Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL ("Info-IBMPC Digest") (10/15/90)
Info-IBMPC Digest Mon, 15 Oct 90 Volume 90 : Issue 165
Today's Editor:
Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <GHICKS@WSMR-Simtel20.Army.Mil>
Today's Topics:
Ghostscript 2.0 announcement
Re: Hard Disk Saver?
SIMTEL20 duties resume
WordPerfect List Information
Today's Queries:
Elite Microsystems - address, experiences??
External Disk Drive for IBM 50Z
Lookout for Brooklyn Bridge
Hawk Motherboard Documentation needed
Windows 3.0 Driver for Paridise SVGA Card Wanted
info request on dma and on 387sx bugs
Kermit for HP Computers
Mouse Driver Query
Need Recommendations for BBS Software for DOS or Unix
Windows 3.0 Postscript Driver
New Uploads:
mush 7.1
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Date: Wed, 03 Oct 90 11:14:24 EST
From: Joel Saunders <RJFS%SNYCENVM.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: Phone Number or BITNET address needed
I would like to contact Santa Clarita Softworks (RJ Matthews). I downloaded
their program QBASE from SIMTEL. All I have is a mail (Snail) address for a
P.O. Box in Santa Clarita, CA.
I need to discuss some items with them and Email or Phone would be quicker.
JOEL F. SAUNDERS
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF S.U.N.Y.
SUNY PLAZA - BROADWAY F209
ALBANY, NEW YORK 12246
BITNET: RJFS AT SNYCENVM
AT&T : (518) 434-7200
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Date: Thu Oct 04 13:04:51 1990
From: microsoft!lisawi@beaver.cs.washington.edu
Subject: QuickC 2.0 Compiler Bug
Regarding the QuickC 2.0 Compiler Bug reported in an earlier Digest
and found that ... MicroSoft Development verified the bug that was
found, and it had been fixed in QC 2.5 and C 6.0.
Thanks for taking the time to send mail!
Lisa Wissner
QuickC Program Manager
From: Jac Goudsmit <S89406316@HSEPM1.HSE.NL>
| I recently discovered a compiler bug in Microsoft QuickC V2.00.
| The program source was like this:
|
| /* global variables used in next fragment: */
[...Lots of text deleted...]
| mov BX,word ptr [BP-12] ; bx=x[n]<<4
| mov AX,word ptr [BP-14] ; ax=[n]
| add BX,word ptr [BX+SI+y] ; >>>>ERROR<<<<
| ; should add y[n] to bx => bx=(x[n]<<4)+y[n]
| mov byte ptr[BX+tk],0 ; tk[(x[n]<<4)+y[n]]='\0'
[...More text deleted...]
| Apparently, QuickC's expression evaluator tries to do something like this at
| the location of the error:
| add BX,word ptr [AX+y] ; illegal
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Date: 3 Oct 90 21:19:00 CDT
From: "55SRWLGS" <55srwlgs@sacemnet.af.mil>
Subject: WS 5.5 Solution
Found out the reason behind the slowdown of Wordstar. Had some
TSR's resident, chief among them PCTOOLS PCSHELL. Will put that under
control of a TSR manager program, such as the MARK/RELEASE SET.
Frank Starr
55srwlgs@sacemnet.af.mil
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Date: 3 Oct 90 09:28:00 CDT
From: "55SRWLGS" <55srwlgs@sacemnet.af.mil>
Subject: EPSON DFX-5000 Printer
I have a query about an EPSON printer. This is a NLQ dot matrix
printer, model DFX-5OOO. This printer has two tractors, so you can feed
in paper from the front, or from the rear of the machine.
I'm using this printer on a Zenith Z-248, a 80286 machine running
MS-DOS 3.2. Every so often, the printer begins acting strange. The
tractors are well below the platen and carriage. To load paper, you put
it into the tractors. just level with the top of the tractors. Then
pushbuttons automatically load and position the paper.
Except when the printer decides it's time for some spirited
behavior. Then it will feed and unfeed the paper continuously. It only
stops whan the printer is powered off.
There is an electronic eye near the platen, which I cleaned with
some isopropol alcohol. This didn't appear to do anything, so I
disconnected the printer and left it over night.
This morning, I tried out the printer again. It fed and unfed the
paper for about 5 minutes, and then settled down. It is now working
just like normal. Did the cleaning work, or did the computer gods
decide they'd laughed enough for one day?
Frank Starr
55srwlgs@sacemnet.af.mil
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Date: (null)
From: moore@email.ncsc.navy.mil
Subject: I/O Card Query
Can anyone provide jumper switch settings from the manual for a Kouwell
KW-524E I/O card providing a 9-pin serial and a parallel port?
Specifically I need the jumper settings to identify the serial port as
com3 or com4. Any help is surely appreciated.
Jim
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 12:43 MET
From: Anneke Sicherer-Roetman <ANNEKE%HUTRUU54.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: PAN - program animator
Hello networkers,
Is there anybody who knows why the program animator program PAN (from
PC Magazine) does not always work on machines that use DOS 4.0. Instead
of receiving keystrokes from the file the animated program accepts only
keystrokes from the real keyboard. Could this be because of an enhanced
keyboard? Then why does it work on the same machine under DOS 3.3?
Thanks for any suggestions, Anneke
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 06:18:00 EDT
From: Pat Bauco <PBAUCO@CSBN.Concordia.CA>
Subject: PCO v3.34
Hello,
I'm currently using version 3.0 (maybe 3.3) of PCO which is a
shareware outline program. I've seen version 3.34 advertised in PC
World magazine. I'd like to know if someone out there has the new
version and whether it is markedly different from the previous one.
For example, does the new version have mouse support. Maybe someone
can upload into SIMTEL so that others can get the update.
Thanks
Pat
PBAUCO@CSBN.CONCORDIA.CA
BAUCO@VAX2.CONCORDIA.CA
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Date: 3 Oct 90 09:54:00 CDT
From: "55SRWLGS" <55srwlgs@sacemnet.af.mil>
Subject: PCSIG
I seem to recall that PC SIG is a well known, international IBMPC
user's group based in Washington, D.C. Does anyone know their mailing
address?
Frank Star
55srwlgs@sacemnet.af.mil
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 13:54 PDT
From: SESTES%SCU.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu
Subject: PrintScreen to LaserJet
Does anyone know of software for the IBM PC which will cause
PrintScreen data to be prefixed with a chosen escape sequence and
suffixed with another chosen escape sequence? This would be to allow
users to chose the format of PrintScreen data printed on a HP LaserJet
(III).
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 13:23 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu> (Peter Jorgensen)
Subject: Software for Repertory Grid analysis
I am looking for software that runs on either MSDOS or MacOS for doing
repertory grid analysis. Shareware/PD/FreeWare is preferred, but I
would like to know about ANY packages you might know about.
Thanks in Advance,
Peter Jorgensen
Microcomputer specialist
Colgate University - Hamilton, NY 13346
AppleLink - U0523
BITNET - PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
tel - 315-824-1000 ext 742
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Date: 3 Oct 90 16:18:55 GMT
From: fed!m1ejb00@uunet.UU.NET (Eric J. Bartelsman)
Subject: switch caps & control
I'm looking for a patch to switch the caps and control keys on a Dell
386 pc. please help.
-eric
m1ejb00@fed.frb.gov or uunet!fed!m1ejb00
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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 90 13:17:39 +0100
From: "Kevin A.Price" <kap@engineering.cambridge.ac.uk>
Subject: UK address of Award, AMI and/or Phoenix?
I am seriously considering upgrading my BIOS to one of the above on my
386 m/b due to what I htink are compatibility problems with my
ERSO/TATUNG BIOS.
Does anyone know the UK addresses of AMI, AWARD and/or PHOENIX?
Thanks/
Kev.
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