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In comp.os.ms-windows.misc you write:  >While reading through the DOS 6.0 book, it states that the Windows permanaent swap file will not work correctly when placed on a compressed drive.  To make things compatable, >I removed my Permanent swap file before starting the upgrade.  However, when all the dust settled, and I go into windows, it says that the temporary swap file is right where it always was, in the Windows directory.  My question is:  How come the temporary swap files works OK with a compressed drive, and the permanent one doesn't?  you might want to look in windows FAQ for this one, but here is my best explanation.  But I can't guarantee that I'm not way off base...  The permenant swap file is read/written to by windows by talking directly to the hard disk controller card.  The controller card must use the protocal set up by western digital (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 2.  Then it checks for the largest contiguous block of free disk space.  Windows then suggests the smaller of the two numbers.  They also said that under absolutely no circumstances...NONE!...will windows uses a swap file larger than the suggested size.  Well...that's what he  said!  I call bull@#$#.  If this is true why does windows report the memory is available to me if it's not going to use it?  any takers?  James
I>From: ccastco@prism.gatech.EDU (Costas Malamas) >Subject: Re: Windows zip/unzip >Date: 28 Apr 93 22:31:55 GMT >In article <1rl9b6$h3c@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> russ@deakin.OZ.AU (Russ Sharp) writes: >>We are using pkzip V2.04 and I am interested to hear from >>people who have used one of the many Windows programs that >>call these. >>Is there a full windows version that does not call the DOS  >>PKZIP/PKUNZIP commands? >>-- >>Russ Sharp    russ@deakin.edu.au    ph (052)27 1141    fax (052)27 2015  \  / > >There is WunArchive, the replacement of WunZip.  It only extracts, but it  ssupports pkzip 2.04.  It does NOT require pkz/unzip in order to work, and  ccosts only $10 to register.
Hi, 	We've been having problems on a few setups when printing to a serial printer (dmp or Laser). I have used Works and Windows Write. The output is OK from DOS and if I send plain text output, but anything fancy garbles or just doesn't output. The exception is outputting to a Lserjet 4 which 'appears' to be fast enough receiving data, not to bother about handshaking messages. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. I've tried most of the Print/Network manager options I can think of. Anyone had similar problems they've cured and would like to tell me 'bout it?? Thanks
Subject says it all.  Do any exist?  Are they shareware?  Where?     Phil Trodwell
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.
Hi   I am thinking of upgrading to the Beta Version of Windows NT on a 486SX 25Mhz 213Mb Hard disc. Can someone please give me there opion on such a setup for running NT and is the Operating System likely to be better than Windows or  Unix's.
Peter P. Lei (lei@rtsg.mot.com) wrote: :  : 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 :  I know Norton Desktop for Windows includes this file and its help file  mentioned something about floppy-disk access.  Jeroen
I have a .BAT file that I run under a Windows Icon.  I have set up a PIF file to run the BAT file in exclusive mode and to use the entire screen. The first line of the BAT file sets an environment variable.  My problem is that on some of our machines (running MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode), the SET command in the BAT file fails with the OUT OF ENVIRONMENT SPACE error.  I have raised the amount of environment  space to 2048 bytes using the SHELL command in CONFIG.SYS so I know that I am nowhere near to running out.  If I just click on the MS-DOS icon, I can create a bunch of environment varibles from the DOS shell.  The problem is that on some machines, setting the value of an environment variable in a BAT file fails.  Has anyone seen such behavior before?  I see no place in the PIF fail to configure environment space.
In article <1993Apr20.085638.29338@news.uit.no> sp@odin.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Svein Pedersen) writes: >I nead a utility for updating (deleting, adding, changing) *.ini files for Windows.  > >Do I find it on any FTP host? > >Svein >
In article <cyen.735139934@ponder> Jesse writes: >hi,  >  Have you used Mac system 6.x or 7.x? If the answer is positive, you would >know if ms-windows is a "mature" OS.  This is silly. Is Unix a mature OS? Depends on who you ask, and how you define mature. System 7 is, if anything, less mature than Windows 3.1.  >  Days ago people doubted that ms-windows is not a real OS. I can see why >they have such question. Ms-windows confuses many people. Microsoft >simulated Mac, but it did a lousy job.  For example:  >(1) You can not create hierarchy groups. There is no way to create a group >    in a group. (If you know how, please tell me.)  So why do you need something like BeHierarchic to create groups under the Apple Menu? Everyone knows that Apple Menu Items are a ripoff of the Program Manager. If you want a hierarchic program launcher there are lots available.  >(3) uncomplete documentation. It's not easy to find the reason why causes >    an unpredictable error.  And this is easy on a Mac? Give me a break. Having spent hours moving System Extensions around and restarting the Mac to see why a certain app crashes all the time, I find this laughable.  >(4) Group deleting/file deleting >    After deleting a group, users have to use file manager to delete files. >    But if users forget to delete some related files, the disk will be full >    of nonsense files.  Oh great. Ever hear of aliases? Wonder why Apple implemented them.  >(5) share problem >    Once you create two windows doing compilation and editing in some >    language (w/o good editor), there will be a sharing problem. You just >    can not open or save the program if it is loaded. It makes sense to >    prevent from saving, but not opening.  Eh?? I don't follow.  >  It's by no means easy to satisfy everybody, but if Microsoft want to >keep their reputations, they should evaluate the user interface more >carefully before products distribute.  Why is it that I find the Mac desktop incredibly annoying whenever I use it?   >  No flame, please.  Yeah right. You post flame bait, yet ask for no flames.          --
In article <1rl9b6$h3c@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> russ@deakin.OZ.AU (Russ Sharp) writes: >We are using pkzip V2.04 and I am interested to hear from >people who have used one of the many Windows programs that >call these. >Is there a full windows version that does not call the DOS  >PKZIP/PKUNZIP commands? >-- >Russ Sharp    russ@deakin.edu.au    ph (052)27 1141    fax (052)27 2015  \  /  	WinZip 4.0 (ftp.cica.indiana.edu:pub/pc/win3/(util?) ). It is a shell (it DOES call DOS ), but a very, very good one. It will also do arc, arj and lzh. It fully supports PKZIP 2.04 . Try using it... It might be a shell --very unobtrusive--, but that also means you dont need to update it with every every-other-letter-of-the-alphabet version of PKZIP... :) Hope it helps....
HHHHEEEELLLLPPPP Meeeeeee!  	I installed a 256 color svga driver for my windows last week.    This driver was downloaded from ftp.cica.indiana.edu specifically for   Paradise svga card.  However, after I installed it and when I run windows,   the startup screen in the beginning becomes the old windows 3.0 startup   screen ????!!??!!  	Everything works fine except the startup screen.  I know the   startup screen must have been changed in the system.ini file (or is it ?)   but I couldn't figure out what to alter!   Can some one help me with this?    Please e-mail to my address:  	thang@tree.egr.uh.edu  or  thang@jetson.uh.edu  In addition, can anyone know where can I get a 1024x680 paradise svga   driver (256 color) ?  this is a used computer and I do not have anything   (drivers, etc) regarding the driver....
Whenever I exit Windows, I can't use control-alt DEL to reboot my   computer, because the system hangs when I do this. I can still reboot   using the reset key, but I would like to know why this happens..  Eric
rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes: >	I'd say that the massive crash problems are exceedingly rare. >	Windows _itself_ almost never crashes, but it can be crashed by >	an errant application (My personal favorite?  Any one of the Corel >	3.0 programs).  On the other hand, I have had OS/2 crash randomly >	a number of times, mostly just running it's own applications.  I  _do_ know  that  IBM systems, the PS/2 56SLC2, in  particular, have absolutely no  problem  with  OS/2--never had  a "random" crash  while running any of  my programs under  OS/2.   In fact, I  don't  remember _ever_ crashing.  Of course, I really don't run any  OS/2 programs, just the  same bunch of DOS and Windows stuff that I've always been running.  And  when  I  had  the  56SLC  (this is  the  386SLC  system)  running Dos/Windows, I had only  one crash, and it was consistent.   FTP had a tendency  to  crash  whenever  I would  get  large  files (>1mb)  from particularly fast  clients  (DTR's  150K-200K/sec), I  figured out the problem was with smartdrv's write buffering--if I turned off the write buffer, everything would work fine.  FTP under OS/2 has never locked,  though.  I can even format  floppies (to use the most often cited example of the superiority of OS/2.)  >	For instance, I'm still wondering why print preview in a windowed >	WP 5.1 (DOS) locks up my system.  Yeah, I guess I'm willing to admit that OS/2  is somewhat sensitive to specific hardware.  WP51 for DOS works perfectly fine on my SLC2...  >	Please explain.  The only time I wait on anything under Windows is >	when I'm copying or formatting a floppy, or when printing (and even >	then, not long--I get 9 to 11 pages dumped to the printman per  >	minute, and can _still_ go do things--slowly--while it's doing  >	this--I've downloaded with PP+ @9600 while printing).  Well,  I save all  my  personal files to floppy,  and when  i did that under Windows, a floppy save of a large file hung up the system.  I  also found  it quite bothersome to  have  to  continually tweak the tasking options  on fractint for dos whenever I wanted to do a fractal computation in the background.  >> and not being able to address your memory better than DOS,  >	Not sure what you mean here.
I don't know much about computers, so please bear with me. Here's my question:  CONTEXT: I use a package called SLIP on my home computer to connect to the          university mainframe (an IBM 3090 running VMS/MVS), and log on to my          account. When I installed SLIP on my computer, I had to configure it          for my modem (14.4 kbs Etronics internal) and had to supply the phone          number to dial to reach the mainframe. The way it works now is that          I type "telnet uicvm" or "tn3270 uicvm" (either will work) at the DOS          prompt. UICVM is the node name of the mainframe. The program then          dials the mainframe, establishes a protocol, and gives me the logon          screen. "TELNET" and "TN3270" are the names of batch files in my SLIP          directory. I have been told that a kermit protocol is used for the          session.  PROBLEM: I would like to be able to do all this under Windows 3.1 because I          hardly ever use DOS directly. SLIP will not run under Windows. I          talked to the people at our computer center, and they suggested that          I use a packet driver called WINPKT.COM with SLIP. They gave me          instructions on how to load it before I start Windows, and how to          modify the TCPSTART and TCPSTOP batch files (in the SLIP directory)          to ensure that it would work. I did all that and I could run SLIP          from Windows, but there were other problems. For one thing, SLIP          would not hang up the phone when I exited. I had to run my communi-          cations program to hang up the phone or reboot the computer when          that didn't work. For another, there were too many errors. It often          took me 3-4 tries to connect to the mainframe. Our computer center          does not support SLIP under Windows, so I can't keep going back to          them with more questions.  QUESTION: Is there some other SHAREWARE package that will run under Windows          and do what SLIP is supposed to do? I need a package that is not too          expensive, which is why I am looking for shareware. I have heard that          there are regular commercial packages that do all this, but they cost          hundreds of dollars. These are the main requirements:           1. Must be able to run under Windows 3.1          2. Must allow VT100 and IBM TN3270 terminal emulation          3. Must allow ftp file transfers, since that's the only kind the             mainframe allows. No Y-modem or Z-modem etc. I believe the ftp             transfers are made through a kermit protocol, but I'm hazy about             that.           A subsidiary feature (that would be nice to have) if it's a true          Windows program (rather than a DOS program modified to run under          Windows) is the ability to run the session in a window concurrently          with other applications and to cut and paste between the telnet          session and other applications.  Any information received is appreciated.
A friend and I have ATI Graphic Ultra display adaptors, and they have been reasonably good performers, but we both have had irritating compatibility problems with the ATI drivers and are ready to change to something faster and more compatible with windows. I have heard rumblings that the new Orchid 9000 card is very fast. Anyone have experience with this card? What is currently available that is fast, compatible, does 1280x1024x256 non- interlaced and cost under $500?  Ken Keirnan --
[stuff deleted about Microsoft] bferrell@ant.occ.uc.edu (Brett Ferrell) writes: >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  You must of read too many OS/2 advertisements.  "Crash Protection" is such a marketing gimick, it isn't funny..  Out of 4 months of using Windows on my  new machine I've only had it crash ONCE, and I don't have a "run of the mill" configuration.  Microsoft is not a leader in innovation, but they certainly know how to  build a better mousetrap.  Now, what's wrong with that??
In article <1993Mar31.014237.28478@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> dwoo@unb.ca writes: >To all the W4W experts: > >I have a file that is three pages long with 10 to 12 1-line equations >plus a 5"by 2" diagram. The size of this file is about 81KB before >unlinking all the embedded objects and 30KB after unlinking all the >embedded objects. Well, when I print it (since I don't have a laser >printer, I have to send it to a print file), W4W gives me back a >BBBBBBIG file that is well over 6MB long.  I just fail to see how a 81K >file can be boosted to a 6MB file. Obviously, I will not able to carry >this 6MB+ file to the public printer unless I find myself a network >card, a cable etc. > >Could anyone please enlighten me with a solution? (I already try to >print a page at a time, it still won't fit into a HD floppy) > >Thanx a mil. > > > >***************************************************************** >*  Dennis Woo              Department of Mechanical Engineering * >*  E-mail: dwoo@unb.ca     University of New Brunswick          * >*  Tel: (506) 453-4513                                          * >*****************************************************************	 >  > I once had this problem.  All I did was to copy the whole doc to a new file.  The problem  was gone.  Hope this helps.
Hi All.   I am working on a project in visual basic ver. 2.0 and I need to show  PostCript files I am getting from another aplication.  So, because i can't show PostScript directly form Visual Basic (at least I  don't know how), i need a utility to convert them to BMP, WMF.   Any help will be appreshieated.   kobi elimelech ---------------------------------------------------------------  messges can be sent to me at kobi@asimov.hacktic.nl
Hello Cliff   Many people on the internet (like us) have to pay for every byte of data passed through subscribed news groups.  Bitmaps are large. Bitmaps cost us a lot of money. There are special news-groups for bitmaps because of this. We don't subscribe to them. Put you bitmaps in the right place. Read one of the FAQ guides in the newuser groups and it will tell you all about bitmaps and the thousands of establishments like mine that you have just cost money.  Some of them have very limited budgets.  Go away.  P.S. This is a flame ;-) P.P.S You distribution of "usa" didn't work.  KenB
Hi, I am trying to compile a chart for Windows and DOS performance of local bus video card .  So if you have a DX2-66V and one of the local bus video cards below, please email me your Winbench 3.11 and 3dbench(obtainable in ftp.wustl.edu, pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS) scores.   Please give me Winmark score at 800x600x256 and 800x600x64K.  I will post the chart if enough response if received.  Tseng ET-4000/W32 VLB CL 5426 VLB S3 805/928 based local bus card. ATI Ultra Pro VLB Orchid Celsius 9000 VLB AGX based VLB cards(do they exist?) Matox MGA based video cards
I just purchased The Norton Desktop for windows, and I also have Norton Utilities.  When I installed NDW, it wanted to rem out the line that installed EP (EP /ON) and the command to invoke the Image utility. It replaced the Image command with a new image command that invokes the version of Image that came with NDW.  This makes sense, as presumably the Image version with NDW is newer than the one with NU.  It did not, however, install smartcan in the autoexec.  Now two questions:    1:  Will NU use the image data saved by the newer version of image invoked.        i.e. Are the two version of Image compatable?    2:  Will erase protect use the info from smartcan, and vice versa?        I use both dos and windows, and I want to make sure that when I        erase files in either environment, they are going to be protected.  From the experiments I have run, The two programs (Erase Protect and smart Erase) don't use each others info. I currently have both EP and smartcan loading within my autoexec, and I don't see any conflicts;  FYI :  Norton Desktop for Windows version 2.2        Norton Util's version 6
Hi,  I got a NE2100 compatible ethernet card, and I just received my copy of Chameleon NFS. Unfortunately, it is not compatible with the NE2100 (only NE2000 or NE1000). What is the latest version number for Chameleon NFS ? Did soemone tackle this problem ?  Thanks for help,  F. Popineau
In article <shenoy.737772666@pv025f.vincent.iastate.edu> shenoy@iastate.edu (Shiva Shenoy) writes: >In <1993May18.141451.3443@trintex.uucp> charles@tinman.dev.prodigy.com (Charles R. Emmons) writes: >>[Description of file manager Info menu option. >Edit the winfile.ini file. If there is a section [AddOns] in it, great! Else,  >add the following two lines. If the [AddOns] section exists, then just add  >the second line.  >[Addons] >INfo=filesize.dll  Note that the filesize .dll is a part of the Windows Resource Kit. If you install it (and you can download it from Cica), it will make the appropriate changes itself.  kartik
On my PC I almost exclusively run windows. The only dos based application   I have is ProcommPlus.  In my config.sys I have emm386 loaded with the   option noems (no expanded memory). Following a thread in one of the comp   newsgroups, I read that it was no necessary to have emm386 loaded. Indeed,   in the manual, it says that emm386 is used to get expanded memory out of   extended memory. Since I have the noems option, it seems to me that the   emm386 device is useless in my case.   Should I use emm386 or should I remove it from my config.sys?  Thanks for your help,
In article <93059@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4356c@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 2.  Then it checks for the largest contiguous block >of free disk space.  Windows then suggests the smaller of the two numbers. > >They also said that under absolutely no circumstances...NONE!...will windows >uses a swap file larger than the suggested size.  Well...that's what he  >said! > >I call bull@#$#.  If this is true why does windows report the memory is >available to me if it's not going to use it?  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 [386enh] 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 4 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 1 and 20.  The default is 4.  To change this entry, 	you must edit SYSTEM.INI.