brown@nic_vax.UUCP (04/16/85)
> I've been in contact with Pete Galvin at UTEXAX-20 concerning the lu.exe > program that torched my monitor. He kindly loaded the same version into > his pc and ran it without any problems. I'm still at a loss to understand > what happened, although Pete and I are still looking into it. I don't know > what configuration Pete has, but I had an XT with 640K of memory, a > Hercules board, 2 async ports running Dos and Venix with the Connector. > (Don't bother with this one, but that's a story for another night.) If you > have a similar setup, you may want to pause befor hitting return. I am the SYSOP of the Nicolet BBS system - NICBUL. It is a PC-XT frame with 2 Kamerman 10Mbyte hard disks, 2 Teac 1/2 height floppies, AST Mega-Plus Memory expansion/dual serial port board. Right now it has the Hercules Monochrome Graphics card, but I had the regular IBM Monochrome card. There that takes care of my system. I am using it right now with PerSoft VT100 terminal package. A program should NEVER blow up a part of a computer. I think you were a victim of Murphey. As for the LU.EXE program. It is NOT for a squeezed (compressed) file. It is for a library file. A file that has a .LBR as the extension. The squeeze/unsqueeze programs work on files with a Q as the second letter of the extension, ie. .LQR, .CQM, .EQE or QQQ. The .QQQ is for when the original file didn't have an extension. The most common squeeze program is SQ182 and the common unsqueeze program is NUSQ110. Documentation does exist for the squeezers and the library programs. I have them on our board. Give our board a call, (608) 273-5037 6pm to 8am M-F CST and all day on weekends. Mr. Video
sde@mitre-bedford.ARPA (04/17/85)
Someplace in the IBM PC Tech Ref Manual it makes a cryptic comment about configuring for various monitors. If the CRT ctrlr is not initialized properly, either from DIP switches or software, it can gen a voltage sufficient to ruin monitors (at least color). Therefore, one may surmise that a program that clobbered the settings for the CRT ctrlr could have similar results, although one w/o checking voltage levels, I am hesitant to make any stronger statements than that. I have, however, witnessed the slow demise of a set of color monitors used by a certain start-up company that failed to properly configure, although the process took at least several use-hours to occur. David Eisenberg sde@mitre-bedford