Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL ("Info-IBMPC Digest") (06/03/90)
Info-IBMPC Digest Sun, 3 Jun 90 Volume 90 : Issue 99
Today's Editor:
Gregory Hicks - Chinhae Korea <GHICKS@WSMR-Simtel20.Army.Mil>
Today's Topics:
"Secure" Diskette?
(R)Once a Day batch file
3.5 high density floppies....
Advice on Unix on a '386 wanted
DESQview hangs when floppy disk is accessed
EZPIC320.ZIP - FREE MS-DOS menu program for DOD use
VGA board too good to be true?
NEC P2200 drivers.
Problem with exp-function in Turbo Pascal 5.0
TIDY61.ZIP - Clean up FORTRAN-77 programs w/FORTRAN src
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Date: Fri May 25 11:27:53 EDT 1990
From: vbradner@md3b2p.att.com
Subject: "Secure" Diskette?
Can anyone suggest shareware or commercial software that I could use to
"secure" files on a diskette?
I have nearly 300 files on a 1.44 meg floppy disk, many of which
contain proprietary information. I can't easily lock up the diskette
all the time. I could encrypt each of the files, but that would be a
pretty long process given the number of files I have. Instead, I would
like to make the disk unreadable without a password key (that sounds a
bit like a virus which I don't want!).
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks - Vern Bradner
att!md3b2p!vbradner
vbradner@md3b2p.att.com
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Date: Wednesday, 23 May 1990 17:10:04 EST
From: m11805@mwvm.mitre.org (Ted McMichael)
Subject: (R)Once a Day batch file
In Info-IBMPC Digest, Volume 90 : Issue 90, dated Mon, 21 May 90,
Jhinuk Chowdhury asked:
> Within the last few months, I had come across an example of a batch
> file illustrated in one of the top three or four magazines that I
> cannot seem to locate now. It was a batch file (that could be
> inserted in the Autoexec.bat) that enables one to run selected
> programs (excutables) once every day - the first time the computer
> is booted. Such a file would help in running things like disk
> sorts, defragmentation, format recover information updates, etc.,
> only once instead of each time the machine is booted.
Jhinuk,
I don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for, but
there is a program on SIMTEL20 that is described as follows:
Directory: PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL>
Filename Length Date Description
==========================================
PDAILY.ARC 11933 880612 Patriquin's execute a program once a day
I haven't downloaded this file, so I don't know any more about it than
what you see here. Hope this is what you are looking for.
*
*
* Ted McMichael
* Phone: 703-883-7408 Fax: 703-883-6436
* E-Mail: Ted@MITRE.ORG
* US Mail: MITRE, 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22102-3481
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Date: 23 May 1990 18:49:04 CDT
From: "Bob Johnson (312) 245-3532" <U27745@UICVM.uic.edu>
Subject: 3.5 high density floppies....
Another snag is that a 720k disk formatted to 1.44m (on a PS/2) can't
be read by the Northgate machines I have access to (GENERAL FAILURE
ERROR....). This leads me to believethat there is something in the
BIOSthat looks for that hole.
Bj
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Date: Thu, 24 May 90 13:00:48 -0500
From: CFJPH%BOGECNVE@UICVM.uic.edu
Subject: Advice on Unix on a '386 wanted
I am looking for advice about a good version of Unix to run on a
386 EISA machine that will be used as a file server on an IBM Token
Ring network. Any pertinent advice will be appreciated, and I'm
especially interested in answers to the following.
Does AIX run on an EISA machine? IBM says they don't know.
Does anyone have comments or advice about SCO Unix?
Does anyone have experience with Unix on an IBM Token Ring?
Judy Halchin
Academic Computing
Eastern Illinois University
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Date: Thu, 24 May 90 12:40:43 GMT
From: Dave Ulrick <A01DGU1%NIUCS.BITNET@UICVM.uic.edu>
Subject: DESQview hangs when floppy disk is accessed
I'm running DESQview 2.26 (the 386 version) and QEMM 5.00 on a Memorex
Telex 7255 PC. I usually run Extra! 1.41 and Procomm Plus 1.1B.
Normally, the only PC files I need to access are on my hard disk, but I
would like to occasionally read and/or write files on a floppy disk.
However, doing so normally causes my PC to hang.
As an experiment, I created a program entry for a DOS window that
neither shares CPU when in foreground nor runs in background. Guess
what? I can do anything I want with a floppy disk in that window! I
don't feel that this is an answer to my problem, though, since I am
uncomfortable with the idea of my communications being frozen while I'm
working with a floppy disk.
For instance, I can get logged off my mainframe sessions if my PC (aka
327x terminal) refuses to accept a write order because the software is
frozen! Do you have any suggestions about what I can do to access
floppy disks while continuing to multitask?
Thanks,
Dave
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| Dave Ulrick | Bitnet: A01DGU1@NIUCS |
| Northern Illinois University | |
| DeKalb, IL, USA | |
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Date: Thu, 24 May 1990 20:56 MDT
From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: EZPIC320.ZIP - FREE MS-DOS menu program for DOD use
[--forwarded message--]
From: AFGWCRMM <afgwcrmm@sacemnet.af.mil>
I have uploaded to SIMTEL20 a copy my DOS menuing program, EZPICNZ.
This is a FREE program to ALL DOD agencies for non-commercial uses (no
using in the BX computer department!!).
pd1:<msdos.menu>
EZPIC320.ZIP FREE MS-DOS menu program for DOD use
EZPICNZ, Version 3.2, is a MS-DOS menuing program which is FREE to all
DOD agencies to use for non-commercial purposes. Individuals who want
to use the program at home must register and pay a very reasonable
Shareware fee. The .ZIP files contains a complete users manual,
program configuration (colors, etc.) file editor, and support programs
to convert non-encrypted AUTOMENU and PC-MENU menu definition files.
It is written entirely in QuickC and assembler and is quite fast. Once
again, this is a FREE program for ALL DOD agencies, but is distributed
as Shareware for individual and business use.
Jon Golberg
HQ Air Force Global Weather Central
Offutt AFB, NE 68113-5000
[--end forwarded message--]
Thanks, Jon!
--Keith
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Date: Thu, 24 May 90 20:20 EDT
From: <ACSCS@SEMASSU.BITNET>
Subject: VGA board too good to be true?
Hi Everyone,
I just saw an ad for the LOGIX VGA 1000 board and was wondering if
anyone has one or has heard anything about it. According to the add,
it will work with all monitors, supports analog and digital, auto
sensing 8/16 bit bus.
This sounds to good to be true, I would love to get VGA for my machine
(upgrading from my current CGA system) without having to spend a
fortune on a new VGA multiscan or multisync monitor.
The only thing in the ad that scared me was the mention of it coming
with drivers, I have always had bad luck with drivers.
Any ideas or suggestions would be apreciated.
Chris Sullivan
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Date: Fri, 25 May 90 10:17 N
From: <RCSTJG%HEITUE5.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: NEC P2200 drivers.
hello there,
Is there anyone who can tell me where I can find printer drivers for a
NEC P2200? or maybe send me one? The thing doesn't seem to emulate
anything at all.
I need one for Ventura Publisher 1.1 and Orcad 3.0, everything else is
also welcome.
Thanks, Jan Evert van Grootheest,
RCSTJG@HEITUE51.BITNET ( or heitue5 if 51 bounces )
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Date: 25 May 90 16:25 +0100
From: Leonhard Cadetg <cadetg@phim.unibe.ch>
Subject: Problem with exp-function in Turbo Pascal 5.0
Hi,
I encountered the following thing>
Problem with exp-function:
Entering a number x < -1419 or > 1419 in exp(x) -function results in
Error 207. (Invalid floating point operation). Why? There is no Error
205/206 (Floating point overflow/underflow). All variables are of type
extended. Its a 80287 system with coprocessor. Remark: exp(1419) =
1.836E+616, ie. within range of extended type.
Can anybody explain me that?
Thanx in advance, Leonhard.
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Date: Thu, 24 May 1990 21:10 MDT
From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: TIDY61.ZIP - Clean up FORTRAN-77 programs w/FORTRAN src
[--forwarded message--]
From: forags@violet.Berkeley.Edu
I have uploaded to SIMTEL20:
pd1:<msdos.fortran>
TIDY61.ZIP Clean up FORTRAN-77 programs w/FORTRAN src
This is version 6.1 of TIDY. Corrects a bug in handling SUBROUTINE
statements.
Al Stangenberger Dept. of Forestry & Resource Mgt.
forags@violet.berkeley.edu 145 Mulford Hall - Univ. of Calif.
uucp: ucbvax!ucbviolet!forags Berkeley, CA 94720
BITNET: FORAGS AT UCBVIOLE (415) 642-4424 FAX: (415) 643-5438
[--end forwarded message--]
Thanks, Al!
--Keith
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