waashk/20ng huggingface dataset:
In <0096B130.473B17C0@vms.csd.mu.edu> 2a42dubinski@vms.csd.mu.edu writes: >	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  But a disk compare utility (old versus new) will.  And Windows 3.1 is also flexible enough at install time that you can copy all the files onto your hard disk, which greatly speeds things up and makes them less annoying, if you can spare the 7 or so compressed megs.  >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.  No, we're not.  But we're also not going to promote pandering to corporate paranoia when the real issue is convenience.  I don't *like* dealing with floppies.  Personally, I have no use for changing the registration info, but I see it as a valid need, and one that ought to be solved using a quick little utility rather than a half-hour reinstall that's just about guaranteed to mess up your settings in one way or another.  So, while I'm not going to put much time into it myself, here's the procedure for getting on your way to finding the encoded information:  1.  Copy all your Windows disks into the directory from which you want to install it.  I've been using c:\WINSTALL myself.  2.  From there, copy that directory to something like c:\WINORIG.  3.  Install from c:\winstall.  4.  comp the two directories to determine changes.       i.e., comp *.* \winorig\*.* >\report.txt  5.  Look in the report file for the file(s) that change.  Assuming they didn't cover themselves covering their own tracks, at least one file should have a difference noted at a particular offset.  Locate said offset in the original directory and see what's there using a hex editor, and do the same for the modified one.  6.  You're on your own as far as breaking the code goes; I don't really do cryptography.  It's probably just an xor key or something; I think MS is more concerned with Joe Schmoe at the office personalizing his copy than with "real pirates" who will probably just disassemble the damned thing anyway.  This technique should work with just about any obnoxious corporate product that tries to write to the original floppies when you install; in some extreme cases you may not be able to back the floppies up to hard disk, and will be stuck doing a compare on floppies (Lotus stuff is probably like that).  As I noted before, if you can afford the space on the hard disk, and don't do much in the way of customization, reinstalling from one directory to another may be less arduous.  Doing some of the stuff I've mentioned here may well void your license with Microsoft, as if they'd ever find out.  If you aren't careful with the disk editor, you could also mung something important... duh.  I guess that's a disclaimer.  Have at it....  Rob
In <1993Apr26.172936.908@eurom.rhein-main.de> hein@eurom.rhein-main.de (Hein Roehrig) writes:  >  >I am not sure whether I am here in the right area, but does  >anybody here know whether Windows NT does/will include a X  >Windows server so that it can run X Window applications  >remotely?   No, it does not.  --  "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live  in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
In article <1t6efv$1pj@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca> gel@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Gilles KHOUZAM) writes: >>Macsee.zip on ftp.cica.indiana.edu is supposed to read and write Mac disks.   >>I've never tried it, though.  Good luck > >I just tried it, but I can't say that it works, 'cause it doesn't read 800K >disks, it only reads 1.44Mb. If there a program that does read 800K disks, >please let me know.
In a previous article, jpaparel@cs.ulowell.edu (Joseph Paparella) says:  >I've pursued and researched this question over the last month or so because I have the same requirements you do......and the long and short of it is that the windows mouse drivers don't accept mice at any but com1 and com2 using irq4 or irq3 unless you buy special drivers from someone who has them.....I've talked to Mouse Systems who say their driver doesn't support other than com1 and com2 as above , but who claim to be releasing one that will SOON!??. > >The other alternative seems to be possible, but in one case prohibitively expensive, i.e. 4 port card for $600??????!!, and in the other, the author(s) of PowerBBS for Windows claim to have a 4 port serial card with buffered 16550 UARTS and drivers for windows to match (i.e. com3 irq5) for $120...... > >The second paragraph is hearsay, because I haven't checked it out yet.....but intend to as soon as I can free up $120 <g> > >Hope this will save you some steps. > >  I had this problem when I first loaded windows.  My I/O card is for 2 HD's 2 FD's 1 Parrelel 2 serial (1 for mouse and 1 for my external modem) and a game port.  PROBLEM enters.  The DARN serial ports have no selection for  COM settings, they are stuck on 3 and 4.   Good card for HD's and FD's but lousy for serial.   I called Microsoft and other places.  The long and short of it is WINDOWS wants com1 and 2 ONLY!, for mouse selection. I went out and bought a small I/O card just for parrelel and serial. Now I have ALL 4 active COM ports and LPT1 and LPT2. This Half card was less than $20.  Mouse on COM 1  external modem on COM 2,  I disabled the LPT2 so I could use the interupt for my scanner card IRQ. C-ya..... /\/\artin
>In article <1993Apr15.204845.24939@nlm.nih.gov> dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh) writes: >> >>Anybody seen mouse cursor distortion running the Diamond 1024x768x256 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 2.03 drivers. >It only happens using the 1024x768x256 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 >a000-c7ff in the EMM386 line and in system.ini  The problem persisted. >Perhaps it is something specific to the Gateway machine or it's components. >It is a 66mhz DX/2 Eisa bus with an Ultrastore (24xx?) 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.  I use the Diamond SpeedStar 24X in 1024X768X256 mode all of the time.  I  have NOT found distortions in the cursor.  The cursor is a little jumpy  from time to time (due to 32 bit access to the swap file), but it is never  distorted.
I have a 486DX-33 computer with a SoundBlaster 1.0 card.  I'm running Microsoft Windows v3.1.  I have the SB driver set up properly to play normal sounds (.WAV files, etc.).  I want to play midi files through the Media Player that is included with windows.  I know I have to set up the patch maps or something in the MIDI-Mapper in the Control Panel.  I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT MIDI.  (This is to be the way I'll get my feet wet.)  How do I set up Windows so that I can play MIDI files?
Doug Ward writes:  >I recently purchased a Diamond Stealth 24 Video card and received >the wrong drivers.  Does anyone know where I can ftp the proper >drivers?  The dstlth file at cica does not work with >this video card.  Please respond to doug@sun.sws.uiuc.edu  >Thank you >Doug Ward
Maw Ying yuan wrote   ................................. ...From: yuan@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Maw Ying Yuan) ...Subject: Replacement for Program Manager and File Manager? ...Message-ID: <C68G1G.JuJ@news.Hawaii.Edu> ...Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 06:44:04 GMT ... ...replacements for Win3.1's Program Manager and File Manager? ...yuan@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu :)  .................................     Hi,       I've been using Plannet Crafter's "Plug-in" for Program Manager.       Its listed in most BBS'es as PLUGIN13.  Its an add-on which gives       some needed features to Progman; such as the ability to better       manage your groups, change your cursor and icons on the fly,       constant status of RAM and resources, "Quick-menu" (a drop-down       menu of DOS commands or app launcher), plus some other neat stuff.       Used it, liked it, and even reg'd it <G>.        If you can't find it anywhere, let me know and I'll zip it up and       mail it to you (shareware version, of course <g>...)  Aloha... ---  .. .es .. All hope abandon, ye who enter messages here. ---  . SLMR 2.1a .
A co-worker of mine needs to convert a postscript file to a form readable (ie ascii) in windows or DOS. Does anybody know of a utility that will do this? I have a vague memory of a shareware utility someone mentioned once...  Thanks for any info,
I have just added a Panasonic KP-X1123 24pin dot matrix printer to a 386sx/25. I installed the appropriate Windows 3.1 printer driver (i.e. one specifically for this printer) but I'm unable to persuade the poxy thing to print correctly.    What appears to be happening is that the TrueType fonts don't get printed properly. My experiments show that all graphic images (for example a line drawing from Corel Draw) print ok. GraphicsWorkshop for Windows happily prints GIFs etc. MS Notepad and MS Write will print correctly providing the font's in the text are printer fonts.    When I print TrueType fonts, some lines appear to be printed in the wrong order. If I change  the text font to a printer font, the problem is eliminated.   I have tried using printer drivers for printers which the KX-P1123 (snappy name) emulates, namely Epsom LQ-850 and IBM ProPrinter X24 and the same problem occurs.   If there is some kind soul who can tell me just what the hell is going on, I would be most  chuffed.
We here at Utah State University Cooperative Extension have been using W4Wg for a while now.  We wanted to talk to the internet with the mail package so we got the smtp gateway.  You also need a tcp/ip transport package on top of that which is utterly stupid but that's what they require to get the smtp gateway to work.  You need a dedicated pc for the gateway and if you are looking at remote access you need another dedicated pc for the remote mail stuff.  We do not have the remote mail going but you indicate that that is what you want to do.    There is a glitch somewhere in the system though.  I don't know if it is MS mail, the gateway or the VAX here on campus that is choking in the mail that is sent.  The scenario is this.  The outgoing mail goes to a Unix system which then routes the mail where it needs to go.  If that mail is routed to the VAX, the VAX has problems some times receiving the mail. Most messages do get through this way except if someone has there mail on the VAX forwarded to some other location.  That is the main gotcha. Where ever the mail is forwarded to that person gets a message header then a message saying "Boudary:= (error garbage code stuff)".  If you can stay away from sending to a VAX you are ok.  The system people of course say that the VAX is not the problem, the gateway is probably the problem.  If anyone wants to get help it is only $175.00 for one support call. (until problem is worked out)  Phooey to that I say.  I am looking vigorously for a better Idea.    If you go forward on any of this and find out anything knew,  please drop me a note - anyone.  The next itteration is supposed to have tcp/ip built in THEY say........  The netxt itteration of w4wg  Good Luck!!!!!
In article <timbolC6wH1D.3Hz@netcom.com> timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol) writes: >Anyway, how about this: I give you my word, without naming sources, that IBM >paid companies to write applications for OS/2.  Satisfied? > >      - Mike  Doesn't MS do the same? (I.e., subsidize app development)  I seem to remember someone at RPI who received an entire (expensive, to run NT) machine to develop for NT.  Free.  And that's just the small fry...
In article <1993Apr30.172938.6386@samba.oit.unc.edu> dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (Dave Laudicina) writes: >>Microsoft is the largest software company on the planet, yet I cannot think >>of even *ONE* computing concept that they innovated and brought to market >>before anyone else.  Xerox-PARC/Apple, Osborne, NeXT, GNU and others have  >>been pioneers and led the way to the future of computing.  What has >>microsoft done to be a technological leader?  I posted this question before, >>but I got nary a reply.  I make the challenge now to anyone who can come up >>with something-especially Microsoft employees.  I get no response this time, >>I guess it pretty much assures me that there is none--which is what I >>suspect anyway. >> >Really when you come down to it who cares. I just hope MS keeps doing >what they do best getting usable productive software to the masses. >Thx Dave L If you think that windows is useable, you must not use it much.  Windows  version of "crash protection" is wearing a helmet while computing.  The arir (air) bag is an expensive add-on. Brett  >
A while ago I installed SPSS for Windows as part of an evaluation. Once the evaluation was complete I duly deleted the software from my PC.  Unfortunately there is still a "ghost" of SPSS left: when I run something like "Write" and go to embed an object then "SPSS Chart" appears on the list of objects I'm offered. I looked around all the obvious "INI" files without success. The next thing I tried was looking for the string "SPSS Chart" in every file in the  Windows directory. It turned up in a file called REQ.DAT (or REG.DAT). Unfortunately the file was binary and so I didn't feel inclined to edit it.  I'd welcome a solution for removing SPSS from the list of OLE servers.
Hi,   I am working on gathering data on the way that users use computers. This involves getting subjects to type and use a  mouse. I want to be able to watch what they are doing without  being in the same room. It would be ideal if I could watch the session on another monitor without the subjects knowledge. I believe that spliting the monitor cable will only work for short distances, ie <5m. I will need to be approx 10m away, as the cable travels.   The PC's are connected to a TCP\IP network and run Windows 3.1. Is there any software that will allow me to watch what is  happening on another PC? Thanks Regards   Jon Gough TRUST Project
I'm looking for a c.itoh printer driver for Windows 3.1.  Does anybody happen to know where I could find such a beast?    Thanks in advance,     Jerry --
I've got an old Super VGA card manufactured by SAMPO of Taiwan and I'm looking for a Windows 3.1 Driver for it.  It's based on the Cirrus Logic CL-GD510A-32PC-B chip.  I've contacted the suppliers here in New Zealand and they say that only Windows 2 divers were ever written by the manufacturer. So if there's a V3.1 driver out for this chip set I'd like to know -  preferably by e-mail at rjwjames@waikato.ac.nz                       Thanks is advance
In article <C4v5p3.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 COM3 >>with IRQ5. > >>COM1 and COM2 are being used to support two 24 hour bbs lines,  There you go.  COM1 and COM3 use the same IRQ, therefore you can't use a mouse on COM3 and a modem on COM1, or vice versa.  It's a limitation of DOS.  And in fact Windows will not see a mouse on anything other than COM1 or COM2.  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 COM1 or COM2.   No.  The advice above applies....
In <1993Apr22.235454.18199@seas.gwu.edu> louray@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Panayiotakis) writes:  >AT the MICRO$OFT display at FOSE, there were a few computers running >windows, and win. apps for the  blind, I think.  Didn't pay much >attention to it, but it was there.  It seems that a particular program designed for blind people is more important than trying to interface windows with a way for blind people to use it. If someone made a voice recognition/multimedia (sound) oriented program, it would probably been more effective.  I don't know what the original purpose of interfacing windows was for the person who posted the question though.
In article <C4tDGt.Mqq@csn.org> rjn@teal.csn.org wrote: > csd25@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 1.15. As a newcomer to Windows, I'm > : confused about which I should be using, ATM or Truetype.  >  > If you are going to stay with ATM, be sure to upgrade to 2.5, which > replaces 2.0. Who knows how old 1.15 is.  2.5 is as fast as TT, and if > you disable the small screen fonts, ATM does better screen rendering at > the smaller point sizes.  Not true! Both Type 1 and TT fonts can be of excellent quality and poor quality at any size. It all depends on the font's maker and the complexity of the glyphs related to the size and resolution at which they are viewed. Probably the reason for your opinion/experience that TT is inferior is because most TT fonts on the market today have been converted from Type 1 outlines to TT either by the font vendor or end-users using Fontographer or FontMonger instead of the TT fonts being hand-hinted to take advantage of the TT hinting language. At best these converted TT fonts will be on a par with the Type 1 font of its orgin.  TrueType is a much richer and more robust hinting language than Type 1 (the hinting of diagonals for instance, which TT does and Type 1 cannot). If you check out the Windows 3.1 core fonts (Times, Arial, Courier, Symbol, Wingdings) you'll see what can be done with TT. There are other fonts out there that have been hand-hinted and not just converted. Some of the Microsoft TT Font Pack 2 fonts are hinted very well.  > You can use both TT and ATM fonts at the same time, if you like. > ATM (Type 1) fonts tend to be of higher quality > and be more complete in terms of foreign characters.  Again, not true. The characters in a TT or Type 1 font depend on the maker. If someone converts a Type 1 font to TT they'll only get the characters in the font of orgin. TT allows for much more flexibility in this area as well. You can have thousands of glyphs in a TT font file (Mac/PS/Windows/Unicode char set) and use the characters appropriate for the particular platform you are running the font on. For instance, all or our fontpack 2 TT fonts have the Mac/Windows char set in them. The metrics of the fonts are such that if the font is brought over to the mac the user will have access to the full mac char set.   > Regards,                                            1001-A East Harmony Road > Bob Niland                                          Suite 503 > Internet:  rjn@csn.org                              Fort Collins CO 80525 > CompuServe: 71044,2124                              (303) 223-5209  Hope this clears up some of the confusion. Feel free to contact me if anyone would like more info.  Regards,
djserian@flash.LakeheadU.Ca (Reincarnation of Elvis) writes:  >I have a 386/33 with 8 megs of memory  >I have noticed that lately when I use programs like WpfW or Corel Draw >my computer "boggs" down and becomes really sluggish!  >What can I do to increase performance?  What should I turn on or off  >Will not loading wallpapers or stuff like that help when it comes to >the running speed of windows and the programs that run under it?  >Thanx in advance  >Derek  1) make sure your hard drive is defragmented. This will speed up more than     just windows BTW.  Use something like Norton's or PC Tools. 2) I _think_ that leaving the wall paper out will use less RAM and therefore    will speed up your machine but I could very will be wrong on this. There's a good chance you've already done this but if not it may speed things up.  good luck 				Morgan Bullard mb4008@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu 					  or   mjbb@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
/Yes, a lot of what OS/2 2.0 has in common with OS/2 1.x was written by you /guys. However, many of the things that made OS/2 2.0 so much more successful /(Win-OS/2, Workplace Shell) than previous versions were IBM work.  Yes, certainly.  It was IBM that wrote the Windows code!!!
Hi, anyone have the latest drivers for the Actix Graphics Accelerator Card?  (32 plus) The one I have (version 1.21) seem to have a lot of problems.  I believe the latest version is 1.3 and would someone please  upload it to some ftp site so that I can download it.   Thanks    --    Daniel Y.H. Wong					UofT:(416)978-1659 wongda@picton.eecg.toronto.edu				Electrical Engineering
In <1993Apr20.072905.21404@fel.tno.nl> mveraart@fel.tno.nl (Mario Veraart) writes:  >umyin@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Qing Yin) writes:  >>Hi, it's an *easy* question for you Windows gurus.  I'd appreciate any help.  >>We need to write an on-line help for our application.  We don't have >>Windows Software Developer's Toolkit (yet :-) ). Since we just want to build >>a .HLP file around Windows' help engine, I hope it won't be that complicated? >>Anyway, could someone kindly give me some hints of how to build such an >>on-line help, if it does not take 100 pages to explain? Or if it is complicated, >>would you help to point out what I would need to do it? >>--    >>Vincent Q. Yin >>umyin@ccu.umanitoba.ca  >Hi,  >If you have developed your own windows application you must have a  >SDK of some sort that contains the HC.EXE or HC31.EXE file to  >compile and generate .HLP files out of .RTF files. >RTF files are generated by a wordprocessor like Word for Dos or W4W.  You do not need the SDK. What you need (and can get free) are  Location: ftp.cica.indiana.edu index:      /pub/pc/win3/INDEX  First get /pub/pc/win3/uploads/what.zip (~1.3M) This contains the help compiler among other things. It is free from Microsoft.  Then get these (I think these are free too)  dir:	/pub/pc/win3/programr files:  hag.zip, whag.zip wfwhlp.zip  These are shareware  dir:    /pub/pc/win3/util files:	hwab21.zip, qdhelp.zip, qdtool.zip  dir:	/pub/pc/win3/winword files:	drhelpev.zip (macros for word 2.0 to convert doc to hlp files).  -------------------------------------------------------------------- Shiva Shenoy                              | e-mail: shenoy@iastate.edu  2066 Black,Dept of AEEM,ISU,Ames,IA 50010 | Office: (515)-294-0082 --
In article <C63M1s.M86@news.Hawaii.Edu>, chen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Hua Chen) writes: > Is there anybody who knows the telephone number of Cirrus Logic Co.,  > maker of a graphic card? Please reply to chen@cfa.harvard.edu > Thank you very much.   >  > Hua Chen > Center for Astrophysics >    BBS number 510-226-2365
In article <1rgtba$gtn@access.digex.net> farley@access.digex.com (Charles U. Farley) writes: > >I know this is probably a FAQ, but... > >I installed the s/w for my ATI graphics card, and it bashed my Windows >logo files.  When I start Windows now, it has the 3.0 logo instead of >the 3.1 logo. > >I thought the files that controlled this were > >\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VGALOGO.RLE >\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\VGALOGO.LGO	 > >I restored these files, but it didn't change the logo.  Anyone know what >the correct files are?  I believe you have the correct files. I think what you'll have to do is go back into Setup and choose change video adapter or whatever it is called. Then the trick is choose the same adaptor you currently have. What Setup does is it actually changes the file WIN.COM whenever you go into it and change the video hardware selection. It incorporates the contents of VGALOGO.RLE into WIN.COM when you do this. This trick can also be used to change the startup logo into whatever you want it to be. --  [.SIG ALERT]