15-Sep-92 10:17:57-MDT,13064;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from ADM.BRL.MIL by WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL with TCP; Tue, 15 Sep 92 10:17:48 MDT Received: from ADM.BRL.MIL by ADM.brl.MIL id aa23467; 15 Sep 92 9:17 EDT Received: from adm.brl.mil by ADM.BRL.MIL id aa23301; 15 Sep 92 9:00 EDT Message-ID: <920825222323.V92N140@brl.mil> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 22:23:22 BST From: Info-IBMPC Digest Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #140 To: Info-IBMPC Distribution: ; Info-IBMPC Digest Tue, 25 Aug 92 Volume 92 : Issue 140 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: 720 vs 1.44 diskettes Algorithms for volume visualization wanted Bad Sectors on a SCSI-Drive Change Basica file to ASC? HT12 chipset - UMB's (V92 #122) re: sideways (V92 #130) Downloading from FTP Sites with VAX and Kermit (V92 #132) Off-Line Mail Reader Wanted Information on SCSI-Interface needed LASI401*.ZIP - LASI v4.01: IC layout CAD pgm Maxtor 7120A Maxtor drives, Seagate drives Maxtor HD problem PL1 to C translator Re: formatting 3.5" disks Weird Hp Laserjet Printer behaviour Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 14:20:40 EDT From: The Radio Gnome Subject: 720 vs 1.44 diskettes > >In response to Dody Bautista's question: > > The only difference between a 720 Kb disk and a 1.44 Mb disk is a >little hole in the corner. That is the ONLY difference. Are you sure? I always thought that HD disks used a better magnetic material with higher coercivity/retentivity/MOL/etc. Andrew Wing - CNE Lead Applications Analyst Temple University Computer Services v2002a%templevm.bitnet@pucc.princeton.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 19:55 EDT From: EFRAIM Subject: Algorithms for volume visualization wanted I am looking for anybody interested in scientific visualization. I am interested in particular in a technique called volume visualization. Dr. Efraim Halfon e-mail address on internet: u044 @ cs.cciw.ca e-mail address on bitnet: halfon @ mcmaster ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 17:52 N From: WUTZKE%CAGPSI5A.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu Subject: Bad Sectors on a SCSI-Drive Hello Netters, Does anybody know how a SCSI-Host-Adaptor maps out defective blocks on a disc? Don't tell me please: there are none. There must be a list of defective blocks somewhere, and I'm looking for a way to read and to reset the bad sector list. A lot of thanks in advance Th. Wutzke ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:01:12 GMT From: hd12@midway.uchicago.edu (hui dong) Subject: Change Basica file to ASC? I wrote a Basic program on IBM PC (8086) with Basica several years ago. As we know, it's now almost useless (on 5 1/4 double side disk). I like to save the program as ASC file so I can refer to some data (quite a lot) I have put in. Is there a way to do that? Basica won't run on 386 etc. and it only saves files in its own format, to my knowledge. Thanks for the help. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 12:56:51 EDT From: bugman@biology.watstar.uwaterloo.ca Subject: HT12 chipset - UMB's (V92 #122) On Thu, 16 Jul 1992 05:43:13 BST you said: > I have recently upgraded my pc to a 286 with an HT12 (?) chipset. >I really miss not being able to use UMB's, as my networking software >consumes a great deal of memory.Some of it can be loaded into EMS, but If you have a memory board that supports EMM version 4.0, you probably will be able to use QRAM, a product from Quarterdeck that provides memory management on 286 (like QEMM for 386s). | Dr Stephen M. Smith | Voice: 519-885-1211, ext. 2665 (work) | | Dept of Biology | or: 519-885-0555 (home) | | University of Waterloo | FAX: 519-746-0614 < Eastern time zone> | | WATERLOO, ON | E-mail: | | Canada N2L 3G1 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 10:26:41 EDT From: "A. Kaniss" Subject: re: sideways (V92 #130) It is correct that sideways is now only bundled and sold with lotus 1-2-3 as is impress. A good friend of mine had sideways and upgraded his version to always and yes they're the same product but the latest version of always has improved. jude ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 03:42 EDT From: Sajid Ahmed aka Peaceman Subject: Downloading from FTP Sites with VAX and Kermit (V92 #132) A tip for Kermit users. Did you know that when you use Kermit that you can see previous screens by pushing the and keys? The default is set for only 7 or 8 pages, but you can set the number of pages that can rollback by typing this line in the autoexec.bat file : SET KERMIT=INPUT-BUFFER 128;ROLLBACK n where n is the total number of screens that you can rollback. Peaceman SA0354@albnyvms.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: 17 Aug 1992 17:28:42 -0700 (MST) From: "Leigh Benson" Subject: Off-Line Mail Reader Wanted Can any body tell me if they know of an off line mail reader that works with a vax on a dial up system? I have eudora for mac and i can't make it work. Thats a mac for you. I am hoping to go back to old reliable IBM. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 17:45 N From: WUTZKE%CAGPSI5A.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu Subject: Information on SCSI-Interface needed Hello All, I'm looking for a new disk for my PC and came across the following types of SCSI-Interfaces: 1) SCSI 2) SCSI-1 3) SCSI-2 4) SCSI-2 fast Does anybody know how these Interfaces differ? At the moment, I'm using an Adaptec 1542B Host Adaptor. What kind of SCSI-Interface is it? The 'Installation Guide' (Great Word for *one* sheet of paper) says nothing about it. Thanks in Advance Th.Wutzke ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 09:56:29 -0400 From: "Kevin C. Routh" Subject: LASI401*.ZIP - LASI v4.01: IC layout CAD pgm A note about the files: pd1: LASI401A.ZIP LASI v4.01: IC layout CAD pgm, 1 of 3 LASI401B.ZIP LASI v4.01: IC layout CAD pgm, 2 of 3 LASI401C.ZIP LASI v4.01: IC layout CAD pgm, 3 of 3 They should be unzipped in the top level directory with the -d option to create the directories contained within the .ZIP files. They should create a directory called \LASI4 with a subdirectory called \LASI4\DEMO. I am sorry I forgot to mention this in the announcement. -- Kevin C. Routh Internet: krouth@etcs03.eld.ford.com Ford Microelectronics IBM Mail: USFMCTMF IC Engineering (formerly ASIC Technology Group) 17000 Rotunda Drive - Room B-121 Dearborn, MI 48121-6010 Voice Mail: (313) 337-5136 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 10:42:16 MST From: ASQB-HSU 1199th SIG-BN Subject: Maxtor 7120A The information you have for the Maxtor 7120A or S is correct. 1024 CYL, 14 HDS aand 17 SEC is how they come set up out of Maxtor Colorado. If you set your AMI Bios up as: 1024, 14, 17, 1024 or 65535, 1024, it should work. (I had one and sold it as I bought a larger drive). Jim ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 13:31:42 EDT From: The Radio Gnome Subject: Maxtor drives, Seagate drives Hi, When we got our Maxtor 7120, it came with On Track Disk manager, but we didn't need OT because Netware was able to read it as is, perhaps you need On Track. Re: Seagate ST296... Isn't this the cheap 20M drive that Apple used in their earlier SE? We've had mucho trouble getting a couple of these to spin up. Our 'solution' was to shake the SE case around the axis of rotation of the drive. Ultimately we had the drives replaced and SORBUS confirmed that many many SEs had the same problem. Andrew Wing - CNE Lead Applications Analyst Temple University Computer Services v2002a%templevm.bitnet@pucc.princeton.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 12:51:45 EDT From: bugman@biology.watstar.uwaterloo.ca Subject: Maxtor HD problem On 29 Jul 92 Bob Jernigan wrote: > I have a system with a Maxtor 7120 HD. The problem I have is that the > system only seems to recognize 43MB. IDEINFO reports 2995 cyl., 5 > heads, 17 sec. for 124 MB. Bob-- I'm no PC guru but I think the problem you may be encountering is that DOS (including DOS 5) won't recognize more than 1024 cylinders. You might consider getting a copy of Disk Manager (OnTrack Computer Systems, Inc., 6321 Bury Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55346; sales: 800-752-1333; FAX 612-937-5815). I use DM on an AST 286 to get 80 megs from a MicroScience disk for which DOS would only give me 60. Hope this helps, .steve *--------------------------*-------------------------------------------------* | Dr Stephen M. Smith | Voice: 519-885-1211, ext. 2665 (work) | | Dept of Biology | or: 519-885-0555 (home) | | University of Waterloo | FAX: 519-746-0614 < Eastern time zone> | | WATERLOO, ON | E-mail: | | Canada N2L 3G1 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 08:20:02 EDT From: Curt Priest Subject: PL1 to C translator Has anyone seen either a shareware or commercial program that will convert PL1 source code to C source code. I did find a shareware program called RUNPLI1A that says it runs PLI code (but does not translate it to C). Please E-Mail me directly and I will post response(s) to the digest. Thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 12:19:34 -0400 From: Joe Morris Subject: Re: formatting 3.5" disks In INFO-IBMPC 92.131 Marc Meltzer wrote: > The only difference between a 720 Kb disk and a 1.44 Mb disk is a > little hole in the corner. That is the ONLY difference. Not quite. The magnetic coating of the disk is different, and is "tuned" to support the higher data recording density of the 1.44 Mb disk. It's easy to actually see the difference: hold one of each kind of disk up to a light with the shutters held open. The HD diskette will transmit much more light than the DD diskette. Just why this is so I'll leave to someone who knows much more than I do about magnetic recording materials, but the difference is visible in every disk I've looked at, ranging from top-of-the-line premium disks to the worst of the el cheapos you can find at a flea market. Joe Morris / MITRE ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 15:42:26 EDT From: Tony Cichan Subject: Weird Hp Laserjet Printer behaviour. Check the cables to the printer from the network server and power. Parallel cables are particularly susceptible to wear and tear. Vibration can cause the wires to break at the connector and then work intermit- tently. Length of parallel cables is also critical, about 12 to 15 feet for a standard cable and perhaps 30 feet max with low capacitance cable and shielded connectors. A. M. (Tony) Cichan TONYC@YORKVM2.BITNET (416)736-5147 Department of Facilities Planning and Management York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Domain address: TONYC@VM2.YorkU.CA ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #140 ********************************* ------- 15-Sep-92 10:19:20-MDT,13424;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from ADM.BRL.MIL by WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL with TCP; Tue, 15 Sep 92 10:19:12 MDT Received: from ADM.BRL.MIL by ADM.brl.MIL id ab23467; 15 Sep 92 9:19 EDT Received: from adm.brl.mil by ADM.BRL.MIL id aa23335; 15 Sep 92 9:00 EDT Message-ID: <920828210632.V92N141@brl.mil> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 21:06:31 BST From: Info-IBMPC Digest Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #141 To: Info-IBMPC Distribution: ; Info-IBMPC Digest Fri, 28 Aug 92 Volume 92 : Issue 141 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: Bidirectional Parallel Port? (2 msgs) compress progs.. Date & Time output DOS 5.0 and BASICA problems DOS TRANSFER SPEED ON 486-33 Help: CUTCP with DEPCA.COM packet driver Help BIOS question Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #135 Is Dr. Dos And Stacker Compatible? Manzana Inc. moved my ibmdos.com .... Mulitimedia / CD-ROM XA Reply to Bidirectional Parallel Port? Speed of cache memory stacker [just my opinion] System 36 & Unix will not talk? Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 10:19:25 EST From: jeff lewis Subject: Bidirectional Parallel Port? I've been trying to locate information on using the parallel port for bi-directional data transfers, etc. I've searched several books without any information other than DOS does not directly support incoming data from the parallel port. Can anyone supply information both hardware and/or software examples of accomplishing this? The more detailed the information, the better. I'm planning on making hardware projects that communicate with the computer through the parallel port (ie. STROBE and DATA bits) Thanks... Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 06:23:00 TUR From: RITTERBUS001@wcsub.ctstateu.edu Subject: Bidirectional Parallel Port? >I've been trying to locate information on using the parallel port for >bi-directional data transfers, etc. Jeff, I recall reading an article about 6 months ago in one of Radio Electronics, Popular Electronics or Computer Craft about exactly how to read data into the parallel port. This included construction details for a hardware interface (in case you want to use it for data acquisition), as well as the code to perform the read. I can't recall the specifics, but one thing I believe I remember was to the effect that you had to set the "data direction register" on the port to tell it it was an input instead of an output. If you can't find the article in a Periodical Guide, send me a note and I will try to look up the issue for you. Jim Ritterbusch Western Connecticut State Univ. ritterbus001@wcsu.ctstateu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 12:47:55 From: "BERNARDO LEON DE LA BARRA" Subject: compress progs.. Hello... I really need to know where can I find certain compress progs. like .Z .UUE .XXE and some others for IBM-PC . I know they DO exist because I have a document that tell so. In fact, it details every system that a compress prog can work..I got it in an Virus-l Issue. I downloaded some UUdecoders, but they seem not to work very well.... Please if anybody knows where I can obtain these uncompress and compress progs...please e-mail me. Thanks in advance.... ---:<:--- Marcelo Adrain Maraboli Rosselott. Student of Electronic Engineering "The Diode" Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria MLEONDEL@UTFSM.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 18:42:54 SST From: HC Eng Subject: Date & Time output >>Simply put, I'd like my autoexec.bat to type the current system time >>and date to the console, without asking for a new time and date ... ... >you may want to try several variations of these commands -- > > echo.|date|find "Current" > echo.|time|find "Current" The above example, though neat, is rather resource intensive. Each pipe would create (write) a file on disk and then delete it (another write) after use. The Turbo Pascal program below, taken from the help example, will show something like: Time now: Wed, 08-19-1992 18:20:02 The executable, version 6, is only 3760 bytes, far smaller than the FIND program in the above example. Also the whole process is read only - no disk writes. But of course, you would need a TP compiler or you would have to ask for a copy of the EXE. {-------------- cut here -----------------} program showtime; uses DOS; const days : array [0..6] of String[9] = ('Sun','Mon','Tue','Wed','Thu','Fri','Sat'); var h, m, s, hund, y, mth, d, DoW : Word; function LeadZero(w : Word) : String; var s : String; begin Str(w:0,s); if Length(s) = 1 then s := '0' + s; LeadZero := s; end; begin GetTime(h,m,s,hund); GetDate(y,mth,d,DoW); WriteLn('Time now: ', days[DoW],', ',LeadZero(mth),'-',LeadZero(d), '-', y:0,' ', LeadZero(h),':',LeadZero(m),':',LeadZero(s)) end. Acknowledge-To: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 14:54:00 METDST From: Jim Groeneveld CMI-TNO Leiden NL Subject: DOS 5.0 and BASICA problems CONVERT TOKENIZED BASIC FILES (.BAS) TO ASCII To convert tokenized .BAS files from BASIC, BASICA or GWBASIC to ascii use the program RB, ReadBas, Vs. 1.58 by V. Buerg. This works without the use of any BASIC interpreter. I don't know whether this is the latest release of the program and if it is available at SIMTEL20 or else. However, that program can not convert so-called protected BASIC programs, saved with the ',p' option. There are some programs (UNPROT and KRAK, both also 7 years old) that unprotect these .BAS files, but the simplest solution to unprotect them is described below. This solution (as well as the other ones) needs a working BASIC interpreter. CONVERT PROTECTED BASIC FILES (.BAS) TO ASCII 1. Create a 2-byte file called UNP.BAS, consisting of the characters with ascii values of resp. 255 and 26 (26 is EOF). Alternative methods: a. This may be done using any editor capable of it, e.g. using EDLIN (EDLIN UNP.BAS) and after the I)nsert command just entering Alt-255,Ctrl-V,Z and save the file with the E)nd command. Alt-255 = while the ALT-key is held down, press the successive keys 2, 5 and 5 on the numeric keypad and release the ALT-key; Ctrl-V = while the ALT-key is being held down press the V key; Z = CAPITAL Z, thus while a SHIFT-key is held down press the Z key. The resulting file will be 5 bytes long, but that does not matter, because the first two bytes are the ones described. These extra bytes, however, may be removed using the method described below under b. b. From the DOS command prompt (C>) enter the commands: ECHO @^Z>UNP.BAS COPY UNP.BAS+NUL In here: @ = Alt-255 entered as described under a. ^Z = Ctrl-Z, entered like Ctrl-V above. The COPY command removes the redundant extra bytes. c. Use the batch file UNP.BAT which contains: echo off echo UNP.BAT creates UNP.BAS from DOS command line only. echo by Jim Groeneveld, 12/2-92. if "%1"=="" goto help echo %1>unprot.bas REM SECOND SPACE IN LINE ABOVE ACTUALLY IS ASCII-255, ENTERED AS BEFORE REM %1 WILL BE ASCII-26, ENTERED FROM THE COMMAND LINE AS CTRL-Z copy unprot.bas+nul >nul echo UNP.BAS created, consisting of bytes \255\26 goto end :help echo Syntax: UNP Ctrl-Z{ENTER} echo Exactly type the only Ctrl-Z from the keyboard. echo Other parameter contents are not allowed but can not be checked. echo This (^Z) can not be passed from another batch file. :end And run it FROM THE DOS COMMAND LINE ONLY by typing: UNP Ctrl-Z 2. Load your protected BASIC program (PROTPROG.BAS) into the interpreter, assuming GWBASIC, after starting it: LOAD"PROTPROG Then load the just created 2-byte file UNP.BAS: LOAD"UNP Your program is now unprotected and may be saved into an ascii file: SAVE"ASCPROG",A Don't ask me how it works, it works!!! You can see that by trying to LIST the program just before and after loading UNP.BAS. This method also has some side-effects that may be of value in some instances: When you are editing a BASIC program within the BASIC editor and you have deleted some line(s) that you would like to recover you may also LOAD"UNP and discover that sometimes deleted lines are available again. This even works after a NEW command, so that the complete program can be recovered. I have not found any regularity in thus undeleting program lines: sometimes they are undeleted, especially those of the last DELETE command or 'line number without contents', sometimes not and sometimes their line numbers have changed. So if you would like to recover deleted parts, firstly save the current program as ascii using ',a', then LOAD"UNP and save another copy with a different name using ',a', and use an ascii editor to combine (and edit) the two programs. I hope this may help those of you using DOS 5 and (GW)BASIC programs that you want to run under QBASIC. Remember that the original BASIC.COM and BASICA.COM programs needs the ROM BASIC chip only present in real IBM PC's; GWBASIC has the necessary code completely within software and thus does not need the chip. There are, however, (small) versions of BASIC.COM/EXE and BASICA.COM/EXE that actually call GWBASIC.EXE. I conclude that (interpreter) BASIC still is alive! Regards - Jim Groeneveld. Centrum voor Medische Informatica TNO | | |\/| TNO Center for Medical Informatics | GROENEVELD@CMI.TNO.NL | \_/ | | | ( CMI-TNO ) | Y. Groeneveld | GROENEVELD@CMIHP1.UUCP | Jim Groeneveld P.O.Box 124 | Wassenaarseweg 56 | GROENEVELD@TNO.NL | Schoolweg 14 2300 AC Leiden | 2333 AL Leiden | ...@HDETNO51.BITNET | 8071 BC Nunspeet Nederland. | (+31|0)71-181810 | Fax (+31|0)71-176382 | 03412-60413 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 17:05:37 SST From: KenHwee Tan Subject: DOS TRANSFER SPEED ON 486-33 What's a typical DOS Transfer Speed on a good 80486-33 with a 120MB IDE hard-disk? I have used QAPlus 4.52 to test several machines (stripped of all SMARTDRV etc) and the results seem quite dismal. I seem to get only about 100K per second on the DOS Transfer Speed test. The hard-disk in question is a Maxtor 7120 (methinks). Can anyone tell me if there is something wrong with the system or is this typical? I've read somewhere to take no less than 500KB/s! Thanks in advance... Acknowledge-To: ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 12:27:02 CEST From: Fabio Calcopietro Subject: Forwarded mail Messaggio inviato per conoscenza: ***************************************** MAILBOX Msg# 50405, 20/08/92 12:23 [1329] Da: MC8573 Fabio Calcopietro A : |Z Non ancora letto dal dest. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Oggetto: Make Os/2 Faster!!! Somebody tell that OS/2 environment is slower than Windows 3.1: it's false! Who tell this, not know the real performance of OS/2 2.0... 1st) After backup, the first thing to do is to decide how the disk will be partitioned. I suggest of divide your Hd in this parts: C: primary partition, OS/2 2.0, HPFS, size=Hd total - Swap space (15 MB max) D: logical partition, Swap, HPFS size=Swap space (I suggest 15 MB) Boot Manager, for future use. In this mode the Swap file is in a separate Hd, and not affect the principal file system with collateral effects like fragmentation and lost cluster after black-out... In second, the Swap file cluster are ever contiguos, the D: partition is very small with velocity double! After installation of OS/2, tune it with the following lines in Config.sys: IFS=C:\OS2\HPFS.IFS /CACHE:1024 /CRECL:4 /AUTOCHECK:CD RUN=C:\OS2\CACHE.EXE 24-Sep-92 18:58:38-MDT,21214;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from ADM.BRL.MIL by WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL with TCP; Thu, 24 Sep 92 18:58:28 MDT Received: from ADM.BRL.MIL by ADM.brl.MIL id aa19284; 24 Sep 92 17:32 EDT Received: from adm.brl.mil by ADM.BRL.MIL id aa18858; 24 Sep 92 17:11 EDT Message-ID: <920829191639.V92N142@brl.mil> Date: Sat, 19 Aug 92 19:16:38 BST From: Info-IBMPC Digest Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #142 To: Info-IBMPC Distribution: ; Info-IBMPC Digest Sat, 19 Aug 92 Volume 92 : Issue 142 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: Address for FATDOS author Converting TIF (HP SCANNER) Files to either CGM or Lotus PIC Disk Drive alignment software & diskette Formatting 3.5" disks (V92, #131) formatting DD diskettes as HD High Density drives on XT Sideways vs Allways (V92 #136) Kermit - What is it good for? (3 msgs) Re: Mac-in-DOS Mouse Problem in TP 6.0 Opinions on training? Owners manual for PC-7000 by Sharp, an old portable(1980?) PC speaker PostScript --> Bitmap (?) Program to evaluate typing skills Quad density drives on IBM PC Requst for a Windows Image Display Utility Modem doesn't work Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:25:42 GMT From: Billy McPherson Subject: Address for FATDOS author I am looking for the address of the author of the FORTRAN library FATDOS. He seems to have moved from the address that came with the package itself. The address we have is Marc Norton PO BGox 425 Greenbelt, MD 20700 if anyone has a current address it would be greatly appreciated. billy@alliant.uoknor.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 13:51:37 EST From: Joel Saunders Subject: Converting TIF (HP SCANNER) Files to either CGM or Lotus PIC I have a scanned image file (TIF) that I would like to use in Lotus. Lotus only accepts images in PIC or CGM format. I guess a conversion is in order. I have been unable to accomplish this task as of yet. Is anyone aware of some PD software that can be used for this purpose, or better yet, has anyone ever succeeded in accomplishing this task ????? Thanks in advance for your help in this matter ! Joel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 21:57:20 EDT From: Etop Udoh Subject: Disk Drive alignment software & diskette.... I'm looking for information about disk drive alignment software and the alignment diskettes that are sold with them or separately.... Specifically, I'm looking for the alignment software and diskette for a 5'1/4" 80 track quad density 96 tpi drive. Etop Udoh Eudoh@sct.edu : 1112 Hudson Rd. Southern College of Technology : Marietta, Ga 30060 Marietta, Georgia : ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 11:39:49 EDT From: moy@xp.psych.nyu.edu () Subject: Formatting 3.5" disks (V92, #131) ]From ghicks@BRL.MIL Mon Aug 24 04:49:04 1992 ..various header stuff deleted ] ]Could you forward this explanation for the readership in general? ] ]Thanks! ] ]Regards, ]Gregory Hicks ---------- ]From: "The Meltz Inc." ]I am writing to clarify a response I made regarding the formatting of ] 3.5" disks. The HD and DD media are different, but I can't really ] explain it. I asked moy@xp.psych.nyu.edu for an explanation, to which ] he gave a very good one, so if you want the explanation, contact me and ] I will forward you a copy of his response, or ask moy. I doubt he'll ] mind. ******************* Hi Gregory, Marc and INFO-PC readers-- Gladly! There certainly is a lot of confusion about 3.5" disk *media* vs. disk *formats.* Things are rendered even more confusing by claims of "doubling" disk capacity by merely punching a hole in the diskette shell, fooling the pc's media sensor. (That's actually a *dirty* way to "read-enable" a disk that's been improperly formatted--I've solved a few dire last-minute emergencies that way!) There are undoubtedly less-than-scrupulous dealers who might package the same media for both diskette types, but I believe (even without actual manufacturing specs) that the HD and DD disks are indeed different. Here is copy of what I sent to Marc Meltzer. Perhaps we could compile something on this topic for the FAQ list. -Moy Wong, PC Specialist, Dept. of Psychology, New York University -moy@xp.psych.nyu.edu >From moy Tue Aug 11 15:43:59 1992 ] I just finished reading your response in the IBM-Digest, about ] formatting DD disdisks to HD. Why do you say that shouldn't be done? ] I've heard that the only difference is the little hole in the corner. ] I'm not flaming, I just want to know what the reasoning is. Don't forget that magnetic recordings are basically ANALOG. The disk electronics convert the changing magnetic patterns into a bit stream that can be interpreted as sectors. And we get lulled into a false sense of security in the "infallibility" of our "digital" storage. A high-density disk has 18 sectors per track x 80 tracks. Double density has 9 sectors per track x 80 tracks. The HD disk uses a *higher recording rate*--more bits per track. To accept the higher recording rate, high-density disks are (supposed to be) manufactured with *different* media. That is, the properties of the magnetic coating are optimized for the higher recording rate. As an experiment, try formatting various *High-Density* floppies AS *Double-Density*--in other words, the other way around. Cover the media sensor to fool the computer. You'll find that this often doesn't work well either. To me, this is proof enough that the media are really different between different disks. Formatting a DD disk *as* an HD is like recording ultrasonic sounds on a regular cassette tape. It can be done, but you don't get a very good signal. (Don't confuse this with videotape techniques--they use helical-scan heads and the slower speeds merely pack in more tracks per inch. The recording rate per track is still the same.) You might find that a "good" disk formatted this way will give "Sector not found" or "Data errors" on another machine--the signals are just too weak. -moy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 03:26:18 GMT From: don.graves@acadiau.ca (Don Graves) Subject: formatting DD diskettes as HD Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL writes: >I read an article in Info-IBMPC regarding the use of DD 3.5" diskettes >as HD, i.e. formatting them for 1.4MB use. >My experience is that diskettes formatted this way have a short shelf >life. If you try to read them after a year, they probably will not >work. -David- Well, I have been using a few of these 'super-DDs' for about a year and a half, and I haven't had any problems with them - I'm using extremely cheap no-name disks at that. What did the article say about this? Don Graves Acadia University, Wolfville, N.S. Canada don.graves@dragon.acadiau.ca || 890491g@ace.acadiau.ca ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 22:16:39 EDT From: Etop Udoh Subject: High Density drives on XT High density drives can be used in an XT machine but the following requirements must be met, or should I say it must be possible to meet these requirements: 1. New Bios rom - those made in the last 5 years I think were supposed to be compatible with high density drives... 2. DOS 3.30 or above 3. 8 bit high density floppy controller card - these usually support up to 4 drives: 360k, 720k, 1.2M, and 1.44M....on the same controller in term of 4 drives at one time, each having 4 possible types.... Etop Udoh Eudoh@sct.edu : 1112 Hudson Rd. Southern College of Technology : Marietta, Ga 30060 Marietta, Georgia : ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 08:39:15 -0400 From: Glen Midkiff Subject: Sideways vs Allways (V92 #136) Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL (Info-IBMPC Digest): > > I have an '85 vintage program called Sideways which allows you to print I picked up a shareware package from a local BBS called ONSIDE which seems to do what the old Sideways product did. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 09:35:09 CDT From: Otto Tennant Subject: Kermit - What is it good for? Among other things, MSKERMIT has the best VT100, VT220, VT320 emulator available. (I haven't tried recent versions of ProComm, Telix, etc., but that was certainly the case when Kermit 3.00 was first released.) It's free. Of course, it only supports the Kermit file transfer protocol, but that's good enough for me. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 11:45:33 EDT From: David Kirschbaum Subject: Kermit - What is it good for? In Info-IBMPC #137: >Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 8:47:08 CDT >From: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) > Does anyone out there use MSKermit? What are the strong points of >that program? Does it compete with the main sharewhare comm programs >such as Procomm, Telix or Qmodem? I've been a faithful user of MSKermit ever since CP/M, and of course am running the latest/greatest from Columbia. Well, not *quite* the latest/greatest. I stopped at version 3.10 since I have no need for all that feelthy network stuff, and see no need in bogging down an executable with it. Over the years I've picked up other programs (like those you mentioned above, and more) to see where "State of the Art" is. And always chucked them, falling back to good old Kermit. Good Points: a. Excellent terminal emulation. b. Excellent interrupt-driven buffered comm drivers c. Has many of the functions I commonly need: Capture to file/device/whatever Keyboard macros Individual key replacement Aliasing ("rz" = "run \bin\dsz port 2 baud 2400 rz -r \download") "Pushing to DOS" Exec'ing external programs Using external comm protocols Common DOS commands at the Kermit command line (DIR, TYPE, CD, etc.) If you want any other commands, just add them! d. Leaves the comm port alone when it exits e. Powerful script language f. Easy setup of default parameters via one MSKERMIT.INI file g. Easy setup of any OTHER parameters I might want (via other .INI files I can "take.") h. Easy to write and use script files to log onto local BBS's, Internet hosts, go through TACs, etc. i. Common language applies to command-line commands, .INI files, script files, etc. (E.g., what works at the command line will work in a script.) j. For worst-case situations, can work through a 7-bit data path (like some archaic, brain-dead TACs). (This is virtually the *only* case where I actually use the kermit protocol to transfer files.) k. Nice command-line user interface: (1) Command completion ("ha" expands to "hang") (2) ? shows available options or help l. Relatively small and simple. (1) Simplest configuration only needs KERMIT.EXE (PKLITE'd to 83Kb). (2) No fancy install or configuration, subdirectories, etc. (3) Keep all your scripts in one subdir, your MSKERMIT.INI initialization file in one place, and that's it! Weak Points: (to some, anyway) a. No fancy user-friendly GUI screen b. Simplistic help. If you need more than a reminder, you'd better go dig out the manual. c. No mice. d. You must go and find your own external comm protocols (e.g., the latest and greatest), rather than be provided with what the authors decided you should have. As you might've guessed, I use MSKERMIT as a terminal interface and telecommunications shell, NOT as a file transfer agent. Although with sliding windows and large packets, it's not too shabby at moving data either. Still, there are better, more efficient protocols (like ZMODEM) for that. David Kirschbaum Toad Hall kirsch@sesi.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 11:59 EST From: MIGLIUOLO@NERUS.PFC.MIT.EDU Subject: Kermit - What is it good for? Glauber Ribeiro asks what Kermit is used for and how it compares with other porograms. Personally, I use Kermit as a communication package when I need to plot/print graphics directly from a mainframe. To my knowledge, it is the only shareware package capable of emulating Tektronics terminals, Procomm does not (as far as I know). The other thing you can find it useful for is for direct file transfer between PC's (or a Pc and a Mac, as I do); all you need is Kermit on both machines and a null modem cable and you are off at 9600 bauds. Simple and very cheap (in my case I have an older Mac that only reads 800K floppys, but you get the general idea). I guess the main strength of Kermit is that practically any computer in the world "speaks it". Stefano Migliuolo Research Laboratory of Electronics M.I.T. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:42:32 +0000 From: S.G.Callow@open.ac.uk Subject: Mac-in-DOS >However, when I tried to run the program (binhex4.bin) I >got a msg: "the application is busy or unavailabl >Can anybody tell me what I did wrong or there is no way to do that, >Mac-in-Dos is only good for text files? From reading through your message it doesnt sound as if you did anything wrong other than to try and execute a non-executable file. by Macintosh tradition Mac files stored with a .bin extension are highly likely to be stored in MacBinary format. This is a format that combines the Macintosh resource and data forks of a file into a single file that can be stored on non-Macintosh systems. Obtain a MacBinary converter from somewhere and try using this to convert the program back into its original executable form. Hope this helps Regards SG Callow (Simon Callow) Bitnet/NSFNET etc S.G.CALLOW@open.ac.uk Janet(UK) S.G.CALLOW@uk.ac.open ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 07:11:20 SAT From: Nabil Subject: Mouse Problem in TP 6.0 I do not have any problem in TP 6.0 with mouse Still I am not using any fix. You better ask this question to PASCAL-L list where you will find answers. Address PASCAl-l@YALEVM.BITNET Nabil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 13:33:17 -0500 From: "John Boyd;LAHDI;" Subject: Opinions on training? I recently received a flyer on some LAN related courses put on by Wave Technologies. The one in which I'm interested is a two-day affair. Unlike many of the flyers I've received over the years, this one is at a price *I* can afford out of my own pocket. My employer doesn't pay for this kind of thing. What I need from the group is some input on your impression of their courses, treatment of the material, your valuation of 'bang-for-the-buck', etc. Surely *someone* out there has dealt with, or knows something about these folks. Assistance appreciated!! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 20:11:01 GMT From: jem21176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon E. Meyer) Subject: Owners manual for PC-7000 by Sharp, an old portable(1980?) I just got this OLD computer and need the manual the PC-7000 by Sharp. Can you help? Write me at jem21176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 10:51:27 BST From: John Ewart Subject: PC speaker does anyone know where I can get a speaker driver for my AST Bravo PC? There are a number of Windows 3.x PC speaker drivers that will allow a PC to play .wav and other sound files - and I can get these to work fine on my VigIII at work. However, the AST is another story ... I've tried Martin Hepperle's excellent SoundTool software - and I can get that to work just fine on the AST. SoundTool uses Aaron Wallace's Dsound.DLL as a driver I think. Now, although SoundTool works fine on its own - I just cannot get a driver that will let me play .wav sounds to accompany various Windows actions (ie. entry and exit). As I said, this can be done on the VigIII. What is the problem? Is it because my AST is a 486? I this something unique to AST micros? I would be grateful for any advice offered. John Ewart jfe@uk.ac.hull.cs ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 20:00:19 EDT From: "Alexander D. Boster" Subject: PostScript --> Bitmap (?) Is there, anywhere "out there," a program to convert standard (NOT encapsulated) PostScript files to some (any) kind of bitmapped format, such as would allow it to be printed on a dot-matrix printer. Or, equivalently, is there a printer specific program that would directly allow .ps files to be printed on a dot-matrix. (mine is a KX-P1124.. which is fully compatible with Epson LQ-2500 & IBM Proprinter X24.) Thanks... Alexander D. Boster University Of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40526 USA ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 13:29:32 EDT From: Rob James Subject: Program to evaluate typing skills A friend in looking for a PD/Shareware product to evaluate typing samples and compare them to some "gold-standard" proof text. Suggestions would be appreciated. Rob James ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 21:53:55 EDT From: Etop Udoh Subject: Quad density drives on IBM PC I'm looking for information if any is available, on how to hook up and configure a 5'1/4" 80 track quad density 96 tpi drive on an IBM PC... Etop Udoh Eudoh@sct.edu : 1112 Hudson Rd. Southern College of Technology : Marietta, Ga 30060 Marietta, Georgia : ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 20:56:44 GMT From: apctrc!zjxv06@uunet.UU.NET (Jayaraman Veezhinathan) Subject: Requst for a Windows Image Display Utility Does anyone know of a utility to display a BMP image file under microsoft windows 3.x that requires little or no user interaction to open the file. This utility will be invoked from an expert system just to popup images. I have looked at packages such as Halo and PaintBrush under windows, but they seem to be an overkill for this need. They also have too much capability which I am afraid will confuse my users. Please respond to jveezhinathan@trc.amoco.com and if there is enough interest I will post the result back to the group. Thanks a lot, guys. Jay Veezhinathan ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 21:12:51-040 From: "LDC - Luis E. Mun~oz" Subject: Modem doesn't work Some time ago, I picked up an internal 2400-bps mode. The problem arose when I connected it in my machine. (A 286/12MHz clone). The modem doesn't work OK with the supplied multi I/O card (also, a clone). I've tried to setup the card to disable any of its ports, but even removing the chips from it and setting the jumpers, some test programs report 2 serial ports present. The program that came with the modem reports only a serial port (correct), but when you I put the modem in, it just doesn't work. If you remove the multi I/O card, the modem works fine (but I need at least a serial port). The modem is from a company called `insta-com' and is made in the United States. The model number is MB-2400. I've tried all the possible pin-settings, port numbers, IRQ settings, etc. and nothing seems to work. I would like if someone gives me a hand on this. Luis E. Mu\~noz R. | emsca!usb!lem@sun.com | ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #142 ********************************* ------- 24-Sep-92 19:02:16-MDT,24255;000000000000 Return-Path: Received: from ADM.BRL.MIL by WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL with TCP; Thu, 24 Sep 92 19:01:59 MDT Received: from ADM.BRL.MIL by ADM.brl.MIL id ab19284; 24 Sep 92 17:33 EDT Received: from adm.brl.mil by ADM.BRL.MIL id aa18872; 24 Sep 92 17:11 EDT Message-ID: <920916233156.V92N143@brl.mil> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 23:31:55 BST From: Info-IBMPC Digest Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #143 To: Info-IBMPC Distribution: ; Info-IBMPC Digest Wed, 16 Sep 92 Volume 92 : Issue 143 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: 82510 UART Programming AT&T Problems Connecting High Density Drives to an XT (V92 #129) DR. Dos SSTOR Use Tips (3 msgs) Floppy drive database Glare screen question Hercules MonoGraphics Software Hurricane plots in GIF format Installing High Density Drives in a PC-XT MPC - standard or hype? PCTools Commute problem Problems running diskless PC with Windows 3.1 Question regarding OS/2 Read Intel RMX floppy using MS DOS Seagate drive won't spin up Spreadsheet/financial application DR. Dos SSTOR tips Stacker & QEMM Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 15:05:45 EDT From: David Kirschbaum Subject: 82510 UART Programming I recently received the following request. Being totally ignorant of the 82510 UART (and not much smarter about 16550's, despite my tweaking the FIFO.ASM program), I didn't have an immediate solution for the fellow. >From: tan@skdad.usask.ca >To: kirsch%maxemail@uunet >I recently downloaded a copy of your FIFO.ASM/COM program, which >activates the UART 16550AFN's FIFO buffers. >I have the 82510 UART (and a Supra v.32bis modem) where I would like >to be able to activate the 82510 FIFO buffer. After reading the Intel >specs on the 82510, and looking around, I've found that there is >currently no software for the i82510. The i82510 is rated for up to >288 kbps (or so Intel claims), and I'd rather use my 82510 than buy a >serial card with the 16550AFN. The 82510 is soldered into my >motherboard. >Do you know of any 82510 support? Do you have a version of FIFO that >supports the 82510? Perhaps someone else out there has heard of some source that programs the 82510? Or a spare copy of the Intel specs on the 82510 they could mail me so I could maybe get a little smarter and take a hack at this? (A blind hack, since I don't have the UART either :-) Thanks in advance. David Kirschbaum Toad Hall kirsch@sesi.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:13:59 GMT From: rwojtowi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ryszard Wojtowicz) Subject: AT&T Problems I am looking for User's Manual AT&T 6386 WGS, and setup program for this computer AT&T 6386 WGS. Now, I have this unit with configuration ; 1024 Kbyte (RAM) 4 x 256 Simms.------ I would like upgrade my system to 4000 Kbyte (RAM). I have 4 x 1000 simms. I don't have the manual book so I don't know how to setup my memory board. If somebody have the same computer (AT&T 6386 WGS) with the user's manual book. I will appreaciate that. Ryszard Wojtowicz Ryszard Wojtowicz = 614 - 777-1210 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:51:31 GMT From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) Subject: Connecting High Density Drives to an XT (V92 #129) Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL writes: >Apparently somebody asked if a high density drive could be connected >to an XT (vol.92, #117). Yes. There is a company called BackPack (I >think) that produces HD floppies (5.25 and 3.5 inch) that connect to >any generation of computer through the parallel port while still >allowing the port to be used for printers etc. I have a 1.4M HD 3.5 >inch drive on my Atari XT clone and have absolutely no complaints. And >my printer works fine. In fact, several drives can be connected in >series to the same port and still allow the port to be used for other >purposes. I paid $40 for a card with an onboard BIOS. It supports 360k, 720k, 1.2Meg and 1.44Meg drives. I've had a 360k and a 1.44M drive in my XT for several years. These cards are *not* that hard to find. Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com FIDO: 1:105/51 Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org (The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 22:30:09 EDT From: Mark Flynn Subject: DR. Dos SSTOR Use Tips >From: Dan Yurman >This is a reply to several notes about DR.DOS 6.0. The use of the >Superstor (SSTOR) compressed disk partition requires some thought >before installing it. Assuming you have a 40 Mb hard disk, a workable >solution for some will be to do the following> (lots of precutionary device deleted) Gosh, I must have gotten really lucky! I just installed DR Dos 6.0 on a normal 40Meg Disk, backed up, and started SSTOR. I then converted the lot to compressed, reserving 1Meg or so uncompressed. Not a hitch so far running anything (WP, LaTeX, BC++, Windows, etc.) for many months. I've got almost 80Meg on the disk with some 4Meg free on the compressed partition. I've even used Norton Disk Optimizer and Disk Doctor (while crossing fingers) with no trouble. This is on a 286 cheapie clone. Like I said, lucky. Mark Flynn Liquid Crystal Institute Kent State University flynn@nematic.kent.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 00:26:43 GMT From: jamesh@netcom.com (James Hightower) Subject: DR.DOS SSTOR Use Tips Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL writes: >This is a reply to several notes about DR.DOS 6.0. The use of the >Superstor (SSTOR) compressed disk partition requires some thought >before installing it. Assuming you have a 40 Mb hard disk, a workable >solution for some will be to do the following> > [ Much goodies deleted ] >5.) Use the FDISK utility from your DR.DOS system/utilities disk to >make a DOS partition of 15 Mb as Drive C:\. This will be your >uncompressed disk drive. Then, use FDISK to make a logical disk >partition of the remaining 25 Mb as Drive D:\. This will eventually be >your compressed partition. If you really want to shave the margins of >things you can get away with an uncompressed DOS partition of as little >as 10 Mb. However, 15 Mb gives you swap space for DR.DOS temporary >files under Taskmax and general work space if you come up against >something that will not compute in a SSTOR partition. >6.) Format Drive C:\ and Drive D:\. Make Drive C:\ the boot drive. >Note that DR.DOS uses an extra parameter when formatting a hard drive. >Check the documentation for syntax. Do not put system files on Drive >D:\. Drive C:\ is your boot drive. > [Even more goodies deleted] >This approach has the following benefits. On an 80386 PC it preserves >your memory management in an uncompressed partition. If you compress >the entire disk, you will wind up with a loss of capabilities in this >area. If you somehow lose the SSTOR partition, you have not lost >access to the disk, nor has your access to the disk been compromised by >security features which will remain in place even if the partition goes >blooey! If for some reason you do this anyway, use the LOGIN command >to enter your master and user passwords to recover. WOW! So much work... And to think, all I did was compress my entire disk, and I still don't have any problems. You don't have to re-partition your disk to have a compressed and uncompressed partition. When you set up SSTOR, you have the option of spec'ing some amount of disk to remain uncompressed. When SSTOR compresses a disk, it actualy creates a hidden file on the disk, compresses your data, and places it in the hidden file. When you boot, the SSTOR driver creates a D:, and handles all reads and writes to and from D: by reading and writing to the compressed data in the hidden file. DEVSWAP.SYS is used to swap C: and D:, so that D: becomes your "normal" disk, and C: becomes the "compressed" disk. SO, if you ask SSTOR to create a hidden file LESS then the total available space on the disk, you will have that much space left on your "uncompressed" drive. (the default is to use the entire disk) If you have a 20mb drive, and you tell sstor to leave 5mb uncompressed, you will end up with a 30mb (compress) C: and a D: with 5mb free. Note that even if you use the ENTIRE disk for the hidden SSTOR file, you still boot from an uncompressed drive, and that drive remains available as D:. If you wish to install some security stuff, just boot to a floppy,(without the SSTOR driver) and proceed. James Hightower jamesh@netcom.COM ...Don't try this at home! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 23:37:05 SST From: KenHwee Tan Subject: DR. Dos SSTOR Use Tips On tips for SuperStor, I must agree that the best way to do it _is_ to have a separate logical partition. It works fine. NOW, the only problem I get is that Win3.1 (and sometimes even some DOS programs) get confused when they have to deal with AutoMount Floppy drives. I never found AutoMount drives useful _anyway_ so the best solution, if u experience similar problems (the floppies appear to stall for ages, lights ablaze, waiting for the cows to come home before finishing the copy, xcopy or whatever), put in /NOAUTO on the CONFIG.SYS line for the SSTOR.SYS. Things have worked like a charm since. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 0:08:22 EDT From: Etop Udoh Subject: Floppy drive database.... Is there such as thing as (like the harddrive database) a floppy drive database containing information on every or almost every floppy drive made, size, formatting capacity, etc.....????????? : Etop Udoh Eudoh@sct.edu : : 1112 Hudson Rd. Southern College of Technology : : Marietta, Ga 30060 Marietta, Georgia : ------------------------------ Date: 27 Aug 92 14:20:00 EDT From: "BLUE::MACPHERSON" Subject: Glare screen question Peter Crayne favors a particular brand of glare screen and disagrees with me about the superiority of mesh over the plastic screens. But he doesn't say why. What about it Peter? What specific performance deficiencies have you experienced with the mesh screens? And how old are you? It makes a difference because people don't begin to lose visual accomadation until their 40ies. Thus your choice may be based on other criteria, and the rest of us would like to know. It'll help us in determining our requirements. Doug Macpherson ARI ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:22:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Let's talk about it." Subject: Hercules MonoGraphics Software I am slowly migrating away from my Zenith 158 (8088, 2x360k FD) as more and more great programs refuse to run on it. My main limitation is the low disk drive capacity. The computer is in great condition but has little resale value. Upgrading would be foolish given prices on newer machines. I'd like to pass it to my 7-year old son. Where can I find educational and game software for this machine with its HERCULES monographics card and display? FTP is best, BBS is fine. Any suggestions? Please send direct to me. I'll summarize to the list. I'd also like to hear from other Zenith 158 users on _cheap_ upgrades they have successfully implemented. Duane Moser Moser@WCSU.CtStateU.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 13:46:45 GMT From: Michael Taranto Subject: Hurricane plots in GIF format Summary: Reposted by Keith Petersen The University of Illinois generates, every few hours, a radar summary weather map for the United States. The file is in .gif format and is ] multicolored. Satellite image files are also available. Access, ftp to vmd.cso.uiuc.edu Directory: wx This info is from the SURAnet Internet Resource Guide, available via ftp from ftp.sura.net in the pub/nic directory. Michael Taranto SURAnet NIC Services ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 10:31 EDT From: SchwartzM@dockmaster.ncsc.mil Subject: Installing High Density Drives in a PC-XT In INFO-IBMPC Vol 92 Number 138, there are a couple of rebuttals to my statements with respect to the ability to install a high density floppy drive in an XT chassis. I did state that if someone has come up with an adaptor of some sort it might be done. Apparently someone has, based on the replies referenced above. Therefore, I stand corrected. My statement that a 16 bit bus was required was based upon the fact that all of the controllers that I have seen were of the 16 bit variety, thus incompatible with the 8 bit bus of the XT as well as its BIOS code. If someone has designed a work around to preserve the investment in older hardware, well done! Never let it be said that I cannot be wrong. Marc Schwartz e-mail: SchwartzM at dockmaster.ncsc.mil voice: 612-473-3250 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 92 13:22:15 -0500 From: "John Boyd;LAHDI;" Subject: MPC - standard or hype? A friend is contemplating buying a CD-ROM drive for his 386. I know that there are at least two formats for CDs. What info do I need to pass on the him to assure that he will be buying and staying MPC compliant? What exactly does it *mean* to be "MPC compliant"? Thanx!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jul 92 16:26:24 -0500 From: "John Boyd;LAHDI" Subject: PCTools Commute problem First, let me say that I have used Commute for some time, and a friend and I *have* had it working before, using identical AT&T4024s. We've txfered files, run app's from both ends, chatted, the whole enchilida. Well, I changed modems; to a Microcom AX9624c, 9600bps, MNP5,etc. Now, when I try to do something like 'dir' to the 'other' PC, what I get is a result that still appears to be buffered in the modem, and painting to the screen in multiple 'chunks' which results in displays that are mispositioned, scrambled, or just flat blank. All the other functions (file txfer, chat) are OK. Executing some DOS utilities yeilded strange display results also. Well, first, there are two choices for this particular modem on the setup screen. One has the notation (C) after it, and the other (NC). While this is _not_ explained in TFM anywhere, I sort of surmised that it might mean w&w/o compression. For the second go 'round, I chose the NC setup. I also modified the C and the L values in the modem init string so that no buffering was being done in the modem supposedly; trying to turn off all the MNP stuff manually I thought. Well, after all that, it still paints the screen the same way, I still have the display dropouts, the RX light still strobes as if it's coming in in numerous small pieces, but the display at the end to which I'm actually talking gets it OK. What have I not addressed in either the modem or software setup, that will fix this?? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 10:19:20 -0400 From: Howard Weiss Subject: Problems running diskless PC with Windows 3.1 I have a 386 that I run ISC UNIX on. However, there are times when it would be nice to have the machine run as a pure DOS machine. I have built a floppy boot disk with enough network software (PC/TCP) to get the machine rolling and mount the network drives for use as if they were my local disks. DOS works just fine. However, when I run Windows 3.1, I get some very strange behavior. The major problem is that the machine tends to go catatonic whenever I close a window, or try to shut down Windows itself. The screen kind of scrolls upward and mouse movements leave "debris" across the screen. Rebooting is the only cure. I have turned off PC/TCP streams (I couldn't even get DOS to work correctly with streams turned on), but I have not found anything to cure the rest of the Windows problems. Could this be a swap problem? When I tried to set the swap device, Windows claims that I don't have a swap device and I could not set one through the control panel. I was able to go into system.ini and set up the correct swap file across the network, but the system still does not run robustly. Anyone have any miracle cures - or any ideas at all? Thanks, Howard Weiss hsw@columbia.sparta.com ------------------------------ Date: 27 Aug 1992 17:30:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Missing Keyboard - Press F1 to continue Subject: Question regarding OS/2 Does anyone know of an OS/2-specific forum where I can get some advice, support, and the feeling that someone else out there also bought the 2.0 upgrade? Any information would be appreciated. Thanks! --CW | // //-// | Christopher L. Wright, Student Consultant | | \\ // // | InterNet: wrightch@steffi.uncg.edu | | | wrightch@hamlet.uncg.edu | ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 16:36:40 -0700 From: John Hunt Subject: Read Intel RMX floppy using MS DOS We have data files on Intel RMX 5.25 inch floppies that we would like to read using MS DOS on a 386 clone. I checked Archie but did not have any luck. Any help would be appreciated. John Hunt Senior Research Engineer Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics Oregon Graduate Institute 19600 NW Von Neumann Dr. Beaverton, Or. 97006 (503) 690-1143 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 21:39:28 CDT From: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) Subject: Seagate drive won't spin up :)Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 09:04:10 GMT :)From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) :)Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL writes: :)>Sometimes my ST296N fails to spin up at power on. Seagate claims they :)>have never heard of this problem before, but I seem to recall net mail :)>awhile back that mentioned it. Is there a cure? Thanks. --Bill :)They have short memories. At one time Seagate was *infamous* for this. :)It seems that as the "dry lubricant" coating on the disk platters aged, :)it became sticky... So the head would stick and the motor didn't have :)the "oomph" to break it free. :)This was a problem around 5 years ago, it was only one formulation that :)did this. But it's why my XT only gets powered down to be serviced. :)Otherwise I have to bash one of the 40 meg drives... This will sound outrageous and dangerous, but it worked for me once. You will have to start the disk spinning (turn the computer on while open, and touch the drive shaft with a screwdriver or probably better something plastic). Then make a full backup of your disk. Then mount the disk upside down. This changes the position of the shaft a little bit. This may or may not solve the problem. You will almost certainly have to do a low-level format of the disk using the program that comes with it, then restore from your backup. The other reason for mounting the disk upside down is that the shaft is exposed, and it is easier to start it even with your fingers if you need to. I had this problem with a 40MB Seagate disk, did what i just described, and now i very rarely get the problem again. Note: this is nonstandard, and almost certainly disapproved by Seagate. But since the problem doesn't have a cure, you don't have much to lose... Glauber glauber@david.wheaton.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:03:12 -0500 From: "John Boyd;LAHDI;" Subject: Spreadsheet/financial application I havve been asked by a friend of mine to help put together a (possibly) spreadsheet/acctg application for some offices of a volunteer group that he works with. What it amounts to is that the original info could be input into a spreadsheet model easily enough; BUT he wants to hang onto that a screen display that 'looks like' a check, into which they would enter the necessary info to represent paying a check. Now, I know how much effort it would take to write this thing from scratch; so as an alternate, what I'm trying to do is to come up with a couple pieces of software that when working together, would give him what he wanted. At first I thought that it would be easy enough to get a product called 'Dave' to make the checkbook analogy and to handle the GUI, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. I have decided that once the spreadsheet portion was written, we'll compile it with Baler, to lock the formulas, etc, and it'll only do what it needs to do at the multiple user sites in order to produce the necessary output, that'll then be forwarded back to my friend @headquarters. That way they won't have to have, or even run a full-blown spreadsheet program. BUT, that doesn't give me the checkbook entry form analogy. The individual field offices really don't need a full-blown, or even mini-accounting package for this, and that's why I landed on the spreadsheet function in the first place. Also, I need to be able to 'get at' the data occasionally with either a database, or spreadsheet program, so going with something other than an accounting pkg, assures that the data will be in one of those two formats, instead of an accounting pkg's native (proprietary) format. Does anyone know of a pkg, or pkgs, either commercial or shareware that'll give us the functionality described? Thanx!! ------------------------------ Date: 31 Aug 92 10:45:00 EDT From: "YEE-TAK FUNG" Subject: Stacker & QEMM I have recently installed Stacker 2.0 to my 386-25 4MB system with QEMM 6.02 as memory manager. The basic memory is now down from 633K to 531K. I tried to optimize the system but failed to make OPTIMIZE work. According to the instruction from Stacker 2.0, we need to unSSWAP the C (boot drive) and E (stacked drive) before running OPTIMIZE and to reSSWAP back after running OPTIMIZE. The reason given is that OPTIMIZE will look into drive C for the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT which are now swapped to drive E. I tried yesterday the whole day but failed to make it work. Can any one tell me how I can optimize the system for more basic memory? Also I would like to know how to unstack a stacked drive. Tak Fung 202-767-1021 ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #143 ********************************* ------- 27-Sep-92 22:02:46-MDT,17965;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 27-Sep-92 21:12:04 Return-Path: Message-ID: <920916233326.V92N144@brl.mil> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 23:33:26 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@brl.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #144 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Wed, 16 Sep 92 Volume 92 : Issue 144 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: A 5.25" half height drive for 3.5" and 5.25" floppies ACE CACHE 486 Barcode Interfacing Formatting 720kbs to 1.44mb graphic card cache Hard Drive Failure(s) Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #137 LOOP-BACK PLUGS Matching Math Co-Processor Speed to CPU's Speed Pc Kermit Porting HP9000 Application to IBM PC Problems Caused By Stacker 2.0 Serial port data capture video adapter Statistical Data on Back-up Tape (Media) failures Wanted Voice Mail Cards For IBM PC Compatibles Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 08:59:16 EDT From: BRIAN HOBBS Subject: A 5.25" half height drive for 3.5" and 5.25" floppies Does anyone remember... I once saw an advertisment for a floppy disk drive that accomodated 3.5 inch and 5.25 inch disks in a half height bay. At the time I had no need for one, so I discarded the ad. I am now using a Compaq portable 3 which can physically acommodate one floppy and one hard disk. It seems that this would be a perfect solution for my mixed collection of 3.5 & 5.25 diskettes. Does any one have any recollection or - better yet experience with such a drive. Who makes em' and where can I get one (and how much $). Any info appreciated. Reply directly and I'll summarize to the net if I get info. -Bri .__+__. BHOBBS@luke.dnet.ge.com ------------------------------ Date: 24 Aug 92 16:59:00 EST From: "DRCV06::OPER1" Subject: ACE CACHE 486 I have an ACE CACHE 486 with a 486-25Mhz. I don't have the manual for this motherboard. It has a P/N (part number ?) of 486I-RX05-04. Does anyone know where I can get more info on this motherboard. Thanx, Glenn Andrews :-) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 20:42:04 EDT From: Etop Udoh Subject: Barcode Interfacing.... Barcode interfacing is possible with the IBM PC class of computers... Your options are usually the pen-like barcode wan/pen (your cheapest option) or the infra-red scanning gun (your most expensive option).... But either option requires the use of a Wedge which is the interface between the scanning pen or gun and the computer which decodes what the pen or gun read into something which the computer can understand..... As far as other options, you can either scan the barcode into the serial port or directly into the keyboard buffer, with the latter being more standard as far as I know..... Symbol is one brand of scanning guns which I remember off the top of my head, and I assume that there are others.... Basically, you need the scanning hardware (pen/gun) and the interface to the computer (wedge) as far as a complete scanning system. Also, there are interfaces for Terminals, and Apple Macintoshes.... pen system ......$400 average depending on type, sometimes a lot less gun system ......$1000+ also, depending on the type, rarely less.... : Etop Udoh Eudoh@sct.edu : : 1112 Hudson Rd. Southern College of Technology : : Marietta, Ga 30060 Marietta, Georgia : ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 16:27:25 -1100 From: Hamish Moffatt Subject: Formatting 720kbs to 1.44mb Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL writes: >This reminds me of C. Hochstatter's FDFORMAT: diskettes with >unconventional format (i.e., 360K floppy formatted to 820K) could not >be used in MSDOS5.0 in systems that have note successfully loaded >FDREAD.EXE. This is not necessarily true. I started using FDFORMAT probably while I ran MS-DOS 3.3. Since then, I've used 4.0 and 5.0, and I've never had to use FDREAD. From memory, I've only ever formatted 360Ks to 820K, and never any of its other great options, however. Hamish Moffatt hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au = hamish@cloud.pub.uu.oz.au ======================== hmoffatt@nyx.cs.du.edu = Hamish Moffatt | Cloud is a member of APANA | _--_|\ Cloud. Moffsoft Software | The Australian Public Access | / \ pub.uu Cloud Nine BBS | Network Association. | \_.--._/ .oz.au Melbourne, Australia | Fidonet 3:635/552@fidonet | v ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 09:51:49 From: I5BIT016%UTFSM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu Subject: graphic card cache hi! i am using a vga card with 512 kb.. Does someone know how to install a graphic cache? i have 2 mb of extended memory, so i want to use them to acelerate my graphic card (let my computer free in shorter time) regards..... Francisco Fernandez M ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 11:10:56 CST From: Rob Subject: Hard Drive Failure(s) I have two old Seagate drives on my system: a 4038 and a 4051. Last night the 4038 died - it's getting power, but the motor won't spin. I disconnected it and reconfigured the 4051 as my C drive. I attempted to boot from floppy since I didn't have the system files on the drive. It produced the following error: Fixed Disk 0 Failure - Press Enter to Continue or PF2 to Setup. I'm sure I did everything right - I changed the cables, installed the terminating resistor, checked the drive select jumper, corrected my CMOS settings. Am I forgetting anything, or was this drive also damaged in some way and not recoverable? Thanks in advance! Rob Caton C08926RC@WUVMD ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 15:44:22 -0400 From: Pat O'Neil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #137 |> Hail fellow Pcdiggers: |> |> Does anyone out there use MSKermit? What are the strong points of |> that program? Does it compete with the main sharewhare comm programs |> such as Procomm, Telix or Qmodem? |> |> Glauber I use kermit quite a bit. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles that, say, Procomm does, but it has all the basics I need and has the advantage of being able to transfer files with 1000-byte blocks. The versions of Procomm that I've seen are limited to 80 or 90 bytes. The kermit terminal emulators are adequate. The Procomm dialling directory is not very usable in my environment. My dial-out modems are on a LAN and I access them through a terminal server. Procom wants you to be directly connected to the modem. Pat O'Neil Hughes Network Systems. ------------------------------ Date: 25 Aug 92 13:24:00 EST From: "DRCV06::OPER1" Subject: LOOP-BACK PLUGS I want to make a parallel port loopback plug. I have made serial loopback plugs but I don't know how to make a parallel one. The loopback plugs are useful with a diagnostic program I have. But I don't have the docs to make a parallel port plug. Here are the pins for a 25 & 9 pin loopback plug. 25-pin 9-pin 1-7 1-8-7 2-3 2-3 6-20 4-6 11-22 15-17-25 Glenn. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 09:57:38 PDT From: "David Lowe, UCLA GSLIS" Subject: Matching Math Co-Processor Speed to CPU's Speed Hi, folks: Someone just gave an Intel 80387DX 20MHz math co-processor as a gift. I have a 25MHz 80386DX computer. Can I take advantage of this math co- processor even though the speed of co-processor and CPU do not match? Thanks David Lowe UCLA Graduate School of Library dlowe@gslis.ucla.edu (Internet) and Information Science ecz5dzl@uclamvs (Bitnet) 405 Hilgard Avenue, 213 GSLIS Bldg. (310) 206-9288 Los Angeles, Calfornia 90024-1520 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 20:30:14 EDT From: Etop Udoh Subject: Pc Kermit hi, Kermit was originally written to bridge the gap between different PC's, as in microcomputers, and especially the mainframe gap. From my experience with it, the protocol is a little slow compared to others but there are times when nothing else will work but kermit...... I have used it for years and written a handful of scripts for it to make it more automatic as opposed to manual.....it is not recommended for the beginner. : Etop Udoh Eudoh@sct.edu : : 1112 Hudson Rd. Southern College of Technology : : Marietta, Ga 30060 Marietta, Georgia : ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 19:05 U From: ASTSLOKE%NTIVAX.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Subject: Porting HP9000 Application to IBM PC I have a friend who would like to port an application over from an Hewlett Packard 9000 series desktop computer to an IBM PC compatible. The current HP 9000 setup is: Series: HP 9000 - 236 Model: 9836C Desktop CPU: 6800 Peripherals: 2 x Double Density Disk Drives 1 x Thinkjet (HPIB) Source: Majority of code is in Interpreted HP BASIC while some code is in HP PASCAL Apparently, he has read of a company called TRANSERA, which sells a HP BASIC interpreter which runs on an IBM PC. He found an insert card in BYTE magazine and sent it off to the company as well as a fax (this was several months ago) but got no reply. He would like to know: 1. If there are any other solutions from either HP or some other party to allow this porting to the IBM PC platform. (Bascially he wants to avoid recoding the entire application.) 2. If anyone has a person to contact in TRANSERA as well as his/her fax number. 3. If anyone has any experience in using TRANSERA products and what are their opinions of the product. Please email to me directly and I will summarise to the list. Thanks. T.S. Loke Nanyang Technological University Singapore Bitnet: astsloke@ntuvax.bitnet Internet: astsloke@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 10:15 BST From: Gan Kok Ann Subject: Problems Caused By Stacker 2.0 I installed Stacker 2.0 on my 386SX computer recently. It really doubled my hard disk space. However, after noticing the good news, the bad news started to irritate me. One downfall for Stacker 2.0 is that it causes Norton Disk Doctor unable to diagnose the hard disk. On the other hand, virus scan programs also can't work well. Is there any way as to how I can overcome these problems? They may look minor but in fact they are not. This is because I can no longer diagnose and scan my hard disk for bad sectors and viruses. In short, my computer is totally vulnerable to the potential virus infection. If this is the point, the I don't see people should purchase file decompression programs like Stacker and Superstore (I suspect Superstore possesses the same problems even though I don't use it). Can any one kindly enlighten or share his/her view with me? Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: 26 Aug 92 23:41:00 EST From: ERIC BAZERGHI Subject: Serial port data capture Hi Netters! Here is my problem: I'm looking for a program which can be run on a 286, that will install itself into memory and store (capture) to a file, all input and output from the serial port. I need to do this in order to find out how 2 programs are "talking" to each other across a serial link. I have found one program which does this (IOMON2.ZIP), but it will only run on a 386 or higher... Other programs need a third computer which sits between the 2 others. Needless to say, I don't have those resources! Anyone have any ideas? Eric R. Bazerghi Desc. Sciences/MIS Student George Mason University 4400 University Drive Fairfax, VA 22030 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 23 Aug 92 23:55:54 EDT From: Tom Toffoli Subject: video adapter eudoh@st6000.sct.edu Thu, 6 Aug 92 23:45:00 EDT wrote: > does anyone know how to convert a composite video adapter to an IBM >9 pin ???? need the required schematics ???? I assume by IBM 9-pin you mean IBM-CGA format, with binary RGB and an additional binary Intensity signal (let's call that IRGB). Converting from RGB to composite video is relatively easy (Motorola supplies an analog chip for the purpose, and Brooktree a much more complicated and more professional digital chip). Going the other way around, which is what is done within a color TV, is much harder. You need sync decoding, luminance and chrominance extraction, matrix mixing of luminance and chrominance, and rudimentary A-to-D conversion to get an IRGB output. If you want to watch TV on a CGA monitor, it's not going to work anyway because CGA has only 16 colors (8 saturated and 8 washed out). Tom Toffoli ------------------------------ Date: 24 Aug 1992 22:30:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bruce Hawkins" Subject: Statistical Data on Back-up Tape (Media) failures Wanted I just went to get some data off a backup tape (3M DC2120) on a Colorado Memory Systems 120 MB (250 Mb compressed) drive and got a "seek failure" error. Upon looking at the tape, the end had pulled off the spool (at least, I can't think of any OTHER reason why no tape should be visible where tape is usually visible). And it obviously won't mount. Needless to say, this is a little scary. Fortunately, I am a belt AND suspenders person, and I keep at least two backups of most files. But depending on how often this happens, I am wondering if two is ENOUGH! This is one of eight tapes, and at least one of the eight has been read or written or both each week since the beginning of March. This particular tape has been mounted perhaps ten times. If this happens every 30 or 40 mounts, then I am pretty disturbed. If I am just unlucky, and it happens much less often, well, OK, I haven't lost anything this time around. What is the experience of you guys out there? Those of you who have NOT had tape failures as well as those who have. Reply directly to me and I will summarize to the net. bhawkins@smith.smith.edu 3M will probably replace the tape (why do they insist on proof of purchase: do they think I stole it?) but I hardly care about that. $20 is trivial compared to loss of data. Bruce My employer doesn't have opinions, but expects me to have lots. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 00:26:30 -0400 From: rubin@ganymede.cis.ohio-state.edu (Daniel Rubin) Subject: Voice Mail Cards For IBM PC Compatibles Anyways, I am looking for information on PC compatible Voice Mail cards, thier specifications and any experienves anyone has had using them. I have heard of ATEL 9624 VOICE COM and BigMouth, but that is all. I do also have a couple of general questions about Voice Mail and PC compatibles for that matter... Excuse the ignorance... 1 - How big of a disk drive is necessary to operate a Voice Mail service. I know it depends on how large the service is, of course, but say how many Mbytes per mail box is necessary on the average? 2 - If several Voice Mail cards were put in a single 386 etc. each operating a single phone line and reading from the same hard drive can they be made to work simultaneously? Again excuse the ignorance here I am new to the IBM compatible side of the tracks... 3 - Can Voice Mail cards work of off multiple hard drives. I would want to be able to expand my capacity by adding addition Voice Mail cards to the computer, additional phone lines and additional hard drives up to a certain point after which I will get a second machine and network them somehow. In other words can all the cards plugged into the machine have access to all the hard drives connected to the machine and work in unison. 4 - Would a 33 MHz 386 be enough power to run 4 Voice Mail cards or would I need a faster machine. Of course, this is assuming I can run 4 Voice Mail cards on a single machine... I greatly appreciate any information I receive and will summarize the results if there is anyone interested... Daniel Joseph Rubin rubin@cis.ohio-state.edu GO GO BENGALS BUCKEYES ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #144 ********************************* ------- 27-Sep-92 22:02:54-MDT,14190;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 27-Sep-92 21:12:06 Return-Path: Message-ID: <920916233326.V92N1445brl.mil> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 23:33:26 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@brl.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #145 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Wed, 16 Sep 92 Volume 92 : Issue 145 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for September 1992 Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 1992 22:50:13 EST From: Murph Sewall Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for September 1992 VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the September 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 18027 East Hartford, CT 06118 Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation These are rumors folks; we reserve the right to be dead wrong! Coming to a Mass Merchandiser Near You. September 14 is the expected date for Apple's new line of consumer computers (see last February and March's columns) under the brand name Performa. The Performa 200 and 400 are the Mac Classic II and LC II by other names. The Performa 600 (and 600 CD) is a new three-slot model that also will be added to the Macintosh line in October (see below). The three NuBus slot Performa 600 will have a 32 MHz 68030 CPU without a math coprocessor or CPU cache. The 600 CD will have an internal CD-ROM drive along with a 3.5 inch floppy drive, 4 MBytes of RAM, and an 80 MByte hard disk. The Performa models will ship with Apple's new, simplified At Ease user interface (previously known as Tiny Toons, see last April's column) on top of System 7 and other bundled software. While some speculate that the Performas will ship with ClarisWorks, Apple has cut a deal to bundle BeagleWorks with Classic II and LC II models. That package, which already is available at Philadelphia's Silo stores, could be the test case for the Performas. Pricing has not been set, but insiders say that the Performa 400 will be such a bargain that prototypes of the Color Classic (see February's and May's columns) have been withdrawn from developers (there simply isn't enough profit potential for it) - MacWeek 3 and 10 August plus a note in my electronic mailbox Hardware by Claris? Apple's software subsidiary, Claris, has completed a study indicating that a mail order line of Macintosh models built by overseas contractors with a Claris brand name can be successfully marketed without undue negative impact on the Macintosh brand line. Apple hasn't decided whether to endorse this proposal or one of several other avenues for legitimizing mail order Macs. - MacWeek 17 August IBM's Value Line Intro. If you don't buy a Performa on the 14th, you may still be in the market when IBM introduces it's low-end, AT-bus Value Line on the September 22. Big Blue's economy computers will be sold by phone. The line features a 25 MHz 386SLC model with a 60 MByte hard drive and color VGA for less than $1,200. - InfoWorld 3 August Apple Price Cuts Planned. The PC clone price wars have not gone unnoticed at Apple which plans to remain competitive as an upgrade path for 286 and 386SX owners. Apple will soon announce price cuts of fifteen to twenty percent on most models with reductions up to thirty percent for some Quadra configurations. - MacWeek 17 August October Macintosh Introductions. October 19 is the date for the announcement of two new desktop Macintoshes and four new PowerBooks. The desktop units, currently referred to as the IIxi and IIxv (codename "Brazil"), share their form factor and motherboard with the Performa 600. The low-end IIxi will have a 16 MHz 68030 without math coprocessor or CPU cache, but it will be upgradeable to the IIxv which will have a 32 MHz 68030 with matching math coprocessor and a 32K CPU cache. Some have noted that "IIxi" and "IIxv" lack pizazz, and those names may change before October. The new Powebook 160 and 180 are upgrades of the current 145 and 170 models with no change in price. The big differences will be the 16 grayscale displays and integrated video out. The PowerBook 180 will also clock at 33 MHz and be approximately fifty percent faster than the PowerBook 170. The two new lightweight PowerBook Duo's (the 25 MHz 210 and 33 MHz 230) will be dockable designs with 16 grayscale supertwist displays. Both will have math coprocessors and support up to 24 MBytes of RAM. The Duo Dock contains the floppy drive, two NuBus slots, video out, and a second hard drive. The MiniDock has no floppy or extra hard drive, but does provide video out and a SCSI connector. Apple also plans to introduce a 24-bit, 300 dpi color scanner bundled with a color version of Light Source's Ofoto, a new 13 inch display priced around $600 that also will be VGA compatible, and Apple's first color printer based on Canon's BJC-820 Bubble Jet engine - MacWeek 10 August Faster, Less Expensive CD ROM Drives. NEC, Sony, Texel, and Philips are all planning to ship a new generation of faster CD ROM products by year's end. The data transfer rate of 300K bits per second is nearly double that of existing drives and the average access time of less than 300 milliseconds is about two-thirds the performance of existing devices. The data transfer rate is sufficient to support full-motion video, and the new drives are seen as capable of making desktop multimedia a widespread reality. Apple is expected to be the most aggressive supplier of the new drives and the main reason why sales volume is expected to be great enough to make them affordable. Apple plans to market an external model for about $300 as well as offer internal models in the Performa line. - InfoWorld 17 August More Reliable, Less Expensive Hard Drives. Manufacturers are already receiving the new Quantum ProDrive ELS series of SCSI and AT-bus drives with capacities of 42, 85, 127, and 170 MBytes. The new drives have a mean time between failures rating of 250,000 hours and are expected to be priced five to ten percent less than the models they replace. - MacWeek 27 July PowerPC Upgrades for Older Mac IIs. Apple is negotiating to license the PowerPC processor, System 7 microkernel, and Mac compatibility module to third party developers to make RISC boards for NuBus slots on existing Macintoshes. The upgrade products, expected to sell for approximately half the price of a new PowerPC, will deliver 50 to 100 MIPS depending on which CPU model is installed. - InfoWorld 3 August Intel's Hottest New CPU. As many as 35 manufacturers may begin offering computers based on the new Intel i486DX2/66 by the end of the month. The new CPU operates internally at 66 MHz but communicates with the system bus at 33 MHz. Performance improvements of six to thirty percent over a 50 MHz i486 system is expected on older 33 MHz systems designed to accept the new clock doubling processor. However, the DX2/66 runs about one-third hotter than the 50 MHz i486 and may need additional cooling. The manufacturer's price for the DX2/66 will be about $650. - PC Week 4 August and InfoWorld 10 August P5 Delayed. Intel has decided to delay official introduction of its next generation P5 CPU (also referred to as the 586 chip) until the first quarter of 1993. The delay is said to be based on the a desire to wait until volume shipments are ready to begin. Analysts say that a premature announcement of the new processor could hurt the current strong sales of the company's i486 line. - InfoWorld 27 July Newton Delayed. Apple's top three executives recently told a group of financial analysts that the Newton PDA introduction, originally expected right after the new year will be delayed until mid-1993. - MacWeek 17 August Eighty CPU, 10 Gigabyte RAM Workstation. Sun Microsystems' Dragon project, which is rumored to be a 20 processor system is even more impressive. Sun is developing a massively parallel workstation with four boards of 20 SPARC processors each. Those CPUs might be hyperSPARCS rather than superSPARCS. The motherboard will be based on the new Xbus developed by Sun and Xerox. There could be as much as 10 Gigabytes of RAM using Sun's new 64 Mbyte SIMMS. - found in my electronic mailbox One Pass Color Scanner. Sharp Electronics will introduce its model JX-610 one-pass color flatbed scanner in the fourth quarter. The 600 dpi, increased to 1,200 dpi by software interpolation, 24-bit color scanner uses a proprietary CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) array. - MacWeek 17 August Some Current Windows Apps Are Not NT Compatible. Synchronous communications, fax board, and scanner software along with other Windows and DOS applications which write directly to hardware will need new device drivers to work with Windows NT. Microsoft plans to offer drivers for most well-known products and also help other vendors write and debug drivers. Microsoft expects most DOS and Windows applications will be able to run under NT either directly or with new drivers. - InfoWorld 3 August Are You Ready for OS/2? By the end of the year, IBM will bundle OS/2 with all PS/2's and some PS/1's. IBM will also increase the standard memory and hard drive capacity for those systems to 8 MBytes of RAM and 80 MBytes of disk. Meanwhile, code which will permit Windows 3.1 applications to run under OS/2 2.0 recently entered beta testing. - InfoWorld 3 and 17 August New Virus Detection Technology Rejected. As reported last month, Microsoft plans to bundle Central Point's antiviral technology with the next major revision of MS-DOS. Recently, Microsoft is said to have spurned a researcher's offer of what is claimed to be an new, elegant solution to boot sector viruses, such as the much publicized Michelangelo virus. - found in my electronic mailbox Visual Basic for DOS. Microsoft has confirmed that a DOS version of its popular Visual Basic programming product is in beta test and may ship before the end of the year. MIcrosoft executive vice president Mike Maples indicated the program uses the Windows "event driven model" and described it as an "upgrade" of his company's current Quick Basic. - InfoWorld 27 July Apple II - Still Improving. At the Apple II Developers Conference (also known as KansasFest), Apple's Tim Swihart stated that "the hottest selling Apple II" is the IIe card for the Mac LC II. However, he also confirmed that System 6.0.1 for the IIgs (yes, it's still in production) will be released at the same time as the Apple II Ethernet Card. That card is nearing the beta testing stage, and if no major problems are found, should be released before Christmas. In addition to fixing some bugs, System 6.0.1 will contain an MS-DOS FST for the IIgs SuperDrive or Applied Engineering's Transdrive. The initial release of this new FST written by Greg Branche will be "read only,' but read and write is planned for a future release. Apple II developer, Procyon, was showing off Switch It, a cooperative multi-tasking program akin to the old Mac program, Switcher. - reported by Joe Kohn Beyond QuickTime and Kaleida. Apple and at least one Japanese consumer electronics giant are already at work on a next generation multimedia standard under the codename Galaxy. Look for it in a forthcoming major operating system revision. - found in my electronic mailbox Mac LC II with Two Slots Sonnet Technologies Inc. will soon ship an adaptor that allows two expansion cards to be used in the Mac LC and LC II. The $549 Twin Slot LC includes a new high-capacity power supply and a raised top to accommodate the additional card. It is compatible with DayStar Digital Inc.'s Power Cache card; Farallon Computing Inc.'s Ethernet card; and video cards from E-Machines Inc., Lapis Technologies Corp., Radius Inc. and SuperMac Technology as well as Apple's //e card. - MacWeek 3 August Electronic Shopping. Apple and Bellcore, the research arm of the regional telephone companies, are cooperating on a billing scheme that will enable online ordering, billing, and distribution of software from the comfort of your own home. - MacWeek 10 August PageMaker 5? Industry analysts suspect that recent layoffs of 11 percent of its U.S. workforce by Aldus Corporation has slowed development of new company products. With Quark shipping a version of QuarkXPress for Windows, a significant delay in shipping the new version of PageMaker, which will begin beta testing soon, could threaten Aldus's 69 percent desktop publishing market share, which has already diminished to 54 percent of the Macintosh market. - InfoWorld 17 August Enterprise Toolbox. Apple plans to replace the Macintosh's current Communications Toolbox by integrating software currently known as the Enterprise Toolbox into System 7 next year. The new toolbox will be part a set of system extensions supporting the Open Collaboration Environment (see the March and June columns) which is due in early 1993. - MacWeek 27 July ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #145 ********************************* ------- 27-Sep-92 22:32:32-MDT,26324;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 27-Sep-92 20:58:29 Return-Path: Message-ID: <920926085231.V92N146@brl.mil> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 08:52:31 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@brl.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #146 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Sat, 26 Sep 92 Volume 92 : Issue 146 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: Benchmarks (3 msgs) communication Connecting a SUN to an IBM Token Ring Net Determining graphics type within BASIC Directory depth DR DOS 6 and disk compressor answers embroidery programs anyone? FYI: Subscribing to files Hard drive errors How to configure DR DOS 6 for use with Windows 3.1 Looking for a TCP/IP driver for the PC under DOS moved my ibmdos.com .... On-line form filling program Request info on 387sx by ULSI Systems (sold by CompUSA) screen saver Spreadsheet/financial application Upgrading a 286 AT Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 09:52:22 CST From: CACHO%ITESO.BITNET@pucc.princeton.edu Subject: Benchmarks > 22758 Dhrystones, 8082 Whetstones > (presumably per second?, I know very little about this stuff) Can someone tell me where can I find software to get this numbers from our computers? -- Hector Gonzalez, Iteso University. Guadalajara, Mexico. Cacho@iteso Cacho@itesocci.gdl.iteso.mx ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 16:46:12 PDT From: Dave Gomberg Subject: Benchmarks Hector, I don't think those Whetstone and Dhrystone numbers are any good because no one seems to know what they mean. Or if they are high or low. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 22:44:00 EDT From: Michael Wexler Subject: Re: Benchmarks One can tell that you folks have not worked with Micros for a long long time... The whet and Drhy stone marks are old benchmarks that BYTE made popular. THey are modifications of prime number generation, in that they measure the amount of time it takes a system to calc these numbers, with a specific program. The Code can be found in the C language subdir of Simtel/wuarchive/etc., and you can compile them yourself and test your machines. However, I don't think they are used for much anymore. A better test of a micro is the PC Benchmark 6.0 also on wuarchive etc. If you want to compare micro to work station or other sytem, then you might want to compile the code on both systems, and compare numbers... Hope that helps... Good luck... Michael Wexler@unc.bitnet (Actually, I have not worked with these, but I remember them from my old Creative Computing days...) ------------------------------ Date: 03 Sep 1992 14:58:08 +1200 From: "Kapeni.Matatia. USP Computer Centre. FIJI" Subject: communication Hello Everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows an easy way of controlling RTS in a communication port RS232C in a PC or a Terminal. My problem is I have a Radio Modem(UDS Motorola DM96) The modem is half-duplex. I want to use this point-to- point instead of a 4 wire phone line and normal modems. The RTS needs to be turned on and off in a controlled way.i.e everytime there is something to transmit ,DTE's RTS will go into a "space" condition , radio modem sends a 10ms predata signal to the other modem, after the 10ms period the modem sends CTS to DTE and the transmission begins.RTS goes into a "mark" state at the end of the transmission or the modems TX will be on continuosly. For the other side once the modem receives the 10ms predata DCD is turned on which alerts the DTE that valid data is coming. The problem with most DTE we have are that once its turned on and initialisation is complete RTS will be in "ON" condition continuosly. If anyone out there knows of a software or an easy way to tackle my problem I will be glad to know. Looking forward to it. ------------------------------ Date: 2 Sep 92 21:39:29 EDT (Wed) From: Mike Gardiner Subject: Connecting a SUN to an IBM Token Ring Net Does anyone know any neat tricks for the following situation: I am in the position of installing a SUN SPARCstation on a Token Ring full of IBM PS/2 systems. Something that would be useful would be a way for the PC to background re-route print requests from the SUN running TCP/IP through to NetBIOS addressed printers. If someone knows of a way to make the SUN do NetBIOS directly, that would help even more. Suggestions appreciated. AdTHANKSvance ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 12:14:32 PDT From: Dan Kelo Subject: Determining graphics type within BASIC One of our professors is doing some BASIC programming using the IBM BASIC Compiler v1.0 by Microsoft. Is it possible within BASIC to determine the type of graphics card installed in a machine (CGA/EGA/VGA)??? If so, how this is accomplished? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Dan Kelo Pepperdine University - Academic Computing dkelo@pepvax.pepperdine.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 00:54:41 -0400 From: jguo@cs.NYU.EDU (Jun Guo) Subject: Directory depth Hi, Is there any limit on the depth of directories in DOS? If yes, is there any reasonable explaination? On my harddisk I can only create directories to level 18 (root as 0). I am using MS-DOS 5. And I can go deeper than that on a net disk running Novell. Thanks. Jun ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 18:14:02 GMT From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz) Subject: DR DOS 6 and disk compressor answers Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL writes: ]Is your drive one of the Seagate RLLs? Norton says SS sped up my drive ]30%. Why? The 16mH 386SX chip can decompress far faster than the data ]comes off the disk, and there's only half as much to come off the disk. ]My Spinrite manual told me something else -- my Western Digital RLL ]controller card was dumbed down to run DOS 2, which also slows it down ]30%. Pulling the appropriate jumper (2*3 array) also speeds it up 30%. ]But DR DOS doesn't recognize the drive with jumper pulled. (It did ]once, just long enough for Norton to show a 50% improvement, but I ]couldn't replicate it.) So the bottom line is the same as the top - ]30% improvement and a 55mB capacity 30mB disk. This information is being forwarded to Engineering... ]About TASKMAX: I'm running the SX with Phoenix Bios, on a Chincony ]board, and with an OAK VGA/EGA card. Different programs output EGA or ]VGA. Something in this mess confuses TASKMAX and it crashes hard. The ]DR DOS manual says: ] try the special VGA driver -- no joy -- You might try talking to "drdos@novell.com" about this. I don't recognize anything strange about this, but Steve would have a better handle on this. ](Almost) undocumented feature: DR DOS saves erased files by changing ]the names to numbers and hiding them. Unfortunately it can forget to ]hide them, whereupon you may find strange files appearing in you ]directories. One professional developer took DR DOS off for this ]reason. Q:Were you looking at the files with the _normal_ OS directory utilities? Or were you looking at them with hybrids (I tend to use an ls because I'm more of a Un*x hack) and so I'll see those files. In either case, please document the problem and send it to "drdos@novell.com". ]Bottom line: DR DOS is a very good value, but it's going to take time ]to check out on your configuration. It come with a 3 month return ]policy, but ineffective support. On the other hand, in my sample of ]three users I'm the only one to continue. Where can we improve it? What don't you like? I know a bunch of TechSup supervisors who would be very interested in how we (TechSup) are perceived. John "Frotz" Fa'atuai frotz@novell.com (email@domain) Desktop Systems uunet!novell.com!frotz (bang address) Group/Novell NOVELL:FROTZ or FROTZ@NOVELL (MHS address) c/o TS Dept. 408/645-2067 (vmail) 80 Garden Court 408/649-8209 (fax) Monterey, CA 93940 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 14:11 MET From: Anneke Sicherer-Roetman Subject: embroidery programs anyone? Is anyone out there aware of any embroidery CAD programs, especially for cross stich work? Any information is highly appreciated. I am looking for something that is reasonably priced ($300 max) or shareware or public domain. Thanks for any info, greetings from Holland, Anneke ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 09:03:12 EDT From: Turgut Kalfaoglu Subject: FYI: Subscribing to files It is now possible to subscribe to any file provided by trickle servers. These include the MSDOS,MISC,CPM,UNIX and MACINTOS directories from SIMTEL-20, OS2 directory of hobbes.nmsu.edu, and now AMIGA directory of nic.funet.fi site. You basically subscribe to patterns, and whenever a new file is placed on the ftp site, the server will deliver you a copy - before you even ask for it, and usually before you read the announcement about it. The commands must be sent to the closest TRICKLE server to you. Here is a list from the documentation: The Server Sites (listed in connection order:) Location EARN/BITNET Internet -------------- ---------------- ---------------------------------- In Turkey: TRICKLE@TREARN TRICKLE@EGE.EDU.TR In Denmark: TRICKLE@DKTC11 In Italy: TRICKLE@IMIPOLI In Belgium: TRICKLE@BANUFS11 TRICKLE@UFSIA.AC.BE In Austria: TRICKLE@AWIWUW11 In Germany: TRICKLE@DS0RUS1I TRICKLE@RUSVM1.RUS.UNI-STUTTGART.DE In Israel: TRICKLE@TAUNIVM TRICKLE@VM.TAU.AC.IL In Netherlands: TRICKLE@HEARN TRICKLE@HEARN.NIC.SURFNET.NL In France: TRICKLE@FRMOP11 TRICKLE@FRMOP11.CNUSC.FR In Chile: TRICKLE@USACHVM1 In Colombia: TRICKLE@UNALCOL TRICKLE@UNALCOL.UNAL.EDU.CO In Taiwan: TRICKLE@TWNMOE10 TRICKLE@TWNMOE10.EDU.TW /SUB pattern Allows you to subscribe to a particular set of files on the server. See chapter on "Subscribing to Files" for more info. /UNSUB pattern Terminates a file subscription. (...) Subscribing to Files: This new feature allows you to subscribe to a 'pattern' on the server, and whenever new files that match that pattern arrive to the server, a /PDGET command will be automatically entered for you, for those files. Basically, you tell the server the directory, the subdirectory and a 'keyword' - the first few characters of a filename. If a few files match your request, your entry is recorded, and from there on, if that pattern shows up in the 'New Files Listing' mail of the server, the command /PDGET for that file will be entered for you. LIMITATIONS: ..You are still bound by your daily quotas and server quotas. The server simply 'simulates' that you are sending /PDGET commands to it. So, if you have too many subscriptions, you MAY get 'you issued too many commands today' error, or 'the server's outstanding bytes count is too high, cannot order another file from SIMTEL right now.' errors. The simulated /PDGET command is assumed to have come in as an interactive message to the server, so if you are not logged in at that time, you may miss the server's reply message - don't think that it did not work. Try a /TRLIST before ordering the file (again). HOW TO USE: Actually, there are three new commands: /SUB keyword /UNSUB keyword /SUB QUERY /SUB now has double purpose - you can still subscribe to 'new directory listings' announcement file by using /SUB , but you can also use it with a subdirectory option as well. Let me give an example, I like getting the SCAN utility whenever a new one is available, so I can send this (and I already did :) /SUB SCAN (UUE Now I am subscribed to all files in the directory that start with the word SCAN. Note that it would be useless to subscribe to "SCAN91" since the trailing numbers keep changing - in the near future, no files would match your pattern. The UUE option just tells the server to encode the file for me before sending. It's an optional parameter. (See the help file for encoding options). If you don't specify it, the server will send it NETDATA (..if you are not domain-addressed). Likewise, /UNSUB removes an entry from your subscription list. Finally, /SUB QUERY allows you to review your subscriptions. It will display a list of the keywords stored for you. There is currently no artificial limit on the number of subscriptions, and hopefully we will not have to build such limits. Remember: You CAN exceed daily limits if you have too many subscriptions. Note: This new option also allows for 'mirroring' of server archives. If thre are those who are working on a server which can receive feed from a TRICKLE server, please contact your closest server's administrator. TRICKLE can subscribe your server to ALL the files in a subdirectory, and order ALL new files - but for this, you need the approval of your administrator. Finally, a disclaimer: A file subscription can be terminated by the server maintainer, if it deemes to be too resource-consuming (such as, if you subscribe to too many things). For the entire help file, please send a: /HELP command (either via interactive message, or E-Mail) to a trickle server, such as trickle@frmop11.bitnet. There are two discussion lists on the subject: RED-SYS@TREARN.BITNET provides information about the server itself, whereas RED-UG@TREARN.BITNET talks about the software provided by the server. Regards, -turgut ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:42:18 GMT From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) Subject: Hard drive errors Chris Thompson writes: >Can anyone provide me with specific info about the following messages? >They seem to alternate when I try to boot my machine (an IBM ps2/30 >(8086) running DOS 3.3, only addition a Paradise VGA card): >Fixed Disk Error 1701 > or >Fixed Disk Error 1790 Could be the controller. I'm assuming you cannot get to C: at all, even with FDISK after a floppy boot. -JTT ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 18:01:44 GMT From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz) Subject: How to configure DR DOS 6 for use with Windows 3.1 Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL writes: ]I successfully installed DR DOS 6 on my 386SX compatible machine, but ]I'm not sure how to configure it for use with Windows 3.1. I don't ]know anybody around who has already faced this, so now the problem ]arises how to write the configuration files without having to get a ]degree in memory management drivers, and so on. ]... ]I would appreciate it if you could give me suggestions or even send me ]a copy of your configuration files. I didn't see much difference in your setup than with mine... I would suggest that you send mail to "drdos@novell.com" and ask Steve (or possibly Jim) questions on this. They're much better at making Windows Scream than I am. (-:I very content to watch Windows 3.1 crawl, because that is what I believe Windows 3.1 does.:-) Besides, there is no real incentive to make my system go much faster right now. ]CONFIG.SYS: ]DEVICE=C:\DRDOS\EMM386.SYS /F=NONE /K=AUTO /B=FFFF /R=AUTO I have /F=AUTO to enable EMS paging, but I split my 4M machine into both EMS and Extended Memory. /K=2048. I have my Windows setup using the 32-bit disk access, but in general I have no clue about how to make Windows Sing...It tends to screach;-) ]STACKS=9,256 You do know that this is effectively a NOP. We support having in CONFIG.SYS but we don't use it as we don't suffer the bug which necessitates the use of this keyword... As I said, you might send mail to "drdos@novell.com" and get some real Windows Configuration Help under DRDOS 6.0... I'm pretty much just guessing. John "Frotz" Fa'atuai frotz@novell.com (email@domain) Desktop Systems uunet!novell.com!frotz (bang address) Group/Novell NOVELL:FROTZ or FROTZ@NOVELL (MHS address) c/o TS Dept. 408/645-2067 (vmail) 80 Garden Court 408/649-8209 (fax) Monterey, CA 93940 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 10:27:13 GMT From: david@CS.UCLA.EDU (David Dantowitz) Subject: Looking for a TCP/IP driver for the PC under DOS And also, how long would you estimate it would take to write code to talk to a TCP port on a specific machine and send it information? (We have an existing machine that listens for files and we have to send it the information to process.) Thanks, David -- David Dantowitz david@cs.ucla.edu Singing Barbershop when I'm not doing parallel simulation ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 17:40:57 GMT From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz) Subject: moved my ibmdos.com .... Info-IBMPC@BRL.MIL writes: ]vg@sup.stollmann.de (Volkmar Grote) writes: ]> ]> The other common program is DR DOS' "sys", which is much more ]>sensible than the MS variant; when updating, the latter first destroys ]>your system and then tells you, that there is not enough space ... (-:So what are you doing with such a full disk:-? This is a known problem and should be fixed RSN... ]BTW Somebody told me on the weekend that there is an undocumented ]argument to FDISK which will fix the boot record of a disk that is ]faulty. I have never tried it nor do I know what kind of disks it works ]on (presumably only hard disks) but the option is FDISK /MBR (for ]master boot record). Anyone come across this one? DRDOS 6.0 FDISK presents you with the option of rewriting the master boot record within the utility. There is no hunting for a magic switch here... John "Frotz" Fa'atuai frotz@novell.com (email@domain) Desktop Systems uunet!novell.com!frotz (bang address) Group/Novell NOVELL:FROTZ or FROTZ@NOVELL (MHS address) c/o TS Dept. 408/645-2067 (vmail) 80 Garden Court 408/649-8209 (fax) Monterey, CA 93940 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:03:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Khursh Ahmed Subject: On-line form filling program I am looking for a program that will enable electronic forms to be distrinbuted on diskettes (or network) that can be filled and returned. This is intended to eliminate the use of paper and at the same time improve the quality of data. While it is possible to create a compiled database form, I was looking for something a little simpler to use that will allow new forms to be created more easily. It would be nice if the forms package also provided a summary of responses. Thanks for your help. Khursh Ahmed Internet: Ahmed@McMaster.CA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 10:24:17 -0500 From: "L. A. Oldroyd" Subject: Request info on 387sx by ULSI Systems (sold by CompUSA) Please, has anyone knowledge about the 387sx coprocessor packaged by ULSI Systems of California, USA? It is sold by CompUSA, a relatively new discount PC vendor chain in the USA, for a relatively low price ($60, versus $70 for a Chips & Technology 387sx/20, versus about $130 for a 387sx/20 by Intel). The ULSI Systems chip is named "3S87" (or something similar to the Cyrix name). 1) Is the ULSI chip functionally equivalent to the Intel chip (i.e. will it run the same code)? 2) Has anyone had problems with it (it is a cheap chip, yes)? 3) Does it run faster/slower/same_as the Intel chip? The Cyrix chip? The IIT chip? The Chips & Technology chip? 4) Does the chip implement any extra functions, that are not implemented by the Intel chip (or others)? Are there any unimplemented functions? 5) Does the chip implement the same arithmetic formats (e.g. IEEE double, etc. whatever) as the Intel (etc.), or does it require (slow) byte remapping to some other format? 6) Is the chip some kind of cheap knockoff copy of the Intel (or any other) coprocessor? Is it a new implementation? 7) Have any PC trade magazines recently benchmarked different coprocessors? BYTE discussed coprocessors 1 to 2 years ago, but only mentioned the Intel, Cyrix and IIT implementions (if memory correctly serves). 8) A mail order vendor has advertised Intel 387sx coprocessors for $90. Has Intel just dropped prices (and my local PC store not yet gotten the messsage)? Any help would be appreciated. Please email to oldroyd@wucs1.wustl.edu and I will summarize results to respondents (and to the net if traffic seems to warrant). Thanks, L. Andrew Oldroyd (oldroyd@wucs1.wustl.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 15:00 MET From: Anneke Sicherer-Roetman Subject: screen saver Does anyone know of a screen saver that also looks at mouse activity. My little daughter gets annoyed when the screen suddenly turns black when she is mousing around. Thanks! Anneke ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 15:03:12 -0500 From: "John Boyd;LAHDI;" Subject: Spreadsheet/financial application I havve been asked by a friend of mine to help put together a (possibly) spreadsheet/acctg application for some offices of a volunteer group that he works with. What it amounts to is that the original info could be input into a spreadsheet model easily enough; BUT he wants to hang onto that a screen display that 'looks like' a check, into which they would enter the necessary info to represent paying a check. Now, I know how much effort it would take to write this thing from scratch; so as an alternate, what I'm trying to do is to come up with a couple pieces of software that when working together, would give him what he wanted. At first I thought that it would be easy enough to get a product called 'Dave' to make the checkbook analogy and to handle the GUI, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. I have decided that once the spreadsheet portion was written, we'll compile it with Baler, to lock the formulas, etc, and it'll only do what it needs to do at the multiple user sites in order to produce the necessary output, that'll then be forwarded back to my friend @headquarters. That way they won't have to have, or even run a full-blown spreadsheet program. BUT, that doesn't give me the checkbook entry form analogy. The individual field offices really don't need a full-blown, or even mini-accounting package for this, and that's why I landed on the spreadsheet function in the first place. Also, I need to be able to 'get at' the data occasionally with either a database, or spreadsheet program, so going with something other than an accounting pkg, assures that the data will be in one of those two formats, instead of an accounting pkg's native (proprietary) format. Does anyone know of a pkg, or pkgs, either commercial or shareware that'll give us the functionality described? Thanx!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:41:06 GMT From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) Subject: Upgrading a 286 AT LIBEM048@SIVM.bitnet writes: >I have recently purchased a second-hand Packard Bell 286 AT and would >like to speed it up. At work I have a 386 and I like the speed but I >am not sure if upgrading the machine is the route to go or if perhaps >installing a turbo board would solve the problem. I currently have >Word Perfect 5.1, Lotus 123 Verion 2.2, and Quicken 5.0 installed on >the machine. I would like to install Windows however I understand that >it really slows it down. I would appreciate any information you have >on this. I'm really sorry. Among the notable problems with Slackard Bell machines is a notoriously inadequate power supply. Some are a measly 85 watts. A second problem, although it does not directly concern you, is that schematics for them are often difficult to obtain, so many repair centers can't fix them, or take weeks to get the information they need. I'll try to refrain from restating what I think of running Windows on *any* system, but yes it will be slow. You may not be able to do much about it though, because of that power supply. It is also a non standard size, so you can't simply replace it with a bigger one. You might try accelerating the machine by dropping it off a cliff. A reputable mail order house like Swan or Dell can sell you a new system for under $3K, loaded, or around $2K stripped. -JTT ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #146 ********************************* ------- 27-Sep-92 22:34:24-MDT,19698;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 27-Sep-92 20:58:32 Return-Path: Message-ID: <920926090038.V92N147@brl.mil> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 09:00:37 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@brl.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #147 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Sat, 26 Sep 92 Volume 92 : Issue 147 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: UUPC 1.11v 386/486 DMA changes for 1.11v copying pc - amiga Determining PC Type (2 msgs) EMM386 Execption Error # 12 Hard Drive Write Protection Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #138 (2 msgs) Lint for C Local Buses and Royal Computer Co NCTUCCCA.edu.tw Anonymous FTP Archives Announcement Voice Msging system Winmarks Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 00:33:46 EDT From: ahd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Drew Derbyshire) Subject: 1.11v Version 1.11v is available on kendra, sun.soe.clarkson.edu, and ftp.clarkson.edu. -ahd- p.s. kendra's kermit server is down, but the anonymous UUCP server is up 24 hours day. ------------------------------ Date: 9 Sep 92 19:59:23 EDT From: HYP800825@CCLV000.ccl.itri.org.tw Subject: 386/486 DMA After referencing DDJ's January 1990 article on "Real-Time Data Acquisition Using DMA", I tried to use DMA on an 286 PC/AT, and it worked just as expected. But when I tried to do similar things on a 486 PC, DMA transfer did occurred but the data was not stored to the designated location. According to the article, the 20-bit DMA transfer address on a 286-AT has to be decomposed, bit7-bit0 to 8237 base address LSB, bit15-bit8 to 8237 base address MSB, and bit19-bit16 to Page register. But 486 has 32-bit address, something must have to be done with bit31-bit20. What other registers should be programmed? And how? Is there any article that address this problem that I can look up? Thanks for your kind help. Oliver Huang ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 10:15:37 +1000 From: "GU, CATHY" Subject: Controlling a Cashier Machine (Cash Register) Hello, One of my friend asked me if there is a exist software to be installed in a PC for controling a cashier machine ? Any suggestion is appreciate ! Please reply me at guac@brt.deakin.edu.au ASAP Cathy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 21:52:01 EDT From: kendra!kendra.kew.com!help@eddie.mit.edu Subject: changes for 1.11v September 4, 1992 UUPC/extended 1.11v Revision Summary Revision This is the 144th revision of this document, and applies to UUPC/extended version 1.11v. This was last updated on September 4, 1992 by Katherine E. Williams. Introduction UUPC/extended is a PC based version (and pun of) UUCP (UNIX-to- UNIX copy). UUPC/extended is a program which implements peer-to- peer networking for using the UNIX UUCP protocols. MS-DOS or OS/2 based Personal Computers using these protocols can exchange mail and files with a UNIX system or other UUPC/extended system over dial up or dedicated phone lines. [Ed note: UUPC/extended also supports USENET news.] A document summarizing most changes made to UUPC/extended since release 1.07a is contained in the UUPC zip file available from both sun.soe.clarkson.edu, and ftp.clarkson.edu. Please contact Drew Derbyshire, help@kew.com, for information on changes previous to the scope of this document or other questions. Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: help@kew.com "I am NOT a Teddy Bear. *sniff* I'm a plush polar bear. Goodnight Teddy is a teddy bear, but I'm not." - Snuffles P. Bear [Ed note: This program is still called Version 1.xx because Meg Geddes once sent Drew a note that wondered - based on the number of versions sent out to that date - how long it was going to take to get to Version 2.0. This program got it's start in order to allow Drew - on the east ocast of the US - to send and receive E-Mail from Katherine Williams - located on the west coast. It has grown into a quite capable E-Mail package. A number of sites use it for external E-Mail on LANs. Highly recommended. gph] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 14:36:28 +0100 From: scopjam@THOR.CARDIFF.AC.UK (Paul McCarthy) Subject: copying pc - amiga This most probably is a faq, I have an amiga and I was wondering if there is way to write to an amiga disk, from a pc. I am using a pc to download ibmpc software from ftp sites for my pc at the uni, though I was wondering if I could download amiga software and unpack it on my pc then copy it onto an amiga formatted disk - which i would then be able to run on my amiga. Any help would be grateful ADVthanksANCE ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 15:07:14 -0400 From: astoner@mcis.messiah.edu Subject: Determining PC Type Hello Netters, I recently received an upgade to a program to has kind of split into two branches. Let me explain. We use Rbase for database developement in an academic environment. The newest version (Version 4.0) REQUIRES a 386SX or better with 2.5 meg of available EMS to run. Not very nice requirements but it runs alot faster. They also released a 286 version that will run on a 286 without EMS (slower but at least it runs on alot of the machines in our environment). What I would like to do is have a program determine in a batch file if it can run the 386 version or if it must run the 286 version. I have gotten the available EMS but have not been able to determine the processor type. I have a program that can tell the difference between an AT and an XT but this would need to be more specific. The majority of the computers that it will have to run on are Zenith and Everex brands with the possibility of some others. The language I will be using to develope the program is Turbo Pascal. I have thought about putting some inline assembler that would only work on a 386SX or better and seeing if it crashes but I don't really consider that to be an acceptable solution. Can someone help me? Allen E. Stoner Internet: astoner@mcis.messiah.edu Academic Application Programmer Messiah College ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 15:27:02 EDT From: David Andrew Vaughan Subject: Determining PC Type > What I would like to do is have a program determine in a batch file if >it can run the 386 version or if it must run the 286 version. I have gotten >the available EMS but have not been able to determine the processor type. I >have a program that can tell the difference between an AT and an XT but this >would need to be more specific. I know Microsoft ships MSD (Microsoft Diagnostics) with most of it's software (MS-DOS, MS-WINDOWS, MS-WORD, et cetera). If you have any Microsoft products, you might check on the installation diskettes for MSD Version 2.0 . I'm not well versed in MSD but I believe you can pass it parameters and have it report information on various pieces of hardware. For what it's worth... David Andrew Vaughan Associate Consultant GE Consulting Services ------------------------------ Date: 4 Sep 92 22:45:28 GMT From: "Mark A. Schleifer" Subject: EMM386 Execption Error # 12 hippo@sonoma.edu (Michel Davidoff) writes: >When I run marknet and relnet I often get the message Emm386 >Ececption error # 12 P And then my system halts. I think that the p >is the begining of a parity error. I looked in the DOS 5.0 manual >and there is no clue to what the error is. According to what Microsoft FAXed me on EMM386 Exception Errors: "The following is a list of Intel 80386 protected mode exception errors and their names: Code Meaning ---- ------- 0 Divide error 1 Debugger interrupt 2 Nonmaskable interrupt 3 Breakpoint 4 Overflow interrupt 5 Array boundary violation 6 Invalid opcode 7 Coprocessor not available 8 Double fault 9 Coprocessor segment overrun 10 Invalid task state segment 11 Segment not present 12 Stack exception 13 General protection violation 14 Page fault 16 Coprocessor error" All of this was prefaced by the comment "This error should not occur on systems that are 100 percent IBM compatable. Because of the hardware intensive nature of the EMM386 device driver, strict IBM hardware compatability is required." Hope this helps. - Mark -- Spoken: Mark A. Schleifer Domain: marks@sdd.comsat.com Phone: +1-301-428-5150 Fax: +1-301-428-7747 USPS: COMSAT Labs, 22300 COMSAT Drive, Clarksburg, MD 20871 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 08:41:39 EDT From: "Robert E. Zaret" Subject: Hard Drive Write Protection I'm surprised no one has provided hardware write protection (with a hardware switch) for hard drives. Is it physically difficult? I think a disk with such a switch would be a perfect place for one's operating system, compilers, etc. to keep them safe from fumble fingers, viruses and other disasters. The OS/2 swap file can be on another drive; if OS/2 needs to maintain other files, can they be moved? What about Windows, Unix, etc.? Have I missed something? Yes, I've assumed the computer would have at least two hard drives. I admit a bias towards multiple drives; seems to me that having the operating system on one drive, applications/compilers on a second, data/programs on a third, and swap file on a fourth would help by reducing head travel. (For folks with long memories, I confess I asked a similar question a few years ago, but got NO responses.) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 17:03:30 GMT From: dman@netcom.com (Dallman Ross) Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #138 >Does anyone know how one could go about setting the NumLock status from >software? There is a set of freeware utilities, very small-sized. There are 9 programs in the set. The one you want is NUMLOCK.COM; but the author reqests that all nine stay together. Anyway, many bbs' would have these, and you can put NUMLOCK.COM in your autoexec.bat and turn the thing off. Works on XT's and AT's. If you can't find the files anywhere, email me. __D_a l_l m a_n _ R o_s s _ |dman@netcom.com /or/ |"You sound like a man| l \\ l\\ /l /\\ l\\ l |dross@well.sf.ca.us |with a rubber nose." | l >)l \\ /ll / \\ l \\ l |vox/fax: 1.510.645.1883| -- One-Lung Bill | l // l \X ll/--- \\l \\ l |350 Perkins St., #108 | Remmer (deceased) _l//______________________\\l_|Oakland,_CA__94610-3422|_____________________|_ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 09:48:32 EDT From: "Robert E. Zaret" Subject: Lint for C The time has come for me to buy a serious lint program for C. The program needs to run under DOS. The primary version of C I'm using is MicroStation Development Language (MDL), one of the macro languages for the CAD package MicroStation; it's mostly ANSI-compatible, but the main oddity is that it's translated into pseudo-code, which is interpreted by the MicroStation run-time environment. I'd appreciate any suggestions. ------------------------------ Date: 04 Sep 1992 22:34:02 -0500 (CDT) From: "Something terribly original." Subject: Local Buses and Royal Computer Co Does anyone out there have any experience dealing with either one of the new local bus '486s or with Royal Computer? I am about to upgrade my '286 and Royal's offer is extremely attractive looking, but I know absolutely nothing about the company and have never heard of them before. If anyone has had dealings with the company, please share your experiences with me. On a slightly unrelated note, does anyone have any guesstimates about what kind of risk I would be taking by purchasing a local bus computer that does not comply to the vl-bus standard when the company is about to switch? (The computer in question uses local bus for both video and disk access already, so I would never really need to add anything else on to the local bus part of the computer.) I am not joined to the group, so if you could send responses to schererb@carleton.edu (internet), I would be appreciative. I would be happy to compose a summary of the responses I get if anyone wants. Many thanks in advance, Bill Scherer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:08:13 GMT From: Huang Chih-Hsien Subject: NCTUCCCA.edu.tw Anonymous FTP Archives Announcement 1. OVERVIEW Internet in Taiwan (mainly Taiwan Academic Network, TANet) is growing every month. There are a dozen of anonymous FTP servers around the island, I believe. However, almost all of them are UNIX- oriented sites, and none with a large collection of PC software. That reminds me of the urgent need of a PC-software-oriented anonymous FTP site in Taiwan, especially when our link to US has been heavily overloaded, and repeated transferring PC software from some well- arrangement sites, such as SIMTEL20, garbo, CICA, does occupy considerable bandwidth. 1.1. Official Mirror Site of PC MSDOS Archives NCTUCCCA.edu.tw (140.111.3.21) is the official mirror site of PC MSDOS archives at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, Garbo.Uwasa.Fi and Ftp.CICA.Indiana.Edu in Taiwan. Other mirror sites around the world are: SIMTEL20.Army.Mil: OAK.Oakland.Edu (141.210.10.117) (192.88.110.20) wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9) nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.3.7) nic.switch.ch (130.59.1.40) archie.au (139.130.4.6) Ftp.CICA.Indiana.Edu (129.79.20.84): wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) gandalf.umcs.maine.edu (130.111.112.21) grind.isca.uiowa.edu (128.255.19.233) vmsa.technion.ac.il (132.68.7.2) nic.switch.ch (130.59.1.40) funet.fu.net monu6.cc.monash.edu.au src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.2.1) Your comments are always welcomed. Please send them via e-mail to CCCA@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw. Thank you. ENJOY! --- Huang, Chih-Hsien CCCA Vice President NCTUCCCA.edu.tw FTP Archives Maintainer, TWNR Moderator Dept. of EE, National Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan Internet: hch@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw, u7911013@cc.NCTU.edu.tw [For more info on Archives in Taiwan, contact Huang Chih-Hsien directly. HuangChih-Hsien can provide login info, directory structure and other miscellaneous goodies.] ------------------------------ Date: 11 Sep 1992 12:51:25 -0700 (MST) From: Ernie DeVries Subject: Voice Messaging system In investigating the possiblities of installing a voice messaging system, I heard of a board/system called Rhetorix that is apparently a PC based solution. I don't know anything else about it and the spelling could be wrong. Does anyone have any experience with this system? Does anyone know of any sources and pricing? Thanks! +========================================================+ | /\ Ernie DeVries | | / \/\ Academic/Personal Computer Services | | /\/ \ \/\ DeVries@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu | | Northern Arizona University "The Mountain Campus" | +========================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:26 EDT From: Jane Hesler Subject: Winmarks Does anyone have a benchmarking program that will rate the Graphics Winmark rating for a pc? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Sep 92 22:39:29 BST From: MD2RJH%IBM.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK@ib.rl.ac.uk Subject: Info requested on X-Windows Dear All, I hate to show my ignorance, but I can't help noticing people keep mentioning "X" or "X-Windows" on the list. I also notice that "X" is now held at the HENSA archive in Lancaster. What is "X", please? Thanks in advance! Richard Hillier md2rjh@uk.ac.shef.ibm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 12:51:00 EDT From: ahd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Drew Derbyshire) Subject: UUPC/extended File Info The following contains an alphabetical index of the UUPC/extended files. Dates in the directory listing are in the past 365 days unless a year is explicitly included. The file log is an archive of the UUPC/extended mailing list, uupc-info@sun.soe.clarkson.edu. Previous month's logs are also here, stored under the names log.month.year. To request a file, send to archive-server@sun.soe.clarkson.edu mail of the form send uupc file Eg. send uupc announce.doc total 1558 -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 2198 Sep 3 00:31 Index -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 12031 Dec 8 1991 howtoget.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 ahd 512 Aug 11 22:55 logs drwxr-xr-x 2 ahd 512 Aug 18 1991 protocol drwxrwxrwx 2 ahd 512 Jul 22 10:10 snews -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 168048 Sep 3 00:29 uupc11v2.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 169117 Sep 3 00:29 uupc11v3.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 55136 Sep 3 00:29 uupc11v4.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 176528 Sep 4 12:47 uupc11vd.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 56325 Sep 3 00:29 uupc11vn.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 197510 Sep 3 00:29 uupc11vo.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 171496 Sep 3 00:29 uupc11vr.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 337185 Sep 3 00:29 uupc11vs.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 46248 Sep 3 00:29 uupc11vt.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 114336 Sep 4 12:42 uupc11vw.zip logs: total 2216 -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 276139 Aug 11 22:34 apr92.log -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 307322 Mar 8 1992 dec91.log -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 228323 Mar 8 1992 feb92.log -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 307817 Mar 8 1992 jan92.log -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 229951 Aug 11 22:39 jul92.log -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 145967 Aug 11 22:37 jun92.log -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 213796 Apr 6 11:46 mar92.log -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 143755 Aug 11 22:36 may92.log -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 303770 Dec 7 1991 nov91.log protocol: total 81 -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 17373 Aug 18 1991 chesson.paper -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 51198 Aug 18 1991 hanrahan.paper -rw-r--r-- 1 ahd 14287 Aug 18 1991 wegrzyn.paper snews: total 217 -rw-rw-rw- 1 ahd 164143 Jul 22 10:10 snews190.zip -rw-rw-rw- 1 ahd 40999 Jul 22 10:11 snws190s.zip ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #147 ********************************* ------- 27-Sep-92 23:04:29-MDT,15172;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 27-Sep-92 20:58:35 Return-Path: Message-ID: <920928030524.V92N148@brl.mil> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 03:05:24 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@brl.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #148 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Mon, 28 Sep 92 Volume 92 : Issue 148 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: "List of IBMPC-related lists on BITNET" 10th Anniversary of Info-IbmPC Digest AT&T 3b2 computer.... Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #136 Need sw pkg info Scheduling Program for Courses and Meetings USIT fax/modem.... VIRUS-L list has been removed from BITNET Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 11:45:46 G+3 From: Salam Horani Subject: List of IBMPC-related lists on BITNET Network-wide ID Full address List title --------------- ------------ ---------- 'OS-2' OS2@BLEKUL11 Moderated discussion forum on OS/2 ASSMPC ASSMPC@USACHVM1 "Assembly for the IBM-PC" AUTOCAD AUTOCAD@OHSTVMA AUTOCAD Autocad Discussion List C-L C-L@INDYCMS Discussion of C Programming CLIPPER CLIPPER@BRUFPB List for Clipper and DBMS systems for IBM PC DBASE-L DBASE-L@HEARN (Peered) Discussion on the use of the dBase DBASE-L@NMSUVM1 (Peered) Discussion on the use of the dBase DBASE-L@TECMTYVM (Peered) Discussion on the use of the dBase DESQVIEW DESQVIEW@BRUFPB List for Desqview and Qemm users EMULPC EMULPC@USACHVM1 "Emulation SW & HW on the IBM-PC" GAMES-L GAMES-L@BROWNVM (Peered) Computer Games List GAMES-L@GREARN (Peered) Computer Games List GAMES-L@KRSNUCC1 (Peered) Computer Games List GAMES-L@LEHIIBM1 (Peered) Computer Games List GAMES-L@UTARLVM1 (Peered) Computer Games List GIF-L GIF-L@VMTECMEX GIF Graphics and applications list. 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TURBOC-L@YALEVM Borland Turbo C Discussion Group at Yale UI-PCUG UI-PCUG@UIUCVMD UIUC IBM PC User Group VIRUS-L VIRUS-L@LEhigh.edu Virus Discussion List WIN3-L WIN3-L@PSUVM Windows 3 discussion list - PSU only WIN3-L@UICVM Microsoft Windows Version 3 Forum WPCORP-L WPCORP-L@HEARN (Peered) WordPerfect Corp. Products List WPCORP-L@UBVM (Peered) WordPerfect Corp. Products List WPCORP-L@YORKVM1 (Peered) WordPerfect Corp. Products List WPWIN-L WPWIN-L@UBVM WordPerfect For Windows Discussion List WP51-L WP51-L@UOTTAWA WordPerfect 5.1 Discussion Group List 3D-L 3D-L@ARIZVM1 A discussion of 3D-Graphics 386USERS 386USERS@NDSUVM1 386Users 4DOS 4DOS@INDYCMS 4DOS command interpreter To subscribe to any of these lists, send e-mail (with no subject) to: LISTSERV@nodename (where nodename is the node where the discussion list is located). In the body of the mail message, write the command: SUB listname your-real-name e.g., to subscribe to the list PCSUPT-L@YALEVM, send mail to LISTSERV@YALEVM containing the command: SUB PCSUPT-L Archie Andrews Internet users must add the domain name .BITNET to the nodename, e.g., for the PCSUPT-L list, send mail to LISTSERV@YALEVM.BITNET To cancel your subscription to a list, send e-mail to LISTSERV@nodename containing the command: SIGNOFF listname REMEMBER, DON'T SEND SUBSCRIPTION REQUESTS TO THE DISCUSSION LIST ITSELF. SEND THEM TO THE LISTSERV. I hope you find this "List of IBMPC-related lists on BITNET" useful. Regards, Salam Horani SCP3012@SAKAAU03.BITNET (Bitnet) SCP3012%SAKAAU03.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (Internet) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 02:09:18 +0200 From: Johann Haider Subject: 10th Anniversary of Info-IbmPC Digest Dear List Editors of Info-IBMPC Digest, I send this message to you to remind you of # ### # # ## # # # # ###### ## ##### #### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### # # # # #### # # # # # ###### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### ### # ###### # # # # #### Info-IBMPC Digest. On Aug 3, 1982 the first INFO-PC Digest was distributed on the ARPANET as you can see on the enclosed header of it. Date: 3 Aug 1982 2118-PDT From: INFO-PC Subject: Info-PC Digest V1 #1 To: Info-PC: ; Info-PC Digest Free Program Library Starting Off With The PC Advantages/Disadvantages of the PC 8088 on the S-100 Bus ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is the first digest for the new ARPANET forum INFO-PC. Starting now, digests will be archived in [ISIB]digests-august-82 and so on. Files may be FTP'ed from ISIB by logging in to FTP with user name ANONYMOUS, password GUEST. INFO-PC will also be a repository for (free) software such as members of the forum may feel inclined to donate. To start things off, there are two programs in the library: Info-PC Program Library ----------------------- VT52.BAS VT52 terminal emulator. Requires 96K, IBM Async. Comm. Support, BASIC. (Gillmann@ECL, 8/2/82). FILEHEX.ASM Dumps diskette files in hex. Requires assembler. (Gillmann@ECL, 8/2/82). A list of the current program library is maintained in the file [ISIB]PROGRAM-LIBRARY.LIST. To donate a program, send a message containing a description of the program and a copy of the source code to INFO-PC. I want to welcome everyone to the forum. I've had my IBM Personal Computer since March and I'm still happy with it. The large address space of the 8088 opens up a world of possibilities for more powerful software than 8-bit micros can handle. I'm typing this message on my PC using my new assembly language terminal emulator (successor to the program in the INFO-PC library). I'd be interested in hearing of peoples' experience with hooking the PC to the ARPANET. /Dick Gillmann (GILLMANN at USC-ECL) [The end of V1 #1] Johann Haider Working Group on Rehabilitation Engineering Institute of Electronics University of Technology Vienna, Austria Email: jh@fortec.tuwien.ac.at phone: +431 58801 3967 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 15:38:29 EDT From: Etop Udoh Subject: AT&T 3b2 computer.... hi, looking for software and bootdisks for an AT&T 3b2 computer.... : Etop Udoh Eudoh@sct.edu : : 1112 Hudson Rd. Southern College of Technology : : Marietta, Ga 30060 Marietta, Georgia : ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 2:04:23 -0500 (CDT) From: CADDISON@beach.utmb.edu Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #136 I need some information: 1. How do you go about signing on to sites and downloading files. 2. Does anyone know how to convert a file into the .bmp format for use as a possible wallpaper. I would like to scan images and save them in the bmp format for windows, but windows will not allow me transfer a scanned file into the paint file. Is there something that I can download or purchase? 3. Does anyone know, for a friend of mine, if one needs an extra midi pack or something, for the alessis sr-16 drum machine? We can't seem to be able to get it to work with the sbpro. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 11:54:16 -0500 From: "John Boyd;LAHDI;" Subject: Need sw pkg info What is GCC " " G++ Thanx!! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Sep 92 15:19:15 EDT From: THOMAS%PACEVM.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu Subject: Scheduling Program for Courses and Meetings We are looking for a scheduling program that can schedule courses and other university events. We have looked at a few of the calendering programs in the market including 'Who-What-When' and 'Network Scheduler'. But they don't seem to effectively handle the room scheduling, and provide the reports we need. Please let me know if you are currently using such a program, or know of one. Thanks in advance... Thomas B. Thomas Director of Computing Services Pace Law School Voice: (914) 422-4290 78 North Broadway Fax: (914) 422-4391 White Plains, NY 10603 Bitnet: thomas@pacevm.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 21:26:52 EDT From: Etop Udoh Subject: USIT fax/modem.... Does anyone know anything about a USIT 8 bit fax/modem card for the IBM PC? : Etop Udoh Eudoh@sct.edu : : 1112 Hudson Rd. Southern College of Technology : : Marietta, Ga 30060 Marietta, Georgia : ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 14:21:08 G+3 From: Salam Horani Subject: VIRUS-L list has been removed from BITNET Anyone on BITNET tries to subscribe to VIRUS-L@LEHIIBM1 (Virus Discussion List) won't succeed. This is because the node LEHIIBM1 has been removed from BITNET. But this doesn't mean that VIRUS-L list is not supported anymore. It's still on Internet, and its address is VIRUS-L@LEHIGH.EDU To subscribe, send e-mail to LISTSERV@LEHIGH.EDU containing the command SUB VIRUS-L your-name Regards, Salam Horani SCP3012@SAKAAU03.BITNET (Bitnet) SCP3012%SAKAAU03.BITNET@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU (Internet) ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #148 ********************************* ------- 8-Oct-92 19:01:11-MDT,17283;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 8-Oct-92 18:35:19 Return-Path: Message-ID: <921009000943.V92N151@brl.mil> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 00:09:42 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@wsmr-simtel20.ARMY.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #151 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Fri, 9 Oct 92 Volume 92 : Issue 151 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: Recent msdos uploads to SIMTEL20 (11-Sep - 26-Sep 1992) Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 01:15:33 -0400 From: w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen) Subject: Recent msdos uploads to SIMTEL20 (11-Sep - 26-Sep 1992) Keywords: simtel20,msdos,recent,uploads Summary: There are 150 new files in the msdos collection The following files have been recently uploaded to WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (between 11-Sep-92 and 26-Sep-92): NOTE: Type B is Binary; Type A is ASCII Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== Directory PD1: EZ-BTM03.ZIP B 49920 920916 4DOS BTM files: loaders/regular/libraries/help TFC2.ZIP B 35333 920923 4DOS batch file: Tobi's Floppy Cataloger Directory PD1: SS101.ZIP B 140350 920913 Archive conversion utility with many features Directory PD1: AMISL090.ZIP B 64384 920913 Src lib to create highloading removable TSRs ASMWIN13.ZIP B 22656 920923 Assembly language windowing routines for TASM Directory PD1: PKEY12-1.ZIP B 258154 920917 PowerKey1.02: Menu system for AutoCAD, 1of3 PKEY12-2.ZIP B 336987 920917 PowerKey1.02: Menu system for AutoCAD, 2of3 PKEY12-3.ZIP B 273926 920917 PowerKey1.02: Menu system for AutoCAD, 3of3 Directory PD1: FDATE68A.ZIP B 53708 920925 Date manipulation utility for batch files TSBAT38.ZIP B 91040 920921 Collection of useful batch files by Timo Salmi Directory PD1: BBS0992D.ZIP B 91326 920926 'THELIST' national BBS list for September 1992 BLOKE51B.ZIP B 32097 920926 BBS Locator, avoids 313BBS.LST zone/toll calls MED0992.ZIP B 14607 920911 Medical/Science/EMS/Fire BBS list (Sept. 1992) Directory PD1: TIERRA40.ZIP B 750709 920913 Create virtual worlds and virtual lifes Directory PD1: SVGABG40.ZIP B 132247 920911 SuperVGA & TweakedVGA BGI drivers, release 4.0 Directory PD1: ZGLOB10.ZIP B 2602 920921 *argv[] wildcard file expansion, Zortech C Directory PD1: BFAST11.ZIP B 88773 920911 FREE Btrieve fully functioning C++ library Directory PD1: LASSO.ZIP B 35205 920915 Converts ASCII text files to dBASE DBF format Directory PD1: CWISE11.ZIP B 270618 920914 Multiple calendar planning and tracking tool Directory PD1: CHKDV.ZIP B 6113 920915 ASM source to make programs DESQview-aware CLKWATCH.ZIP B 20514 920915 Fixes system clock time loss under DESQview CMD20.ZIP B 37029 920915 Control DESQview remotely or between windows DESQ_BG.ZIP B 3290 920915 Forces DESQview window to background DOSWINDO.ZIP B 4109 920915 Creative use of the DOS window in DESQview DVAPMN12.ZIP B 104639 920915 Enhanced application program menu for DESQview DVCLK14.ZIP B 1980 920916 Displays a clock on top line of a DV window DVCLOCK3.ZIP B 10346 920916 Small DESQview-aware clock DVDAYS3.ZIP B 4811 920916 Perpetual calendar/calendar calculator for DV DVDOS.ZIP B 2589 920916 Notes on MS-DOS environment under DESQview DVECT.ZIP B 8667 920916 Capture and display DESQview interrupt table DVINT32.ZIP B 87537 920913 DESQview/Quarterdeck-specific interrupt list DVPALET.ZIP B 2589 920916 Docs for DESQview 2.2 color pallet program DVPCLA.ZIP B 6389 920916 Using DV, PCAnywhere, & Lantastic together DVPCW.ZIP B 2430 920916 How to run PCWrite under DESQview DVPRTSCR.ZIP B 923 920916 DESQview 2.26 patch to fix Print Screen hangs DVPSD307.ZIP B 14110 920916 DESQview 2.xx protected screen driver, v3.07 DVSLBBS.ZIP B 4723 920916 How to install DESQview with Searchlight BBS NOMOUSE.ZIP B 2579 920915 DESQview SHP disables mouse in any window/task PIF220.ZIP B 1929 920915 Extended PIF format specs for DESQview 2.2+ XSTARTDV.ZIP B 401 920915 Toggles DESQview startup script on/off Directory PD1: TFIND215.ZIP B 15065 920926 ThunderFind: Fast file finding utility Directory PD1: DJASY10D.ZIP B 74419 920915 ASYNC support for djgpp Directory PD1: CPDISK12.ZIP B 12087 920917 One pass disk copy. Uses XMS. Freeware Directory PD1: XCURSR10.ZIP B 68441 920924 Customize your X Cursor, for DESQview/X Directory PD1: ADEDT301.ZIP B 41782 920915 AD-EDIT: Small text editor, DESQview-aware BOX400B.ZIP B 262426 920916 Boxer4.0b Editor:mouse,undo,mult files&windows PCWPSFIX.ZIP B 19275 920918 Improved Postscript support for PC Write TMED110A.ZIP B 9373 920922 TSR memory editor (hotkey & breakpoint popup) VDE164.ZIP B 146766 920911 Meyer's small, fast, WordStar-like text editor VDE164SP.ZIP B 32653 920911 Screen writers macros for VDE text editor Directory PD1: ABC430.ZIP B 192306 920920 ABC Fun Keys: Teach children ABCs, v4.30 AZMATH1.ZIP B 469655 920914 Pre-Calculus/Calculus math review GRAND.ZIP B 152288 920914 Tutorial on Unified Field Theory MEDTUTOR.ZIP B 76985 920914 Medical terminology tutorial MINICOMP.ZIP B 46193 920914 Elementary computer math tutor for children PLNTGRO1.ZIP B 511873 920921 Describing and predicting the growth of plants Directory PD1: AAAREAD.ME A 5346 920911 Information about the files in this directory SIMIBM.ZIP B 269246 920926 Comma-delim list of all MSDOS files w/descrip. SIMLIST.ZIP B 263192 920926 Text format list of all MSDOS files w/descrip. UPLOAD.INF A 1491 920926 How to upload programs to SIMTEL20 Directory PD1: HEXVW10.ZIP B 86393 920924 Hexadecimal file viewer and editor TAR4DOS.ZIP B 37987 920921 Unix-compatible TAR archive create/extract Directory PD1: EZLOAN20.ZIP B 54591 920924 EZ-Loan: Amortization and loan scheduler Directory PD1: BK51A1.ZIP B 313758 920920 Brother's Keeper (v5.1A) Family History, 1of4 BK51A2.ZIP B 352956 920920 Brother's Keeper (v5.1A) Family History, 2of4 BK51A3.ZIP B 349368 920920 Brother's Keeper (v5.1A) Family History, 3of4 BK51A4.ZIP B 342226 920920 Brother's Keeper (v5.1A) Family History, 4of4 BK51A5.ZIP B 245228 920920 Brother's Keeper (v5.1A) Family History, 5of5 FHH130.ZIP B 61840 920921 Family history research tutorial Directory PD1: CSHW850A.ZIP B 136597 920923 GIF/MAC/RLE view/print, Herc/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA NAKED110.ZIP B 359792 920916 NakedEye v1.10, a SuperVGA GIF viewer VPIC51.ZIP B 137116 920911 GIF/MAC/PCX/ColorRix pics view/convrt, EGA/VGA Directory PD1: FDESI313.ZIP B 264505 920918 IFS fractal program w/C src, v3.08 and v3.13 RTETC800.ZIP B 677143 920913 Docs/utilities/samples for RTRACE800, 3 of 3 RTNEWS.ZIP B 583553 920913 Complete set of Ray-Tracing newsletters RTRAC800.ZIP B 969100 920913 Antonio Costa's Ray Tracer v8.0.0, 1 of 3 RTSRC800.ZIP B 450711 920913 Sources to RTRACE800 and utilities, 2 of 3 Directory PD1: SELCAL11.ZIP B 12590 920913 Hams: Maritime SITOR selcall translator 1.1 Directory PD1: ALTMPX35.ZIP B 5592 920913 Alternate multiplex interrupt spec, v3.5 FTPLIST.ZIP B 70639 920916 Updated list of sites w/FTP & MAIL access INTER32A.ZIP B 331544 920913 Comprehensive list of interrupt calls, 1of2 INTER32B.ZIP B 307988 920913 Comprehensive list of interrupt calls, 2of2 INTER32C.ZIP B 165049 920913 Pgms to convert interrupt list to hypertext MODER15.ZIP B 8471 920914 List of MS-DOS FTP sites and their moderators TSFAQ30.ZIP B 115534 920921 T.Salmi: Frequently asked questions & answers XHLST122.ZIP B 9321 920924 Show XMS handles, HMA space above DOS and more Directory PD1: CHARON40.ZIP B 491167 920926 Novell to SMTP gateway for Pegasus Mail PMAIL234.ZIP B 665087 920926 Pegasus Mail: E-mail system for Novell Netware Directory PD1: VOCAB217.ZIP B 239201 920921 Vocabulary practice, learn 9 foreign languages Directory PD1: LJ3FNT10.ZIP B 237428 920925 ESF's scalable LaserJet III fonts, Shareware LJFNT16.ZIP B 281165 920925 ESF's Laserjet fonts, Shareware Directory PD1: FTLOGO.ZIP B 6647 920922 Interface for Fischertechnik robots & IBM LOGO Directory PD1: OZGIS88.ZIP B 1143991 920914 Analysis/mapping of census, retail, GIS data Directory PD1: TSLIN33B.ZIP B 76072 920921 Linear programming and linear goal programming Directory PD1: QKMNU107.ZIP B 280890 920923 QuikMenu v1.07 graphical menu program for DOS Directory PD1: HS113B4.ZIP B 131608 920911 Hs/Link external protocol driver 1.13 BETA Directory PD1: PC-IPC.ZIP B 51286 920915 Inter-Process Comm: Pass info between programs Directory PD1: GS252286.ZIP B 170996 920923 GhostScript v2.5.2, EXE for 286 machines GS252386.ZIP B 372305 920923 GhostScript v2.5.2, 386/486 EXE w/extended mem GS252INI.ZIP B 239815 920923 GhostScript v2.5.2, required files update GS252WIN.ZIP B 182198 920923 GhostScript v2.5.2, EXE for Windows 3.x Directory PD1: ENVE2.ZIP B 55010 920911 Envelope printing, save/edit, auto spacing VPRINT51.ZIP B 15719 920918 Captures printer and/or AUX output to disk Directory PD1: BPTB11.ZIP B 110377 920914 BASIC Programmer's Tool Box for QB45 and QB7 Directory PD1: NOSNAL57.ZIP B 118322 920912 NoSnail - Netmail for RBBS-PC (.57) Directory PD1: PCMOUS10.ZIP B 4416 920922 Cut and paste for textmodes of 286/386/486 PCs Directory PD1: ADDA10.ZIP B 199096 920925 ADC/DAC board for DSP experiments;TP src/exe Directory PD1: SIMTEL20.INF A 16309 920926 Complete overview of the SIMTEL20 archives Directory PD1: CORR.ZIP B 718215 920921 Tutorial program teaching Simple Stats NONLIN.ZIP B 165587 920914 Nonlinear Regression Analysis program TS1ST20.ZIP B 48897 920924 Statistics: Univariate statistical measures TS2ST20.ZIP B 75423 920924 Statistics: Multiple regression analysis TS3ST17.ZIP B 50500 920924 Statistics: Transformations of observations TS4ST17.ZIP B 38243 920924 Statistics: Correlation analysis TS5ST13.ZIP B 75987 920925 Statistics: Least abs. deviation regression Directory PD1: DOSNX20E.ZIP B 175162 920926 DOSNIX v2.0e: Unix-style utilities for MS-DOS EISAC141.ZIP B 48198 920922 Generates EISA .CFG files for ISA based cards TS5DOS10.ZIP B 17244 920911 Timo Salmi's programs for MS-DOS 5 (or 4.0+) Directory PD1: CSS11.ZIP B 31592 920926 SIMPLE Language PreProcessor for Telix SALT HOST503.ZIP B 254018 920926 Improved BBS Host mode for Telix v3.15 TLX315-1.ZIP B 151090 920920 Telix 3.15 comm pgm executable & support files TLX315-2.ZIP B 128707 920920 Telix 3.15 comm pgm docs/host/scripts/dialconv TLX315-3.ZIP B 63605 920920 Telix 3.15 comm pgm. SALT script lang. and doc TXMDM208.ZIP B 13509 920920 TELIX.MDM file for Telix MODEMCFG program Directory PD1: DETEX10.ZIP B 10687 920911 Strips commands from TeX files, plain text out Directory PD1: DS115.ZIP B 18323 920915 DiskSecure: Protects hard disk partition table I-M124.ZIP B 292433 920917 Integrity Master data integrity/anti-virus sys TBSCAN43.ZIP B 90436 920920 Thunderbyte Virus Scan 4.3; needs VSIGyyxx.ZIP Directory PD1: TSPA3040.ZIP B 96256 920921 TurboPascal 4.0 units for programmers, T.Salmi TSPA3050.ZIP B 98003 920921 TurboPascal 5.0 units for programmers, T.Salmi TSPA3055.ZIP B 100088 920921 TurboPascal 5.5 units for programmers, T.Salmi TSPA3060.ZIP B 100248 920921 TurboPascal 6.0 units for programmers, T.Salmi Directory PD1: FONTEDIT.ZIP B 40222 920926 Edit VGA text fonts interactively with mouse Directory PD1: DDSRV.ZIP B 11443 920914 Add drag and drop functions to Visual BASIC ENUMFONT.ZIP B 19846 920914 Make Visual BASIC call WIN API fn EnumFonts STSBAR.ZIP B 4138 920914 VB: Visual status bar for Visual BASIC VBCOMM20.ZIP B 18133 920914 Communications Control for Visual Basic VBFINDID.ZIP B 8660 920920 Get/set control IDs in Visual BASIC forms W31API.ZIP B 35341 920914 Windows 3.1 API declarations for Visual Basic Directory PD1: EXPLODE.ZIP B 13135 920911 Convert Waffle 1.65 BBS mailbox to 1.64 mails WFS126.ZIP B 151969 920917 Mail-based archive file server for Waffle BBS Directory PD1: BOOM10.ZIP B 91660 920917 Win 3.x Common Dialog box open/save extension CBMATH1A.ZIP B 49896 920914 Chalkboard math tutor v1.0a for Windows 3.x NTCTRL02.ZIP B 18126 920914 WIN NT: 3 new controls for dialog editor WNBFF13C.ZIP B 14292 920926 Windows 3.x mail notification for UUPC, Waffle XTIMELOG.ZIP B 137793 920914 WIN3: Work project time usage reports database Directory PD1: MACRAI11.ZIP B 186342 920917 WordPerfect macro programming tools, v1.1 MCROADE4.ZIP B 122663 920917 Utilities for WordPerfect 5.1 macros WPTOO51B.ZIP B 230595 920917 Collection of WP 5.x utilities and macros Directory PD1: AUMATE15.ZIP B 157776 920923 Automate: Home monitoring and control w/X-10 SIMTEL20 allows only nine ANONYMOUS FTP logins during weekday prime time, 5am to 3pm Mountain Time (GMT-7), but 27 otherwise. SIMTEL20 files are also available by anonymous ftp from mirror sites OAK.Oakland.Edu (141.210.10.117), wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4), ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9), nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100), src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.3.7), nic.switch.ch (130.59.1.40), archie.au (139.130.4.6), nctuccca.edu.tw (140.111.3.21), by e-mail through the BITNET/EARN file servers, or by uucp from UUNET's 1-900-GOT-SRCS. See UUNET file uunet!~/info/archive-help for details. OAK.Oakland.Edu is the most up-to-date mirror because I maintain it, in addition to my duties at SIMTEL20. I run OAK's mirror program whenever new files are added at SIMTEL20. If you cannot access them via FTP or e-mail, most SIMTEL20 MSDOS files, including the PC-Blue collection, are also available for downloading from Detroit Download Central (313) 885-3956. DDC has multiple lines which support 300/1200/2400/9600/14400 bps (103/212/V22bis/HST/V32bis/V42bis/MNP). This is a subscription system with an average hourly cost of 17 cents. It is also accessable on Telenet via PC Pursuit and on Tymnet via StarLink outdial. New files uploaded to SIMTEL20 are usually available on DDC within 24 hours. Public, private or corporate institutions and libraries interested in the SIMTEL20 MS-DOS collection in CD-ROM format bundled with library card-catalog type access and duplication software can contact Coyote Data, Ltd. by mail at 1142 N. Main, Rochester, MI 48307 or by FAX at (313) 651-4071. Others who do not need the access and duplication software should send e-mail to: rab@cdrom.com (Robert Bruce), telephone (800) 786-9907 or (510) 947-5996, or FAX (510) 947-1644 for details on his CD-ROM offer. Keith Petersen Maintainer of the MS-DOS archive at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil [192.88.110.20] Co-SysOp, Detroit Download Central 313-885-3956 (V22bis/HST/V32bis/V42bis/MNP) Internet: w8sdz@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #151 ********************************* ------- 8-Oct-92 19:01:45-MDT,14429;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 8-Oct-92 18:35:21 Return-Path: Message-ID: <921009001024.V92N152@brl.mil> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 00:10:23 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@wsmr-simtel20.ARMY.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #152 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Fri, 9 Oct 92 Volume 92 : Issue 152 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for October 1992 Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 22:22:03 EST From: Murph Sewall Subject: Murph's VAPORWARE Column for October 1992 VAPORWARE Murphy Sewall From the October 1992 APPLE PULP H.U.G.E. Apple Club (E. Hartford) News Letter $24/year P.O. Box 380027 East Hartford, CT 06138-0027 * * * NOTE! New P.O. Box and Zip Code * * * Call the "Bit Bucket" (203) 257-9588 Permission granted to redistribute with the above citation Less Expensive Macintosh Quadras. Apple plans to follow it's October 19 introduction of new PowerBooks and the desktop IIxi and IIxv (see last month's column) with three new 68040 CPU Quadra models and a 25 MHz version of its top selling LC in January (see below). All three new Quadras will use the IIxv/Performa 600 form factor. The 20 MHz model ($3,500) will replace the current IIci, the 25 MHz version ($4,500) will take the place of the current Quadra 700, and the third ($5,500) will use the 40 MHz 68040 that Motorola will announce before the end of this year. Motorola will announce a 50 MHz 68040 early in 1993 that will be used in the "Cyclone" (see July's column) and an upgrade of the Quadra 950. System 7.1 also ships on October 19. In addition to enhancements such as WorldScript, which supports complex character sets such as Kanji, beta testers report System 7.1 is more stable than the current 7.0.1 and faster on high end Macintoshes. Version 7.1 also uses memory more efficiently and saves about 300K of active RAM compared to 7.0.1. - MacWeek 24 August and 14 September and PC Week 7 September More New Low-End Macs. The new 25 MHz 68030 LC will use a custom chip to support a full 32-bit bus, and it will offer twice the VRAM (1 MByte) of the current LC II. As reported last month, the compact color Mac, variously known as the Color Classic II and the Color SE, was withdrawn from developers. Apparently, a redesign is in progress using the same custom 32-bit chip and 25 MHz CPU as the forthcoming LC. Engineers are working on the jigsaw puzzle of how to fit the display tube and the electronics into the Classic II case. Either the Color SE is going to be a marvel of engineering, or the the case will have to be redesigned. Cross your fingers, and hope this true successor to the redoubtable SE/30 will be ready by March. - found in my electronic mailbox Looking Ahead to 1994. The first PowerPC Mac will be built around a 66 MHz version of the PowerPC 601 CPU and the now familiar three expansion card case (probably the metal one that the Performa 600-Mac IIxi/v is coming in). Apple still hopes to bring this machine to market in January 1994 at approximately $2,000 retail (keyboard and monitor extra). Although the price looks like that of the LC II, the first PowerMac will deliver about 30 times the performance of the LC II. A model based on the even more capable PowerPC 604 along with a laptop using the PowerPC 603 are scheduled for the fourth quarter of 1994 and the high-end PowerPC 620 model is anticipated during the second half of 1995. Current plans call for the standard floppy drive on all the PowerMacs to be 2.88 MBytes. - MacWeek 14 September Accelerated Performa. DayStar Digital is already offering performance enhancing Universal PowerCache cards that will fit the accelerator slot of the forthcoming Performa 600 without requiring an adapter. The DayStar cards range in price from $649 to a 50 MHz 68030 with matching 68882 math coprocessor for $1,599. DayStar officials say their top-of-the-line accelerator boosts the performance of the Performa 600 by 185 percent. - MacWeek 14 September Motorola 68060. Even though the migration to the PowerPC is scheduled to begin in 1994, new mid-range (less than $5,000) Macintosh models in the 68000 family based on the forthcoming next generation 68060 chip are on Apple's drawing boards. While UNIX, in the form of PowerOpen, will be the PowerPC's underlying operating system, the 68060 will continue to run a version of the existing Macintosh OS. Motorola's manager of M68000 marketing, Jim Reinhart, says the superscalar 68060 will deliver more than three times to performance of the current 33 MHz 68040 and will be on a par with the reported capabilities of Intel's forthcoming P5 CPU - PC Week 7 and 14 September Big Blue's PDA. IBM plans to be ready if a demand for Apple's Newton PDA (see the July and August columns) proves to be strong. IBM will hold a "technology demonstration" of their own PDA at November's Comdex. The two pound device looks similar to Apple's Newton and accommodates up to 40 MBytes of flash memory. Although IBM occasionally demonstrates prototypes that do not turn into products, officials say there is a "strong likelihood" that an IBM PDA will ship in the second half of 1993. - InfoWorld 24 August Claris Does Windows. Apple's software subsidiary will introduce ClarisWorks for Windows and a Windows version of MacDraw Pro (under a new name) at November's Comdex. A March shipping date is planned for both programs. FileMaker Pro for Windows was announced earlier this year and still is expected to ship before Christmas. The drawing program is expected to use the Hollywood graphics engine obtained from IBM (see the May 1991 Vaporware column); however, the user interface for all three Claris programs for Windows will be nearly identical to that of their Macintosh counterparts. More important the document formats will be compatible between the two platforms. - MacWeek 24 August DEC Alpha Prototype. Digital Equipment showed a working 150 MHz, 64-bit Alpha CPU system at the DEC Users Society European Symposium in Cannes, France the first week of September. DEC engineers say they'll be ready to ship production models in 1993 with as much as six times the speed (250 MIPs) of a 50 MHz i486 system. - InfoWorld 14 September Atari Falcon 030. The video game that grew into a computer is about to offer a new model built around a 16 MHz Motorola 68030 and a math coprocessor. Standard models have 1 MByte ($799 without hard drive) and 4 MBytes ($1,395 with 85 MByte hard drive) of RAM that is expandable to 16 MBytes. The floppy drive is the industry standard 1.44 MByte. Atari's included MultiTOS supports true preemptive multitasking and the 640 by 480 blitter graphics in 256 colors is compatible with standard television. The eight channel stereo sound support is said to be CD quality. - found in my electronic mailbox A Dedicated Consumer Multi-Media Product. Tandy plans to offer a consumer multimedia product called the Video Information System, or VIS, for about $700. The software is from Microsoft in the form of Modular Windows, an operating system optimized for use with a television as a display device. Microsoft wants certain developers already working on Windows products to scale them down for use with Tandy's VIS. Tandy's VIS includes both MS-DOS and Modular Windows in ROM. Supposedly Tandy and Microsoft have over 50 developers committed to over 100 VIS titles, including a number of children's reading development and classic literature titles. - TidBITS 1 September P5 Power in an i486 Socket. Intel competitor Cyrix is working on a new i486 pin compatible processor with integer performance that rivals the forthcoming P5 (see the March, April, and September columns). Cyrix hopes to ship in the second half of 1993, but a number of analysts remain skeptical. The initial P5 is expected to clock at 66 MHz and deliver 100 MIPs. Performance on the order of four to ten times that of a 33 MHz i486DX is anticipated. - PC Week 24 August What! No Modem? Some products take longer to reach the market than others. The technology for a single peripheral to print, scan, copy, and send and receive faxes was first described in this column in July of 1990. Now, Okidata has announced an actual product which supp orts PostScript, PCL, and Windows 3.1. While the soon to ship product presently supports only MS-DOS computers, versions for Macintosh, Sun, Silicon Graphics and others are expected soon. Okidata is targeting the machine as a personal productivity tool for individual users and has set the retail price just under $4,000. - InfoWorld 7 September Dull Normal. After promulgating all manner of "it can't be done" arguments, Prodigy's management will bow to market pressure and offer an Internet gateway as an extra cost option. In an email notice to subscribers, Prodigy president Ross Glatzer, said the gateway service will be available to MS-DOS subscribers by the end of this year and to Windows and Macintosh users sometime in 1993. - reported by Robert Winston So, What Else is New? Given Microsoft's history, you didn't expect Windows NT to ship on schedule did you? End-user beta testing of NT is just getting underway and Microsoft's top NT marketer, Dwayne Walker, acknowledged that long awaited 32-bit operating system "could be a first quarter product." Most industry observers are saying the product is unlikely to be ready before the second quarter of 1993. Although Windows is touted as offering hardware independence, users of other than Intel X86 CPU systems will discover that existing Windows applications will run (slowly) in 8086 emulation mode unless they obtain new versions recompiled for their specific hardware. - PC Week 24 August In The Pink. IBM vice president Richard Guarino is quoted as saying that the first edition of the Taligent Pink operating system being developed jointly with Apple probably will not support applications written for other operating systems (Macintosh, DOS, OS/2, and AIX). A Taligent representative pointed out that the first end-user version of Pink isn't expected until 1995 and expressed the opinion that it is too soon to know what will or won't be supported. Friction between the partners may develop if one company's software engineers are ready with support for their existing applications far in advance of the other. Indications are that Apple is making good progress converting Macintosh Toolbox calls to native PowerPC code (see last April's column). - InfoWorld 24 August New LAN Software. Less than six months after the release of LAN Server 2.0, IBM is beta testing the next major upgrade and is expected to ship it by the end of this year. Version 3.0 will include peer to peer services, built in TCP/IP, and an enhanced High Performance OS/2 File System (HPFS) for both client and server. Microsoft also plans to include peer to peer networking services in DOS 6.0 which recently began beta testing. - InfoWorld 24 August and PC Week 31 August OS/2 Enhancements. IBM is now beta testing improvements that will be introduced into OS/2 2.0 later this year. New features include pen extensions and support for Windows 3.1 and multiprocessors. IBM claims that 160 32-bit OS/2 2.0 applications already are shipping and "thousands more" will be released before 1992 ends. - PC Week 24 August Apple Server. Apple is expected to ship its first model that will not run the Macintosh OS in the first quarter of 1993. The as yet unnamed 40 MHz 68040 machine is designed as a dedicated server running Apple's UNIX product, A/Ux. Other features will be standard RAM of 16 MBytes and a SCSI-based redundant disk array supporting up to 16 gigabytes of storage. Although a price has not been set, analysts expect it will be less than $10,000. - InfoWorld 7 September Smarter Word Processing. Microsoft plans to distinguish version 3.0 of Word for Windows by adding automated editing features. It will be possible to check spelling and grammar as you write. Automated formatting and customizable floating toolbars also will be included. Microsoft plans to announce the new version next March and ship in April. - PC Week 24 August New WordPerfect Software. A new version of WordPerfect Office featuring advanced message filtering capabilities will be announced at NewWorld '92 in Dallas this month. The new DOS and forthcoming Windows versions of WordPerfect Presentations 2.0 are more than an upgrade for WordPerfect Draw. The program has an outliner, a variety of presentation masters, and support for both MIDI and digital sound files. A thousand clip art images and one hundred sounds will ship with the program. - PC Week 31 August and InfoWorld 7 September The Keyboard is Mightier Than the Pen? Pen input pioneer GRiD will respond to consumer demand by introducing a new unit this month that has a pull-out keyboard. A price cut on existing models also is in the works. - PC Week 31 August Millions of Colors at Once? Sun is working with an unnamed Japanese partner to develop "megapixel" monochrome and color monitors which could reach the market as early as next year. - InfoWorld 31 August ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #152 ********************************* ------- 8-Oct-92 19:15:40-MDT,18154;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 8-Oct-92 18:35:24 Return-Path: Message-ID: <921009001034.V92N153@brl.mil> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 00:10:33 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@wsmr-simtel20.ARMY.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #153 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Fri, 9 Oct 92 Volume 92 : Issue 153 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: any info about a program called Tierra 3.1 ? BASIC: Tokenized to ASCII conversion Bidirectional Parallel Port - Some light... connecting an audio DAT to a PC Does Subdirectory Exist EPISTAT Graphics Format Conversion Help Help: how run slow program on fast PC Help needed for NCSA FTP moving files AMIGA <-> PC Team Scheduling Software Video memory question Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Sep 92 18:13:15 ITA From: maurizio lana Subject: any info about a program called Tierra 3.1 ? This message was originally submitted by LANA@ITOCSIVM to the IBMPC-L list at CEARN. If you simply forward it back to the list, it will be distributed with the paragraph you are now reading being automatically removed. If you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will need to remove this paragraph before mailing the result to the list. Finally, if you need more information from the author of this message, you should be able to do so by simply replying to this note. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (17 lines) ------------------ In the scientific supplement of La Stampa (newspaper of my city, Torino in Ital y) an article speaks about computer simulations of origin and development of li fe on the Earth. Some names are cited (Dawkins, Koza, Ray, Cohen, Jefferson). Ray wrote, and distributes, a DOS program called Tierra 3.1 that simulates life into the computer universe (nothing to do with Conway's Life, if I understand well). Ray works at Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico. He also started a list (the article speaks of "sort of a permanent round table where his system's users s hare opinions and results": that seems to me the description of an email list). The DOS Tierra 3.1 is distributed freely. I searched for a list called Tierra, but got nothing. Does anyone know anything about this matter? Thank you. Maurizio. MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.BITNET | phone & fax 39-11-837262 CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy ------------------------------ Date: 18 Sep 1992 20:54:46 -0700 (MST) From: AUBMD@acvax.inre.asu.edu Subject: BASIC: Tokenized to ASCII conversion Jim Groeneveld CMI-TNO Leiden NL writes: > CONVERT TOKENIZED BASIC FILES (.BAS) TO ASCII > > To convert tokenized .BAS files from BASIC, BASICA or GWBASIC to ascii > use the program RB, ReadBas, Vs. 1.58 by V. Buerg. This works without > the use of any BASIC interpreter. I don't know whether this is the > latest release of the program and if it is available at SIMTEL20 or > else. Many paragraphs deleted.... Gee, I've always been able to convert tokenized BASIC programs to ASCII by loading them into BASIC, then saving it with a ',A' after the file name. While in BASIC: LOAD "filename.BAS" SAVE "filename.BAS",A The resulting is an ASCII version of the BASIC program. 73 de Brett PACKET: KA7CGB @ K7BUC.AZ.USA.NA BITNET: AUBMD@ASUACVAX INTERNET: AUBMD@ACVAX.INRE.ASU.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1992 08:27 BSC (-0300 C) From: BAURU LAUNCHING CENTER Subject: Bidirectional Parallel Port - Some light... >Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 10:19:25 EST >From: jeff lewis >Subject: Bidirectional Parallel Port? > >I've been trying to locate information on using the parallel port for >bi-directional data transfers, etc. > >I've searched several books without any information other than DOS does >not directly support incoming data from the parallel port. > >Can anyone supply information both hardware and/or software examples of >accomplishing this? The more detailed the information, the better. >I'm planning on making hardware projects that communicate with the >computer through the parallel port (ie. STROBE and DATA bits) > >Thanks... Jeff Jeff, I have in my hands an article published in a Japanese magazin where have some informations about the use of parallel port for input. My friend (who gave me this) "forgot?" that I don't know japanese lan- guage. I can't translate the article and, my friend, moved to Japan. Anyway, I will try explain how to use: For each LPT output, has three ports reserved: LPT1: X78h X79h X7Ah \ This is used in the original LPT2: X7Ch X7Dh X7Eh / article. In my computer X=3 Bit # => 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 LPT1 LPT2 | | | | | | | | mode| port number | | | | | | | | | ===================== | | | | | | | | ====================== R/W |378h 37Ch D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 > Printer Data Bus ===================== | | | | | | | | ======================= W |379h 37Dh | | | | | X X X-> Not used in printer | | | | | |---+---+---+-> IRQ Enable | | | | |---+---+---+---+-> SLCT IN | | | |---+---+---+---+---+-> NOT(INIT) | | |---+---+---+---+---+---+-> AUTO FD | |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-> NOT(STROBE) ===================== | | | | | | | | ======================= R |37Ah 37Eh X X X | | | | |-> NOT(BUSY) | \ | / | | | |-----> NOT(ACK) | Not used in | | |---------> PE | printer | |-------------> SLCT | |-----------------> NOT(ERROR) ============================================================================= Like you can see, the mode for the data bus port is both read and write. The only thing I don't understand is what signal will indicate when writing or reading is made in the port. Maybe the control signals of the printer can made this. Ex: the NOT(BUSY) signal can be used (I think) to advise the computer to don't send data to port while anyone is coming. In other way, the NOT(STROBE) can be used for advise the interface for read data. You can use the INP(Port#) or OUT Port#,N% (where 0= Subject: connecting an audio DAT to a PC This message was originally submitted by LANA@ITOCSIVM to the IBMPC-L list at CEARN. If you simply forward it back to the list, it will be distributed with the paragraph you are now reading being automatically removed. If you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will need to remove this paragraph before mailing the result to the list. Finally, if you need more information from the author of this message, you should be able to do so by simply replying to this note. ------------------ Message requiring your approval (8 lines) ------------------ does anyone know if it is possible to connect a Sony DAT tape recorder to a PC in order to use it to store data un tape (e.g. for backup)? Please, cc: your answer(s?) to me. Thank you. Maurizio MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.BITNET | phone & fax 39-11-837262 CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy ------------------------------ Date: 16 Sep 1992 19:28:32 -0400 (EDT) From: KAPLON%TOWSONVX.BITNET@vtvm2.cc.vt.edu Subject: Does Subdirectory Exist This message was originally submitted by KAPLON@TOWSONVX to the IBMPC-L list at VTVM2. If you simply forward it back to the list, it will be distributed with the paragraph you are now reading being automatically removed. If you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will need to remove this paragraph before mailing the result to the list. Finally, if you need more information from the author of this message, you should be able to do so by simply replying to this note. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (16 lines) ------------------ Using a MS-DOS batch file, I would like to be able to branch to :PointA if the subdirectory C:\TEST exists, and branch to :PointB if the subdirectory C:\TEST does not exist. Can someone send me the appropriate DOS batch commands to do this? Howard Kaplon --------------------------------------- | Howard S. Kaplon | | BITNET: Kaplon-H@TOWSONVX.BITNET | | Internet: Kaplon-H@TOE.TOWSON.EDU | | Phone: (410) 830-3087 | --------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed,23 Sep 92 19:57:43 BST From: SMR49%hull.ac.uk@ib.rl.ac.uk Subject: EPISTAT --- Forwarded message : Subject: EPISTAT From: SMR49@UK.AC.HULL Date: 23 Sep 92 19:51:25 To: GROENEVELD%TNO.nl@EARN-RELAY Msg ID: <23 Sep 92 19:51:25 BST A1001A@UK.AC.HULL> Please help You have dounloaded an extension for EPISTAT vs. 3.0 onto INFO-IBMPC I followed the followed the procedure stated in the epistatx.use file that is, doing the following with all files: LOAD"PROGRAM MERGE"PROGRAM.MRG SAVE"PROGRAM I also saved epistat.bas and epimrg.bas as SAVE"program",A I then deleted all *.mrg files I logged onto BASIC Loaded epistat ran epistat I get a message which says Undefined line number in 50 after it has played some music. Please help Thanks Sello Rasethaba --- End of forwarded message ------------------------------ Date: 16 Sep 92 17:32:00 CST From: 351SMWDOV <351SMWDOV@strathost.stratcom.af.mil> Subject: Graphics Format Conversion I'm looking for a graphics conversion program that can convert from IMA format (apparently this is an Amiga compatible file format) to BMP, DIB, GIF, IMG, MAC, PCX, TGA, or TIF format. Any help is certainly appreciated! |Michael Taylor | Phone: 816-687-6007 (work) | |351 Operations Group | e-mail: 351SMWDOV@STRATHOST. | |Whiteman AFB, MO | STRATCOM.AF.MIL | ------------------------------ Date: Wed,16 Sep 92 19:36:29 BST From: SMR49%hull.ac.uk@ib.rl.ac.uk Subject: Help Please help I uploaded the epistat statistical package described below from Lancaster University's public domain software library. It seems to be working well except that it does not perform some statistical functions that it is claiming to be supporting like the Wilcoxon Rank test. Is there a recent version. Please reply directly. I will summarise the replies and post them to the net. EPISTAT Statistical Package for the IBM Personal Computer Version 3.0, 1984 Written by: Tracy L. Gustafson, M.D. 1705 Gattis School Road Round Rock, Texas 78664 Copyright 1984 EPISTAT is a collection of programs written in BASICA for statistical analysis of small to medium-sized data samples ( < 28 samples or variables and < 2000 total data entries per file). The 25 programs in EPISTAT perform more than 40 common statistical tests or functions and provide utilities for data entry, editing, printing, graphing, sorting, selecting, transforming and crosstabs. The programs are intended to be as self-explanatory and user- friendly as possible. You do not need to memorize this guide before using the programs. On the other hand, neither the programs nor this manual purport to TEACH the proper use or interpretation of statistics. The user must have some familiarity with the kinds of data required and the underlying assumptions appropriate to each statistical test. Thank you Sello Rasethaba Department of Accounting Hull University Hull HU6 7RX 1 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 17 Sep 92 14:28 CDT From: $LPAHM0%LUCCPUA.bitnet@uicvm.uic.edu Subject: Help: how run slow program on fast PC I have a program, that was made long time ago in PC/XT environment. Now I want to run it on 386. The problem is that 386 is too fast that it is hard for me to control that program interactively. Is there any way to slower the speed of 386 to fool the program? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1992 23:27 GMT From: "Joe Desbonnet, UCG Ireland." Subject: Help needed for NCSA FTP I was wondering if the following is possible with NCSA FTP (or any other freely available FTP server for the PC): At night I want to make a CD-ROM drive available for FTP access. I don't want people accessing the hard disk drive. Is this possible? One idea I had was to boot the computer off a floppy in such a way that it does not know about the C: drive but this does not seem to work... Any ideas would be appreciated. If posting a reply, please send a copy via email as I don't read this Digest often. Thanks, Joe. ------------------------------ Date: 18 Sep 92 09:36:19 MTE-2 From: Cezar Cichocki Subject: moving files AMIGA <-> PC Hi ! I'm looking for programs (MSDOS) which allow me reading/writing/formatting AMIGA's floppies. Please send informations directly to me, I will make compilation and post it to the list. Thanx start from here, ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Cezar Cichocki | The best prevention against | | Supervisor- network Administrator | viruses is not to buy PC ! | | Dep. of Psychology |-----------------------------| | Warsaw University POLAND | cezar@psych2.psych.uw.edu.pl| |-----------------------------------|-----------------------------| | also : cezar@plearn.BITNET, cezar@zorro.fuw.edu.pl | ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Sep 92 08:47:48 EDT From: "Bruce B. Harper" Subject: Team Scheduling Software After staying up into the wee hours of the morning doing it manually, I am looking for some type of team scheduling software. I am the volunteer under-8 coordinator for our local recreational soccer league; we also have kindergarten, under-10, under-12, and under-15 age groups to develop game schedules for. This season, I had to shuffle 22 teams into a 7-week season and I am worn out from the experience. I would appreciate any tips or leads to any type of team/game scheduling software for the PC, free, shareware, or purchase (the association does have some money for operations). I would even entertain suggestions about software for the Macintosh, since some of our voluneteers are of that bent. Thanks. Bruce Administrative Display System Bruce B. Harper, Manager 130 Smyth Hall, Institutional Research Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0433 (703)231-4373 BHARPER@VTVM1 (BITNET) or BHARPER@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU (Internet) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 11:37:58 -0500 From: "John Boyd;LAHDI;" Subject: Video memory question A friend has a 486 box whose video care came with 512K. He'd like to upgrade it to 1M. Are the RAM chips that are used on the video card the same types of chips as used in the RAM on the motherboard? If not, what is a source for them? ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #153 ********************************* ------- 14-Oct-92 19:13:40-MDT,6665;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 10-Oct-92 01:47:12 Return-Path: Message-ID: <921010012839.V92N155@brl.mil> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 01:28:39 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@wsmr-simtel20.ARMY.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #155 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Sat, 10 Oct 92 Volume 92 : Issue 155 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: Info-Kermit Digest V16 #3 Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 11:08:44 EDT From: Christine M Gianone Subject: Info-Kermit Digest V16 #3 Info-Kermit Digest Wed, 30 Sep 1992 Volume 16 : Number 3 Today's Topics: MS-DOS Kermit 3.12 Released New Kermit Program for IBM CS9000 Digest submissions may be sent to Info-Kermit@WATSUN.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU or KERMIT@CUVMA.BITNET. Requests for addition to or deletion from the Info-Kermit subscriber list should be sent to LISTSERV@CUVMA.BITNET or LISTSERV@CUVMA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU. These messages must be of the form: SUBSCRIBE I$KERMIT (To start a subscription) UNSUBSCRIBE I$KERMIT (To cancel a subscription) REGISTER I$KERMIT (To correct your name) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 13:00:00 EDT From: Christine M Gianone Subject: MS-DOS Kermit 3.12 Released This is to announce a maintenance release of MS-DOS Kermit for the IBM PC, PS/2, and compatibles, from Professor Joe R. Doupnik of Utah State University. The version number is 3.12, first announced for beta testing on August 26th. The major new features of version 3.12 are: . Networking and communications improvements, including support for ODI. . Japanese Kanji text file transfer translation. . Locking shift protocol for file transfer. . IBM mainframe file transfer extension. . New script programming and other features. . Bug fixes. . WINPKT "shim" for TCP/IP connections under Microsoft Windows. The Kanji and locking shift protocol extensions can be used with C-Kermit 5A and IBM Mainframe Kermit-370 4.2.3 and 4.2.4. The IBM mainframe file transfer extension (which allows files to be transferred through non-transparent 3270 protocol converters) works with the new IBM mainframe Kermit. See Info-Kermit V16 #2, 26 August 1992, for a more detailed announcement of MS-DOS Kermit 3.12. See V16 #1, 6 August 1992, for detailed announcements concerning the new IBM mainframe Kermit, as well as the announcement below. (Note: Info-Kermit Digest volumes are archived in kermit/e/imail.yyx on watsun and IMAIL.yyx on CUVMA, where yy is the year, and x = "a" for first half of year or "b" for second half of year, for example imail.92b (IMAIL.92B) for the current volume.) NEW FILES Internet anonymous ftp EARN/BITNET watsun.cc.columbia.edu KERMSRV@CUVMA Description kermit/bin/msvibm.exe (none) Binary executable for IBM PC kermit/a/msvibm.boo MSVIBM BOO BOO-encoded KERMIT.EXE for IBM PC kermit/a/msr312.upd MSR312 UPD List of changes since version 3.11 kermit/a/mskerm.hlp MSKERM HLP Updated help file kermit/a/mskerm.bwr MSKERM BWR Updated beware file kermit/a/mskermit.ini MSKERMIT INI Updated initialization file kermit/a/mscustom.ini MSCUSTOM INI New customization file Use MSR312.UPD, MSKERM.HLP, and MSKERM.BWR as your supplement to the MS-DOS Kermit 3.11 documentation. The source files are available on both watsun and CUVMA in the same directory as the .BOO and .UPD files. The source files are all ASCII text files. Their names begin with the letters MS (lowercase on watsun), and they have file types of .C, .H, and .ASM (lowercase on watsun). Microsoft MASM and C 6.0 are required for building version 3.12 from the source files. The MSVIBM.BOO file is the .EXE file encoded in a printable ASCII format, suitable for BITNET, e-mail, and other nontransparent modes of transmission. You can decode the BOO-file back into an .EXE file using any of the MSBPCT.* programs available in kermit/a/msbpct.* or MSBPCT * from KERMSRV. See msbaaa.hlp (MSBAAA HLP) for details. WINPKT is available only on watsun, in the packet-driver collection: File name Description packet-drivers/bin/winpkt.com WINPKT executable (binary) packet-drivers/doc/winpkt.hlp WINPKT help file (ascii) packet-drivers/src/winpkt.asm WINPKT source code (ascii) My special thanks to Joe, on behalf all MS-DOS Kermit users everywhere, for the work and skill he put into this new release, and to Dr. Hirofumi Fujii of the Japan National Laboratory of High Energy Physics, Tokyo, for extensive contributions to the Kanji support. And thanks to all of you who sent in helpful comments on the Beta version. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:00:00 EDT From: Christine M Gianone Subject: New Kermit Program for IBM CS9000 From Glenn Howes, University of Wisconsin , a send-only Kermit program for the IBM CS9000 workstation (circa 1980?), written in IBM 9000 Pascal (a derivative of UCSD Pascal), ideal for those of you who are retiring your CS9000's and need to move their files to another computer. There is no code for receiving files. There is also no code for sending multiple files; you must run the program once for each file to be sent. The files (source and documentation) are in kermit/c/cs9000.* (Internet ftp in text mode), and also available on BITNET from KERMSRV@CUVMA as CS9000 *. Thanks to Glenn for writing and submitting this program! ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #155 ********************************* ------- 14-Oct-92 19:13:44-MDT,9350;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 10-Oct-92 01:42:10 Return-Path: Message-ID: <921010012832.V92N154@brl.mil> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 01:28:31 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@wsmr-simtel20.ARMY.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #154 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Sat, 10 Oct 92 Volume 92 : Issue 154 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: archive controller and tar Driver: AutoCAD - HP DeskJet 500 Color External Hard Drives? FDISK Insides How to print Postscript to dot matrix printer Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #143 (HD drives in XT) Kermit (thanx) QEMM/STACKER QEMM/STACKER coexisting Simtel-20 MSDOS CDROM, Sept Edition, 640 megbytes, $25 Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 14:11:13 GMT From: spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse) Subject: archive controller and tar Hi, does anybody have an archive ft-60 tape drive with an archive controller (I have a priam et-60 with archive controller) and a tar running on same? regards, el -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / (spel@hippo.ru.ac.ZA) Katatura State Hospital \ | (el@lisse.NA) Dept of Obstetrics & Gyn \ * / Private Bag 13215 Windhoek, Namibia ;____/ (postmaster@uonamib.NA) Postmaster NAmibia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 11:01:49 +0200 From: jam@lema.ulg.ac.be (Pol Jamagne (LEMA - 9482)) Subject: Driver: AutoCAD - HP DeskJet 500 Color I am looking for a driver to use an HP DeskJet 500 Color with AutoCAD. If you've heard about it of if you know a way to do it, please answer to jam@lema.ulg.ac.be Thanks in advance, Pol. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 05:49:49 GMT From: gws46142@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Big-guy Lurch ) Subject: External Hard Drives? Keywords: HardDrives XT I have a compaq portable computer that only has two 5.25" drives in it and no hard drive. I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the posibility of obtaining an external hard drive for it. I suppose that I could pull one of the floppies out and install a hard drive and controller card, card, but I like having two floppy drives in the machine. Any ideas, comments, etc would be appreciated. Greg Steele gws46142@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 14:13:33 GMT+7 From: "Douglas R. Nebeker" <$DOUGN@sasb.byu.edu> Subject: FDISK Insides I've got a small project that I'm working on, but running into some problems. What does FDISK actually do? I know it sets up the partition information on the hard disk's track 0, sector 0--but what else? I am using a TSR that hooks int 13h, and any time it is in memory, FDISK claims I don't have any hard disks (although all reads, writes, etc work 100%--never an error, only FDISK squaks). Any ideas? Please email and I'll post a summary (if there's enough interest) THANKS Douglas R. Nebeker Internet: $dougn@sasb.byu.edu Brigham Young University ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 23:42:12 CDT From: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) Subject: How to print Postscript to dot matrix printer :)Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 20:00:19 EDT :)From: "Alexander D. Boster" :)Is there, anywhere "out there," a program to convert standard (NOT :)encapsulated) PostScript files to some (any) kind of bitmapped format, :)such as would allow it to be printed on a dot-matrix printer. Or, :)equivalently, is there a printer specific program that would directly :)allow .ps files to be printed on a dot-matrix. (mine is a KX-P1124.. :)which is fully compatible with Epson LQ-2500 & IBM Proprinter X24.) What you need is a postscript interpreter (postscript is in fact a programming language, and postscript printers have the interpreter in firmwhare inside). There are several, with and without GUIs, etc. Since i'm a poor guy, the only one i've tried is Ghostscript (from GNU foundation). It's free and it's available in simtel20 and mirrors (a whole directory of it). The newest version is 2.5 (i think) and it will drive most dot matrix or laser printers, and also make .PCX files if you want (being the only program i know that is able to convert from postscript to anything else). Ghostscript is ugly, but it works very fine. Glauber Ribeiro - Wheaton College, IL (USA) glauber@david.wheaton.edu glauber@vpnet.chi.il.us ------------------------------ Date: 25 Sep 1992 01:48:00 GMT From: forags%smokey.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Al Stangenberger) Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #143 (HD drives in XT) Although special controller cards are available to use high-density drives with XT's, there may be problems. I tried using one in a late-model XT (with the enhanced keyboard), and found that there was a BIOS conflict between the card's BIOS and the card's BIOS extension. I finally had to substitute an earlier- model XT for the newer one since the users wanted the high-density capability. Al Stangenberger Dept. of Forestry & Resource Mgt. forags@violet.berkeley.edu 145 Mulford Hall - Univ. of Calif. uucp: ucbvax!ucbviolet!forags Berkeley, CA 94720 BITNET: FORAGS AT UCBVIOLE (510) 642-4424 FAX: (510) 643-5438 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 23:51:21 CDT From: gmribeir@david.wheaton.edu (Glauber) Subject: Kermit (thanx) Thanks to all who responded to my query about Kermit. You've got a convert. I ditched Procomm Plus (registered), and made 2 macros using the TerminalS and TerminalR "verbs" to call gsz as upload or download from the terminal screen (a little menu to choose Xmodem, Ymodem or Zmodem). As you see, i learn fast. :-) If anybody is still reading, another very good program is RBCOMM, which is also free and also uses DSZ as transfer protocol. The Kermit protocol is useful when i want to send short text messages from messydos to unix, so i let the protocol translate the end-of-lines, i don't have to bother with them. It probably works well with sliding windows and large packets, but every unix and VMS system i've found so far has brain-dead version withouth these goodies. Usually, maximum packet length is 98. :-( Once, though, i got a connection so bad that GSZ refused to send a file, and i still could get it through using Kermit. Interesting. Is the network stuff the only difference between 3.11 and 3.10? If so, where can i find 3.10? Glauber Ribeiro - Wheaton College, IL (USA) glauber@david.wheaton.edu glauber@vpnet.chi.il.us ------------------------------ Date: 26 Sep 1992 17:44:44 -0600 (CST) From: BABCOCK@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca Subject: QEMM/STACKER I have just read the message concerning STACKER and QEMM and have had similar problems with earlier versions. My solution was to install QEMM before STACKER so that when STACKER implements SWAPS and installs its dummy AUTOEXEC and CONFIG files they will in turn refer QEMM to the proper location. Unfortunately, this involves un-stacking a stacked drive, leading to the latter half of the original question. The only way to do this that I know of is to back up the stacked drive in the normal fashion (using PCBACKUP, FASTBACK or some similar utility) and then removing the STACKER drive with the SREMOVE command. As the manual points out, using SREMOVE is essentially like reformatting the stacked drive and will destroy all files - that is why you have to back them up. Once the STACKER drive has been SREMOVEd install QEMM and optimize it as you wish and then re-install STACKER and reload your files on the now-STACKED drive. One additional note, I would leave enough room on the unstacked portion of the drive to retain the QEMM directory and files along with your DOS and any other system files required for startup (including backups of the original AUTOEXEC and CONFIG.SYS). This will mean that you can still boot your computer from the harddrive should STACKER fail or become 'confused'. This works with my system - hope it helps you .... ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #154 ********************************* ------- 14-Oct-92 19:30:18-MDT,25289;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 10-Oct-92 02:55:56 Return-Path: Message-ID: <921010012847.V92N156@brl.mil> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 01:28:45 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@wsmr-simtel20.ARMY.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #156 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Sat, 10 Oct 92 Volume 92 : Issue 156 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: Connecting a SUN to an IBM Token Ring Net Directory Depth (v92 #146) Dual floppy drive 3.5 & 5.25 (half height) HELP hrmph (3 msgs) IBM 57slc chips ieee-488 bus interface software (2 msgs) Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #147 Problems Caused By Stacker 2.0 Short Assembly program to display the time Spooler program for DOS? Tape Media Failures (v92 #144) Uncompress + Tar program wanted Upgrading a 286 AT Wedge Technology 386 Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:50:03 GMT From: steven@unipalm.co.uk (Steven Vincent) Subject: Connecting a SUN to an IBM Token Ring Net Info-IBMPC@brl.mil writes: >Does anyone know any neat tricks for the following situation: >I am in the position of installing a SUN SPARCstation on a Token Ring >full of IBM PS/2 systems. Something that would be useful would be a >way for the PC to background re-route print requests from the SUN >running TCP/IP through to NetBIOS addressed printers. Try running an FTP Server on one PC alongside the Netbios Stack. Set up an output filter on the Sun LPD to FTP put the print job to LPT1. on the PC print server, your normal netbios print redirection software will take over at that point and send the job to the NETBIOS print server. Even better if your FTPSRV program supports quoted commands and your Netbios software has a general netprint command you can set up multiple queues via one server, the FTP script on the Sun doing something like:- USER SUN PASS @@@@@ Binary put printerA.fil Quote "netprint printerA printerA.fil bye I have used this method of printing files via a remote DOS system by hand and know of other people who have tried to automate the process. The FTPSRV program we used is from FTP Inc: but then we sell PC/TCP. I have run this in stand alone mode and under Windows (it is not a TSR) in both cases it handled the small loads that I was throwing at it. The TCP/IP OS/2 stacks both support LPD and at least some could do this routing task if you have the appropriate Netbios stack in OS/2 (Lan Manager ?) but might not be so useful. Steven Vincent Unipalm Tech Support Cambridge England. WHO ???? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 14:53:46 EDT From: moy@xp.psych.nyu.edu () Subject: Directory Depth (v92 #146) I believe the DOS limit is 63 characters for the path *name*. My question to you is, why do you need such a deep directory structure? Even the biological naming convention has only six levels: \Phylum\Class\Order\Family\Genus\Species It seems to me that using deep directory structures is an *excellent* way to slow down file access. Remember that DOS searches individual directories linearly, and that each directory in a path is searched in turn, until it reaches the desired filename. Each directory is, in fact, just another file containing pointers. Each file access requires finding its name in a directory, its starting cluster number, its FAT allocation chain--some of what DOS does when it opens a file. I'll bet your disk does a lot of thrashing. - Moy Wong, Dept. of Psychology, New York University ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 16:58:22 EDT From: BRIAN HOBBS Subject: Dual floppy drive 3.5 & 5.25 (half height) Thanks to all those (quite a few!) who replied to my inquiry about a dual 3.5in and 5.25in floppy drive in a single half height bay. I'll sumarize the responses here for any other interested parties. TEAC makes one of these drives and its available from: DISTRIBUTOR PHONE CATALOG/PART# PRICE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PC Connection 1-800-800-5555 4414 $145.00 JDR Microdevices 1-800-538-5000 FD-505 3LBS $199.95 CompuAdd Express 1-800-925-3000 6330 $139.00 (on sale) Sound Electro Flight 1-800-279-4824 FD-505 $195.00 Dalco Electronics 1-800-445-5342 " $198.00 Micro Sense 1-800-544-4252 " $169.00 CANNON makes a dual drive too: DISTRIBUTOR PHONE CATALOG/PART# PRICE CompuAdd Computer 1-800-621-1967 45348 (high profile) $199 45349 (low profile) $199 Comput Ability 900-558-0003 ?? $149 (900 ?? does that mean that I pay for the call?) It was noted that the TEAC device will support 360KB & 1.2MB for 5.25in disks and 720KB, 1.44MB (but not 2.88MB) for the 3.5in disks. And since the two drives are physically attached, there is only one cable necessary for data and one for power. No one reported any experience with the device. One response questioned whether the dual drive uses one motor or two, and would it allow you to copy a file from one drive to another. I would assume so, but no comments were made from experienced users of the product. I mentioned that I wanted to use the drive in my COMPAQ portable III computer, but I found out from a COMPAQ distributor that the drive will not fit. This agrees with my suspicions, aparently their drive bay is a 'one third' size. The front panel on my current 5.25 drive measures 1.1in high (one third height), a standard half height disk front panel is about 1.6in. So - if any one out there wants to put such a device in a portable, make sure it can fit! -Brian .__+__. BHOBBS@LUKE.DNET.GE.COM ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:47:13 EDT From: Meg Geddes Subject: hrmph On Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:34:19 EDT, eddie.mit.edu!kendra!kendra.kew.com!snuffles wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 92 09:00:37 BST, "Info-IBMPC Digest" wrote: > > [Ed note: This program is still called Version 1.xx because Meg Geddes > > once sent Drew a note that wondered - based on the I dunno who wrote this originally, or what in the world it's for, but it's meg@netmeg.ann-arbor.mi.us - not NUTmeg, NETmeg - it's a PUN, dammit! And it wasn't pizza before bed, it was a Burrito Supreme with extra red sauce and black olives. Still waiting for 1.24b... -- Meg Geddes Ann Arbor, MI meg@netmeg.ann-arbor.mi.us ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:31:18 EDT From: kendra!kendra.kew.com!help@eddie.mit.edu Subject: hrmph On Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:47:13 EDT, "Meg Geddes" wrote: > On Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:34:19 EDT, eddie.mit.edu!kendra!kendra.kew.com!snuffles wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Sep 92 09:00:37 BST, "Info-IBMPC Digest" wrote: > > > [Ed note: This program is still called Version 1.xx because Meg Geddes > > > once sent Drew a note that wondered - based on the > > I dunno who wrote this originally, or what in the world it's for, but it's > meg@netmeg.ann-arbor.mi.us - not NUTmeg, NETmeg - it's a PUN, dammit! Not us, luv. I've always thought it was a really neat system name. It was our intrepid IBM PC Digest editor, Gregory Hicks. > And it wasn't pizza before bed, it was a Burrito Supreme with extra red > sauce and black olives. Did you get your shots for that? > Still waiting for 1.24b... He also, of course, erred on the version you were waiting for. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: help@kew.com "My mom is very proud that I'm a computer literate bear. She also thinks Drew has gone off the deep end, although she doesn't mind." - Snuffles P. Bear ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 13:47:09 EST From: Tom Rusk Vickery Subject: IBM 57slc chips I have just taken delivery of an IBM 57slc with their fancy 386slc chip. I plan to take advantage of the upgrade to the 486slc chip when it becomes available in a month or so. Question: Will the then surplus 386slc chip fit into an IBM 386sx machine such as the IBM model 35sx? It would be nice to upgrade my secretary's machine with the chip if possible. Any one know? T. Tom Rusk Vickery 265 Huntington Hall School of Education Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244-2340 VICKERY@SUED.SYR.EDU telephone: 315-443-3343 fax: 315-443-5732 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 13:33:51 GMT From: shj@swlvx2.msd.ray.com (STEPHEN JOYCE) Subject: IEEE-488 bus interface software I'm looking for the IEEE-488 bus interface card for the PC unix compatible software driver. Does anyone know of a vendor that supplies one? So far all I've found is that Hewlett-Packard makes a card/driver combination but it just runs under MS-DOS and not a Unix PC. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:34:19 EDT From: kendra!kendra.kew.com!snuffles@eddie.mit.edu Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #147 Uh, Gregory, I can't bear to see mistakes about my parents, so a few points of facts... On Sat, 26 Sep 92 09:00:37 BST, "Info-IBMPC Digest" wrote: > [Ed note: UUPC/extended also supports USENET news.] Untrue at this time, the news support is at best bear-bones. It allows receiving news, but has no news reader or posting facilities. We're working on it, until this past release it had zero news support. We're also working on Windows/NT port. > Please contact Drew Derbyshire, help@kew.com, for information on > changes previous to the scope of this document or other questions. Also, contact help@kew.com for instructions on how to retrieve UUPC/extended without anonymous FTP. > "I am NOT a Teddy Bear. *sniff* I'm a plush polar bear. Goodnight Teddy > is a teddy bear, but I'm not." - Snuffles P. Bear I'm cute too! > [Ed note: This program is still called Version 1.xx because Meg Geddes > once sent Drew a note that wondered - based on the > number of versions sent out to that date - how long it was going to > take to get to Version 2.0. This program got it's start in order to > allow Drew - on the east ocast of the US - to send and receive E-Mail > from Katherine Williams - located on the west coast. It's still called 1.xx because Drew never figured out how to put the 1 in the archive file name (i.e. uupc11v?.zip), so changing it to 2.00 would make the version number in the file name appear to go backwards. Meg's most famous comment about UUPC/extended is that she dreamed about missing version 1.24b, which of course doesn't exist. Clearly she has to cut out the pizza before bed. Drew originally worked on it in 1989 before he met Katherine; it was released to the public in early 1990 because the other e-mail shareware available at the time was not up to his standards. Also, Katherine is not on the west coast, she's been east for six months. (She better not be, they're getting married in early October!) > It has grown into a quite capable E-Mail package. A number of sites > use it for external E-Mail on LANs. True enough. The Wonderworks actually bypasses our sometimes flaky LAN for internal mail as well. Snuffles -- Your faithful furry servant, Ice Cream Money: PO Box 132 Snuffles P. Bear Arlington, MA 02174-0002 Internet: snuffles@kew.com "Gotta get a Gund . . ." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:48:42 GMT From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) Subject: Problems Caused By Stacker 2.0 In digest <920916233326.V92N144@brl.mil> Info-IBMPC@brl.mil writes: > I installed Stacker 2.0 on my 386SX computer recently. It really >doubled my hard disk space. > However, after noticing the good news, the bad news started to >irritate me. One downfall for Stacker 2.0 is that it causes Norton Disk >Doctor unable to diagnose the hard disk. On the other hand, virus scan >programs also can't work well. It says specifically in the Superstor manual, at least, do not even try to use Norton Disk Doctor, or anything which does any sort of low level remapping of data. I'm not sure about virus scan programs. I think it does make small mention of them in the manual. > Is there any way as to how I can overcome these problems? They may >look minor but in fact they are not. This is because I can no longer >diagnose and scan my hard disk for bad sectors and viruses. In short, >my computer is totally vulnerable to the potential virus infection. If >this is the point, the I don't see people should purchase file >decompression programs like Stacker and Superstore (I suspect >Superstore possesses the same problems even though I don't use it). >Can any one kindly enlighten or share his/her view with me? Thanks in >advance. Again, I'm not certain about the virus scan issue. As far as having to use disk doctor all of the time, this sounds like a bad hard drive. I've been running superstor on a newer IDE drive and it works fine. I've also ran it on a IBM PS/2 ESDI drive which was so full of bad sectors that the PS/2 reference disk couldn't even do a low level format. I had to map out all the bad sectors by hand before I installed Superstor on it, but it's been fairly reliable since then. I can't understand why a good virus scan program would not work, as I don't see why it should need to do low level access of the harddrive. I'm sure it might give back some errors after encountering the Stacker software, but otherwise it should do a fairly close job at detecting stuff. I haven't, myself, had any problems with viruses. But then I'm not in a virus risk group, either. Steve Sheldon sheldon@iastate.edu Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey Resource Unit 2142 Agronomy, Iowa State University (515) 294-5429 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 01:42:06 EDT From: BRIAN HOBBS Subject: Short Assembly program to display the time Here's a short assembly program that will display the date and time. I wrote it a several years ago and use it to display the time when I boot up. It's only 202 bytes (decimal) The output can also be redirected to a file to keep a record of when you last booted the system. The following is a DEBUG script. Enter it as a text file, call it DSPDT.SCR then issue the command DEBUG < DSPDT.SCR and it will create DSPDT.COM By the way, 'DSPDT' stands for Display Date and Time. Enjoy! N DSPDT.COM e 100 B4 2A CD 21 E8 5D 00 8A C6 BE B2 01 E8 73 00 8A e 110 C2 BE B5 01 E8 6B 00 81 E9 6C 07 83 F9 63 76 03 e 120 83 E9 64 8A C1 BE B8 01 E8 57 00 B4 2C CD 21 8A e 130 C5 3C 0C 72 0A 74 02 2C 0C C6 06 C5 01 70 90 3C e 140 00 75 02 B0 0C BE BC 01 E8 37 00 8A C1 BE BF 01 e 150 E8 2F 00 8A C6 BE C2 01 E8 27 00 BA AD 01 B4 09 e 160 CD 21 CD 20 B3 03 F6 E3 05 98 01 8B F0 8A 1C 88 e 170 1E AD 01 8A 5C 01 88 1E AE 01 8A 5C 02 88 1E AF e 180 01 C3 B7 0A B4 00 F6 FF 8A F8 80 C7 30 8A DC 80 e 190 C3 30 88 3C 88 5C 01 C3 53 55 4E 4D 4F 4E 54 55 e 1A0 45 57 45 44 54 48 52 46 52 49 53 41 54 64 6F 77 e 1B0 20 20 6D 6D 2F 64 64 2F 79 79 20 20 48 48 3A 4D e 1C0 4D 3A 53 53 20 61 6D 0D 0A 24 rcx ca w q NOTE: I've seen many magazine articles and such use the 'DEBUG SCRIPT' file format for entering short assembly programs. I however run into a problem when using it. If I enter the script as shown (on a ASCII text editor ie. NON-DOCUMENT) and perform the redirection DEBUG < DSPDT.SCR , Debug has a problem accepting the input. The problem appears to be the fact that each line in the text file ends with a CARRIAGE RETURN (0Dh) and a LINEFEED (0Ah) (as do all standard DOS text files.) If I use a utility to delete all of the LINEFEEDS in the .SCR file, all works ok. Yet - I have yet to see anyone comment on it. Of course, you could always enter the file directly in DEBUG, but it is more difficult to fix typos if you make a mistake. If anyone has a simple solution to this problem, please respond. I am using MS-DOS 5.0 but I recall seeing the problem in earlier versions. -Brian .__+__. BHOBBS@LUKE.DNET.GE.COM ------------------------------ Date: 28 Sep 1992 15:07:09 -0400 (EDT) From: CHARPER%COLGATEU.bitnet@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Subject: Spooler program for DOS? Can anyone give me a reference to a public-domain (or, for that matter, a commercial one will do) spooler program for serial printers that allows you to set up the hardware handshake on the serial port (DCD, DTR, CTS, etc.) so that you don't have to build a special cable for the printer? I used to have a copy of one that came with my serial/parallel add-on card, but can't find it any more. Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian Case Library charper@colgateu Colgate University charper@center.colgate.edu 13 Oak Drive (315) 824-7363 Hamilton NY 13346 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 15:10:55 EDT From: moy@xp.psych.nyu.edu () Subject: Tape Media Failures (v92 #144) I don't think this is a likely failure under *normal* conditions. I've NEVER seen a tape break. The DC-2000/2120/2180 tape cartridges are driven ONLY by a capstan roller that continuously sandwiches the tape against the built-in roller in the cartridge. This capstan drives the tape proper. The spools are then driven by the little endless band that circulates within the cartridge. What STOPS the tape when it reaches the ends is the drive capstan, which ramps to speeds appropriate for various operations. However, the drive has to be able to sense the EOT holes near the ends. This is done with a photo-sensor, via the 45-degree mirror in the cartridge. So it would be indeed rare to "hit" the end of tape the way audio cassettes do, unless the sensor has failed, or the edge of the cartridge is obstructed. - Moy Wong, PC Specialist, Dept. of Psychology, New York University ps The "Grandfather, father, son" model of back-up scheduling, often described in the media packaging, is a good model to follow. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 17:48:05 GMT From: petitc@rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) Subject: Uncompress + Tar program wanted Does anyone have a good Uncompress and Untar program available for the IBM-PC? If so, e-mail me an uuencoded version... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:15:19 GMT From: berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger) Subject: Upgrading a 286 AT Info-IBMPC@brl.mil writes: >I'm really sorry. >Among the notable problems with Slackard Bell machines is a notoriously >inadequate power supply. Some are a measly 85 watts. A second >problem, although it does not directly concern you, is that schematics >for them are often difficult to obtain, so many repair centers can't >fix them, or take weeks to get the information they need. *---- Did you just see this as an opportunity for Packard-Bell bashing, or were you going to make a point? 85 watt power supplies are common these days (take a look at some of the newer Dell and Compaq machines among others) as power consumption of motherboards, memory, and peripherals drops. Large switching supplies need large loads or they don't regulate properly, so bigger isn't always better. As for your specious comment about the lack of schematics, who repairs ANY motherboards these days? It's almost always cheaper to replace them. >I'll try to refrain from restating what I think of running Windows on >*any* system, but yes it will be slow. You may not be able to do much >about it though, because of that power supply. It is also a non >standard size, so you can't simply replace it with a bigger one. >You might try accelerating the machine by dropping it off a cliff. A >reputable mail order house like Swan or Dell can sell you a new system >for under $3K, loaded, or around $2K stripped. Or for $ 120, you can buy a 20 mhz 386SX motherboard and replace the old one. For $ 350, you could get a 386DX 33 MHz. Even if you had to buy a new enclosure and power supply, you'd still come out well under the $ 2000 this gentleman wants you to spend. But if the enclosure is a standard size, and the power supply is adequate (check the power consumption of everything attached to the computer), then why spend the extra money? Incidentally, Dell will be happy to sell you a computer with a 65 w. power supply and no schematics available, just like Packard Bell. So how is that better? Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 11:39:17 EDT From: CHISMST@GE1VM.SCHDY.GE.COM Subject: Wedge Technology 386 I need some help, if anyone knows anything about the following piece of hardware, it would be greatly appreciated. A WEDGE TECHNOLOGY 386-DX - 16 mhz (?) with 512k on board. we have a Wedge Technology 2mb expansion board and we're having trouble getting it to work. Now the kicker, the Company is out of business! We think we need motherboard documentation or expansion board doc or both! I think perhaps theres a device driver for the memory board but have no way of knowing. Thanks for any suggestions. Regards, MIKE ------------------------------ Date: Mon Sep 28 08:32:06 PDT 1992 From: bill@nwnexus.wa.com Subject: Re: Pc Kermit In digest V92 #144 Info-IBMPC@brl.mil writes: :hi, : Kermit was originally written to bridge the gap between different :PC's, as in microcomputers, and especially the mainframe gap. : From my experience with it, the protocol is a little slow compared to :others but there are times when nothing else will work but kermit...... You're probably using an older version of Kermit. MS-Kermit and the current versions of c-kermit on UNIX support large packets and sliding windows which improve it's data transfer rates drastically over the simple Kermit implementations found in most communications programs. : I have used it for years and written a handful of scripts for it to :make it more automatic as opposed to manual.....it is not recommended :for the beginner. It's been a long time since I was a beginner, but I don't find it difficult to teach beginners to use MS-Kermit. MS-Kermit is one of the few programs I've seen that has adequate key mappings to run UNIX WordPerfect. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software UUCP: ...!thebes!camco!bill 6641 East Mercer Way uunet!camco!bill Mercer Island, WA 98040; (206) 947-5591 SPEED COSTS MONEY -- HOW FAST DO YOU WANT TO GO? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:43 GMT From: SCCS6078@IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE Subject: X-Windows Serveer for the PC Is there an X-Windows server for the PC, One that will allow remote clients to display on it ? wil sccs6078@iruccvax.ucc.ie ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #156 ********************************* ------- 17-Oct-92 16:49:01-MDT,16630;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 16-Oct-92 23:04:30 Return-Path: Message-ID: <921016225343.V92N157@brl.mil> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 22:53:41 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@wsmr-simtel20.ARMY.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #157 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Fri, 16 Oct 92 Volume 92 : Issue 157 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: Help high dos memory and 386max Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #140 Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #143 - OS/2 Forums Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #147 INFOMATION ABOUT REQUESTS. Info Requested on Packeted Mail methods Lockdown Scheme Wanted Lotus 123 Matching Math Co-Processor Speed to CPU's Speed Need switch/command info for Micom Dialnet 3000 modem Simple Menu System Simtel on CD-ROM TAR for IBM needed To Window, or not to Windo? THAT is the question Trident TVGA (8900C) and Windows 3.1 Video memory question Warning about DesQView/X: don't buy it! Wedge Technology Hardware. WORDSTAR file format. Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu,24 Sep 92 10:45:25 BST From: SMR49%hull.ac.uk@ib.rl.ac.uk Subject: Help with EPISTAT I uploaded the epistat statistical package written by Tracy L. Gustafson from Lancaster University's public domain software library. It seems to be working well except that it does not perform some statistical functions that it is claiming to be supporting like the Wilcoxon Rank test. Is there a more recent version?. Please reply directly. I will summarise the replies and post them to the net. EPISTAT is a collection of programs written in BASICA for statistical analysis of small to medium-sized data samples ( < 28 samples or variables and < 2000 total data entries per file). The 25 programs in EPISTAT perform more than 40 common statistical tests or functions and provide utilities for data entry, editing, printing, graphing, sorting, selecting, transforming and crosstabs. Thank you Sello Rasethaba Department of Accounting Hull University Hull HU6 7RX ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 19:52:05 ITA From: maurizio lana Subject: high dos memory and 386max I manage high dos memory on my Intel 386/20 under dos5 with 386max. Using ASQ (utility from 386max package) with every setup I find chunks of high dos memory that are free (5K, 30K, 120K). Nevertheless I sometimes are not able to laod high relatively small programs, like MSCDEX (about 30k). Giving a USE=
instruction to 386max through 386max.pro doesn't work. Any ideas? thank you. Maurizio MAURIZIO LANA | E-MAIL: LANA@ITOCSIVM.BITNET | phone & fax 39-11-837262 CISI - Universita' di Torino - V. S. Ottavio 20 - 10124 Torino Italy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 17:20 HST From: T204300%UHCCMVS.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu Subject: Question regarding OS/2 (V92 #143) > Date: 27 Aug 1992 17:30:35 -0400 (EDT) > From: Christopher L. Wright > Does anyone know of an OS/2-specific forum where I can get some > advice, support, and the feeling that someone else out there also > bought the 2.0 upgrade? Any information would be appreciated. There is the OS/2 Discussion Forum listserv, OS2@BLEKUL11.BITNET, the comp.os.os2.* newsgroups at USENET news sites, and the IBM OS2BBS forum that can be accessed via IBMLink. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 08:34:19 EDT From: kendra!kendra.kew.com!snuffles@eddie.mit.edu Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #147 Uh, Gregory, I can't bear to see mistakes about my parents, so a few points of facts... "Info-IBMPC Digest" wrote: > [Ed note: UUPC/extended also supports USENET news.] Untrue at this time, the news support is at best bear-bones. It allows receiving news, but has no news reader or posting facilities. We're working on it, until this past release it had zero news support. We're also working on Windows/NT port. > Please contact Drew Derbyshire, help@kew.com, for information on > changes previous to the scope of this document or other questions. Also, contact help@kew.com for instructions on how to retrieve UUPC/extended without anonymous FTP. > "I am NOT a Teddy Bear. *sniff* I'm a plush polar bear. Goodnight Teddy > is a teddy bear, but I'm not." - Snuffles P. Bear I'm cute too! > [Ed note: This program is still called Version 1.xx because Meg Geddes > once sent Drew a note that wondered - based on the > number of versions sent out to that date - how long it was going to > take to get to Version 2.0. This program got it's start in order to > allow Drew - on the east ocast of the US - to send and receive E-Mail > from Katherine Williams - located on the west coast. It's still called 1.xx because Drew never figured out how to put the 1 in the archive file name (i.e. uupc11v?.zip), so changing it to 2.00 would make the version number in the file name appear to go backwards. Meg's most famous comment about UUPC/extended is that she dreamed about missing version 1.24b, which of course doesn't exist. Clearly she has to cut out the pizza before bed. Drew originally worked on it in 1989 before he met Katherine; it was released to the public in early 1990 because the other e-mail shareware available at the time was not up to his standards. Also, Katherine is not on the west coast, she's been east for six months. (She better not be, they're getting married in early October!) > It has grown into a quite capable E-Mail package. A number of sites > use it for external E-Mail on LANs. True enough. The Wonderworks actually bypasses our sometimes flaky LAN for internal mail as well. Snuffles -- Your faithful furry servant, Ice Cream Money: PO Box 132 Snuffles P. Bear Arlington, MA 02174-0002 Internet: snuffles@kew.com "Gotta get a Gund . . ." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1992 22:44:49 EDT From: Message Center Subject: Info Requested on Packeted Mail methods I would like to obtain any information anyone has on any of the following: 1. QWK Off-Line mail packeting, including specifications of the information supplied, file formats, special features etc. 2. Compression and archival methods. I am looking for information about the TAR and COMPRESS archiver methods used on UNIX boxes (and sources that can create and extract files which are either .TAR or .Z format. 3. File transfer methods; I have specifications for KERMIT and ZMODEM, I'm looking for others which are useful in this type of circumstance. The purpose of this is to document the methods used to read and respond to electronic mail on BBS systems. I want to document this for the purpose of submitting it as an Internet RFC. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 16:06:09 GMT From: samsung!ulowell!frith.egr.msu.edu!butcherc@uunet.UU.NET (Cathy Butcher) Subject: Lockdown Scheme Wanted I am looking for a lockdown scheme for workstations. Does anyone have any information on lockdowns for sun, hp, ibm, and/or dec? Please e-mail or phone me since I don't currently have usenet access. Thanks in advance, Gregory Fell Technical Consultant Ford Motor Corporation CAD/CAM Dept. fell@cadcam.pms.ford.com PH.(313)337-8172 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 11:35:48 EDT From: JUDY BOUSQUET Subject: Lotus 123 Does anyone know of any Lotus 123 group or forum where I can get specific information on macros, template development, etc? Any information would be welcome. Thanks! JUDY BOUSQUET 2119 TURLINGTON TELEPHONE: 392-0371 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AREA CODE: 904 SUNCOM PREFIX: 622 GAINESVILLE, FL 32611 INTERNET: JUDYB@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:54 EDT From: EFIX@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil Subject: Matching Math Co-Processor Speed to CPU's Speed In info-ibm digest #92 v144, David Lowe writes: >Someone just gave an Intel 80387DX 20MHz math co-processor as a gift. >I have a 25MHz 80386DX computer. Can I take advantage of this math co- >processor even though the speed of co-processor and CPU do not match? Probably. I have a 25 MHz system using both a 20 MHz 80386DX and a 20 MHz 80387DX. It has been working fine for over 4 years now. A friend who has an identical setup asked an Intel engineer about it, and the engineer said he personally would not hesitate to put a 20 MHz chip in a 25 MHz system. They weren't built specifically as 20 and 25 MHz chips, they were manufactured, and some tested at 25 or 33 MHz and sold for higher prices. If you plug it in, and it works, it's tested at 25 MHz. This all took place when a 25 MHz 80386 with coprocessor was a pretty impressive machine. Hope this helps. Ed Fix ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 16:12:12 -0500 From: "John Boyd;LAHDI;" Subject: Need switch/command info for Micom Dialnet 3000 modem I need to get hold of the info on how to set the DIPS, and whatever part of the AT command set that this modem recognizes for a friend. If you can help, or know of someone who can, please drop me a note. Thanx!! ------------------------------ Date: 28 Sep 92 13:28:00 BST From: Lord Wodehouse Subject: Simple Menu System I have a friend who is looking for a simple menu system that he can put on an old 286 used by a local school that gives them easy access to about half a dozen different programs. I assume it also needs a let-out to DOS for the maintainer. Has anyone got any suggestions of what to use. Cost - well if possible free or nearly so. Mail any replies back to me at w0400@ggr.co.uk - if it is worth a summary in the digest I will post it when I have had any answers (if any). Lord John - The Programming Peer. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 10:32:07 CDT From: "picard::kummer"@kirk.msoe.edu Subject: TAR for IBM needed I've been running into TAR formatted archives on some of the FTP sites. The file names I am concerned with are in the format XXXX.TAR.Z. What program, for IBM PCs, do I require to dearchive these format files? Can you tell me the FTP site where I can get this utility? Please reply directly to me at the address given below. Thanks for your help. Phantom Tryke kummer@kirk.msoe.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 15:23:21 -0500 From: "John Boyd;LAHDI;" Subject: To Window, or not to Windo? THAT is the question Well, I've gone and done it. I acquired a 486; and relegated my XT to answering the phone/fax/modem full time. The fool thing came configured with Windows. Now my dilemma. I have a number of apps that recently have either migrated to Windows, or offer a choice of a Windows or DOS version. While I know that there's not one 'right' answer; I'd like to hear points pro/con that I should consider in order to decide whether to move to all Windows apps or stay with DOS, or case-by-case info, etc. Thanx!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 04:18 GMT From: Joshua Proschan <0004839378@mcimail.com> Subject: Trident TVGA (8900C) and Windows 3.1 Does anyone have a phone number or address for Trident? I have one of their TVGA adapters for SVGA (Trident 8900C w/1mb), which supports up to 1024x768, 256 colors. However, many of the drivers included with it are obsolete. In particular, I need the drivers for Microsoft Word 5.5, and for Windows 3.1. Please send replies directly; I will post a summary to the digest. Thanks. Joshua Proschan MCIMail: 483-9378 Internet: jproschan@mcimail.com or 0004839378@mcimail.com Usenet: uunet!jproschan@mcimail.com or uunet!0004839378@mcimail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 11:37:58 -0500 From: "John Boyd;LAHDI;" Subject: Video memory question A friend has a 486 box whose video care came with 512K. He'd like to upgrade it to 1M. Are the RAM chips that are used on the video card the same types of chips as used in the RAM on the motherboard? If not, what is a source for them? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 08:37:59 CDT From: Dan Davison Subject: Warning about DesQView/X: don't buy it! I recently and regretfully bought DesQView/X in the hopes that I could use one of the PCs in my lab as a X display with the workstations in my lab. The package looks quite good, but it uses Novell IPX only. Stupid me, I should have realized that 99.9% of all the X servers in the world are on Novell networks. DesQView does offer a DesQView/X Network Manager for TCP/IP, but it requires FTP Software's PC/TCP package. Since I use vanilla ethernet cards with packet drivers, apparently I'm SOL. The person I spoke with at QuarterDeck didn't have a clue as to what a packet driver was and suggested I buy either PC/TCP or Novell Lan Workplace for DOS. Sheesh. Around here, we use the Russ Nelson packet drivers, generic ether- net cards, NCSA Telnet, KA9Q, and occasionally PC-NFS. A product may become available in a month or so which will have the PC/TCP kernel packaged into some DesQView Network Manager product, but it was not clear that this would support ethernet cards with packet drivers. Since Quarterdeck cannot support the majority of academic users I would strongly suggest buying some other X-for-DOS program. I guess I will go find the comp.windows.x FAQ and see what else is out there. dan davison Assistant Professor davison@uh.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 13:18:12 EDT From: CHISMST@GE1VM.SCHDY.GE.COM Subject: Wedge Technology Hardware. I need some help, if anyone knows anything about the following piece of hardware, it would be greatly appreciated. A WEDGE TECHNOLOGY 386-DX - 16 MHZ with 512k on board. We are having trouble getting a WEDGE TECH 2mb memory expansion board to work. There are NO dip switches on the board. Perhaps there's a device driver we need. The Company is out of business. If anyone has documentation on the motherboard or the expansion board, I'd be 'in the pink'! Regards, MIKE ------------------------------ Date: 28 Sep 92 13:32:00 BST From: Lord Wodehouse Subject: WORDSTAR file format. Hi, Does anyone know what the format for the extra utility files for the mailing list manager that WORDSTAR provide with version 6.0. The files look a bit like the old DATASTAR product they used to sell. THe two they provide are not suitable for my use, but I would like to generate new ones that are. Any information gratefully received. Mail to w0400@ggr.co.uk please. If there is a program that will generate such files, I would welcome information about where to get it. Thanks in advance. Lord John - The Prgramming Peer ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #157 ********************************* ------- 17-Oct-92 16:49:02-MDT,25897;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 16-Oct-92 23:13:44 Return-Path: Message-ID: <921016225351.V92N158@brl.mil> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 22:53:49 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@wsmr-simtel20.ARMY.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #158 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Fri, 16 Oct 92 Volume 92 : Issue 158 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: After Dark-modules Code Converter for Apple Imagewriter II Printer. Determining graphics type within BASIC Directory depth DRDOS support via news... ftp site Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #146 (2 msgs) Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #147 lock out Looking for ProTracs from Applied Microsystems microcomputer industry report information request network drive PC to Amiga reply.. PC Write under Windows 3.1 Posting for Publication Summary about CMS tapes coming off the reel x Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 20:55:07 CET From: Joern-Morten Innselset Subject: After Dark-modules Does anybody know if there exists an FTP-server with modules for After Dark (for Windows)? I welcome your reply. Yours, Morten. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 15:39:21 EDT From: Bernie Mack (FSAC-FCD) Subject: Code Converter for Apple Imagewriter II Printer. I would like to use my Apple ImagewriterII printer to print graphics generated by some of my IBM software packages which do not have Imagewriter drivers. There are lots of shareware TSR programs available to do printer code conversions but unfortunately, the problem isn't quite that simple. It seems that unlike the rest of the printer world which send data to their print hammers from top (LSB) to bottom (MSB), Apple has chosen to reverse the order. The net effect is that I can use any one of the existing code converters to do the code conversions but unfortunately, each line of the graphic is printed upside down. What I need is a TSR that in addition to doing the code conversions, also reverses the order of the bits in each data byte before it is sent to the printer. Is anybody out there aware of such a product? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 17:52:46 MET From: Jim Groeneveld CMI-TNO Leiden NL Subject: Determining graphics type within BASIC In Info-IBMPC Digest Sat, 26 Sep 92 Volume 92 : Issue 146 Dan Kelo asked: > One of our professors is doing some BASIC programming using the IBM > BASIC Compiler v1.0 by Microsoft. Is it possible within BASIC to > determine the type of graphics card installed in a machine > (CGA/EGA/VGA)??? If so, how this is accomplished? Any help would be > greatly appreciated. Isn't that an oldie? Does it support newer video standards? I think not. Assuming it does you might try to change to the SCREEN mode of the highest resolution you want and see if that yields an error. You could have 'ON ERROR GOTO linenumber' or so in order not to interrupt the program running. If the screen mode is illegal it would jump to the error routine and go back to try another screen mode (a lower one of course) and so on until it does not yield an error anymore. Then you would have found a useful screen mode. An example in GWBASIC (I don't know by head which screen modes represent which video resolutions and colours, but this is only a very rough example): 10 ON ERROR GOTO 90 20 FOR I=13 TO 0 STEP -1:SCREEN I:GOTO 40 30 NEXT I:REM this point will never be passed (screen 0 is always valid) 40 REM now you have found your SCREEN mode, at least 0 (text) 50 ON ERROR GOTO 0:PRINT "Screen mode is ";I 60 END 90 RESUME 30 Instead of trying all modes from 13 down, you might of course also search using a different order and number, programmed differently. Again, a VGA card might for instance be present, but if the compiler or interpreter does not support it, its resolution can not be used. Remember, not all compilers (interpreters) interpret the screen modes equally: I have a HGWBASIC interpreter (Hercules), that correctly sets medium and high resolution CGA modes with screens 1 and 2 if CGA is present, but which sets these to Hercules resolution if a Hercules card is present. Regards - Jim. Centrum voor Medische Informatica TNO | | |\/| TNO Center for Medical Informatics | GROENEVELD@CMI.TNO.NL | \_/ | | | ( CMI-TNO ) | Y. Groeneveld | GROENEVELD@CMIHP1.UUCP | Jim Groeneveld P.O.Box 124 | Wassenaarseweg 56 | GROENEVELD@TNO.NL | Schoolweg 14 2300 AC Leiden | 2333 AL Leiden | ...@HDETNO51.BITNET | 8071 BC Nunspeet Nederland. | (+31|0)71-181810 | Fax (+31|0)71-176382 | 03412-60413 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 17:54:29 MET From: Jim Groeneveld CMI-TNO Leiden NL Subject: Directory depth In Info-IBMPC Digest Sat, 26 Sep 92 Volume 92 : Issue 146 jguo@cs.NYU.EDU (Jun Guo) asked: > Is there any limit on the depth of directories in DOS? If yes, is > there any reasonable explaination? On my harddisk I can only create > directories to level 18 (root as 0). I am using MS-DOS 5. And I can go > deeper than that on a net disk running Novell. I (still) use MS DOS 3.3 and I can go 32 levels deep if all subdir names consists of _ONE_ character. The full path unto the 32nd level is: C:\A\B\C\D\E\F\G\H\I\J\K\L\M\N\O\P\Q\R\S\T\U\V\W\X\Y\Z\1\2\3\4\5\6 I can create a 33rd level, but am unable to go into it with CD. I can write a file in it using 'echo test>7\test', but I can't see it with DIR 7\*.*, nor can I delete it (so I could't remove the whole experimental branch anymore! I succeeded in removing the remaining branch & files using PCSWP2 (1986) however.). I can even create a 34th level from the 32nd (md 7\8) and remove it (if it still is empty). I did not try further. I presume there is a maximum length in characters (64) for such a path in DOS. If you use longer subdir names that maximum would remain the same, thus lessen the number of levels to go into. I also tried a STACKER drive D:, substituted drives and network drives. The Stacker drive D: yielded the same limits as C: . I have a drive S: substituted as D:\APPLICAT.ION\STATISTI.CS\STATGRAF.ICS (thus on the Stacker drive). From S: I could go 13 levels deep, create the 14th (N), but could not get into it. In fact the total DOS path from D: was D:\APPLICAT.ION\STATISTI.CS\STATGRAF.ICS\A\B\C\D\E\F\G\H\I\J\K\L\M which also is exactly 64 characters long, not including 'D:' On my PC-NFS network drive J: I could go 20 levels deep (T), create the next one (U), but after going into it, I was back in the root of J: . That's all I know about it. Maybe others know more. Why would you use such a deep nesting? I practically use maximally up to 5 or 6 levels, which is sufficient enough to organize everything hierarchically. N.B. Many applications force to enter a whole path to a file name and do not even supply for such long path names (some do not even allow subdir names with valid extensions). Regards - Jim. Centrum voor Medische Informatica TNO | | |\/| TNO Center for Medical Informatics | GROENEVELD@CMI.TNO.NL | \_/ | | | ( CMI-TNO ) | Y. Groeneveld | GROENEVELD@CMIHP1.UUCP | Jim Groeneveld P.O.Box 124 | Wassenaarseweg 56 | GROENEVELD@TNO.NL | Schoolweg 14 2300 AC Leiden | 2333 AL Leiden | ...@HDETNO51.BITNET | 8071 BC Nunspeet Nederland. | (+31|0)71-181810 | Fax (+31|0)71-176382 | 03412-60413 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 19:27:26 GMT From: frotz@dri.com (Frotz) Subject: DRDOS support via news... Just a minor nit, but if you have questions (and I have time, support on news is not my primary, or secondary, etc, job requirement) please use "DRDOS" when requesting this type of information. Many people to pronounce DRDOS as "Docter DOS". Thats fine, internally we all pronounce it "Dee Are DOS". However, if you would like any form of support via news (as opposed to email) please use "DRDOS" in your subject so that my kill file will catch it more cleanly. There are sometimes when I don't get a chance to get to the net for some time and when I try to catch up, I let my kill do the collection for me. If it isn't in my kill file, then I won't see your posting... advTHANKSance -- John "Frotz" Fa'atuai frotz@novell.com (email@domain) Desktop Systems uunet!novell.com!frotz (bang address) Group/Novell NOVELL:FROTZ or FROTZ@NOVELL (MHS address) c/o TS Dept. 408/645-2067 (vmail) 80 Garden Court 408/649-8209 (fax) Monterey, CA 93940 drdos@novell.com (DRDOS email support) "Customer Driven and Loving" -- Novell, Inc. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 12:22:39 -0700 From: Bob Ward Subject: ftp site I am looking for an anonymous ftp site that carries text files of the latest legistation that is pending in US Congress. It's a hassle trying to get the information from my representative. UCLA has something like this but it requires an account. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 15:15:59 EDT From: "A. Kaniss" Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #146 re: checkbook programs Look at the tutorial programs written in the dBASE examples subdirectory. I think you'll find what you need there or something close to it. I majored in programming not typing! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 16:13:12 EST From: brierty%morekypr.bitnet@BRL.MIL Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #146 This is a response to the following: ------------------------------- >Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:42:18 GMT >From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) >Subject: Hard drive errors > >Chris Thompson writes: > >>Can anyone provide me with specific info about the following messages? >>They seem to alternate when I try to boot my machine (an IBM ps2/30 >>(8086) running DOS 3.3, only addition a Paradise VGA card): > >>Fixed Disk Error 1701 >> or >>Fixed Disk Error 1790 > >Could be the controller. I'm assuming you cannot get to C: at all, >even with FDISK after a floppy boot. >-JTT Yes, the controller is a possibility. I have had this problem about a dozen times and I can recommend several things before you start buying new parts. First 1701 is a Fixed disk POST error and 1790 is a fixed disk 0 error. Even though these are hardware error messages, you probably don't have to replace any hardware. I have fixed these errors several times by opening up the PC and cleaning out the dust. Also, more than once, I have fixed this problem by disconnecting and reseating all of the connectors. If that does not work, twice the cause was a blown away boot sector. One time we could not recover, but the other time two people from User Services were able to fix the boot sector for me. Another cause of this problem, but this was an IBM-AT, and the model 30 works differently, was the battery needed replacing. Carol Brierty brierty@morekypr.bitnet Automation Coordinator Camden-Carroll Library Morehead State University Morehead KY 40351 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 17:25:28 EDT From: "A. Kaniss" Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #147 re: determining pc type for this kind of thing can be slow. Why not have code specific to a 386 run but run in a shell so that a crash would just drop you back into the main program. Another possible solution to have geterror.cm geterror.com running on a 286 and run a small package that could only be run on a 386 on the 286, then run geterror.com again. Geterror.com is a tsr that catches a program's exit error code and preserves it for you so when it's run again the number is shown on the terminal. You could run the small program in a batch file and do an if errorlevel test after it for the number that was returned by geterror.com. Interesting thing is I found out if an unformatted disk is dsk is run on it and you abort the at geterror.com returns is 255. rue to run a format program les in those small hard disk situations. I majored in programming not typing! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:48 CDT From: KEVIN FOSTER Subject: lock out I work in a lab at SWTSU an we are looking for a way to lock out our hardrives on our IBM model 70s so that students can run the programs on the hard drive but not alter any information on the hard drive. We have done it on our MACS but we have know idea on how to do it on our PCs... Kevin Foster Bitnet: MF12372@swtexas.bitnet Internet: Mf12372%swt.decnet@relay.the.net Southwest Texas State University ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Oct 92 17:13:55 CDT From: "Daniel W. DeNise, Sci. Pgmr/Analyst II" Subject: Looking for ProTracs from Applied Microsystems I'm looking for information on ProTracs, published by Applied Microsystems, a project tracking program that produces Gnatt charts, etc. We have two different addresses for Applied Microsystems, neither of which are valid anymore. Does anyone have a current address for Applied Microsystems? Does anyone use ProTracs? What do you think of it? What is the current version? (We have 4.4) Is similar (or better) project tracking software available? Daniel W. DeNise E-mail: c0016@umrvmb.umr.edu Computing Services Phone: 1.314.341.4841 University of Missouri-Rolla USMail: 114 Math/Computer Science Missouri's Technological University Rolla, MO, 65401 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 15:46 EDT From: Dan Sline Subject: microcomputer industry report information request I'm doing a report for a class on the microcomputer industry, and I am unable to find current market share statistics for two sets of statistics: 1) Apple Vs. PC's (IBM's and compatibles) Vs. Commodores (Amiga) 2) IBM vs. Compaq vs. Dell vs. other compatibles I am also interested in finding out what current trends do you expect in the microcomputer industry (mainly hardware). Please send replies directly to me, because my report is due shortly. I will summarize my finds when I am done with my report. Thank you in advance, Dan Sline Bitnet: Sline@ithaca Internet:Sline@ithaca.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 08:54 MET From: Anneke Sicherer-Roetman Subject: network drive Some programs won't work on network drives e.g. chkdsk. Now I wonder how they can tell that something IS a network drive. I need this in my own programming. The question is therefore: HOW CAN I TELL IF A DRIVE IS NOT ON THE LOCAL MACHINE BUT REMOTE? Thanks for any suggestions! Anneke ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:15:48 +1200 From: corban_l@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz Subject: PC to Amiga reply.. In reply to: From: scopjam@THOR.CARDIFF.AC.UK (Paul McCarthy) Subject: copying pc - amiga I am using a pc to download ibmpc software from ftp sites for my pc at the uni, though I was wondering if I could download amiga software and unpack it on my pc then copy it onto an amiga formatted disk - which i would then be able to run on my amiga. Any help would be grateful ADVthanksANCE THere are a number of utilities that allow the Amiga to read / write msdos disk, both shareware and commercial. Of them I use MessyDos, which is shareware. This allows me to shift data using 720k msdos disks between machines. While it's possible to decompress almost everything on the pc bar DMS and ZOM, I try to avoid this, seeing as msdos can't handle something like: ppmore.readme.info If the archive is larger than 720k, simply extract the largest single file to split the size. Files that are DMS'ed are normally under 720k. Some versions of CrossDos allow the use of 1.44meg msdos disks, if you have the hardware.. e-mail me if you have trouble.. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 23:13:01 -0400 From: abrams@smiley.mitre.org Subject: PC Write under Windows 3.1 I would like to compare notes with others who have (tried to) install(ed) PC Write Advanced level 4.0 under Windows 3.1. I have only been able to install PCW as a small window or a full screen. Both have problems. The small window is hard to see, and doesn't recognize (get control of) the mouse. The full screen works with the mouse, but I don't know how to access other windows. Sincerely, Marshall D. Abrams e-mail abrams@mitre.org telephone 703.883.6938 Information Systems Security Div. secretary 703.883.5397 The MITRE Corporation, Mail Stop Z202 facsimile 703.883.1397 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22102-3481 ------------------------------ Date: 28 Sep 1992 16:04:22 -0500 (CDT) From: JOHN A. NIERENGARTEN Subject: Bad 720K Floppies on the IBM PS/2 Model 30 I have a straightforward, but annoying problem which has plagued us for some time and would like help from anyone who has found a better answer to it than I have. The 720KB floppy drive which IBM used in the original PS/2 Model 30 is an inferior product. It was made by ALPS Electric and has a short MTBF. We have a lab full of these machines and our first failures started occuring about 18 months after the lab was opened as opposed to about three years on the old 5.25" 360KB floppies on the original IBM PC. The drives often give the "Sector not found" error message, or failures writing to the media, have prob- lems formatting diskettes or just don't respond at all. I have a logical explaination of what their problem is and, when they don't work correctly, we have been replacing them with reconditioned units of the same type. Needless to say, the problem continues and the amount of time and effort expended is often high, and the quality of service we give suffers. Also, at $50 a pop for reconditioning, the cost is starting to climb. In a student lab such as this, we need reliable floppy drives to provide a more stable operation. Replacing the computers is not a current option. My question is... Does anyone know of a replacement drive that will work inside the PS/2 Model 30? Just any old 3.5" drive will not work, as it has to have an edge connector for the drive cables or an adapter for same. Also they use a special mounting slide, although we can cannabalize those from bad units. Finally, they have a snap-in bezel made for the PS/2 case, which the drive must either fit or provide a replacement for. Also, if we plan to replace the drives, it would seem prudent to replace them with 1.44MB floppies. Does anyone know if any if these will work in a Model 30 and what, if any additional items are required?? Respond directly to me and I will try to summarize for the net. John Nierengarten, Director, Academic Computing Center University of Wisconsin - River Falls Internet: John.A.Nierengarten@uwrf.edu ------------------------------ Date: 30 Sep 1992 13:14:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bruce Hawkins" Subject: Summary about CMS tapes coming off the reel I have had five replies to my query about DC2120 tapes coming off the reel. Four of them have had this experience, one uses a lot of tapes and has never had it. Relevant portions of their messages appear below, but I'll summarize the essential information: 1) Keep the sensor clean with a can of compressed air. It is a tiny hole in a little black block to the left of the drive wheel which you can see if you push the drive door open. 2) The tape vendor will reattach the end, but you can also do it yourself. Take out the two screws on the bottom and then don't be afraid to pull hard on the plastic top; you casn get a good grip on it at either end. It has four little friction fittings that pop off once the screws are out. Then wind the end of the tape around the take-up reel, execute step 2a below if necessary, and wind it up until all the little holes go by. I think I saw three groups of them. 2a) If you are unlucky (I was), the drive belt will come off and shrivel up. After several tries, what worked for me was to put it around the brown roller at the front of the cartridge, bring it (both pieces) back BETWEEN the two tape reels, put a finger in the loop, stretch it (you can pull pretty hard to get the wrinkles out), and loop it over ONE of the white rollers at the back corners of the cartridge. The tricky part is getting it over the second roller at the other corner. I was able to do this by putting a Phillips screwdriver in the loop, stretching it, and carefully manipulating it over the roller. ************************ From: RJFS%SNYCENVM.bitnet "Joel Saunders" 28-SEP-1992 09:12:58.99 I recently had the same problem with a 3M DC2120 in a Colorado 120MB drive. I called the 3M service department as stated in the cartridge and was very pleased with their service. In fact, in many cases, 3M will reattach the tape within the cartridge for you. They did it for me and I was very impressed. They also sent me some documentation as to the possible causes of this condition, (dirty drive sensors ) ...etc. **************************************** From: dukelow@peanuts.nosc.mil" 28-SEP-1992 11:23:04.96 CMS suggested cleaning the sensor (a small hole on a black block inside the drive) with a can of compressed air. That curred the problem temporarily - but the sensor keeps getting full of dust so I finally just developed the habit of cleaning it every couple of weeks and I no longer have a problem. BTW - it is possible to take the tape cartridge appart and string the tape back on the spool. It's a little tricky - but I have done is several times successfully and recovered my data (and tape). --Bob Dukelow you just push in the door on the front panel so that you can see the rollers, heads, etc. Towards the left (at least on mine) is a solid black plastic part with a hole which is probably only about 1 mm diameter. Get a can of compressed air with a tube on it so you can get close to the hole and blow it out. Only takes a couple of seconds and you don't have to take anything apart - just be sure it is clean air so you don't foul things up more. --Bob *********************************** From: BRIERTY@morekypr.BITNET" 28-SEP-1992 18:07:51.50 We have a db that we backup twice a day and restore to another machine twice a day. I have been here three years now and the staff in that department has complained about alot of things but they have never told me that the tape came off the reels. We keep five days, one week of backups and if a backup fails they just do it again. In other words, we never replace a tape until we have to, we just beat them to death. CArol ************************************ From: mousseau@cricket.biol.scarolina.edu" 28-SEP-1992 21:55:27.86 Hi. I also have encountered the tape-coming-off-the-spool phenomenon. The solution is, however, quite simple. One unscrews the back and rewraps the tape (similar to the way we used to thread reel-to-reels and real tape drives [excuse the pun]). The trick is to ensure that you reel in enough tape to pass by the end of tape sensor holes. These are little holes in the tape that the drive uses to establish the location of the beginning or end of the tape. I first encountered this problem when my Jumbo-250 malfunctioned and wound-off madly until the tape unravelled. Two Jumbo's later, I no longer have this problem. Good luck with yours. Tim Mousseau mousseau@cricket.biol.scarolina.edu ****************************** From: "John_Joseph@l66a.ladc.bull.com" "John Joseph" 29-SEP-1992 04:28:08.58 I made a custom dust cover for the thing to keep the dust in the airstream from collecting on the sensor and haven't had any problems since. Lesson is: keep the drive clean, especially the sensor. ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #158 ********************************* ------- 17-Oct-92 17:12:01-MDT,19443;000000000000 Mail-From: GHICKS created at 16-Oct-92 23:20:48 Return-Path: Message-ID: <921016225405.V92N159@brl.mil> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 22:54:03 BST From: "Info-IBMPC Digest" Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@wsmr-simtel20.ARMY.mil Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #159 To: "Info-IBMPC Distribution": ; Info-IBMPC Digest Fri, 16 Oct 92 Volume 92 : Issue 159 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain Today's Topics: Adding drives to an AT&T 6300 PC Boot/Partition Record checking for existence of a DOS sub-directory Few answers File: "IBMPC-L MAIL" being sent to you (2 msgs) ftp site Hitachi cdr2500 Hurdla? Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #151 Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #152 LZH files Msdos subdirectory question.... Need #s 149 & 150, maybe everywhere New mailing list for MS-DOS file upload announcements OSF MOTIF/DOS look alikes? Slowdown Utilities SMTP mailer for DOS The Most Useful MSDOS Programs at Simtel and Garbo ... Wheather-report Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: Addition and Deletion requests for UK readers should be sent to: Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP ONLY from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 09:32:23 -0500 From: "John Boyd;LAHDI;" Subject: Adding drives to an AT&T 6300 PC I just received a care pkg from a friend. In it was a HD 5.25 and a HD 3.5 drive. I have a 6300 with 1.43 BIOS running DOS5. Using the drivparm statement in my config.sys, I got the computer to recognize the 3.5 as a 720, but not as a 1.44. I couldn't get it to read the 1.2 at all. Any clues on switches I might need to change on the MB, or anything else that I need to do to get this to work? Note for all of you *not* familiar with the AT&T 6300; it's a bastard machine, and it doesn't set like another 'off the shelf' PC, hence most suggestions borrowed from non-AT&T machines don't work.. What I'm looking for is answers from folks familiar with AT&T hardware in particular. Thanx.. ------------------------------ Date: 7 October 1992, 09:28:53 CST From: "RIG 59-INTERNET GATEWAY GE0793 at SIUCVMB"@BRL.MIL Subject: Boot/Partition Record I'm working on a program in Turbo C, and want to do a checksum on a hard disk's boot and partition record (similar to F-OSCHK in the F-PROT anti-virus package). As a result, I'd like to know the exact sectors where these records reside. (I have a DOS programmers manual ordered, but I'm getting impatient. ) While I'm at it, what's the absolute location of the hard disk serial numbers generated by DOS 4.01 and above? Finally... does anyone know why the C function absread (read absolute sector) would fail on DOS 4.01 and DOS 5.0 but run perfectly on DOS 3.3? Thanks! Paul G - a.k.a. STORMRANGER INTERNET: GE0793@SIUCVMB.SIU.EDU BITNET: GE0793@SIUCVMB > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 17:21:27 PDT From: forags@insect.berkeley.edu (Al Stangenberger) Subject: checking for existence of a DOS sub-directory Checking for the existence of a file named nul in the subdirectory whose existence you want to check seems to work.: Sample check for existence of c:\foo - actual results (DOS 3.2) C:\:mkdir foo C:\:if exist c:\foo echo hello C:\:if exist c:\foo\nul echo hello hello C:\:rmdir foo C:\:if exist c:\foo\nul echo hello C:\: Al Stangenberger Dept. of Forestry & Resource Mgt. forags@violet.berkeley.edu 145 Mulford Hall - Univ. of Calif. uucp: ucbvax!ucbviolet!forags Berkeley, CA 94720 BITNET: FORAGS AT UCBVIOLE (510) 642-4424 FAX: (510) 643-5438 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 11:57 GMT+1 From: Jan Krawczyk Subject: RE: PostScript --> Bitmap (?) From: "Alexander D. Boster" > Is there, anywhere "out there," a program to convert standard (NOT > encapsulated) PostScript files to some (any) kind of bitmapped format, > such as would allow it to be printed on a dot-matrix printer. There is a shareware software PostScript interpreter GHOSTSCRIPT, which can be downloaded e.g. from SIMTEL. In wustl (128.252.135.4) it can be find in directory mirrors/msdos/postscript - files gs*.zip and some others (read file 00-index.txt). It takes a .ps file and prints it to screen or a printer. It generates output which can be send to many different printers. ---------------------------- From: Anneke Sicherer-Roetman Subject: RE: screen saver > Does anyone know of a screen saver that also looks at mouse activity. The screen saver EXPLOSIVE (file EXPLO202.ZIP in directory mirrors/msdos/screen of wustl archive) recognizes button presses, although probably not the moves of a mouse. ---------------------------- From: astoner@mcis.messiah.edu Subject: Determining PC Type > What I would like to do is have a program determine in a batch file > if it can run the 386 version or if it must run the 286 version. From comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ: > Q601. Which 80x86 CPU is running my program? > > Check {PC Magazine}, 26 November 1991, page 513, for the assembly > program CPUTYPE.ASM. You can download it from Compuserve (GO > PCMAGNET), or from Simtel as part of PD:VOL10N20.ZIP. > > According to an article posted by Michael Davidson, Intel's approved > code for distinguishing among 8086, 80286, 80386, and 80486 and for > detecting the presence of an 80287 or 80387 is published in the > Intel's 486SX processor manual (order number 240950-001). You can > download David Kirschbaum's improved version of this from Simtel as > PD:CPUID593.ZIP. Jan Krawczyk - krawczyk@vsb01.ifj.edu.pl Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow, Poland ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 19:28:00 MET From: Hartupee.XSIS@xerox.com Subject: Keystoke capture I am looking for some software that will capture the keystrokes a user types into a document. Some companies charge their customers by the number of characters they type into a document. Some sort of TSR that loads in DOS before a word processer is run would probably be ideal. Thanks Ken Hartupee@xsis.xerox.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 11:42:38 MET From: Marco Simionato Subject: info on printing with MS Edit I would like to know how I can set default printing to LPT2 from MS Edit without reassigning the pre-set LPT1 port with the MODE or SET commands. Is there something like an .INI file? Also, which is the most used free/shareware DOS text editors and where is it avaiulable? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 12:22:39 -0700 From: Bob Ward Subject: ftp site and Legislation Text Files I am looking for an anonymous ftp site that carries text files of the latest legistation that is pending in US Congress. It's a hassle trying to get the information from my representative. UCLA has something like this but it requires an account. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 18:15 GMT From: PJHurst <0005460443@mcimail.com> Subject: Hitachi cdr2500 I have been given a hitachi cdr2500 cd rom drive w/ no doc, interface, or doc does anyone know anything about this drive, is it useful, how can it be interfaced to a PC? Any information would be apprecitated! Paul Hurst SA-Systems Chester, VT ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 15:01:44 -0400 From: tbsamsel@dg11svarmd.er.usgs.GOV (Theodore B. Samsel) Subject: Hurdla? I was in Toronto last week and was browsing thru some computer store when I ran across a new hardware software combination. Something called HURDLA. I asked the store manger about it, since it seemed to be GUI that held both DOS and WINDOWS. He said it was new and seemed to be IBM making IBM clones with a new GUI. IBM's name was only evident in the small, small print and we agreed it was very odd. Has any one else seen this? ------------------------------ Date: 09 Oct 1992 14:19:28 -0400 (EDT) From: BRYAN SMITH Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #152 how do I get off this list? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 13:12 GMT From: Peter Flynn Subject: LZH files I pulled a copy of an .LZH file from BIX recently but I can't get LHARC.EXE to unwrap it. It confirms that there are two files in the archive, but trying to unpack them gives the error messages: xt: searching winroach.lzh LHarc 1.134 (c)Yoshi, 1988-89. Extract from : 'WINROACH.LZH' Skipped : 'WINROACH.EXE' : Unknown method Skipped : 'WINROACH.DOC' : Unknown method Is there a newer version of LHARC.EXE for MS-DOS anywhere, or can someone suggest another way of unpacking these files? ///Peter ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 21:53:31 EDT From: eudoh@st6000.sct.edu (Etop Udoh) Subject: Msdos subdirectory question.... hi, I'm posting this question for someone who could not post to the list.... ----------------cut here ------------------------------- Date: 06 Oct 1992 14:22:53 -0400 (EDT) From: KAPLON@TOE.TOWSON.EDU Subject: INFO-IBM Sender: Howard Kaplon - Towson State University To: eudoh@st6000.sct.edu Message-Id: <01GPMQRR1ECY8Y51M1@TOE.TOWSON.EDU> X-Envelope-To: eudoh@st6000.sct.edu X-Vms-To: IN%"eudoh@st6000.sct.edu" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Status: RO Dear Etop, Towson State subscribes to INFO-IBMPC (or that is what we call it). I saw a message posted from you. I tried to post a question to this list, but I do not think it ever got to the list. Is there a way to directly post to this list? By the way, the question I have is as follows: I would like to be abe to tell if a certain subdirectory exists from within a DOS batch file. For example; if C:\SUB does exist, goto label YES; but if the subdirectory C:\SUB does not exist, goto label NO. It needs to work even (especially) when the subdirectory is empty. Thanks, Howard ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Howard S. Kaplon | Mathematics Department | | BITNET: Kaplon-H@TOWSONVX.BITNET | Towson State University | | Internet: Kaplon-H@TOE.TOWSON.EDU | Towson, Maryland 21209-7097 | | Phone: (410) 830-3087 | FAX: (410) 830-2604 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- end ----------------------------------- -- ..................................................................... : Etop Udoh Eudoh@sct.edu : : 3210 Hudson Rd. Southern College of Technology : : Marietta, Ga 30060 Marietta, Georgia : : : : Abandon all hope ye who have entered " CYBERSPACE " : :...................................................................: ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 10:51:06 CDT From: Will Martin Subject: Need #s 149 & 150, maybe everywhere I note that we just received issues 151 thru 153 of the Info-IBMPC Digest, dated 8 Oct 92. However, we had not received issues 149 and 150. So I telnetted over to Simtel20 to get copies from the BBOARD file there. They were not there. They had a gap between 148 and 151 too. So maybe nobody got issues 149 & 150? In any case, even if you don't send them out again to the whole list, please send copies here. I'll redistribute locally if they go to me rather than to the regular list address. Regards, Will wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil OR wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 23:10:45 EDT From: Keith Petersen - MACA WSMR Subject: New mailing list for MS-DOS file upload announcements Announcing msdos-ann@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil, a ONE-WAY (moderated) mailing list which is used by the Internet MS-DOS archive managers to announce new additions to their collections. Information that is posted to msdos-ann is freely distributable. You may forward to others or excerpt as desired. To add yourself to the mailing list send e-mail to listserv@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil with this command in the body of the message: subscribe msdos-ann Please do not include a signature because it may confuse the server. Send mail with the word help in the body of the message to get a complete list of commands and their syntax. This server is only for mailing lists. It will not send files. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of the MS-DOS archive at WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil [192.88.110.20] Internet: w8sdz@TACOM-EMH1.Army.Mil or w8sdz@Vela.ACS.Oakland.Edu Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:17:05 GMT From: jtg0707@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jui Tien) Subject: OSF MOTIF/DOS look alikes? Keywords: X windows Hello. I am wondering if there is any c library packages out there for either Microsoft C or Borland C that has the looks and feels of the OSF MOTIF? Better yet, I like to be able to take my X windows app and compile it on pc and run it on pc (without a network) as a stand-alone app, so I don't have to do any rewrites; this may be too much to ask, but I like to have my cake and eat it too!:-) Cheers. J. Tien tien@uiucmrl.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 9:27:14 EDT From: David Kirschbaum Subject: Slowdown Utilities In Info-IBMPC #153: >Date: Thu, 17 Sep 92 14:28 CDT >From: $LPAHM0%LUCCPUA.bitnet@uicvm.uic.edu >Subject: Help: how run slow program on fast PC > >I have a program, that was made long time ago in PC/XT environment. >Now I want to run it on 386. The problem is that 386 is too fast that >it is hard for me to control that program interactively. Is there any >way to slower the speed of 386 to fool the program? A fast fgrep of a recent SIMTEL20 index reveals: AT,AT-SLOW.ARC,2978,880617,Slow AT's down to 4.77 for games and such AT,AT-SLOW3.ARC,6159,891113,Use high-res timer to slow down 80286/80386 SYSUTL,486SLO.ZIP,1272,920716,Slows down progs which run too fast. 486 only SYSUTL,WHOAPC.ARC,17063,890223,WHOA! slows down PC or AT, v1.0 AT-SLOW3 or WHOAPC should do the job for you. If you don't have ftp access via the Internet or a mail server, perhaps you can find them on a local BBS. If all else fails, contact me directly via EMail and I'll coordinate EMailing them to you (uuencoded, of course). David Kirschbaum Toad Hall kirsch@sesi.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Sep 92 16:11:34 EST From: Ernest Potenziani Subject: SMTP mailer for DOS To all: We are trying to network some of our lab PeeCees via the Internet (using NCSA TELNET, which works very nicely) and was wondering if anyone knows of a Shareware SMTP mailer for DOS machines (or even something that could use a POP server). Any help is much appreciated. Ernest Potenziani US Army Research Laboratory Internet: potenziani@monmouth-etdl1.army.mil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 23:23:24 PDT From: kko@sfu.ca Subject: The Most Useful MSDOS Programs at Simtel and Garbo ... [c.b.i.p.archives] The Most Useful MSDOS Programs at Simtel and Garbo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Compiled by Samuel Ko (kko@sfu.ca) Version: 1.8 Oct 4 1992 This is a good selection of the "best" sharewares and freewares that are available from Simtel (wsmr-simtel20.army.mil) - the largest depository of MSDOS files - and Garbo (garbo.uwasa.fi) - a good alternative to Simtel. ------ Contents: Section A: Application Programs Section B: Compression / Decompression Programs Section C: Utilities Area 1: 4DOS Area 2: Disk Utilites Area 3: Directory Utilities Area 4: File / Text Utilities Area 5: Screen Utilities Area 6: System Utilites Area 7: Other Utilities Section D: Anti-Virus Programs Section E: Editors Section F: Communication Programs Section G: Miscellaneous Files -- Appendix 1: Mirror Sites Appendix 2: Obtaining files by emails Where you can find it? The list and different sections in separate files are obtainable by anonymous ftp from ... WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in PD1: OAK.oakland.edu in /pub/msdos/info garbo.uwasa.fi in /pc/filelist look for the file useful18.zip ... Uncompressed version of the list is obtainable by ftp from ... pit-manager.mit.edu in /pub/usenet/news.answers look for the file msdos-archives ... And if you do _not_ have ftp and/or netnews access ... I can send you current and future (the list will be updated monthly) versions of the list by email ... If you want this service, send an email to me ... -- Samuel Ko (aka: The Smart One) ... kko@sfu.ca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 08:03:38 +0200 From: KARGRA@gba930.zamg.ac.at Subject: Wheather-report This message was originally submitted by KARGRA@GBA930.ZAMG.AC.AT to the IBMPC-L list at CEARN. If you simply forward it back to the list, it will be distributed with the paragraph you are now reading being automatically removed. If you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will need to remove this paragraph before mailing the result to the list. Finally, if you need more information from the author of this message, you should be able to do so by simply replying to this note. ------------------ Message requiring your approval (4 lines) ------------------ Michael Taranto posted an adress for satelliteimages. It was VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU. Could you give use the IP number too. I can't access the name via FTP. But the IP should work. Thanks a lot, Alfred ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #159 ********************************* -------