Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL ("Info-IBMPC Digest") (04/07/90)
Info-IBMPC Digest Sat, 7 Apr 90 Volume 90 : Issue 61 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Chinhae Korea <GHICKS@WSMR-Simtel20.Army.Mil> Today's Topics: Access to Simtel via LISTSERV@FINTUVM is being phased out Hard drive security Ibm/Pc Jr Internal modem PKZIP version 1.10 and data encryption (2 msgs) removing TSR Simtel20/ELIZA TIFF format - details needed (Pete Lucas). Re: Leading Edge Model M Memory Problem Toady's Topics: 4216-020 laser printers w/AIX or OS/2 AboveFunction Card Ibm-Pc Jr. expension boards Ibm-Pc Jr. graphic board WordPerfect 5.1 to 5.0 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> The Lending Library is available from: WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (see file PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS>AAAREAD.ME details on file directories and descriptions.) Archives of past issues of the Info-IBMPC Digest are available by FTP only from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL in directory PD2:<ARCHIVES.IBMPC>. WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL can be accessed using LISTSERV commands from BITNET via LISTSERV@NDSUVM1, LISTSERV@RPIECS, LISTSERV@FINTUVM and in Europe from EARN TRICKLE servers. Send commands to TRICKLE@<host-name> (example: TRICKLE@TREARN). The following TRICKLE servers are presently available: AWIWUW11 (Austria), BANUFS11 (Belgium), DKTC11 (Denmark), DB0FUB11 or DTUZDV1 (Germany), IMIPOLI (Italy), EB0UB011 (Spain), TAUNIVM (Israel), and TREARN (Turkey). If you are unable to access SIMTEL20 via Internet FTP or through one of the BITNET/EARN file servers, most MSDOS SIMTEL20 files, including the PC-Blue collection, are available for downloading on the Detroit Download Central network at 313-885-3956. DDC is a networked system with multiple lines that support 300, 1200, 2400, and 9600 bps (HST). This system is a subscription system with an average hourly cost of 17 cents per hour. It is also accessable on Telenet via PC Pursuit and on Tymnet via StarLink outdial. New files uploaded to WSMR-SIMTEL20 are usually available on DDC within 24 hours. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 14:21:58 EET From: mea@mea.utu.fi (Matti Aarnio) Subject: Access to Simtel via LISTSERV@FINTUVM is being phased out Hello, This note is to inform you that by 30-Jun-90 services provided by LISTSERV@FINTUVM.BITNET (aka LISTSERV@MAMMUTTI.UTU.FI) are scheduled to be terminated as we shut down whole IBM system. We had this system for five years, and last 1.5 years it has provided /PDGET and /PDDIR service for Simtel20 and two dozen other systems. It has been fun to notice how much importance our voluntary service has been for plenty of users out there. Lately FINTUVM has been responsible for about 50-60 % of total outbound BITNET trafic from Finland, FINHUTC - running central LISTSERV in scandinavian did make most of the rest. Yes, well used service in deed. (Now there is more central LISTSERV at SEARN, but that came after I looked at the statistics last time.) As I said, the deadline is 30-Jun-90, so those who are not in service area of some other servers - like TRICKLEs in central Europe for Simtel20 material - can use our LISTSERV until that date. Plenty thanks for John S. Fisher who wrote original software, altough he would not recognize present incarnation :-) Without his creations I wouldn't be creating a third generation version of this service into a dedicated UNIX system. 1st gen: Fisher's LISTSERV/TRICKLE (and ours too); 1st gen can fetch material from remote sites. 2nd geneneration: European RED-Trickles by Turgut Kalfaoglu; 2nd generation is distributed nearly optimally over existing network but relies on 1st gen systems to send actual files. 3rd: still under developement; 3rd generation includes both and much more features in areas of databases, more versatile access methods etc.) For those who can do FTP (and know what it is), see FUNIC.FUNET.FI. Login anonymous, passwd your Internetwise address (foo@bar.dom.edu). We really do appreciate if you would regulate visits into off hours, you will see our clock time when you log on (+- drifts on that clock) Also understand how slow line we have to USA... /Matti Aarnio <mea@mea.utu.fi> <mea@funic.funet.fi> Span/Hepnet: 21905::kontu::mea <fys-ma@fintuvm.bitnet> FUNIC: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project Network Information/Software Archival Service OH1MQK - Radio Amateurs do it in Super High Frequency (10GHz) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 22:19:51 EST From: "Chuck R." <346B36G%CMUVM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu> Subject: Hard drive security Lynn Meeks Look for PCLOCKxx.ARC on the archives for hard drive protection using a password. The 'xx' is a version number, but I forget what it is. I just got it (Thought is was a clock). Looked at the documentation but didn't try it out. It looks like what you want. You can have up to 4 users with respective passwords and an administrator password. The administrator can access everything, but I think you can lock directories and individual files from other users. I don't think it keeps a log file of user commands issued/activities. Another program I saw on the archives was PASSWRD9.ARC. I don't know what it does, but it might be useful. Another program I've worked with was called Direct Access, but I forget who makes it. It's really great for non-computer people because you can hit a function key to start a program. It also keeps a detailed log file of applications run and by which user. It can print this log file in a condensed form and detailed form. You can also have a lot of users with respective passwords (about 50 I think) but once a user has access to the computer, you can't lock him out of specific directories or files. (I don't think.) If you need more details, let me know. Chuck R. 346b36g@cmuvm Michigan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 11:24:24 EST From: 880506s@AcadiaU.CA Subject: Ibm/Pc Jr Internal modem In comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest you write: >I would appreciate any information on how and where to get the Ibm-Pc >Jr. internal modem. Are you sure you want the IBM PCjr internal modem, it is only 300 baud. Why not get an external and hook it up to the jr's serial port? UUCP : {uunet|watmath|utia}!cs.dal.ca!acus!880506S B0P 1X0 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 1990 16:08 MST From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> Subject: PKZIP version 1.10 and data encryption > From: bkirby@cs.umr.edu (Bill Kirby) > To: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil > Re: PKZIP version 1.10 > I just finished reading your post to comp.sys.ibm.pc and I am a bit >confused. Doesn't v1.02 (as well as PKPAK v3.61) contain data encryption >technology? These programs are readily available on the net. Has there >been some major revision to the encryption technology between v1.02 and >v1.10? I have been trying to download v1.10 from PKWARE BBS and had planned >on making it available via anonymous FTP. However, the BBS has been >EXTREMELY busy these past few days and I have yet to obtain it. Bill, it is true that PKWare's PKPAK, SEA's ARC, and NoGate's PAK all contain encryption technology. It may become necessary for SIMTEL20 and other Internet hosts in USA and Canada to delete these programs from public download areas. Taken to the extreme, all BBS operators in USA and Canada may be inviting legal trouble by offering ANY program which encrypts or decrypts data if there is any chance that someone from another country might call and download the file. This is a real can of worms which I intend to let others resolve. It may take some federal legislation to resolve this. I will do whatever I am instructed to do by the management of SIMTEL20. For the present time this means that PKZ110.EXE will not be available here and the other archivers may suddenly disappear from our directories. Drastic changes may be required in the PC-Blue directories as well. We may be forced to go to LHarc because it does not have file encryption or decryption. Keith ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 1990 15:56 MST From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> Subject: PKZIP version 1.10 and data encryption > From: Larry Jones <sdrc!scjones@uunet.UU.NET> > To: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil > Is the export restriction on ANY kind of encryption? As far as I know, >the restriction is only on DES technology. ARC up to v5.21 (the last >version I have source for) does it's encryption by simply XORing the key >with the data -- hardly sophisticated enough for anyone to worry about. I >presume PKPAK does the same thing. Several years ago this same type of discussion was all over the Internet. It is a specific export control law which does not distinguish between a specific cryptographic algorithm. Thus it appears to apply to *any* program that encrypts data. This discussion is not meant to single out PKZIP/PKUNZIP. As I mentioned in my previous posting, SEA's ARC and NoGate's PAK archivers also encrypt data. Keith Petersen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 09:19 CST From: <T8505011%TWNTUCC1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Subject: removing TSR On 15 March 1990, wetzel@nprdc.navy.mil ask removing memory resident programs (Volume: 90, Issue: 50). You can find many useful file from PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL> directory. The followings show the memory map, remove TSR or manage TSR. lowmem.arc, memblk37.arc, qvcmm.arc, remtsr.arc, resettsr.arc, rmap30.arc, tsrcom29.arc. In my site, we use MAPMEM to show memory map and use MARK/RELEASE to free memory resident program. These programs may be in Simtel20 program library, but I cannot find them in a rash view. MARK/RELEASE can make our ACER 1100 (20 MHz 386) halt when release Microsoft Mouse driver (I don't remember its version, but I know it comes with MS C 5.1). So I think you'd better try these programs with your application to find a suitable one. May this help you! Yin-Hsin Chen <t8505011@twntucc1.bitnet> ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 08:22:47 EST From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca Subject: Simtel20/ELIZA Hello all Remember ELIZA.BAS, the laid-back psychoanalyst? I cannot seem to find a copy now. Is it/she still around? If so, can someone send me a copy or point me to a source? Thanks. Tim Cartwright York University -- Environmental Studies 4700 Keele St., Toronto, Canada M3J 1P3 Tel 416-736-5252 Tlx 065-24736 Fax 416-736-5679 YORKU TOR BitNet/NetNorth ESTIMCAR@ORION.YORKU.CA [Due to pressure from the people that pay our bills, the <MSDOS.GAMES> directory was archived off-line. You might be able to find this program from wustl.edu] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 09:13 CST From: <T8505011%TWNTUCC1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Subject: TIFF format - details needed (Pete Lucas). <PJML%ibma.nerc-wallingford.ac.uk@NSFnet-Relay.AC.UK> On Mon, 19 Mar 90, Pete Lucas, asked for the document of TIFF. We have Microsoft Windows Software Development Toolkit. And one of its manual contains one chapter that describes the TIFF format. I don't carefully read it before, but I think there has what you want. Another source can be obtained from Simtel's PD1:<msdos.graphics>tiff-50.arc. May this help you! Yin-Hsin Chen <t8505011@twntucc1.bitnet> ------------------------------ Date: 28 Mar 90 13:30:00 EDT From: "MACPHERSON, DOUGLAS" <macpherson@alexandria-emh2.army.mil> Subject: Re: Leading Edge Model M Memory Problem Thanks to Jerry Katz at Rice and Charles Ellis at Northeastern for their help on my Leading Edge model M memory problem. Jerry told me that my model M was the same as the Sperry IT, and that I could get service from UNISYS dealers. Charlie had a more interesting idea. His memory error wandered from the motherboard to add-in memory depending upon whether he simply ran the routine or followed the LE instructions to boot from the diagnostics disk. Seems the diagnostics only examine free memory. So THAT's why I had wandering memory errors. I was booting with different memory configurations. I upgraded my LE anyway, but that's a different story "Repairing your PC to make it bigger and better." Doug Macpherson U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (aren't you sorry you asked, SIR!) ------------------------------ Subject: Toady's Topics: Date: Tue, 27 Mar 90 18:18:07 EST From: Jim Romito <ROMITO%OHSTPHRM.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu> Subject: 4216-020 laser printers w/ AIX or OS/2 Hello, I have been asked to find out if anyone has an IBM 4216-020 laser printer with a Micro Channel postscript board running with a PS/2 Model 80. We are mainly interested in if you are running this under AIX(for PS/2). But we would also like to know if you are using it with OS/2. If you have such a beast, my question is: How are you doing it! What sort of device driver are you using? Is it working well? Any response would be appreciated. Jim Romito The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy Internet: romito@ohstphrm.pharmacy.ohio-state.EDU BITNET: ROMITO@OHSTPHRM.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Mar 90 14:20 MST From: Paul Charette <EE599038@rvax.ccit.arizona.edu> Subject: AboveFunction Card I know this is a longshot, but I'm desperate ... I just inherited an "AboveFunction Card" made by American Computer an Peripherial Inc. It serves as a memory expansion card (up to 2 MB), serial interface, parallel port, real time clock/calender, and game adapter port interface. It was ordered in July 1988 and never used, except by someone who lost the documentation. What I need is the info from the doc that tells me how to setup the DIP switches on this card to use the memory on it. I haven't tried the plug and play method, since I'm not sure what it'd do to my PC if it was mis-configured. If anyone has the doc, I'd appreciate some information exchanging ;-) The card has two 8-bit DIP switches. The box says "Based on Lotus, Intel andMicrosoft specifications". Could this be a clone card, and if so where can I get the doc for the card they cloned. By the way, American Computer and Peripherial Inc. has gone out of business, so please don't tell me to call them. Thanks in advance .... Regards, Paul Charette Unversity of Arizona ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 11:47:54 -0200 From: Yanuka Moti <yanuka%batata.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu> Subject: Ibm-Pc Jr. expension boards I would appreciate information on how and where to get expension board for the Ibm_Pc Jr. memory,disk and hard-disk expension boards. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 11:47:54 -0200 From: Yanuka Moti <yanuka%batata.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu> Subject: Ibm-Pc Jr. graphic board I would appreciate any information on how to convert graphics and gaim programs aimed for the CGA EGA or VGA so that it will work on the Ibm-Pc Jr. graphic board. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 15:05:00 EST From: TSENG@UWPG02.UWinnipeg.CA Subject: WordPerfect 5.1 to 5.0 Hello, I have a question on transfer WordPerfect 5.1 to WordPerfect 5.0. Because, whenever I stored a file from WordPerfect 5.1 to 5.0, I found that I can't print the file from 5.0. It only print the page number and nothing else. Can anyone give me a hand? Thank you in advance! rob ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest ************************ -------