Info-IBMPC@WSMR-Simtel20.Army.mil ("Info-IBMPC Digest") (03/25/91)
Info-IBMPC Digest Sat, 23 Mar 91 Volume 91 : Issue 65 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <GHICKS@WSMR-Simtel20.Army.Mil> Today's Topics: MAIL in VM/CMS using PC terminals (2 msgs) VGA addressing ZModem with Telix Today's Queries: Getting text screen captures into paint programs help with graphics printscreen Info-IBMPC Digest V91 #52 windows 3.0 on 286/CGA gives memory parity error ZIP archives search pgm New Uploads: ARR-V110.ZIP - Large, Many, XMS and Huge Arrays in C HCAP1290.ZIP: Handicap-related BBS list uploaded to SIMTEL20 Hearing impaired utilities uploaded to SIMTEL20 LHA211.EXE - LHA archiver v2.11 has better comp. than ZIP Sign Friends Version 4.0 uploaded to SIMTEL20 SNIPPR24.ZIP - TSR to save part of screen to disk/print/keybd Visually impaired utilities uploaded to SIMTEL20 Send Replies or notes for publication to: <INFO-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: <INFO-IBMPC-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP only from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:<ARCHIVES.IBMPC>. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 09:05:00 EDT From: Karel Smuk <SMUK%CSPGAS11.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> Subject: MAIL in VM/CMS using PC terminals Hi networkers, we are rather new in using Bitnet, so we try to find some support in the following: We use Columbia MAILER at IBM VM/CMS system and the procedures MAIL, MAILBOOK etc. for doing the post. For users with fullscreen terminals this is OK. Some of the users, however, have only PC's with terminal emulation, connected by telephone lines. Becasuse of poor telephone lines it would be reasonable to limit the time of connection (transfer) to a minimum. What we are looking for is: Some software (eg. EXECs) at VM/CMS, allowing to collect and combine incomming post to one (or more) files, which would be transferred to PC using Kermit (?). Another piece of SW at the PC side should be able to provide all services (reading post, preparing replies, preparing post etc.) in PC environment without connection to CMS. And as a last step - the result of this would be sent to CMS (again using KERMIT) as one or more files. The CMS environment then should take care about the distribution of the post. I suppose we are not the first ones with such a need. Any advice or hint would be appreciated Karel Smuk Karel Smuk smuk@cspgas11.bitnet Institute of Information Theory Phone: +42 2 815 2256 and Automation Czech Academy of Sciences Pod vodarenskou vezi 4, 182 08 Prague Fax: +42 2 858 4569 Czechoslovakia Tlx: 122018 ATOM C ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Mar 91 13:27:25 EDT From: Jiri Peterka <UMKJP%CSEARN.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> Subject: MAIL in VM/CMS using PC terminals Dear colleague, what you are looking for is a PC mailing utility for the VM/CMS environment, similar to those available for the FIDO network (for example). Right now I do not know if there is any available, but I can suggest you a very simple solution you can use in the meantime: As you might know, in the VM/CMS environment all of your incoming mail is stored at first in the virtual reader (e.g. that part of the spooling area, that is visible to you). When you call the MAIL utility and issue the UPDATE command, all your new mail is tranferred from your virtual reader to your private disc and appended to the UNREAD NOTEBOOK file. So all you need to do is exit MAIL and download your UNREAD NOTEBOOK file through Kermit (as a text file, because it indeed is a simple text file). A good idea is also to discard the UNREAD NOTEBOOK file once you download it successfully, as not to overflow your limited disc space. Of course the same procedure applies to all other notebooks you might have, with mail you eventually logged earlier. To download your mail in an automated fashion, you must have a communication program running on your PC, that has a suitable command language (a script facility, as it is usually called). I am using the Softclone's Mirror package myself, but there are many others. Once you have your mail in a text file on your PC, you can disconnect and process your mail off-line. The internal structure of the notebook files is very simple - they are unformatted ASCII text files (converted to ASCII by the VM/CMS Kermit - by default), and they contain the individual messages separated by lines of the = character. You can read these files with any text editor you like. Writing a PC application to read your mail in a more point-and-shoot fashion is nothing more than a routine job. When it comes to replying and sending new mail, its only a bit more complicated. You can prepare all of your outgoing mail as individual text files while being still off-line. Later, when you go on-line and log on the mainframe, you can upload all the files with your outgoing mail again through Kermit. Then you can send your individual messages and use the contents of the uploaded files as their bodies. Again you can write a command file (a script file) for your PC communication package to do so in an automated fashion. This might require that you also prepare some sort of a mailing list for the script file to act upon, containing the necessary information about addresses, subjects etc., but this is also mere routine. Jiri Peterka Dept. of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Charles University Prague, Czechoslovakia ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 19:29:54 MEZ From: Thomas <UNP072%DBNRHRZ1.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu> Subject: VGA addressing On Thu, 14 Mar 91 11:45:25 EDT Stanislav Saic said: >Hi, >is there anybody out there who knows, how to directly address VGA memory >banks in extended modes 640x400 and 800x600 with 256 colors. Any advice >or a tip for literature are greatly appreciated. >Stanislav Saic (TI83@CSPGAS11.BITNET) >CSAV-UTIA, Praha 8, Pod vodarenskou vezi 4, Czechoslovakia Oh. It depends... on the manufacturer of your VGA. Look into VGAKIT34.ZIP in <msdos.vga>. You will find an answer for most VGAs in there. - Thomas ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 19:36:58 PST From: 6600arac%ucsbuxa@hub.ucsb.edu (Wolf) Subject: ZModem with Telix I've got version 3.12 of Telix for the IBM PC, and I'm allowed to use wildcards in filenames. Try a newer version. And, yes it works w/zmodem Wolf 6600arac@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Internet) 6600arac@ucsbuxa.bitnet (Bitnet) ------------------------------ Date: 14 Mar 1991 14:38:17 EST From: DEVRIES@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU Subject: Getting text screen captures into paint programs I have a need to capture screens from character based DOS applications (like Paradox) in such a way that I can bring them into a paint program. My goal is to treat the image as a picture and to add elements like arrows and text to highlight features on the captured screen. There are plenty of utilities to capture graphics screens or text screens, but I haven't seen one yet for capturing a text screen and saving it in a graphics format like .TIF or .PCX. Does such a product exist, or is a there a conversion product that will convert a text file into a graphic image? Of course shareware/public domain is preferred, but I'll take anything. Thanks in advance. Ernie DeVries Academic/Personal Computer Services Northern Arizona University bitnet%"devries@nauvax" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 16:59:31 EST From: poulin@polar.bowdoin.edu (Jeff Poulin) Subject: help with graphics printscreen I would like to do a high resolution graphics printscreen to my Panasonic KX-P1124 from a (genuine) Hercules card. I tried loading graphics.com first then doing a print-screen but all I get is foreign characters in the ASCII 130 to 140 range (My printer is emulating an Epson 2500 in graphics mode). Perhaps the problem is the very strange bitmapping order the Hercules card uses (line 1 is B0000, line 2 is B2000, etc...) I also tried pizazz, but the version I have is circa 1986 and It won't print more than 180dpi (I would like 360dpi). Finally, I also tried hprtsc.com in Simtel <msdos.screen> but it only prints sideways and the resolution is way too low (it was made for an epson FX80/90). Can anyone help me with this? I would rather see if the program I want exists than try to build one. My assembly is a little rusty :-( jeff Jeff Poulin poulin@polar.bowdoin.edu jpoulin@bowdoin.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 19:36 GMT From: SCCS6075%IRUCCVAX.UCC.IE@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU Subject: X-Windows List? I'll make this short and snappy... Does anyone out there know of the existence of a Xwindows list. thanks David ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 01:33:50 GMT From: cadence!cadence.ashwini@uunet.UU.NET (Ashwini Shandilya) Subject: windows 3.0 on 286/CGA gives memory parity error I have a Zenith Data Systems Z-248 (AT compatible) a 286 based machine. It has a CGA card/monitor. Memory is 640k base and 1536K extended. I was testing to see if Windows3.0 runs on my machine after installing the extended memory. ON using windows I get Unrecovarble application error, and the systems error is MEMORY PARITY ERROR. Is there some one who knows why such an error is issued. And secondly is Windows 3.0 having problems running on CGA machines. I ran memory diagnostics to check extended memory map there seems to be no prolem. Also is a UTILITY to check the system thoroughly for memory faults. Other than the diagnostics that is run from MFM. -thanks -ashwini ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 22:51:50 IST From: Itamar Even-Zohar <B10@TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL> Subject: ZIP archives search pgm Does anybody know if there is some pgm that can search strings INSIDE ZIP archive files, that is, WITHOUT OPENING the files, like Buerg's ARCF for ARC files? (ZV, ZGREP, ..., and more, all look for fileNAMES in a ZIP archive. This is NOT what I am looking for. ARCF allows keeping material in ARC files in a compressed form, and yet it is readily accessible. Search strings can even be piped to a file without extracting the relevant files, nor searching by temporary viewing them one by one, as LIST would require.) Thanks, Itamar Even-Zohar Porter Institute, Tel Aviv University ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Mar 91 13:11 GMT From: G.Robertson <gnev83@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk> Subject: ARR-V110.ZIP - Large, Many, XMS and Huge Arrays in C I have uploaded to SIMTEL20: pd1:<msdos.c> ARR-V110.ZIP Large, Many, XMS and Huge Arrays in C Large Arrays, Many Arrays (cached to disk or extended memory) and Hugh Array (any size) in C, Version 1.1 This package include code for use with C which 1. Allows the use of many large arrays 65530 bytes long as memory permits. 2. Allows the use of many large arrays using disk caching, virtual disk caching or extended memory caching. 3. Allows the use of a hugh array (bigger than memory allows). These routines are very fast and the main part is written in machine code. The source code is available Graham Robertson <gnev83@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk> British Software Licensing ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Mar 91 11:48:31 EST From: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com (Bill McGarry) Subject: HCAP1290.ZIP: Handicap-related BBS list uploaded to SIMTEL20 I have uploaded to SIMTEL20: pd1:<msdos.bbslists> HCAP1290.ZIP Handicap/disability related BBS list (12/90) This is the December, 1990 version of the Handicap BBS list with over 700 BBS's throughout the world that carry disability-related conferences (such as ABLED, BlinkTalk, SilentTalk, etc) and/or have files/programs for the handicapped. Bill McGarry (203) 337-1518 UUCP: {oliveb, isc-br, decvax, yale}!bunker!wtm INTERNET: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com BITNET: l-hcap@ndsuvm1.bitnet Fidonet: The Handicap News BBS (141/420) 1-203-337-1607 (300/1200/2400 baud, 24 hours) Compuserve: 73170,1064 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 8:58:44 EST From: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com (Bill McGarry) Subject: Hearing impaired utilities uploaded to SIMTEL20 I have uploaded the following to SIMTEL20: pd1:<msdos.handicap> ASL-TRAN.ZIP Translates words into ASL finger spelling FUTUR110.ZIP Communications program for use with a TDD LSIGN20.ZIP Teaches ASL finger spelling SIGNFONT.ZIP Printer font for finger spelling Bill McGarry (203) 337-1518 UUCP: {oliveb, philabs, decvax, yale}!bunker!wtm INTERNET: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com BITNET: l-hcap@ndsuvm1.bitnet Fidonet: The Handicap News BBS (141/420) 1-203-337-1607 (300/1200/2400 baud, 24 hours) Compuserve: 73170,1064 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 01:16:30 EST From: kaplan@silver.ucs.indiana.edu Subject: LHA211.EXE - LHA archiver v2.11 has better comp. than ZIP I have uploaded the latest version of the LHARC program to SIMTEL20: pd1:<msdos.arc-lbr> LHA211.EXE LHA archiver v2.11 has better comp. than ZIP Preston kaplan@silver.ucs.indiana.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Mar 91 11:57:11 EST From: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com (Bill McGarry) Subject: Sign Friends Version 4.0 uploaded to SIMTEL20 I have uploaded to SIMTEL20: pd1:<msdos.handicap> SIGN40-1.ZIP Sign Friends: Learn sign language. Part 1 of 2 SIGN40-2.ZIP Sign Friends: Learn sign language. Part 2 of 2 Sign Friends is an interactive program designed to teach sign language utilizing the graphic and animation capabilities of the computer. The program requires GWBasic or BASICA to run. CGA video is needed (although the program SIMCGA may be able to be used with Hercules-compatible display adapters). Bill McGarry (203) 337-1518 UUCP: {oliveb, philabs, decvax, yale}!bunker!wtm INTERNET: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com BITNET: l-hcap@ndsuvm1.bitnet Fidonet: The Handicap News BBS (141/420) 1-203-337-1607 (300/1200/2400 baud, 24 hours) Compuserve: 73170,1064 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 14:39:39 -0500 From: David Kirschbaum <kirsch@usasoc.soc.mil> Subject: SNIPPR24.ZIP - TSR to save part of screen to disk/print/keybd I have uploaded my update of Snipper to SIMTEL20: pd1:<msdos.screen> SNIPPR24.ZIP TSR to save part of screen to disk/print/keybd This is an updated version of the PC Magazine utility "Snipper", incorporating the additional functionality from Snipper v2.3, but keeping the fixes in v2.2 that v2.3 didn't know about. It also has trailing space trimming. Some users have requested "no direct screen writes" (problems with speech synthesizers, DeskView, etc.). However, snipper does not DO direct screen writes! BIOS calls only! Maybe something else is causing the problems. Regards, David Kirschbaum Toad Hall kirsch@usasoc.soc.mil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 9:09:30 EST From: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com (Bill McGarry) Subject: Visually impaired utilities uploaded to SIMTEL20 I have uploaded the following to SIMTEL20: pd1:<msdos.handicap> ACCENT.ZIP DEMO of ACCENT speech synthesizer ACCSET.ZIP Changes ACCENT speech synthesizer's settings BEDIT20.ZIP Large character editor for sight impared users BIGECHO.ZIP Print large letters in batch files DZ101.ZIP Speech or Braille DOS shell program. DEMO VE1-1.ZIP Screen/kbd access for voice synth., DEMO, 1of2 VE-DOCS.ZIP Screen/kbd access for voice synth., DEMO, 2of2 Bill McGarry (203) 337-1518 UUCP: {oliveb, philabs, decvax, yale}!bunker!wtm INTERNET: wtm@bunker.shel.isc-br.com BITNET: l-hcap@ndsuvm1.bitnet Fidonet: The Handicap News BBS (141/420) 1-203-337-1607 (300/1200/2400 baud, 24 hours) Compuserve: 73170,1064 ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest V91 #65 ******************************** -------