Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL ("Info-IBMPC Digest") (10/12/90)
Info-IBMPC Digest Thu, 11 Oct 90 Volume 90 : Issue 159
Today's Editor:
Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <GHICKS@WSMR-Simtel20.Army.Mil>
Today's Topics:
Word 5.0 / Panasonic KX 1180
Hard Disk Protection
re: .OBJ file format
Today's Queries:
Address of Western Digital?
Calendar Software
Graphics library
Intercepting LPT Output for Later Printing
LANs with IBM PCs, Terminals, and dbs
MsDos multitaskers
PC's with Apple Localtalk cards
Print from remote UN*X
Screen dump to Epson LQ-500
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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 05:17:32 CET
From: Dan Scott - KSU Libraries <DSCOTT@KSUVM.bitnet>
Subject: Word 5.0 / Panasonic KX 1180
> I need some help for a student. She just bought a Hyundai '286 and
>a Panasonic KX 1180. She uses Microsoft Word 5.0 as a word processor.
>She can't get a driver that Word 5.0 and the printer can agree on. So,
>her printer is a doorstop, the dealer is playing dumb, and also wants to
>sell her something else (for more $$)....
I just received this note from a friend at another university. Since
I'm not a Word user and don't have any Panasonic printers I can't offer
much help. Any suggestions? If there aren't any drivers available is
the KX 1180 compatible with something Word has a driver for?
Please reply directly and info the bboard as I am not currently a
member of the list.
Thanks in advance.
Dan
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 10:05:43 EDT
From: Mark Edward Toomey <MTOOMEY@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Hard Disk Protection
Thanks to the many suggestions as to help accomplish selective hard
disk write protection for our lab. We finally ended up using Norton's
Advanced Utilities Version 5.0. Now if we could only find a way to
keep the students from using White-Out on the screens *smile*
Mark Edward Toomey Disclaimer: I only speak for
Computer Services Specialist myself, although
College of Family & Consumer Sciences sometimes I wonder
University of Georgia even about that!
BITNET: MTOOMEY@UGA
Internet: mtoomey@uga.cc.uga.edu
Voice: 404-542-4864 or 404-542-4651
FAX: 404-542-4862
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 13:12 EST
From: <LEAHEY%FORDMURH.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Review for Ken Nelson
I recently downloaded a file from Ken Nelson of Bismark, N.D. He gave
his address as P.O. Box 1603 and a phone number. But I need his e-mail
address so I can ask him how to use the file in Wordperfect, i.e. if it
is limited to a specific model of Laserjet. I want to use it in a
HPLJIII. It is a softfont file. How can I obtain the e-mail address?
Do I use review command for RPIECS, for example? Thanks.
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Date: Tue Sep 25 10:21:37 1990
From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil>
Subject: re: .OBJ file format
I think you might find that the .OBJ file format for DOS .OBJ files
is documented in the MS-DOS Encyclopedia (Microsoft Press).
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 12:18
From: "Christoph Baumhof" <UA21%DKAUNI2.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Address of Western Digital?
Hello,
I'm looking for an e-mail or postal address of Western Digital
Corporation (the company that makes those harddisk controllers). If
anyone of you knows an address, I'd like to get it.
Thanks,
Christoph (ua21@dkauni2.bitnet)
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 13:55 EST
From: <TLEWIS%UTKVX2.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Calendar Software
I'm looking for a Calendar program for MS-DOS which will allow me to
create my own entries, etc. Also, I would like for it to be able to
print on a HP Laserjet and maybe even a postscript laser printer.
Anyone have any good tips? I've seen something on the Mac, I think
it's called Calendarmaker.
Terry Lewis
UT Martin
TLEWIS@UTKVX bitnet
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 20:42:56 EXP
From: <87419013%KRSNUCC1.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Graphics library..
Hi Networkers,
Is there anyone who can tell me about some graphics library? I
need the graphics library routines that support Macintosh-like window
functions on MS-DOS for IBM PC. The required operations are as
follows:
Moving the position of a window.
Panning the window (i.e., shifting / scrolling).
Altering the size of the window.
Deactivating the window.
And the other window-specific I/O functions.
As you know, above operations are all supported in Macintosh very
consistently. So I'd like to know if there is a program which performs
the above functions and if any, whether it is public-domain or not.
The source code must be written by C or Assembly language or the
other which is linkable with C programs.
Would you tell me the package name? Where can I ftp the files?
Thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
Jinsoo Kim : 87419013@KRSNUCC1
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 13:59:12 ITA
From: Alessandro Russo <ALEX17%IPVIAN.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Intercepting LPT Output for Later Printing
I have an interesting problem. Here we have an ethernet network to
connect pc's with hosts, printers and so on.
Some guys are (still) using CHI-WRITER to compose math text, and they
need to print it on a laser printer. We have a postscript printer
(apple). Now the CHI-WRITER does not build a postscript file (.ps), but
it sends directly the postscript text to the printer, assuming that the
printer is DIRECTLY CONNECTED to the pc. Since this is not the case, it
does not work.
I need something to intercept the output to the serial port in order to
build a file to be sent later to the printer. Thank you in advance|
Alessandro Russo
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 23:48:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Gordon Maskew Fair, III" <gf07+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: LANs with IBM PCs, Terminals, and dbs
I am looking for information about different types of LANs for IBM PCs.
Requirements:
- nondedicated server
- the network should support dumb terminals, possibly driven from one
of the PCs
- possibility for running a networked database on the IBM PCs + dumb
terminals LAN.
-optimally the database would be an SQL relational database
Any information about this subject will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
Gordon
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Date: 26-SEP-1990 12:39:52.54
From: "Thomas Greve, PI Bonn" <GREVE%DBNPIB5.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: MsDos multitaskers
Here's another question that could cause some dogmatic warfare ;-) i'm
planning to use a MsDos multitasker (Win3, VM386, PCMOS, ...). Which
one do *you* use and what are your experiences? (Dis-)Advantages? How
much documentation (system calls?) etc.
Any info you think being worth mentioned appreciated. You may send your
answers directly to me, i'll summarize then. But some lively discussion
on the list would be interesting, too...
Thanx for your help,
Thomas
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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 21:24 EDT
From: "SEAN L. HILL" <SHILL%HAMPVMS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: PC's with Apple Localtalk cards
I would like to hear from anyone who has successfully used a PC,
Wordperfect 5.0, and Apples localtalk card with drivers installed, to
print to a Laserwriter IInt.
We will be using more PCs on a localtalk net soon, and I'd like to hear
about any experiences using PCs and common software, i.e. 123,
Wordperfect, dBase, etc, on the network as well as any tips for
filesharing, mail, etc.
Thanks-
SHILL@HAMPVMS.BITNET
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 09:20:17 -0400
From: rick@helix.nih.gov (Rick Troxel)
Subject: Print from remote UNIX (tm)
Is anyone aware of DOS software that would allow printing from a UNIX
box by means of its normal 'lpr' command, over a connection supporting
TCP/IP, to a printer attached to a PC either directly or by a LAN?
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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 10:00:55 BST
From: GT1FC%IBM.SHEFFIELD.AC.UK@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU
Subject: Screen dump to Epson LQ-500
I am writting a screen dump utility for Epson LQ500 in turbo pascal.
Epson LQ-500 is a 24-pin dot-matrix printer. When using command:
ESC * m n1 n2 ... data ...
to select one of a number of general bit image data modes (according to
the value of m, for instance: hex-density when m=40), the manual says:
"Since in 24-pin mode, three bytes of data are sent for each column,
(3*n) bytes of data are required. For each column, three successive
bytes determine the top, middle and bottom eight set of pins
respectively".
Some explanations: n1 and n2 determine the number of columns of bit
image data (n) which follow. The value n1 and n2 represent a 16-bit
number with n1 as the low byte and n2 as the high byte. The calculation
to determine the number of columns is carried out as follows. If the
value of the number of columns is n:
n1 is the remainder on dividing n by 256
n2 is the integer part of the division by 256.
It is possible, either using the turbo pascal's GETPIXEL procedure, or
using memory calculations, to know whether the individual pixel is no
or off.
my questions is: How to construct the 3 bytes of data for each
column out of one byte data (by GETPIXEL or direct memory calculation)?
Your help is much appreciated!
Frank
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