Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL ("Info-IBMPC Digest") (03/28/91)
Info-IBMPC Digest Sat, 23 Mar 91 Volume 91 : Issue 67
Today's Editor:
Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <GHICKS@WSMR-Simtel20.Army.Mil>
Today's Topics:
Re: 4dos?
Re: Data Base Package Recommendations wanted (V91 #55)
HP Laserjet III
McAfee anti-viral programs and SIMTEL20
Re: Numlock Key
reading track 41 on 360k floppies.
Re: Request for PC LAN help
Re: SHARE and large partitions
The best SW and PD utilities
Today's Queries:
Hard disks and controllers (V91 #56)
MS Word -> Word Perfect Conversion
Where is Hard Disk Info Stored in CMOS
New Upload:
QBNWS201.ZIP - QBNews-QBASIC Electronic Newsletter v2No1 2/91
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Date: 17 Mar 91 16:58:46 GMT
From: elroy!usc!kosman.UUCP!kevin@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin O'Gorman)
Subject: 4dos?
motcid!yeates@uunet.UU.NET (Tony J Yeates) writes:
}I wondered what users thought of 4dos? I understand that it allows
}longer file names to be used than dos....doesn't this cause any dos
}compatibilty problems? I use windows 3 for applications and already
}have a command history/command edit utility to allow me to survive DOS
}when I want to write some code ... would 4dos offer me any significant
}advantages? (I'm used to UNIX shells and the features offered by many
}of them ...such as aliasing, command history, etc.). Are there any
}problems/drawbacks that I should be aware of?
I've been using it for quite a while now. I have absolutely no reason
to consider using COMMAND.COM again. Not one.
The filenames are >not< any longer, sorry.
History is indeed one of the major wins. There are also multiple
commands per line (I like to do this and walk away from the box for a
while), online help, much better globbing, and probably a bunch of
stuff I don't use, but you might.
Kevin O'Gorman
kevin@kosman.UUCP, kevin%kosman.uucp@nrc.com
voice: 805-984-8042
Vital Computer Systems,
5115 Beachcomber, Oxnard, CA 93035
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 91 20:14:13 EST
From: Mohit Chadha <MCHADHA@SBCCVM>
Subject: Re: Data Base Package Recommendations wanted (V91 #55)
> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 91 11:01:38 EST
> From: Victor Bagley IRM <BAGLEY@VTVM2.CC.VT.EDU>
> I would like to get recommendations for a data base package; either
> DBASE3, DBASE4, PARADOX, OR FOX. Any comments will be welcome
> (good bad or ugly).
I use FoxPro at my job as a programmer/analyst. Nothing compares to
it... it is much faster than dBase (III or IV), has an incredible
development interface, and with the forthcoming release of FoxPro 2.0,
the advantage of being able to compile with Clipper will no longer
exist. I would suggest going for FoxPro - no one can compete when 2.0
comes out, within two months probably.
--- Mohit Chadha
Bitnet: mchadha@sbccvm Internet: mchadha@ccvm.sunysb.edu
CompuServe: 70132,1546 Tel : (516)669-5218
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 91 22:21 CST
From: "Lin-Chow Sim" <SIM5250@iscsvax.uni.edu>
Subject: HP Laserjet III
> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 91 14:10:10 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Thomas James Menner, Jr." <tm11+@andrew.cmu.edu>
> Just a few quick questions on the HP Laserjet III:
> Has anyone had any problems with Postscript compatibility (using
> either HP's or a 3rd party cartridge)?
I am using a HP LaserJet III with Pacific Data's Page Personal
Edition 4.0 with no problem at all, apart from the slooooooow response
time after the print command is being issued. But price wise, it is a
good buy!
Lin-Chow Sim InterNet : <SIM5250@ISCSVAX.UNI.EDU>
Database Programmer/Consultant UUCP : <...sun!iscsvax.uni.edu!sim5250>
Perinatal Project
Peoples Community Health Clinic MCIVoice : +1-319-266-3248
403 Sycamore Suite 2
Waterloo, Iowa 50703 - Coffee Not Found!! Operator Halted -
United States of America
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 01:45 MST
From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: McAfee anti-viral programs and SIMTEL20
I just received word from McAfee Associates that they have agreed to
upload each new release of McAfee anti-viral programs for MS-DOS to
Detroit Download Central, the BBS I co-SysOp. From there I will
transfer the files in their original form to SIMTEL20.
What this means to Internet users is that the programs will be
available for downloading from SIMTEL20, and the mirror sites, within
12 hours of their release by McAfee.
Keith
Keith Petersen
Maintainer of SIMTEL20's MSDOS, MISC & CP/M archives [IP address 26.2.0.74]
Co-SysOp, Detroit Download Central 313-885-3956 (V22bis/HST/V32/V42bis/MNP5)
Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu
Uucp: uunet!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND
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Date: 18 Mar 91 10:01
From: Martin.Timann%cnve.rrze.uni-erlangen.dbp.de@RELAY.CS.NET
Subject: Re: Numlock Key
On Thu,21 Feb 91 user SMR49@hull.ac.uk asked:
>Could anyone tell me how to get rid of the feature where the NumLock
>key automatically switches itself on when the computer is switched on
>or booted up.
Here is a "debug" file to overcome this problem. Put the following code
in a file called numoff.deb and type on the dos commandline
debug < numoff.deb
a 100
MOV AX,0040
MOV DS,AX
AND BYTE PTR [0017],DF
MOV AH,4C
INT 21
rcx
e
n numoff.com
w
q
Don't forget the blank line between INT 21h and rcx !
This produces a file called numoff.com. Put the following line in your
autoexec.bat file:
[drive:][path\] numoff
and the Numlock Key will be switched off automatically everytime your
booting.
Martin Timann
Timann@cnve.rrze.uni-erlangen.dbp.de
Timann@cnve.rrze.uni-erlangen.de
Timann@derrze
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 91 09:43:49 -0500 (EST)
From: "Johnny J. Chin" <jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: reading track 41 on 360k floppies.
Folks:
How about trying to use DRIVER.SYS that comes with DOS 3.2x and up?
I've gotten this to work. All you have to include in CONFIG.SYS is:
DEVICE = DRIVER.SYS /D:00 /F:7 /H:02 /S:09 /T:41
Remember to place a copy of DRIVER.SYS in the root directory. Then
reboot your computer.
Now, drive F (depends on how many hard drives you have) will be the
drive designation for a 41 track 360k (physically its drive A). If you
have a 360k physically as drive B, change /D:00 to /D:01.
I hope this helps you format and read/write 41 track 360k disk.
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1991 10:15 MST
From: "Frank J. Wancho" <WANCHO@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Re: Request for PC LAN help
Fred,
I have been using FATAL14, listed below, as a TSR loaded before I start
up LANtastic (a PC LAN). It might be close to what you want.
--Frank
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PD1:<MSDOS.4DOS>
4D2411.ZIP 7006 901229 TSR critical error handler (INT 24) for 4DOS
PD1:<MSDOS.C>
CXLHDERR.ZIP 3134 900402 C source for critical error handler with CXL
PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL>
CRITERR.ZIP 8213 900419 Pop-Up DOS Critical Error handler
FATAL14.ARC 21551 900117 Trap DOS critical errors & handle them better
PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL>
INT24.ARC 11008 870927 New Int 24H ('Critical Error')
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Date: 17 Mar 91 17:02:33 GMT
From: elroy!usc!kosman.UUCP!kevin@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin O'Gorman)
Subject: Re: SHARE and large partitions
jguo@cs.NYU.EDU (Jun Guo) writes:
> I read from PC-Mag that SHARE should be run in DOS 4 with larger
>than 32MB partitions. I use NEC DOS 3.30, which allow be to use large
Then you probably don't need anything else.
>partitions as well. Do I need to install SHARE also? What parameters
>should be used?
I use a little utility called NOSHARE: it seems the reason for SHARE
has to do with old-style DOS calls. SHARE makes them work right.
NOSHARE makes them fail always. Since hardly anything uses them any
more, I have not had any software break on this account. And NOSHARE
is really small.
Kevin O'Gorman
kevin@kosman.UUCP, kevin%kosman.uucp@nrc.com
voice: 805-984-8042
Vital Computer Systems,
5115 Beachcomber, Oxnard, CA 93035
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 19:04:24 EET
From: Timo Salmi <ts@uwasa.fi>
Subject: The best SW and PD utilities
Having had the opportunity to use PCs extensively both at work and at
home for several years I decided to take a very subjective look at what
have been the most useful MsDos shareware and PD utilities for me. Here
are my choices in an alphabetical order.
ced10da.zip Command line editor. This facility lets the user to
recall earlier commands, edit the commands, and make
aliases for the commands.
dc106f.zip Directory control from the PC-Magazine by Michael
Mefford. A simple, but a very useful point and shoot
facility to copy, move, rename, or delele files.
dirmat20.zip Dirmatch for comparing & manipulating two dirs.
Another really great utility from Michael Mefford.
dirw.exe From my own tsutil31.arc utility collection. It is
like MsDos dir /w, but it also shows the file
attributes, and it can be made to recurse all the
directories. I use it on a daily basis to have a
backup list of what my hard disks contain.
drx101.zip A shell for listing and handling lzexe and pklite
etc. compressed executables. Relative new, but a
very useful companion to lzexe and pklite.
keyrate.exe From my own tsutld19.arc utility collection. What it
effectively does is that it speeds up the cursor
movement. An absolute necessity because the slow
default keyrepeat rate makes moving the cursor a
real pain in the neck.
list75f.zip Vernon Buerg's list program, a definite must.
pklte103.exe PKWare's compress and unprompress executables. One
of the great ideas of 1990 came from France from
Fabrice Bellard. He wrote lzexe91.zip (currently) to
decompress executable at call time by putting the
decompression code into the excutable. PKWare took
the idea (an echo of the .arc debacle?), and
developed with their backgroud a more professional
product.
pkz110.exe The most useful all around archiver. From PKWare.
(Surrounded by some unnecessary hassle around the
encryption issue when exported outside North
America). Pkzip was born out of the controversy
and ligitation on .arc archiving.
scanv75.zip VIRUSCAN 6.9v75; scans for 223 major virus strains
McAfee's virus scanner has draw true world-wide
acclaim. I've needed in just once in earnest, but
that's enough to get it on this list.
shez60b.zip A shell to drive the many archivers for MsDos (that
is for the programs un/compressing and clustering
files). By Jim Derr.
snippr24.zip Snip the screen into a file originally by Tom
Kihlken in the PC-Magazine. This TSR utility can
capture text from the screen, and send it to the
printer, a file, or the keydoad buffer as if typed.
sst_52a.zip Seek and thou shalt find. An excellent filename
finder by Keith Ledbetter. Fast, with many useful
options including browsing inside archives. The
previous version of this program was called where44b.
tlx312a1.zip Telix 3.12a telecommunications package. There are
many excellent telecom packages on the scene, and
the choice is somewhat arbitrary between them. Telix
was one of the first with inbuilt Zmodem, and its
user interface is the most convenient I know. But
none of the telecom progs is completely without any
problems, and this goes for Telix, too.
tsrcom29.zip TSR utilities from TurboPower Software, a must
Most importantly includes mark, release, and mapmem
for unloading terminate and stay resident programs.
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 91 14:15:41 IST
From: Nir Nathansohn <NIRN@TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL>
Subject: Hard disks and controllers (V91 #56)
Hello,
I have got a 386sx clone with 40 MB ST-157A-1 disk, connected to
ST07A/08A controller (RLL). I also have an unused XT with ST-225 (20
mb). Does anybody know, if there is any way to install the ST-225 as a
second drive in my 386sx? I know I'll have to reformat it, but how can
I make the connection technically (use another controller for both
disks, add a seperate controller to the ST-225 etc).
Thanks,
athansohn
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 91 20:51 CST
From: MORRISON%UWSTOUT.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: MS Word -> Word Perfect Conversion
I'm looking for a program that will convert Microsoft Word Ver 5
documents to a Word Perfect Ver 5 document and vic versa. I know I can
save either type of document in an ASCII format and use it with the
other program but this loses the formating features such as underlining
and the like. Public Domain programs would be preferred but if you
know of any commercial programs I would also like to hear about them.
Thanks in advance
Morrison@UWSTOUT.BITNET
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 11:28:39 EXP
From: Kim Jin Soo <WATER4%KRSNUCC1.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Where is Hard Disk Info Stored in CMOS
In AMI Bios, When We setup the User HDD type, where goes this info?
First, I thought this info. might go into CMOS Ram. But I couldn't
find that there.
Please inform me.
Thanx in advance.
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1991 19:02 EST
From: "William G. Guethlein" <WGUETHLEIN@ccmail.sunysb.edu>
Subject: QBNWS201.ZIP - QBNews-QBASIC Electronic Newsletter v2No1 2/91
I have uploaded to SIMTEL20:
pd1:<msdos.qbasic>
QBNWS201.ZIP QBNews-QBASIC Electronic Newsletter v2No1 2/91
..bill
wguethlein@ccmail.sunysb.edu
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