Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (02/25/89)
Info-IBMPC Digest Fri, 24 Feb 89 Volume 89 : Issue 28
Today's Editor:
Gregory Hicks - Chinhae Korea <COMFLEACT@Taegu-EMH1.army.mil>
Today's Topics:
a MIDI connection
C TSR Routines wanted
EasyEdit text editor uploaded to Simtel20
How to Reset the PC
Looking for CROBOTS
Graphic screen dump program needed
Laserjet II Graphics packages for PC
Minor Bugs in Mace Gold (Norton is not alone)
OS/2 Serial Driver Source Wanted
Query re: Zenith laptop keyboard
Upgrading the Microsoft mouse driver
video cards
VI version 1.9a, a free editor like vi, available from Simtel20
WordPerfect problems
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1989 00:34 IST
From: Ilan Lamdan <KBULI%HUJIVM1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: a MIDI connection
Hi all,
I wonder if you can help me: Once I heard about a MIDI connection between
IBMPC and external equipment. Can anybody guide me for DOCOMENTATION
about this subject ? (articles, books, etc...)
If any of you tried it, I would like to hear about how it done,
limitations about the type of equipment connected ( cost/performance
considerations are very important), the hardware and the software used.
Thanks in advance...
Ilan Lamdan (KBULI AT HUJIVM1)
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 10:12:07 EST
From: dcatla!sunb!dxmlw@gatech.edu (Michael L. Weekley)
Subject: C TSR Routines wanted
Over the past few months I've heard rumor that there was a package of
routines in the public domain for creating TSRs. These routines
supposedly worked with a number of languages, including C. If these
routines are available, I would appreciate hearing where I can get them --
and if anyone has any other sources of TSR info for C programs, I'd really
appreciate that also.
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Date: Monday, 20 February 1989 10:49-MST
From: EIBEN@TOPS20.DEC.COM
Subject: EasyEdit text editor uploaded to Simtel20
Now available from Simtel20:
Filename Type Bytes CRC
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.EDITOR>
EASYED01.ARC BINARY 279040 CDACH
EasyEdit is a text editor based on the Turbo Pascal (Borland
International) editor routines. It has many word processing capabilities,
but the over- riding thing is its EASY to use.
Rgds,
Bernie.
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 11:21:46 EDT
From: "Roberto A. Banos Alvarez" <PP205138%TECMTYVM.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: How to Reset the PC
Does anyone knows how to reset the PC from the inside of a program?
I've tried with BIOS int 19h, it works when there's nothing to load in the
Config.sys, but it fails the other way.
Thanks,
Roberto A. Banos
PP205138@TECMTYVM.Bitnet
[He is correct. If you have a CONFIG.SYS file present when INT 19 is
invoked, the re-boot does not complete and the system is 'locked' (ie
you have to hit the 'big red switch' to re-boot). If the CONFIG.SYS
is not present, the re-boot completes as expected.
The above is true for the IBM PC-XT BIOS of 3/10/86. gph]
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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 89 20:08:06 EDT
From: "A. Goldberg" <CS0250A2@UKCC.uky.edu>
Subject: Looking for CROBOTS
This may be the wrong list to ask, but I'm in the middle of a quest for a
programming contest-type program...CROBOTS...sorta like COREWARS, but in C
(not assembly), and for the PC...has anyone heard of it? Anyone have it?
Mail Direct:
CS.DEPT.GOLDBERG.A@UKPR.UKY.EDU
A. Goldberg.
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 10:17 EDT
From: <PJORGENS%COLGATEU.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Subject: Graphic screen dump program needed.
Greetings,
We have a need here at Colgate U to dump EGA screens to a dot matrix
printer. Can you point me to a PD or ShareWare (or even, heaven forbid,
commercial) program that does this? It'd be nice if it translated the
colors into grays, too (dithering somehow, I guess... don't ask me, this
is what the Professor requested! :) ).
Thanks
Peter Jorgensen Microcomputer Specialist
Computer Center Colgate University
BITNET PJORGENSEN@COLGATEU
APPLELINK U0523
CompuServe 74010,1353
Phone (315) 824-1000 ext 742
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 89 15:10:48 PST
From: JAJZ801%CALSTATE.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Jeff Sicherman,CSU Long Beach)
Subject: Laserjet II Graphics packages for PC
Can anybody direct me at/recommend driver and language-library software
to do graphics on the HP Laserjet II ? The langauge support is ESSENTIAL,
I must be able to do custom programming from MS Fortran (version 4.10). I
think the a MS-C (version 5+) library would suffice because of the
interlanguage caling capabilities of the respective versions of MS Fortran
and C.
Note I do NOT want s/w which just converts command output (HGCL ?) into
Laserjet graphics. The language support is a must.
Jeff Sicherman
jajz801@calstate.bitnet
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Date: Tuesday, 14 February 1989 13:13-MST
From: davidg@janus.berkeley.edu (David Gaertner)
Subject: Minor Bugs in Mace Gold (Norton is not alone)
From Infoworld Feb. 13, 1989 (with permission):
(copyright 1989 Infoworld Publishing Company)
An update to the Mace Gold Utilities that fixes minor bugs and improves
size, speed, and performance of some of the tools has begun shipping to
registered users of the product.
With the update, Unformat and Undelete now work correctly with disk
partitions larger than 32 megabytes under Wyse DOS. In addition, the
Mcache, Vaccine, and Pop utilities have had performance improvements.
The Unfrag disk defragmentation utility now has the "r" option to totally
reorganize the disk. The Remedy utility has also been changed to test
allocated space file-by-file instead of linearly, and Muse has added a
"tree" view capability.
Paul Mace Software Mace Gold costs $149.
400 Williamson Way
Ashland, OR 97520
(503) 488-2322
[And the moral is: send in your registration cards]
/ / David Gaertner
__/ __. , __o __/ ...ucbvax!janus!davidg, davidg@janus.berkeley.edu
(_/_(_/|_\/ <__(_/_ "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
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Date: Mon 20 Feb 89 11:27:34-PST
From: Richard Gillmann <DICK@venera.isi.edu>
Subject: OS/2 Serial Driver Source Wanted
I'm looking for source code for an OS/2 serial port driver. I need to
modify it for use with a BBS program. Any info and pointers would be
appreciated.
Richard Gillmann
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 89 23:57:22 EST
From: Jeff_MacKie-Mason@um.cc.umich.edu
Subject: Query re: Zenith laptop keyboard
Does anyone know if it is possible to switch the keycodes generated by the
blue Fn and the Alt key on a Zenith Supersport 286 (laptop)? What I have
in mind is some code like that which is around to switch the action of the
CapsLock and Ctrl keys on the new extended keyboards. The Fn key (which I
rarely use because I have the detachable keypad) is right where the Alt
key should be, and the Alt key is in a very awkward place for heavy use
(my editor works with alt-key command sequences).
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Date: Monday, 13 February 1989 10:29-MST
From: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Subject: Upgrading the Microsoft mouse driver
After my recent posting on troubles running PC Tools Deluxe Version 5 with
an "old" version of the Microsoft mouse driver, I received a suggestion
from Lee Fisher at Microsoft to call Customer Support (is there in
netland, perchance, an acronym CTFM, Call The Friendly Manufacturer?
Never mind!) and find out the policy on driver upgrades.
I called Microsoft Customer Support at (206) 454-2030 and talked to
Hardware Support.
The person I talked to said that Microsoft prefers that non-dealers (me)
call and get their driver upgrade sent directly from Microsoft. He took
my name and address, and apparently will ship a new version (6.24 I think)
in the mail. I asked if I could share it with other "outdated" folks, and
he repeated that they prefer each customer call in and get one sent out.
This person didn't know that PC Tools Version 5 required driver version
6.14 or higher. He may be on the phone a lot in the next month or so!
Dick O'Connor
Washington Department of Fisheries
Olympia, Washington 98504
Internet Mail: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu
DISCLAIMER: I speak only for myself, not for the Department. Here, anyway!
[I've found that this policy of requiring each registered user to request
an upgrade is 'fairly' standard from software producers. I've requested
mine by mail and have received fairly rapid responses. gph]
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 89 12:35 CST
From: <MJB0363%TAMVENUS.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: video cards
I am planning the purchase of a new system to last me the next few years I
plan to get a 386, but most of my use will be wordprocessing and the like
with Wordperfect 5.0. I am debating between getting a new Hercules RAM
font card, which displays all the nice text attributes like underline,
italics, subscripts etc, or getting a VGA or superVGA card. I have no need
for color in either case (would be a mono VGA unless someone convinces me
otherwise). Can you get all the different text attributes on VGA, like
with the ramfont card? Is the display speed similar, or is the VGA slower?
I remember the pitiful slow speed of CGA and wouldn't want to repeat that.
Suggestions and comments welcome.
Mike Benedik
MJB0363@TAMVENUS bitnet
MJB0363@VENUS.TAMU.EDU internet
My employer assumes no responsibility for having hired me, and wishes
that I would just go away.
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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1989 01:34 MST
From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Subject: VI version 1.9a, a free editor like vi, available from Simtel20
[--forwarded message--]
From: vojta@bosco.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Vojta)
This is version 1.9a of my free editor modelled after vi. A large subset
of vi's screen-oriented commands, and the essential ":" commands for file
manipulation, are included. The undo is here too.
This is an in-memory editor, with file size limited to a little less than
64 kilobytes. For small files at least this is an advantage, as editing
is fast and screen updates are instantaneous.
The following is an edited excerpt from the doc file:
Free VI version 1.9a by Paul Vojta.
VI is a screen text editor written for the IBM PC. It has been given the
same name as the screen editor for the Berkeley Unix operating system.
This is no coincidence: with a few exceptions, this editor is a subset of
the latter.
This editor requires an 80-column display, MS-DOS 1.1 or higher, and 128K
of memory.
This will be the last version to run under DOS 1.1.
VI-19A.ARC is now in the pd1:<msdos.editor> directory.
--Keith
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 89 09:39:48 GMT
From: Chris Wooff <QQ43%IBM.LIVERPOOL.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: WordPerfect problems
I have two problems in using WordPerfrect which I have been struggling
with for many weeks now. If there is a better forum to pose these
questions then please let me know and I will post them there. As I am not
subscribed to this list please send responses directly to me.
1) Problem one is associated with using A4 sized paper in an IBM
Quietwriter Model 2. I have gone through and installed the printer driver
several times.
a) I change the fonts to Cartridge A = Prestige Elite PC, Cartridge * =
Title A.
b) I change the Initial Font to Title A.
c) I change the Form Size used by the printer to A4.
d) From the FORMAT menu (SHIFT+F8) I change the page size to A4.
e) I create a document with '1' on line 1, '2' on line 2 ...... 70 on line
70.
f) On screen, WP starts a new page at line 59 which seems sensible.
g) However, when it comes to printing a new page is started at line 54.
This new page contains only 54 -> 58, then another new page is started at
line 59.
2) Problem 2 concerns the use of the view document facility. I use a PC/AT
with 512K memory and an EGA with 128K display memory. View document will
not work if I chose any of the EGA options. It only works if I specify
that my screen is 640 * 200 mono.
Chris Wooff
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