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>You're right.  >You cannot read or write a Mac or Apple II 800K 3.5" disk or Apple II >5.25" disk without extra hardware. However, Mac 1.44MB disks can be read >and written in a PC 3.5" HD drive with software only.   >This should probably be added to every PC and Mac FAQ file. It sure gets >asked enough.  I agree that this should be added to some sort of FAQ list.  But we have strayed from the original topic.  Our computer environment is pretty split between Mac's and PC's... I am lucky and get to have both on my desk.  But there are people who have PC's and need to share data with the Mac users here.  The MAC users have no problems because of package called DOS Mounter which AUTOMATICALLy lets the MAC read DOS disks natively.  For the PC there is no equivilant... that I know of!  Both mac-ette and macsee have been  inconsistant under the dos platform, and requires you to perform the activity in a DOS program to selectively transport the files.  The question originally posed was if there is such a program that hooks into windows like a .DLL that will interpret the reading of a MAC disk when it is  in a PC, and allow access to it through the standard file dialogs.  It is quite clear that this would only be available for the 1.44MB flopies.   -- T.J. Fiske
The subject says nearly everything; I am talking about the accellerator card (note the 'X'), not about the ET4000 product (without 'X').  Please mail me the address of an appropriate ftp-server.  Thanx:
ctwomey@vms.eurokom.ie (Colum Twomey) comments:  > Finally, rhiannon@netcom.com (Rhia) mentioned that the "Meath" font > included in the Casady & Greene Fluent Laser Fonts 2 package > is very much like what I was describing.  I faxed Casady & Greene for > info but got no reply.  Casady & Greene seems to be notoriously slow about responding, as I've heard from others who have contacted them.  They may not reply via fax, but via snail mail.  Give them time, or contact them again.  Rhia
In article <C6C5zA.J7I@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> Mike Tancsa <mdtancsa@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > > >I have just upgraded from a Trident TVGA9000 to an ATI Graphics Ultra (the >old mach8 chip).  I am quite pleased with the performance so far, but have >one problem.  When using windows in 800x600, I have noticed that the  >tile bars and scroll bars are significantly larger than they were when I >was using the Trident card.  Is there a setting in my .ini files that I can >change to make these smaller ?  I could not find the FAQ for this list... > >		--Mike > >MDTANCSA@WATARTS.UWATERLOO.CA >  Make sure you use the small fonts driver & not the large fonts driver. Check that in your setup. That's the only explanation I would find.   						Hope this helps
In article <C562Cq.FC7@ms.uky.edu> shan@ms.uky.edu (Minghua SHAN) writes: > >I don't know much about Windows NT, but I've always thought >that Win NT would run only on Intel 386/486 compatable systems. >We are setting up a network which includes a SUN Sparc Server 4/490 >and about a dozen PC's. Some people suggest that we run Windows NT >on the SUN Sparc Server 4/490 replacing the current OS (SunOS). >I don't know whether this is possible and whether this would do us any >good. I would appreciate any help on answering a few questions below. > >1. Does Windows NT run on Sun Sparc Server 490? >2. If the answer to question 1 is yes, does it run unix applications >   (such as SAS for unix). >3. Is Windows NT a multiuser OS? >4. When will Windows NT be released? >5. Is there any telephone number that I can call and get more >   info on Win NT? > >Thank you. > >Minghua Shan  As far as I have read WIN NT will be supported on Intel, DEC ALPHA and the MIPS R4000 series of processors only. I do remember though reading a rumour about Sparc support sometime in the future. I am not sure what you mean by running "unix applications". You would have to have SAS for WIN NT (or maybe SAS for WIN16 etc). I have read  that MS will anounce avalaibility of WIN NT by end of May 93 (Comdex Spring). Hope this helps.  Rajiev Gupta
In article <MEKENKAMP.6.737653432@STPC.WI.LeidenUniv.NL> MEKENKAMP@STPC.WI.LeidenUniv.NL (Leo Mekenkamp) writes:  >Excuse me? Are you one of those people who *enjoy* working w/win? Come talk  >to a house-mate of mine and tell him how productive his life is when he  >encountered yet another sudden appearence of the DOS-prompt while cutting  >and pasting in win! Or an empty win screen without any tasks running (i.e. >^ESC brings up an empty list, progman has done it again.)  *Sigh*  Don't know what your roomate is doing but it must be something wrong. Are there people who enjoy using Windows? Yes. I'll admit to it. Given a choice between a Mac and Windows I choose Windows every time (to start another flame thread 9-) ) ....      --
I am running Windows 3.1 on a 386SX-16 MHZ with Five Megs of Memory.  The motherboard came with one meg, and I added the four megs this past weekend.  They were 1X9 70 Simms.  I had installed in the application menu MS-DOS command PARK.  Up till today, it parked the disk from the application menu without any problem.  When attempting to park the heads today, I received the following message:   STOP        This application has violated system integrity due to             an invalid general protection fault and will be             terminated.  What does this message mean?  Thanks,     --  David De Trolio                         (detrolio@andromeda.rutgers.edu)
ecktons@ucs.byu.edu (Sean Eckton) writes:  >I have a Microsoft Serial Mouse and am using mouse.com 8.00 (was using 8.20  >I think, but switched to 8.00 to see if it was any better).  Vertical motion  >is nice and smooth, but horizontal motion is so bad I sometimes can't click  >on something because my mouse jumps around.  I can be moving the mouse to  >the right with relatively uniform motion and the mouse will move smoothly  >for a bit, then jump to the right, then move smoothly for a bit then jump  >again (maybe this time to the left about .5 inch!).  This is crazy!  I have  >never had so much trouble with a mouse before.  Anyone have any solutions?    >Does Microsoft think they are what everyone should be? <- just venting steam!  I think I have the same problem. I think it is caused by the rubber ball in the mouse, which doesn't roll so smooth. The detectors in the mouse notice this and whoops, I hit a mine (using minesweeper :-) ).  I think the solution will be buying a new mouse, and/or using a mouse pad.
I am in charge of purchasing some computer software for a small office and I have a few question about Microsoft's Office Pack.    1)  I was wondering, are the programs that are packaged with the Office Pack--WinWord, Power Point, Excel, and ccMail--complete and the latest addition?  2) Are the programs "hobbled" in any way?   3) Can we update single programs at a latter date ( i.e. from Excel 4.0 to Excel 5) ?  4) Do you receive all of the necessary disks and documentation?  5) 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--$439.39 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 $450 makes me just a little suspicious.  Maybe its just me.    Thanks for your help in advance  Kirt Wilson Northwestern University  -------------------------------
Does anyone know what the vfintd.386 device is used for in windows 3.1? It's under the [386enh] section as 	device=c:\dos\vfintd.386  After upgrading to dos 6 on several machines (different types), some include it, some don't.  Any ideas?
cheong@solomon.technet.sg (SCSTECH admin) writes:  >Hi,  >sometime ago there are some discussions on gaining CompuServe access thru >the Internet. But I seem to misplace those articles. Can someone please >refresh me where (which site) I can telnet to to gain access.  Try  telnet 128.196.128.234, login TO_CSERVE  This will get you into the CompuServe network. Enter hostname CIS and you'll get  the UserID prompt.            >Hopefully I can download files as well.   I haven't, if you can figure it out let me know.  Also, let me know if your backspace key works :)     >Thanks,   >Arthur Lim >Email : arthur@mailhost.scs.com.sg
From article <1993Apr20.195853.16179@samba.oit.unc.edu>, by dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (Dave Laudicina): > Has anyone experienced a faint shadow at all resolutions using this > card. Is only in Windows. I have replaced card and am waiting on  > latest drivers. Also have experienced General Protection Fault Errors > in WSPDPSF.DRV on Winword Tools Option menu and in WINFAX setup. > I had a ATI Ultra but was getting Genral Protection Fault errors > in an SPSS application. These card manufactures must have terrible > quality control to let products on the market with so many bugs. > What a hassle. Running on Gateway 2000 DX2/50. > Thx Dave L >  >   You're using drivers version 2.02 or earlier. The latest is 2.03, available from their BBS or by snailmail. It at least fixes the WfW problem.  The reason I wanted to reply in public instead of private mail is because of following: I talked to their tech support a few days ago and was told that I can expect a new version near the end of the month. Which should be about now...  However, I have a problem when switching back from a DOS session in standard mode. Apparently they don't know of this problem and seem to be surprised why anybody would want to use standard mode at all.   It's a great card for the price, at least when I bought it. Now there may be better alternatives.
One can only remap special-command keys in procomm it seems. I would like to remap other keys too - especially "altgr 2", and such combinations.  Anybody know a plain OR dirty way to do this?? (of cause most people settle for remapping function keys, but I don't see why there should be a limitation...)
>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
In article <1993Apr18.041741.6051@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> kayman@csd-d-3.Stanford.EDU (Robert Kayman) writes: >From: kayman@csd-d-3.Stanford.EDU (Robert Kayman) >Subject: Canon BJ200 (BubbleJet) and HP DeskJet 500... >Keywords: printer >Date: 18 Apr 93 04:17:41 GMT   >Hello fellow 'netters.  >I am asking for your collected wisdom to help me decide which printer I >should purchase, the Canon BJ200 (BubbleJet) vs. the HP DeskJet 500.  I >thought, rather than trust the salesperson, I would benefit more from >relying on those who use these printers daily and use them to their fullest >potential.  And, I figure all of you will know their benefits and pitfalls >better than any salesperson.  >Now, I would greatly appreciate any information you could render on the 360 >dpi of the Canon BubbleJet vs. the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500 (300 dpi). >Which is faster?  Is there a noticeable print quality difference, >particularly in graphics?  Which will handle large documents better (75 >pages or more) -- any personal experience on either will be appreciated >here?  Which works better under Windows 3.1 (any driver problems, etc)? >Cost of memory, font packages, toner cartridges, etc?  Basically, your >personal experiences with either of these machines is highly desirable, >both good and bad.  >Advance kudos and thanks for all your input.  E-mail or news posting is >readily acceptable, but e-mail is encouraged (limits bandwidth).  >-- >Sincerely,  >Robert Kayman   ----    kayman@cs.stanford.edu  -or-  cpa@cs.stanford.edu  >"In theory, theory and practice are the same.  In practice, they are not." >"You mean you want the revised revision of the original revised revision > revised?!?!"   All right.  Not saying I know any more than the average salesguy, I'll give  your question a shot.   The key issue that I bought my BJ-200 on was ink drying speed.  You really  have to try awful hard to get the BJ-200 ink to smear.  The HP DeskJets need  10-15 seconds to completely dry.  In both cases, however, do not get your  pages wet.  Unlike laser printers, the material on your pages is INK, not  toner.  But that should go without saying.  My PC has very little memory (only 2Meg RAM), so the BJ-200 takes a little  while to print ----- but every application I use takes a while to run.  Once  the computer is solely printing, it purs like a kitten and puts pages out  every 15-30 seconds, depending on how detailed your graphics are.    The BJ-200 can do Windows soft fonts.  I'm assuming that the DeskJet can, or  HP wouldn't sell many......  Size is another factor.  The BJ-200 is much smaller, but the HP is built  like a tank.  I bet the BJ-200 would get damaged first.  Finally, the print quality.  I LOVE the BJ-200's resolution.  It looks like  a good laser quality print.  The HP's I've used.....they look like ink.  Not  as impressive.
kmembry@viamar.UUCP (Kirk Membry) writes:  >I remember reading about a program that made windows icons run away >from the mouse as it moved near them.  Does anyone know the name >of this program and the ftp location (probably at cica)  As I remember it, the name of the program your looking for is called icofrite.   Cica was where I saw it last. It was quite a while ago.
In article <1reiqj$qtr@access.digex.net> bsmith@access.digex.com (Barry Smith) writes: >Any clue? Some times when I enter Win 3.1 ProgMan says that I need to rebuild >a group! It's quite annoying! >   I've had the same problem with a Maxtor 7213A.  Turned off smartdrive, 32 bit disk access, etc.  This same disk aborts Norton Speed Disk (NU 4.5), up to 8 times, requesting NDD to be run when attempting to defrag drive.  At Some peoples' suggestion I reformatted my drive and reloaded DOS 5.0, Win 3.1 from scratch.  A few people found that installing 3.1 on top of 3.1 beta on top of 3.0 caused a similar problem, So I tried this drastic solution.  When the problem reoccurred, I didn't have the brains not to load 6.0 and dblespaced the drive.  I get arround the annoyance by copying my *.grp files to *.gro. when I get the message, I run file manager and copy the offeniding group files from *.gro ove rthe *.grp.  Then I quit and restart windows(If the group is an often used important one.)  This really sucks.  But I'm pretty sure that the problem is the drive (especially with the NSD problem).  I will be going with out over 66% of my memory after finals for 2 to 4 weeks, while the guy I bought the disk and system from, goes over it and either fixes it or replaces the drive.  I can't wait to have a system that will run consistently with all hte goodies!
In article <1495@heimdall.sdrc.com> crgruen@sony1.sdrc.com (robert gruen) writes: >1.  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? 9-)   >2.  I am running Windows in 1024x768x256 mode using a driver that was supplied  >    with my SVGA card.  The card is a BOCA SVGA card with 1Meg RAM, and I think  >    it has an ET4000 chip in it (at least thats what some program tells me).  >    The driver is an old driver that was written for Windows 3.1, 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/win3/ drivers/video. I've tried two: et4cview.zip and et4turbo.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...    --
In a previous article, hsano@cs.ulowell.edu (Hitoshi Sano) says:  >I'm not sure if this is the proper place to post this. > >The icons on Win3.1 Program Manager have all dissapeared and i need to >restore them.  The files all seem to be there on the disk and I think there >must be a better way than re installing everything.  Thanks for any help! > > Hmmmmm you know this happened to me also. I am not sure what caused it.  I think there might have been a system error and dumped windows.  I came back and all was well except no groups. Program Manager was EMPTY.  All the .grp files were in the directory.  I had to remake the groups with the new and group selection.  ALL THE ICONS AND FILES INSIDE THE GROUPS WERE STILL THERE AND WORKING FINE.  Just the groups had gone out of program manager.  Strange !!!! C-ya..... /\/\artin
I'm trying to get a hold of an IBM Quietwriter II printer driver for Windows 3.1. If such a beast exists, can someone suggest how I get it? Please mail me a reply directly as I don't normally read this group. Many thanks.
Hello,  We are having troubles using the PC/TCP onpredir (printer redirection program with lpr support) with the Windows print manager. The onpredir simply waits an do only the capture till the end of the Windows session, while after some printer inactivity  it should start the printing.  Does anybody uses this two programs together?
Hi Everybody,        I am interested in the following topics.  1)BIOS programming on 286 and 386. 2)Memory management in 286 and 386. 3)Developing Visual Basic Custom Controls.       I would like to have your valuable opinion on the books that are best in the above topics.  Please send a mail to rmehta@paul.rutgers.edu . I will post a summary of the  suggestions.    2**32-1  thanks in advance.
Does anyone know of bigger raster fonts?  I'm using a Mag 15H monitor with a Diamond SS24X in 1280x1024 mode and would prefer to have larger characters for the windows heading (practically for everything).  I'm already using the 8514 character sets.  mark
Hallo !  ebosco@us.oracle.com wrote on 28.04.93 about : emm386 and windows   e>Von : ebosco@us.oracle.com (Mi, 28.04.93 18:03) e>Name: Eric Bosco  [...] e>Should I use emm386 or should I remove it from my config.sys?  Basically: Windows prefers extendend memory instead of expanded (more work to do for Win) and if no application desperatly needs EMS, you should leave emm386 with a "REM" in your config.sys.  Bye,     Chris
Trying to pin point a hardware problem with my disk, Maxtor 7213AT.  Group files get corrupted on a regular basis. Only happens on this drive, D had only one corrupt file in over a year and it was under the control of winword on C. 32-bit disk access and smartdrive are off.  Since installation of dblspace problem has turned from an annoyance to a reason for murder.  Since the most frequent files corrupted are the *.grp files, are these the last thing written to when exitting Windows?  Also, are there any pd/shareware utilities available that do a more thorough job than dos 6, NDD 4.5, etc?  DOS 6 and  Win 3.1 compatable.  Thanks
A friend of mine uses Windows 3.1 to do most of her work. Unfortunately, she has very bad eyesight, and we haven't been able to figure out how to change the default font used by the system and application menus, or the font used by the Help program (what use is hypertext if you can't read it?) to make it legible to her.  If anyone knows how to increase the size of these fonts, of any software package that makes Windows more accessible to visually handicapped people, please let me know.
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.    Thanks
I find that it's always (almost anyway) busy when I dial, but if I try repeatedly, usually only 5 to 15 tries, I always get connected.
I just installed a new TrueType font under MS-Windows 3.1 but though all the applications display the font correctly on the screen, quite a few of them fail to print out the document correctly (on a LaserJet 4 - non-PostScript printer).  When I use the font in CorelDRAW, the document prints correctly, so I assume CorelDRAW knows that the font has to be downloaded to the printer.  But when I use the Windows accessory Write, the printer prints square boxes in place of the characters of the new font. Yet, Write does display the font correctly on the screen.  I looked through all the Windows and LaserJet manuals, but got nowhere. All of them just make the statement that TrueType fonts will print exactly as you see them on the screen---so I assume Windows knows that a font has to be downloaded automatically---but, how to make it do that????
Geoffrey S. Elbo writes:  >Yes, and it is the fastest defrag I've ever watched.  It did a 170MB  >hard disk in 20 minutes.  	I found the MS defrag looks very much like Norton Speedisk. Is it just a strip-down version of the later?  	I have both Norton Speedisk and Backup, so I was wondering  if I need to install MS Backup?
In article <C716rA.IGC@feenix.metronet.com> jack@feenix.metronet.com (Jack Hudler) writes: >Still after the impact of all the ITO's at IBM, all that's left of its >employee base are the deadbeats! I suspect we'll see 2.1 about 1st quarter >94. Boy are you going to look silly in a couple of weeks.
Can somebody help me out of this.....  I just installed the Version 104 of McAFree anti-virus program and when i tried to scan the entire hard disk, i got the message of "Sorry, I can't open xxxx" for a couple of files, including the WScan104.exe. This didn't happen  before (in previous  version) nor appear on my friend's machine.
Word 2.0c doesn't show the period-centred character to indicate spaces if I use the TTFonts from CorelDraw.  Our editors need to be able to see how many spaces are in text but the character  displayed is a large hollow box.  They overlap each other and characters on each side, which is useless.  I believe the character used by W4W is the period-centred (0183). This character shows up with the windows Charmap display as the hollow box which tends to confirm this.  I have edited the corel font with Fontmonger and changing the font graphics for the 0183 character makes no difference to the font output in Charmap or W4W. Altering the paragraph (0182) or cedilla (0184) does alter their font graphics displayed however!!  Is the W4W character used to indicate spaces the period-centred character?  Has anyone been able to get this character displayed from a CorelDraw TTF?
I'm told that I can replace the colorful windows logo that appears as windows invokes with a graphic of my choosing.  The challange is that the image must be in 'RLE' format.  I've got GIF's, PIC's, JPG's, TIF's, etc... everything but RLE's!  What's the best route to converting these things?   What program should I download, and from where?   Has anybody else done this, and do you have the steps available?