ati gu off you iskandar taib the only thing worse than peach ala internet ntaib silver ucs indiana edu frog is frog ala peach bitnet ntaib iubacs guy guy dawson hoskyns group plc guyd hoskyns co uk tel hoskyns uk guyd austin ibm com tel ibm austin usa

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

procomm plus for windows problems 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 modem on a 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

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

quattro pro file format we are trying to write a program which can read files created by quattro pro and above would anyone know where to find information regarding the format in which quattro pro stores its files thanks in advance mahesh famous dummies madam tussade s wax museum still at case msk po cwru edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

gui application frameworks for windows hello i m investigating the purchase of an object oriented application framework i have come across a few that look good zapp from inmark zinc from zinc software c views from liant win from blaise some considerations i m using being new to windows programming i m from the unix x world the quality and intuitivness of the abstraction that these class libraries provide is very important however since i m not adverse to learning the internals of windows programming the new programming methodology should be closely aligned with the native one i don t believe arbitrary levels of abstraction just for the sake of changing the api are valuable since we will be developing for the bit windows nt system the memory management issues and issues particular to the windows api are less important we will probably buy another c class library something like tools h or booch components from rational to handle data structures and other miscellaneous stuff allocators etc so those features are not that important for this toolkit to have the two that i have narrowed it down to are zapp and zinc they seem to be the two toolkits that have received the most attention from the media i was wondering if anyone had any first hand experience with any of these toolkits especially zapp and zinc a couple of observations about these toolkits that seem particularly noteworthy are zapp seems to have the most extensive coverage of windows functionality and also includes some other miscellaneous useful classes has new fancy d style controls available and support for custom controls has a windows nt version essential redirectable graphics display output architecture useful for printing sizer class for automatically managing control layout after resize seems to be the newcomer this could be an advantage in designing a better system zinc has a platform independent resource strategy not too important for me right now comes with a interface builder tool has a windows nt version essential seems to have been around longer more mature but grew up out of a dos version had a better demo both have source code availability options both are lacking ole support neither seem to have any particular support for multimedia type stuff any thoughts anyone has on this would be much appreciated thanks brett harper brett harper cimlinc com

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re permanaent swap file with dos dbldisk in article hydra gatech edu gt c prism gatech edu james dean barwick writes 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 robert 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 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 i think the support droid was malfunctioning and confused the disk space limit with the virtual address space limit as far as the disk is concerned you are limited only by the amount of contiguous free space the limit that causes the message windows will only use is the amount of virtual address space that the virtual memory manager will create and this is a function of the amount of free memory that you have when windows starts in the enh section of system ini you can specify a parameter pageovercommit multiplier the following description is from the windows resource kit this entry specifies the multiplier what determines the amount of linear address space the vmm will create for the system which is computed by rounding up the amount of available physical memory to the nearest mb and then multiplying that value by the value specified for pageovercommit increasing this value increases the amount of available linear address space causing the size of data structures to increase this also increases paging activity proportionately and can slow down the system you can specify a value between and the default is to change this entry you must edit system ini bob nichols at t bell laboratories rnichols ihlpm ih att com

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re win nt what is it in a previous article alanchem csd csd uwm edu alan scott olson wrote two part question what is windows nt a real windows os this past weekend a local hacker radio show metioned a new product from microsoft called chicago if i recall anyone know what this is that is it thanks a heap alan windows nt is a giant windows operating system unline win it does not run on top of dos it is its own os with billy gates assures us true multi tasking multithreading meets dod security specs will run win programs as well as dos programs has multi processor support and is primarily a server program it s overhead is too high for it to be economical for most users speaking of overhead it requires at least a with megs of ram it iwll run with but that s like running os with megs and that s just to run it also i have heard that the system files take up megs and it is recommended that your drive be a half gig the skd is distributed on cd rom 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 but that s okay since it will probably be more of a client os 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 n etowrk t echonology 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 think of it that way anyway novell netware creates an os on the server that is truly not dos so don t scorn the concept anyway don t expect it soon windows and dos are supposed to be released next year read see it in so i expect that chicogo won t be out til with luck i ll be proven wrong rob rmohns vax clarku edu rob mohns annoy rush limbaugh think for yourself

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re can i change licensed to data in windows this is in relation to a question concerning changing the registered to information of ms windows in a previous article a dubinski vms csd mu edu wrote ahh yes this is a fun topic no once the name is incribed on the disk that is it it is encoded not even a hex editor will find it you can write over the licensed to but you can t change the name underneth it i i can find it with a hex editor although i have not tried to overwrite it are you sure it can t be you may be mistaken about this rob rmohns vax clarku edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re fall comdex dls psuvm psu edu wrote does anyone out there have any info on the up and coming fall comdex i was asked by one of my peers to get any info that might be available or could anyone point me in the right direction any help would be appreciated it s in las vegas as always between november th and th for more information contact the interface group first avenue needham ma sorry no phone number available consult directory service in massachusetts for the number or willy ville v walveranta tel fax linda ave apt from finland oakland ca faxes automatically recognized usa email wil shell portal com

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re permanaent swap file with dos dbldisk in article hydra gatech edu gt c prism gatech edu james dean barwick writes stuff deleted 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 robert 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 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 well someone at microsoft told you wrong windows will use a swap file larger than the recommended size last summer i went to a microsoft windows technical workshop and they distributed a lot of information that the general public might not be aware of anyway in the main book they handed out they have a section on creating larger than recommended swapfile i ll quote the information if you create a permanent swapfile larger than the recommended size you will receive a message telling you that windows will not use anything larger than the recommended size this error message is incorrect we will allow the use of the larger swapfile up to four times the amount of ram on your machine so as you see microsoft does know that the information is incorrect you probably just ran into some doofball who was new on the job and was only telling you what little he knew be that what it may i would really suggest to everyone to take the opportunity to go to these technical workshops they aren t actually incredibly in depth but you do get a lot of material about bugs and optimization straight from those in the know besides that they offer you huge discounts on software if i remember correctly you could pick up word excel or whatever their presentation program is for that is the full blown version not an upgrade or educational version you could also pick up microsoft office for or something like that myself i sprang for word well hope that was helpful to someone and besides that i hope someone will go to a workshop and save a little money and if anyone at microsoft is reading this i really love your products i need a job once i graduate also can we work something out thanks brent casavant bcasavan mailhost ecn uoknor edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re ati ultra pro drivers in article c jldc hl news cso uiuc edu jroberts ux cso uiuc edu robertson writes does anybody know the ftp site with the latest windows drivers for the ati gup thanks the latest driver release is and can be found at ftp cica indiana edu in the pub pc win directory structure as pro zip i checked with ati s bbs last nite and there were no releases past we have the ati local bus card and i noticed that i get garbage around the edges of a window when i move it has anybody else noticed this also tom thomas b fisk internet fisk mayo edu mayo clinic if you don t know where voice first street sw you re going you ll never fax mail stop d stm get there rochester mn

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

help on bitmaps i wonder if anyone can tell me whether or not i can create a bitmap of any size i followed the bitmap creation example in sdk manual and specified a x bitmap set the width height to and supplied a byte string with chars but i just cannot get the right bitmap image i changed the width height to x and used the same value string padded with zero byets to make up to the right size and got the image the example in the manual is x size which are multiple of bytes can you define a bitmap image of any size thanks very much g chen chen citr uq oz au g chen centre for information technology research university of queensland australia chen citr uq oz au tel fax

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re gui application frameworks for windows i look at zapp and really liked it however i think you should wait for version i think it will be out soon mike maley maley cs umn edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re speedstar vga card win drivers these drivers updated are available directly from diamond they will even ship them to you at no charge at least they did for me

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re permanent swap file in a previous article mlipsie rdm std com mike lipsie mpu says in article c yfd ld sunfish usd edu pwiseman salmon usd edu cliff writes your swap file is purged every time you exit windows if you shut off your computer without exiting windows your swap file remains mb is on the large side are you running more applications than you really need to at the same time this is of course not true the temporary swap file is purged every time you exit windows the permanent file is permanent and can only be changed by adjusting the virtual memory i suspect that either the original poster was tinkering and adjusted the swap file to mb and then forgot about it or somebody helped him mike lipsie work mlipsie ca merl com mitsubishi electronic research laboratory home mikel dosbears uucp when i first setup windows using the self load mode it grabbed about megs of swap file space my meg hd was nearly empty at that time i deleted windows for a time and recently reloaded now my hd is nearly full and windows just took megs i have read somewhere that the best rule of thumb is have your permanent swap file the same size as your regular ram size i have megs of ram and windows took meg perm swap file works very well in fact with my available hd space about megs it won t let me make the swap file any bigger you should change your virtual mem swap file to megs i think that is what you said your ram was c ya artin this communication is sent by artin university of arizona tucson ak cleveland freenet edu mlinsenb ccit arizona edu mlinsenb arizvms death has been dead for about years follow the king of kings

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re procomm plus for windows problems in article qkqrhinnobc matt ksu ksu edu kentiler matt ksu ksu edu kent p iler writes 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 modem on a mhz machine tell him he probably needs to upgrade to a faster video card my baud modem was one of the reasons i sought out the diamond speedstar x i get about million winmarks on my and it just about keeps up with the modem speed using procomm plus for windows too he should get over million on his machine with the same card anything should yield acceptable speed jeff meyers jmeyers ecst csuchico edu x n x w chico ca kd dis ke lw nocal ca usa na grid cn cm

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

what is regload exe perusing through my windows directory i came across a file called regload exe i assume this is part of the registration database but neither my windows manual win resource kit nor pc mag s description of files in the windows directory had a reference to it at least not one that i could find does regedit exe use it or am i way off base peter goudswaard goudswaa sfu ca preferred pgoudswa cln etc bc ca pgoudswa cue bc ca there s no gift like the present goudswaard s observation

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re page setup in notepad in apr cbnewsh cb att com krh cbnewsh cb att com writes i often use notepad to view and print read me type files i often find myself rushing to get to print manager to stop the printer and delete the file from the print queue because i ve forgotten to reset the print margins from inches left and right to inches the resulting printed text looks all chopped up because of the hard returns in the source file i struggled with the margin problem for ages as well until i finally got hold of the shareware binary editor beav and dug into notepad exe there is no setup facility to force notepad to default to margins it s hardwired into code do a search for then change the offending bytes to et viola who are the guys who hardcode these options anyway i m interested in whether the problem only rears it s ugly head for certain printers i m using an old epson lx or is that ex never can remember aloha

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

panasonic kx p i driver does anyone out there know if there are print drivers for windows for the panasonic kx p i pin dot matrix printer

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re can i change licensed to data in windows write over the licensed to but you can t change the name underneth it i think if you wish to change this you would have to be a pirate and we re not going to promote that here not so my computer was supplied with my name in an interesting mix of upper and lower case and my workplace mis typed i m getting fed up with being cmyearsley at keel unversity it took me phone calls to the supplier to get the computer working at all i really can t face tackling them again chris

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re help with winqvt i had a similar problem try changing the netmask to or tommy

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re is anyone using video for windows my suggestion would be to contact microsoft about the video windows sdk you would need to call developer services at extension from am to pm pacific time

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

driver for panasonic kx p greetings i am looking pro a win printer driver for the panasonic laser printer kx p i am not sure about the order of the first letters in the name but the numbers are right and they are important i have found drivers for panasonic printers and so on but i think there should be drivers available where the model is included grateful for any help kjell hut fi kjell niksula hut fi kjell vipunen hut fi

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re re win nt what is it in article apr vax clarku edu rmohns vax clarku edu says in a previous article alanchem csd csd uwm edu alan scott olson wrote two part question what is windows nt a real windows os this past weekend a local hacker radio show metioned a new product from microsoft called chicago if i recall anyone know what this is that is it thanks a heap alan windows nt is a giant windows operating system unline win it does not run on top of dos it is its own os with billy gates assures us true multi tasking multithreading meets dod security specs will run win programs as well as dos programs has multi processor support and is primarily a server program it s overhead is too high for it to be economical for most users it also runs os character based apps and posix apps the dos bit and bit windows apps run in a windows bit subsystem if you consider the fact that nt has the lanman redirectors built in support for tcp ip built in support for netbeui comes with tcp utils like ping and an ftp client etc applications like schedule and a bit version of msmail the storage argument isnt an issue speaking of overhead it requires at least a with megs of ram it iwll run with but that s like running os with megs and that s just to run it also i have heard that the system files take up megs and it is recommended that your drive be a half gig the skd is distributed on cd rom i ran it on a with mram and it did a ton of disk swapping with a m virtual memory paging file it functioned but it crawled this was the oct build i upgraded the machine to m and the performance is good at that point i installed the march build consider they are probably still working on the feature set and havent done a lot of fine tuning to the code yet 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 but that s okay since it will probably be more of a client os 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 n etowrk t echonology 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 think of it that way anyway novell netware creates an os on the server that is truly not dos so don t scorn the concept anyway don t expect it soon windows and dos are supposed to be released next year read see it in so i expect that chicogo won t be out til i have little info on chicago so i cant make a comparison is it in beta is there anyone out there who has tested both and cares to make a comparison just my aln

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re re win nt what is it i have little info on chicago so i cant make a comparison is it in beta is there anyone out there who has tested both and cares to make a comparison just my aln chicago from what i have read is projected to run in m on and higher it is definitely aimed at the desktop it is rumored to offer preemptive multitasking multithreading but will not offer multiprocessing is bit and no reliance on dos it is rumored to have an integrated file and program manager dos is rumored to be similar to chicago but without the gui is also a step towards cairo the next generation os which is rumored to be object oriented i wonder where windows fits here is it a stepping stone to chicago hope this helps thx dave l

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re win nt what is it rmohns vax clarku edu 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 but that s okay since it will probably be more of a client os 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 n etowrk t echonology 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 think of it that way anyway novell netware creates an os on the server that is truly not dos so don t scorn the concept anyway don t expect it soon windows and dos are supposed to be released next year read see it in so i expect that chicogo won t be out til how does chicago differ from the sort of announced windows my understand ing at least from the inbfoworld accound of windows 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 w not true multithreading

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re procomm plus for windows problems kentiler matt ksu ksu edu kent p iler 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 modem on a 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 v on a considerably slower sx could be a video problem but only if he has incredibly slow video

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re word help from article b b a a vms csd mu edu by a dubinski vms csd mu edu can anyone tell me if and how they have printed spanish characters i know wp has this built in but i do not recall ever seeing this option on wfw help try using the extended character set alt sequences look in character map in the accessories group and see the alt sequence for the font you want gregory r cook internet gcook horus cem msu edu department of chemistry cookgreg student msu edu michigan state university cook cemvax cem msu edu east lansing mi bitnet cook msucem bitnet

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re need windows logo in article qjqed ft access digex net holland access digex com brian holland writes markus maier s maier m rzmain rz uni ulm de 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 mike mattix agricultural group of monsanto p o box luling la internet address dmmatt bigez monsanto com

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

wanted symantec address nothing beats skiing if you want to have real fun during holidays rob de winter philips research ist it building wl p o box ja eindhoven the netherlands tel e mail dewinter prl philips nl

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

wanted address symantec i am looking for the exact address of the symantec coporatoin which distributes norton desktop and other windows software the information i am looking for is mail address phone number fax number e mail address thanks in advance nothing beats skiing if you want to have real fun during holidays rob de winter philips research ist it building wl p o box ja eindhoven the netherlands tel e mail dewinter prl philips nl

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re can i change licensed to data in windows in article apr vax clarku edu rmohns vax clarku edu writes this is in relation to a question concerning changing the registered to information of ms windows in a previous article a dubinski vms csd mu edu wrote ahh yes this is a fun topic no once the name is incribed on the disk that is it it is encoded not even a hex editor will find it you can write over the licensed to but you can t change the name underneth it i i can find it with a hex editor although i have not tried to overwrite it are you sure it can t be you may be mistaken about this you can change it as part of a continuously downsizing government organization my code branch changes about once a year i just finished changing the registration information using norton utilities i sent the original requester the hex offset into user exe containing the information and his reply indicated he got several similar answers and it s not encoded in any way as for the legality there s nothing that keeps me from changing the information it certainly doesn t reach out and alter the serial number printed on the inside of my manual jim moore panama city fl

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re gui application frameworks for windows in article apr cimlinc uucp bharper cimlinc uucp brett harper writes hello i m investigating the purchase of an object oriented application framework i have come across a few that look good zinc has a platform independent resource strategy not too important for me right now brett harper cimlinc com just a thought on resources it is very important if you do use a multiplatform toolkit to check on how it uses resources i have used glockenspeil commonview under motif and os i wrote a resource converter from os to motif but it really wasn t too easy especially the naming scheme in motif you cannot rename controls widgets with windows you can call the ok button id ok in every instance this doesn t work for motif you d have to call it dialog ok and motif expects a text string rather than a number so your constructor should know how to convert a define into the proper resource identifier i d check on how the toolkit expects names and that if it does use resources that is uses resources for all platforms you intend to port to by the way i would never use commonview or glockenspiel for anything alex alex colburn image analysis facility university of iowa colburn tessa iaf uiowa edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re hercules graphite in article c jbkf b usenet ucs indiana edu ntaib silver ucs indiana edu iskandar taib writes in article apr metrics com tomh metrics com tom haapanen writes has anyone used a hercules graphite adapter it looks good on paper and steve gibson gave it a very good review in infoworld i d love to get a real world impression though how is the speed drivers support the pc world reviewers found out that the herc people had hard coded winbench text into the driver clever no in any case the winbench results are pretty much inflated but the impressive performance of the graphite was not its winmark it was its wintach result esp the paint performance judging from the wintach tests i can hardly imagine that there is a cheat driver for it agus budy wuysang digitech student monash university clayton melbourne australia

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re diamond ss x win mouse cursor in article apr nlm nih gov dabl nlm nih gov don a b lindbergh writes anybody seen mouse cursor distortion running the diamond x x driver sorry don t know the version of the driver no indication in the menus 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 as a followup this is a co worker s machine he has the latest drivers it only happens using the x x driver sometimes it takes a minute or so for the cursor to wig out but it eventually does in this mode i susect something is stepping on memory the video card wants i excluded a c ff in the emm line and in system ini the problem persisted perhaps it is something specific to the gateway machine or it s components it is a mhz dx eisa bus with an ultrastore xx controller ah well i was hoping this was some kind of known problem or somebody had seen it before perhaps a call to gateway is in order but i do find folks here usually are far more in the know don lindbergh dabl lhc nlm nih gov

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re win nt what is it in article qmc e g b access digex net wild access digex com wildstrom writes from wild access digex com wildstrom subject re win nt what is it date apr much stuff deleted what is win i upgraded to mathcad and it installed a directory for win under windows system during the upgrade it told me that win was required

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re procomm plus for windows problems you have a lot more problems keeping up with hardware interrupts in windows than in dos regardless of what communication software you are using try the following turn off disk write cache for the disk you are downloading to the cache will save up so much that when it grabs control of the machine it takes too long to write to disk and you loose characters use a different uart for your serial line the old uart s or can only buffer one character internally the new uart s can buffer which should be plenty for most situations you can run windows msd exe to find out what uart is on the machine ron

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re win nt what is it rmohns vax clarku edu writes windows nt is a giant windows operating system unline win it does not run on top of dos it is its own os with billy gates assures us true multi tasking multithreading meets dod security specs will run win programs as well as dos programs has multi processor support and is primarily a server program it s overhead is too high for it to be economical for most users correction all billy is promising is that it will run most windows programs and the major dos programs do not expect everything you have to run under nt unless all you have are current ms apps

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

how do i make ghostscript work what files do i need to download for ghostscript i have never used ghostscript before so i don t have any files for it what i do have is gs win zip which i downloaded from cica unfortunately it doesn t seem to work on it s own but needs some more files that i don t have i want to run ghostscript both in windows and in ms dos on a pc i understand there s versions for both environments what are all the files i need to download and where can i get them any info would be appeciated steve w brewer rewerb w evets cl ulkyvx louisville edu ude ellivsiuol xvyklu lc

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

windows keeps crashing please help as the subjects says windows keeps crashing givinh me gpf on me of late it was never a very stable package but now it seems to crash every day the worst part about it is that it does not crash consistently ie i can t reproduce crashes and they are not always gpf s in the same application sometimes i can recover by simply closing the application that caused an error but other times windows acts very strange and i need to re boot some background i have a leading edge sx with phoenix bios when i first got it it had mg of memory it ran windows fine not too many gpf s then a couple of weekends ago i installed lotus for windows with atm a game card and an additional mg simms the leading edge machine is kind of strange in that it has the ide controler built into the motherboard the cpu is actually on a sparate board that plugs into the motherboard and the simms it uses are macintosh simms apparently i was told that the leading edge had the parity bit built into the mother board the original mg ns simms where of the chip variety from samsung and the ones i installed are chip simms they are recognized fine by the bios ram check the game card is a generic gamecard the reason why i mention the hardware like this is that sometimes rebooting the machine using the reset button or ctl alt del still leaves the machine kind of flaky but turning it on and off doesn t i haven t tried taking out the ram or the game card because as i said these gpf are not reproducible at will i have gone through and entire day using the computer with no problems and then i might get or so gpf s in the sppace of minutes what can i do this situation is most annoying are there any good diagnostic tools for hardware do you think that this might be a software problem ie emm etc if it helps i have manage to get gpf s on after dark quicken paint shop pro a lot of them have been in user exe or gdi exe any help is truly appreciated eric ebosco us oracle com

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re permanaent swap file with dos dbldisk stuff deleted be that what it may i would really suggest to everyone to take the opportunity to go to these technical workshops they aren t actually incredibly in depth but you do get a lot of material about bugs and optimization straight from those in the know besides that they offer you huge discounts on software if i remember correctly you could pick up word excel or whatever their presentation program is for that is the full blown version not an upgrade or educational version you could also pick up microsoft office for or something like that myself i sprang for word the value of these workshops aside you ought to be able to buy full copies of all this software through your campus bookstore or software distributor at these rates i m not aware that the educational version of word or excel is doped down in any way well hope that was helpful to someone and besides that i hope someone will go to a workshop and save a little money and if anyone at microsoft is reading this i really love your products i need a job once i graduate also can we work something out thanks brent casavant bcasavan mailhost ecn uoknor edu david farley the university of chicago library east th street jrl dgf midway uchicago edu chicago illinois

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re permanent swap file in article qlja i b usenet ins cwru edu ak cleveland freenet edu martin linsenbigler writes when i first setup windows using the self load mode it grabbed about megs of swap file space my meg hd was nearly empty at that time i deleted windows for a time and recently reloaded now my hd is nearly full and windows just took megs one of the rules for a permanent swap file is that it must be contiguous non fragmented space i suspect that is more responsible for the difference than the amount of free disk in your case i have read somewhere that the best rule of thumb is have your permanent swap file the same size as your regular ram size i have megs of ram and windows took meg perm swap file works very well in fact with my available hd space about megs it won t let me make the swap file any bigger you should change your virtual mem swap file to megs i think that is what you said your ram was it depends on what you are running we had to increase our swap file i think it is now mb when some applications couldn t run without everything else closed mike lipsie work mlipsie ca merl com mitsubishi electronic research laboratory home mikel dosbears uucp

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re wanted address symantec dewinter prl philips nl rob de winter writes i am looking for the exact address of the symantec coporatoin which distributes norton desktop and other windows software the information i am looking for is mail address phone number fax number e mail address try postmaster norton com or postmaster symantec com thanks in advance nothing beats skiing if you want to have real fun during holidays rob de winter philips research ist it building wl p o box ja eindhoven the netherlands tel e mail dewinter prl philips nl ken lam network administrator university of charleston dept of biology geology s c space grant consortium fax

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

cirrus logic graph card after setting up windows for using my cirrus logic vlb graphicscard it moved a normal window from one place to another my parameters where just the following dx vlb the card is equipped with mb dram not vram there are sockets for vram and the moving of the window just looked like it looked at a friends dx dx and an normal isa et what i was wondering why is it not using the bitblt engine which is suuposed to be on the chip how are the experiences here have i done something wrong i installed the mswin multiresolution drivers which where supplied with the card would be nice if somebody could tell about his experience with this card also if there are new hopefully faster drrivers around i would love to how to get hold of them ftp or whatsoever gruss wolfgang

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re procomm plus for windows problems kentiler matt ksu ksu edu kent p iler writes 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 modem on a mhz machine i can t see it having trouble keeping up his pcplus for dos works great re what to do after the high speed modem arrives edition apr this article applies only to windows and and not to nt os or dos apps not running under windows one of the unadvertised limitations of most current windows pcs is that their rs c serial com performance is seriously deficient almost everyone who purchases a high speed modem v bis v pep or hst discovers the problem the first time they try to download a file or accept an incoming fax at after upgrading the modem overrun and retry errors abound even when the only active application is the datacomm or fax program if the transfer completes at all it may take even longer than with the old bps modem there are three reasons for the problem the universal asynchronous receiver transmitters uarts used in most pcs are primitive ns devices with single byte fifo buffers if the operating system driver cannot read and flush each character at high interrupt rates the next incoming character overwrites the fifo and the previous one is lost dos being a fairly single minded environment during datacomm can usually keep up windows can t windows has more operating system overhead than plain dos and interrupts often take longer to service overruns are much more likely than under dos as soon as you report to your pc modem vendor that you are losing data you may be advised that you need to upgrade to a more likely since there seems to be a conspiracy of ignorance about this issue you ll get no useful advice at all most of the store front and mail order sources i spoke with in attempting to solve my own problem had never heard the term and many didn t even know what a uart was even your pc has ns a uarts and ps s do or if you can upgrade your mother com board or add a new com board you may still experience errors and overruns because the standard microsoft windows com drivers don t take full advantage of the windows is improved in this regard over but i still recommend a driver upgrade applications like procomm win which is what i use cannot get around this problem by themselves if you have a modem card you may not have a problem as the modem part of the card can be designed to be aware of the state of the uart and avoid overrunning it however i wouldn t want to bet that the card designers were that clever and will insist on a uart if i ever buy a modem card some modem cards don t even have conventional uarts but if they are to work with standard windows drivers they need to simulate one use msd exe below to see what the modem card is or is pretending to be the hardware situation the uarts on most pc com ports are based on national semiconductor ns or ns chips or megacells inside vlsi chips where you can t replace them you can id the uart type on your system by running the microsoft diagnostic program windows msd exe be sure to run it in dos before bringing up windows the windows serial api may prevent msd from accurately identifying a if you run it from a windows dos prompt the ns uart has separate byte transmit and receive fifos with configurable trigger levels and can run reliably at clock rates up to bps although with current modem technology there s no point in pushing your luck by going over bps the has shorted access cycle times than the or the also has dma capability but it is not clear that any pc drivers ever use this for more technical info see national semiconductor application note an so what uart component do you have try to locate the uart on your mother board multi function i o card com board or isa mca modem card if you can t find a socketed component with the numbers or your com ports are probably buried in vlsi and you won t be able to perform a chip replacement if you can disable your vlsi com ports as i chose to do you can at least add an aftermarket com board if you have one or more socketed or chips you can buy plug in ns afn or pc c cn low power cmos version ics from several suppliers typically for to each the n chip is the normal pin dual in line package other styles are available but avoid any ns chips without the a the c c are presumably all ok early ns chips have bugs although national will reportedly exchange those of their own manufacture for free clone chips are available from various ic makers other than national the manual for the turbocom drivers states support for the following apparently equivalent chips national semiconductor a chips technology c texas instruments t c a silicon systems m vlsi c turbocom warns about the pre a ns and western digital c says that problems have been reported with early ibm ps sx and systems ibm reportedly will upgrade them if you don t have socketed chips you ll need to buy an after market com or multi function board if this is a modem card situation you may be hosed to add a new com or multi function card you ll need to either disable the com port s you are replacing or re assign them to com although watch out for irq conflicts without turbocom although cheaper cards are available in the interest of getting the problem solved quickly i elected buy the modular circuit technology mct aio card from jdr microdevices samaritan drive san jose ca voice us voice other fax us the mct aio and the is important sells for it is an bit isa card providing port type connector address and irq comments com db m com irq ns afn in socket com ribbon com irq ns afn in socket parallel db f lpt irq game ribbon the kit includes a ribbon cable and db f connector for the secondary com port a ribbon cable connector for the game port two bulkhead plates for the ribbon based connectors and a f to f adaptor cable each port can be individually disabled and the com ports have tx rx rts cts dtr dcd and dsr jumpers jdr also sells a super i o m f card that also has ide i have heard from several people about less expensive m f i o cards with s tsd systems for the card plus per greenfield trading and distributors voice fax their card is w one w and they sell afns for r s data systems inc east highway longwood fl phone fax com lpt game card w s for i have no personal experience with any of the firms except jdr meanwhile back at the mct card from jdr i only needed two serial ports and am running out of irqs on my pc so i disabled my built in vlsi based ports however with the turbocom driver below i could have set the internals as com and using irq sharing the software situation simply upgrading to uarts will not completely solve common overrun problems the standard ms serial drivers don t take full advantage of the the windows drivers are even less capable and the windows drivers have the following limitations they enable only the receive fifo and only at rates above bps they never enable the transmit fifo which results in an interrupt rate of x during uploads they set the trigger level at bytes too high it s easy for more bytes to arrive before the driver can read the fifo the ports menu of the control panel only allows speeds up to with a v bis modem sparse data and text can easily compress or more suggesting that a host dte connect rate of bps would be effective the api won t accept rates above cbr the api won t let dos programs know there is a there and even if it did dos programs that aren t aware get little benefit from a port with the standard drivers they don t allow irq sharing for com the bios doesn t initialize com properly in many systems windows provides no workaround for apps that don t provide port speed options above bps these problems are reportedly not solved in windows nt or dos and may or may not be addressed in any windows releases after but before rumors suggest they may be solved in windows you can get replacement drivers that solve all of those problems by buying a copy of turbocom current version from bio engineering research pacific commware division beacon hill lane ashland or voice fax bbs mcimail compuserve price was around as i recall bio eng is not set up to accept credit cards so i had to send a check egghead and software list turbocom but as far as i know they don t stock it bio is not a software company per se they apparently needed reliable hi speed serial connections for an in house instrument application wrote their own driver discovered a market for it revised it to be a general purpose com driver suite they recently upgraded it for windows it is run time licensed i now have my host dte connect rate set to bps most of my datacomm apps and i am having zero problems with downloads i routinely see transfer rates that exceed bps i am also using bps when linking an hp lx to my pc with lossless bi directional i o uploads to various remote systems are another matter because many hosts are still using antique uarts and drivers note that is still the highest rate that the windows port menu in control panel will allow in configuring a com port turbocom gets around this by allowing you to specify on each port a factor that will set the real uart rate to a multiple of the rate passed through the windows apis and dialog boxes i also have cts rts hardware flow control enabled and i suggest that you do the same even if you only ever transfer bit ascii data xon xoff is not a sufficiently reliable method of flow control the informal dec standard for xon xoff hysteresis is that the sender may transmit another yes sixteen bytes after receipt of the xoff from the receiving system or device the byte fifo in the is clearly not big enough to let us rely exclusively on xon xoff a well respected datacomm engineer has informed me that the s can t really do cts rts all by itself in the dos windows environment so using data rates above may still be risky even with hardware flow control a with turbocom can still experience overruns in very busy systems with lots of apps running and serious swapping in progress if this is your situation you may need to buy a co processed com board but this will cost you more than a turbocom upgrade a review of two such boards and a review of turbocom can be found in the feb issue of windows sources magazine i suggest trying a turbocom upgrade first and experiment with process priorities and time slices if you are a power user whose thrashing system still runs into comm problems closing soapbox comments the state of rs c serial datacomm support is an embarrassment across the computer industry because it is the oldest standard i o interface the job of designing hardware and writing software often seems to be assigned to the least senior or lowest ranked engineers at computer companies the design of the average serial port is at least ten years behind the state of the art in my last job with a major workstation vendor i lobbied for improved serial ports when they were doing the initial designs of a new system that family of machines was subsequently introduced with ports however this is the exception few computer companies seem to have any champions for decent i o you may as well learn what you can about serial i o because this situation shows no sign of improving soon when v fast arrives i expect cries of outrage from windows users world wide whose pcs sort of work today with v but will fail miserably with v fast without a hardware buffered uart like the and without software drivers that use that uart to best advantage a v fast modem will be a waste of money regards a east harmony road bob niland suite internet rjn csn org fort collins co compuserve copyright robert j niland all rights reserved permission is granted for automatic redistribution of this article via electronic magnetic and optical media in an unedited form through any usenet newsgroup where the article is posted by the author permission is granted for each compuserve and usenet reader subscriber and each person who received this article from compuserve an ftp site authorized by the author or via electronic mail from the author to retain one electronic copy and to make hardcopy reproductions of this edition of this article for personal non commercial use provided that no material changes are made to the article or this copyright statement all other copying storage reproduction or redistribution of this article in any form is prohibited without the express written consent of the author robert j niland eof

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

any updated canon bj driver hi can anyone tell me where i can get a copy of updated canon bj printer driver for windows if any i have ver which comes with my bj printer i just wonder if there is any newer version thanks very much please email

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

windows for workgroups and lan workplace this may be a simple question but we have a number of pc s which we use to link to a mainframe using novell lan workplace for dos via windows now to make life easier for us we are thinking of using windows for workgroups to allow file sharing across our pc network now does anyone know if it is possible to use w wg and lan workplace for dos at the same time ie can i access a file on another pc while being logged on to the mainframe at the same time simultaneously any help well appreciated gary hunt centre for advanced studies in architecture university of bath absgh gdr bath ac uk

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re word help in article qmf l euh msuinfo cl msu edu gcook horus cem msu edu greg cook writes from article b b a a vms csd mu edu by a dubinski vms csd mu edu can anyone tell me if and how they have printed spanish characters i know wp has this built in but i do not recall ever seeing this option on wfw help try using the extended character set alt sequences look in character map in the accessories group and see the alt sequence for the font you want thanks i think i ve figured it out now robert s dubinski aliases include robb regal sir mr and i marquette university math computer science double major internet address a dubinski vms csd mu edu milwaukee wi

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re can i change licensed to data in windows ok then where is the info for the licensing kept which file in the organization box i put my address and when i moved i wanted to change it but couldn t find it i could find my name but not the organization robert s dubinski aliases include robb regal sir mr and i marquette university math computer science double major internet address a dubinski vms csd mu edu milwaukee wi

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re page setup in notepad in a previous article joel jach hawaii edu joel aycock wrote i struggled with the margin problem for ages as well until i finally got hold of the shareware binary editor beav and dug into notepad exe there is no setup facility to force notepad to default to margins it s hardwired into code do a search for then change the offending bytes to et viola who are the guys who hardcode these options anyway i m interested in whether the problem only rears it s ugly head for certain printers i m using an old epson lx or is that ex never can remember aloha you are nto alone i get the same problems with my panasonic kpx i pin oterhwise it s a great printer i just can t find a driver for it only for the non i version anyone seen it rob rmohns vax clarku edu rob mohns annoy rush limbaugh think for yourself

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re need windows logo in a previous article dmmatt cajun wrote in article qjqed ft access digex net holland access digex com brian holland writes markus maier s maier m rzmain rz uni ulm de 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 think of it as a bootstrap and vgalogo vga has video information just make sure that the rle file doesn t tip the whole com file size over the k 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 yes from batman 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 a post by rob mohns rmohns i had no water so vax clarku edu i drowned in sand

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

any updated canon bj driver hi can anyone tell me where i can get a copy of updated canon bj printer driver for windows if any i have ver which comes with my bj printer i just wonder if there is any newer version thanks very much please email

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re any good sound formats conversion program out there in article edd h mings cc monash edu au edd h mings cc monash edu au ywi li writes hi all does anyone know if there is a good sound formats conversion program out there like paintshoppro for picture formats conversion 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 and even that sounds pretty good 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 why that s the second mogul soda berkeley edu biggest monkey head i ve mogul ocf berkeley edu ever seen guybrush mogul uclink berkeley edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re can i change licensed to data in windows rmohns vax clarku edu writes this is in relation to a question concerning changing the registered to information of ms windows in a previous article a dubinski vms csd mu edu wrote ahh yes this is a fun topic no once the name is incribed on the disk that is it it is encoded not even a hex editor will find it you can write over the licensed to but you can t change the name underneth it i i can find it with a hex editor although i have not tried to overwrite it are you sure it can t be you may be mistaken about this rob rmohns vax clarku edu on a similar note has anyone found out a way to do this with ms foxpro for windows my setup ini file was modified on disk all encrypted well of course i forgot about microsoft s stupid arrangement when i got the software and used my name it was paid for by the company i m doing consulting for when my job is done it s their software any ideas before i start doing dumb things to a copy of that file mattias ps no i don t want to pirate this software i just want to avoid having to buy a new copy in order to change the registration information and then having a copy lying around i don t use maybe i can get a new disk mattias hembruch my views do not necessarily reflect those of the tse e mail mhembruc tse com

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re procomm plus for windows problems jeff meyers jmeyers ecst csuchico edu wrote in article qkqrhinnobc matt ksu ksu edu kentiler matt ksu ksu edu kent p iler writes i have a friend who connects to the mainframe and unix machines here using procomm plus for windows but the screen seems to have a problem keeping up with the modem he has a modem on a mhz machine tell him he probably needs to upgrade to a faster video card my baud modem was one of the reasons i sought out the diamond speedstar x i get about million winmarks on my and it just about keeps up with the modem speed using procomm plus for windows too he should get over million on his machine with the same card anything should yield acceptable speed i m using pc plus at home on my trusty old nec sx with a baud modem with no problems at all i am however running only straight color vga christopher menzel internet cmenzel tamu edu philosophy texas a m university phone college station tx fax

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

gatewaying microsoft mail workgroups via modem 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 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 dkmiller unixg ubc ca or the d of f dleung ee ubc ca 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 dkmiller unixg ubc ca researcher alma mater society thegrodd tz ucs sfu ca university of british columbia canada room b sub blvd vancouver b c v t z campus mail zone phone fax

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re win nt what is it somewhere in this thread it has been said that windows nt tm is a multi user os as well as multi threading etc i certainly haven t seen this to be the case there are seperate accounts for each person and even seperate directories if that is desired i don t see an implentation of simultaneuos use though scott scott reimert reimert mamacass etdesg trw com standard disclaimer redondo beach ca blah blah blah always store beer in a cool dark place

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re windows keeps crashing please help in article apr oracle us oracle com ebosco us oracle com eric bosco writes from ebosco us oracle com eric bosco subject windows keeps crashing please help date fri apr gmt as the subjects says windows keeps crashing givinh me gpf on me of late it was never a very stable package but now it seems to crash every day the worst part about it is that it does not crash consistently ie i have you tried setting files in your config sys file to a fairly high number i ve got mine set to i ve seen numbers from to recommended also check your stacks statement stacks is a good starting point try increasing it if it s already set there such as to stacks etc both stacks and files have been identified as one cause of frequent win crashes lamont downs downs nevada edu

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re diamond ss x win mouse cursor in article apr nlm nih gov dabl nlm nih gov don a b lindbergh writes in article apr nlm nih gov dabl nlm nih gov don a b lindbergh writes anybody seen mouse cursor distortion running the diamond x x driver sorry don t know the version of the driver no indication in the menus 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 as a followup this is a co worker s machine he has the latest drivers it only happens using the x x driver sometimes it takes a minute or so for the cursor to wig out but it eventually does in this mode i susect something is stepping on memory the video card wants i excluded a c ff in the emm line and in system ini the problem persisted perhaps it is something specific to the gateway machine or it s components it is a mhz dx eisa bus with an ultrastore xx controller ah well i was hoping this was some kind of known problem or somebody had seen it before perhaps a call to gateway is in order but i do find folks here usually are far more in the know don lindbergh dabl lhc nlm nih gov i haven t seen this particular problem but another place you might check is if your bios is doing video shadowing diamond wants that turned off that might cause a memory conflict as well good luck hope this helps chris loschen brandeis u

comp.os.ms-windows.misc

re win nt what is it wild access digex com wildstrom writes rmohns vax clarku edu 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 but that s okay since it will probably be more of a client os 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 n etowrk t echonology 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 think of it that way anyway novell netware creates an os on the server that is truly not dos so don t scorn the concept anyway don t expect it soon windows and dos are supposed to be released next year read see it in so i expect that chicogo won t be out til how does chicago differ from the sort of announced windows my understand ing at least from the inbfoworld accound of windows 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 w not true multithreading can anyone tell me how chicago windows would differ from os 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 i do not consider the fact that it has uncle bills seal of approval much of a feature