Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL ("Info-IBMPC Digest") (02/19/90)
Info-IBMPC Digest Sun, 18 Feb 90 Volume 90 : Issue 24 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Chinhae Korea <GHICKS@WSMR-Simtel20.Army.Mil> Today's Topics: 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 (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) at a cost of 17 cents per hour. It is also accessable on Telenet via PC Pursuit and on Tymnet via StarLink outdial. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 90 00:09:35 EST From: Tom Hunt <34C2RM5%CMUVM.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu> Subject: dBase List I have had a number of responses to my inquiry about a dBase list! For those of you interested in a list dealing with dBase II, III, IV, Fox, Clipper, etc. I have been informed that a list is in operation. Here is the address information: DBASE-L%TECMTYVM.BITNET@VMI.NODAK.EDU DBASE-L@TECMTYVM.MTY.ITESM.MX or DBASE-L@TECMTYVM.BITNET I appreciate the quick response, and hope the above information is helpful. Acknowledge-To: <34C2RM5@CMUVM> ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1990 02:51 MST From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> Subject: ent MSDOS uploads to SIMTEL20 The following files have been recently uploaded to SIMTEL20: NOTE: Type B is Binary; Type A is ASCII Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== Directory PD1:<MSDOS.C> KWCTUTOR.ARC B 206930 900216 C tutorial demo package from KnowWare TABX.C A 1695 900215 Filter that expands TABS to SPACES WR_PROT.C A 1221 900215 Check to see if a drive is write protected Directory PD1:<MSDOS.DSKUTL> BCOPY.ARC B 20114 900215 PC Mag utility: Copy files in the background DISKF1.ASM A 4541 900215 Corrects AT floppy disk timing problems Directory PD1:<MSDOS.EDUCATION> ELECTRC3.ARC B 58498 900216 Performs most common electrical calculations PERIODIC.ARC B 52843 900216 Display the periodic table of elements, (EGA) Directory PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS> ACCOUNTS.INF A 1112 900216 Govt. & contractors can get SIMTEL20 account Directory PD1:<MSDOS.GIF> MARSFACE.ARC B 23231 900214 Viking Orbiter GIF image & explanatory text VUIMG210.ARC B 56831 900216 GIF/TIFF file viewer for Herc/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA Directory PD1:<MSDOS.KEYBOARD> KBFIX230.ARC B 14306 900215 Keyboard speed-up, expand buffer, aVOIDS tHIS KEY-FAKE.ARC B 1886 900215 PCMag utl: Sends simulated keystrokes to pgms Directory PD1:<MSDOS.PGMUTL> VAL-LINK.ARC B 214539 900217 Troendle's VAL experimental linker, w/C source Directory PD1:<MSDOS.STARTER> UUDECODE.BAS A 3917 900216 Convert ASCII uuencoded files back to binary UUDECODE.DOC A 1723 900216 Instructions on how to use UUDECODE.COM Directory PD1:<MSDOS.TROJAN-PRO> VSUM9002.ARC B 37801 900214 Merry Hughes' virus info summary list, 900302 Directory PD1:<MSDOS.UUCP> UUPCSRC.ARC B 162835 900216 MSDOS uucp, C source for UUPC v1.07h (02/90) UUPCUSER.ARC B 149519 900216 MSDOS uucp, UUPC v1.07h (02/90), many bugfixes Directory PD2:<MSDOS2.PCMAG> VOL9N05.ARC B 29789 900215 PCMag: ANSIHERE, ANSIX, NEEDANSI, TRYFTRIG --Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, & MISC archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, w8sdz@brl.arpa BITNET: w8sdz@NDSUVM1 Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 13:20:52 PST From: dbarber@pnet01.cts.com (David C. Barber) Subject: Information on Kaypro Machines Tom Clayton asks in Volume 90 Issue 17 where to get information on a Kaypro XT. I recommend that he contact Kaypro directly in Solana Beach, CA (619) 481-3900 or (619) 481-4300. Both lines are voice. *David Barber* UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd ucsd nosc}!crash!pnet01!dbarber ARPA: crash!pnet01!dbarber@nosc.mil INET: dbarber@pnet01.cts.com "Without change, nothing can ever get better!" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 90 05:05:56 EST From: jonradel@bogey.Princeton.EDU Subject: LaTeX Fonts (Previewer and Printer) >As far as I can ascertain, HERC2DVI subsamples 240 .pk fonts to get the >required screen resolutions. After reading the DVIEPS.DOC I am not sure >but I think that this is what the DVIEPS driver does too! > > PROBLEM 1: I need a FULL SET of 240 .pk fonts for 10, 11 and 12 >points. The set supplied with HERC2DVI are inadequate and incomplete. > > PROBLEM 2: From what I understand you need MeTaFont to make these >fonts. I do not have this program and from what I have been reading most >people are in the same situation as I am. > > **** I have a friend that has a 24 pin printer and just >received the DVIPAN print driver from SIMTEL20. Does it use the same 240 >.pk fonts as the 9 pin? **** Are you sure the supermini you've been using for previewing doesn't have a copy of Metafont installed? You could use it for creating fonts to transfer to your PC. The TeX fonts (of the PK variety at least, historically there are complications that can be ignored in many cases) indicate the base dots-per-inch of the device they're for with that number 240, 300, etc., etc. HERC2DVI subsamples 240dpi fonts, as the screen is generally best served by being treated as 110dpi (or somesuch, exactitude is not important in previewing on a low-resolution screen). A 9-pin Epson printer is, however, a 240dpi device (ignoring for the moment the 9:10 aspect ratio), so it uses all the pixels given in 240 PK file. However, not all 240 PK files are necessarily equivalent, as there are several parameters that one can give Metafont that indicate some characteristics of a particular printer, such as how dark it makes thin lines. You can certainly print with the 240dpi fonts you've got, but the results may not be optimal on your printer. If you wish to create fonts on your PC there are several commercial versions of Metafont and at least two "free" ones that I know of. Of the latter, the one probably of most use to you is Dos-MF. It's a companion program to Dos-TeX. It may be available by this point on Simtel20 in the same files as the latest version of Dos-TeX. Be warned though that a complete set of 75 Computer Modern fonts in the standard magsteps took about a CPU week on a 16MHz 386 the last time I used another of the PC versions. As for keeping these fonts available on an archive.... Well, if all the interesting fonts were kept in all interesting sizes for all common printers in the form of pixel files, even compressed ones like PK files, that's an awful lot of disk space and network bandwidth used up. (BTW, I distribute various TeX software for PCs on floppies for a handling charge, but I don't have Epson PK files yet, though I've been meaning to for a while. You see, the VAX's hard disk filled up, and that CPU week on the 386 was a bore....) --Jon Radel P.O. Box 2276 Reston, VA 22090 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 23:17:09 EST From: Sanjay Aiyagari <HD7X%CORNELLA.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu> Subject: PKZIP on Model 70 and How to Reboot in your program A question was asked here recently about PKZIP giving problems on a model 70 when the -t option was used. If you are having this problem, you should read the WHATSNEW.102 file that comes with PKZIP version 1.02. It tells of various things you can do to remedy the problem, the easiest of which is to run BIOSFIX.COM, a very short TSR that should fix the problem. Note that this problem does not occur on all 386 computers, only some of them. Another question was how to reboot the computer from within a program. The easiest way is in assembler. The code goes as follows: mov ax,40 mov ds,ax mov word ptr [72],1234 jmp ffff:0000 Where all numbers given are in hex. ------------------------------ Date: Fri Feb 16 10:28:42 1990 From: alichten@lognet2.af.mil (SSgt Allen L. Lichtenwalner) Subject: RUN APPLE SOFTWARE ON IBM??? I know someone out there can help me. I need to run some Apple software on and IBM compatible computer system (CompuAdd 80386sx) that has a CVGA monitor and an internal 80-MB drive. I will pri- marily be running programs for the kids in school (you know how Apple has the education market sewn up). If you know of any hardware/software programs that can do this, give me a yell. Lee at Langley ------------------------------ Date: Fri Feb 16 19:05:12 1990 From: fstarr@lognet2.af.mil (TSgt Frank Starr) Subject: RUN APPLE SOFTWARE ON IBM??? If you have a local Apple SIG, check them. They should know reliable products, and the best prices. If no one else has any clues, check Computer Shopper magazine. Towards the back, it has a list of user's groups throughout the U.S. It may even list the product(s) you're looking for. Frank ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 15:44:18 CST From: mccall@skvax1.csc.ti.com (Constitutional rights? We don't need no stinking Constitutional rights!) Subject: WINDOWS, Serial Mouse, and COMPAQ 386 In Volume 90 Issue 15, Larry Enos reports on his problem with getting his serial mouse to work with Windows. He didn't explicitly say what kind of mouse he had, but from the end of his note it appears that he is using a Mouse Systems mouse. I have a similar setup (although I'm using an ALR instead of a Compaq), and I find it hard to believe that neither set of technical support people could help him. The answer is quite simple. When you install Windows, do NOT tell it you have a Microsoft mouse. Instead, tell it that you have a Mouse Systems mouse. However, continue to load the Microsoft mouse driver for your mouse as you have been (I generally use the CONFIG.SYS version, myself). Windows contains its own mouse drivers, you see, and bypasses the one you install (or such seems to be the case on my machine). By telling Windows that the Mouse hardware is a Mouse Systems mouse, it will then know how to correctly address that hardware. By continuing to load the Microsoft mouse driver for the Mouse Systems mouse, all software that uses the mouse in an exclusive window will be able to access it correctly as if it were a Microsoft Mouse. Hope this helps. | Fred McCall (mccall@skvax1.ti.com) | My boss doesn't agree with anything | | Military Computer Systems | I say, so I don't think the company | | Defense Systems & Electronics Group | does, either. That must mean I'm | | Texas Instruments, Inc. | stuck with any opinions stated here. | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 17:29 EST From: HRL%PSUARCH.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu Subject: Animation Software? Please send any suggestions about this subject directly to me cc the Info-IBMPC Digest. An animation of the movement of a wire-frame cube is the desired result. Thanks. Howard ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 90 05:06:05 EST From: jonradel@bogey.Princeton.EDU Subject: Distinguishing different versions of 486 Does anybody know how to tell the different revision levels of the 486 apart? I have a friend who's about to get one from a dealer who swears that it has the latest, much less buggy, revision. How to tell if this is so? (Not having ever seen one yet, for all I know Intel prints it on the chip in a non-obscure code, but I'm not counting on it.) Thanks. --Jon Radel jonradel@bogey.princeton.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 17:17 EST From: "N. Miller, Trinity College" <NMILLER%TRINCC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Subject: erse video I have a 286 mono system and would like my screen to appear in reverse video. On my old DEC Rainbow such a change is as easy as falling off a log. Is there any way this can be done on my more "advanced" clone? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 23:03:56 PST From: manley@csam.lbl.gov (Oscar Manley [ams doe]) Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V90 #20 I too have problems unarcing files downloaded from Simtel. First I ftp a file to a vax/unix. I test it there with arc t and everything is OK. Then I use kermit to transfer the arced file to my pc. Here I try to apply pkxarc and I get a message that the crc check fails. Am I missing something? Oscar M. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 11:34:52 EST From: Kalburgi Srinivas <SRINIVAS%UREGINA1.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Subject: Micro as FAX? In a couple of IBMPC-L circulars I thought I saw an oblique reference to the utilization of using a PC as a FAX machine. Of course I realize that no paper can be fed. But I like to know if and how messages and letters composed on the screen can be transmitted as files to a FAX machine, and wheter the PC can be used to receive FAX transmissions. I have seen a gadget advertized which eliminates seperate telephone connec tions for voice, fax, data etc., It is a hardware that distinguishes in-coming calls as to its type and activates appropriate hardware at the receiving end, that make it possible to hook up data,Fax and voice telephone to a single phone line. But this is not what I am referring to. I want to know if I can use a PC to link up (to and from) with a FAX machine. What hardware/software is needed? What is the experience of those who have done it? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 19:59:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard E. Stuart" <rs3r+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: tape drive software Hello there, My shop will be networking soon and I want to purchase a new tape drive I'm looking for a new tape drive to backup my 150 Meg. hard drive that: has a DMA that allows for reads from the tape drive while writing from to the hard drive, and vice a versa allows me to redirect the screen output to a file can backup files on a Novel network makes it easy to backup via a batch file by setting the variable "errorlevel" upon exiting (typically, if errorlevel equals 0 when an application exits then all went well; other values that can be assigned to errorlevel correspod to error messages. Hence, I can use the batchfile to execute the backup program, and upon the exit of the backup program, if errorlevel equals zero then the file that contains the re-directed screen output can be removed, otherwise the file will be mailed to the System Administrator.) compresses files as they are archived to the streamer tape, and de-compresses the files as they are restored ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 20:40:59 EST From: Joseph Skoler <SKOHC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Subject: UNIX, 640K and an AT In the never ending search for a way around the 640K RAM barrier, I wonder if an AT (286) compatible, equipped with 640K on the motherboard and 1 meg in either expanded or extended (though, unfortunately, not fully LIM 4.0) can (should) run UNIX (or any operating system oher than MS-Dos) so as to better take advantage of the memory. In other words, if I can and do runUNIX will all 1.64 meg of RAM be fully accessable to run programs in? Thanks in advance, Joseph Skoler, SKOHC@CUNYVM ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest ************************ -------
Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL ("Info-IBMPC Digest") (02/19/90)
Info-IBMPC Digest Sun, 18 Feb 90 Volume 90 : Issue 24 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Chinhae Korea <GHICKS@WSMR-Simtel20.Army.Mil> Today's Topics: Re: dBase List Information on Kaypro Machines LaTeX Fonts (Previewer and Printer) Re: PKZIP on Model 70 and How to Reboot in your program Run Apple Software on an IBM PC? (2 msgs) Re: WINDOWS, Serial Mouse, and COMPAQ 386 Today's Queries: Animation Software? Distinguishing different versions of 486 Reverse video UNARCing files Downloaded from SIMTEL20 Micro as FAX? tape drive software UNIX, 640K and an AT New Uploads: Recent MSDOS uploads 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> 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 (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) at a cost of 17 cents per hour. It is also accessable on Telenet via PC Pursuit and on Tymnet via StarLink outdial. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 17 Feb 90 00:09:35 EST From: Tom Hunt <34C2RM5%CMUVM.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu> Subject: dBase List I have had a number of responses to my inquiry about a dBase list! For those of you interested in a list dealing with dBase II, III, IV, Fox, Clipper, etc. I have been informed that a list is in operation. Here is the address information: DBASE-L%TECMTYVM.BITNET@VMI.NODAK.EDU DBASE-L@TECMTYVM.MTY.ITESM.MX or DBASE-L@TECMTYVM.BITNET I appreciate the quick response, and hope the above information is helpful. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 13:20:52 PST From: dbarber@pnet01.cts.com (David C. Barber) Subject: Information on Kaypro Machines Tom Clayton asks in Volume 90 Issue 17 where to get information on a Kaypro XT. I recommend that he contact Kaypro directly in Solana Beach, CA (619) 481-3900 or (619) 481-4300. Both lines are voice. *David Barber* UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd ucsd nosc}!crash!pnet01!dbarber ARPA: crash!pnet01!dbarber@nosc.mil INET: dbarber@pnet01.cts.com "Without change, nothing can ever get better!" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 90 05:05:56 EST From: jonradel@bogey.Princeton.EDU Subject: LaTeX Fonts (Previewer and Printer) >As far as I can ascertain, HERC2DVI subsamples 240 .pk fonts to get the >required screen resolutions. After reading the DVIEPS.DOC I am not sure >but I think that this is what the DVIEPS driver does too! > > PROBLEM 1: I need a FULL SET of 240 .pk fonts for 10, 11 and 12 >points. The set supplied with HERC2DVI are inadequate and incomplete. > > PROBLEM 2: From what I understand you need MeTaFont to make these >fonts. I do not have this program and from what I have been reading most >people are in the same situation as I am. > > **** I have a friend that has a 24 pin printer and just >received the DVIPAN print driver from SIMTEL20. Does it use the same 240 >.pk fonts as the 9 pin? **** Are you sure the supermini you've been using for previewing doesn't have a copy of Metafont installed? You could use it for creating fonts to transfer to your PC. The TeX fonts (of the PK variety at least, historically there are complications that can be ignored in many cases) indicate the base dots-per-inch of the device they're for with that number 240, 300, etc., etc. HERC2DVI subsamples 240dpi fonts, as the screen is generally best served by being treated as 110dpi (or somesuch, exactitude is not important in previewing on a low-resolution screen). A 9-pin Epson printer is, however, a 240dpi device (ignoring for the moment the 9:10 aspect ratio), so it uses all the pixels given in 240 PK file. However, not all 240 PK files are necessarily equivalent, as there are several parameters that one can give Metafont that indicate some characteristics of a particular printer, such as how dark it makes thin lines. You can certainly print with the 240dpi fonts you've got, but the results may not be optimal on your printer. If you wish to create fonts on your PC there are several commercial versions of Metafont and at least two "free" ones that I know of. Of the latter, the one probably of most use to you is Dos-MF. It's a companion program to Dos-TeX. It may be available by this point on Simtel20 in the same files as the latest version of Dos-TeX. Be warned though that a complete set of 75 Computer Modern fonts in the standard magsteps took about a CPU week on a 16MHz 386 the last time I used another of the PC versions. As for keeping these fonts available on an archive.... Well, if all the interesting fonts were kept in all interesting sizes for all common printers in the form of pixel files, even compressed ones like PK files, that's an awful lot of disk space and network bandwidth used up. (BTW, I distribute various TeX software for PCs on floppies for a handling charge, but I don't have Epson PK files yet, though I've been meaning to for a while. You see, the VAX's hard disk filled up, and that CPU week on the 386 was a bore....) --Jon Radel P.O. Box 2276 Reston, VA 22090 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 23:17:09 EST From: Sanjay Aiyagari <HD7X%CORNELLA.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu> Subject: PKZIP on Model 70 and How to Reboot in your program A question was asked here recently about PKZIP giving problems on a model 70 when the -t option was used. If you are having this problem, you should read the WHATSNEW.102 file that comes with PKZIP version 1.02. It tells of various things you can do to remedy the problem, the easiest of which is to run BIOSFIX.COM, a very short TSR that should fix the problem. Note that this problem does not occur on all 386 computers, only some of them. Another question was how to reboot the computer from within a program. The easiest way is in assembler. The code goes as follows: mov ax,40 mov ds,ax mov word ptr [72],1234 jmp ffff:0000 Where all numbers given are in hex. ------------------------------ Date: Fri Feb 16 10:28:42 1990 From: alichten@lognet2.af.mil (SSgt Allen L. Lichtenwalner) Subject: Run Apple Software on an IBM PC? I know someone out there can help me. I need to run some Apple software on and IBM compatible computer system (CompuAdd 80386sx) that has a CVGA monitor and an internal 80-MB drive. I will pri- marily be running programs for the kids in school (you know how Apple has the education market sewn up). If you know of any hardware/software programs that can do this, give me a yell. Lee at Langley ------------------------------ Date: Fri Feb 16 19:05:12 1990 From: fstarr@lognet2.af.mil (TSgt Frank Starr) Subject: Run Apple Software on an IBM PC? If you have a local Apple SIG, check them. They should know reliable products, and the best prices. If no one else has any clues, check Computer Shopper magazine. Towards the back, it has a list of user's groups throughout the U.S. It may even list the product(s) you're looking for. Frank ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 15:44:18 CST From: mccall@skvax1.csc.ti.com Subject: WINDOWS, Serial Mouse, and COMPAQ 386 In Volume 90 Issue 15, Larry Enos reports on his problem with getting his serial mouse to work with Windows. He didn't explicitly say what kind of mouse he had, but from the end of his note it appears that he is using a Mouse Systems mouse. I have a similar setup (although I'm using an ALR instead of a Compaq), and I find it hard to believe that neither set of technical support people could help him. The answer is quite simple. When you install Windows, do NOT tell it you have a Microsoft mouse. Instead, tell it that you have a Mouse Systems mouse. However, continue to load the Microsoft mouse driver for your mouse as you have been (I generally use the CONFIG.SYS version, myself). Windows contains its own mouse drivers, you see, and bypasses the one you install (or such seems to be the case on my machine). By telling Windows that the Mouse hardware is a Mouse Systems mouse, it will then know how to correctly address that hardware. By continuing to load the Microsoft mouse driver for the Mouse Systems mouse, all software that uses the mouse in an exclusive window will be able to access it correctly as if it were a Microsoft Mouse. Hope this helps. | Fred McCall (mccall@skvax1.ti.com) | My boss doesn't agree with anything | | Military Computer Systems | I say, so I don't think the company | | Defense Systems & Electronics Group | does, either. That must mean I'm | | Texas Instruments, Inc. | stuck with any opinions stated here. | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 17:29 EST From: HRL%PSUARCH.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu Subject: Animation Software? Please send any suggestions about this subject directly to me cc the Info-IBMPC Digest. An animation of the movement of a wire-frame cube is the desired result. Thanks. Howard ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 90 05:06:05 EST From: jonradel@bogey.Princeton.EDU Subject: Distinguishing different versions of 486 Does anybody know how to tell the different revision levels of the 486 apart? I have a friend who's about to get one from a dealer who swears that it has the latest, much less buggy, revision. How to tell if this is so? (Not having ever seen one yet, for all I know Intel prints it on the chip in a non-obscure code, but I'm not counting on it.) Thanks. --Jon Radel jonradel@bogey.princeton.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 17:17 EST From: "N. Miller, Trinity College" <NMILLER%TRINCC.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Subject: Reverse video I have a 286 mono system and would like my screen to appear in reverse video. On my old DEC Rainbow such a change is as easy as falling off a log. Is there any way this can be done on my more "advanced" clone? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 23:03:56 PST From: manley@csam.lbl.gov (Oscar Manley [ams doe]) Subject: UNARCing files Downloaded from SIMTEL20 I too have problems unarcing files downloaded from Simtel. First I ftp a file to a vax/unix. I test it there with arc t and everything is OK. Then I use kermit to transfer the arced file to my pc. Here I try to apply pkxarc and I get a message that the crc check fails. Am I missing something? Oscar M. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 11:34:52 EST From: Kalburgi Srinivas <SRINIVAS%UREGINA1.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Subject: Micro as FAX? In a couple of IBMPC-L circulars I thought I saw an oblique reference to the utilization of using a PC as a FAX machine. Of course I realize that no paper can be fed. But I like to know if and how messages and letters composed on the screen can be transmitted as files to a FAX machine, and wheter the PC can be used to receive FAX transmissions. I have seen a gadget advertized which eliminates seperate telephone connec tions for voice, fax, data etc., It is a hardware that distinguishes in-coming calls as to its type and activates appropriate hardware at the receiving end, that make it possible to hook up data,Fax and voice telephone to a single phone line. But this is not what I am referring to. I want to know if I can use a PC to link up (to and from) with a FAX machine. What hardware/software is needed? What is the experience of those who have done it? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 19:59:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard E. Stuart" <rs3r+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: tape drive software Hello there, My shop will be networking soon and I want to purchase a new tape drive I'm looking for a new tape drive to backup my 150 Meg. hard drive that: has a DMA that allows for reads from the tape drive while writing from to the hard drive, and vice a versa allows me to redirect the screen output to a file can backup files on a Novel network makes it easy to backup via a batch file by setting the variable "errorlevel" upon exiting (typically, if errorlevel equals 0 when an application exits then all went well; other values that can be assigned to errorlevel correspod to error messages. Hence, I can use the batchfile to execute the backup program, and upon the exit of the backup program, if errorlevel equals zero then the file that contains the re-directed screen output can be removed, otherwise the file will be mailed to the System Administrator.) compresses files as they are archived to the streamer tape, and de-compresses the files as they are restored ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 20:40:59 EST From: Joseph Skoler <SKOHC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> Subject: UNIX, 640K and an AT In the never ending search for a way around the 640K RAM barrier, I wonder if an AT (286) compatible, equipped with 640K on the motherboard and 1 meg in either expanded or extended (though, unfortunately, not fully LIM 4.0) can (should) run UNIX (or any operating system oher than MS-Dos) so as to better take advantage of the memory. In other words, if I can and do run UNIX will all 1.64 meg of RAM be fully accessable to run programs in? Thanks in advance, Joseph Skoler, SKOHC@CUNYVM ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1990 02:51 MST From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> Subject: Recent MSDOS uploads to SIMTEL20 The following files have been recently uploaded to SIMTEL20: NOTE: Type B is Binary; Type A is ASCII Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== Directory PD1:<MSDOS.C> KWCTUTOR.ARC B 206930 900216 C tutorial demo package from KnowWare TABX.C A 1695 900215 Filter that expands TABS to SPACES WR_PROT.C A 1221 900215 Check to see if a drive is write protected Directory PD1:<MSDOS.DSKUTL> BCOPY.ARC B 20114 900215 PC Mag utility: Copy files in the background DISKF1.ASM A 4541 900215 Corrects AT floppy disk timing problems Directory PD1:<MSDOS.EDUCATION> ELECTRC3.ARC B 58498 900216 Performs most common electrical calculations PERIODIC.ARC B 52843 900216 Display the periodic table of elements, (EGA) Directory PD1:<MSDOS.FILEDOCS> ACCOUNTS.INF A 1112 900216 Govt. & contractors can get SIMTEL20 account Directory PD1:<MSDOS.GIF> MARSFACE.ARC B 23231 900214 Viking Orbiter GIF image & explanatory text VUIMG210.ARC B 56831 900216 GIF/TIFF file viewer for Herc/CGA/EGA/VGA/SVGA Directory PD1:<MSDOS.KEYBOARD> KBFIX230.ARC B 14306 900215 Keyboard speed-up, expand buffer, aVOIDS tHIS KEY-FAKE.ARC B 1886 900215 PCMag utl: Sends simulated keystrokes to pgms Directory PD1:<MSDOS.PGMUTL> VAL-LINK.ARC B 214539 900217 Troendle's VAL experimental linker, w/C source Directory PD1:<MSDOS.STARTER> UUDECODE.BAS A 3917 900216 Convert ASCII uuencoded files back to binary UUDECODE.DOC A 1723 900216 Instructions on how to use UUDECODE.COM Directory PD1:<MSDOS.TROJAN-PRO> VSUM9002.ARC B 37801 900214 Merry Hughes' virus info summary list, 900302 Directory PD1:<MSDOS.UUCP> UUPCSRC.ARC B 162835 900216 MSDOS uucp, C source for UUPC v1.07h (02/90) UUPCUSER.ARC B 149519 900216 MSDOS uucp, UUPC v1.07h (02/90), many bugfixes Directory PD2:<MSDOS2.PCMAG> VOL9N05.ARC B 29789 900215 PCMag: ANSIHERE, ANSIX, NEEDANSI, TRYFTRIG --Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, & MISC archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, w8sdz@brl.arpa BITNET: w8sdz@NDSUVM1 Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest ************************ -------