Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (06/27/89)
Info-IBMPC Digest Mon, 26 Jun 89 Volume 89 : Issue 63
Today's Editor:
Gregory Hicks - Chinhae Korea <COMFLEACT@Taegu-EMH1.army.mil>
Today's Topics:
Auto uudecoder?
Coordinate resolution with Microsoft mouse
Desperately Seeking Webster (Dictionary List)
Devorak keyboard
Gemini 10x and Epson Compatability
Expresscard 286
GKS & UN*X on 386 pc's
HELP..Wizards, and Programmers
Millisecond Timer
MSC5.1 memory fragmentation/coalescing
Problems with formatting a harddisk
PS/2 ERROR
Public Domain/Shareware Version of OPS5
Trapping cold boot signal
Turbo C v1.5
Virus? Help!
Duke Language Tool Kit for non-Latin Characters
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 89 17:35:12 CDT
From: david@wubios.WUstl.EDU (David J. Camp)
Subject: Auto uudecoder?
I seem to have seen a software package announced recently that
automatically processes uuencoded files embedded in mail messages. Can
anyone remind me of its name? -David-
Bitnet: david@wubios.wustl ^ Mr. David J. Camp
Internet: david%wubios@wucs1.wustl.edu < * > Box 8067, Biostatistics
uucp: uunet!wucs1!wubios!david v 660 South Euclid
Washington University (314) 36-23635 Saint Louis, MO 63110
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 13:34 EST
From: George Nassas <GEORGE%LAUVAX01.LAURENTIAN.CA@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: Coordinate resolution with Microsoft mouse
I've run into a small snag programming with the Microsoft mouse. I called
MS and they couldn't be of any help but I can't believe I'm the first one
to have this problem.
I'm using the mouse to control a pointer on a video grabber that I'm using
to analyze video images. The screen is separarate from the console screen
so of course I can't use Microsoft's mouse driver to draw my pointer on
the screen. I've written my own. The problem comes when I read the mouse
coordinates. Because my PC screen is in text mode, the mouse driver
thinks I'm using a text mouse pointer and only reports mouse coordinates
in multiples of 8 pixels. But, I want to be able to pinpoint individual
pixels on the digitizer screen.
I tried shifting the coordinates right 3 bits but I couldn't get
acceptable travel speed out of the mouse. Does anyone know of a way to
trick the driver into thinking that I'm working with a graphics screen or
of forcing it to give pixel level resolution? I'm using the mouse
documentation that we received with our mouse in 1986 so there may be a
few calls I don't know about.
Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions/sympathy.
- George Nassas
Laurentian University
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 89 11:43:22 EDT
From: Peter_L._Boisvert@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Desperately Seeking Webster (Dictionary List)
I am looking for public domain dictionaries. At the moment I really only
need word lists but part-of-speech info and definitions could be useful
down the road. I have found the dictionaries for the ispell program by
ftping at random and I also found a Webster's 2nd international word list.
I lost the Webster's 2nd and can't remember where it came from. If any
has or knows where to get these things or others like them (word frequency
lists or large blocks of standard text etc.) I'd appreciate the help.
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 16:11:40 EDT
From: Adrian Venuti <VENUTI%HUMBER.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu>
Subject: Devorak keyboard
We're looking for a program to remap a standard "qwerty" keyboard to a
DEVRAK one. (Hopefully, a public domain, but any solution would be nice.)
Thanks.
Adrian Venuti
User Services Group - Computing Services
Humber College, Rexdale, Ontario, Canada
NetNorth/Bitnet - VENUTI @ HUMBER.CA
[Look in file PD:<MSDOS.KEYBOARD>DVORAK.ARC... gph]
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Date: Thu, 8 Jun 89 15:42:00 EDT
From: PG_IBMREP%UNHH.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu
Subject: Gemini 10x and Epson Compatability
I was just wondering if anyone knows of a program which can make a
Gemini 10x epsom compatible... Is there a rom package which you insert
into the gemini? Has anyone heard of the program EPGEM? If you feel like
you have read this message before, you probably have... I have changed my
bitnet ID so I am resending it under my new one..... thanks Peter P.
Geremia
Peter P. Geremia [PG_IBMREP@UNHH]
Univerisity of New Hampshire
IBM Student Representative
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences
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Date: 12 June 89, 16:35:22 PDT
From: Ran Chermesh <RSRANCH%UCLASSCF.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: ExpressCard 286
This card is now on sale in Radio Shack. It sells for $199 instead of the
regular $325. I wonder, has experience with it? I have an IBM compatible.
Will it fit? Are there any other expenses needed for its successful
installation?
Ran Chermesh
RSRANCH@UCLASSCF.BITNET
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Date: 14 Jun 89 03:20:01 GMT
From: munnari!merlin.bhpmrl.oz.au!ianh@uunet.UU.NET (Ian Hoyle)
Subject: GKS & UN*X on 386 pc's
Does anyone have recommendations on
a) UN*X for pc's. Specifically we are looking at System V/386 (SCO,
Microport ????? .... )
b) (and this is the important one :-) GKS libraries that are compatible
with whatever good quality FORTRAN 77 compiler runs in (a).
Comments on suppliers, quality of FORTRAN code, the graphics libraries
etc. are needed.
ian
Ian Hoyle
/\/\ Computer Systems Superintendent
/ / /\ BHP Melbourne Research Laboratories
/ / / \ 245 Wellington Rd, Mulgrave, 3170
/ / / /\ \ AUSTRALIA
\ \/ / / /
\ / / / Phone : +61-3-560-7066
\/\/\/ ACSnet : ianh@merlin.bhpmrl.oz.au
Internet: ianh%merlin.bhpmrl.oz.au@uunet.uu.net
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Date: Tue Jun 13 18:36:54 1989
From: gautier@lognet2.ARPA (SrA Richard A. Gautier)
Subject: HELP..Wizards, and Programmers
Some time ago, I posted:
... I need to look at the SCROLL LOCK key and see if the light is on or
off from within a program. I don't necessarily wish to do a keyboard
interrupt to watch it, as that would take up CPU time in what is already a
time constricted program.
....
Unfortunately, I am using BASIC to write this program in, although I
am compiling it using the MicroSoft compiler.
I received a response telling me that the addresses I needed to watch were
0040:0017 and 0040:0018
I tried using DEF SEG=&H0040 and then PEEK (&H18) and PEEK(&H17) but this
gives me no change when the keys are pressed.
Perhaps I am missing the point, or my Zenith computer is not fully
compatible ... ut can anyone help me here?
I am using GW-BASIC v3.x
If anyone can help me, please do...
Richard A. Gautier
gautier@lognet2
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Masamichi Ute
UTE@JPNSUT30.BITNET
Postmaster of JPNSUT30
Information Processing Center
Noda campus
Science University of Tokyo
2641, Yamazaki
Noda, Chiba, 278
JAPAN
Date: Tue, 30 May 89 11:36:31 WET DST
From: The UK National PD Software Archive
<pdsoft%pd-software.lancaster.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk>
Subject: Announcing Version 2.9 of Apollo Pascal Kermit
Keywords: Apollo Kermit
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Date: Mon 5 Jun 89 08:55:27-EST
From: CAROZZONI@TOPS20.RADC.AF.MIL
Subject: Millisecond Timer
A while ago, I remember reading about a millisecond timer program for the
IBMPC. Could someone clue me in to where I can download the program.
-- carozzoni@tops20.radc.af.mil
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 89 16:07:06 EDT
From: stev@vax.ftp.com
Subject: MSC5.1 memory fragmentation/coalescing
i am having problems with a mail reader. the mail reader reads in messages
for the user, and keeps them around for him to read again (keeping them in
memory allows for faster access). when i have filled up far memory, i
start freeing the old messages (each line of which was malloc'd). this
tends to work for awhile, but i start to lose too quickly. _memaval()
doesnt work with far memory. as near as i can tell, i am losing because
the memory is getting to fragmented. i have tried playing games with
malloc'ing standard size chunks, but this does not seem to help much.
has anyone done any work to sovle this problem? have any of you seen this
before, and have news for me (it isnt fragmentation, for instance).
basically, any help would be appreciated. thanx
stev knowles
stev@ftp.com
ftp software
617-246-0900
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 89 09:02 N
From: <TGTEJH%HEITUE5.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Problems with formatting a harddisk
Lately I bought a Western Digital WD1003-RA2 RLL harddisk controller for
AT compatibles. After I had connected to my harddisk (Microscience HH725)
I tried a low level reformat, but it didn't work. I also tried Speedstor
(version 4) but it didn't work either.
So I would like to ask if anyone has experience with the WD1003? And can
anyone tell me the function of the jumpers on the controller.
Jan Hofman
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Earn/Bitnet: TGTEJH@HEITUE5
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 89 09:36:21 edt
From: bvan@mvax.dcem.dnd.ca (Bryan E. Van Blaricom)
Subject: PS/2 ERROR
> Hi, I've a problem with a PS/2 model 60. At power on it shows error
> 162,163 and needs the reference diskette to start. It says that an error
> in the time or date was found. The strange thing about that is it does
> signal that error at random ( sometimes & sometimes not). Any help would
> be appreciated.
My PS/2 Model 50 began showing 162 errors on boot up awhile back, asso-
ciated with a problem I was having with the disk drive. Our "service
contract" people came in a replaced the motherboard last week, after which
I started getting 162 and 163 errors, and both internal and external
drives failed, with a particularly nasty form of bug: if a diskette is
write protected, the controller will read it with no problem. If the
diskette is write enabled, however, the controller totally trashes the
disk, probably by wiping out track 0. I'd like to know if anyone else has
ever experienced this problem with the PS/2, or if I'm the lucky one to
experience a one of a kind bug.
Incidentally, after showing the error, the computer could be made to
finish booting by hitting F1.
Bryan E. Van Blaricom
DCEM 5
National Defence Headquarters
Ottawa, Canada
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 21:55:24 EDT
From: Dave Swindell <dswindel@SH.CS.NET>
Subject: Public Domain/Shareware Version of OPS5
Does anyone know of a public domain or shareware version of OPS5 for the
IBM PC? I'm taking an Expert Systems course through Boston University and
need to build a relatively simple expert system using OPS5 and would like
to do some of the development work on my PC. I'm also interested in
learning about expert system shells available for the PC. After we finish
the OPS5 implementation, we need to implement the same system in an expert
system shell.
Thanks,
-- Dave Swindell
Voice: (617) 873-3395
Email: dswindell@bbn.com
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 09:02 EDT
From: "Mark D. Gabriele" <Gabriele@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
Subject: Trapping cold boot signal
I'm working with an IBM PC-AT, and I have an expansion card which I'm
trying to integrate with some software. The problem is this: on certain
conditions, the card will lock up so that it becomes unusable, while it
allows the AT to remain usable. When this happens, the only way to get
the card unstuck is a cold reboot (power off). I wish to be able to reset
the card without doing a cold reboot. I've gone through several
references, including Norton's books, to no avail (although I tried INT
19H, which didn't reset the expansion card). The object is to be able to
reset the card automatically, under software control, on those occasions
when it goes south on me. Suggestions?
=Mark
All usual disclaimers apply. Your mileage may vary, etc.
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Date: Tue Jun 13 18:38:29 1989
From: gautier@lognet2.ARPA (SrA Richard A. Gautier)
Subject: Turbo C v1.5
I am currently using a copy of Turbo C v1.5...
I ran into a copy of a C program with some inline assembly language in
it, and my compiler instructs me to have a copy of masm.exe in the path,
and use the TCC command file to compile it.
The C compiles just fine, but when it calls MASM.EXE, it is passing the
following filename:
ml,egacolrs
MASM doesn't like that filename, and there are no files in that directory
except egacolrs.c which the inline assembly is in. It asks me to give it
a good .asm file, but to no avail, there is nothing that I can do......
Can anyone tell me what the problem is? I even tried passing a -B
using TCC, but that doesn't seem to change anything.
Richard A. Gautier, SrA, USAF
gautier@lognet2
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 17:39:41 EDT
From: ejs@goldhill.com (Eric Swenson)
Subject: Virus? Help!
My wife's office has gotten the following messages printed out on their
networked laserprinter. She doesn't know which workstation on the Novell
network originated the printouts and no banners on printed documents are
used, so it is hard to track down. In any case, the output included:
THE COPY BANDITO
SAYS YOUR SYSTEM HAS BEEN INVADED BY
STRANGE BEINGS WHO SEEK TO DISRUPT THE NORMAL LIFE ESSENSE
PURVEYING YOUR PLACE OF WORSHIP.
WHAT IS IT THAT YOU PRAY TO?
IS ANYONE SMART ENOUGH?
TIMES UP!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BOW DOWN
NO ONW [sic] HAS THE BRAINS
Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone have an suggestions as to how to
track down which program contains this virus (if it is a virus)?
Thanks. -- Eric
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Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 16:53:16 GMT
From: Alex F. Burr <PHYS010%NMSUVM1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Duke Language Tool Kit for non-Latin Characters
people have asked about non-latin character sets and wordprocessors.
Duke Language tool kit contains a font editor, display and printer
driver sample fonts (greek, Hebrew, and Cyrillic) and word processing
interfaces. Contact Wisc-Ware, Academic Computing center, U of
Wis-Madison 1210 West Dayton Madison, WI 53706 (800)543-3201.
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