Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (09/29/89)
Info-IBMPC Digest Thu, 28 Sep 89 Volume 89 : Issue 85
Today's Editor:
Gregory Hicks - Chinhae Korea <COMFLEACT@Taegu-EMH1.army.mil>
Today's Topics:
Bulletin Board programs
Derive
Disabling FluShot from inside a bat file
Restore Problem
HyperPAD, questions...
IBM Storyboard Plus to WordPerfect/TIFF/PCX Formats
L-RMND16.ARC - Reminds you when it's time to backup files
mulfont editor
New MSDOS file uploads to SIMTEL20 (2 msgs)
Path Spec. with WP 4.2 problems
Please report SIMTEL20 ftp problems to ACTION
Printer driver for NEC printers
print screen driver for hpgl plotter
VGA cards
WINKER4.ARC - version 4 of Kermit for MS-WINDOWS
Wordstar V5
Wuarchive being replaced SOON (fwd)
XMA2EMS.SYS driver query
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 89 11:43:25 EST
From: Joel Saunders <RJFS%SNYCENVM.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: Bulletin Board programs
I am interested in acquiring a bulletin board system for an IBM PS/2 Model
55 that would have the following features:
1) Support multiple concurrent users (3)
2) Support for dial in user to have capability to run DOS programs (>
300K)
3) Support for ansi,color, or mono by dial-in user selection.
4) Supports file transfer (mostly downloads!!).
5) Compatible with IBM PC Lan program running on a IBM token ring LAN.
(We want to update the BBS database nightly with information that's is
extracted from a DOS LAN Server).
6) Most of all, EASY to set up and to support! (I don't want much, huh??)
(Horror stories are welcome!!)
7) Public Domain if possible, but we haven't ruled out purchases if
necessary!
Thanks.... Joel
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 16:14:13 EDT
From: Mitch%UMASS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Derive
I recently got Derive, a (very) scaled down version of Mathematica or
Macsyma, which handles symbolic caclulus, infinite precision calculations,
etc. I was wondering if there have been any books (besides, the 'manual')
written for it?
Mitch
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 14:01:40 PDT
From: RSRANCH%UCLASSCF.BITNET@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (Ran Chermesh)
Subject: Disabling FluShot from inside a bat file
I would like to disable FluShot from a bat file. The keyboard instruction
is to hit ALT three times. I tried the following method and it did not
work. I added the folowing three lines to my bat file:
echo ^[^[
echo ^[^[
echo ^[^[
Are there any other suggestions?
Ran Chermesh
RSRANCH@UCLASSCF
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 89 18:10:33 EET
From: Nathan MAmias <ARRTEST%TECHNION.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Restore problem
On trying to eliminate virus infected disk I made a full backup of the
entier disk useing IBM backup command (backup c: a: /s) under DOS 3.2;
After fixing a formating the hard disk (st225) I used RESTORE and LO and
BEHOLD! the restore command (restore a: c:*.* /s) rotates the floppy for a
while then prompts for the next diskette but DOES NOT write anything to
the hard disk. The same thing happened on another computer when I tried to
restore the files. When trying to use dos 3.3, things look worse because
after reading diskette 01 DOS prompts for diskette 00.
Thanks are granted in advance.
Nathan Mamias
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 89 14:45:22 CET
From: Georg Moe <EDB87003%NOBIVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: HyperPAD, questions...
Are there some people out there who have got some experience with a
program called HyperPAD (Brightbill-Roberts)? It is supposed to be a
character-based HyperCard look-alike with a HyperTalk-like language (but
unlike HyperCard it is possible to compile the generated code). Is the
language a sub/superset of HyperTalk? How powerful are the
hypertext-capabilities? Positive and negative comments?
Georg Moe
DP Department
Norwegian School of Management
PO. Box 580, N-1301 SANDVIKA, NORWAY
Tlf (47 2) 47 07 03
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 20:28 CDT
From: Jerry Katz <KATZJA%SLUVCA.SLU.EDU@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: IBM Storyboard Plus to WordPerfect/TIFF/PCX Formats
I like IBM's Storyboard Plus, but have found that the program's PIC
graphics file format is unique in all computerdom (it DEFINITELY is not
related to Lotus' PIC format, or any other PIC format for that matter).
Unfortunately not even WordPerfect can import Storyboard+ files.
I am looking for a program, preferably public domain, or inexpensive
shareware or commercial software which converts Storyboard Plus graohics
into (ideally) TIFF or PCX files, or some format compatible with at least
WordPerfect 5.0.
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1989 16:53 MDT
From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: L-RMND16.ARC - Reminds you when it's time to backup files
[--forwarded message--]
From: James_E_Levin@ub.cc.umich.edu
I have uploaded:
SIMTEL20 directory pd1:<msdos.dskutl>
L-RMND16.ARC Reminds you when it's time to backup files
Jim
Thanks, Jim!
--Keith Petersen
Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, and MISC archives
Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil [26.2.0.74]
Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz
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Date: Thu, 07 Sep 89 15:23:05 MET
From: Stephan Claassen <U648004%HNYKUN11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: multifont editor
I want to create a multifont-editor for the IBM-PC. My question is : Has
anyone done this before or tried it? I would be grateful for any advice.
Stephan Claassen
u648004@hnykun11
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 01:13 MDT
From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: New MSDOS file uploads to SIMTEL20
I have uploaded the following new files to SIMTEL20:
<msdos.arc-lbr>
ARK27Z.ARC Menu shell for ARC6/PKPAK/LHARC/ZOO/PKZIP101
<msdos.screen>
BLOCKCUR.ARC Control your true (hardware) cursor
<msdos.gif>
CSHOW720.ARC GIF/MAC/RLE viewer/printer, Herc/CGA/EGA/VGA
CVTGIF15.ARC PIC or PCX to GIF picture conversion utility
GLIST112.ARC GIF listing utility, version 1.12
<msdos.database>
EASYQT.ARC EASY QUOTE - price quoting program
ESTIMATE.ARC Quick and easy job cost estimator
<msdos.graphics>
PICEM20B.ARC PICEM v2.0b GIF PCX PIC view & conversion
<msdos.os2>
PKZ101-2.EXE Phil Katz's ZIP v1.01 archive package for OS2
<msdos.sysutl>
UTILS1.ARC Misc. utilities by E. Miller
<msdos.editor>
VDE140A.ARC Small fast WordStar-like text editor
<msdos.zip>
ZV101.ARC ZIP View - ZIP directory lister v1.01
--Keith Petersen
Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, and MISC archives
Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil [26.2.0.74]
Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1989 16:11 MDT
From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: New MSDOS uploads to SIMTEL20
[--forwarded message--]
From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
I have uploaded more files from SDN to SIMTEL20:
<msdos.catalog>
BJF-210.ARC BJF v2.10 diskette and hard disk cataloger
<msdos.menu>
DIRECT34.ARC Director hard disk menu and management
<msdos.modem>
COMMO310.ARC 'Commo' v3.10 - tiny communications program
<msdos.database>
JEPRS111.ARC Journal Editorial Personal Reference Sys
<msdos.database>
NDEX.ARC N-DEX an enhanced index-card database
<msdos.printer>
LETHEAD3.ARC Print logos and headings on letters etc.
<msdos.keyboard>
NEWKEY52.ARC Keyboard macros and key redefinition
<msdos.sysutl>
PH-UTILS.ARC Phil Herron's collection of utilities
Ralf
Thanks, Ralf!
--Keith Petersen
Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, and MISC archives
Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil [26.2.0.74]
Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 89 14:47 GMT
From:
Subject: Path Spec. with WP 4.2 problems
I use defined paths which point to specific substituted drives (A-Z), e.g.
PATH=\;G:\WP;..;C:.;C:\;D:\;U:\;C:\DOS;D:\NU;E:\;R:\;K:\;P:\;Q:. As can
be seen some of these paths look peculiar: '\', '..', 'C:.'. These are
ment for general purposes:
'\' means the root of the current logical or substituted drive.
'..' means the parent subdirectory of any subdirectory; if already in the
root of a (substituted) drive it has no effect.
'C:.' means the current directory on C: if on another drive.
A problem with WordPerfect 4.2 now occurs. WP crashes with a path
specification of '..' if this points to a root directory (not another
subdirectory) and the specification '\' does not have any effect with WP
if its files reside in the root of the current substituted drive: WP does
not find them. So, as in the sample above, the explicit path to WP (now a
subdirectory itself) should be given before '..'.
Is this known to you? I would like to hear of similar problems.
Jim Groeneveld.
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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1989 16:49 MDT
From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: Please report SIMTEL20 ftp problems to ACTION
I received the following email today from an Internet FTP user:
> I have been trying to get stuff from simtel for the past few days.
> Except on one occasion, I have always been disconnected in the middle
> of a file transfer. This happens more frequently with big files. It
> happens only with simtel, not with other anonymous FTP sites.
If this is widespread we need to know about it. Please send reports of
FTP problems to:
ACTION@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
Please do not send them to me. I maintain the archives, not the SIMTEL20
network software.
Keith Petersen
Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, and MISC archives
Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil [26.2.0.74]
Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 18:20 CDT
From: Brett Watson <BRETTW@ksuvm.bitnet>
Subject: Printer driver for NEC printers
I have a client with an IBM Model 50, an NEC Pinwriter P5200 printer, and
286 Windows. When using the spreadsheet and paint programs, he tries to
print graphs and such. They print ok but the printer skips every other
row. This is hard to explain in words but it prints a line about 1/2 in.
wide, then leaves a space the same width, and prints on the next, etc.
The printout is correct except for the spacing problem. The Windows
package only has one driver for NEC printers and it's not the model that
he has. I selected it anyway and like I said, it works but not quite
right.
Can I order the right printer driver or is it on a disk and i missed it?
Sorry this is so verbose but I'm trying to make my problem clear.
Brett
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 09:59 MST
From: GORDON_A%CUBLDR.Colorado.EDU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: print screen driver for hpgl plotter
Does anyone know of a driver that allows a graphics screen to be dumped to
an hpgl plotter or file in HPGL? I know of one called pizazz that I think
works with a Tektronix terminal, but I need one that works with a EGA
terminal.
Thanks
Allen Gordon
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1989
From: Joerg Henrichs <unido!DK0RRZK0.bitnet!AIM11@uunet.UU.NET>
Subject: VGA cards
I am planning the purchase of a VGA card (16 bit 256k) for my 386-25
computer.
When I tested one card with VGATEST2 it reported two errors :
- Hardware: General Registers : Expected vertical interrupt ... got 0
- Hardware: DAC Register : ... IBM and current do not agree
What do these errors mean (I have been told that nearly only IBM cards
pass this test without any error)? I also used VGACHALL which reported no
errors. On which test can I rely? What is important for the compatibility
of a VGA card and how can I test it? Any advice would be greatly
appreciated.
Joerg Henrichs (AIM11@DK0RRZK0.BITNET)
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1989 15:34 MDT
From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: WINKER4.ARC - version 4 of Kermit for MS-WINDOWS
[--forwarded message--]
From: chaim@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Chaim Dworkin)
I've uploaded: the following file to SIMTEL20:
<msdos.kermit>
WINKER4.ARC Version 4 of Kermit for MS-WINDOWS
This is both a very nice program and a very limited one. I assume it is
still under construction because there is a limit to what it can do
compared to the regular MSDOS version of Kermit. It has only two terminal
emulations, ansi and Heath/Zenith 19. I guess it's possible to use the
ansi emulation for a vt100. The H19 emulation is usless for me since both
of the mainframes I use don't support it. It does allow you to cut
screens and place them into the WINDOWS clipboard for pasting into other
applications but you can only clip a full screen, not a portion of a
screen and not a single multiple screen clip. To do multiple screens you
have to make multiple clips.
It supports screen fonts and comes with a few including the standard H19
screen font.
WINKER default window is 1/2 of your screen. You can make he window
smaller or larger but if you make it larger, the text will still scroll
across the same 1/2 of your screen and the rest of the window will remain
empty.
It's still a very interesting program to look at and a lot more usable
than the other PD windows comm programs I've looked at.
Chaim
Thanks, Chaim!
--Keith Petersen
Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, and MISC archives
Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil [26.2.0.74]
Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz
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Date: 7 Sep 1989 11:39:32-BST
From: C.Gatcombe <sa362%CITY.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Wordstar V5
Can anyone help with the following question I have with Wordstar version
5?
I have a printer which is not supported directly (a Star LC-10). The
problem is that the printer is capable of doing all sorts of fancy fonts
in both draft and NLQ, but Wordstar can only ever print a small
selection of these, depending on the selected printer driver. That is,
one driver will allow you to use 12 cpi print, but no IBM character set,
while another driver will allow the IBM character set but no 12cpi print.
I would like to be able to select, say '12 cpi italic' and have
this printed in whatever mode my printer is set to (draft/NLQ).
Whenever you enter a control code in Wordstar to change a 'font',
Wordstar seems to send an awful lot of control characters turning on and
off all sorts of other things (like draft/NLQ). For instance I can't
tell the printer to print in draft mode, (for speed) be- cause Wordstar
insists in turning NLQ on if you have selected an NLQ font. I have tried
looking at PRCHANGE, but very little in- formation is given concerning
how to use this. Using the SIMPLE printer driver doesn't allow things
like microjustification. I guess that what I am asking is how to make my
own printer driver.
Chris Gatcombe, (sa362@uk.ac.city)
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering,
City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, U.K.
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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 89 12:26:28 CDT
From: david@wubios.WUstl.EDU (David J. Camp)
Subject: Wuarchive being replaced SOON (fwd)
Forwarded message:
>From: Chris Myers <chris@wugate>
>
>Wuarchive has been crashing regularly (each night), apparently due to a
>massive overload caused by multiple simultaneous newsfeeds. In an attempt
>to help reduce or remove the problem, I will be swapping the processors for
>wugate (which has 16M RAM) and wuarchive (which has 8M RAM) starting around
>9:30 this morning. Downtime for each machine should be very brief.
>
>Any site which mounts the archive partition from wuarchive should dismount it
>immediately and execute the command "arp -d wuarchive" to remove the permanent
>ARP table entry for wuarchive (this is automatically entered by NFS which you
>mount a partition). You can safely remount the archive partition after noon
>today. This is especially important for sites which are BRIDGED onto the
>backbone as the Ethernet address of wuarchive (which is also on the backbone)
>will be changed -- dismounting the archive partition on sites which are routed
>onto the backbone is only a precautionary measure.
>
>Chris
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 89 03:19:40 CDT
From: sparks@atlas.socsci.umn.edu
Subject: XMA2EMS.SYS driver query
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