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1,500 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | simple windows question ok here s a nice easy question for all you out there when running dos under windows i lose the ability to do a print screen i have no problem with this when i m running dos not under windows if it s relavant i m using quarterdeck expanded memory manager for my please e mail any responses since i don t get to read the news too often thanks in advance jr eve albany edu jr albnyvms bitnet go heavy or go home
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1,501 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re winqvtnet with ndis on token ring in article apr datamark co nz thomas datamark co nz writes 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 i tried to do so but people told me that even if i used dispkt the packets would still be incompatible is this true 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 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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1,502 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | eps display software does any one know of any shareware freeware software which lets one display eps files on a pc with dos and or windows your reply would be much appreciated thanks hal adam hadam bcsc gov bc ca
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1,503 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re 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 from the windows resource toolkit for win workgroups add an entry to your system ini file under the nonwindowsapp section commandenvsize nnnn this sets the command com env size where nnnn must either be or between and a value of disables the setting if this value is too small or too big it is rounded up to or down to if the value is less than the current size of the actual environment this setting is disabled as if it were if you specify the environment size in a pif file for command com the pif setting overrides this setting the default is with msdos versions earlier than otherwise the default value is the e option in the shell command in config sys to set this value you must edit your system ini and reboot i have used this entry as well as relied on the default e from the config sys shell line and both give larger environments if you don t use one of these then the environment passed by windows to each new dos box is just a little bit bigger than the environment variables present when windows was started no matter how big the dos env was when windows starts it truncates all unused space except for a few bytes this should allow your batch file to run but your mileage may vary jerome jerry schneider domain jls atg com aspen technology group uucp uunet csn atglab jls po box ft collins co voice
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1,504 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | windows backgrounds help i m bored with the current windows backgrounds we have here and am looking for some nifty pictures to use instead i ve seen from previous posts that many sites exist that store pictures available through anonymous ftp except that i can t ftp to remote sites from my machine what i can do is use ftpmail mail a list of commands to a server and receive a mail of files and or data back does anyone know of sites with windows compatible pictures that can be accessed in such a way if you do would you please post them tia mark ps maybe this would make a useful faq mark whalley gec mrc co uk only in silence the word phone exn only in darkness light the views expressed here are mine only in dying life all mine and nothing whatsoever to bright the hawk s flight on the do with gec mrc empty sky ursula k le guin
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1,505 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re wp pcf linux risc in article c w j jll nyongwa cam org angcl nyongwa cam org claude angers writes 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 i m not sure but i think the t was a mhz transputer so ya tie a gazillion of them together to get mips the newest is the t which kicks anyone s butt haven t seen them used much though anyway to respond i think the pentium cisc is better than the more advanced risc e g like the alpha etc the mhz pentium has approximately the same performance as the superduper mhz alpha here performance is the weird specint that everyone refers to this is what i heard the alpha still kicks in the p s butt in fp again this is what i heard and in the computing world if you sell lots of chips like intel and make it faster like intel you are the winner like intel even though you have a sucky architecture from over years ago like intel if you can make a cisc chip superscalar superduperpipelined superfast with the ideas behind the risc ideology you got a cisc chip and then i admit i can t see the advantages of risc over cisc if the latest technology is a generation behind then it sucks relatively speaking now i may sound like i like intel but i ll have to say that the p is some real kick butt pile of si and sio but i hope that motorola really catches up with the k line or i m gonna start crying brian 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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1,506 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re more cool bmp files deleted a lot of stuff how do you convert this to a bit map you re supposed to delete everything above the cut here mark and below the lower cut here mark and uudecode it but i was not able to unexpected end of file encountered at the last line could you please re post it or tell be what i m doing wrong 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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1,507 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | beta testers required for winsock version of windows trumpet contact me for details peter psychnet psychol utas edu au peter p tattam international phone programmer psychology department australia phone university of tasmania hobart tasmania australia
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1,508 | 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 from kayman csd d stanford edu robert kayman subject canon bj bubblejet and hp deskjet keywords printer date apr gmt 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 all right not saying i know any more than the average salesguy i ll give your question a shot the key issue that i bought my bj on was ink drying speed you really have to try awful hard to get the bj ink to smear the hp deskjets need seconds to completely dry in both cases however do not get your pages wet unlike laser printers the material on your pages is ink not toner but that should go without saying my pc has very little memory only meg ram so the bj takes a little while to print but every application i use takes a while to run once the computer is solely printing it purs like a kitten and puts pages out every seconds depending on how detailed your graphics are the bj can do windows soft fonts i m assuming that the deskjet can or hp wouldn t sell many size is another factor the bj is much smaller but the hp is built like a tank i bet the bj would get damaged first finally the print quality i love the bj s resolution it looks like a good laser quality print the hp s i ve used they look like ink not as impressive so i chose the canon any other opinions
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1,509 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | actix video card drivers for windows i am looking for the latest drivers for the actix graphics accelerator card the driver i am currently using is version and doesn t support more than colors in x mode even you have mb memory the bbs support for actix is unbelievable they are still using bps modem it will take you hours to download the drivers it hurts when you are calling long distance is there any ftp site that has a collection of video drivers for windows btw anyone using this card and how do you like it so far thanks daniel y h wong uoft wongda picton eecg toronto edu electrical engineering
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1,510 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re nt questions in article news yale edu adriene nazaretian qm yale edu adriene nazaretian writes in article mar samba oit unc edu tclark med unc edu thomas b clark says is the driver support as seamless as program support e g will my soundblaster scanner cd rom tape backup continue to work even if there are no specific nt drivers there is a hardware compatibility guide to answer these questions there are many drivers for cd rom and there are midi and other sound drivers installed i dont do a lot with sound digitizing on this platform but recall seeing items for their configuration in the control panel applet there is built in support for tape backup systems as well my problem i wasn t aware of the fact that i would need an scsi cd rom for windows nt when ordering the beta sdk package so my question is there any driver available that will allow me to use my mitsumi non scsi cd rom for installation if there is one from which place ftp site can i get it many thanks in advance stefan kuehnel stefan k uhnel kuehnel rvs uni hannover de kuehnel swl uni hannover de neu ab die oben wiedergegebene meinung ist meine private und nicht die des rrzn des lg rvs der uh oder einer anderen institution
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1,511 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re trident vga drivers in article c y r fgp cs mcgill ca bjcon cs mcgill ca brendan newman says hi i have a trident tvga video card and need the updated drivers for win where can i get them from an ftp site i have the same card tvga c when i checked the latest driver for windows is dated aug in garbo uwasa fi in win drivers video if you find a better version updated please let me know thanks azmi axh psuvm psu edu
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1,512 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | help with a windows drum machine hello i m trying to get a drum program to work that i downloaded from ftp cica indiana edu in the pub pc win sounds directory it s called drum zip i have an ati stereo fx card with the latest windows drivers installed when i try to run the drum program it reports that a midi device is not installed however the drivers utility in the control panel reports that it is installed anyone have any idea how to set up the midi device so that the drum program will work with my setup what i m trying to do is use my computer as a metronome someone suggested that i try one of the drum machines that are circulating around out there any help would be appreciated thanks terry terryh cae wisc edu
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1,513 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | how redirect print manager to file hello who can tell me where can i find the pd or shareware which can capture windows s output of printer mananger i want to capture the output of hp laser jet iii though the postscript can setup to print to file but hp can t i try dos s redirect program but they can t work in windows thankx for any help internet address u cc nctu edu tw english name erik wang chinese name wang jyh shyang national chiao tung university taiwan r o c
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1,514 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re workgroup questions conven ram and licensing in article ny ra abh h eosvcr wimsey bc ca aew eosvcr wimsey bc ca 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 i have just checked it and you have three files that are loaded protman bytes driver bytes workgrp bytes q if i have a novell ne card are the lsl and ipx drivers still needed no w wg uses it s own drivers 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 not that i know of i bought two copies had some problems with one installed both from the same copie no problems do worry i just had a really old bios and that s the only problem i got 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 it will replace all older files i think and prompt you for the others q if i install windows nt on my server when it comes out will i have any troubles with the w wg machines this i do not know 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 hope this helps gel
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1,515 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re simple windows question in article apr sarah albany edu jr eve albany edu diamond writes when running dos under windows i lose the ability to do a print screen i have no problem with this when i m running dos not under windows open up the pif file with the pif editor click on the advanced button and then reserve the prtsc key for the application any keys that you select in this section will be passed along to the application rather than being processed by windows bob nichols at t bell laboratories rnichols ihlpm ih att com
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1,516 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | overlapped window without a title bar hi i have a simple question is it possible to create a overlapped thickframe window without a title bar ie ws overlapped ws thickframe ws caption i don t seem to be able to get rid off the title bar i have another question i have a overlapped window say v which has few child windows a b c etc the window shows up with all it s children fine now i create another child t with a ws thickframe style and placed on top of one or more of it s siblings style ws thickframe is used so that i can resize it how do i make sure that the child t will always be at the top of it s siblings i used setwindowpos and bringwindowtotop without success what s happening is that while i am resizing t it shows up but as soon as i let go it goes behild it s siblings any help would be greatly appreciated manu please mail me at manu oas olivetti com
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1,517 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | win comm drivers replacements question has anyone had any experience with a replacement comm driver for windows called turbocomm i read about it in pcmag apr and am interested but not willing to shell out the bucks the company wants just to try it out it supposedly eleminates the problems that occur during a high speed file transfer and a disk access made by another program running at the same time if anyone has any pro cons about this product i would be very inter ested to hear them please email at the address give below thanks matthew gibson gibsonm cs arizona edu
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1,518 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re file manager problem in a previous article mrw eng nxt cso uiuc edu michael r whitchurch says 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 no not really it may be that your winfile ini has gotten corrupted for some unknown reason have you tried re creating it by either exiting filemanager with the save setting option on when the status bar is visible or double clicking on the control menu the one with minimize and maximize in in when everything looks proper if you have and it still doesn t work you may want to delete your winfile ini and try one of these two saving procedures again to totally recreate the file from scratch good luck mark waschkowski
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1,519 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re canon bj bubblejet and hp deskjet thomas d fellrath nd edu nd edu wrote the key issue that i bought my bj on was ink drying speed you really have to try awful hard to get the bj ink to smear the hp deskjets need seconds to completely dry in both cases however do not get your pages wet unlike laser printers the material on your pages is ink not toner but that should go without saying i think the ink now used in the deskjet family is water fast
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1,520 | 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 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 is wintrumpet available anywhere via anonymous ftp james r garven dept of finance cba voice graduate school of business fax university of texas internet jgarven mcl cc utexas edu austin tx u s a bitnet garven utxvm bitnet education is hanging on until you ve caught on robert frost
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1,521 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | changing system fonts i would like to change all of the system fonts in windows i have a program that will generate system fonts from truetype but i was wondering if there is a problem to help you set up all your system fonts also how do i change the icon text color all of my icon text is black and i want to change it couldn t find any options in control panel or in win ini brad cain brad bach udel edu brad bach udel edu brad cain n naf cain snow white ee udel edu university of delaware electrical engineering cain freezer cns udel edu blah blah blah alt blah
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1,522 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re tidying up after removing an ole server in article c y kz liverpool ac uk qq liverpool ac uk chris wooff writes 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 i think you can do this with regedit which can make changes to the ole registration database from program manager or file manager choose run and type regedit you do have it its included with windows but not well documented tom paladin world std com
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1,523 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re hhy won t my dos apps run in a window in article snz sigma demon co uk jason sigma demon co uk writes 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 are you sure you re running in enhanced mode windows takes more memory
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1,524 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | approach for windows article crossposted from comp os ms windows apps author was dr richard timmer posted on apr gmt hello winnetters i have seen a great deal of discussion herein on the relative merits of ms access and borland paradox win however are there any users out there with experience with the database package called approach it has gotten a number of very good reviews from the various mags and it seems like it would require less hardware overhead than paradox i have ruled out access because some aspects of it are extremely non intuitive e g requiring a field to always have a value i like what i ve seen of paradox but it seems like the resource requirements are greater than what i have mhz mb ram so please provide me with your thoughts are approach good and bad thanks richard timmer
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1,525 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re mouse on com under windows in a previous article jpaparel cs ulowell edu joseph paparella says 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 i had this problem when i first loaded windows my i o card is for hd s fd s parrelel serial for mouse and for my external modem and a game port problem enters the darn serial ports have no selection for com settings they are stuck on and good card for hd s and fd s but lousy for serial i called microsoft and other places the long and short of it is windows wants com and only for mouse selection i went out and bought a small i o card just for parrelel and serial now i have all active com ports and lpt and lpt this half card was less than mouse on com external modem on com i disabled the lpt so i could use the interupt for my scanner card irq 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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1,526 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | word byte i just moved from borland c to visual c today when i tried to compile my c program it complained a function prototype problem it turned out that the typedef word in ms c is a byte not unsigned int could anyone shine some light on this subject why a word is a byte ming t lin mlin ichips intel com
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1,527 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | winnls dll i tried to install a foreign language windows application that required a file named winnls dll i checked all of my windows installation disks for this file but could not find it does anybody have any idea what this file is for and where one could get it from
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1,528 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | canon buble jet printer hi can somebody tell me how much is canon bj and from where can i buy it for the cheapest price thanks in advance m o o
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1,529 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | for sale harvard graphics for windows for sale brand new shrinkwrapped harvard graphics for windows list price cheapest pince in computer shopper mail order my price this is really a slick package but i won it in a bike race so i can t return it for credit my dilemma is your fire sale peter tapscott xerox palo alto research center internet tapscott adoc xerox com xns net tapscott parc xerox
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1,530 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | x trident driver wanted is there a x trident driver for windows anywere this mode is supported by the drivers fo os but i have not been able to find it for windows x means wide and high as opposed to x any help is appreciated peter vestman dep of computing science university of umea sweden
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1,531 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re winqvt net v in article ashok biochemistry cwru edu ashok biochemistry cwru edu ashok aiyar writes 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 it s still in the pub pc win uploads directory as qvtnet zip note new email address tom carter carter photon cem msu edu michigan state university carter msucem bitnet chemistry department
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1,532 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re exit codes dos sorry for wrong group in article apr seas gwu edu louray seas gwu edu michael panayiotakis writes 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 there are alternatives you can try to write a small c program something like int my int var my int var system command and display my int var value which is the exit code of the command or use dos com instead of command com it has built in move command you can also get any program exist code by using the exec function of dos c echo exec command will display the exit code of the command get dos not worth buying if you already have qemm pctools norton and you only need the move utility 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 agus budy wuysang digitech student monash university clayton melbourne australia
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1,533 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re more cool bmp files in article apr seas gwu edu louray seas gwu edu michael panayiotakis writes deleted a lot of stuff how do you convert this to a bit map you re supposed to delete everything above the cut here mark and below the lower cut here mark and uudecode it but i was not able to unexpected end of file encountered at the last line could you please re post it or tell be what i m doing wrong sounds like the original poster of the bitmap uuencoded the file on a dos machine and you tried to uudecode it on a un x machine and your uudecode program balked at the carraige returns
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1,534 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | program manager kills my group files any clue some times when i enter win progman says that i need to rebuild a group it s quite annoying
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1,535 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | how to hold the control to a window object i m using bc s objectwindows version and trying to get some data processed in a window object however when the calling program invokes the window object it gives up the control to the window object and keeps executing the next statement i would like the calling program after invoking the window object to wait until the window object is closed can i do that my program may look like 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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1,536 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re overlapped window without a title bar from article rc h ern olivea atc olivetti com by manu oas olivetti com manu das i have a overlapped window say v which has few child windows a b c etc the window shows up with all it s children fine now i create another child t with a ws thickframe style and placed on top of one or more of it s siblings style ws thickframe is used so that i can resize it how do i make sure that the child t will always be at the top of it s siblings i used setwindowpos and bringwindowtotop without success what s happening is that while i am resizing t it shows up but as soon as i let go it goes behild it s siblings the window is probobly on top but the lower windows are drawing over it try using ws clipsibling to keep the lower siblings from drawing on the top sibling s space ed ekalenda netcom com
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1,537 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re need longer filenames in article d t infoserv com hfeldman infoserv com howard mitchell feldman writes 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 yep it s called os
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1,538 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re atm rnichols cbnewsg cb att com robert k nichols writes 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 this isn t entirely true it is true that truetype fonts are larger than their atm counterparts but atm fonts do get minimal compression running stacker report generator i get file type compression ratio ttf truetype pfb atm pfm atm metric although the metric files are small they compress quite largely and as you can see even the regular pfb files have some compression so doing the math on one such comparitive font file ttf times bytes bytes compressed pfb times bytes bytes compressed you still win out even if the atm times font isn t compressed your mileage may vary depending on compression program when heroes go down they go down fast john m grohol m s so don t expect any time to center for psychological studies equivocate the past nova univ ft lauderdale fl suzanne vega grohol novavax nova edu
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1,539 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re beta testers required for winsock version of windows trumpet in a previous article peter psychnet psychol utas edu au peter r tattam says contact me for details peter psychnet psychol utas edu au peter this is posted on behalf of peter tattam there is a north american mirror with the beta test version of wintrumpet for winsock please contact me or peter for details ashok ashok aiyar department of biochemistry cwru axa po cwru edu for internet access telnet ftp in cleveland contact info wariat org telnet to wariat wariat org and login as bbs dial v bis or bps
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1,540 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | please refresh on internet access to compuserve hi sometime ago there are some discussions on gaining compuserve access thru the internet but i seem to misplace those articles can someone please refresh me where which site i can telnet to to gain access hopefully i can download files as well thanks arthur lim email arthur mailhost scs com sg
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1,541 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | i hate to make a decision hi well i really hate to make a decision but recently i have to choose whether stacker or dos with double space for my poor hd i am using windwos and i hope what i choose will live with windows any help will be appreciated forever michael jordan tony g wu gtonwu uz nthu edu tw cae rheology lab nthu tony che nthu edu tw
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1,542 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | fast dos vga and x x windows video card info needed ok i have a dx isa w diamond stealth vram mb i was really satisfied w its performance in windows but now more and more games needs higher frame rates in dos vga especially this new strike commander this stealth vram can only give me fps i use dbench my winmark was million i think so right now i m considering to replace it w a new card which hopefully can perform approx same w my current vram in windows and also can perform dos vga preferably fps i also saw the dbench benchmark list from someone who compiled it in csipg and it looked that speedstar x and orchid prodesigner d s ware the fastest for non local bus motherboard both can give fps in dos vga w dx does anyone have a winmarks for both of those cards above with the processor type which one is the worthiest not necessarily fastest any other card recommendation is welcomed too also if possible where can i get this card for the cheapest thanks in advance folks martin
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1,543 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re cica mirror try wuarchive wustl edu in the mirrors win directory
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1,544 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re i hate to make a decision in article apr gtonwu uz nthu edu tw gtonwu uz nthu edu tw tony g wu writes hi well i really hate to make a decision but recently i have to choose whether stacker or dos with double space for my poor hd i am using windwos and i hope what i choose will live with windows any help will be appreciated forever michael jordan tony g wu gtonwu uz nthu edu tw cae rheology lab nthu tony che nthu edu tw stacker achieves better compression ratio than dos yet the latter comes with virus detection memory manager and multiple booting each of them are not so good as the nav qemm or ndos in my opinion but with a package of only it s nice if haven t yet installed all of those stuffs both certainly work with win rensheng horng
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1,545 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re bernoulli drives disks nilayp violet berkeley edu nilay patel writes i am looking for bernoulli removable tapes for the drive don t laugh i am serious if you have any mb tapes lying around that you would like to get rid of please mail me nilay patel nilayp violet berkeley edu you do mean disks don t you not tapes you forgot to say whether you were looking for the old or the newer sorry just use them at work and don t think they would appreciate it nathan c moore the johns hopkins university applied physics laboratory ncmoore aplcomm jhuapl edu cis please note above address for email replies
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1,546 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re more cool bmp files in article c yhr n i world std com paladin world std com thomas g schlatter says in article apr seas gwu edu louray seas gwu edu michael panayiotakis writes deleted a lot of stuff how do you convert this to a bit map you re supposed to delete everything above the cut here mark and below the lower cut here mark and uudecode it but i was not able to unexpected end of file encountered at the last line could you please re post it or tell be what i m doing wrong sounds like the original poster of the bitmap uuencoded the file on a dos machine and you tried to uudecode it on a un x machine and your uudecode program balked at the carraige returns well my newsreader shows the uue file as having lots of spaces which means it s broken before i even try to download it did anyone get it to uudecode successfully aengus rbyaml rohmhaas com aengus lawlor rbyaml rohvm bitnet who used to be alawlor dit ie how about some of that famous dublin wit barman certainly sir would that be dry or sparkling
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1,547 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | bigger window headings does anyone know of bigger raster fonts i m using a mag h monitor with a diamond ss x in x mode and would prefer to have larger characters for the windows heading practically for everything i m already using the character sets mark any idea of the difference between the h and the f
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1,548 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | soundblaster v drivers for win hi all could someone please tell me if there are drivers for windows for the new soundblaster or will the drivers be sufficient i would be appreciate any info thanks greg ennis gke cs williams edu
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1,549 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | question about localtalk appleshare on ms dos system is anyone out there running a ms dos system with a localtalk board i am on an appletalk network hooked up with a daystar digital lt mc localtalk interface board running on a ps model i m using the appleshare pc software for file server and network access it works fine under dos or the window or os dos box but when i try to load it before windows so that every application i run could get access to it the machine crashes hard as soon as i start up an application and of course things look pretty hopeless for os but who knows so does anyone have experience with this bizarre and obsolete setup duncan duncans phoenix princeton edu
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1,550 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | vb to msaccess dde communications a couple of weeks ago i posted a question concerning communicating between vb and msaccess using dde the answers i received at that time allowed me to get a prototype of my project working however during this process i have come up with new problems there seems to be a limit of characters for a dde topic string is this inherent in all dde systems or just peculiar to msaccess or vb it is easy to query an access database from vb using the dde sql command provided the above limitation is overcome by using short field and table names but how is one meant to update a database a a dde sql update command does not seem to work b initiating an access macro using a dde execute command from vb cannot be used because when the macro requests information from vb using a second dde channel the programs dead lock until time outs occur the vb to access channel has to close before the access to vb channel is initiated i guess c access does not allow vb to dde poke the information the way i eventually managed to update a database was by sending key strokes from vb to access using the sendkeys command this technique has the problem that access cannot be minimised and it must always be in a state ready to respond to the sequence of key strokes vb sends are all the above statements correct or have i made incorrect assumptions are there any better work arounds to the above are there any signs of an odbc driver for access bob ran doc ic ac uk
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1,551 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | video cards with bnc connectors hello i just recently bought a nec fg in order to get the highest possible quality and refresh rates i d like to know if there are any accelerator cards with bnc connectors as opposed to the usual d sub connector thanks for any information mike mills e mail sam ms uky edu rutgers uunet ukma sam uk math sciences dept mike ukpr uky edu work home
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1,552 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | help object appears thrice hey all i got an equation editor and since it didn t automagically appear in my object dialog box i e insert object equation i decided to manually place it there so i went into win ini is there another way to do this the embedding section and added equation equation equation path filename picture didn t work quit windows go back aha mistake correct it it looks fine start windows doesn t work play with it for a while at one point having two entries to see if one works and th other don t and finally i get it to work the only thing i can see that s different now is that it s now the first item on the list and it used to be the last but now i end up with three equation entried and all of them working and only one entry in win ini so does any netian know what s wrong or rather how to correct this i e make equation appear but once also all the entries in the embedding appear as above it s obvious that path filename is the executable or whatever and picture has something to do withthe way it appears picture description but what are the others i e in soundrec sound sound whate s the difference between the st sound and the nd and what is soundrec i don t think it s the name of the executable as other entries e g msworkschart aren t 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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1,553 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | realizing colours win ini setting changes to y automatically mornin all i was wonderin i got screenpeace the screensaver which i think is very good and i got a problem with it there is an option there realize colour table and if it s switched on some wallpapers colours will get ucked up with some screensavers e g the flashlight one if i turn it off however it works well and it s faster so i have it off all s nice and well however if i turn it off then it will be on again next time i start windows all the setting are set in the win ini file and i do have save settings on exit selected also i tried manually changing the setting in the win ini file to n for no realize colour table and started windows it will be fine for that session but the next session will again turn the option on i tried adding a r read only attribute to my win ini file and it worked but my bitmap wallpaper saver didn t work then actually it s the same application anywya it didn t work since it must change the setting at the win ini file so anyone out there got any answers suggesions comments for me thanks i a mickey aka mp 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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1,554 | 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 do you mean the icons of the program groups or the icons of the individual programs in the program groups i assume you mean the latter and the answer is sure you can just click once not double on the application icon then alt f p file properties click on the change icon box and tell it the icon filename or use the browse sub selection 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 alt tab hold the alt key and repeatedly press tab until you see program mangler up then release the alt key stan brown oak road systems brown ncoast org english is my native language and i love it but don t try to tell me that it s easy to learn or that it makes sense if it were baseline would rhyme with vaseline
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1,555 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | winword spelling dictionaries for non us english word for windows lets me designate text as being in a language other than us english alt f l format language as i recall so i mark it for english uk but it still accepts rumor and squawks at rumour as far as i can see microsoft didn t include the english uk dictionary on my disks i don t mean to imply that i was singled out i assume that nobody in the u s got them i dialed the microsoft bbs but nothing in the word for windows section looked helpful can anyone tell me where or how to obtain the uk spelling dictionary for winword the file name would be spell uk lex or something similar email please i ll post a summary stan brown oak road systems brown ncoast org english is my native language and i love it but don t try to tell me that it s easy to learn or that it makes sense if it were baseline would rhyme with vaseline
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1,556 | 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 think i have the same problem i think it is caused by the rubber ball in the mouse which doesn t roll so smooth the detectors in the mouse notice this and whoops i hit a mine using minesweeper i think the solution will be buying a new mouse and or using a mouse pad wouter
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1,557 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re more diamond ss x from article apr samba oit unc edu by dil admin mhs unc edu dave laudicina has anyone experienced a faint shadow at all resolutions using this card is only in windows i have replaced card and am waiting on latest drivers also have experienced general protection fault errors in wspdpsf drv on winword tools option menu and in winfax setup i had a ati ultra but was getting genral protection fault errors in an spss application these card manufactures must have terrible quality control to let products on the market with so many bugs what a hassle running on gateway dx thx dave l you re using drivers version or earlier the latest is available from their bbs or by snailmail it at least fixes the wfw problem the reason i wanted to reply in public instead of private mail is because of following i talked to their tech support a few days ago and was told that i can expect a new version near the end of the month which should be about now however i have a problem when switching back from a dos session in standard mode apparently they don t know of this problem and seem to be surprised why anybody would want to use standard mode at all it s a great card for the price at least when i bought it now there may be better alternatives bo peng
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1,558 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | winword grammer checker saved my liff fire up microsoft word for windows version c type the following paragraph if you want to rite really very dead good you just cant live without one of the wonderfully write aids what you re can get what helps me impress me boss under tools options grammar select use grammar and style rules strictly all rules and click ok run the grammar checker this also does a spelling check no complaints readability passive sentences flesch reading ease flesch grade level flesch kincaid gunning fog index tl someone buy malcolm bacchus some beer please
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1,559 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re visual c it is correct that vc is not considered an upgrade for c c is basically a dos product vc is a windows product as windows is not an upgrade for dos it is a separate operating system product line its utilities cannot be upgrades for dos utilities however i have also been told that it is not an upgrade for qcwin which it should be in article aa therose pdx com don hancock f n z fidonet org don hancock writes my understanding is that visual c is msc is it not what i mean is it is intended as a logical upgrade to msc which i own i am very interested in vc but i can t find anything about it tell me more how s the editor is it a true windows app msc which i love is not how are compile times exe sizes how smart is the linker how well does it do dos apps i would like to be one of the few programmers still pumping out stuff for the dos users out there even though i run win i like the multitasking and i couldn t afford desqview will it link rd party libs easily i use lots of rd party libs in my dos programs too lazy to do my own interfaces how is the debugger i make lots of mistakes thanx if it wasn t for c we would be using basi pasal and obol blue wave qwk v david a fuess dir center for eecs phone fax lawrence livermore national laboratory
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1,560 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | help with changing startup logo i know this is probably a faq but i installed the s w for my ati graphics card and it bashed my windows logo files when i start windows now it has the logo instead of the logo i thought the files that controlled this were windows system vgalogo rle windows system vgalogo lgo i restored these files but it didn t change the logo anyone know what the correct files are thanks farley access digex com charles u farley average iq of calgary board of ed employee
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1,561 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | protection fault hi i was wondering if anyone out there could help me i have an error message that goes what does it mean i am running ms windows thanks in advance
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1,562 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re why is my mouse so jumpy ms mouse in article apr cti com rlister cti com russell lister writes 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 another alternative is to clean the mouse you ve got sometimes the rollers inside the mouse pick up a ball of lint or other debris open the bottom of the mouse take out the ball and use some alcohol on a q tip to clean it out inspect the inside for any hairs or fuzz i have had my mouse get real jumpy and cleared up the problem with this procedure
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1,563 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | z modem up and download with winqvt hello all i d like to know how z modem upload is initiated in a winqvt script file to check how it works before registering unfortunatly nothing about that feature is mentioned in the manual can anybody help me ciao chris
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1,564 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re exit codes dos sorry for wrong group internal dos commands certainly and before do not set the exit code this is a royal pain if you want to do anything which checks for successful deletions etc the best suggestion is to use dos which does return you exit codes it also has move command simon simon rowe srowe fulcrum co uk fulcrum communications ltd birmingham condition brain overload raised at england
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1,565 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | w wg novell i installed windows for workgroups on my network and i m having problems mapping drives in the file manager situation if i put lastdrive z in my config sys netx will run but i can t access drive f to log in to novell if i don t put lastdrive z in my config sys i can t access other w wg drives from the file manager it seems that there should be a way to make netx work with the lastdrive statement in my config sys i would appreciate any help it s probably an easy problem that all you windows guru s solved many many moons ago thanks tom bilan department of death by engineering surgeon general s warning michigan state university graduate school may cause brain bilan cps msu edu damage and sporadic loss of hair
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1,566 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | drivers for stealth i recently purchased a diamond stealth video card and received the wrong drivers does anyone know where i can ftp the proper drivers the dstlth file at cica does not work with this video card please respond to doug sun sws uiuc edu thank you doug ward
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1,567 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | windows locks up with green lines down the screen hi i am using a dtk mhz meg memory to run a variety of programs and have had problems off and on with lock up but now i am trying to run an application that wants a lot of memory over a period of time playmation bit rendered and it is locking up everytime i have an ati ultra w meg which i have tried in each of the video modes i have excluded the region of video memory from a c segments from the use of emm have tried adjusting the swap partion from large to nonexistant to prevent swapping and i have rem d all tsr s and utilities in config syus and autoexec and even tried using the default program manager disabling my hp dashboard even with a minimal system no swap no smartdrv no tsr s no windows utilities and exclusion of video regions it still locks up completely no mouse control no response to anything except finger salute and even that does not stop by the standard windows screen but simply does a full reset immediately just about out of ideas anyone out there have any thanks tom branham branham binah cc brandeis edu
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1,568 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re please refresh on internet access to compuserve cheong solomon technet sg scstech admin writes hi sometime ago there are some discussions on gaining compuserve access thru the internet but i seem to misplace those articles can someone please refresh me where which site i can telnet to to gain access hopefully i can download files as well this should be in the faq it only get asked about twenty times a month there is no that s right no telnet access to compuserve no ftp access no gopher access no internet services except e mail you can telnet to hermes merit edu but that routes you through sprintnet which is horrendously expensive tom gillman systems programmer aaaaagggghhhh wells computer center ga state univ any classic star trek security syshtg gsusgi gsu edu officer sometime during the show gsu doesn t care what i say on the internet why should you
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1,569 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re help with changing startup logo in article farley access digex com charles u farley writes i installed the s w for my ati graphics card and it bashed my windows logo files when i start windows now it has the logo instead of the logo i thought the files that controlled this were windows system vgalogo rle windows system vgalogo lgo i restored these files but it didn t change the logo anyone know what the correct files are for a vga card these are the correct files but you can t just copy them back and expect it to work you have to create a new win com file try the command you will have to worry about what directories each file is in since i don t know your setup copy b win cnf vgalogo lgo vgalogo rle win com i grabbed this from supercharging windows by judd robbins great book this is also how you can put your own logo into the windows startup screen an rle file is just a specially compressed bmp file hope this helps brad smalling jr ee ga tech atlanta ga gt c prism gatech edu
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1,570 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re how redirect print manager to file u cc nctu edu tw by swh writes who can tell me which program pd or shareware can redirect windows s output of printer manager to file i want to capture hp laser jet iii s print output though postscript can setup print to file but hp can t i use dos s redirect program but they can t work in windows thankx for any help internet address u cc nctu edu tw english name erik wang chinese name wang jyh shyang national chiao tung university taiwan r o c try setting up another hpiii printer but when choosing what port to connect it to choose file instead of like lpt this will prompt you for a file name everytime you print with that hpiii on file printer good luck brian servis 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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1,571 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re protection fault in thia mira sce carleton ca thia sce carleton ca yong thia writes hi i was wondering if anyone out there could help me i have an error message that goes what does it mean i am running ms windows ummm i think you left the message out i get these protection faults all the time on my machine at work a mhz with mb ram windows with dos at home on a mhz mb ram windows and dos i never get these any idea what could be wrong someone already suggested i check for tmp files in the windows temp directory there are none there the message i get is this application has violated system integrity due to an invalid general protection fault and will be terminated i only have this problem with applications running in dos boxes with or without pif files setup for them any hints help greatly appreciated please post since at least one other person is also having gpf problems thanks gordon gordon edwards n vph nothing unreal exists ncr engineering manufacturing gedwards ncratl atlantaga ncr com kiri kin tha s first law of metaphysics
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1,572 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re help with changing startup logo in article rgtba gtn access digex net farley access digex com charles u farley writes i know this is probably a faq but i installed the s w for my ati graphics card and it bashed my windows logo files when i start windows now it has the logo instead of the logo i thought the files that controlled this were windows system vgalogo rle windows system vgalogo lgo i restored these files but it didn t change the logo anyone know what the correct files are thanks somewhere ftp cica indiana edu or simtel mirror there is a program called winlogo zip that does the trick it works great i believe the reason why you can t change the files you mentioned is that the logo is actually imbeded into the windows executable somebody please correct expand on this eric farley access digex com charles u farley average iq of calgary board of ed employee
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1,573 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | ctrl alt del locks the computer fafter windows whenever i exit windows i can t use control alt del to reboot my computer because the system hangs when i do this i can still reboot using the reset key but i would like to know why this happens eric ebosco us oracle com
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1,574 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | windows nt und x windows i am not sure whether i am here in the right area but does anybody here know whether windows nt does will include a x windows server so that it can run x window applications remotely this is because we are considering at our university to use pc s for word processing and program development whereas the bigger jobs are to be run either on sun workstations or on fujitsu super computers thank you very much in advance hein eurom free multiline unix bbs home of the fsag frankfurt main germany data
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1,575 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | windows nt help please help windows nt i need some information on the new windows nt anything you have would be appreciated i know nothing about it well except that it exists some questions memory requirements hard drive space release date is it out how is ibm reacting intel can it replace other lan os s anything else like specs speed etc thanks in advance luke email me at internet address domet ucbeh san uc edu bitnet address domet ucbeh
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1,576 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | embedded truetype fonts ok i ve heard rumors about this i might have even seen it in a few places and i d like some info is it possible to embed fonts in a document like write word or ami pro so the file can be printed on another machine that doesn t have the font if possible how is it done i m sorry if this is a faq i couldn t find a faq list i would also apreciate knowing where that is if a windows faq exsists thanks in advance harry pierson come and be with me live my twisted dream the audio mercenary pro devoted pledge time for primal concrete sledge pierson usc edu pantera
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1,577 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | workaround for citizen drivers i have been experiencing several end user problems with various commercial software packages wordperfect win publish it win and printing landscape mode on a citizen pn the little guy or the citizen gsx in a nutshell the problem is that i lose the first inches of information from my left margin be it white space or truetype font output and margins are not preserved on subsequent pages past the first wordperfect had a workaround consisting of using the default location for the printers instead of tractor or manual they have also filed this as a bug and are continuing to investigate it ms write of course has no problem with these printer drivers proving that microsoft knows something the rest of us don t are you surprised i m not publish it win is still investigating this problem and while i was consider my options rejecting the one about buying an dtp package for surely they wouldn t have this problem right i stumbled onto a global workaround workaround go into the windows control panel select printers select your citizen printer driver select setup and select a custom size of x like magic all of your problems will go away ask me no questions and i ll tell you no lies mike disclaimer my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer mike rovak drd com
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1,578 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | windows or dos or smartdrv or hello i thought this problem might have something to do with windows smartdrv and a vesa video card any ideas i recently purchased a dx machine and am having problems where the machine will suddenly freeze or reboot this may happen in windows or dos sometimes it is after printing a document sometimes after using the mouse and sometimes just when i am sitting there twice when it happened the machine rebooted and sounded seven beeps i looked in the documentation and the seven beep code meant a problem with interrupts the machine has the following configuration and files dx ami bios and floppies meg ide hard drive k cache microsoft compatible mouse on com citizen gsx on lpt ni supervga monitor with vesa windows accelerator card w meg two vesa slots windows dos config sys device c windows himem sys dos high devicehigh c dos setver exe files buffers stacks autoexec bat echo off lh c windows smartdrv exe prompt p g path c dos c windows c mouse lh c mouse mouse set temp c dos lh c dos doskey when the machine freezes i can t use the mouse or keyboard or use ctrl alt del to reboot if any one can give me any help i would greatly appreciate it if anyone can help configure this machine for the best efficiency memory wise i would appreciate that also douglas b dodson internet dbd icf hrb com hrb systems inc state college pa usa disclaimer any ideas or opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the ideas or opinions of hrb
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1,579 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re please refresh on internet access to compuserve cheong solomon technet sg scstech admin writes hi sometime ago there are some discussions on gaining compuserve access thru the internet but i seem to misplace those articles can someone please refresh me where which site i can telnet to to gain access try telnet login to cserve this will get you into the compuserve network enter hostname cis and you ll get the userid prompt hopefully i can download files as well i haven t if you can figure it out let me know also let me know if your backspace key works thanks arthur lim email arthur mailhost scs com sg craig lewis saic craig monster apd saic com
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1,580 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re workaround for citizen drivers in article apr drd com mike drd com mike rovak writes i have been experiencing several end user problems with various commercial software packages wordperfect win publish it win and printing landscape mode on a citizen pn the little guy or the citizen gsx in a nutshell the problem is that i lose the first inches of information from my left margin be it white space or truetype font output and margins are not preserved on subsequent pages past the first wordperfect had a workaround consisting of using the default location for the printers instead of tractor or manual they have also filed this as a bug and are continuing to investigate it ms write of course has no problem with these printer drivers proving that microsoft knows something the rest of us don t are you surprised i m not publish it win is still investigating this problem and while i was consider my options rejecting the one about buying an dtp package for surely they wouldn t have this problem right i stumbled onto a global workaround workaround go into the windows control panel select printers select your citizen printer driver select setup and select a custom size of x like magic all of your problems will go away ask me no questions and i ll tell you no lies mike excuse me that s x mike disclaimer my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer mike rovak drd com
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1,581 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re workaround for citizen drivers for windows i have had the best luck using the epson lq drivers with my citizen gxs be sure to download the updated version from microsoft that allows margin settings gene toye senior software engineer gtoye pssparc oc com openconnect systems lbj freeway dallas tx disclaimer my employer had no idea i was going to say that
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1,582 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | looking for the latest actix drivers for windows hi anyone have the latest drivers for the actix graphics accelerator card plus the one i have version seem to have a lot of problems i believe the latest version is and would someone please upload it to some ftp site so that i can download it thanks daniel y h wong uoft wongda picton eecg toronto edu electrical engineering
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1,583 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re workspace managers for win a small review jamie scuglia jamie zikzak apana org au wrote 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 review deleted workshift wrksft zip review deleted bigdesk and backmenu backdesk zip review deleted i really appreciate this information however given that i don t have direct internet access which means i don t have archie access i must resort to using ftpmail this means that i need the site name and the directory where these workspace managers are located so can you or anyone else post or email me the needed information thanks very much chris chris huey tactix reengineering inc cah tactix rain com voice codecrafters custom crafted software in about an hour
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1,584 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re visual c in article rgr v ga lll winken llnl gov david a fuess writes it is correct that vc is not considered an upgrade for c c is basically a dos product vc is a windows product as windows is not an upgrade for dos it is a separate operating system product line its utilities cannot be upgrades for dos utilities however i have also been told that it is not an upgrade for qcwin which it should be you can upgrade msc and qcwin to the visual c products as follows standard edition list price upgrade from qcwin competitive upgrade professional edition list price upgrade from msc competitive upgrade includes upgrades from other ms language products like qcwin michael goo hewlett packard i never try to cover my ass information networks division but i certainly support your right to do so homestead road ms lt cupertino ca goo hpinddh cup hp com
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1,585 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re why is my mouse so jumpy ms mouse in article c zs pr cs vu nl wlieftin cs vu nl liefting w writes 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 think i have the same problem i think it is caused by the rubber ball in the mouse which doesn t roll so smooth the detectors in the mouse notice this and whoops i hit a mine using minesweeper i think the solution will be buying a new mouse and or using a mouse pad wouter and or taking the rubber ball out of the mouse should be directions in the manual or on the bottom of the mouse and cleaning it with alcohol isopropyl i believe the same alcohol as used for cleaning your cassette deck this is good to do every so often even if you have a mouse pad dust still gets caught in the mouse and on the rubber ball as well lint and other garbage may find it s way onto the rubber ball and get into the mouse damaging the horizontal and vertical sensors hope this helps good luck 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
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1,586 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re bernoulli drives disks in article c onk f a netnews jhuapl edu ncmoore netnews jhuapl edu nathan moore writes nilayp violet berkeley edu nilay patel writes i am looking for bernoulli removable tapes for the drive don t laugh i am serious if you have any mb tapes lying around that you would like to get rid of please mail me nilay patel nilayp violet berkeley edu you do mean disks don t you not tapes you forgot to say whether you were looking for the old or the newer well i need the old disks you are right disks is a better word but they are so big and calling them disks is kind of funny but the appropriate word is disks nilay patel nilayp violet berkeley edu
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1,587 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | looking for tom haapanen i m trying to find tom haapanen formerly tom wes on ca who was the keeper of the faq for this newsgroup he was working at watrerloo engineering software but netfind can t even find that but it may have been a uucp connection if anyone knows how to contact tom please let me know thanks tom schlatter paladin world std com
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1,588 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re w wg novell in article rh mi ea msuinfo cl msu edu bilan cps msu edu thomas j bilan writes if i put lastdrive z in my config sys netx will run but i can t access drive f to log in to novell if i don t put lastdrive z in my config sys i can t access other w wg drives from the file manager it seems that there should be a way to make netx work with the lastdrive statement in my config sys first off i haven t used w wg but i think that s about to change the problem is the lastdrive command and the way netware in general and in this case netx in particular adds drives to the device chain setting lastdrive z means there are no unassigned as opposed to unused drive letters for netware to use as it tacks its drive mappings onto the end of the existing list of drives w wg obviously attaches its network drives to existing unused drive letters i d guess the next thing i d try is something like lastdrive m which on most machines will leave a fair swathe of drives for w wg and still allow up to netware drive mappings as well nick fitzgerald pc applications consultant csc uni of canterbury n z n fitzgerald csc canterbury ac nz tel fax
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1,589 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re fast dos vga and x x windows video card info needed in article apr doug cae wisc edu leo cae wisc edu leo lim writes ok i have a dx isa w diamond stealth vram mb i was really satisfied w its performance in windows but now more and more games needs higher frame rates in dos vga especially this new strike commander this stealth vram can only give me fps i use dbench my winmark was million i think so right now i m considering to replace it w a new card which hopefully can perform approx same w my current vram in windows and also can perform dos vga preferably fps i am ordering the actix graphicsengine ultra plus it is the same price as the stealth card plus it is also based on s chip the newest and fastest chip from s everyone if you are looking for a card see the april issue of pc magazine for their review they noted this person s problem with dos the stealth card is not a very good dos performer the actix card is rated the best in this chip class non local bus it got glowing reports from the magazine was a best buy and i called them directly and they just updated their windows drivers last week they have a bulletin board to get the latest drivers though somone posted that this bbs was at at any rate the actix graphics engine ultra outperforms all the other cards in the class based on the winmark results if you are looking for the all around best dos windows performance check out the actix card their number is p s the article in pc magazine noted that if you are a regular dos user ie games then you should also check out the chip from s it apparently scores just as well and in many cases slightly better in dos than the chip ie stealth and actix cards they have comparable windows performance and are cheaper to buy eric
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1,590 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re program manager two questions actually with several sharware utilities you cn change both my fav is plug in bryan dunne
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1,591 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re canon bj bubblejet and hp deskjet thomas d fellrath nd edu nd edu wrote the key issue that i bought my bj on was ink drying speed i was at the trenton computer fest and there were many sources of ink refills for the hp and canon so if you don t like the ink you re using you have a choice there is a frequently asked question faq list that s reposted occasionally that reports how to refill the cartridges yourself with inks that are available from the stationery store instead of a specialty ink with the specialty price i m not sure but i think i found another legal source of cheap hypos for injecting ink into the cartridges more on that when my mail order succeeds jeffrey jonas jeffj panix com
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1,592 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | monoumb does anyone know where the program monoumb is available i have checked my windows system disks and monoumb is there but not the other one thanks stan kucera skucera prstorm bison mb ca stan kucera
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1,593 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re visual c to clarify vc is considered an upgrade for c there will be no product called c although the command line compiler of vc lists its version as c is not a dos only product it is a c c compiler capable of producing executables for dos or windows as is vc pro ed the significant difference is that vc comes with many windows hosted tools ide etc which assist developers in creating windows executables much more quickly basically by automating the thousands of lines of boilerplate code initial impressions have been very favorable everyone who is a registered user of c should have received a considerable amount of info regarding the specifics of c if you haven t call microsoft and i m sure they d be happy to send you some jefrem iwaniw pelican software corporation
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1,594 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | off line mail i am looking for a program called vbreader it is an off line mail reader for windows using qwk mail packets or if anyone knows of any good qwk mail readers please let me know thanks kevin kevin c donoghue internet donoghue donoghue win net donoghue international few love to hear the sins they love to act grand ave suite william shakespear ventura ca
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1,595 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | wordbasic sdk request for information i have been reading about an organisation called winword developer s relations group i believe they have produced publications called winword software development kit or wordbasic sdk and the proceedings of the windows developers tools conference wordbasic sessions assembled by steve wexler would you be able to help me with a contact name and address for this organisation or these publications thank you adrian pitt systems administrator dsto corporate information systems unit melbourne lorimer street fishermens bend vic australia phone fax email pitt cis dsto gov au
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1,596 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | viewsonic experience sought i d appreciate if you can email or post you positive or negative experience with this monitor especially compared to to nanao i i d summarize if i got multiple responses thanks kin kin cho kin isi com voice ext integrated systems inc fax
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1,597 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re bernoulli drives disks in article rhm j cg agate berkeley edu nilayp violet berkeley edu nilay patel rc writes in article c onk f a netnews jhuapl edu ncmoore netnews jhuapl edu nathan moore writes nilayp violet berkeley edu nilay patel writes i am looking for bernoulli removable tapes for the drive don t laugh i am serious if you have any mb tapes lying around that you would like to get rid of please mail me nilay patel nilayp violet berkeley edu you do mean disks don t you not tapes you forgot to say whether you were looking for the old or the newer well i need the old disks you are right disks is a better word but they are so big and calling them disks is kind of funny but the appropriate word is disks gee i remember the old floppy disks we used on an s cp m system back in high school not to mention those old multi platter disk packs that held about mb that went in the big washing machine drives at the local college i took some programming classes at and this was even in the early s tom paladin world std com a disk is a disk no matter how great or how small paraphrasing gulliver s travels
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1,598 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | col mail messages in ms windows editors i have a modest system of aliases macros that enables me to download mail from a public access unix system to my ms dos box i read and reply to the mail with a ms windows based editor everything works peachey keen as long as the author of the message has maintained his text at col max width sometimes i get slightly wider messages that run off screen so i have to use the cursor slider to read the whole thing i m using ndw deskedit mainly but i ve experienced the same prob with all other ms windows editors i ve fiddled with word wrap settings in the various editors but to no avail i know i m missing something very basic in editor setup but what is it oh yeah ms word for windows converts everything flawlessly but for what i m looking for that s like using a tank to crack walnuts i d really like to have an editor setup that would display all incoming ascii files in a readable format to my screen thanks in advance erich w lantz ama ewl world std com distributor of deflagration virago well yer dead now so shut up m p
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1,599 | comp.os.ms-windows.misc | re canon bj bubblejet and hp deskjet in article c eki kvp vcd hp com edmoore vcd hp com ed moore writes thomas d fellrath nd edu nd edu wrote the key issue that i bought my bj on was ink drying speed you really have to try awful hard to get the bj ink to smear the hp deskjets need seconds to completely dry in both cases however do not get your pages wet unlike laser printers the material on your pages is ink not toner but that should go without saying i think the ink now used in the deskjet family is water fast i ve had pictures ruined by a few drops of rain these were colour pictures from a deskjet c mind you it could have been acid rain i use a bj ex ink dries fast but it really doesn t like getting wet justin whitton at ma jjw hermes uk mod relay where no man has gone before after august mail ma jjw brunel ac uk disclaimer my opinions count for nothing except when the office is empty i m a student intelligence
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