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1,300 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | save my hard disk allocation error cross linked hi while running the ms quick c compiler in a dos window under windows this evening i got a program has violated system integrity close all applications exit windows and restart your computer error i started to do this when i immediately got a serious disk error message from windows hit return to retry i did that about times and then rebooted to find that quite a few files have been corrupted somehow i am including the chkdsk output below questions is there an easy way to restore everything to working order what might be some better approaches what might have caused this does the smartdrv cache make me more vulnerable i m suspicious of hard drive caches especially when they cache data writing the straightforward approach would be to run chkdsk with the f option to fix the disk and then it looks like i would probably have to reinstall windows and a few other things thanks for your comments and suggestions brad banko ps this is a sx machine with a mb hard drive and mb of ram chkdsk output volume serial number is d errors found f parameter not specified corrections will not be written to disk c gfx vpic cvpic exe allocation error size adjusted c gfx vpic vpic txt allocation error size adjusted c gfx vpic video cfg allocation error size adjusted c gfx vpic orcpro cfg allocation error size adjusted c gfx vpic vga cfg allocation error size adjusted c game goose bird x allocation error size adjusted c winmisc adv winadv exe allocation error size adjusted lost allocation units found in chains bytes disk space would be freed c gfx vpic cvpic exe is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic geno cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic tri b cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic ts hi cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic config doc is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic vpic txt is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic video cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic defincon cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic atiwondr cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic geno cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic oak cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic hires cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic aheada cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic vpic doc is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic orcpro cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic everx cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic wait com is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic maxxon cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic wait doc is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic everx cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic ega cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic config exe is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic readme st is cross linked on allocation unit c gfx vpic vga cfg is cross linked on allocation unit c game goose bird x is cross linked on allocation unit c windows system sound drv is cross linked on allocation unit c windows games grp is cross linked on allocation unit c windows mad bmp is cross linked on allocation unit c mage demo a kin is cross linked on allocation unit c mage demo b kin is cross linked on allocation unit c mage pkin exe is cross linked on allocation unit c winmisc games dialword exe is cross linked on allocation unit c winmisc games dialword txt is cross linked on allocation unit c winmisc adv winadv wri is cross linked on allocation unit c winmisc adv adv key is cross linked on allocation unit c winmisc adv adv rec is cross linked on allocation unit c winmisc adv freezer is cross linked on allocation unit c spart par is cross linked on allocation unit c bng mbx is cross linked on allocation unit bytes total disk space bytes in hidden files bytes in directories bytes in user files bytes available on disk bytes in each allocation unit total allocation units on disk available allocation units on disk total bytes memory bytes free brad banko dept of physics u of illinois b banko uiuc edu see one do one teach one de kb cne n lnq il
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1,301 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | fortran library for ms windows hi i will like to know if there is a fortran library for ms windows v out there i have several lots of source code written by past a ps in ms fortran and recently have needed to port them to ms windows i would like to avoid a major code rewrite if possible maybe a windows library is all i need please help reply by e mail to traversmorgan swell actrix gen nz guan lye chua c travers morgan nz ltd p o box wellington nz tel fax
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1,302 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | wallpaper in windows hi there is there any utility available that will make windows randomly select one of your windows directory s bmp files as the wallpaper file nate nathan c crowell dept of materials science acrl worcester polytechnic institute e mail bigal wpi wpi edu a flower genesis supper s ready
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1,303 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | wincmd trouble with string variables has anyone else been playing with that wincmd utility from pc magazine if so i am having trouble concatenating string variables together and need your help for example temp path temp file ext fullpath temp say fullpath output th fullpath fullpath temp say fullpath output h file ext so it seems to be dropping the first few characters with each concatenations is it that i am out of memory i only have maybe variables total the article didn t mention memory limits email me if you have an idea or would like to see the actual source and output thanks for your help bo james bo begole begolej csgrad cs vt edu
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1,304 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | quicken vs tobias managing your money i just got a copy of tobias managing your money v i have quicken and it s wonderful for some things but mym seems to have some features that q doesn t for example q doesn t seem to be able to handle monthly automatic deductions from a checking account you know a monthly payment that gets electronically deducted every month from my checking account or is there something that i m not doing right and q can actually do that anyway mym seems to be able to handle monthly deductions in fact it can apparently do better than that that is you can specify monthly bimonthly quarterly even yearly anyway is anyone aware of a comparitive study of the two programs or can someone just give me their own personal impressions maybe someone who has used both or maybe someone who is familiar with each could give me a capsule review anything would be greatly appreciated if i keep mym i have to pay for it and i don t know whether it s worth doing if mym is better than q of course i will keep it but if q can do everything mym can do maybe even better i won t thanks all if you post a reply please also cc me thanks
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1,305 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | format a s under win dos has anyone experienced problems formatting a system floppy in the file manager under dos i get a formatted disk but when i boot with it my hard drive isn t recognized i did install doublespace also i was able to make a good working system floppy from the dos command shell no windows let me know if you ve had this problem too and if you ve heard what s going on craig silver computer science at simon fraser university silver sfu ca internet burnaby b c canada
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1,306 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | exit codes dos sorry for wrong group hey now first of all sorry to post this dos question in a windows group but i m in kinda a hurry so i can t scramble to find the dos groups names anyway anyone know where i ccan find the exit codes to dos commands the manual doesn t seem to have all of them i m particularly looking for copy in order to make a move batch file such that if the file wasn t coppied properly it won t be deleted please e mail louray seas gwu edu thanks i a mickey pe michael panayiotakis louray seas gwu edu ace uunet seas gwu edu louray how do make a ms windows grp file reflect a hd directory well i ain t always right but i ve never been wrong gd
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1,307 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re diamond ss x win mouse cursor don a b lindbergh meinte am zum thema diamond ss x win mouse cursor da anybody seen mouse cursor distortion running the diamond x x da driver sorry don t know the version of the driver no indication in the da menus but it s a recently delivered gateway system am going to try the da latest drivers from diamond bbs but wondered if anyone else had seen this no not at all i m using ss x with bios and driver from januar i ve never had any problems with the mouse cursor is there already a newer driver published greetings sebastian beer gimme gummi lass die sau raus
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1,308 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | setting up three user accounting system with wfwg i am a novice at best in working with pc networks and am in the process of planning a small accounting system for a small business the particular need in this case is for three machines each in a different office of the same building each having access to a windows based accounting system my first thought is to set up ms windows for workgroups on each of the machines likely a and two s along with the appropriate ethernet cards and cabling that come with the windows for workgroups starter kit one additional user kit will be necessary it then seems logical to purchase a simple multi user accounting system along the lines of daceasy or m y o b and fire it all up the will more or less act as server with a report check printer attached to it cable runs of feet will be necessary for this setup well this all seems too easy to me would any of you network gurus out there tell me if i am out of my mind here any and all suggestions however trivial will be immensely appreciated my apologies if this has been brought up before thanks john john e martin jemartin nyx cs du edu university of puget sound kent wa formerly martin ups edu seinfeldsupersonicsrushbelafleck john e martin jemartin nyx cs du edu university of puget sound kent wa formerly martin ups edu seinfeldsupersonicsbc rushdweckl
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1,309 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re wp pcf linux risc in article qu ud hd sunb ocs mq edu au eugene mpce mq edu au writes in article c o yq m csie nctu edu tw ghhwang csie nctu edu tw ghhwang writes dear friend the risc means reduced instruction set computer the risc usually has small instruction set so as to reduce the circuit complex and can increase the clock rate to have a high performance you can read some books about computer architecture for more information about risc hmm not that i am an authority on risc but i clearly remember reading that the instruction set on risc cpus is rather large the difference is in addressing modes risc instruction sets are not as orthogonal is cisc some people say it s fun but i think it s very serious eugene macadam mpce mq edu au theoretically supposed to be reduced not any longer that s why everyone is arguing about risc v s cisc personally i think cisc will win out just take a look at the pentium not that i like intel architectures either but that s another story bye brian hojo lee hey excuse me miss could i have a gif of you leebr ecf toronto edu leebr eecg toronto edu try linux the best and free un x clone
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1,310 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re help importing eps files into word jburke abacus bates edu jburke writes i was wondering if anyone knew how to view a eps in ms word a here are the first couple of lines if it helps ps adobe creator prowrite title tcwn orientation portrait pages pageorder ascend can any one help james burke by reading this you agree not to hold the writer responsible for any evil jburke abacus bates edu happening that may befall you at any time we had a similar problem in converting a eps file the solution was simple we changed the first line from ps adobe to ps adobe this fouled the converter the eps file only contained very simple move and draw statements mario mario veraart tno physics and electronics laboratory email rioj fel tno nl the hague the netherlands if all else fails show pretty pictures and animated videos and don t talk about performance david bailey
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1,311 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows help umyin ccu umanitoba ca qing yin writes hi it s an easy question for you windows gurus i d appreciate any help we need to write an on line help for our application we don t have windows software developer s toolkit yet since we just want to build a hlp file around windows help engine i hope it won t be that complicated anyway could someone kindly give me some hints of how to build such an on line help if it does not take pages to explain or if it is complicated would you help to point out what i would need to do it vincent q yin umyin ccu umanitoba ca hi if you have developed your own windows application you must have a sdk of some sort that contains the hc exe or hc exe file to compile and generate hlp files out of rtf files rtf files are generated by a wordprocessor like word for dos or w w if this is not the solution be more specific about your application mario mario veraart tno physics and electronics laboratory email rioj fel tno nl the hague the netherlands if all else fails show pretty pictures and animated videos and don t talk about performance david bailey
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1,312 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re more cool bmp files i downloaded the compuserve gif of the month a raytraced image of a golf ball next to a hole very nice x x bitmap easily converted to a windows bmp if anyone wants i could upload a copy on cica please do and let us know specifics lest i m the only one on this mickey pe michael panayiotakis louray seas gwu edu ace uunet seas gwu edu louray how do make a ms windows grp file reflect a hd directory well i ain t always right but i ve never been wrong gd
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1,313 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re wallpaper in windows in article qvpdo q i bigboote wpi edu bigal wpi wpi edu nathan charles crowell writes hi there is there any utility available that will make windows randomly select one of your windows directory s bmp files as the wallpaper file nate nate s sig there are a couple i am personally using screenpeace which is a screen saver which will also select your wallpaper from a specified directory not necessarily the windows dir let me know if you want info i ve been pretty happy with screenpeace and the latest version is not at cica but oak windows scrpc or something mickey pe michael panayiotakis louray seas gwu edu ace uunet seas gwu edu louray how do make a ms windows grp file reflect a hd directory well i ain t always right but i ve never been wrong gd
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1,314 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows hangs on dx wlieftin cs vu nl liefting w writes hello all you windows freaks out there i bought windows dutch version some time ago and run it on a i recently upgraded my computer to a dx k cache m memory m maxtor hd works real fine but not with windows when playing patience sol or minesweeper suddenly the system hangs i just can t move my mouse anymore or screen goes blank nothing further or screen goes blank computer seems to reboot but stops before reaching the end of the memory test once or maybe even twice i got a message about some illegal kernel call or something accompanied by a hex adress and a close button when pressing it the application wouldn t close though i haven t experienced this problem with other programs than these but that s mainly because i haven t really used other programs i suspect them to hang too anything known about this problem or better any patches available oh forgot to tell if in cmos ram i make the computer faster higher bus speed less wait states enable both caches etc the crash comes faster after min or so if i deliberately slow the system down slow bus speed wait states disable internal external cache no shadowing the crash comes later but comes hope anyone can help wouter hi i got a problem too with a dx vlb mb ram mb disk sometimes when i switch on the computer it starts windows dutch windows switches to x switches back to text mode and exits to dos after one or two resets the system works fine thanks patrick vu amsterdam
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1,315 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | speedstar x windows enhanced mode hi i have a mhz sys based pc with m ram and a problem what is the best way to configure high memory with qemm max i have a speedstar x video card and use hyperdisk disk cache software the problem is running windows in enhanced mode and having any high memory to load stuff high note i tried as recommended to exclude the region a c ff but windows insists on starting in standard mode any suggestions dan
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1,316 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows for workgroups and lan workplace flint waters uwyo edu flint waters writes now does anyone know if it is possible to use w wg and lan workplace for dos at the same time yup we re using both and they work just fine hopefully someday wfwg will communicate over lwp tcpip right now we have to load netbeui i use odi with odinsup and all works well hey sounds great does that mean that w wg works with odi i thought it uses ndis my problem is that lan workplace with all its drivers uses up most of my umbs so i d hate to have to load many more drivers to make w wg work along i read in a german computer magazine that tcp ip support for w wg is just around the corner anybody have any news about this regards richard dr richard spitz internet spitz ana med uni muenchen de edv gruppe anaesthesie tel klinikum grosshadern fax munich germany
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1,317 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows for workgroups and lan workplace flint waters uwyo edu flint waters writes now does anyone know if it is possible to use w wg and lan workplace for dos at the same time yup we re using both and they work just fine hopefully someday wfwg will communicate over lwp tcpip right now we have to load netbeui i use odi with odinsup and all works well hey sounds great does that mean that w wg works with odi i thought it uses ndis my problem is that lan workplace with all its drivers uses up most of my umbs so i d hate to have to load many more drivers to make w wg work along i read in a german computer magazine that tcp ip support for w wg is just around the corner anybody have any news about this regards richard ps i possibly caused a dupe with this message if this message was spread twice outside of munich please send me a short note it would help me debug my news application dr richard spitz internet spitz ana med uni muenchen de edv gruppe anaesthesie tel klinikum grosshadern fax munich germany
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1,318 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re wallpaper in windows louray seas gwu edu michael panayiotakis writes is there any utility available that will make windows randomly select one of your windows directory s bmp files as the wallpaper file there are a couple i am personally using screenpeace which is a if you need just to change the wallpaper then i ve written a short program in vb that does this by using systemparametersinfo function the bad news is that you need vbrun dll to run it and the dll is some kb the program is about kb the order of pictures depends on the system date and the number of bmp files in the directory so the picture remains the same if you execute the program multiple times during the same day and the number of bmps has not changed if you feel this is what you need then i could uuencode it and email it to you it is unavailable via ftp ismo k rkk inen joyl joensuu fi iak cs joensuu fi ph nglui mglw nafh cthulhu r lyeh wgah nagl fhtagn
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1,319 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | utility for updating win ini and system ini i nead a utility for updating deleting adding changing ini files for windows do i find it on any ftp host svein
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1,320 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re moving icons in article bp rahpbh h viamar uucp rutgers viamar kmembry writes i remember reading about a program that made windows icons run away from the mouse as it moved near them does anyone know the name of this program and the ftp location probably at cica there s a program called icon frightener included with the book stupid windows tricks by bob levitus and ed tittel addison wesley it s freeware if it s not on the net anywhere i ll happily email a copy to someone who s willing to upload it i can t upload through our internet firewall bob nichols at t bell laboratories rnichols ihlpm ih att com
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1,321 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows help mario veraart mveraart fel tno nl wrote umyin ccu umanitoba ca qing yin writes hi it s an easy question for you windows gurus i d appreciate any help we need to write an on line help for our application we don t have windows software developer s toolkit yet since we just want to build a hlp file around windows help engine i hope it won t be that complicated anyway could someone kindly give me some hints of how to build such an on line help if it does not take pages to explain or if it is complicated would you help to point out what i would need to do it vincent q yin umyin ccu umanitoba ca hi if you have developed your own windows application you must have a sdk of some sort that contains the hc exe or hc exe file to compile and generate hlp files out of rtf files no u can download what zip from ftp cica indiana edu this package from ms is all u need to buid simple hlp files from rich text format files rtf this package also contains dot tamplates for ms word win rtf files are generated by a wordprocessor like word for dos or w w if this is not the solution be more specific about your application mario mario veraart tno physics and electronics laboratory email rioj fel tno nl the hague the netherlands if all else fails show pretty pictures and animated videos and don t talk about performance david bailey
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1,322 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | truetype font mix up times cyrillic hi i m having a problem with truetype fonts in windows i have installed the cyrillic fonts i found on cica and now a strange thing happens sometimes windows uses cyrillic when its supposed to use times roman examples the pc tools backup version has one line of cyrillic text in its opening banner the next to last line importing a word for windows text written in times into wp also results in cyrillic does anyone have an idea where to look for the problem thanks reiner suikat institute for flight guidance fl g gandalf fl bs dlr de german aerospace research establishment dlr
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1,323 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | top windows applications hello everybody i am searching for business information of windows application to create a top of most used wordprocessors spreadsheets drawing programs schedulers and fax programs etc please mail me all your information or references i will summaries the results on this media thank you in advance anton de ruiter digital equipment corporation workgroup products wgp objectworks obw ing anton de ruiter mba software product manager post office box ae apeldoorn the netherlands oude apeldoornseweg nr apeldoorn the netherlands mail hlde ruiter a dtn location apd f a internet aruit idca tds philips nl uucp mcsun philapd aruit phone business phone private fax
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1,324 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re quicken vs tobias managing your money in article apr twg com q twg com michael wiesenberg wrote i just got a copy of tobias managing your money v i have quicken and it s wonderful for some things but mym seems to have some features that q doesn t for example q doesn t seem to be able to handle monthly automatic deductions from a checking account you know a monthly payment that gets electronically deducted every month from my checking account or is there something that i m not doing right and q can actually do that hi i have never used mym so i can not help you with the comparison of the two products i am however a devoted quicken user and i can tell you how to set up the weekly monthly quarterly yearly transactions first use the memorize feature ctrl m to record the recurring transactions next define a transaction group which uses these memorized transactions and specify the frequency that it should be used i e monthly quicken will can not automatically make the transactions for you but now all you do is recall the group and all of the individual transactions will be entered at once additionally if you are using the bill minder it will remind you when each transaction group is due for example you could have three transaction groups one for payments at the beginning of the month middle of the month and one for quarterly payments i hope this helps mike
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1,325 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | videoblaster pc speaker software that comes together with the videoblaster is designed to work together with the soundblaster from the same manufacturer since i do not own a soundblaster is there a possibility to use the pc speaker driver to play audio files for the videoblaster avi audio video interleave files i think what i should have is a device driver for the media player that controls the pc speaker driver instead of the soundblaster card something like mcispkr drv has anybody heard of such a driver or am i on the wrong track any information on this appreciated please send e mail since i don t watch this group regularly v joerg meyer e mail j meyer informatik uni kl de o o university of kaiserslautern germany ooo u ooo this space for rent
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1,326 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | c link segment problem calling run time functions i have a small windows program which i can not get to work the program looks vaguely like this char f int winmain lstrcpy lpstr f hello long far pascal wndproc lstrcpy lpstr f hello i am using large model under windows after linking without errors the rc program said sorting preload segments and resources into fast load section copying segment bytes rc fatal error rw segment and its relocation information is too large for load optimization make the segment loadoncall or rerun rc using the k switch if the segment must be preloaded using the k switch seems to interfere with the proper function of the second lstrcpy call can anybody explain what is going on and or how to fix it thanks pugsley dpugsle nswc wo nswc navy mil
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1,327 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re utility for updating win ini and system ini in article apr news uit no sp odin nosubdomain nodomain svein pedersen writes i nead a utility for updating deleting adding changing ini files for windows do i find it on any ftp host svein unless i am completely misunderstanding you try using either notepad or sysedit exe found in your system subdirectory to edit you ini files the sysedit exe program is cool because it automatically opens you win ini system ini autoexec bat and config sys files to be edited drewster am kimbark uchicago edu
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1,328 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | mathcad vs ndw i just got off the phone with mathsoft technical service they are now admitting a problem of unknown nature with maple and norton desktop for windows they have no clue at this time and are collecting configuration information on the systems which exhibit the problem anyone having problems loading the maple solver in mathcad under ndw shoud call technical support at they made no schedule promices but are actively working on the problem in the meantime the workaround is to provide a configuration selection in autoexec bat to use progman yuk pew whenever you plan to use the maple solver and ndw otherwise i am using norton be to place a little menu on the screen with a second timeout to auto boot ndw david a fuess dir center for eecs phone fax lawrence livermore national laboratory
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1,329 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | diamond speedstar x driver bug since swapping out my generic vga card for a diamod speedstar x i have noticed two new problems if i create a windowed ms dos session mode when the text starts to scroll rather than printing characters it starts to print horizontal lines that spill out to the desktop and trash the entire display ctrl alt del terminates the dos window and restores the desktop after a short time in ncd s pc x remote for windows all characters displayed on the desktop are changed to be unreadable i am unable to restore without rebooting these are in both and color x drivers large and small fonts dos win emm and smartdrv installed i like the speed of the card and have had no other problems any ideas thanks steve chesney slc catherine cim cdc com metaphase technology inc voice north lexington avenue fax arden hills mn
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1,330 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | trident cl x driver please excuse if faq but new trident cl based card claims to have x support drivers with card indicate several x drivers on diskette windows does not make all drivers on diskette available to configuration dialog box any suggestion thanx please e mail dfeldman uswest com
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1,331 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | q change icons forever hi anyone knows how can i change an icon forever and ever i mean not only in the program manager thanks in advance alejandro cifuentes h acifuent isluga puc cl
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1,332 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re utility for updating win ini and system ini in article apr news uit no sp odin nosubdomain nodomain svein pedersen writes i nead a utility for updating deleting adding changing ini files for windows do i find it on any ftp host svein in windows there is a built in called sysedit exe that is just what you need windows i don t know
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1,333 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re color or monochrome walther i d have a look at the maximum resolution the combination of the video card and screen would have without flickering i d only suggest using the color screen if it does without flickering if this is not too small for your tastes at a personally i d prefer the mono screen as i always have quite a few windows open if you only run one program at a time or rarely switch maybe the color surplus is worth trading in the smaller size if you want to develop programs you will always have to check the colors i used a mono screen worst of both worlds and was surprised how the colors looked i choose on a color screen regards olaf winkelhake
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1,334 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | ati ultra pro confirmation i have heard many things about the ati ultra pro card some have been positive but most are negative could people please confirm these i am interested in the eisa version in particular the card does not work in a system with m ram the card works in a m system with some switches set but it is much slower the card is interlaced in its bit true colour modes the latest build drivers still do not work in many cases this card is the fastest full colour card for the money this card is the greatest thing since sliced bread thanks for your feedback i will summarize al alan walford eos systems inc vancouver b c canada tel aew eosvcr wimsey bc ca or uunet wimsey bc ca eosvcr aew
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1,335 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | workgroup questions conven ram and licensing i would be very appreciative if someone would answer a few questions about windows for workgroups i currently have novell netware lite which does not work with windows very well and is a conventional memory hog ver i am considering moving all our machines to w wg q how much conventional ram does w wg use over and above the driver for the network card q if i have a novell ne card are the lsl and ipx drivers still needed q does w wg do a license check over the network to ensure each machine is running its own licenced copy of w wg note i do not want to break the license agreement and i will buy a copy of w wg for each of our machines it is just that i would like to try it out first to see if it meets our needs returning one opened copy is much easier than returning n opened copies q if you buy the upgrade to windows for w wg does it replace all of win as you install it or does it depend on current win files q if i install windows nt on my server when it comes out will i have any troubles with the w wg machines when i started this message i was going to ask only questions but i got carried away i ll stop now i look forward to your replies al alan walford eos systems inc vancouver b c canada tel aew eosvcr wimsey bc ca or uunet wimsey bc ca eosvcr aew
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1,336 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | serial printing hi we ve been having problems on a few setups when printing to a serial printer dmp or laser i have used works and windows write the output is ok from dos and if i send plain text output but anything fancy garbles or just doesn t output the exception is outputting to a lserjet which appears to be fast enough receiving data not to bother about handshaking messages i m sure i m not alone in this i ve tried most of the print network manager options i can think of anyone had similar problems they ve cured and would like to tell me bout it thanks john atherton
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1,337 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re quicken vs tobias managing your money in article apr twg com q twg com michael wiesenberg writes anyway is anyone aware of a comparitive study of the two programs or can someone just give me their own personal impressions maybe pc magazine january had a review of several personal finance management programe as did pc computing january pc world december also had articles about quicken and managing your money i can email you copies of these articles if you can t find them at your library i ve been using managing your money for several years and i have several friends who use quicken though i ve not used it myself my overall impression is that quicken is a financial accounts manager while managing your money will help you more completely manage your finances here are some features that i believe managing your money and quicken share the ability to keep records for each of your financial accounts checking savings charge cash or brokerage you can reconcile your account statements with the records the program keeps the ability to make a budget and track your spending against that budget a checkfree module which will allow you to use the checkfree bill paying service to pay your bills via your modem the ability to print checks on your printer the ability to keep loan records and set up automatic loan payments the ability to import stock quotations to keep your brokerage accounts up to date i know managing your money can do this automatically via modem quicken probably can as well but i m not sure about it the ability to export tax information to popular tax preparation programs here are some features that i believe managing your money has that quicken does not a tax prediction module this looks at your accounts and budget to predict your tax liability for the coming year it s usefull to fine tune your withholding so uncle sam doesn t get his due too early an insurance and vital records module this is a place to keep records of your insurance policies as well as other vital records it can also compute your life expectancy a financial analysis module this computes compound interest effects of inflation loan payments term or interest yield to maturity for bonds savings account yields days between dates and loan amortization schedules it also has functions to help you decide whether to refinance your mortgage whether you can afford a particular home whether a particular rental property is a good investment whether you should buy lease or rent and whether a particular investment s cash flow is adequate for your situation this module can also help you plan for retirement and for helping your kids with their tuition a net worth module this is a place to record all your assets and liabilities your net worth can be computed from this information any assets or liabilities recorded in other modules are automatically included here a desk module this includes a small word processor a card file you can use to store names addresses phone numbers and other vital information about friends and associates a perpetual calander a rudimentary calculator a to do list a reminder list an appointment list and a place to record your phone calls for those who need to track such things your appointments reminders and to do list can be made to display automatically when you start the program there are probably some things listed above that quicken has but i m almost sure that quicken doesn t do everything i ve listed if i m wrong i m sure hordes of quicken devotees will flame me to a crisp one thing that quicken has that managing your money does not yet have is a windows version meca software is rumored to be working on a windows version of managing your money for release late this year i hope this information is of use to you i ve found managing your money to be a very usefull program for keeping my financial records on the other hand i know many people who are equally as happy with quicken if quicken has all the features you need or want i d go with it if you find any of the managing your money features that quicken doesn t have to be useful i think it s well worth the price
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1,338 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | mathcad swap file i have mb of memory on my sx i have been running windows without a swap file for several months will mathcad be happy with this or insist on a swap file
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1,339 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re is ms windows a mature os in article cyen ponder jesse writes hi have you used mac system x or x if the answer is positive you would know if ms windows is a mature os this is silly is unix a mature os depends on who you ask and how you define mature system is if anything less mature than windows days ago people doubted that ms windows is not a real os i can see why they have such question ms windows confuses many people microsoft simulated mac but it did a lousy job for example you can not create hierarchy groups there is no way to create a group in a group if you know how please tell me so why do you need something like behierarchic to create groups under the apple menu everyone knows that apple menu items are a ripoff of the program manager if you want a hierarchic program launcher there are lots available uncomplete documentation it s not easy to find the reason why causes an unpredictable error and this is easy on a mac give me a break having spent hours moving system extensions around and restarting the mac to see why a certain app crashes all the time i find this laughable group deleting file deleting after deleting a group users have to use file manager to delete files but if users forget to delete some related files the disk will be full of nonsense files oh great ever hear of aliases wonder why apple implemented them share problem once you create two windows doing compilation and editing in some language w o good editor there will be a sharing problem you just can not open or save the program if it is loaded it makes sense to prevent from saving but not opening eh i don t follow it s by no means easy to satisfy everybody but if microsoft want to keep their reputations they should evaluate the user interface more carefully before products distribute why is it that i find the mac desktop incredibly annoying whenever i use it no flame please yeah right you post flame bait yet ask for no flames iskandar taib the only thing worse than peach ala internet ntaib silver ucs indiana edu frog is frog ala peach bitnet ntaib iubacs
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1,340 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re utility for updating win ini and system ini in article apr midway uchicago edu am midway uchicago edu writes unless i am completely misunderstanding you try using either notepad or sysedit exe found in your system subdirectory to edit you ini files you can add sysedit regedit to a program group they are windows programs the sysedit exe program is cool because it automatically opens you win ini system ini autoexec bat and config sys files to be edited is it possible to get it to load other ini files drewster am kimbark uchicago edu e mail un x oddjob oz plymouth edu vms andys psc plymouth edu disclaimer any end user software that provides no avenue for user of the week modification or programmability is not user friendly
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1,341 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re ati ultra pro confirmation in article fn razbbh h eosvcr wimsey bc ca aew eosvcr wimsey bc ca alan walford writes i have heard many things about the ati ultra pro card some have been positive but most are negative could people please confirm these i am interested in the eisa version in particular the card does not work in a system with m ram the higher memory limits apply to isa cards only as far as i know the vlb and eisa version should have no problems the card works in a m system with some switches set but it is much slower again the memory aperture need only be disabled if you have more than m ram eisa and vlb or m isa m should not be a problem for you the card is interlaced in its bit true colour modes nope i can use x at hz bit and x at hz bit all non interlaced the latest build drivers still do not work in many cases they aren t perfect but are much improved i don t recall the last time which i had to leave mach mode ati gup mode and switch to or vga mode due to software incompatibility this card is the fastest full colour card for the money it s quite fast but whether or not its the fastest is open to debate this card is the greatest thing since sliced bread i like it daniel matthew coleman internet dcoleman utxvms cc utexas edu dcoleman ccwf cc utexas edu the university of texas at austin decnet utxvms dcoleman electrical computer engineering bitnet dcoleman utxvms bitnet
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1,342 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re mathcad swap file in article apr ncar ucar edu baseball catch the fever scd ucar edu gregg walters writes i have mb of memory on my sx i have been running windows without a swap file for several months will mathcad be happy with this or insist on a swap file i just got mathcad and the manual is not clear on the matter on page at least megabytes of memory all memory about k should be configured as xms at least megabytes of virtual memory common sense suggests that you should be able to run it but the new mathcad is kinda kooky and thus is not subject to the laws of common sense dan daniel matthew coleman internet dcoleman utxvms cc utexas edu dcoleman ccwf cc utexas edu the university of texas at austin decnet utxvms dcoleman electrical computer engineering bitnet dcoleman utxvms bitnet
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1,343 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re gatewaying microsoft mail workgroups via we here at utah state university cooperative extension have been using w wg for a while now we wanted to talk to the internet with the mail package so we got the smtp gateway you also need a tcp ip transport package on top of that which is utterly stupid but that s what they require to get the smtp gateway to work you need a dedicated pc for the gateway and if you are looking at remote access you need another dedicated pc for the remote mail stuff we do not have the remote mail going but you indicate that that is what you want to do there is a glitch somewhere in the system though i don t know if it is ms mail the gateway or the vax here on campus that is choking in the mail that is sent the scenario is this the outgoing mail goes to a unix system which then routes the mail where it needs to go if that mail is routed to the vax the vax has problems some times receiving the mail most messages do get through this way except if someone has there mail on the vax forwarded to some other location that is the main gotcha where ever the mail is forwarded to that person gets a message header then a message saying boudary error garbage code stuff if you can stay away from sending to a vax you are ok the system people of course say that the vax is not the problem the gateway is probably the problem if anyone wants to get help it is only for one support call until problem is worked out phooey to that i say i am looking vigorously for a better idea if you go forward on any of this and find out anything knew please drop me a note anyone the next itteration is supposed to have tcp ip built in they say the netxt itteration of w wg good luck wes james email wesj extsparc agsci usu edu utah state university cooperative extension systems specialist umc voice logan ut fax
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1,344 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re is ms windows a mature os in article c snbs j h usenet ucs indiana edu comp os ms windows advocacy writes you can not create hierarchy groups there is no way to create a group in a group if you know how please tell me get norton desktop put groups within groups groups on the desktop icons on the desktop etc chris ruckman ruckman oasys dt navy mil this sig brought to you by hull structures acoustics code your local chevrolet bottler carderock division nswc
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1,345 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | pc tcp onpredir with windows hello we are having troubles using the pc tcp onpredir printer redirection program with lpr support with the windows print manager the onpredir simply waits an do only the capture till the end of the windows session while after some printer inactivity it should start the printing does anybody uses this two programs together thanks zsolt zsolt bagoly dept of atomic physics eotvos university budapest hungary e mail zsolt hercules elte hu eltenet bagoly ludens elte hu eltenet internet
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1,346 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | atm i ve been reading with much confusion about whether or not to use atmanager lately all the packages i ve been buying have all included atmanager as a bonus i do some desktop publishing using pagemaker and coreldraw coreldraw comes with a nifty laser disk that contains over diff types add that to the ttfonts that come with win and you have a decent amount of fonts i print my creations out on an hp postcript at dpi resolution with the resolution enhancement technology and well i get some darn good copies so good that there isn t any diff whether or not atmanager is turned on or not is it worth it to run atm at all especially with these better printer technologies and tt avdean
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1,347 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | more diamond ss x has anyone experienced a faint shadow at all resolutions using this card is only in windows i have replaced card and am waiting on latest drivers also have experienced general protection fault errors in wspdpsf drv on winword tools option menu and in winfax setup i had a ati ultra but was getting genral protection fault errors in an spss application these card manufactures must have terrible quality control to let products on the market with so many bugs what a hassle running on gateway dx thx dave l
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1,348 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | x windows for windows are there any x window servers that can run under ms windows i only know of deskview but have not seen it in action are there any others thanks in advance phil pmw lehigh edu
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1,349 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re wp pcf linux risc in article c o yq m csie nctu edu tw ghhwang csie nctu edu tw ghhwang writes dear friend the risc means reduced instruction set computer the risc usually has small instruction set so as to reduce the circuit complex and can increase the clock rate to have a high performance you can read some books about computer architecture for more information about risc risc used to mean reduced instruction set computer true they still use the same acronym but only to be familiar what risc really means is a recently designed cpu in general most risc cpus are like this a large number or more of general purpose registers a fixed instruction size usually bits an instruction may make only one memory reference memory references must be aligned there are delayed branches branch after the next instruction or a target prediction bit probably will won t branch instructions may complete out of order relative to the instruction stream richard krehbiel richk grebyn com os will do for me until amigados for the comes along
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1,350 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re utility for updating win ini and system ini sorry i did nt tell exactly what i need i need a utility for automatic updating deleting adding changing of ini files for windows the program should run from dos batchfile or the program run a script under windows i will use the utility for updating the win ini and other files on meny pc s do i find it on any ftp host svein
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1,351 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re how do i quickly switch between windows screen resolutions in hydra gatech edu ccastco prism gatech edu constantinos malamas writes in article c qlr djl cbnewsl cb att com slg slgsun att com the idealistic cynic writes can someone out there tell me how to switch window s screen resolution quickly and easily i know that i can go back into install to do it take a look at ftp cica indiana edu at pub pc win util misc for a program caleld vswitch zip it s as close to want you want as you can get in win i think george is referring to switch zip in the ftp pub pc win drivers video directory description reads switcher windows video mode switcher david white engineer goon fan son of my dad internet davidw auck irl cri nz fax
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1,352 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re ati ultra pro drivers bad ati ultra in article apr cvdv mayo edu fisk cvdv mayo edu tom fisk d stm writes in article c jldc hl news cso uiuc edu jroberts ux cso uiuc edu robertson writes does anybody know the ftp site with the latest windows drivers for the ati gup thanks the latest driver release is and can be found at ftp cica indiana edu in the pub pc win directory structure as pro zip i checked with ati s bbs last nite and there were no releases past we have the ati local bus card and i noticed that i get garbage around the edges of a window when i move it has anybody else noticed this also i have the local bus card also and don t have any such problems with it now but this is the second card i ve gotten the first card didn t work in vga mode correctly maybe they still have some quality control problems i would suggest checking with ati i went through the vendor i bought the card from since the problem showed up immediately i never was able to get through to ati s technical support number i sure like the way the card performs though i have the mb ati ultra pro local bus and it is fast even in x x bpp mode cheers phil tom thomas b fisk internet fisk mayo edu mayo clinic if you don t know where voice first street sw you re going you ll never fax mail stop d stm get there rochester mn philip carmack pcarmack kpc com kubota pacific computers inc
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1,353 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | running c exe under windows preface i am a novice user at best to the windows environment i am trying to execute a ms c executable program which accesses a btrieve database to build an ascii file when i execute it under windows the screen goes blank and my pc locks up the only way for me to return is to reset the machine does anyone have any insight on what i may have to do in order for the program to correctly under windows by the way it runs fine in dos system gateway dx ati graphics ultra card x any help would be greatly appreciated rodger
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1,354 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | win font with macrons greetings from green new zealand we are looking for a windows font that will allow macrons a hypen over vowels in both upper and lower cases this is so we can use maori characters in windows applications thanks in advance stuart inglis email directly to tetaka waikato ac nz would be the prefered method of contact
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1,355 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re borland s paradox offer in article cvbnetprime com tbelmont feds prime com tom belmonte x writes i am considering buying borland s paradox for windows since i would like to use a database with windows i don t have use one yet for both work home use i would like to advantage of borland s until april offer if this package is everything that borland claims it to be so i was wondering has anybody used this and or have any opinions yes and it s pretty much what they claim i haven t had time to try all of it considering the price even if you decide you don t like it it should be saleable over the next months for what you have in it once the price goes up all in all it s very serviceable and in my humble opinion more powerful than access
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1,356 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re more cool bmp files in article apr gmuvax gmu edu rwang gmuvax gmu edu john wang writes hi everybody i guess my subject has said it all it is getting boring looking at those same old bmp files that came with windows so i am wondering if there is any body has some beautiful bmp file i can share or maybe somebody can tell me some ftp site for some bmp files like some scenery files some animals files etc i used to have some unfortunately i delete them all anyway could me give me some help please in response to a different kinda wallpaper here s what i use i think the original gif whatever was called not real the artist name and logo is in the lower right corner you will need vga i think and i have this sized for x color screens use this in your windows directory and do not tile it hope you enjoy
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1,357 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re wp pcf linux risc leebr ecf toronto edu lee brian writes in article qu ud hd sunb ocs mq edu au eugene mpce mq edu au writes in article c o yq m csie nctu edu tw ghhwang csie nctu edu tw ghhwang writes dear friend the risc means reduced instruction set computer the risc usually has small instruction set so as to reduce the circuit complex and can increase the clock rate to have a high performance you can read some books about computer architecture for more information about risc hmm not that i am an authority on risc but i clearly remember reading that the instruction set on risc cpus is rather large the difference is in addressing modes risc instruction sets are not as orthogonal is cisc the original riscs had small instruction sets and simple ones the idea was that a every instruction should be completable in a single clock cycle and b to have no microcode and c extensive pipelines a few comparisons from patterson reduced instruction set computers cacm v cpu year instructions microcode ibm kb dec vax kb ibm ucb risc stanford mips while researching for the vlsi vax dec discovered that of the vax microcode is there to support of the instruction set which accounted for a mere of all instructions executed the uvax subsetted the architecture onto a single chip and used a software emulator for these very complex instructions the full vlsi uvax included the entire instruction set was times more copmlex but only ranm faster cpu chips microcode transistors uvax k k vlsi uvax k k real deryk barker computer science dept camosun college victoria b c email dbarker camosun bc ca phone
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1,358 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | norton desktop smartcan vs norton util s ep i just purchased the norton desktop for windows and i also have norton utilities when i installed ndw it wanted to rem out the line that installed ep ep on and the command to invoke the image utility it replaced the image command with a new image command that invokes the version of image that came with ndw this makes sense as presumably the image version with ndw is newer than the one with nu it did not however install smartcan in the autoexec now two questions will nu use the image data saved by the newer version of image invoked i e are the two version of image compatable will erase protect use the info from smartcan and vice versa i use both dos and windows and i want to make sure that when i erase files in either environment they are going to be protected from the experiments i have run the two programs erase protect and smart erase don t use each others info i currently have both ep and smartcan loading within my autoexec and i don t see any conflicts fyi norton desktop for windows version norton util s version thanks for any help
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1,359 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | character missing in ttf word c doesn t show the period centred character to indicate spaces if i use the ttfonts from coreldraw our editors need to be able to see how many spaces are in text but the character displayed is a large hollow box they overlap each other and characters on each side which is useless i believe the character used by w w is the period centred this character shows up with the windows charmap display as the hollow box which tends to confirm this i have edited the corel font with fontmonger and changing the font graphics for the character makes no difference to the font output in charmap or w w altering the paragraph or cedilla does alter their font graphics displayed however is the w w character used to indicate spaces the period centred character has anyone been able to get this character displayed from a coreldraw ttf russ sharp russ deakin edu au ph fax deakin university school of engineering technology geelong australia
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1,360 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows help in apr fel tno nl mveraart fel tno nl mario veraart writes umyin ccu umanitoba ca qing yin writes hi it s an easy question for you windows gurus i d appreciate any help we need to write an on line help for our application we don t have windows software developer s toolkit yet since we just want to build a hlp file around windows help engine i hope it won t be that complicated anyway could someone kindly give me some hints of how to build such an on line help if it does not take pages to explain or if it is complicated would you help to point out what i would need to do it vincent q yin umyin ccu umanitoba ca hi if you have developed your own windows application you must have a sdk of some sort that contains the hc exe or hc exe file to compile and generate hlp files out of rtf files rtf files are generated by a wordprocessor like word for dos or w w you do not need the sdk what you need and can get free are location ftp cica indiana edu index pub pc win index first get pub pc win uploads what zip m this contains the help compiler among other things it is free from microsoft then get these i think these are free too dir pub pc win programr files hag zip whag zip wfwhlp zip these are shareware dir pub pc win util files hwab zip qdhelp zip qdtool zip dir pub pc win winword files drhelpev zip macros for word to convert doc to hlp files shiva shenoy e mail shenoy iastate edu black dept of aeem isu ames ia office shiva shenoy e mail shenoy iastate edu black dept of aeem isu ames ia office
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1,361 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | losing dark colors of my icons here is an annoying problem whenever i save an icon which contains dark colors like dark red or dark purple these colors are converted to the bright colors this happens with every icon editor including the image editor that came with sdk i don t have this problem with bmp files either only with ico files or icon libraries the problem is with the icon colormap field in the icon file header checking the file with a binary editor i can see that the masks are ok by editing the colormap manually copying from another icon that i didn t edit i can fix the colors does anybody know what may be causing this problem thanks sadun anik u of illinois at urbana champaign center for reliable and high performance computing e mail anik crhc uiuc edu
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1,362 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re utility for updating win ini and system ini sp odin fna no svein pedersen writes sorry i did nt tell exactly what i need i need a utility for automatic updating deleting adding changing of ini files for windows the program should run from dos batchfile or the program run a script under windows i will use the utility for updating the win ini and other files on meny pc s do i find it on any ftp host svein well in the latest windows magazine there is an advertisement for a program that will help you uninstall windows apps from your harddisk uninstaller but it can be used to update a network but only for deleting not adding or changing their ini files uninstaller by microhelp inc i am also looking for an ini updater for my pc network and so far without any luck so for the time being i have been pushing dos and it s batch language to its limit look into dos s i am assumming that dos has the same command maybe even more or less improved replace command i use this to update our users personal files with a master set in a batch file that is run everytime they invoke windows this basically overwrites their color schemes but does what i need it to do not neat but does the job i m looking for a better solution though mike just relaying what i know a not for profit service mike bendtsen msbendts mtu edu elm st apt ccli senior technical consultant hancock mi michigan technological university
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1,363 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re is ms windows a mature os why is it that i find the mac desktop incredibly annoying whenever i use it because you are uptight many computer literate people see advantages in each system you act like a mac ate your cat lighten up
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1,364 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re mathcad swap file baseball catch the fever scd ucar edu gregg walters writes i have mb of memory on my sx i have been running windows without a swap file for several months will mathcad be happy with this or insist on a swap file presumeably you mean without a permanent swap file if windows needs a swap file it will upo and create one if a permanent one doesn t exist permanent is generally faster though i don t know why mathcad wouldn t be happy with either type ver is and so should any program conforming to the win specification
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1,365 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows slower using dos not on my system frank calloway
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1,366 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re icons gone in a previous article hsano cs ulowell edu hitoshi sano says i m not sure if this is the proper place to post this the icons on win program manager have all dissapeared and i need to restore them the files all seem to be there on the disk and i think there must be a better way than re installing everything thanks for any help hmmmmm you know this happened to me also i am not sure what caused it i think there might have been a system error and dumped windows i came back and all was well except no groups program manager was empty all the grp files were in the directory i had to remake the groups with the new and group selection all the icons and files inside the groups were still there and working fine just the groups had gone out of program manager strange c ya artin this communication is sent by artin university of arizona tucson ak cleveland freenet edu mlinsenb ccit arizona edu mlinsenb arizvms death has been dead for about years follow the king of kings
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1,367 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re atm in article r jq af network ucsd edu adean weber ucsd edu anthony v dean writes i ve been reading with much confusion about whether or not to use atmanager lately all the packages i ve been buying have all included atmanager as a bonus adobe has been doing this for years i do some desktop publishing using pagemaker and coreldraw coreldraw comes with a nifty laser disk that contains over diff types add that to the ttfonts that come with win and you have a decent amount of fonts i print my creations out on an hp postcript at dpi resolution with the resolution enhancement technology and well i get some darn good copies so good that there isn t any diff whether or not atmanager is turned on or not is it worth it to run atm at all especially with these better printer technologies and tt there are some fonts that are only available as ps fonts if you have a ps font that you want to use use atm otherwise it is a waste of system resources personally i use both mike lipsie work mlipsie ca merl com mitsubishi electronic research laboratory home mikel dosbears uucp
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1,368 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re diamond ss x has anyone experienced a faint shadow at all resolutions using this card is only in windows i have replaced card and am waiting on latest drivers also have experienced general protection fault errors in wspdpsf drv on winword tools option menu and in winfax setup i had a ati ultra but was getting genral protection fault errors in an spss application these card manufactures must have terrible quality control to let products on the market with so many bugs what a hassle running on gateway dx thx dave l i have used both version drivers for win and the new drivers i have had none of these problems no gpf s at all i have a feeling that your problems are not with the card or drivers the ati ultra drivers are considered some of the most reliable on the market and the ss x ones seem quite good as well maybe you should check bios problems in your gateway i know a few people with gateway dx s and all of them have found some problem or other with compatibility especially with graphics the only gpf s i have ever had can be directly attributable to using abusing applications i even got the newest drivers from diamond when people started complaining i still only have one small problem with them and it is that the hardware cursor is slightly jumpy during writes reads to the swap file greg bishop
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1,369 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | winqvtnet with ndis on token ring is it possible to use winqvt net on a machine that uses ndis to connect to a token ring i tried it with older versions but got an invalid packet class error or something the like regards wim van holder katholieke universiteit leuven tel departement t e w fax dekenstraat b leuven e mail wimvh liris tew kuleuven ac be belgium fdbaq cc kuleuven ac be
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1,370 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | trumpet for windows other news readers i m looking for a decent windows news reader i ve given up on winvn since it doesn t work very well with the winsock dll of the ibm tcp ip for dos what the status of trumpet for windows will it use the windows sockets i liked it in dos but had to abandon it since i started using ndis to access our token ring results in invalid class error bye wim van holder katholieke universiteit leuven tel departement t e w fax dekenstraat b leuven e mail wimvh liris tew kuleuven ac be belgium fdbaq cc kuleuven ac be
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1,371 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | diamond viper hi folks at the end of the summer i m planning on getting a new computer dx or dx and have been poking around in computer shopper anyway i saw the ads for the diamond viper local bus mb memory million winmarks and was wondering if anyone has had any experience with it good bad not worth the money etc any information at all would be nice also a few other questions anyone know of a good cheap x ni monitor and what is a good cd rom drive that meets mpc standards and is controlled via scsi how about a mb tape drive on scsi thanks for your time brent casavant bcasavan mailhost ecn uoknor edu
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1,372 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | proteced mode i m looking for information how w nt uses proteced mode the hw support
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1,373 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re utility for updating win ini and system ini in article apr oz plymouth edu oddjob oz plymouth edu andrew c stoffel writes in article apr midway uchicago edu am midway uchicago edu writes unless i am completely misunderstanding you try using either notepad or sysedit exe found in your system subdirectory to edit you ini files you can add sysedit regedit to a program group they are windows programs the sysedit exe program is cool because it automatically opens you win ini system ini autoexec bat and config sys files to be edited is it possible to get it to load other ini files no when the program is run it loads configuration files autoexec bat config sys win ini and system ini there is no open entry on the file menu you can only edit these four files if you need to edit some other program s ini file use notepad or some other ascii editor i wonder whether microsoft intended for sysedit to be used or if it was just a holdover from the testing period and they forgot to take it out the reason i think this is because there is absolutely no mention in the manuals about this program and there is no online help for it just an about entry under the file menu the program looks like something that was intended for internal use only it s kind of a shame though it would have made a nice multi file replacement for notepad daniel silevitch dmsilev athena mit edu massachusetts institute of technology
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1,374 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re trumpet for windows other news readers in article apr liris tew kuleuven ac be wimvh liris tew kuleuven ac be wim van holder writes what the status of trumpet for windows will it use the windows sockets i liked it in dos but had to abandon it since i started using ndis to access our token ring results in invalid class error while i do not speak for peter tattam i am fairly sure he is planning a winsock compliant version while this will definitely not make the initial public release of wintrumpet it will follow on shortly thereafter currently wintrumpet is in very late beta it looks like an excellent product with several features beyond the dos version wintrumpet supports the trumpet tcp novell lwp and there is also a direct to packet driver version that some people are using with the dis pkt shim ashok ashok aiyar mail ashok biochemistry cwru edu department of biochemistry tel cwru school of medicine cleveland ohio fax
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1,375 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | telix problem when i use telix or kermit in win or use telix after exiting windows to dos telix can not find the serial port if you have some ideas on how to solve this problem or where i can find further information send me email or send it to the news group thanks dale erickson dericks plains nodak edu
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1,376 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | black screen of death windows novell hi there we are running a node token ring with windows and novell every once in a while we run into the black screen of death a phrase coined by robert x cringely in a recent infoworld column basically sometimes when you quit windows the screen goes black and you get a nice little flashing cursor in the top left corner of your screen also sometimes when you exit to dos the same effect occurs cringely hints that microsoft and or novell has a patch for windows virtual interrupt controller that may solve this neither company seems to know what i am talking about when i call them has anyone else noticed this phenomenon is there a fix for it any response is welcome peter sweeney psweeney miavx acs muohio edu
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1,377 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | telix problem when i use telix or kermit in win or use telix after exiting windows to dos telix can not find the serial port if you have some ideas on how to solve this problem or where i can find further information send me email or send it to the news group thanks dale erickson dericks plains nodak edu
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1,378 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | serial printing in windows i am getting garbled output when serial printing thru windows works etc this has occurred on several systems and goes if a laserjet is used i suspect that there is no need for handshaking in this case due to the capacity memory speed of it there is no problem printing from dos are there any obvious tweaks i m missing i m sure its not just me with this problem thanks for reading john atherton
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1,379 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows speaker sound driver in article c req eq unix portal com claebaur shell portal com tony s annese writes in article apr mnemosyne cs du edu alee mnemosyne cs du edu alec lee writes is there an ftp site where i can get the ms speaker sound driver there s a sound exe file that claims to be the driver but i m suspicious since it s not a drv file thats the file to clarify a little more sound exe is a self expanding archive which contains the driver which is actually called speaker drv i think ray
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1,380 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | mathcad swap file reposting and summarizing for your information or additional comment this is long i have mb of memory on my sx mhz an intel math coprocessor and a mb hard drive with mb free no compression i have been running mathcad under windows in enhanced mode with a mb ram drive mb mb smart drive and no swap file permanent or temporary for several months i am interested in the faster mathcad but i am concerned about reported swap file requirements and the legitimacy of mathsoft s claim about increased speed to sx users will mathcad run without a swap file or insist that i use a swap file so far in response to a less detailed description of my setup or in unrelated postings the more informed answers on the net or by e mail appear to be by fuess llnl gov david a fuess according to mathsoft no mathcad uses the swap file extensively so as not to overburden the physical resources they say this is actually a win s feature a figure of mb was indicated to me as a minimum but you might try anyway by bert tyler satalink com bert tyler i m not all that certain that mathcad is the culprit here i have a dx with mb of main memory less mb for a ramdisk and a bit for a dos session that is opened as part of the startup process which i have been running without any swapfile when i installed the win s subsystem from the march beta of the nt sdk the win s subsystem itself demanded the presence of a swapfile the only win s program i ve run to date is the bit version of freecell that came with that subsystem i gave windows a small temporary swapfile i m leery of files that must remain in fixed locations on my hard disk and all seems well by bca ece cmu edu brian c anderson what is win i upgraded to mathcad and it installed a directory for win under windows system during the upgrade it told me that win was required by case student tc umn edu steven v case mathcad makes use of the win s libraries you ve probably heard about win s it is a bit windows library that provides much of the windows nt functionality no support for threads and multitasking and such but can be run under windows by rhynetc zardoz chem appstate edu thomas c rhyne i also have mb of ram and indeed mathcad insisted on a permanent swapfile it would not run otherwise by bishop baeyer chem fsu edu greg bishop mathcad absolutely requires mb ram with mb swap file or mb ram with mb swap file it will give you a not enough memory error if the swap file is less than mb it is a major resource hog if you do not load the symbolic processor or the smart math it takes about mb of ram real or virtual just to load again due to the win s libraries so it seems that in addition to the system requirements shown on mathsoft s advertisement for that you need a swap file possibly as big as mb looks like i would just need an mb swap file and would need to choose or can i between a faster permanent swap file or a slower temporary swap file apparently a win subsystem ships with mathcad how much disk space does this require i also received these answers by mfdjh uxa ecn bgu edu dale hample if you ve got megs of ram why not configure megs as a ram disk for mathcad dos permits different bootup configurations can mathcad win be configured to use such a ram drive instead of a swap file if not i don t see how using dos for an alternate bootup would provide windows with this swap file some time back i remember a discussion about the issues of using a ram drive to support a swap file but i thought this involved slower mb systems i have dos but for various reasons have not yet done a full installation by the way is a full installation of dos required to avail oneself of the alternate bootup feature which files from the installation disks are required by wild access digex com wildstrom presumeably you mean without a permanent swap file if windows needs a swap file it will upo and create one if a permanent one doesn t exist permanent is generally faster though i don t know why mathcad wouldn t be happy with either type ver is and so should any program conforming to the win specification so far mb has been enough ram to avoid the overhead of running any swap file i have been running mathcad under windows without one
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1,381 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re win nt what is it can anyone tell me how chicago windows would differ from os x believe it or not i m not trying to start a flame war here i m simply curious if there is going to be any feature advantage in either of these products i do not consider the fact that it has uncle bills seal of approval much of a feature one difference will probably be the same difference as between os and windows x now one will likely have a lot of software available for it and one won t emulation with the inevitable incompatibilities that crop up in spite of all the contrary claims just doesn t count when you have to use a certain software package that doesn t quite run properly under the emulation developers want to channel their resources toward a platform that has a large installed base and in a case like that the platform that is most successfully marketed regardless of its relative sophistication will win lamont downs downs nevada edu
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1,382 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re atm so good that there isn t any diff whether or not atmanager is turned on or not is it worth it to run atm at all especially with these better printer technologies and tt there are some fonts that are only available as ps fonts if you have a ps font that you want to use use atm otherwise it is a waste of system resources or if you need to use a service bureau and they re only set up to use type fonts from what i ve heard pure hearsay the results of outputting tt fonts as type is not as good as using high quality type fonts in the first place lamont downs downs nevada edu
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1,383 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows slower using dos in article hplvec lvld hp com calloway hplvec lvld hp com frank calloway writes not on my system frank calloway nor mine either of them david a fuess dir center for eecs phone fax lawrence livermore national laboratory
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1,384 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | boca xga woes hi i am having some interesting problems with my boca graphics card which is based on the cirrus logic chipset i am not sure exactly which one the problem is as follows if i use any windows driver at x except for the k colour driver ie colour or colour the image on screen becomes too tall no amount of resizing on the monitor will make it fit and if i use excel with the k colour driver it hangs as soon as it loads anyone out there used this card experienced anything similar please reply by mail and i will post any solutions here regards simon simon bernstein man is condemned to be free sartre university of natal durban bernstei shrike und ac za simonfish on irc
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1,385 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | help w greenleaf commlib has anyone had experience with the new greenleaf commlib i can t even get their demo winterm to run at baud without dropping characters tnx steve steve alpert w ggn idx systems corp boston massachusetts sra idx com
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1,386 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | filemanager strange sizes in summary line i have just noticed my filemanager doing something strange recently usually the line at the bottom of the filemanager the status bar i guess displays the total disk space and the total number of bytes for the current selection if i select a whole bunch of files i will get an exact byte count recently i notice it incorrectly displays this count it s truncating if i select a file that is say bytes it correctly displays bytes if i select select a file that is bytes it displays bytes not kbytes just bytes if i select it will report only bytes in the selection if i select over a meg worth of files say it reports bytes it s as if it s got a problem with displaying more than characters my system dx m memory stacker dos win i ve run the latest virus scanners scan f prot and they didn t report anything could i have unknowingly altered something that controls the formatting of the status bar in the filemanger nicholas masika masika bnr ca bell northern research ottawa fax opc development operations
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1,387 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re save my hard disk allocation error cross linked brad banko writes while running the ms quick c compiler in a dos window under windows this evening i got a program has violated system integrity close all applications exit windows and restart your computer error gawd i love windows is there an easy way to restore everything to working order what might be some better approaches you ll probably want to delete any damaged executables and reload them fresh data files should be examined and repaired what might have caused this does the smartdrv cache make me more vulnerable i m suspicious of hard drive caches especially when they cache data writing you re not stupid smartdrive caches things and windows also runs a swap file which may contain data also all of this is pretty risky stuff in a pc environment the straightforward approach would be to run chkdsk with the f option to fix the disk and then it looks like i would probably have to reinstall windows and a few other things a reasonably accurate prediction here s a brief description of how dos stores files there are three pieces to a file the directory entry the fat chain and the data area you can think of these as a sheet of lined notebook paper a sheet of graph paper and a stack of x cards the directory entry notebook paper holds the file name actual size and first cluster number it also holds some other information that s not important right now the file allocation table fat chain graph paper tells where to find the actual data each square of graph paper holds a number if the number is zero the cluster associated with this box is available if it holds a magic number it is either the last piece of a file or a bad unuseable spot on the disk any other number tells which cluster contains the next section of the file the data area x cards is where the actual information is stored the data area is organized as clusters of a fixed size storage is doled out in chunks of one cluster each in your case one cluster is bytes as a cluster is filled another is allocated to read a file you first look at the directory entry to get the starting cluster number now you read the data from that cluster next look at the fat entry for the cluster you just read this will tell you the cluster number for the next chunk of the file naturally these numbers are usually sequential but they can jump around and even go backwards continue reading one cluster at a time as you walk this chain through the fat until you hit the marker which says it s the last cluster in the file chkdsk is the dos utility that checks the sanity and coherence of the directories and the fat and can bludgeon most flaws into submission it doesn t have any intelligence so you have to double check anything it fixes now let s do a bit of a post mortem c gfx vpic cvpic exe c gfx vpic vpic txt c gfx vpic video cfg c gfx vpic orcpro cfg c gfx vpic vga cfg c game goose bird x c winmisc adv winadv exe allocation error size adjusted all of these files have sizes according to the fat which don t match the size reported in their directory entries chkdsk f will alter the directory entries to match the fat size in other words the directory entry for cvpic exe may say the file is bytes long but chkdsk found a fat chain of clusters attached to it my numbers obviously are made up lost allocation units found in chains bytes disk space would be freed disk space was found which is allocated in the fat but is not attached to any directory entry chkdsk f gives you the option of converting these lost chains to files you can then examine the files file chk through file chk and rename or discard them or if you tell chkdsk not to convert them to files then those clusters will simply be marked available in the fat c gfx vpic cvpic exe is cross linked on allocation unit c spart par is cross linked on allocation unit these files are both referencing the same data cluster obviously one of them at least must be wrong it s interesting to note that c spart par is your windows swap file to fix this you should copy each cross linked file to a new name this will fix the cross link by giving the files unique data spaces now delete the cross linked files examine the copies and try to assemble them properly good luck hint missing pieces are likely to be found in those lost chains at the top bytes total disk space bytes in hidden files bytes in directories bytes in user files bytes available on disk your disk is pretty close to full this may be the actual cause of the problem perhaps windows needed to expand its swapfile by an amount which exceeded available disk space in any case the short summary is that something trashed your fat there are utilities that can mirror your fat and help repair damage after something like this but you have to run them before the problem occurs sorry gordon s hlavenka cgordon vpnet chi il us vote straight ticket procrastination party dec rd gordon s hlavenka cgordon vpnet chi il us 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1,388 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re diamond speedstar driver for v in article bu edu rem buitc bu edu robert mee writes i am looking for a win driver or set for my diamond speedstar mb video card does anybody know of an archive site that has these i looked at cica and it had drivers for the stealth card and for generic et cards but not one specifically for the speedstar is there one or has diamond dropped the speedstar out of the driver development loop i just looked at cica yesterday and noticed that they didn t have anything but i seem to remember seeing something at wuarchive in the mirrors msdos windows directory i think i got my drivers from america online though mmeltzer wam umd edu is marc meltzer president of the meltz inc our job is to play games our hobby is to consult
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1,389 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re cirrus logic graph card in comp os ms windows misc gardner a kosmos wcc govt nz andy gardner writes in article qms c t news cs tu berlin de wong cs tu berlin de wolfgang jung writes version drivers are due to be release by cirrus soon unfortunately their not available via ftp you have to dial up their bbs in the usa i do this from nz using a k modem to cut down on phone bills it took me around minutes to download the v driver could you please upload to any of the ftp sites such as ftp ciaca indiana edu and announce it here this will benefit people does not have access to their bbs in usa like me thanks a lot beng hang tay
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1,390 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re truetype fonts that display but do not print in article apr mintaka lcs mit edu avinash silver lcs mit edu avinash chopde writes i just installed a new truetype font under ms windows but though all the applications display the font correctly on the screen quite a few of them fail to print out the document correctly on a laserjet non postscript printer when i use the font in coreldraw the document prints correctly so i assume coreldraw knows that the font has to be downloaded to the printer but when i use the windows accessory write the printer prints square boxes in place of the characters of the new font yet write does display the font correctly on the screen i looked through all the windows and laserjet manuals but got nowhere all of them just make the statement that truetype fonts will print exactly as you see them on the screen so i assume windows knows that a font has to be downloaded automatically but how to make it do that appreciate any help i assume you re using the driver available from cica hp v zip bring up the setup screen of the printer through control panel click on the options button brings up another screen of choices change the graphics mode from hp gl to raster and check the box print truetype as graphics this is only available when you choose raster now you should be able to print all your truetype fonts correctly good luck lei shao ls cunixa cc columbia edu
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1,391 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | summary ati graphics ultra questions etc to those interested in the new ati ultra cards i had posted some questions regarding the new ati ultra pro cards and had asked confirmation of some opinions this message is a summary of the responses thanks to all of you that replied the card does not work in a system with m ram a the higher memory limits apply to isa cards only as far as i know the vlb and eisa version should have no problems b i m pretty sure from my experience that the isa version doesn t work in systems with over m ram there is supposed to be way of switching the memory aperture feature off to prevent this but apparently it doesn t work i posted some help me messages on the net and people indicated that the eisa card didn t have this problem c false d the vlb card which i have allows you to set memory aperture over m by using their configuration software no messing with jumpers necessary the m problem is probably valid only for isa cards the card works in a m system with some switches set but it is much slower a again the memory aperture need only be disabled if you have more than m ram eisa and vlb or m isa m should not be a problem for you b dunno c depends on the bus yes if isa no if eisa or localbus the card is interlaced in its bit true colour modes a nope i can use x at hz bit and x at hz bit all non interlaced b yes according to pc magazine they ve tested a local bus version that does x in bit which may or may not be interlaced c not for the pro sometimes for the plus some modes may run only interlaced on certain monitors this has nothing to do with bits only with screen size note that for bit color and windows you must have megs memory size calculations notwithstanding the latest build drivers still do not work in many cases a they aren t perfect but are much improved i don t recall the last time which i had to leave mach mode ati gup mode and switch to or vga mode due to software incompatibility b true many people recommended going back to build or c they appear to be excellent but have a few bugs for example certain graphs with dashed lines in mathcad do not print correctly though they do display ok on the screen they are about par for fancy cards other accelerated cards also have bugs d overall i like the card even if driver performance is somewhat less than satisfactory i am running the color mode as that is all my nt driver for october nt version seems to allow i will say this that color performance is not quite as nice as a diamond stealth vram but i have not been able to try out a lot of the options on the old driver this card is the fastest full colour card for the money a it s quite fast but whether or not its the fastest is open to debate b yes i ll admit it was very very fast in bit mode which is what i wanted to use it for too bad it crashed in many different ways every minutes or so c depends on many many things this card is the greatest thing since sliced bread a i like it b well pc magazine seems to think it is c yes this appears to be true d as to greatest thing since sliced bread i doubt it better cards are coming out who knows maybe ati will come out with something faster yet several reviews i read rated one pycon winjet card as a superior performer at a cheaper price except for availability of drivers which pycon was developing at that time pc magazine about two months or so back overall the card has a lot of potential but you have to be able to use it that is the end of the questions these were the most discussed items in this group so i thought they needed confirmation for those of you not familiar with the card i have included a summary here from an ati ad since i don t have an graphics ultra yet ati graphics ultra plus accelerated x at k colours true colour m at x multimedia video acceleration for indeo video rle and video compressed stretch full motion video windows to full size fast vga includes button mouse isa versions only anti aliased fonts ed avail in colour mode only i think real time pan and zoom across large virtual windows desktop around a length card size priced from u s ati graphics ultra pro everything in graphics ultra plus faster performance with vrams accelerated x at colours hz non interlaced available in isa eisa and microchannel priced from u s ati technologies i hope this summary can be of use to you al p s i am not associated with ati technologies in any way other than having used their previous ati ultra card for a few years which i generally liked alan walford eos systems inc vancouver b c canada tel aew eosvcr wimsey bc ca or uunet wimsey bc ca eosvcr aew
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1,392 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re yowza sloooowwww printing from dos i also had a simular problem with by nec p it went away when i turned on the print directly to parallel port option in the printer setup apallette mencsh tract und gott lacht yaturner netcom com
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1,393 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | windows errors and a bad memory hi my last question for the year i have a mail order no name notebook with meg ram i never have problems with my huge ramdisk or when running desqview but win and w w constantly crash on me most commonly citing a memory parity error the only thing i can do is turn off and re boot my cmos ticks off counts all the memory every startup and there is never a problem with this either could it be a bug in my windows copy instead of the hardware i remember having some disk error problems when installing it is there any change i could make to lessen the frequency or likelyhood of this happening i think win vs win s produce different crashes but both crash frequently nonetheless i know this is a pain but please answer by email because my home account doesn t have rn and i will stop asking questions now thank you chet pager chetter ucthpx uct ac za
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1,394 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | bar code fonts i am looking for some bar code fonts especially code of did anybody know any ftp sites or bbs that i can download these types of fonts please email to me if you have any info thanks
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1,395 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | dos vfintd and windows sys ini does anyone know what the vfintd device is used for in windows it s under the enh section as device c dos vfintd after upgrading to dos on several machines different types some include it some don t any ideas pl
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1,396 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | books for writing thesis in wfw hi i was wondering if anyone out there knows of any books that give helpful hints and tips on writing thesis papers in wfw i know about the dissertation template that comes with word but i want more i would like to have tips on how to use all the seq bookmark index chapter fields that are available in word i have looked through the help files etc but they really don t explain a whole lot i will post the results that means email me first if i get a lot of different suggestions since i think this might be of help to lots of crazy grad students such as myself thanks brian servis p s how do you change the font that help uses when printing a topic the default is so choppy and hard to read servis author ecn purdue edu it happened this way actual quotes from insurance claims what i say may not be what i think what i say may not be the pedestrian had no idea which what purdue thinks way to go so i ran him over
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1,397 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re trumpet for windows other news readers in article ashok biochemistry cwru edu ashok biochemistry cwru edu ashok aiyar writes in article apr liris tew kuleuven ac be wimvh liris tew kuleuven ac be wim van holder writes what the status of trumpet for windows will it use the windows sockets stuff deleted currently wintrumpet is in very late beta it looks like an excellent product with several features beyond the dos version wintrumpet supports the trumpet tcp novell lwp and there is also a direct to packet driver version that some people are using with the dis pkt shim ashok ashok aiyar mail ashok biochemistry cwru edu department of biochemistry tel cwru school of medicine cleveland ohio fax what s it gonna cost ginny mcbride oregon health sciences university mcbride ohsu edu networks technical services the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity with a little practice writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog academia here i come calvin hobbes
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1,398 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re x windows for windows pc xview from ncd hcl exceed from hummingbird software all opinions expressed are my own because nobody else wants them jls antares larc nasa gov jon l sweet
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1,399 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | cica mirror is there a ftp cica indiana edu mirror anyware that isn t so busy thanks phil trodwell this space i d be happy to ram a goddam volt cattle for rent prod into that tub with you right now but not cheap this radio hunter s thompson
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