raymond@purina.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) (03/03/91)
For those playing along at home...
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--- csip.faq Sat Mar 02 09:09:14 1991
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ZOO ZOO PD1:<MSDOS.ZOO>ZOO201.EXE comp.binaries.ibm.pc
! PAK PAK250 PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>PAK250.EXE garbo.uwasa.fi
^^^ note: this is *different* from PKPAK.
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ZOO ZOO PD1:<MSDOS.ZOO>ZOO201.EXE comp.binaries.ibm.pc
! PAK PAK251 PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>PAK250.EXE garbo.uwasa.fi
^^^ note: this is *different* from PKPAK.
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LZH LHARC PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>LH113c.EXE garbo.uwasa.fi
! ARJ ARJ PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>ARJ015A.ZIP ?
Z COMPRESS PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ>COMPRS16.ARC unix archive sites
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LZH LHARC PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>LH113c.EXE garbo.uwasa.fi
! ARJ ARJ PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>ARJ020.ZIP ?
Z COMPRESS PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ>COMPRS16.ARC unix archive sites
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/mirrors/msdos.
+
+ sol.deakin.oz.au ? ?
+ 128.184.1.1 (Australia)
+ A duplicate of the SIMTEL20 archives is kept in
+ pub/PC/simtel-20.
raymond@sunkist.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) (04/04/91)
For those playing along at home...
No major changes, just corrections to typos and version numbers.
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--- faq.csip Wed Apr 3 11:49:06 1991
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! [$Id: csip.faq 4.15 91/03/02 10:58:34 raymond Exp $]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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! [$Id: csip.faq 4.16 91/03/30 20:58:49 raymond Exp $]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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0.1) What is this file?
0.2) I have a question that's not in this file. How should I ask it
to increase the chances that I'll get a response?
! 0.3) Somebody just said that a { Mac, Amiga } beats the socks of a PC.
I have my flame thrower ready. Any last words?
0.4) Somebody just asked a really simple question. What should I do?
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0.1) What is this file?
0.2) I have a question that's not in this file. How should I ask it
to increase the chances that I'll get a response?
! 0.3) Somebody just said that a { Mac, Amiga } beats the socks off a PC.
I have my flame thrower ready. Any last words?
0.4) Somebody just asked a really simple question. What should I do?
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I also keep an index of previously-asked questions in my archives.
Instructions on accessing the archive can be found in Appendix A.
! 0.3) Somebody just said that a { Mac, Amiga } beats the socks of a PC.
I have my flame thrower ready. Any last words?
Oh, for crying out loud. About twice a year some immature bozo
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I also keep an index of previously-asked questions in my archives.
Instructions on accessing the archive can be found in Appendix A.
! 0.3) Somebody just said that a { Mac, Amiga } beats the socks off a PC.
I have my flame thrower ready. Any last words?
Oh, for crying out loud. About twice a year some immature bozo
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ARC PKUNPAK PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>PK361.EXE SIMTEL20
ZIP PKUNZIP PD1:<MSDOS.ZIP>PKZ110EU.EXE grape
ZOO ZOO PD1:<MSDOS.ZOO>ZOO201.EXE comp.binaries.ibm.pc
! PAK PAK251 PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>PAK250.EXE garbo.uwasa.fi
^^^ note: this is *different* from PKPAK.
LZH LHARC PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>LH113c.EXE garbo.uwasa.fi
! ARJ ARJ PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>ARJ020.ZIP ?
Z COMPRESS PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ>COMPRS16.ARC unix archive sites
TAR PDTAR PD1:<MSDOS.FILEUTL>PDTAR.ARC unix archive sites
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ARC PKUNPAK PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>PK361.EXE SIMTEL20
ZIP PKUNZIP PD1:<MSDOS.ZIP>PKZ110EU.EXE grape
ZOO ZOO PD1:<MSDOS.ZOO>ZOO201.EXE comp.binaries.ibm.pc
! PAK PAK PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>PAK251.EXE garbo.uwasa.fi
^^^ note: this is *different* from PKPAK.
LZH LHARC PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>LH113c.EXE garbo.uwasa.fi
! ARJ ARJ PD1:<MSDOS.ARC-LBR>ARJ100.ZIP ?
Z COMPRESS PD1:<MSDOS.SQ-USQ>COMPRS16.ARC unix archive sites
TAR PDTAR PD1:<MSDOS.FILEUTL>PDTAR.ARC unix archive sites
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V20: An 8-bit version of the V30. 5%--10% faster than the 8088.
Also, note that many benchmarks exaggerate the relative performance
! of the chips since they tend to emphasize intructions which have
been significantly sped up in the newer chips.
4.2) Can I move floppies around freely between 1.2M and 360K drives?
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V20: An 8-bit version of the V30. 5%--10% faster than the 8088.
Also, note that many benchmarks exaggerate the relative performance
! of the chips since they tend to emphasize instructions which have
been significantly sped up in the newer chips.
4.2) Can I move floppies around freely between 1.2M and 360K drives?raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) (05/01/91)
There have been significant changes to the FAQ.
If you don't know what to do with this article, ignore it.
*** t1008765 Tue Apr 30 21:14:28 1991
--- csip.faq Tue Apr 30 21:12:00 1991
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! [$Id: csip.faq 4.16 91/03/30 20:58:49 raymond Exp $]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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! [$Id: csip.faq 4.17 91/04/30 21:09:50 raymond Exp $]
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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to increase the chances that I'll get a response?
0.3) Somebody just said that a { Mac, Amiga } beats the socks off a PC.
I have my flame thrower ready. Any last words?
- 0.4) Somebody just asked a really simple question. What should I do?
CHAPTER 1: OBTAINING PROGRAMS FROM THE ARCHIVES
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--- 18,24 ----
1.4) The unpacking program said that the archive was corrupted.
1.5) What public archives exist, and what are their IP numbers?
1.6) I do not have ftp access. Can somebody email me the files?
+ 1.7) I missed X in comp.binaries.ibm.pc; can somebody email it to me?
CHAPTER 2: PROGRAMMING
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3.1) Has anyone had any experience with {company X, product Y}?
3.2) I'm having trouble with product X. Can anyone help me?
3.3) What is the file format that application X uses?
! 3.4) Rumor has it that company X is working on a new version of product Y.
! Does anybody have any information about it?
! 3.5) I don't like my keyboard's layout. How can I swap the X and Y keys?
CHAPTER 4: HARDWARE
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3.1) Has anyone had any experience with {company X, product Y}?
3.2) I'm having trouble with product X. Can anyone help me?
3.3) What is the file format that application X uses?
! 3.4) I don't like my keyboard's layout. How can I swap the X and Y keys?
CHAPTER 4: HARDWARE
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How about formatting a 360K floppy as 1.2M? 720K as 1.44M?
4.3) How do I do a low-level reformat of my hard drive?
4.4) What does interleave mean? What interleave should I use?
! 4.5) What do ESDI, SCSI, RLL, MFM mean?
! 4.6) Can I use an RLL controller on my MFM drive?
! 4.7) Should I leave my PC turned on all the time? What about
mounting it sideways?
CHAPTER 5: MISCELLANEOUS
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How about formatting a 360K floppy as 1.2M? 720K as 1.44M?
4.3) How do I do a low-level reformat of my hard drive?
4.4) What does interleave mean? What interleave should I use?
! 4.5) Can I use an RLL controller on my MFM drive?
! 4.6) Should I leave my PC turned on all the time? What about
mounting it sideways?
+ 4.7) How do I read an { Apple, Mac, Commodore, etc. } disk on my PC?
CHAPTER 5: MISCELLANEOUS
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5.4) How do I turn the ECHO off from a batch file?
5.5) How can I set a long path? How can I enlarge my environment?
How do I get/set an environment variable from a C/pascal program?
- 5.6) How do I install a new version of DOS on my hard drive?
APPENDIX A: ANSWERS TO MORE QUESTIONS and AVAILABILITY OF THIS FILE
APPENDIX B: OTHER SOURCES OF ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY-ASKED QUESTIONS
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0.3) Somebody just said that a { Mac, Amiga } beats the socks off a PC.
I have my flame thrower ready. Any last words?
! Oh, for crying out loud. About twice a year some immature bozo
! posts a note like this and the flames don't die out for weeks. If
! you consider yourself a mature human being, bite your lip and keep
quiet. Let the nincompoop think he's won. If you absolutely
positively can't keep quiet, flame the sucker by email. But
please, don't make the rest of us have to suffer through it.
- While I have your attention, here are a few more subjects that
- we're sick of seeing:
-
- FCC to impose surtax on modem usage: This is simply not true.
- Consult the file "fcc" in my archives for a letter from
- the FCC debunking this rumor.
-
- Make Money Fast: They're all pyramid schemes, and they're illegal,
- especially the one from Dave Rhodes.
-
- Dying Boy's Last Wish: He broke the record in 1988, so stop it already.
- Besides, the poor child's address keeps changing, ranging from London
- to Atlanta.
-
- 0.4) Somebody just asked a really simple question. What should I do?
-
- Send him the answer by email. Don't post the answer, since
- (trust me) about a dozen people will do it anyway. If you
- want, drop me a line so I can add the question to the FAQ archives.
-
-
CHAPTER 1: OBTAINING PROGRAMS FROM THE ARCHIVES
1.1) What is anonymous ftp? How do I use it?
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0.3) Somebody just said that a { Mac, Amiga } beats the socks off a PC.
I have my flame thrower ready. Any last words?
! Every so often, some immature bozo posts a note like this and the
! flames don't die out for weeks. Just bite your lip and keep
quiet. Let the nincompoop think he's won. If you absolutely
positively can't keep quiet, flame the sucker by email. But
please, don't make the rest of us have to suffer through it.
CHAPTER 1: OBTAINING PROGRAMS FROM THE ARCHIVES
1.1) What is anonymous ftp? How do I use it?
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1.5) What public archives exist, and what are their IP numbers?
! The most famous such is WSMR-SIMTEL20 [26.2.0.74], the White
! Sands Missile Range in New Mexico USA.
This is a very busy site, so try connecting at really obscure
times of day. (SIMTEL20 is in the Mountain time zone, 7 hours
behind GMT.)
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1.5) What public archives exist, and what are their IP numbers?
! The most famous such is WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [192.88.110.20],
! the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico USA.
This is a very busy site, so try connecting at really obscure
times of day. (SIMTEL20 is in the Mountain time zone, 7 hours
behind GMT.)
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by system administrators, and you are strongly encouraged to use ftp
if at all possible.
+ 1.7) I missed part X of Y; can somebody email it to me?
+
+ Bob Sloane (sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu) has generously installed a mail
+ server which will resend articles posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc within
+ the past 30 days or so. To request a file, send email to
+
+ cbipserv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
+
+ where the body of the message (NOT the subject line) contains the lines
+
+ address raymond@math.berkeley.edu
+ sendme vnnimmm
+
+ where you should replace `raymond@math.berkeley.edu' with your email
+ address, and `vnnimmm' with the volume identification number of the
+ file you want. IMPORTANT: Your return address must contain a fully
+ qualified domain name. UUCP bang paths are NOT supported.
+
+ Another mail server is archive-server@sixhub.uucp, administered by the
+ comp.binaries.ibm.pc moderator, Bill Davidsen. It will resend articles
+ between five and fifteen days after their date of posting. To use it,
+ put the following in the SUBJECT line:
+
+ send cbip/v06i721 to raymond@math.berkeley.edu
+
+ where you should replace `raymond@math.berkeley.edu' with your email
+ address, and `v06i721' with the volume identification number of the
+ file you want. If you are a site appearing in the uucp maps, then
+ site.uucp is valid. Bang paths are not valid. If you send some address
+ with fancy stuff in it, colons, percents, or exclamations, the request
+ will be ignored.
+
+ Note, however, that Bill Davidsen's server will service only twenty
+ requests per day, to save on his phone bill.
+
CHAPTER 2: PROGRAMMING
2.1) How do I program the mouse/joystick? What does interrupt X do?
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Indeed, SIMTEL20's <MSDOS.INFO> directory is just chock full of
assorted technical information.
! 3.4) Rumor has it that company X is working on a new version of product Y.
! Does anybody have any information about it?
!
! If it hasn't been announced, then the people who could possibly answer
! your question are not allowed to tell you.
!
! 3.5) I don't like my keyboard's layout. How can I swap the X and Y keys?
Look in SIMTEL20's PD1:<MSDOS.KEYBOARD> directory. You'll find
a whole slew of programs that let you swap keys around.
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Indeed, SIMTEL20's <MSDOS.INFO> directory is just chock full of
assorted technical information.
! 3.4) I don't like my keyboard's layout. How can I swap the X and Y keys?
Look in SIMTEL20's PD1:<MSDOS.KEYBOARD> directory. You'll find
a whole slew of programs that let you swap keys around.
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commercial program SPINRITE claims to calculate the proper interleave
factor and reformat your drive in place (= doesn't destroy the data).
! 4.5) What do ESDI, SCSI, RLL, MFM mean?
!
! ESDI = Enhanced Small Device Interface.
! SCSI = Small Computer Systems Interface.
!
! These are two interface standards which describe how the drive
! and the controller communicate.
!
! RLL = Run Length Limited.
! MFM = Modified Frequency Modulation.
!
! These are two recording methods which describe how the information
! is physically stored on the disk.
- 4.6) Can I use an RLL controller on my MFM drive?
-
As is often the case, the answer is "maybe". The likelihood that it
will work is good, but there are some older Seagate ST251s that just
won't. Proceed at your own risk.
! 4.7) Should I leave my PC turned on all the time? What about
mounting it sideways?
A record of these debates the last time they went around is
kept in my archives; consult the file "24hrs".
CHAPTER 5: MISCELLANEOUS
5.1) How do I undelete a file? Recover from an accidental reformat?
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commercial program SPINRITE claims to calculate the proper interleave
factor and reformat your drive in place (= doesn't destroy the data).
! 4.5) Can I use an RLL controller on my MFM drive?
As is often the case, the answer is "maybe". The likelihood that it
will work is good, but there are some older Seagate ST251s that just
won't. Proceed at your own risk.
! 4.6) Should I leave my PC turned on all the time? What about
mounting it sideways?
A record of these debates the last time they went around is
kept in my archives; consult the file "24hrs".
+ 4.7) How do I read an { Apple, Mac, Amiga, etc. } disk on my PC?
+
+ The quick answer is, ``You can't read Apple/Mac/Amiga disks
+ without special hardware.'' But all hope is not lost. You can
+ read PC disks from a Mac and an Amiga. An IBM PC can read
+ many kinds of CP/M disks with the proper software.
+
+ See the `convert' file in the archives for a more detailed
+ discussion of the hardware/software requirements.
+
+
CHAPTER 5: MISCELLANEOUS
5.1) How do I undelete a file? Recover from an accidental reformat?
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You can also send requests to my email server to search through the
index for a word or phrase.
-
5.3) What about GIF images? How do I view a GIF image?
Archives for GIF images come and go (mostly go).
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PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL>SETENVJW.ARC for an example. (There are other
programs on SIMTEL20 that claim to do roughly the same thing as this.)
- 5.6) How do I install a new version of DOS on my hard drive?
-
- In principle, you should be able to boot off a floppy containing the
- new version and type "SYS C:". Then copy COMMAND.COM and all the
- other DOS programs (like CHKDSK.COM) to your hard disk.
- Unfortunately, this doesn't always work.
-
- Although you could poke around and try to install the new
- version manually, it's too complicated to go into. Most people
- recommend a procedure similar to the following:
-
- [0] Uninstall any copy-protected software that's on your hard drive.
- [1] Back up your hard drive (twice, to be extra sure), making sure to
- use a file-by-file backup and not an image backup. Verify your
- backup.
- [2] Optionally, perform a low-level reformat of the hard disk.
- [3] Boot off a floppy containing the new version and install DOS just
- like it was a brand new machine.
- [4] Restore all the files from your backup and verify the restoration.
- [5] If you have a nonstandard SHELL= line in your CONFIG.SYS, make sure
- it's set up properly for the new DOS version. (For example, different
- versions interpret the /E option differently.)
-
-
APPENDIX A: ANSWERS TO MORE QUESTIONS and AVAILABILITY OF THIS FILE
The archives I keep mentioning in this document are available
for anonymous ftp (question 1.1) from math.princeton.edu[128.112.128.157]
in the directory pub/rjc/csip. The files are compressed via
! the UNIX "compress" program (see question 1.3). The file "directory"
! describes the contents of the directory.
People who cannot ftp can request the files via email. Before sending
mail to the server, make sure you are using the instructions from the
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PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL>SETENVJW.ARC for an example. (There are other
programs on SIMTEL20 that claim to do roughly the same thing as this.)
APPENDIX A: ANSWERS TO MORE QUESTIONS and AVAILABILITY OF THIS FILE
The archives I keep mentioning in this document are available
for anonymous ftp (question 1.1) from math.princeton.edu[128.112.128.157]
in the directory pub/rjc/csip. The files are compressed via
! the UNIX "compress" program (see question 1.3).
People who cannot ftp can request the files via email. Before sending
mail to the server, make sure you are using the instructions from the
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The email server also looks up programs in the SIMTEL20 index,
the grape index, and the garbo index. (So you have no excuse
for not looking in these indexes before posting a request.)
+
+ You may have noticed that several mail-based archive servers have
+ been mentioned in this file, and no two of them are alike! Please
+ make sure to follow the correct set of instructions for the server
+ in question.
APPENDIX B: OTHER SOURCES OF ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY-ASKED QUESTIONS