waashk/20ng huggingface dataset:
I am a novice (at best) in working with pc networks, and am in the process of planning a small accounting system for a small business.  The particular need in this case is for three machines, each in a different office of the same building, each having access to a Windows-based accounting system.  My first thought is to set up MS Windows for Workgroups on each of the machines (likely a 486 and two 386's) along with the appropriate Ethernet cards and cabling that come with the Windows for Workgroups starter kit (one additional user kit will be necessary).  It then seems logical to purchase a simple multi-user accounting system, along the lines of DacEasy or M.Y.O.B., and fire it all up!  The 486 will more or less act as server with a report/check printer attached to it. Cable runs of 30-40 feet will be necessary for this setup.  Well, this all seems too easy to me.  Would any of you network gurus out there tell me if I am out of my mind here?  Any and all suggestions, however trivial, will be immensely appreciated.  My apologies if this has been brought up before.  Thanks!  John --  John E. Martin    jemartin@nyx.cs.du.edu      University of Puget Sound '92     Kent, WA     (formerly martin@ups.edu)   SeinfeldSuperSonicsRushBelaFleck
Hi there, I'm having a bizarre video problem within Windows 3.1.  I have a 286 with a GVGA-16 video board.  I've been using the standard Windows VGA driver with other similarly configured computers.  I am thinking that my problem is with the way Windows refreshes it's screen.  The problem is that once Windows has been envoked, the colors start changing themselves.  At first I thought it was hardware, but if you open a full screen DOS program from within the Windows session, you don't have any problems until you get back to Windows - however, when you initially return to Windows, the original colors get refreshed properly.  Also, it is not a uniform color change - so if you are in solitaire, the design on the back of the card maintains it's original color scheme, but the white fronts of the cards will turn grey, then blue, etc.  The color changes keep getting darker until finally everything is a dark purple-ish black.  If you pop out to DOS and exit back to Windows - the screen gets refreshed again.  If I don't log into Windows and just do DOS things from the Novell network, everything is fine.  I originally loaded the software by bouncing it down to the net from the other machine I had just finished configuring, then from the net to this machine.  When I ran into problems, I deleted everything on this machine and the net, and tried bouncing it again.  When that didn't work, I tried reloading Windows to no avail.  Any thoughts on things to check out?  I am totally baffled!  Thanks in advance for any assistance and instruction!
Hi.       Well, I really hate to make a decision, but recently, I have to choose     whether stacker 3.0 or dos 6.0 with double space for my poor HD.     I am using windwos 3.1 and I hope what I choose will live with windows.      Any help will be appreciated.
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.
Well, I've come into some money and want to buy CD-ROM, sound board and speakers.  I have not kept up on any material relating to sound boards and CD-ROM's because until now I never thought I'd have enough money.      So can you guru's out there point me in the direction of a good package including CD-ROM, sound, and speakers (and software I suppose)... OR since I don't REALLY need the CD-ROM right now give me some good ideas for sound boards and speakers.  Those I could REALLY use now.  I have looked at SoundBlaster Pro, which costs about as much as I think I want to spend on a board (~$120), and I've looked at the Gravis Sound board, which is about $140 and I don't know the adv/disadv of either of these boards.      Right now I want to use it with any games that support sound, and to use in Windows 3.1 to utilize sound capabilities there.  So any concise info on sound boards, complete multimedia packages, etc would be greatly appreciated.  If anyone else is interested in this info I would be glad to summarize responses and post.      And if this is some type of FAQ please point me in the right direction and don't bother taking up a lot of bandwidth.  Thanks!  -=- Brett
> >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 $0.02   > >/ALN Chicago from what I have read is projected to run in 4M on 386 and higher. It is definitely aimed at the desktop.  It  is rumored to offer preemptive multitasking, multithreading but will not offer multiprocessing. Is 32 bit and no reliance on DOS. It is rumored to have an integrated file and program manager.  DOS 7 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 4.0 fits here is it a stepping stone to Chicago? Hope this helps. Thx Dave L
>Hey, sounds great. Does that mean that W4WG works with ODI? I thought it     >uses NDIS.          WFWG does use NDIS but it cooperates well with the NDIS shim for ODI. (I've heard that it is as fast as NDIS direct)                              >                                                 >My problem is that Lan Workplace with all its drivers uses up most of my     >UMBs, so I'd hate to have to load many more drivers to make W4WG work        >along.             The additional TSR load is minimal.  I think I eat another  20K total. This is worth it to me since it allows me to get to my Windows NT  box.  Novell hasn't released a decent NT Novell client yet so I share through my WFWG box.
I've never had quicken but I did use MYM in it's early days. I have MS Money for Windows now and a financial planning package called Wealthbuilder by Reality Technologies and Money Magazine. P.S. I also do my taxes with Turbo Tax. All of these packages are good in their own way but none of them really support me in doing what I really need to do - manage my finances.  The first company that comes along with a Windows based package that:     manages budgets and accounts     manages loans     calculates taxes     uses all of the above and knowledge about my investing philosophy to       help me invest in the right investment vehicles, and     integrates it all together  will have my business for life.
>Why is it that I find the Mac desktop incredibly annoying  >whenever I use it?   Because you are uptight?  Many computer-literate people see advantages in each system.  You act like a Mac ate your cat.
I have 16MB of memory on my 386SX.  I have been running Windows without a swap file for several months.  Will Mathcad 4.0 be happy with this, or insist on a swap file?
In article <Fn+0rAZBBh107h@eosvcr.wimsey.bc.ca>, aew@eosvcr.wimsey.bc.ca (Alan Walford) writes: > I have heard many things about the ATI Ultra Pro card. Some have > been positive but most are negative. Could people please confirm > these?  (I am interested in the EISA version in particular). >  > 1) The card does not work in a system with 32M RAM.  The higher memory limits apply to ISA cards only, as far as I know.  The VLB and EISA version should have no problems.   > 2) The card works in a 32M system with some switches >    set but it is much slower.  Again, the memory aperture need only be disabled if you have more than 124M RAM (EISA and VLB) or 12 M (ISA).  32M should not be a problem for you.    > 3) The card is _interlaced_ in its 24bit (true-colour) modes.  Nope.  I can use 640x480 at 72hz, 24-bit and 800x600 at 70hz, 24-bit, all non-interlaced.   > 4) The latest build 59 drivers still do not work in many >    cases.  They aren't perfect, but are much improved.  I don't recall the last time which I had to leave mach 32 mode (ATI GUP mode) and switch to 8514 or VGA mode due to software incompatibility.   > 5) This card is the fastest full colour card for the money.  It's quite fast, but whether or not its the fastest is open to debate.   > 6) This card is the greatest thing since sliced bread. ;-)  I like it.
tomh@metrics.com (Tom Haapanen) writes: > Can I run WFW 's NET utilities in a DOS box?  Or is there a way to actually > get OS/2 to talk to WFW?  Will OS/2 LanMan clients talk to WFW?  Following up to my own article...  I found that several people say that  LAN Server clients can talk to WFW.  Is this, then, also true for LAN Manager?  (Don't LAN Server and LAN Manager share common roots?)  > Dazed and confused,  Somewhat less so now...  :)
>From:   pwiseman@salmon.usd.edu (Cliff) >Organization:   University of South Dakota >Subject:        roman.bmp 01/14In response to the requests for cool >bitmaps I am posting one. >Date:   04/27 03:50 PM >_______________________________________________________ >Due to the resolution and size it is in 14 parts. > >This is a uuencoded bitmap.  960X600 256 colors. >The picture is a marbled gazebo on a desert with blue sky background. >The size is just right for centered wallpaper on a 1024x768 display >because it leaves a border at the bottom just big enough for icons >to fit in without being on top of the picture. Reguarding image >quality and resolution - I have not seen much better.  Please do not do this!  I don't know how the rest of you read news, but here's how I do it:  I subscribe to an "outernet" system which allows me to dial up via modem and download e-mail and news articles automatically.  When someone posts a huge attached binary file, I have no choice but to receive it along with all the other new articles in the groups I subscribe to.  I also pay for the connect time, which is normally not a problem because I have a 14.4K modem and each day's upload/download session takes only 5 minutes or so.  Today's session, however, lasted about 25 minutes because of ROMAN.BMP.  Consequently, it cost me about $3.00 extra just to receive a file that I didn't want in the first place.  If you have cool bitmaps that you want to make available, there are other ways to do it:  either upload the file to an ftp site (like ftp.cica.indiana.edu, which has a complete Windows section) and tell people how to get to it, or use one of the newsgroups like alt.binaries.pictures (or something like that), which are file archives rather than discussion groups.  Don't use discussion groups like this one to send out attached files, especially when they're 600K in size.
In article <1qms3c$37t@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, wong@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Jung) writes: >After setting up Windows for using my Cirrus Logic 5426 VLB GraphicsCard >It moved a normal Window from one place to another...  >...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 ?  The 5426 has its own set of drivers. You may be using the drivers intended for the 5420 or 5422 by mistake.  Be sure you have the 5426 driver version 1.2  >(I installed the MSWIN 3.1 MultiResolution drivers which where supplied  >with the Card ?!)  Don't quote me on this one, but I'd steer clear of the multi resolution driver that allows you to change resolution without exiting Windows.  I think it's buggy.  >Also if there are new(hopefully faster) drrivers around I would love to  >how to get hold of them :-) (ftp or whatsoever :-) )  Version 1.3 drivers are due to be release by Cirrus soon. Unfortunately, their not available via FTP, you have to dial up their BBS in the USA.  I do this from NZ using a 14.4k modem to cut down on phone bills.  It took me around 7 minutes to  download the v1.2 driver.   Good Luck,
u7911093@cc.nctu.edu.tw ("By SWH ) writes:  >Who can tell me which program (PD or ShareWare) can redirect windows 3.1's >output of printer manager to file?   >	I want to capture HP Laser Jet III's print output.  > 	Though PostScript can setup print to file,but HP can't.  >	I use DOS's redirect program,but they can't work in windows.  >		Thankx for any help... >-- > Internet Address: u7911093@cc.nctu.edu.tw  >    English Name: Erik Wang >    Chinese Name: Wang Jyh-Shyang  > National Chiao-Tung University,Taiwan,R.O.C.  Try setting up another HPIII printer but when choosing what port to connect it to choose FILE instead of like :LPT1.  This will prompt you for a file name everytime you print with that "HPIII on FILE" printer. Good Luck.
om>  In <1993May17.064503.13114@microsoft.com> cliffga@microsoft.com (Clifford Garrett) writes: >/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!!!  Cliff, do you know the difference between "Windows" and "Win-OS/2"?  Here's a helpful hint:  Running "Windows" under OS/2 2.0 is only possible in real mode, in a DOS box. Of course, this is only possible with Windows 3.0, since Windows 3.1 no longer has a "real mode".  The ability to run standard mode, the ability to have an OS/2 <-> Windows clipboard, the ability to run seamless, and a few other things were all added by IBM to "Win-OS/2".  Now, everybody who is running "Windows" in real-mode in a DOS box under OS/2 2.x raise your hand. Finally, everybody who is running "Win-OS/2" under OS/2, raise YOUR hand.  Get the picture, Cliff?
Hey folks!  Just moments ago, I uploaded the Bungee Jumper After Dark module that was widely talked about on here some time ago.  It's at ftp.cica.indiana.edu, in /pub/pc/win3/uploads, titled simply bungee.zip.  Be sure to set your ftp connection to binary mode before downloading. If you have any other After Dark shareware/freeware modules, please upload them too.  The more the merrier.   Andrew --
Hiyas ALL,  Upon getting Animated Desktop for Windows as a gift from my boyfriend, I  couldn't wait to install it. I had gotten an advertisement for it and put  it aside  with my list of 'I Wants.' After installing the software, it didn't load.  No part of  the software would load even though the install went seemingly well.  	I called Deltapoint with the problem and after asking me twenty  million different questions about my system.. concluded that I had one of  the  systems that the software was 'incompatible with'. Of course they're  willing to  give me my $$$ back.. What a waste of time and energy.  The folks on their  support line, although nice, are extremely ignorant regarding the workings  of  Windows 3.1.  	After my experience with the installation of the SB 16, I  learned  some of the function of windows dll files. Before sending back Desktop  Animator,  decided to do some fooling around with the different versions of   .dll files I had. I had 2 versions of cpalette.dll one dated 8/92 and >  100K the  other dated 1/93 and smaller (the 1/93 smaller version was the one supplied   with Desktop Animator). I moved the bigger, older version of cpalette.dll   to a  directory outside my path. (For some reason, I had the older Cpalette.dll  in my  Windows directory and the newer cpallette in my windows\system directory.)  When I did this, the animator's editor loaded.. and so did 2 other of the  applications in the package.. the main application still didn't load. Does  anyone have any ideas as to why this would occur or any further suggestions
In <1993Apr12.154418.14463@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:  >  Zapp 1.1 from Inmark >  Zinc 3.5 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.  The Microsoft Founation classes (afx) that come with C/C++ 7.0 (and  Visual C++) are very good, they already have a version for NT, it comes with source code, and is very close to the navtive API. It also as some classes to manage data structures...  ...Stefan  --  ------------------------------------------------------------------------    Stefan Olson                     Mail: stefan@olson.acme.gen.nz    Kindness in giving creates love.
I was wondering if any one knew how the various hard drive compression utilities work.  My hard drive is getting full and I don't want to have to buy a new one.  What I'm intrested in is speed ,ease of use, amount of compression, and any other aspect you think might be important as I've never use one of these things before. thanks  Morgan Bullard mb4008@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu 						or     mjbb@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
In article <1qur7h$qrl@access.digex.net> wild@access.digex.com (wildstrom) writes: > > >>In article <1993Apr16.155637.15398@oracle.us.oracle.com> ebosco@us.oracle.com (Eric Bosco) writes: >>>From: ebosco@us.oracle.com (Eric Bosco) >>>Subject: Windows 3.1 keeps crashing: Please HELP >>>Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 15:56:37 GMT >>> >>>As the subjects says, Windows 3.1 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   > >There is a way in SYS.INI to turn off RAM parity checking (unfortunately, >my good Windows references are at home, but any standard Win reference >will tell you how to do it. If not, email back to me.) That weird memory >may be producing phony parity errors. Danger is, if you turn checkling off, >you run the slight risk of data corruption due to a missed real error.
marion@humboldt.kent.edu (Lou Marion) writes:  >Can someone point me in the direction of this file.   Thanks.   >Lou Marion >Dept. of Geography >Kent State University >marion@humboldt.kent.edu  Sure!  -------->  OH!  Sorry.  This is not rec.humor!  Try cica in pub/pc/win3.  Get INDEX to see where it is.
nilayp@violet.berkeley.edu (Nilay Patel) writes:  >I am looking for Bernoulli removable tapes for the 20/20 drive..  >Don't laugh ... I am serious...  >If you have any 20 MB tapes lying around that you would like to get rid of, >please mail me ...   >-- Nilay Patel >nilayp@violet.berkeley.edu  You do mean disks, don't you, not tapes?  You forgot to say whether you were looking for the old 8" or the newer 5.25".  Sorry, just use them at work and don't think they would appreciate it.
Please don't post uuencoded bitmaps here.  If you want to do so, put them in the alt.binaries.* areas.  These files are very large and may crash some users newsfeeds.  It's also a waste of band width.  Also, we all know how to convert .gif to .bmp with many programs so it'd really not worth posting all of these .bmp files.  - thanks
In article <C5rEq8.Eq2@unix.portal.com> claebaur@shell.portal.com (Tony S Annese) writes: >In article <1993Apr19.235430.6097@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> alee@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Alec Lee) writes: >>Is there an ftp site where I can get the MS speaker sound driver?  There's >>a "sound.exe" file that claims to be the driver but I'm suspicious since >>it's not a .drv file.   > >Thats the file... >--  To clarify a little more: SOUND.EXE is a self-expanding archive which contains the driver (which is actually called SPEAKER.DRV, I think).
In article <1qu8ud$2hd@sunb.ocs.mq.edu.au>, eugene@mpce.mq.edu.au writes: >In article <C5o1yq.M34@csie.nctu.edu.tw> ghhwang@csie.nctu.edu.tw (ghhwang) writes: >> >>Dear friend, >>  The RISC means "reduced instruction set computer". The RISC usually has  >>small instruction set so as to reduce the circuit complex and can increase  >>the clock rate to have a high performance. You can read some books about >>computer architecture for more information about RISC. > >hmm... not that I am an authority on RISC ;-) but I clearly remember >reading that the instruction set on RISC CPUs is rather large. >The difference is in addressing modes - RISC instruction sets are not >as orthogonal is CISC. >  I hope this will clear it up :  (Taken from one of my lecture notes)   " ...  The alternative approach (to CISC),  which has been adopted by many in  recent years, has come to be known as "RISC": the Reduced  Instruction Set Computer.  This can be characterised simply as  "Simpler is Faster"; by simplifying the design (e.g.  by reducing  the variety of instructions & addressing modes), the hardware can be  designed to run faster.  Even at the cost of needing more  instructions, the same task can be done more quickly by the simpler,  faster design.   A typical RISC processor will:      o provide a large number of registers (e.g.  32);      o perform all data operations on registers;      o provide few addressing modes (e.g. immediate or 'register + offset');      o only allow load & store operations to access memory;      o only use a few instruction formats;      o only support a few data types (e.g. integer, unsigned, floating).
>thomas.d.fellrath.1@nd.edu@nd.edu wrote:  >: The key issue that I bought my BJ-200 on was ink drying speed.  I was at the Trenton Computer Fest and there were many sources of ink refills for the HP and Canon, so if you don't like the ink you're using, you have a choice.  There is a Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) list that's reposted occasionally that reports how to refill the cartridges yourself with inks that are available from the stationery store instead of a "specialty" ink with the specialty price.  I'm not sure, but I think I found another legal source of cheap hypos for injecting ink into the cartridges. More on that when my mail order succeeds. --  Jeffrey Jonas
I'm new to the MS-Windows world, and while a fairly competent Sparc/Nextstep programmer, I have no idea which development kit to purchase.  I have heard good things about Borland C++ with Application Frameworks and Microsoft's Visual C++ with SDK (?)  What I would like is peoples comments on which package or set of tools they find useful or productive and why.  There are a plethora of other kits such as GUI toolkits available and I'm wondering which of these are best in terms of reliability, plug and go type operation, readability and so on.  I'd be interested in comments on these or anything else you may find useful.  I will summarize to the net if there is enough interest.   Thanks, Veenu
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: 2A42Dubinski.vms.csd.mu.edu  |	Milwaukee, WI    |
Is there a update or something that will allow a person when using novell 3.11 and windows 3.1 file manager to view the files with the name of the person who created it or changed it like the novell command ndir ?  tim osburn osburn@halcyon.com