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1,400 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re winqvtnet with ndis on token ring in article apr liris tew kuleuven ac be wimvh liris tew kuleuven ac be wim van holder writes 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 how are you attempting to do that are you using the dis pkt program this provides a packet driver on top of the ndis driver thomas beagle thomas datamark co nz work o technical writer thomas cavebbs welly gen nz home wellington nz hound for hire will work for dog biscuits
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1,401 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re utility for updating win ini and system ini in article apr news uit no svein pedersen sp odin fna no 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 if you are managing pc s on a novell network get the network management tools provided by either sabre software or automated design systems among the many features you ll find utilities that can help you to manage ini files stored on users workstations or home directories this is commercial software and well worth the money to date i have not found anything available via ftp that could compare reply to the address in my sig for more info stephen gibson system support specialist sonoma state university email gibsonst sonoma edu stephen gibson sonoma edu
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1,402 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | speeding up windows i have a with megs of memory i have noticed that lately when i use programs like wpfw or corel draw my computer boggs down and becomes really sluggish what can i do to increase performance what should i turn on or off will not loading wallpapers or stuff like that help when it comes to the running speed of windows and the programs that run under it thanx in advance derek derek j p serianni e mail djserian flash lakeheadu ca o o sociologist it s miles to chicago we ve got a full tank lakehead university of gas half a pack of cigarettes it s dark and u thunder bay ontario we re wearing sunglasses elwood blues
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1,403 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | windows and multiple monitors m apart hi i am working on gathering data on the way that users use computers this involves getting subjects to type and use a mouse i want to be able to watch what they are doing without being in the same room it would be ideal if i could watch the session on another monitor without the subjects knowledge i believe that spliting the monitor cable will only work for short distances ie m i will need to be approx m away as the cable travels the pc s are connected to a tcp ip network and run windows is there any software that will allow me to watch what is happening on another pc thanks regards jon gough trust project
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1,404 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | order of files written when exitting windows trying to pin point a hardware problem with my disk maxtor at group files get corrupted on a regular basis only happens on this drive d had only one corrupt file in over a year and it was under the control of winword on c bit disk access and smartdrive are off since installation of dblspace problem has turned from an annoyance to a reason for murder since the most frequent files corrupted are the grp files are these the last thing written to when exitting windows also are there any pd shareware utilities available that do a more thorough job than dos ndd etc dos and win compatable thanks mike hayes knowledge is good faber college motto www knowledge and thoroughness rensselear poly motto unemployed tech no thank you groucho marx a day at the races driven to banging my head against engineering physics for years
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1,405 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re how do i quickly switch between windows screen resolutions 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 but what i d really like is to have is the ability to just change a couple of startup or configuration files and have the resolution changed i already have both video drivers that i need on my system so that isn t a problem thanks sean sean l gilley sean l gilley att com use this address all others bounce h w there is a shareware program called v switch zip i don t remember if it is on wuarchive wustl edu or on ftp cica indiana edu it is easy to use and does the job with no problem eric ebosco us oracle com
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1,406 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows speaker sound driver 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 thanks alec lee the sound exe is actually a self extracting script which includes the drv file works great eric
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1,407 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re trumpet for windows other news readers in article mcbride ohsu edu mcbride ohsu edu ginny mcbride writes in article ashok biochemistry cwru edu ashok biochemistry cwru edu ashok aiyar writes 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 what s it gonna cost again i do not speak for peter tattam but it is my understanding that it will shareware status as trumpet for dos is and i imagine that the registration fees will be similar i also believe that a new version of trumpet for dos will be released sometime in the near future ashok ashok aiyar mail ashok biochemistry cwru edu department of biochemistry tel cwru school of medicine cleveland ohio fax
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1,408 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re emm exe and windows and dos in a previous article rudim cs kuleuven ac be rudi maelbrancke says in windows i created a permanent swap file of kb as win recommended me to do that bit access if i use emm exe after win startup i have k of memory free if i leave emm exe out of my config sys i have k of memory free and windows recommends me a swap file of k i think you need the emm exe noems this will let the expanded mem be active but not use any therefore this will give you more extended mem for windows yet have all the bases covered i use dos with memmaker have mb of internal memory and a dx i do not use dos so i am not familiar with this does anybody knows why this is happening possibly win needs some umb s to manage virtual memory if true which umb s those that emm can find without including suspicious parts i need an optimized dos environment because i develop applications for dos using a windows programming environment rudi 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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1,409 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | does win use a math co processor if a pc has one does windows use a math co processor i m not talking about specific apps but the os if you want to call it that itself please respond by email peter schwenk schwenk cis udel edu
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1,410 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re how can i use the mouse in non windows applications under ms windows wnkretz ikesg energietechnik uni stuttgart de oliver kretzschmar writes hey could somebody tell me how it is possible to work with the mouse in a non windows application which runs in an window we use ms windows and have clipper applications exists there any routines or something else please mail me your informations thanks for your efforts oliver name o kretzschmar inst ike university stuttgart phone pfaffenwaldring fax stuttgart email wnkretz ikesg energietechnik uni stuttgart de very simple you have to have the mouse com or mouse sys loaded in dos before you run windows note that you don t need to have these files loaded to use the mouse in windows
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1,411 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re workgroup questions conven ram and licensing in article ra abh h eosvcr wimsey bc ca aew eosvcr wimsey bc ca alan walford writes 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 about kbyte without novell support q if i have a novell ne card are the lsl and ipx drivers still needed no 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 no 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 nearly all q if i install windows nt on my server when it comes out will i have any troubles with the w wg machines we run mixed wnt beta and w wg no problem apart from printer sharing beta problem when i started this message i was going to ask only questions but i got carried away i ll stop now we had problems with mouse drivers using w wg where windows didn t seems to be more critical about it it was actualy a port problem with the network card running on x e we changed it to x now everything is allright i think it has to do with the ami bios as well 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 ralf rutherford telecom aust mhsnet rruther cssc melb tansu com au network services snail blackburn rd clayton vic customised software solutions australia center melbourne phone fax
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1,412 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re speeding up windows djserian flash lakeheadu ca reincarnation of elvis writes i have a with megs of memory i have noticed that lately when i use programs like wpfw or corel draw my computer boggs down and becomes really sluggish what can i do to increase performance what should i turn on or off will not loading wallpapers or stuff like that help when it comes to the running speed of windows and the programs that run under it thanx in advance derek make sure your hard drive is defragmented this will speed up more than just windows btw use something like norton s or pc tools i think that leaving the wall paper out will use less ram and therefore will speed up your machine but i could very will be wrong on this there s a good chance you ve already done this but if not it may speed things up good luck morgan bullard mb coewl cen uiuc edu or mjbb uxa cso uiuc edu derek j p serianni e mail djserian flash lakeheadu ca o o sociologist it s miles to chicago we ve got a full tank lakehead university of gas half a pack of cigarettes it s dark and u thunder bay ontario we re wearing sunglasses elwood blues
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1,413 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | comm drv replacement there was a recent post about a bbs where you could download a replacement for comm drv win x that fixed a lot of the problems with high speed modems does anyone know of an ftp site where i can get it thanks alec lee alec lee aslee diana cair du edu alee cs du edu sexy but what s wrong with being sexy nigel tufnel spinal tap
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1,414 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re filemanager strange sizes in summary line in apr bmers bnr ca masika bnr ca nicholas masika writes 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 it sounds like something one may have set the s separator to in contol panel under international this makes look like and file manager is chopping off what it thinks is the decimal part of the file size becomes and again file manager is confused by the decimal points where there should be commas chopping off everything to the right of the first period tony debari fqdn tonyd ssc sbwk nj us ci uucp uunet ssc tonyd p ghrw b a k a skip bowler captain of usenet fantasy bowling league team
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1,415 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re quicken vs tobias managing your money i ve never had quicken but i did use mym in it s early days i have ms money for windows now and a financial planning package called wealthbuilder by reality technologies and money magazine p s i also do my taxes with turbo tax all of these packages are good in their own way but none of them really support me in doing what i really need to do manage my finances the first company that comes along with a windows based package that manages budgets and accounts manages loans calculates taxes uses all of the above and knowledge about my investing philosophy to help me invest in the right investment vehicles and integrates it all together will have my business for life ken khackbarth attmail com
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1,416 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | cornerstone dualpage driver wanted i am looking for a window driver for cornerstone dualpage cornerstone technology inc video card does anybody know that has these is there one thanks for any info to nis to nis kelder estonian biocentre tkelder kask ebc ee
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1,417 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | printer security mark juric a i programs mjuric ai uga edu university of georgia athens georgia
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1,418 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re cica mirror i find that it s always almost anyway busy when i dial but if i try repeatedly usually only to tries i always get connected
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1,419 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re mouse on com under windows i ve pursued and researched this question over the last month or so because i have the same requirements you do and the long and short of it is that the windows mouse drivers don t accept mice at any but com and com using irq or irq unless you buy special drivers from someone who has them i ve talked to mouse systems who say their driver doesn t support other than com and com as above but who claim to be releasing one that will soon the other alternative seems to be possible but in one case prohibitively expensive i e port card for and in the other the author s of powerbbs for windows claim to have a port serial card with buffered uarts and drivers for windows to match i e com irq for the second paragraph is hearsay because i haven t checked it out yet but intend to as soon as i can free up g hope this will save you some steps
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1,420 | 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 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 atm will do nothing for your truetype fonts if your truetype fonts are sufficient for your needs don t run atm i have a lot of fonts that i can install either as type postscript under atm or as truetype i have noticed that truetype font files are at least larger than their type equivalents if you are using a disk compressor though be aware that truetype fonts will compress whereas type fonts will not they are encrypted with a dpi laser printer the artificial bold version of a truetype font is indistingishable from the original forcing me to install the actual bold and bold italic etc variants if i want to use them type postscript fonts under atm generate a visually distinct bold variant from the base font i realize that the artificial bold font that atm generates is aesthetically inferior to the hand generated bold truetype variant but it is sufficient for my needs and not having to install bold variants saves me on disk space uncompressed bob nichols at t bell laboratories rnichols ihlpm ih att com
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1,421 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | many people on one machine i have several people sharing my machine and would like to set up separate environments under windows for each of them is there some way of setting things up separate desktops directories for each of them ideally i d like totally separate virtual machines i d be willing to settle for less and may end up having batch files that copy ini files around depending on who wants to use the machine mark alas setup n doesn t work if you don t have a network
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1,422 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | trnasfering binary files from terminal to unix i m attempting to transfer files from my home computer running windows terminal to a workstation at school the file transfer protocol at home is kermit for binary files i m running kermit on the workstation at school and setting the file transfer protocol to binary i am unable to upload files to school but can download files from school to home during download terminal displays ther retrying message several times then the message verify you re using the correct protocol anyone have any ideas on how to fix either e mail or post to this group thanks in advance brian anderson go pens make it in a row
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1,423 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re order of files written when exitting windows in article apr ucsu colorado edu hayesj rintintin colorado edu hayes james michael jr writes trying to pin point a hardware problem with my disk maxtor at group files get corrupted on a regular basis only happens on this drive d had only one corrupt file in over a year and it was under the control of winword on c bit disk access and smartdrive are off since installation of dblspace problem has turned from an annoyance to a reason for murder are you using fastopen if you are disable it we had a lot of problems with fastopen corrupting weird things including the windows permanent swap file when we were using it since the most frequent files corrupted are the grp files are these the last thing written to when exitting windows indeed they are advanced personal measure tells me they are accessed just before shell dll also are there any pd shareware utilities available that do a more thorough job than dos ndd etc dos and win compatable i really like spinrite and qa plus tom paladin world std com
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1,424 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re diamond ss x greetings i ve had a bunch of problems with the x opening a dos window on the desktop can occasionally result in the windows blowing up into a set of horizontal lines hashing the entire desktop nothing can recover this except to completely exit from windows the other irritating problem is that windows that scroll often overwrite lines rather than actually scrolling as if a cr was printed without an lf this seems only to happen to communications programs but i can t nail it down any further than that note though that the comms programs don t have to be communicating even just scrolling back through capture buffers or displaying disk files in these programs causes the problem prior to the latest rev of word perfect for windows wpwin would sometimes blow up and the error message would cite the video driver as the source of the problem i ve still seen this but only once or twice with wpwin dave zimmerman my opinions are my own
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1,425 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | searching for a phonetic font i m searching for a phonetic truetype font for windows if anybody knows one please mail me thanks dw dipl inform dietmar weidlich ifado ardeystr weidlich arb phys uni dortmund de d dortmund phone dr b koennten sie das fax mal eben erledigen
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1,426 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | workspace manager for win are there any workspace managers out there for windows by a workspace manager i mean something like the hp apollo workstations have multiple workspaces under x there is a window at the bottom of the screen which allows you to select different workspaces it overcomes the problem of having stacks of windows open on the one screen instead you can spread them amongst different workspaces which act like independent screens and you can flick between them thanks in advance
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1,427 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re searching for a phonetic font weidlich arb phys uni dortmund de weidlich writes i m searching for a phonetic truetype font for windows if anybody knows one please mail me thanks dw dipl inform dietmar weidlich ifado ardeystr weidlich arb phys uni dortmund de d dortmund phone dr b koennten sie das fax mal eben erledigen yes i m looking for phonetic font s too so if you know one please mail me too thanks in advance patrick hudepohl vu amsterdam the netherlands
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1,428 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows for workgroups and lan workplace hey sounds great does that mean that w wg works with odi i thought it uses ndis wfwg does use ndis but it cooperates well with the ndis shim for odi i ve heard that it is as fast as ndis direct my problem is that lan workplace with all its drivers uses up most of my umbs so i d hate to have to load many more drivers to make w wg work along the additional tsr load is minimal i think i eat another k total this is worth it to me since it allows me to get to my windows nt box novell hasn t released a decent nt novell client yet so i share through my wfwg box this solution is very usable
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1,429 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | vb decompiler subject says it all do any exist are they shareware where 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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1,430 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re windows speaker sound driver tony s annese claebaur shell portal com wrote 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 it s a self extracting archive run it and it extracts a drv file michael groeten uit o michael schaap o nederland t p mscha ctp com ctp sherrif inc dept damn good coffee and hot
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1,431 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re need longer filenames in apr guinness idbsu edu lhighley gozer idbsu edu larry paul highley wrote is there a utility out there that will let me use filenames longer than the standard format if so please email me please e mail me too thanks howard hfeldman infoserv com howard feldman mind s eye inc
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1,432 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re how can i use the mouse in non windows applications under ms windows kasajian netcom com kenneth kasajian writes wnkretz ikesg energietechnik uni stuttgart de oliver kretzschmar writes hey could somebody tell me how it is possible to work with the mouse in a non windows application which runs in an window we use ms windows and have clipper applications exists there any routines or something else please mail me your informations thanks for your efforts oliver name o kretzschmar inst ike university stuttgart phone pfaffenwaldring fax stuttgart email wnkretz ikesg energietechnik uni stuttgart de very simple you have to have the mouse com or mouse sys loaded in dos before you run windows note that you don t need to have these files loaded to use the mouse in windows one addition to this i don t know if it applies to everybody for my microsoft dpi mouse to work with windowed dos apps i had to use the driver that came with windows version didn t allow me to do it for some reason
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1,433 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re more cool bmp files has anybody gotten this bmp to work i try to uudecode it but i get input file error and no picture anybody casey
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1,434 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | hard drive compression ie stacker superstor etc i was wondering if any one knew how the various hard drive compression utilities work my hard drive is getting full and i don t want to have to buy a new one what i m intrested in is speed ease of use amount of compression and any other aspect you think might be important as i ve never use one of these things before thanks morgan bullard mb coewl cen uiuc edu or mjbb uxa cso uiuc edu
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1,435 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re how can i use the mouse in non windows applications under ms windows in article ucsu colorado edu gonzaled ucsu colorado edu lgv mc writes kasajian netcom com kenneth kasajian writes wnkretz ikesg energietechnik uni stuttgart de oliver kretzschmar writes hey could somebody tell me how it is possible to work with the mouse in a non windows application which runs in an window we use ms windows and have clipper applications exists there any routines or something else please mail me your informations thanks for your efforts oliver name o kretzschmar inst ike university stuttgart phone pfaffenwaldring fax stuttgart email wnkretz ikesg energietechnik uni stuttgart de very simple you have to have the mouse com or mouse sys loaded in dos before you run windows note that you don t need to have these files loaded to use the mouse in windows one addition to this i don t know if it applies to everybody for my microsoft dpi mouse to work with windowed dos apps i had to use the driver that came with windows version didn t allow me to do it for some reason i could never find the microsoft mouse driver on my windows installation disks but dos also has version of mouse com stephen thomas at t tridom email sat eng tridom com attmail tridom sat
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1,436 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | why is my mouse so jumpy ms mouse i have a microsoft serial mouse and am using mouse com was using i think but switched to to see if it was any better vertical motion is nice and smooth but horizontal motion is so bad i sometimes can t click on something because my mouse jumps around i can be moving the mouse to the right with relatively uniform motion and the mouse will move smoothly for a bit then jump to the right then move smoothly for a bit then jump again maybe this time to the left about inch this is crazy i have never had so much trouble with a mouse before anyone have any solutions does microsoft think they are what everyone should be just venting steam sean eckton computer support representative college of fine arts and communications d hfac brigham young university provo ut hfac csr byu edu ecktons ucs byu edu
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1,437 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | ms windows access for the blind we are developing an ms windows based product that uses a full screen window to display rows of textual data is there any product for microsoft windows that will enable blind individuals to access the data efficiently quickly please email responses and i will post a summary to this group thanks for any help john bruno
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1,438 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re ms windows access for the blind in article apr cci cci com jfb cci cci com john bruno writes from jfb cci cci com john bruno subject ms windows access for the blind date thu apr gmt we are developing an ms windows based product that uses a full screen window to display rows of textual data is there any product for microsoft windows that will enable blind individuals to access the data efficiently quickly please email responses and i will post a summary to this group thanks for any help john bruno apparently microsoft came out with a new product ms braille it is suppose to be wytiwig no offense marc trottier mtrottie emr emr ca
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1,439 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | postscript file viewer a co worker of mine needs to convert a postscript file to a form readable ie ascii in windows or dos does anybody know of a utility that will do this i have a vague memory of a shareware utility someone mentioned once thanks for any info barry
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1,440 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | looking for printer driver i m looking for a c itoh printer driver for windows does anybody happen to know where i could find such a beast thanks in advance jerry look ma no signature
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1,441 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re looking for printer driver jeremi ee ualberta ca william jeremiah writes i m looking for a c itoh printer driver for windows does anybody happen to know where i could find such a beast uh slight clarification that should be a printer driver for the c itoh lips laser printer thanks again thanks in advance jerry look ma no signature
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1,442 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re diamond ss x in article apr condor navsses navy mil zimm condor navsses navy mil writes greetings i ve had a bunch of problems with the x opening a dos window on the desktop can occasionally result in the windows blowing up into a set of horizontal lines hashing the entire desktop nothing can recover this except to completely exit from windows the other irritating problem is that windows that scroll often overwrite lines rather than actually i posted a similar query and got these replies which i am testing so far so good turn hardware scrolling off before going into windows xmode scrolloff in the pif file for dos window set emulate text mode get the latest drivers from the diamond bbs or cica dates are steve chesney slc catherine cim cdc com metaphase technology inc voice north lexington avenue fax arden hills mn
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1,443 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re how can i use the mouse in non windows applications under ms windows in article apr ucsu colorado edu gonzaled ucsu colorado edu lgv mc writes one addition to this i don t know if it applies to everybody for my microsoft dpi mouse to work with windowed dos apps i had to use the driver that came with windows version didn t allow me to do it for some reason for logitech rodents use the lmouse driver that comes with windows also you need to be using a video driver that supports use of the mouse both the vga and supervga that come with windows will support it both of these are color drivers if you re lucky the manufacturer of your video card might have a driver that is compatable and will support a mouse steve stephen guerke coord computer resources sguerke brahms udel edu university of delaware parallel program stephen guerke mvs udel edu georgetown de ilv udelvm udel edu
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1,444 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | how to hold the control to a window object hope i am in the right group i m using bc s objectwindows version trying to get some date processed in a window object however when invoking the window object the calling program gives up the control to the window object and keeps executing the next statement the source code may look like the following class mywindow public twindow void mycallingprog could the calling program be a c function mywindow mywinobj mywinobj new mywindow getapplication makewindow mywinobj mywinobj show sw shownormal next statement i want the program to wait here until mywinobj is closed so that i can get some data back from mywinobj i specified the window style to be ws popupwindow didn t help is there any other way to execute the window object so that the calling program won t give up the control any help would be appreciated thanks jun to talk to the lord with ps through ms windows
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1,445 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re telix problem dericks plains nodak edu dale erickson writes 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 you may have to define your serial ports under windows i think it s the control panel ports options dale erickson dericks plains nodak edu mattias mattias hembruch my views do not necessarily reflect those of the tse e mail mhembruc tse com
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1,446 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re midi files on ms win and soundblaster the cybard dudek acsu buffalo edu wrote i have a dx computer with a soundblaster card i m running microsoft windows v i have the sb driver set up properly to play normal sounds wav files etc i want to play midi files through the media player that is included with windows i know i have to set up the patch maps or something in the midi mapper in the control panel i know nothing about midi this is to be the way i ll get my feet wet how do i set up windows so that i can play midi files if you install the soundblaster windows drivers correctly and have the latest drivers the media player should be setup to play files authored to microsoft s multimedia midi authoring standard general midi see the section in the back of the voyetra manual in the soundblaster midi upgrade kit you ll find that midi files exist with all kinds of different mappings so don t expect them to always sound correct without using some kind of midi file editor such as voyetra s sequencer plus you can attempt to use the midi mapper to remap the patches for soundblaster but since you cannot modify the sbfm drv you are allways stuck with the instruments that come with this driver unless you can find an editor for making modifications to the instrument settings in sbfm drv i would suggest you locate the early version of soundblaster drivers that were mapped to mt voices and the later drivers that are mapped to the general midi voices david thomas dudek v pwxs ubvms bitnet the cybard state university dudek sun acsu buffalo edu of new york if music be the food of love buffalo play on wm shakespeare
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1,447 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re trumpet for windows other news readers where s an ftp site for trumpet other than wuarchive umich something off the beaten path thanks malcolm
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1,448 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | wanted sample source for editing controls hi everyone i would like to get an example program source code to get started with a simple editor similar to windows dialog editor but lot simplified can someone point me to a source such as a programming windows book or example program comes with windows sdk from microsoft or borland i would greatly appreciate it all i want to do is to be able to place a edit control or combobox or a listbox on a window and be able to drag and resize if anyone has written similar program and don t mind sharing code or ideas i would appreciate it very much thnx in advance manu das please send me directly at manu oas olivetti com
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1,449 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re speeding up windows in article thunder lakeheadu ca djserian flash lakeheadu ca reincarnation of elvis writes i have a with megs of memory i have noticed that lately when i use programs like wpfw or corel draw my computer boggs down and becomes really sluggish what can i do to increase performance what should i turn on or off will not loading wallpapers or stuff like that help when it comes to the running speed of windows and the programs that run under it thanx in advance derek you can try defraging your disk more often it definitely will help speed things up a megs smartdrv is also a good idea with the amount of memory you have and use fastdisk bit access if you not already hope that help n ngo
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1,450 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | windows disk drive test availabel is their a pd freeware hard drive utility that can handle a compressed ide drive without screwwing it up need to document occasional failures in reading writing check overall integrity of disk s hardware and sectors i believe that all of my problems with dos windows can be isolated to my drive getting occasional corrupted files even with smartdrive bit access turned off had these problems under dos only with drive c drive d may have had one failure but that file was under the control of win winword on drive c all utilities available to me report no problems dos ndd nu another symptom sd took forever on c and kicked me out with a suspension till ndd run to times thanks mike hayes knowledge is good faber college motto www knowledge and thoroughness rensselear poly motto unemployed tech no thank you groucho marx a day at the races driven to banging my head against engineering physics for years
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1,451 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re canon bj bubblejet and hp deskjet in article apr csd newshost stanford edu kayman csd d stanford edu robert kayman writes hello fellow netters i am asking for your collected wisdom to help me decide which printer i should purchase the canon bj bubblejet vs the hp deskjet i thought rather than trust the salesperson i would benefit more from relying on those who use these printers daily and use them to their fullest potential and i figure all of you will know their benefits and pitfalls better than any salesperson now i would greatly appreciate any information you could render on the dpi of the canon bubblejet vs the hewlett packard deskjet dpi which is faster is there a noticeable print quality difference particularly in graphics which will handle large documents better pages or more any personal experience on either will be appreciated here which works better under windows any driver problems etc cost of memory font packages toner cartridges etc basically your personal experiences with either of these machines is highly desirable both good and bad advance kudos and thanks for all your input e mail or news posting is readily acceptable but e mail is encouraged limits bandwidth sincerely robert kayman kayman cs stanford edu or cpa cs stanford edu in theory theory and practice are the same in practice they are not you mean you want the revised revision of the original revised revision revised sorry for the followup but i couldn y get email through on your addresses i too am trying to decide between these two printers and i would like to hear what users of these printers have to say about the questions above thank you randy randy msc cornell edu
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1,452 | 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 the file is frite zip and you ll find it in the icons directory at cica the one line description is afflict your icons with cursorphobia o paul blackman pwb science canberra edu au o water research centre pwb aerg canberra edu au o faculty of applied science o university of canberra australia spend a little love and get high lenny kravitz
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1,453 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re workspace manager for win in article r uml werple apana org au jamie zikzak apana org au jamie scuglia writes are there any workspace managers out there for windows try workshift by karl thoreddson the latest version is or later but the following is at cica in the desktop directory wrksft zip workshift graphical virtual desktop ver or email karl and ask him to put version up karl s email karlth rhi hi is from the ms write file of v i was beta tester for workshift and must say it is very good i gain nothing from saying that it ll even remember your workshifts workspaces as you said between windows sessions thanks in advance your welcome o paul blackman pwb science canberra edu au o water research centre pwb aerg canberra edu au o faculty of applied science o university of canberra australia spend a little love and get high lenny kravitz
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1,454 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re canon bj bubblejet and hp deskjet i edited a few newsgroup from that line don t like to crosspost that much i can t compare the two but i recently got an hp deskjet i m very pleased with the output remember that i m used to imagens laser and postscript printers at school looks very good you have to be careful to let it dry before touching it as it will smudge the deskjet is slow this is in comparison to the other printers i mentioned i have no idea how the bubblejet compares the interface between win and the printer is just dandy i ve not had any problems with it hope that helps some cindy cindy tittle moore internet tittle ics uci edu bitnet cltittle uci bitnet uucp ucbvax ucivax tittle usnail po box irvine ca
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1,455 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | out of environment space running bat files from windows i have a bat file that i run under a windows icon i have set up a pif file to run the bat file in exclusive mode and to use the entire screen the first line of the bat file sets an environment variable my problem is that on some of our machines running ms dos and windows in enhanced mode the set command in the bat file fails with the out of environment space error i have raised the amount of environment space to bytes using the shell command in config sys so i know that i am nowhere near to running out if i just click on the ms dos icon i can create a bunch of environment varibles from the dos shell the problem is that on some machines setting the value of an environment variable in a bat file fails has anyone seen such behavior before i see no place in the pif fail to configure environment space lance j gay internet gay venice sedd trw com trw systems engineering development div phone carson ca
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1,456 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re many people on one machine in cda ucf vm bitnet cda ucf vm bitnet mark woodruff writes i have several people sharing my machine and would like to set up separate environments under windows for each of them is there some way of setting things up separate desktops directories for each of them ideally i d like totally separate virtual machines i d be willing to settle for less and may end up having batch files that copy ini files around depending on who wants to use the machine you could use dos to do this partly you can set up different config sys and autoexec bat commands for each user and they just have to select their menu option on bootup then you can have the autoexec bat copy the win ini and system ini files and change directories for them when they exit windows it can copy back generic ini files if you want this is the only way i can think of there may be some programs somewhere that allow you to do this better though using dos allows each person to have a custom config sys and autoexec bat greg williams georgia institute of technology atlanta georgia uucp decvax hplabs ncar purdue rutgers gatech prism gw internet gw prism gatech edu
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1,457 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | in need of help ok i have a problem that i thought you guys gals might know about i m running a dx with a mb hdd i also have windows but hardly any dos application will run out it also when i do a mem command it says that i have used up kb out of kb of conventional memory zero from upper level memory and all kb of my ems memory and to top it off i can t load any device drivers into upper memory do i just need more memory also why would it use up ems memory instead of upper memory please reply by e mail only to wes tamvenus tamu edu bill scrivener it s not the first time that you texas a m university sleep with a woman that matters college station texas but the first time email wes tamvenus tamu edu you wake up with her
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1,458 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re trident cl x driver in article c qkua chn da vinci it uswc uswest com dfeldman lookout mtt it uswc uswest com david feldman says 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 since we are in the subject i have one more question i have a trident c video card i want to know what is the latest video driver for it so far all i can find is that an old driver dated aug in garbo uwasa fi anyone have any info please e mail me at axh psuvm psu edu az
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1,459 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re atm in article downs helios nevada edu downs helios nevada edu lamont downs writes 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 unless you print to file with the correct resolution set for the final output device image setter a problem with tt fonts in windows is that they do get converted to t format ok and the hinting is even used while this is done but the resulting t fonts are not hinted the result is that they will work fine on a device of the resolution assumed by the printer driver when the ps file is generated but they will not look good when printed at a different resolution so when you print to an attached ps printer with the ps driver set up for this printer results may be quite good but if you take a ps file made for that printer and run it on a device of different resolution such as an image setter then the results may not be so good
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1,460 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | winqvt net v an earlier article in this newsgroup made reference to winqvt net version realy where i tried archie with no luck it s probably just a typo but i sure would like to get one if it s real as i too have a printer problem in winqvt david a fuess dir center for eecs phone fax
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1,461 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | new windows drivers for cirrus gd graphic cards i have uploaded the most recent windows drivers for the cirrus gd chip based display cards to the uploads directory at ftp cica indiana edu file is dr zip they re very recent i downloaded them from the cirrus bbs last night if you are unable to get them there email me and maybe i can upload them to some other sites as well i have a local bus based card vl bitblaster from micron but i think the drivers work with isa cards or at least includes drivers for them i found the new drivers to be a significant improvement over the version improving my graphic winmarks v by about million to although this could be the result of intentional benchmark cheating on cirrus s part but i don t think so from steve gibson s columnist for info world graphic card comparisons also found at the cica ftp site under the name winadv zip i extracted the following for the sake of comparison wintach winbn word sprsht cad paint overall steve s system vlb ati graphics ultra pro my system sx vlb vl bitblaster its no viper but i think its a hell of a deal at about a third of the cost of the ati card and when compared to the other cards included in gibson s review micron system owner s i would be interested to hear your opinions on the dtc vl local bus disk controller my system came with a maxtor drive mb and at first was only giving me disk winmarks of about kb s i am now at kb s is this about as good as it gets i can t get a norton s sysinfo disk reading because the contoller intercepts the calls at least that was what the program said oliver weatherbee oliver earthview
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1,462 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re adaptec scsi device driver for win
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1,463 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re canon bj bubblejet and hp deskjet the deskjet is slow this is in comparison to the other printers i mentioned i have no idea how the bubblejet compares the interface between win and the printer is just dandy i ve not had any problems with it i just bought a bj printer a couple of days ago i compared it to the sample print of an hp deskjet and knew that the hp wasn t for me the bj is pretty fast and really prints with good quality i can compare it with the hp laserjet iiid postscript and they look almost identical depending on the kind of paper i don t have problems with the ink not being dry it seems to dry very fast probably within a second since canon is giving a rebate until the end of may it is really a good buy sean eckton computer support representative college of fine arts and communications d hfac brigham young university provo ut hfac csr byu edu ecktons ucs byu edu
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1,464 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re utility for updating win ini and system ini in article apr lut ac uk a d bailey lut ac uk adrian d bailey writes in windows there is a built in called sysedit exe that is just what you need windows i don t know it s there tony annese claebaur shell portal com or claebaur cup portal com
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1,465 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | data corruption i quit windows normally to run a special dos app got done with it and tried to start windows ok got the title screen windows background dos with an error about loading progman exe hum yep progman exe is still there must be bad ok pull off progman exe from a backup tape start windows get the windows title screen windows background dos with the same error hum fire up the good ol norton disk doctor test lost clusters ok fix them and look through them doesn t look important remove the windows directory and reinstall from disks fire up windows title screen background program manager success i have a amy with meg of ram meg hd svga running under dos no special memory managers or stuff just the basic windows a meg permanent swap file using bit access i mainly use windows to run more that one dos app at a time ie downloading with qmodem with a dos window open and possibly pov running in the background i ve noticed that since i started using windows a few months ago lost clusters have gotten more and more common although i don t like having data just disappear it really haven t been a problem except for today has anyone else had any problems with lost clusters while running windows and what could i do to fix the problem i d sleep better knowing amy wasn t loosing her marbles steven steven marcotte sdoran matt ksu ksu edu
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1,466 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re winqvt net v in article lorien ocf llnl gov dave angmar llnl gov dave fuess writes an earlier article in this newsgroup made reference to winqvt net version realy where i tried archie with no luck it s probably just a typo not a typo it was uploaded to ftp cica indiana edu a couple days back but i sure would like to get one if it s real as i too have a printer problem in winqvt version uses standard windows printer drivers ashok ashok aiyar mail ashok biochemistry cwru edu department of biochemistry tel cwru school of medicine cleveland ohio fax
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1,467 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re more cool bmp files james dlss james cummings writes 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 deleted a lot of stuff how do you convert this to a bit map
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1,468 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | dos quick c crashes windows i am using dos quick c in a dos window under windows and the other day while i was running the compiler i got a general protection fault immediately followed by a serious disk error when i rebooted i found that about files had gotten cross linked which is a pretty serious corruption of the hard drive file system i am concerned that quick c in a dos window has somehow strayed outside its protected mode world and corrupted the smartdrv exe disk cache and that is what caused the disk problem i thought that dos programs run in dos windows were pretty well contained by windows if that is true then maybe the quick c compiler has nothing to do with it has anybody else had this type of problem i only recently upgraded from quick c to brad banko 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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1,469 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | turbo c visual edition adn request was re absolute newbie questions in article wiggins apr buttercup cs odu edu wiggins buttercup cs odu edu samuel e wiggins writes btw how would you rate the new borland turbo c visual edition for windows anyone time for a new discussion maybe i asked in these groups some time ago what about the tc ve and got no answers so i decided to try my brother who lives in the us bought and sent it to me and i m still trying to get used to it before i put my good bad points list consider i am a turbo pascal dos programmer and sometimes try to make something in unix with c just some exercises from university i used to make some programs in microsoft c version because we used some third party libraries that required that i like borland it seems to me much more easier to use than microsoft specially the debugger i tried to learn codeview sometimes but never felt confortable with it tc v e seems very nice to create simple apps like the examples on the objectwindows book so far no problems lets see next week or so when i will try something more complex it works nice even in my weak machine mhz mb ram but the manual for the resource workshop seems to be from a different version from the workshop itself some of the windows that appear on the manual have more itens than in the manual i think i will run into trouble since i got this tc ve from my brother as a present i didnt wanted to buy the japanese version because i suspect that the manuals will be in japanese and i believe it will be far more expensive here so he bought it as a present and sent to me i send the registration card to the japanese branch of borland but who knows so i d like to ask some questions for you all i know that there are some microsoft guys around here in this group is there anybody from borland is there any e mail address that we can contact the technical support not for stupid questions but to ask for example why the rw manual seems to be different from the rw itself is there anybody else using it around here will the book of petzold be useful for me i intend to use rw and protogen to make the interfaces and then work on the code itself answers to my e mail or comp os ms windows programmer tools please thanks in advance rafael
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1,470 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re ms windows access for the blind in article mtrottie emr emr ca mtrottie emr emr ca marc trottier writes in article apr cci cci com jfb cci cci com john bruno writes from jfb cci cci com john bruno subject ms windows access for the blind date thu apr gmt we are developing an ms windows based product that uses a full screen window to display rows of textual data is there any product for microsoft windows that will enable blind individuals to access the data efficiently quickly please email responses and i will post a summary to this group thanks for any help john bruno apparently microsoft came out with a new product ms braille it is suppose to be wytiwig no offense marc trottier mtrottie emr emr ca at the micro oft display at fose there were a few computers running windows and win apps for the blind i think didn t pay much attention to it but it was there 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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1,471 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | is it possible hello is it possible to know minimize program manager when starting an application and to restore it when the application is ended if possible please tell me how to do it forever michael jordan tony g wu gtonwu uz nthu edu tw cae rheology lab nthu tony che nthu edu tw
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1,472 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | help disappearing groups salutations i don t usually subscribe to these newsgroups so i would really appreciate it if someone could possibly e mail me the answer to my problem i have been using windows since buying it last winter but i have just now come across an annoying bug i now have about different groups in program manager but it seems that everytime i install something new that makes a new group it promptly disappears after i turn of windows this happened when i installed excel and winfax pro v they both created their own groups but when i turned off windows and reran them they were gone i had to manually pull them up as new items and put them in a previously existing group as all new gropus disappear as soon as i turn off windows my set up precision dx w megs trident c with meg windows running in x colour mode logitech mouseman thank you in advance emile woo ewoo unixg ubc ca emile woo student representative to senate sig unavailable holding internet ewoo unixg ubc ca referendum to decide politic tel ally correct witticism
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1,473 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | bungee after dark module uploaded hey folks just moments ago i uploaded the bungee jumper after dark module that was widely talked about on here some time ago it s at ftp cica indiana edu in pub pc win uploads titled simply bungee zip be sure to set your ftp connection to binary mode before downloading if you have any other after dark shareware freeware modules please upload them too the more the merrier andrew andrew bennett ajbennett miavx acs muohio edu what planet are you from
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1,474 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re dos vfintd and windows sys ini peter p lei lei rtsg mot com wrote does anyone know what the vfintd device is used for in windows it s under the enh section as device c dos vfintd i know norton desktop for windows includes this file and its help file mentioned something about floppy disk access jeroen j c a gremmen email jeroeng blade stack urc tue nl gildelaan phone no modem or fax pleez ph hilvarenbeek
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1,475 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re how can i use the mouse in non windows in article iq netcom com kasajian netcom com kenneth kasajian writes wnkretz ikesg energietechnik uni stuttgart de oliver kretzschmar writes hey could somebody tell me how it is possible to work with the mouse in a non windows application which runs in an window we use ms windows and have clipper applications exists there any routines or something else please mail me your informations thanks for your efforts oliver name o kretzschmar inst ike university stuttgart phone pfaffenwaldring fax stuttgart email wnkretz ikesg energietechnik uni stuttgart de very simple you have to have the mouse com or mouse sys loaded in dos before you run windows note that you don t need to have these files loaded to use the mouse in windows and you need a video driver which is completely windows compatible and your mouse driver has to be completely compatible as well not quite so simple i never could get my logitech mouse to work in a dos window with my old paradise card now i have a diamond ss x and the mouse drivers and everything works perfectly steven m
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1,476 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re grey scale while in windows kevin marshall operational support motorola ecid swindon uk e mail marshalk zeus phone international domestic
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1,477 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | workspace managers for win a small review thanks to all those people who recommended workspace managers for windows i found shareware workspace managers from australia s ms windows archive monu cc monash edu au which mirrors some sites in the u s the three i found were workspaces wspace zip this was the smallest and simplest of the workspace managers that i found it is very easy to use it displays a small window containing buttons plus an extra button for configuration purposes one annoying feature was the title window that is first presented when it is run you must press a key not a mouse button for the thing to go away also it would have been nice if there was an always on top setting for the little window containing the workspace buttons maybe some user specified strings on the buttons instead of the numbers one to six might be a nice feature the simplicity and ease of use of this workspace manager makes it an attractive package workshift wrksft zip while this workspace manager offered a few features that workspaces lacked it was quite time consuming to set things up with workspaces all but the first workspace is initially empty with workshift you need to take snapshots of how you want each of your workspaces to look like i e what applications they contain also the main window is quite large but this does allow you to have a small view of what is in each workspace with workspaces there was no facility for viewing what was in a workspace without switching to it workshift provides this viewing functionality which is quite useful bigdesk and backmenu backdesk zip this is an interesting package which contains a few other goodies as well as a workspace manager other goodies include backmenu which provides a pop up root menu when you press a certain mouse button just like in x windows the menu is totally configurable offering unlimited depth of cascading menus which is provides quite handy access to applications you could say it is a menu based alternative to the program manager also bundled in backdesk zip is a program called wrun which allows you to run windows applications from a dos shell under windows instead of using the file manager to run applications the actual workspace manager is called bigdesk bigdesk works quite differently to the other two workspace managers in that it doesn t provide a certain number of disjoint and separate workspaces in fact it basically enlarges your desktop by a configurable amount and you choose which region of the desktop you want your screen to focus in on this means you can have windows overlapping between different viewing regions unlike the first two workspace managers in which each workspace was isolated from the other one the bigdesk control window allows to to move windows around your enlarged desktop basically the control window provides a small scale view of your viewing area while your actual computer screen provides a large scale or blow up of a particular section try each of them out for yourself i was impressed with all of them so find out which one suits your needs the best
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1,478 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re wp pcf linux risc in article c rx b kzp ecf toronto edu 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 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 do you mean that the pentium is better than a risc or that it will outsell them all if the first you have to remember that intel cisc like the pentium are a always a generation away from the best riscs also riscs cpu are more costly because they are not sold in the same quantities not even on the same order but i remember reading about years maybe about a t from hypercube that did a mips was superscallar and reordered its instruction itself so
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1,479 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | dmqs files for xga was re catseye x xga extra modes note the followups are set to comp os os misc dmqs files describe monitors and valid modes to be used by the xga under both windows and os these files are unsupported ibm has nothing to do with these files or this post it s personal this time and every time i post see the signature due to demand and requests here are some additional dmqs files i ve collected for the xga these files function with the latest revision of the drivers for the xga not all these files will work under windows with the drivers available to the general public at this time all files will function under the most recent os beta and those i ve tried have worked under os sp not all files have been fully tested these files are unsupported they represent a personal collection not anything resembling an officially supported set as a standard disclaimer i would like to point out the following facts some of these files may run your adapter out of spec doing so can stress the ics on the card and may result in incorrect operation or in shorter life how short depends on how much out of spec boom some of these files may run your adapter in a region that is out of spec for your monitor resulting in damage to your monitor you should be knowledgable about your monitor and adapter s ability to use the mode you select using these files represents hacking in a very true sense so practice safe computing and don t play around too much if you don t like the risks and aren t knowledgable about what you re doing if you feel uncomfortable with all the warnings use the dmqs files you have or wait until ibm releases official tested dmqs files although you should be aware of warning even with the ibm files these files are unsupported by using them you may invalidate your warrenty not all have been fully tested i don t have that many monitors installation unpack in your dmqspath environment variable usually c xga dmqs then use the methods described in your xga installation diskette to change your adapter or settings packing these files have been packed with the latest infozip utility you will need pkzip x if you don t have the infozip utilities submitting feel free to send me uuencoded versions of your favorite dmqs files for your favorite monitors i m always interested in collecting more archive these files have been uploaded to ftp os nmsu edu in pub uploads xga dmqs zip dick kaul my opinions only not official ibm positions offers ibm visual subsystems data or anything else if i were to speak for ibm boca raton fl they d make me wear a suit kaul vnet ibm com beware of programmers carrying screwdrivers
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1,480 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | utility to expand dos file descriptions in directory listing i am looking for a windows utility that would give me a listing of files in a directory but also display a description of the file this utility would allow me to enter and edit file descriptions of hopefully any length maybe a small window with a scroll bar i would then be able to browse my directories and be able to see what is in a file without having to open or execute it any such beast out there if not anyone want to write one joe barrus barrus nosc mil
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1,481 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | info on books on bios etc hi everybody i am interested in the following topics bios programming on and memory management in and developing visual basic custom controls i would like to have your valuable opinion on the books that are best in the above topics please send a mail to rmehta paul rutgers edu i will post a summary of the suggestions thanks in advance rahul mehta
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1,482 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | sigma designs video sound card does anyone out there use a sigma designs video sound card the model is called win storm pc they also have one model the legend lx any info on these like performance and compatibility or even problems encountered will be appreciated thanks srini w seetharam
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1,483 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | program manager two questions is it possible to change the icons in the program groups i d like to give them some individuality can you set up a short cut key to return to the program manager i know ctl esc esc will do it but i d rather set it up so i can avoid the task list and get back to the p m with alt f any and all help is welcomed help stamp out stupid signature files gerry swetsky wb ebo vpnet public access unix and usenet home vpnet lisbon vpnet chi il us
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1,484 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | ss x questions just got a ss x based on its good ratings but am a little under impressed first is it s performance in mill supposed to be comparable to a trident or other unaccelerated vga i came up with only ok performance on winspeed in it was between good and great second does anyone know where to get that jpg viewer for the ss x i saw it on cica or something does it work better thanks for any help greg i i i gregory s king i the quality of life is i i aeronautical engineering i directly proportional to i i cal poly slo i how fast you drive i
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1,485 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re canon bj bubblejet and hp deskjet in c byu edu ecktons ucs byu edu sean eckton writes the deskjet is slow this is in comparison to the other printers i mentioned i have no idea how the bubblejet compares the interface between win and the printer is just dandy i ve not had any problems with it i just bought a bj printer a couple of days ago i compared it to the sample print of an hp deskjet and knew that the hp wasn t for me the bj is pretty fast and really prints with good quality i can compare it with the hp laserjet iiid postscript and they look almost identical depending on the kind of paper i don t have problems with the ink not being dry it seems to dry very fast probably within a second since canon is giving a rebate until the end of may it is really a good buy how much is the bj going for i got mine for which was in the end the deciding factor for me cindy cindy tittle moore internet tittle ics uci edu bitnet cltittle uci bitnet uucp ucbvax ucivax tittle usnail po box irvine ca
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1,486 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re program manager two questions in article apr vpnet chi il us lisbon vpnet chi il us gerry swetsky writes is it possible to change the icons in the program groups i d like to give them some individuality can you set up a short cut key to return to the program manager i know ctl esc esc will do it but i d rather set it up so i can avoid the task list and get back to the p m with alt f i use plugin an enhancement to program manager it allows for sure i don t know on anyway give it a try i like it a lot and registered it right away it can be found at ftp cica indiana edu in pub pc win util plugin zip bruce bruce f steinke never know when you re going to bsteinke dsd es com need a good piece of rope software technical support engineer sam gamgee evans sutherland computer corp my mail my opinions
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1,487 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | trident vga drivers hi i have a trident tvga video card and need the updated drivers for win where can i get them from an ftp site thanks bj
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1,488 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re more diamond ss x in article apr samba oit unc edu dil admin mhs unc edu dave laudicina writes 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 the exact same failure with the x and word for windows a quick call to microsoft indicated it was problem with the x drivers you need to call diamond and get the new drivers i think version fixes the above problem there may be later versions that i m unaware of dale r pischke dale odetics com or uunet odetics dale senior software engineer odetics gyyr division
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1,489 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | tidying up after removing an ole server a while ago i installed spss for windows as part of an evaluation once the evaluation was complete i duly deleted the software from my pc unfortunately there is still a ghost of spss left when i run something like write and go to embed an object then spss chart appears on the list of objects i m offered i looked around all the obvious ini files without success the next thing i tried was looking for the string spss chart in every file in the windows directory it turned up in a file called req dat or reg dat unfortunately the file was binary and so i didn t feel inclined to edit it i d welcome a solution for removing spss from the list of ole servers chris wooff c wooff liverpool ac uk
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1,490 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | file manager problem whenever i start file manager the status bar is not displayed even though it is selected in the options menu if i deselect it then select it again the bar appears anyone have any ideas why this is happening thanks mike
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1,491 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re help disappearing groups in article r anlinn g skeena ucs ubc ca ewoo unixg ubc ca emile woo writes program manager but it seems that everytime i install something new that makes a new group it promptly disappears after i turn of windows did you check that a new grp file was actually created in your windows directory are you turning off your computer when windows is running rather than closing program manager ekkehard
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1,492 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | list of favorite windows goodies is anyone maintaining a list of favorite shareware and public domain windows software i have several such lists for msdos but they are really light on windows stuff david arnstein international imaging systems arnstein iis sun com
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1,493 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | hhy won t my dos apps run in a window can somebody help me out there i have just purchased win and i just can t get dos apps text mode apps to run in a window on their own i ve tried mucking around with the pif settings etc but to no avail what am i doing wrong i didn t get this problem under v thanks in advance jason
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1,494 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re win nt what is it in article c qofw aa usenet ucs indiana edu ntaib silver ucs indiana edu iskandar taib writes in article bcf c a deneva sdd trw com reimert etdesg trw com scott p reimert writes somewhere in this thread it has been said that windows nt tm is a multi user os as well as multi threading etc i certainly haven t seen this to be the case there are seperate accounts for each person and even seperate directories if that is desired i don t see an implentation of simultaneuos use though since running any gui over a network is going to slow it down by a fair amount i expect windows nt will be multiuser only in the sense of sharing filesystems someone will likely write a telnetd for it so one could run character based apps but graphics based apps will have to be shared by running the executables on the local cpu this is how things are shaping up everywhere client server architectures are taking over from the old cpu terminal setups note that the next does this you can always telnet into a next and run character based apps but you can t run the gui yeah i know about x windows just haven t been too impressed by it iskandar taib the only thing worse than peach ala internet ntaib silver ucs indiana edu frog is frog ala peach bitnet ntaib iubacs i read this in an electronic magazine about nt and for all the hoopla about nt one would think the thing would be multi user but it s not it supports only one user at a time it can support multiple clients but only one actual user your mileage may vary this posting does not represent the opinions of my employers i m afraid i ll have to ask you to leave the store mam ash aod
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1,495 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re more diamond ss x in article apr odetics com dale odetics com dale pischke writes in article apr samba oit unc edu dil admin mhs unc edu dave laudicina writes 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 the exact same failure with the x and word for windows a quick call to microsoft indicated it was problem with the x drivers you need to call diamond and get the new drivers i think version fixes the above problem there may be later versions that i m unaware of version drivers are current steve chesney slc catherine cim cdc com metaphase technology inc voice north lexington avenue fax arden hills mn
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1,496 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | mewin latex help i posted this to the apps group and didn t get any response so i ll try here i am trying to use the latex help feature available in emacs for windows and read that you need a separate latexhlp zip file along with a vms hlp zip file to convert this to windows help has anyone found these files or gotten this command help to work thanks steve herrod
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1,497 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re why is my mouse so jumpy ms mouse ecktons ucs byu edu sean eckton writes i have a microsoft serial mouse and am using mouse com was using i think but switched to to see if it was any better vertical motion is nice and smooth but horizontal motion is so bad i sometimes can t click on something because my mouse jumps around i can be moving the mouse to the right with relatively uniform motion and the mouse will move smoothly for a bit then jump to the right then move smoothly for a bit then jump again maybe this time to the left about inch this is crazy i have never had so much trouble with a mouse before anyone have any solutions does microsoft think they are what everyone should be just venting steam i had the same problem at first i thought it was the video driver and made sure i had the most current drivers because the problem was most evident at svga resolution modes it didn t help and after a bit of experimentation determined that the problem existed in standard vga resolution mode it was just much less noticeable my mouse was an older ms serial version i bought second hand in it worked just fine in dos and dos based graphic applications on the guess that the problem was with the resolution of the mouse i borrowed a new mouse a ms bus model and tried it that solved the problem so if your mouse is old you may want to try replacing it for a newer one sean eckton computer support representative college of fine arts and communications d hfac brigham young university provo ut hfac csr byu edu ecktons ucs byu edu signoff russ lister rlister cti com or well connected systen uunet cti rlister comprehensive technologies int l inc arlington va
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1,498 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | twain drivers for logitech scanman hi i was wondering if anyone knew whether or not logitech had windows twain drivers for the scanman if so are the drivers on the net somewhere my scanman is the model one down from the scanman thanks in advance ross barclay ross barclay rbarclay trentu ca peterborough ontario
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1,499 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | ms windows sound system text to speach hi all news group users does anyone know whether there is some software which will let one do text to speach like the sound blaster does hal adam hadam bcsc gov bc ca
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