raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) (03/24/91)
The `old.questions' file is one year old. For those who don't know,
the file is a quick index to every interesting question posted to
comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc and related newsgroups since roughly one year ago
today, except for articles which discuss particular hardware vendors.
It's somewhat astonishing how frequently some questions keep
reappearing. The most common one seems to be on the subject of `Can I
read an XYZ disk on an IBM PC?', with grammar checkers and
vaguely-formed requests for screen blankers running a close second and
third. (People who ask for screen blankers rarely state the hardware
configuration they have, so all you can do is wave your hands and say
`Yea, it can be done...')
# Last updated 23-Mar-1991
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S: 132-column VT100/220 emulator
Q: bruce@idsssd.UUCP (Bruce T. Harvey) 21 May 90
S: 132-column video on PS/2 Model 50
Q: wmleung@rose.waterloo.edu (Michael Leung) 28 Apr 90
S: 386SX adapters
R: dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) 9 Apr 90
Cumulus, 23500 Mercaantile Rd, Cleveland, OH 44122, (216)464-2211
S: 486 Assembler
Q: clong@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) 17 May 90
S: 8-bit boards in 16-bit slots, will it work?
Q: uflorida!haven!decuac!hadron!inco!jboggs (John Boggs) 21 Mar 90
S: 80286 Loadall instruction
Q: ctroup@ariel.unm.edu (Charles Troup) 8 May 90
>send email to obtain details.
S: 80x86 emulator, source code
Q: foss@iris.ucdavis.edu (Jim Alves-Foss) 11 Apr 90
S: Accounting Software
Q: GTI@psuvm.psu.edu 12 May 90
Q: anthonjw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Jason W. Anthony) [Peachtree] 25 Apr 90
R: jbvb@ftp.COM (James Van Bokkelen) [Peachtree] 1 May 90
S: Alias facility for MS-DOS
Q: phuocle@skat.usc.edu (Christopher Le) 23 Jan 91
R: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) 23 Jan 91
>Anarkey: hsitory, line editing, aliases. Shareware, $20-$30
>4DOS: command.com replacement, Shareware $50
>MKS Toolkit: UNIX-like ksh shell, Commercial $250.
R: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) 23 Jan 91
>CED by Chris Dunford. Available at SIMTEL20 and elsewhere.
>CED is one of my all-time favorite DOS Freeware programs. It is Excellent.
R: phil@cs.mcgill.ca (Philip LOCONG) 23 Jan 91
>4DOS
R: belt@freyr.pttrnl.nl (Evert van de Belt) 23 Jan 91
>I'm using 4DOS with aliases. It's great.
R: thoger@solan.unit.no (Terje Th|gersen) 23 Jan 91
>CMDEDIT (PC-Magazine). Almost a "tcsh" for dos: aliases, file name completion,
> pusd/popd etc, etc..
>CED: The best until CMDEDIT came along, in my opinion.
>COMMANDO: Cute, uses less mem, buggy. Has file name completion.
>ALIAS: Also by PC magazine. Limited.
>All programs found on simtel / wustl.
R: mikek@col.hp.com (Mike Karin) 23 Jan 91
>ALIAS from PC Magazine (12/26/89). PD1:<MSDOS.PCMAG>VOL8N22.ARC
R: roeve@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Roevenich) 28 Jan 91
>4DOS has aliases and a lot more. I use it all the time.
R: joee@cabezon.uucp (Joe Eckardt) 24 Jan 91
>DOSEDIT provides alias support as a secondary feature. Works great.
R: halcyon!ralphs@sumax.seattleu.edu (Ralph Sims) 23 Jan 91
>4DOS provdies aliases, command-line editing, environment manipulations,
>and much more.
R: jackm@agcsun.UUCP (Jack Morrison) 28 Jan 91
>UNCLE (unix-like command line editor) includes aliases (static only),
>and many csh-type history functions besides command line editing.
>I wrote it years ago, and use it constantly. It's even free.
R: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) 30 Jan 91
>I use DOSEDIT all the time, but it doesn't handle extended ASCII characters.
S: Anagram maker
R: mikem@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Mike Morton) 28 Oct 90
>Ars Magna (tm) is an anagram generator available for both the PC and Mac.
>For the PC version send $3.99 to: BCS IBM PC User's Group, Software Exchange,
>385 Eliot Street, Newton, MA 02164. Price includes tax, shipping, handling.
>Checks to BOSTON COMPUTER SOCIETY. I think it's only on 5 1/4-inch disk.
S: ANSI.SYS commands
Q: hrbaan@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Hayo Baan) 2 May 90
Q: mregeste@amo.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mark Regester) 28 Nov 90
S: APL Interpreter
Q: osu-cis!sppy00!nab (BELAIR NEAL A.) 16 May 90
S: Apple ][ emulator
Q: avolk@juliet.caltech.edu (Volk, Andrew Robert) 5 Mar 91
R: RMC100@psuvm.psu.edu (Randy Carraghan) 6 Mar 91
>APL2EM by Randy Spurlock from wuarchive.wustl.edu. (Haven't played with it.)
Q: cs497ccm@iitmax.iit.edu (Carl C. Merrill) 6 Mar 91
R: fordke@infonode.ingr.com (Keith Ford) 7 Mar 91
>If you would like an Apple //e co-processor for an IBM pc machine,
>I can send you some info. I have a Trackstar board selling @ $200.
S: Apple Talk on PC
Q: wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape) 4 Jun 90
S: Application switcher
Q: gavin@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Gavin C. H. Zau) 12 Jun 90
S: ARC, ZOO, ZIP source code availability?
R: uunet!sdrc!scjones (Larry Jones) 23 Apr 90
>ARC: System Enhancement Associates, 21 New St, Wayne, NJ 07470.
> 201-473-5153 or call their BBS at 201-473-1991.
>ZIP: PKWARE, 7545 North Port Washington Rd, Suite 205, Glendale, WI 53217
> 414-352-3670 or call their BBS at 414-352-7176.
>ZOO: Sources available at archive sites.
S: ATI Wonder VGA and 256 colors (summary)
R: uunet!psivax!torkil (Torkil Hammer) 3 May 90
S: ATI Wonder drivers
Q: tt3x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Bobby Li) [summary] 7 Apr 90
>Can be obtained from ATI. See `contact' file.
S: AutoCAD
Q: uunet!van-bc!oneb!kmcvay (Ken McVay) 2 May 90
S: AutoCAD, exporting schematic to other CAD programs
Q: brand@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Graham Brand) 26 Mar 90
S: Background communications program
R: dale@mks.com (Dale Gass) 16 May 90
>DGTERM2.0 is coming soon.
Q: cs162fbt@sdcc7.ucsd.edu (Gary) 15 Oct 90
S: Backup programs
Q: terry@math.ucla.edu (Terence J. McKiernan) 30 Apr 90
Q: don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) [looking for PD] 10 May 90
R: mstupak@mentor.com (Mike Stupak) [summary] 1 Jun 90
R: Doug.Marshall@SanDiego.NCR.COM (Doug Marshall)
>I've been using BackIt. I THINK it goes for ~$50. From Gazelle Systems.
R: dkyoon@priam.usc.edu (Dae-kyun Yoon)
>I use "fullbak" or "pctools delux". Both do compression.
R: chao@ocf.berkeley.edu [PC Tools]
R: byronl@techbook.com (Byron Lunz) [PC Tools]
>I'm quite impressed.
R: todd@uhccux.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU (Todd Ogasawara) [PC Tools Deluxe]
>A real bargain.
R: jm21@prism.gatech.edu (Jim Marks) [FastBack+]
>Isn't real cheap, but it's a good way to go. Easy and fast.
R: kperson@plains.nodak.edu (Kerry Person) [FastBack+]
>Very user friendly. Does everything I need it to do.
R: barron@wharton.upenn.edu (Daniel Barron) [FastBack+]
>Very nice. Does compression. Very flexible. I've found it to be reliable.
S: Bar codes
Q: lbilccss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Bilker) 16 Mar 90
R: mips!prls!facv01!gordon 30 Mar 90
>Many of them can be found in magazines like PC World.
Q: peter@AcadiaU.CA (Peter Steele) [for HP LaserJet] 10 Apr 90
R: rose@sunset.sedd.trw.com [summary] 15 Aug 90
S: BASIC compilers, recommendations
Q: DN6A1004@TWNMOE10.BITNET (Hsin Chi)
R: rutgers!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown (Michael Brown) 7 Jul 90
>Microsoft QuickBASIC, version 4.5, around $70
S: BASIC interpreter or compiler
Q: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) 26 Apr 90
S: BASIC to C translator
Q: sorenr@daimi.dk (Soren Rehne) 16 May 90
R: unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu (David Bank) 17 May 90
>Write to: Gotoless Conversion, P.O. Box 50068, Denton, TX 76206 USA
>Phone: (214) 221-0383. Their program "BAS_C" costs $375, demo available
>for $35, "Economy Model" for $200.
Q: majid@cs.city.ac.uk (Majid Mirmehdi) 23 Jul 90
Q: morgan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Dylan Kaufman) 8 Oct 90
Q: stx1077@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Michael Jackson) 28 Jan 91
S: Beep, changing
Q: ewagar@crash.cts.com (Eric Wagar) 5 May 90
S: BGI driver
R: cross%astroatc.uucp@cs.wisc.edu (Chuck Cross) [printers/plotters] 22 Mar 90
>Fleming Software, P.O. Box 528, Oakton, VA 22124. (703) 591-6451
Q: nyenhuis@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (G. Nijenhuis) [HP plotter] 4 Apr 90
Q: jimm@gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com (Jim Michener) [Enhanced VGA] 6 Apr 90
Q: uunet!psivax!torkil (Torkil Hammer) [ATI Wonder VGA] 11 Apr 90
R: JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu (Jeff Siegel) [ATT DEB] 14 Apr 90
>I started making a BGI driver for the ATT DEB card. It's not fully complete.
>If anybody would like of copy of the driver, e-mail me.
Q: wsinrn@lso.win.tue.nl (Rob J. Nauta) [Platronics] 14 Apr 90
Q: wisch@thp.uni-koeln.de (Hans-Alois Wischmann) [Epson FX printer] 16 Aug 90
Q: gt1777b@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Todd Smith) [ATI Wonder VGA] 17 Apr 90
R: sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch (Rainer Sinkwitz) [TRUEVISION ATVista Board] 17 Apr 90
Q: johns@cs.umr.edu (John Stone) [Video Seven VRAM] 24 Apr 90
Q: msschaa@cs.vu.nl (Michael Schaap) [Video Seven Vram VGA] 8 May 90
Q: 2fjhsave@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu [Tandy 1000TL] 13 May 90
Q: flores@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Roger S. Flores) [ATI Wonder VGA] 15 May 90
Q: chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) [ATI Graphics Solution] 27 Apr 90
Q: arsen@itstd.sri.com (Tom Arseneault) [Orchid ProDesigner II SuperVGA 1024x768/256] 10 Jul 90
R: jh5y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jordan Hargrave) [SuperVGA] 21 Oct 90
>[Has written a SuperVGA BGI driver.]
>Cards supported: Ahead, ATI, C&T, Everex, Paradise, Trident Tseng, Video7.
>Modes supported: 320x200x256 Standard VGA
> 640x400x256,640x480x256,800x600x256 SuperVGA
>ftp grape.ecs.clarkson.edu, file /pub/msdos/uploads/svgabgi.zip (Version 1.2)
Q: zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou) [Tandy Graphics Adaptor] 11 Nov 90
Q: andrewsh@lonexc.radc.af.mil (Harold G. Andrews II) [TIGA/DGIS] 11 Dec 90
R: bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine) 13 Dec 90
>Borland's VGA256.BGI is available from CompuServe.
>I have also seen it on SIMTEL in PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND>VGA256.ARC (I *THINK*).
Q: emigh@ncsugn.ncsu.edu (Ted H. Emigh) [printers] 23 Jan 91
R: dubner@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Joe Dubner) [printers] 24 Jan 91
>Graf/Drive Plus sounds like just what you're looking for -- it supports
>printers (and plotters) in both Turbo C and Turbo Pascal.
>Fleming Software, PO Box 528, Oakton, VA 22124, telephone (703) 591-6451.
R: frank@cavebbs.gen.nz (Frank van der Hulst) 25 Jan 91
>I'm currently working on just such a package [BGI support library for printers].
>I have most of it working. My approach so far has been to *not* use the BGI
>interface, but to write a set of similar routines which output to the printer
>rather than the screen.
>I will post a message here when its all done.
R: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) [printers/plotters] 28 Jan 91
>Fleming Software's Grafdrive supports Epson-compatible matrix printers,
>HP-compatible laser printers, Postscript printers, color printers & plotters
>and more...
Q: atariman@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Jeff Scott) [SuperVGA] 31 Jan 91
R: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) [general] 2 Feb 91
>BGVGA256.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND> BGI driver for VGA 320x200 256 color mode
>ET3BGI.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND> BGI driver for Tseng ET3000 SVGA cards
>SVGABG15.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.BORLAND> Multi-mode SuperVGA BGI driver
S: BGI toolkit
R: cms2839@ritvax.bitnet (C.M. Stuntz) 28 Mar 90
>If you send Borland a blank floppy, they'll send it back with their
>BGI developer's toolkit on it.
S: BinHex for PC
Q: rspangle@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Randy Spangler) 25 Apr 90
R: a0045@RRZ.UNI-KOELN.DE (Jochen Roderburg) 28 Apr 90
>I have uploaded to SIMTEL20 pd1:<msdos.mac>XBIN23.ZIP
S: Binary file editor
Q: jmbj@grebyn.com (Jim Bittman) 23 Apr 90
Q: jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu 26 Jan 91
R: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) 26 Jan 91
>pc/pd2/fed153.zip is the best binary editor that I have come across, so far.
S: BIOS, calling from QuickBASIC
Q: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) 26 Apr 90
S: Boot from drive B:
Q: wallwey@boulder.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM) 22 Jun 90
Q: ejost@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Ernest J. Obusek) 11 Jul 90
R: v081nhdb@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Nina Banerjee) 20 Jul 90
R: richard@smosjc.UUCP (Richard Asano) 20 Jul 90
>Reprinted from PC Magazine, April 10, 1990:
>B: Boot! ($20+$2 shipping) YWSoft, PO Box 2231, Bloomington, IN 47401;
>(812) 857-4772). You stick the B:Boot! disk into drive A: and bootable DOS
>diskette into drive B: and reboot the computer. B:Boot! forces the machine
>to boot from the B: drvie, and from then on the machine recognizes the two
>drives as reversed.
Q: jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) 21 Feb 91
S: Braille printing
Q: besner@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Ken Seergobin) 28 Nov 90
S: CAD software, recommendations
Q: hansen@cs.odu.edu (James Hansen) 27 Mar 90
S: Calendar program for Windows
Q: tomc@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Thomas S Clark) 20 Apr 90
S: CGA, emulating with Hercules
R: merx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu 22 Jan 91
>On SIMTEL20, <MSDOS.SCREEN> directory:
> CGA.ARC - my favorite.
> SIMCGA40.ARC - works, but needs ANSI installed.
> HGCIB202.ARC - I tried this with GWBASIC; it worked.
S: Chinese Chess game
Q: luongt@tekig6.PEN.TEK.COM (Luong Tran) 4 Apr 90
S: CHKDSK's "Probably Non-DOS disk" message
Q: jjwavrik@ucsd.edu (john wavrik) 30 Apr 90
Q: banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Wailin' Through The Nets) 3 Jun 90
R: cjp@beartrk.beartrack.com (CJ Pilzer) 1 Jul 90
>A report of a PROBABLE NON-DOS PARTITION is almost always an indication
>that the media descriptor byte of the partition or disk is corrupted.
>This byte is located in three places on your disk:
>
> Sector 0, Offset 21 of the Boot Record
> Sector 1, Offset 0 of the FAT 1
> Offset 0 in the 1st sector of FAT 2
>
>This byte should be hex F8 for a hard disk. You can fix this with several
>utilities such as the Norton Utilities. Full instructions are included on
>page 108 of the Norton Troubleshooter, a pamphlet included with the Norton
>Utilities. You could of course use any other sector editor.
>
>However, you really want to know what caused this problem to avoid any more
>serious damage to your data. One way to do this is to fix the corrupted
>byte. Then keep a record of what you are doing between reasonably often
>runs of CHKDSK. If you get the error message again, you know that it was
>caused by something that occurred between that run and the last clear run
>of CHKDSK.
S: Clip Art for First Publisher
Q: uunet!motcid!henley (Aaron Henley) 20 Apr 90
S: Clipper 5.0
Q: frankt@cs.eur.nl (Frank van Tol) 10 May 90
S: Clone Keyboard Survey
Q: brantley@cerritos.edu (Douglas Brantley) 26 Mar 90
S: COBOL compiler
Q: rde@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager) 16 Oct 90
S: CodeBASE
R: wcf@hcx.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) 28 Mar 90
>I like it a lot. Send mail if you want any code samples.
S: Comic book/strip publishing/layout software
R: georgen@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (G. Ng) [summary] 6 May 90
S: Compaticard IV, comments
Q: wcurtiss%x102c@ess.harris.com (Curtiss WC 67625) 22 Mar 90
S: Computers for handicapped, visually impaired
Q: nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson) 10 Apr 90
S: Condensed screen driver for Quattro
Q: rshipper@pyramid.com (Ronald Shipper) 21 Apr 90
S: Conditional CONFIG.SYS
R: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) 10 May 90
>Look at PC Magazine's CONFIG.CTL. It's a device driver that lets
>you modify your config.sys from the keyboard.
R: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) 10 May 90
>Simtel has one or two programs that claim to do this.
S: Connecting two PC's
Q: uunet!actnyc!jeff (Jeffrey Poretsky) 29 Mar 90
R: crmeyer@voodoo.ucsb.edu 7 May 90
>"The $25 Network" connects 2 or 3 PC's via serial ports for 115Kbaud transfers.
>Information Modes, P.O. Drawer F, Denton, TX 76202. (800)628-7992 to order,
>(817) 387-3339 for tech support
R: cohend@dg-rtp.dg.com (Dave Cohen) 10 May 90
>I just downloaded a shareware product called ZIP143
>(not to be confused with PKZIP!) that does this.
R: uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fylz!fyl (Phil Hughes) 10 Jul 90
>Has the $25 network.
R: craig@mstr.hgc.edu (craig chaiken) [author of BP-LAN] 23 Jul 90
>Up to 16 simultaneous users are supported by BP-LAN ($40), which comes with
>a tutorial and source code. An ARCNET version of BP-LAN (up to 255 computers)
>should be available in September.
Q: hydrox@itsgw.rpi.edu (Michael A. Hendrix) [$25 network] 16 Jan 91
R: bchen@wpi.WPI.EDU (Bi Chen) 16 Jan 91
>I used [$25 Network] before in my lab. It is well designed for poor man
>as a cheaper and easier replacement for switch box.
Q: rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) [Little Big Lan] 8 Jan 91
S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> Amiga
Q: hz241pi@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Andreas Pietras) 15 Feb 91
Q: wsineel@win.tue.nl (Eelco Vriezekolk) 18 Feb 91
R: jap@convex.cl.msu.edu (Joe Porkka) 18 Feb 91
>I doubt that it is physically possible to read Amiga disks on an IBM.
>The Amiga floppy controller in custom.
>As for the reverse direction, you can run on the Amiga either
>CrossDos (Commercial) or MessyDisk (or Messydos?) (PD/shareware)
S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> Apple // series
Q: tony4@stretch.cs.mun.ca (Anthony H. Galway) 17 Mar 90
Q: v097pba8@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Ken F Morton) 2 May 90
R: fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford) 7 May 90
>A board called the Trackstar. I'll be glad to send you info.
Q: rep@odin.icd.ab.com (Robert E. Pappenhagen) 29 Jun 90
R: fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford) 2 Jul 90
>The Trackstar board would do it for you. If you would like more info,
>I can send it to you.
R: drp@vpnet.chi.il.us (Douglas Pokorny) 20 Jul 90
>The Central Point Software options board lets you read Apple disks.
R: pitonyak@navajo.cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Pitonyak) 28 Jul 90
>Beware that the Central Point board supports only 800K disks.
R: akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) 25 Jul 90
>Micro Solutions, DeKlab Illinios makes a card that sits between the
>original floppy drive card and the floppy drive, and allows the floppy
>to read and write Apple II disks.
> [ Also, don't forget that Macs with FDHD drives can use Apple File
> Exchange to convert the data. ]
Q: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (Kurt Tappe) 25 Oct 90
Q: johnk@cygnus.la.locus.com (JOHN KIM) 5 Dec 90
R: berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger) 10 Jan 91
>Central Point Systems Copy II PC Options Board
Q: miyaoka@afcsa.af.mil (Les Miyaoka) 8 Feb 91
Q: jwm712@unhd.unh.edu (Jonathan W Miner) [followup promised] 21 Feb 91
R: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell) 25 Feb 91
>There is an apple mac drive that reads MS-DOS 3.5" disks.
R: fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford) 25 Feb 91
>I have two new Trackstar boards that plug into your pc and give you complete
>Apple //e coprocessing abilities. More info available upon request.
R: SRPDBRS@trev.dsir.govt.nz (Bruce Sinclair) 8 Mar 91
>The PC transporter ($400) plugs into your apple II to downgrade it to
>an IBM style machine. You do (I think) need extra floppy drives however.
S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> C64/C128
Q: zavdi@ctt.bellcore.com (Zavdi Lichtman) 14 Mar 90
R: srt@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Scott Turner) 8 May 90
>C64 uses a different encoding scheme that cannot be read by a PC.
>Alternatives: (1) use a modem connection and (2) use a C128, a 1571
>drive, and a program called Big Blue Reader.
R: hau@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Robert Piskac) 9 May 90
>I have a C64 with a 1581, 1571 disk drive. I have no problems
>converting from IBM to CBM or CBM to IBM format.
R: mfrohman@digi.lonestar.org (Matthew Frohman) 10 May 90
>The Commodore 1571 disk drive (double sided drive) has the ability to
>recognize over 150 different disk formats. I found a program that
>will read an write to a disk that has been formatted on an IBM.
R: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) 30 Aug 90
>[Big Blue Reader] requires either a 1571 or 1581 disk drive.
>(It WILL NOT work with the 1541.)
R: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) 31 Aug 90
>[Big Blue Reader has] 2 versions, one for the 64 and one for the 128.
Q: zoroaster@oak.circa.ufl.edu 22 Jan 91
Q: w165045@rosie.ucdavis.edu 19 Feb 91
R: krey@i30fs1.ira.uka.de (Andreas Krey) 19 Feb 91
>IBM disk drives can only read FM/MFM. Commodore's formats require special
>designs. You can read IBM from C128, though.
R: mark@urz.unibas.ch (G. Mark) 21 Feb 91
>There exist a package for PC consisting of a special cable and
>program. With this package you can connect your PC to a VC-1541 (C64)
>disc drive. One end of the cable goes to the PC parallel port other end goes
>to the VC-1541 (C64) disc serial port. The program reads/writes C64 discs.
S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> Coleco Adam
Q: asw@mbunix.mitre.org (Wong) 19 Jun 90
S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> CP/M
R: broy@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Barbara Roy) 4 May 90
>UNIFORM converts in either direction. Micro Solutions,
>125 South 4th St, Dekalb, Illinois 60115. (815)756-3411.
Q: gcw20877@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George Wang) [Epson CP/M80] 29 Jan 91
S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> DEC Rainbow RX50
Q: MAUKONEN@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu (Chris Maukonen) 21 Jun 90
S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> HP (9153)
Q: paz@mlb.dmt.csiro.au (Paul Zemancheff) 21 Oct 90
R: dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low) 22 Oct 90
> FILE/SWAP-PC from: A Gentle Wind, 186 Partridge St, Albany, NY 12203; 518-482-9023
> Oswego Software, 507 North Adams, Oswego, Illinois 60543, 312-554-3567
S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> Macintosh
R: akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) 25 Jul 90
>Micro Solutions, DeKlab Illinios makes a card that lets you connect
>a standard Mac drive, and you can then read and write mac disks on a pc.
Q: bpm@psuecl.bitnet 6 Sep 90
R: dsew@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (David Sewell) 6 Sep 90
>Deluxe Option Board, from Central Point Software allows you to read and
>write Mac formatted disks, and has software for file translation.
>1-800-888-8199.
R: royce@scor_az.resp-sci.arizona.edu (Royce Robbins) 6 Sep 90
>Micro Solutions, Inc. 132 West Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb, IL 60115 (815) 756-3411
>makes a board/software/drive combination that would be an external drive to
>your existing system.
R: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) 7 Sep 90
>[Deluxe Option Board] will read/write Mac 800k disks, but not 1.44.
>If you have a Mac with the 1.44 Superdrives, you can get an init called
>DOS Mounter which supposedly allows you to insert a PC DOS disk and use
>it just as if it were a Mac disk.
>[See also the Apple File Exchange program that comes with your Mac.]
>Failing that, there is a program by Data Viz called MacLink Plus.
R: justinlh@idsvax.ids.com (Justin Langseth) 9 Sep 90
>You need the Copy II PC Option Board.
R: dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) 9 Jan 91
>Central Point Software's COPY II PC Deluxe Option Board can read and
>write 800K (and 400K I think) MAC disks using the PC's 3.5" drive.
R: garrison@zodiac.rutgers.edu [summary] 10 Jan 91
>Apple File Exchange (AFE) comes free with all new Macs; you need a SuperDrive.
>DOS Mounter (Dayna Design) mounts PC disks directly to the desktop.
> IBM disks look just like Macs with directories turned into folders etc.
> a working demo version of the program is on vega.hut.fi (FREE!!).
>PC Access: sounds similar to DOS Mounter (but costs money).
>MacLink Plus: translates application formats for AFE.
>DataViz ($135) translates loads of stuff.
>
>COPY-II-CARD (Central Point) driver/controller package ($120). Expensive
> but nice. Does more than just read Mac disks.
R: pwilliam@axion.bt.co.uk (Philip Williams) 14 Jan 91
>I use dyna file; it plugs into the SCSI drive and makes
>IBM disks appear on the Mac desktop. works just fine...
Q: sland@motcid.UUCP (Stephen Shortland) 28 Jan 91
Q: pgt@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Paul G. Tobin) 21 Feb 91
S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> Sinclair Spectrum
Q: p515dfi@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Daniel Fischer) 9 May 90
S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> TRS-80 Model I
Q: rwolkoys@megatek.UUCP (Ron Wolkoys) 14 Jan 91
S: Converting disks MS-DOS <-> whatever
Q: uunet!frith!upba!tssi!nolan (Michael Nolan) 9 May 90
>Try XenoCopy-PC from XENOSOFT, 2210 Sixth Street, Berkeley CA
>94710-2210, (415) 644-9366
S: Converting files, HP Laser -> Postscript
Q: peter.schmitt@dartmouth.edu (Pete Schmitt) 29 Mar 90
Q: Murky@cup.portal.com (Gary A Murakami) 31 May 90
Q: pcolmer@acorn.co.uk (Philip Colmer) 18 Jun 90
R: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) 28 Jun 90
>The commercial product Hijaak from Inset systems will convert HP PCL
>to PostScript. BUT it really only supports the PCL graphics stuff.
>It fails on font stuff.
R: lishka@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu (Chris Lishka) 3 Jul 90
>"lj2ps", a program to do this, was posted to comp.sources.misc
>Volume 13, 12 parts.
>
>lj2ps is able to convert a subset of LaserJet PCL 4 that includes page
>motion, page setup, primary font selection, and text. It is not able
>to do macros, position stack commands, graphics (bitmap or
>patterns/grayscale), or downloadable fonts. However, the scanner
>*does* recognize all of the PCL 4 commands, and I have added many
>hooks for the unimplemented commands. Therefore, it should not be
>too difficult to add in the features you need.
Q: cjwein@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Chris J. Wein) 10 Jan 91
R: nelson@zeus.mgmt.purdue.edu (J. Nelson Howell) 14 Feb 91
>hpgl2ps can be ftp'd from midas.mgmt.purdue.edu (128.210.1.3).
>Also from swedishchef.lerc.nasa.gov [139.88.54.33]
>in pub/image/conversion/hpgl2ps.tar.Z
S: Converting files, graphics formats
Q: kgordon@porthos.rutgers.edu (Ken Gordon) [TIFF->CGM] 12 Feb 91
S: Converting files, word processor documents
R: leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis) 19 Apr 90
>The program "Word for Word" converts almost all thinkable word
>processor formats to one another. We have found it pretty reliable and
>fully featured. Has a way to add support for word processors not
>already supported. The publishers are Design Software Inc., 1275 West
>Roosevelt Road, West Chicago, IL 60185.
Q: {rutgers,ames,uunet}!mimsy!woodb!tkevans (Tim Evans) [RWORD->WP] 23 Apr 90
Q: amara@delta.inria.fr (Fethi Amara) [Word5.0->WP or TeX] 11 Apr 90
S: Copying and deleting entire directory trees
Q: MSR113@psuvm.psu.edu (Matthew Starr Richmond) 19 Apr 90
R: pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) 19 Apr 90
>The XCOPY command (that comes with MS-DOS) will copy subdirectory trees.
>To delete subdirectory trees, there are various programs on SIMTEL.
S: Crossword generator
Q: deen@romulus.rutgers.edu (Cinnamon Raisin) 12 Jan 91
R: vandevek@fergvax.unl.edu (James M. VandeVegt) 28 Jan 91
>I also have one for Windows 3.0. If someone would like it, send
>personal email and I will send a zipped uuencoded file.
R: hartr@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Dave Roberts) 18 Jan 91
>Crossword Creator 4.0 from PC-Helpline \
>XWORD 2.1 and Crossword puzzle assistant / both are shareware
S: Curses library for MS-DOS
R: psfales@cbnewsc.att.com (Peter Fales) 29 Jan 91
>I have been using PC-Curses 1.4 and have found it excellent.
R: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle) 28 Jan 91
>DCURSES2.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> Unix Curses window lib for MSDOS (MSC & TC)
>PCCURS14.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> Unix-compatible version of Curses screen mgmt
>PCURSES.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> Unix compatible version of Curses screen mgmt
S: Cyrix 83D87 numeric coprocessor
Q: terence@ttidca.TTI.COM (Terence Davis) 24 Apr 90
S: Defragmenter
R: Jono_Moore@mindlink.UUCP (Jono Moore) 25 Feb 91
>DOG206 (or thereabouts) is a good one on SIMTEL20, though it doesn't
>handle DOS4.01.
R: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle) 26 Feb 91
>DOG206.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.DSKUTL> DiskOrGanizer v2.06 disk defragmentizer
>REFORM12.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.DSKUTL> Disk defragmenter [Turbo Pas src]
>REFORM15.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.DSKUTL> Defragment your hard disk
>REFORM16.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.DSKUTL> Disk defragmenter with TurboPascal v5.0 source
>SST201.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.DSKUTL> Hard disk de-fragmentizer. Careful!
R: reeses@milton.u.washington.edu (Feltch Master) 28 Feb 91
>msdos.archive.umich.edu has optune.arc in their msdos/disk directory. It
>works with dos 4.01.
S: Desktop publishing
Q: cmm1@CUNIXA.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Christopher M Mauritz) 3 Mar 90
Q: hp4nl.nluug.nl!hp4nl!ktibv!ml (Marinko Laban) 15 Mar 90
Q: wngai@paris.ics.uci.edu (Wayne Ngai) 17 Apr 90
R: uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl (Phil Hughes) 19 Apr 90
>Comments on Ventura, PageStream, troff.
S: DESQview, comments
Q: tac@sei.cmu.edu (Timothy Coddington) 7 Apr 90
>The February 28, 1989 issue of PC MAGAZINE compares DESQview 386, MS
>Windows 386, PC-MOS/386, VM/386, and Concurrent DOS 386. It also
>mentions non-386 versions of some of these.
S: Determining CPU from a program
>See Timo Salmi's Frequently Asked Questions
Q: grandin@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Keith Grandin) 11 Apr 90
Q: sverrehu@ifi.uio.no (Sverre Holmsen Huseby) 18 Apr 90
R: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) 20 Apr 90
>I think Dr. Dobbs Toolbook of 80286/80386 Programming has code for it.
Q: arasmith@mathcs.emory.edu (David Arasmith) 5 Oct 90
S: Dictionary, French
Q: grega@hpcuhd.HP.COM (Number 6) 26 Oct 90
R: userDHAL@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (David Halliwell) 28 Oct 90
>WordPerfect has one.
R: fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin) 29 Oct 90
>Many of the major word processing packages have French dictionaries.
S: Dictionary, rhyming
Q: joel@peora.ccur.com (Joel Upchurch) 13 Apr 90
>The program should either be a TSR or run under Microsoft Windows.
R: mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow)
>Selective Software (800 423 3556) has a rhyming dictionary and poetry
>writing tool called Verse Perfect ($90).
S: Dictionary, specialized
Q: casey@well.sf.ca.us (Kathleen Creighton) [chemistry] 6 Apr 90
Q: dpb@philabs.philips.com (Paul Benjamin) [medicine] 29 May 90
R: RR.PPE@forsythe.stanford.edu 30 May 90
>Reference Software in San Francisco makes specialized dictionaries.
Q: gardner@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Mike Gardner) [medicine] 19 Jan 91
R: ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ed Russell) [medicine, law] 22 Jan 91
>I have a flyer from 1988 for Stedman's Medical Dictionary for PCs from
>Reference Software, 330 Townsend Street, Suite 131, San Francisco, CA 94107.
>(The same company also advertised Black's Law Dictionary". Phone number on
>the flyer is 800 872 9933.
R: hooverm@sysjj.mdcbbs.com [medicine] 23 Jan 91
>Both are basically spell checkers priced at just under $70.00 US.
>Editor's Choice (800) 641-1116
>Alki Software (800) 669-9673
S: Disabling A: and B:
Q: chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Behrens) 20 Nov 90
R: devolder@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Eric DeVolder) 26 Nov 90
>I wrote it this weekend.
S: Disassembler
Q: mdhardin@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Matthew D. Harding) 7 Apr 90
Q: TTH102@psuvm.psu.edu (Thomas Hand) 11 Apr 90
R: rick@NRC.COM (Rick Wagner) 12 Apr 90
>I have used Sourcer, by V Communications.
R: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Aiyagari) 13 Apr 90
>Sourcer from V Communications.
R: ALEECLEM@ucs.UAlberta.CA 18 Apr 90
>Phone and address for "Sourcer" is (408) 296-4224;
>V Communications, 3031 Tisch Way, Suite 905, San Jose, CA 95128
R: psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) 15 Apr 90
>Version 1.32 of Dis86 supports the 8086, the V20, the 80286, and the
>80386, according to the Public Brand Software catalog (v. 6, #1).
>Their disk AL4.0 includes Dis86 1.32, AsmGen 2.01, and UAsm. They also
>have the A86 Assembler 3.19 (disk AL1.2), cross-assemblers, and the
>assembler source code for MS-Kermit 2.31 from Columbia University.
Q: uunet!edsews!rphroy!trux!car (Chris Rende) 11 May 90
R: lo@erebus.ucdavis.edu (Raymond Lo) [summary] 25 Oct 90
Q: smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Steve Smith) 22 Nov 90
S: Disk cache
Q: scholes@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (SCHOLES MARTIN LEE) 13 Apr 90
R: MICHELBI@oregon.uoregon.edu (Michel Biedermann)
>A subset of PC Kwik Power-Pak is included as part of PC Tools Deluxe 5.5.
R: eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu (Eugene Wang)
>PC Kwik Power-Pak from Multisoft, lauded by PC Magazine and others.
>The cache has reported no incompatibilities among major PC programs.
R: pnl@hpfinote.hp.com (Peter Lim)
>PC-Kwik is the most flexible and fastest, but be warned that it
>will not work with "embedded controller"s, like those Conner drives,
>IDE drive, etc.
R: stephen@hantsq.enet.dec.com (Stephen Wong) 13 Apr 90
>PC-Kwik is my favorite! It can use expanded or extended memory.
S: DMA tester
Q: sc155113@seas.gwu.edu (Timur Tabi) 2 May 90
S: Double-sided printing, feeding paper the second time
Q: dchun@aludra.usc.edu (Dale Chun) 10 Apr 90
R: casey@well.sf.ca.us (Kathleen Creighton) 11 Apr 90
>You'll ruin your printer doing this.
R: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) 12 Apr 90
>No you won't.
S: DPMI specifications
R: david@metapyr.UUCP (David Relson) 31 May 90
>DPMI (Dos Protected Mode Interface) is Microsoft's newest standard for
>multitasking, et al. Contact INTEL Literature Distribution (800) 548-4725.
S: Drawing programs which generates PostScript output
Q: dkyoon@priam.usc.edu (Dae-kyun Yoon) 14 Apr 90
S: Dvorak keyboard layout
Q: hwangbo@paul.rutgers.edu (Sungdae Hwangbo) 26 May 90
Q: djc4265@rouge.usl.edu (Darrin Chambers) 24 Oct 90
S: EGA, emulating with Hercules graphics card
Q: jharper@carina.unm.edu (Jeff) 19 Apr 90
Q: jharper@carina.unm.edu (Jeff) 2 May 90
S: EMS and Extended memory simultaneously
Q: BARTHELEMY-O@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Olivier Barthelemy) 2 Apr 90
R: bbesler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brent Besler) 2 Apr 90
>QEMM 386 has a command line option for it. Presumably
>386-to-the-Max and Windows 386 has a similar option.
S: EMS from C
Q: Andreas Lang <K573605%CZHRZU1A.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> [summary]
S: Erasing file with space in filename
Q: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) 8 May 90
>Use a wildcard that matches the file you want.
S: EXE compression
R: jguo@cs.NYU.EDU (Jun Guo) 9 Feb 91
>Dickford Cohn has an excellent article comparing different
>EXE/COM compressors. (The article is available from simtel as
>pd:<msdos.filutl>compfile.zip)
S: Executing a program at a specified time
Q: rutgers!bellcore!pyuxp!pyuxe!nvuxr!sma2 (Sam Agin) 20 Apr 90
S: Expanded memory emulators
Q: gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett)
D: 7 Mar 90
S: Expanded memory, emulating with extended memory
Q: AVIR@BGUVM.BITNET (Aviel Roy-Shapira) 9 Apr 90
Q: rth@dukee.egr.duke.edu (Randall Michio Takemoto-Hambleton) 18 Jun 90
R: rl@cbnewsl.att.com (roger.h.levy) 21 Jun 90
>There are a number of commercial packages.
>Or on SIMTEL20, pd1:<msdos.sysutl>ems40v11.arc
S: Expanded or extended memory, which to get?
Q: evans@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (Doug Evans) 11 Apr 90
S: Extended memory manager, which to use on a 386?
Q: MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu (Mark Solsman) 22 Mar 90
S: FASTOPEN or SMARTDRV, which is better?
Q: fordke@ingr.com (Keith Ford) 29 Mar 90
S: FAX boards
Q: gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett) 22 May 90
R: wdh1@ra.MsState.Edu (William D. Henry) 23 May 90
>I have had some very bad experiences with a DEST Fax board and scanner.
>I would recommend buying a Fax machine; the hassle of this card and its cost
>did not seem worth any benefits.
Q: spierk@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Kevin Spier) 20 Jun 90
Q: consult3@albnyvms.bitnet 5 Jul 90
S: File format, GL (GRASPRT.EXE)
Q: fong@sitcom.itstd.sri.com 11 May 90
S: File format, LIB
Q: amdahl!drivax!alexande (Mark Alexander) 27 Apr 90
S: File format, PCX
R: elliott@optilink.UUCP (Paul Elliott) 8 May 90
>Used by PC Paintbrush program, supported by ZSoft Corp.
>Zsoft has a BBS, download TECHREF.TXT -- this has the file format defined.
>The ZBBS phone number: 404-427-1045 and 404-424-3146 (300/1200/2400/9600PEP)
>I have a copy of TECHREF.TXT, and can email on request.
R: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gordon Hlavenka) 6 Jun 90
>Call ZSoft tech support (voice) at (404) 428-0008. They will send you
>(free!) the Technical Reference Manual for PC Paintbrush, including C code.
R: akcs.bagger@vpnet.chi.il.us (Brother Bagger) 8 Oct 90
>Write to Zsoft Corporation, 450 Franklin Rd. Suite 100, Marietta, GA 30067
>or call (404) 428-0008. The document is free and is promptly sent.
Q: sharik@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Harikrishnan Sundararaghavan) 22 Jan 91
R: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (gordon hlavenka) 13 Feb 91
>ZSoft Corporation, 450 Franklin Road, Suite 100, Marietta, GA 30067
>Voice: 1 (404) 428-0008, BBS: 1 (404) 427-1045
S: File format, PIC
Q: hench@lea.ncsu.edu (Stephen Hench) 23 Jul 90
Q: sharik@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Harikrishnan Sundararaghavan) 22 Jan 91
S: File format, TIFF
Q: am42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alexander Morris) 28 Jan 91
Q: bareesor@trillium.uwaterloo.ca (Barry Reesor) 13 Feb 91
S: File format, WordPerfect
R: ccastje@prism.gatech.EDU (John Adair) [summary] 1 May 90
>There is a is developer's kit available from WPCorp for about $75.
R: uunet!atexnet!pel (Paul Leclerc) 13 Jun 90
>Call WPCorp and ask for the 5.0 IBMPC version of the Developer's Toolkit.
>The cost is around $45.
S: File format, WPG
Q: jr@stretch.cs.mun.ca (John Rochester) 10 Dec 90
R: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) 11 Dec 90
>HIJAAK will import and export many formats, incl. WPG, EPS, Amiga IFF, etc
R: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) 14 Dec 90
>grafwk46.zip can convert .WPG to other file formats.
R: jwi@cbnewsj.att.com (Jim Winer) 12 Dec 90
>WordPerfect Developers Kit is $75 plus shipping. Includes
>file formats for all WordPerfect products and some utilities.
S: Filename completion
R: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) 14 Feb 91
>ANARKEY 3.0 (shareware) by Steve Calwas.
R: rsoft!mindlink!Bartholomew_Siemens@van-bc.UUCP (Bartholomew Siemens) 13 Feb 91
>4DOS.
R: jls@dynasoft.mn.org (John Stanley) 26 Feb 91
>Anarkey is a COMMAND.COM enhancement with filename completion and more.
Q: sb4@doc.ic.ac.uk (Simon Breeze) 6 Mar 91
S: Finance programs
Q: banshee@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Wailin' Through The Nets) 30 Apr 90
>Simple things -- 4-5 bank accounts, indexed expenditures, etc.
R: pitt!amanue!oglvee!norm (Norman Joseph) [Quicken] 1 May 90
R: lopes@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (alann lopes) 9 May 90
>Quicken is an excellent product!
S: Floppy disk, alignment
Q: jewett@mcnc.org (Rusty Jewett) 14 Mar 90
S: Floppy drives, overriding write protection
Q: alawlor@dit.ie (Aengus Lawlor) 5 Apr 90
S: Flowchart program
Q: gt0831c@prism.gatech.EDU (William Moss) 25 Jan 91
R: v087mxgb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Shawn E Thompson) 25 Jan 91
>I use EASYFLOW by Haven Tree Software quite often.
R: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List) 27 Jan 91
>I've seen Roykore's ABC Flowcharter.
>I've also used Micrografx' Charisma.
R: jackm@agcsun.UUCP (Jack Morrison) 28 Jan 91
>ROBOCHART is completely mouse-driven. $96 from
>Digital Insight, PO Box 2095, Evergreen, CO 80439, (303) 674-5232.
Q: mjducey@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Matthew J. Ducey) 4 Feb 91
R: gt0831c@prism.gatech.EDU (William Moss) [long summary] 1 Feb 91
>Products reviewed:
>ABC Flowcharter (Roykore $180); ALLCLEAR (Clear Software $299 1-617-232-9788);
>ddflow.zip (Shareware); Draft Choice (Shareware); EasyCase (Non-commercial
>distribution); EasyFlow (HavenTree Software Ltd.); Flow Chartin (Patton &
>Patton Software Co. 1-800-525-0082 x1802); RFFlow (RFF Electronics); Corel
>Draw 2.0; Micrografx Draw Plus 1.1 $180
S: Game archive sites
R: djna_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Douglas Nash) 15 Feb 91
>128.163.128.6 - f.ms.uky.edu
Q: hp0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hokkun Pang) 27 Feb 91
S: Game port adapter, programming
Q: mcnc!rti!tijc02!rdo031 (Rick Odle) 18 Apr 90
S: Genealogy programs
Q: linderd@merrimack.edu (Doug Linder) 2 Apr 90
>Genealogy programs can be found on hotel.cis.ksu.edu in the
>directory pub/PC/geneology
R: hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) [summary] 6 Mar 90
R: hessel@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Steve Hessel) 31 May 90
>I have used Personal Ancestral File (PAF) from the Church of Jesus Christ of
>Latter-Day Saints (The Mormons), 1-800-453-3860.
R: schrader@loligo.UUCP (David F. Schrader) 1 Jun 90
>PAF is one of the best I have seen.
R: robison@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Bob Robison) 2 Jun 90
>Brother's Keeper is PD1:<MSDOS.DATABASE>BK34??D?.ZIP on SIMTEL20.
Q: prisoner@pawl.rpi.edu (Allen S. Firstenberg) 7 Sep 90
R: macress@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Mark A Cress) 16 Dec 90
>There's a program called Family Tree Maker, about $50 and well worth the price.
R: wilson@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Bob Wilson) 7 Dec 90
>PAF costs $35.00 and is well documented. It can be ordered from
> Salt Lake Distribution Center
> 1999 West 1700 South
> Salt Lake City, Utah, 84104
>or by telephone and with a charge card: They charge an extra $2.00 for
>a phone order. The newsletter of the Morris County (NJ)
>Genealogical Society gave it a good review.
Q: mhedman@ra.abo.fi (M}rten Hedman) 15 Feb 91
Q: velasco@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Gabriel Velasco) 25 Feb 91
R: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager) 2 Mar 91
>Look at the directory PD:<MSDOS.GENEALOGY> on wsmr-simtel20.army.mil.
>Also, PEF (see above) is a *very* professional package. It is tunable to
>remove LDS fields, and there is no attempt to plug the Mormon faith.
R: keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John W. Keating) 9 Mar 91
>Send mail to LISTSERV@NDSUVM1.BITNET containing the line "GET FAQ 0004".
>You can send "INDEX ROOTS-L" for a complete listing.
S: getimage() function in Turbo C, how it works
R: chu@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Susie W. Chu) 19 Apr 90
Q: bg0v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brian M. Gottier) 12 Nov 90
R: mai@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Van Dao Mai) 18 Dec 90
S: GIF editor
Q: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) 18 Apr 90
R: bo@hubcap.clemson.edu (Bo Slaughter)
>mirrors/msdos/graphics/VGACAD15.ARC on wuarchive.wustl.edu.
>It is a fairly nice graphics editor, and it handles GIF.
R: uw-beaver!ssc-vax!coy (Stephen B Coy) 20 Apr 90
>There's a PD image processing package called piclab.
>Supports GIF, TARGA, raw, and something else.
Q: cab3@uafhp.uark.edu (Chad A. Bersche) 8 Feb 91
S: GIF viewers
Q: wngai@ics.uci.edu (Wayne Ngai) 24 Apr 90
R: dorsai@pawl.rpi.edu (G. Donald Moncreaff)
S: Grammar checker
Q: afmintz@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allan Mintz) 8 Apr 90
Q: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) 30 Apr 90
R: dlu@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Dan Lu) 9 Apr 90
>Grammatik III, from Reference Software, Inc., 330 Townsend Street,
>Suite 123, San Francisco, CA 94107. Also a program called RightWriter.
R: ftw33616@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Frank) 29 Apr 90
>Grammatik IV has been released. I find a pretty fair number of its
>comments to be useless, but I still use it to find passive voice, &
>things like a word typed twicece, spelling, & basically, a guide to
>write by. But on the whole, It's not a bad product.
R: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) 3 May 90
>Comparing Grammatik with RightWriter. According to the review there
>is no comparison. Grammatik is what you want. New version of
>Grammatik described on p16 of April 30 1990 issue of InfoWorld.
Q: komatsu@aludra.usc.edu [Grammatik II Pro + Ami Pro. Editor] 19 May 90
Q: eakin@rsmas.miami.edu (C. Mark Eakin) [Grammatik III + WP5.0] 26 Apr 90
Q: davec@maxwell.Concordia.CA (Dave Chu) 2 Oct 90
R: dak@hpausla.aso.hp.com (Dave Kruger) 9 Oct 90
>Grammatik is worth every penny.
R: bwb@sei.cmu.edu (Bruce Benson) 10 Oct 90
>RightWriter [cites] two studies [which] rated ... grammar checkers ...
>based on the number of *incorrect* grammar recommendations.
>RightWriter averaged 13%, the nearest competitor was about 35% and
>the worst was 85%.
Q: alan@pluto.dss.com (Alan Warwick) 1 Nov 90
R: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) 3 Nov 90
>I've heard that both Grammatik and Sensible Grammar are okay.
R: boulder!bohemia!Greg.Smith (Greg Smith) 3 Nov 90
>Grammatick IV supports most popular wordprocessors.
Q: jps@uh.msc.umn.edu (Jeff P. Sorvik) 7 Feb 91
R: v087mxgb@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu (Shawn E Thompson) 7 Feb 91
>I used Right Writer for a while. I hated everything about it.
R: toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) 8 Feb 91
>I use Grammatik IV.
R: kevinc@cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker) 11 Feb 91
>I use both RightWriter and Grammatik. I have found that the reports
>from RightWriter help me more than those from Grammatik.
R: davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) 12 Feb 91
>I use Grammatik IV occasionally. It will help you find stupid mistakes,
>but its suggestions are frequently wrong.
Q: ce3wa3bh@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Eric Ho) 22 Feb 91
R: enzerinkp@topaz.ucq.edu.au (Peter Enzerink) 24 Feb 91
>"MyStyle" (Shareware) analyses a document in ASCII format and provides lots of
>information; e.g., word/sentence/paragraph lengths, passive voice, sexist
>content, etc. The key difference between MyStyle and other programs
>is that Mystyle is used to determine the overall readability
>of a document, not point at problems in every line. It will appear on
>Simtel sometime soon. Otherwise, you can order it from the author.
>The cost is AU$10 for the Unregistered version (add overseas postage if you
>want AIRMAIL) and AU$45 for the Registered version. Write to
>Peter Enzerink, PO Box 356, Rockhampton 4700 AUSTRALIA.
S: Graphics and mouse in C
Q: zentner@cn.ecn.purdue.edu (Michael Zentner) 10 Apr 90
R: kirk%enterprise@Sun.COM (`Captain' Kirk DeHaan)
>Try a package called CXL. It's very nice, with libraries for about 5
>different 'C' compilers, that has routines for graphics, windows,
>mouse and more. It's shareware and costs $35 for registration.
R: nol2321@dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil (Jim Dunn) 9 Aug 90
>I STRONGLY suggest CXL, a lot of bang for the buck. It is a
>full-featured C add on library for any of the following compilers:
>Microsoft C/Quick C/Zortech C/Turbo C. For $35 you get your choice of
>LIBS AND THE COMPLETE SOURCE CODE!!! Write to CXL Version 5.2,
>c/o Mike Smedley, P.O. Box 33603, San Antonio, TX 78265
R: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld) 10 Aug 90
>CXL is great.
S: Graphics libraries
Q: crm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Charlie Martin) [MetaWindow, C-scape] 9 Apr 90
Q: small@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Alain PETIT) [MetaWindow] 9 Jun 90
S: Graphics libraries for PC's using VGA or greater resolution
R: psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) 15 Apr 90
>There are over forty such libraries in the latest (Spring 90) issue of
>the Programmer's Connection catalog. Some support both MS-DOS and
>OS/2, but that's as far as the portability goes. Most of the major C
>(and C++) compilers also come with graphics libraries, but you probably
>knew that.
>
>Contact information: Oakland Group, 675 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge,
>MA, USA 02139, 1-800-233-3733 (voice, USA), 1-617-491-7311 (voice,
>MA), 1-617-868-4440 (FAX); other offices in Washington, Benelux,
>Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the U.K. Metagraphics
>Software Corp., 269 Mount Hermon Rd., Scotts Valley, CA, USA 95066,
>1-408-438-1550 (voice), 408-438-5379 (FAX), 408-438-5368 (data).
>Programmer's Connection, 7249 Whipple Avenue NW, North Canton, Ohio,
>USA 44720, 800-336-1166 (voice, USA), 800-225-1166 (voice, Canada),
>216-494-3781 (voice, everywhere else), 216-494-5260 (FAX).
S: Hard disk, removable
Q: leung@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (Bruce Leung) 8 May 90
S: Hercules, emulating with CGA
Q: sequent!laxsqnt!robert (Robert A. Ertel) 5 Nov 90
S: Hercules, emulating with VGA
Q: xxw8409@ritvax.isc.rit.edu 6 Nov 90
S: Hiding/Protecting Directories
Q: deen@topaz.rutgers.edu (Cinnamon Raisin) 10 Apr 90
S: HIMEM.SYS, obtaining
Q: uw-beaver!sumax!polari!georgf (George Forsman) 20 Apr 90
>Available directly from Microsoft 800-426-9400; ask for the XMS 2.0
>spec and/or the disk that goes with it. Or PD1:<MSDOS.SYSUTL>HIMEM206.ARC
>on SIMTEL20.
S: Hooking up a PC to the Internet
R: dc@caveat.berkeley.edu (Dave Cottingham) 25 Jan 91
>You can get a summary (100K) by sending a message to
>fileserv@max.berkeley.edu with a line in the body (not the subject!)
>that says "sendme ip_hookup". It will arrive in two parts.
S: How is a 68000 faster than an 80386?
Q: uunet!tarpit!bilver!alex (Alex Matulich) [long summary] 19 Mar 90
S: HP Deskjet, refilling cartridges
R: scotte@applix.com (Scott Evernden) 8 Dec 90
>[describes procedure, inks, etc.]
R: U5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au [summary] 17 Dec 90
S: HP Thinkjet cartridge, refilling
Q: TEB106@psuvm.psu.edu (Tom billet) 7 Dec 90
S: Hypertext
R: MUHRTH@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Muhr) 6 Jun 90
>There is one PD hypertext sytem with advanced but unstable features.
>Black Magic (on SIMTEL as <MSDOS.HYPERTEXT>MAGIC15[AB].ARC
R: jem@sm.luth.se (Jan Erik Mostr|m) [summary] 6 Sep 90
>Most people recommended: Asymetrix Toolbook, HyperPAD, Plus
S: Hypercard stacks (Mac), running from DOS
Q: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) 4 Oct 90
R: hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) 4 Oct 90
>I ConvertIt! from Heizer Software (Pleasant Hill, CA, USA, 415-943-7667)
>converts Hypercard stacks into ToolBook books.
R: woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald Woan) 5 Oct 90
>Spinnaker Software's "Spinnaker PLUS 2.0" claims to be able to
>"import and enhance Hypercard stacks." 1-800-323-8088 x555 for free demo.
>617-494-1200 x555 in Massachusetts.
S: IBM 5080 graphics terminal emulation
Q: fargo@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Ethan M. Young) 4 Apr 90
S: ispell
Q: rli@nasty.caltech.edu 23 Apr 90
S: Joystick, converting IBM to Apple
Q: psu@mtuni.ATT.COM (Paul Siu) 2 Mar 90
S: Joystick, emulating with mouse
Q: restock@PacBell.COM (Bob Stockwell) 18 Dec 90
S: Joystick, programming
Q: jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) 28 Jan 91
R: robinson@dagorlad.endor.cs.psu.edu (Andrew Robinson) 29 Jan 91
>C source code for reading the joystick can be found on
>wuarchive.wustl.edu:mirrors/msdos/turbo-c/joy.c
S: Kermit protocol
R: JRD@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik) 28 May 90
>The formal specs are published as the whole book "Kermit: a file transfer
>protocol" by Frank da Cruz, Digital Press, 1987, IBSN 0-932376-88-6, also
>available through Prentice Hall publishers.
>
>Further additions to the protocol have occurred since the above book was
>published; please contact Frank da Cruz at Columbia University for these
>updates.
S: Keyboard lights, how to program
>See the "bios.tech" file.
S: Lantastic, using with arbitrary network board
Q: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson) [summary] 23 Mar 90
R: alan@oetl.scf.lockheed.com (Alan Strassberg)
R: pentch@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean)
R: uunet!utai!lsuc!isgtec!bmw (Bruce Walker)
R: rose@cs.wisc.edu (Scott Rose) [A Lantastic dealer]
R: kemp@cs.umn.edu (Stuart Kemp)
S: 'link'ing a la UNIX
Q: ph62303@tut.fi (Hartoma Petri Juhani) 18 Jun 90
>pc/dirutil/f-link.arc on chyde.uwasa.fi (128.214.12.3).
>The implementation is not perfect, though.
S: Loading fonts into an MCGA adapter, how to
Q: monck@ibmpcug.co.uk (Paul Monckton) 30 Mar 90
S: Locking the keyboard
Q: MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu (Mark Solsman) 14 Nov 90
S: Logo
Q: danger@tahoe.unr.edu (Garrett P. Dangerfield) 1 Jun 90
Q: r1marg@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Timothy Margush) 24 Oct 90
R: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) 24 Oct 90
>There are several versions, all expensive:
>Digital Research's `DR Logo' and LCSI's Logo are excellent
>commercial versions, though both are a bit dated now.
>LCSI, 3300 chemin C^ote Vertu, bureau 201, MONTR'EAL, Qu'ebec, Canada H4R 2B7
>Phone 514 331 7090
R: mark@premenos.premenos.COM (Mark Grand) 27 Oct 90
>I picked up a shareware logo called ladybug.
Q: pmoore@hemel.bull.co.uk (Paul Moore) 19 Nov 90
Q: beers@acsu.buffalo.edu (Andrew Beers) 20 Nov 90
Q: kgowen@cie.uoregon.edu (Kevin Gowen) 4 Jan 91
R: nelson@sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) 5 Jan 91
>There is a shareware program called Ladybug.
R: davemill@cbnewsd.att.com (d.m.miller) 5 Jan 91
>LCSI has a home version for $160, plus about $20 for a set of work books.
>The program, manual and work books, are of excellent quality.
>It only requires CGA but can use EGA or VGA. Call LCSI at 1-800-321-LOGO.
R: hartung@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) 5 Jan 91
>I have uploaded LADYBUG to wuarchive.wustl.edu.
Q: akcs.mktman@vpnet.chi.il.us (Ted Maas) 9 Feb 91
S: Macintosh-like PC software, eg MacPaint, MacDraw, MacWrite
Q: uunet!edsews!rphroy!trux!car (Chris Rende) 27 Mar 90
Q: jolly@ferrari.ece.cmu.edu (John Lee) 4 Jun 90
S: Macro creator that records keyboard and mouse strokes
Q: PDS2@psuvm.psu.edu (Paul D. Shan) 28 Mar 90
S: Make utilities ("MAKE" is a UNIX utility)
R: minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar) [summary] 6 Jun 90
R: mbryan@netcom.uucp
>Microsoft's NMAKE. Just like Unix, part of the compiler package.
R: michaelk@copper.wr.tek.com [NDMAKE]
R: toma@tekgvs.labs.tex.com [NDMAKE]
R: richard@calvin.spp.cornell.edu [NDMAKE]
>by Don Kneller. Good UNIX compatibility.
R: jstone@world.std.com
>Polymake. Some problems with support.
R: istewart@datlog.co.uk
>a hack of a minix make.
R: steve@taumet.com
>Turbo C++ 1.0's new make. Removes itself from memory.
R: scjones@sdrc.uu.net
>PDMAKE. Very compatible with Unix make.
Q: hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder) 11 Feb 91
>I'm trying to find *the* make.
S: Memory resident phone dialer
R: unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu (David Bank) 25 Apr 90
>PC Magazine has one, called CARDFILE.COM.
S: Menu system with submenus and mouse support
Q: svaepiz@eva.slu.se 26 Mar 90
S: MicroImage International
Q: sl197009@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Chima Echeruo) 7 Apr 90
S: Microsoft Pascal
Q: EMH101@psuvm.psu.edu (Ed Hankinson) 2 Apr 90
S: Modem & FAX on one phone line
Q: marcap@doyle.cs.concordia.ca (PAWLOWSKY marc) 26 Apr 90
S: Modem, 2400 baud
Q: marxb@yvax.byu.edu (Brad Marx) 8 Mar 90
Q: scpinker@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Scott C. Pinkerton) 20 Mar 90
Q: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) 14 May 90
R: TIM@ENH.Prime.COM (Tim Cantin) 14 Jun 90
>Go buy an issue of "Computer Shopper". That's where most of the best buys are.
Q: 6600hhl@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Hanh Luong) 14 Jun 90
S: Modem, 2400 baud MNP 5
Q: allred@ut-emx.UUCP (Kevin L. Allred) 8 Jun 90
R: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) 8 Jun 90
>"Cardinal": No problems at all. I recommend it.
S: Modem, 9600 baud
Q: magid@typhoon.Berkeley.EDU (Paul Magid)
R: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech) 15 May 90
>Current issue of Computer Shopper has a 9600 baud modem buyer's guide.
Q: akcs.reed@tronsbox.UUCP (reed) 29 May 90
R: david@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG (David Deitch) 1 Jun 90
>I recommend either a Hayes Ultra 9600 or a USR Dual Standard HST 9600.
R: boyne@hplvli.HP.COM (Art Boyne) 31 May 90
>We use the Multitech V32, and have had very good luck with them.
S: Modula 2 compiler, PD
Q: franke@rwthinf.UUCP (Christian Franke) 22 Oct 90
R: lchen@cs.ubc.ca (Lee Li-Jen Chen) 23 Oct 90
>Anonymous ftp from mtsg.ubc.ca <128.189.103.1>
R: oneel@heawk1.rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bruce Oneel) 6 Mar 91
>A fairly nice one with a UI very similiar to Turbo Pascal V3.x is
>called FST (Fitted Software Tools) Modula-2. On SIMTEL20 as
PD1:<MSDOS.MODULA2> and called M2*.ZIP. IMHO it is one of the best
>PD/Shareware M2 compiler available.
R: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle) 9 Mar 91
>Two different such are in <MSDOS.MODULA2> on SIMTEL20.
S: Mouse, convert PS/2 mouse to serial mouse
Q: yon@apollo.HP.COM (David Yon) 11 May 90
S: Mouse driver for EGA/VGA in 43-line mode
Q: david@gisatl.FIDONET.ORG (David Deitch) 12 May 90
S: Mouse, emulating with graphics tablet
Q: djmiller@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Dan Miller) 15 May 90
S: Mouse, emulating with joystick
Q: bhv@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Bronis Vidugiris) 23 Apr 90
Q: jharper@carina.unm.edu (Jeff) 2 May 90
R: lloyd@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Lloyd Parkes) 8 May 90
>I have a program that can help. Email if interested.
Q: zielke@cs.duke.edu (David Zielke) 10 Jul 90
Q: pipkinsj@cpqhou.uucp (Jeff Pipkins) 17 Dec 90
S: Mouse, emulating with keyboard
Q: uunet!motcid!hamilton (Danial Hamilton) 6 Apr 90
Q: svirsky@ttidcc.tti.com (Bill Svirsky) 7 Jun 90
S: Mouse, programming
Q: moroze-ben@CS.YALE.EDU (Ben Moroze) 24 Apr 90
>Consult a book, or the interrupt list.
R: tcs@router.jhuapl.edu 8 Nov 90
>The Cobb Group's Inside TurboC had an article on the mouse.
R: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus}) 9 Feb 91
>CXL52-1.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.C> Window/menu/mouse C func lib, docs/utils, 1of2
>CXL52-2.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.C> Window/menu/mouse C func lib, libraries, 2of2
>CMOUSE2.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.MOUSE> Mouse management for MSC 5.1/MASM 5.0 or later
>TCXL551.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.TURBO-C> Window/menu/mouse C language function library
>AMOUSE55.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.TURBOPAS> TurboPas5.5 Microsoft mouse unit (source only)
>MOUSTOOL.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.TURBOPAS> Add a mouse to Turbo Pascal 5.0
S: Mouse, recommendations
Q: chrise@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris Everhart) 9 Apr 90
Q: ghh@mentor.cc.purdue.edu 19 Apr 90
Q: bhv@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Bronis Vidugiris) 23 Apr 90
R: uunet!motcid!henley (Aaron Henley) 19 Apr 90
R: rogers@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Bob Rogers) [Agiler] 29 Aug 90
Q: nan@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Nan _ Zou ) [serial or bus] 5 Nov 90
R: jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin) [serial or bus] 6 Nov 90
Q: jstone@world.std.com (Jeffrey R Stone) 6 Feb 91
S: Multitasking on PCs
Q: BARTHELEMY-O@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Olivier Barthelemy) 2 Apr 90
Q: gavin@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Gavin C. H. Zau) 13 Jun 90
Q: tubbsk@ure.CS.ORST.EDU (Ken Tubbs) 12 Nov 90
>DESQview 386, Concurrent DOS, Windows 3.0, VM/386, etc.
R: white@csvax.cs.ukans.edu (Kevin S. White) 12 Nov 90
>PC-Magazine, October 16, 1990,
>"386 Multitasking Environments: Making DOS Work Overtime"
R: reisert@ricks.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) 12 Nov 90
>PC Magazine article [as cited above]
R: sking@nowhere.uucp (Steven King) 2 Mar 91
>I've used VM/386 for a couple years; It's adequate if you have enough core.
>It's crash-able. The disk caching is abysmally slow. While I still use it
>whenever I NEED to multitask, I no longer try to do anything disk intensive.
Q: baileyc@tramp.colorado.edu (BAILEY CHRISTOPHER R) 4 Mar 91
Q: fritchie@acc.stolaf.edu (Scott Fritchie) 25 Feb 91
R: edm@hpfcmdd.hp.com (Ed Moore) 27 Feb 91
>See PC Magazine: 2/28/89 (Desqview, VM/386), 5/30/89 (Desqview),
>10/16/90 (Desqview, VM/386).
S: Multitasking C library
Q: leeda@frith.uucp (Dae Hee Lee) 10 Feb
R: s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (Ron House) 13 Feb 91
>TopSpeed C comes with full multitasking.
R: tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no (Tarjei Jensen) 20 Feb 91
>SIMTEL20 PD1:<msdos.c>ctask22.zip
R: ejy@cbnewsi.att.com (eugene.yurek) 20 Feb 91
>CTASKxx in SIMTEL20. Includes source code. They work quite well.
S: Multiport serial boards, information
Q: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) 28 Apr 90
For example, Computone, Digiboard and Maxspeed.
S: Multiuser DOS
Q: paulj@b8.INGR.COM (Joey Paul) 12 Apr 90
Answers: Articles in BYTE 9/89, PC Magazine 2/28/89, LAN Magazine (Sep89?)
S: Multiuser DOS: Concurrent DOS 386, PC MOS
R: kalra@cis.ohio-state.edu (harsh kalra) 22 Apr 90
S: Music editor
Q: sergio@helios.sixcom.it (Sergio Scola) 13 Feb 91
S: News program for PCs
Q: iwarner@axion.bt.co.uk (Ivan Warner) 15 Mar 90
Q: peter@secyt.gov.ar (Pedro Victor Pintus) [BNews] 18 Jan 91
Q: wright@hsi86.hsi.com (Gary Wright) 28 Jan 91
>I am looking for pointers to archive sites for PC based email and
>news packages. SMTP, POP, and NNTP are the keywords I am looking for.
Q: lupper@informatik.uni-ulm.de (Alfred Lupper) 6 Feb 91
Q: kcw@cis.ufl.edu (Ken Whedbee) [NNTP] 6 Feb 91
R: tcs@mailer.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin) 15 Feb 91
>WinVN (for Windows) is available by anon ftp at clvax1.cl.msu.edu.
Q: dhuber@aut.autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber) 27 Feb 91
S: News services on-line
R: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) 18 Apr 90
>UPI NewsManager/2000: Runs in the background, uses FM reception,
>allows scanning, menu-driven, optional service to get transcripts of
>all major Washington DC events. Costs $950/month (+$300/month for the
>optional sevice), no installation fee, hardware is part of monthly
>service. Contact: United Press Int'l, 1400 I Street NW, Washington,
>DC 20005, or call 800/824-7221.
S: Numeric Coprocessors
R: GILLA@QUCDN.QueensU.CA (Arnold G. Gill) 26 Apr 90
>February 1990 issue of Computer Shopper reviews three numeric coprocessors.
S: Optical disks
Q: wngai@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Wayne Ngai) 10 Jun 90
S: Paradox engine
R: troj@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Kevin Trojanowski) 16 Apr 90
>Educational price is $70. Write to Borland, Education Dept. 3, P.O.Box 660001,
>Scotts Valley, CA 95067; or order by phone at 1-800-331-0877, or call Jennifer
>Carole at 408-439-1537. Regular price is $495.
S: Password protection
Q: ted@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Ted Mueller) 20 Mar 90
Q: princeton!mccc!pjh (Pete Holsberg) 14 May 90
S: Password-protecting hard drive
Q: khoo@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Oonchye Khoo) 19 Apr 90
R: wind@rruxi.bae.bellcore.com (Wind Chen) 14 Aug 90
>The PC-Lock Harddisk Protection System is very good.
>Johnson Computer Systems, 20 Dinwiddie Place, Newport News, VA 23602
>(804) 872-9583
Q: JFS10@psuvm.psu.edu (Jonathan Swaby) 26 Oct 90
R: amburgy@ecn.purdue.edu (Kalex) 31 Oct 90
>PC-Cypher password protects the hard drive.
R: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (mr w.j. ho) 31 Oct 90
>I have just tried XLOCK1.ZIP from SIMTEL20.
R: tcs@router.jhuapl.edu (Carl Schelin) 31 Oct 90
>I have been using VFeature Deluxe for 4 years.
R: feg@moss.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) 31 Oct 90
>Try PCLOK11F, available on simtel20.
R: mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) 31 Oct 90
>PC-Vault and HandsOff both claim to do this.
Q: gcook@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Greg Cook) 22 Nov 90
Q: umsmigie@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Jason Smigiel) 12 Feb 91
S: PC Graphics format exchange programs
Q: legg@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Christian Legg) 28 Mar 90
R: dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low)
>Hijaak. Also sold as Graphics Transformer by IMSI.
S: PC debuggers
R: ying@hubcap.clemson.edu (Ying Xie) [summary] 7 Apr 90
>I will be glad to share the information.
S: PC-NFS, where to find
Q: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu (William J. Murphy) 3 Apr 90
>The 'nfsrun' program for PC-NFS is available from Sun Microsystems.
S: Point of sales retail computer
Q: cook@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (John M. Cook) 30 Mar 90
R: jmbrown@ariel.unm.edu (John M. Brown) 20 Apr 90
>I can get you in contact with a POS company. Please E-MAIL me.
S: Postscript on HP
R: sl201003@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (franklin prosser) 1 Apr 90
>I think Ultrascript PC smokes Goscript. Got it for 195.
Q: ulf@fangorn.dit.lth.se (Ulf Andersson) 25 Jun 90
S: Postscript on HP DeskJet+
Q: tt3x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu 15 Apr 90
R: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Santanu Sircar) 16 Apr 90
>PC World, April 1990 issue has a review of four or five
>Postscript emulators for the DeskJet/DeskJet+ printers. Note:
>Average cost is $400, between 1-2 megs are needed, two of the
>emulators need 286/386 systems.
R: uunet!sequel!rdg (Roger D. Gough) 17 Apr 90
>Check out GoScript 3.0. Very nice! Also
>works with the DeskJet printers, lasers, and lots of dot-matrix models.
Q: yeung@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Dit-yan Yeung) 18 Apr 90
S: Postscript on HP Laserjet II
Q: olsen@athena.mit.edu (James J Olsen) 1 Apr 90
R: dchun@alcor.usc.edu (Dale Chun)
>JetWare offered to sell us a postscript cartridge for $350 ...
R: marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) 5 Nov 90
>I just bought two of QMS's JetScripts from HP Direct. (800)538-8787.
>I'll give it six months before I decide if the JetScript is worth having.
R: jw2b@watt.acc.Virginia.EDU (Jane Wagner) 6 Nov 90
>We have two Laserjet IIs with the QMS boards. I think they are marvellous.
R: nee@cf_su14.Salomon.Com (Robert Nee) 8 Nov 90
>The best PS for a LJII is the PostScript Cartridge from Adobe.
>The performance blows away all the others plus it is cheaper (about $299).
R: kusumoto@chsun1.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto) 11 Nov 90
>We have [the Adobe Postscript] cartridge and its great!
>At $300 street price or less, its definately worth it.
S: Postscript on dot matrix printer
R: jharper@carina.unm.edu (Jeff) [summary] 16 Apr 90
R: bulli@nadia.stgt.sub.org (Thomas Bullinger) [summary] 6 Nov 90
>PostScript Magic (shareware), Advantage Computer, PO Box 524, Fremont, CA 94537
>requires 80[23]86, 4MB hard disk. Supports: Canon BJ-130, Epson FX/LX/LQ,
>HP Deskjet/LaserJet/LJ IIP/PaintJet, IBM Graphics, IBM Proprinter,
>NEC Pinwriter
S: Postscript previewer
Q: dhinds@portia.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) 21 Jul 90
Q: ARMENGAU@FRECP12.BITNET (Joel Armengaud) 20 Apr 90
>Is there a screen preview in GoScript 3.0 ?
R: uunet!virtech!rdg (Roger D. Gough) 4 May 90
>You may have to wait for the 3.0 update you're supposed to get after
>you mail in your registration.
Q: dove@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Daniel L Dove) [requests PD] 15 Nov 90
R: black@beno.CSS.GOV (Mike Black) 15 Nov 90
>[recommends GhostScript]
Q: zen@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (Zen)
Q: kevdavis@wpi.WPI.EDU (Kevin S. Davis) [requests PD] 11 Dec 90
R: royster@unccvax.uncc.edu (David Royster) 11 Dec 90
>[recommends GhostScript]
Q: vijay@ecersg.ncsu.edu (<Vijay> Srinivasan) 19 Dec 90
Q: dchun@aludra.usc.edu (Dale Chun) 28 Jan 91
Q: srm@dimacs.rutgers.edu (Scott R. Myers) 28 Jan 91
R: geoff@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Geoffrey Ghose) 3 Feb 91
>Ghostscript v 2.2.1 works great!
S: Postscript emulator, Ghostscript
Q: gec@cscosl.ncsu.edu (Errol Casey) 27 Mar 90
R: rutgers!bellcore!pyuxp!rruxu!rruxc!wws (W W Scott) 28 Mar 90
>Ghostscript is GNU's PostScript clone, still under development.
R: emory!stiatl!src (Michael R. Almond)
>GhostScript 2.0 supports the Espon printer.
>You should be able to ftp it from uunet.uu.net or prep.ai.mit.edu
R: tower@ai.mit.edu (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) 12 Sep 90
>Bug reports to: bug-ghostscript@prep.ai.mit.edu
Q: dkchen@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Ding-Kai Chen) 12 Nov 90
R: cs00chs@unccvax.uncc.edu (charles spell) 14 Nov 90
>I have just compiled GS v2.0 and installed the bgi and laserjet drivers that
>come with it. I used TurboC 2.0 and it ran fine.
R: black@beno.CSS.GOV (Mike Black) 15 Nov 90
>ftp from
> boulder.colorado.edu 128.138.238.18
> clutx.clarkson.edu
> extro.ucc.su.oz.au
>research.att.com 192.20.225.2
S: Postscript emulator, GoScript
Q: kwong@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Ka Chin Wong) [summary] 11 May 90
R: malloy%skinner@nprdc.navy.mil
R: execu!sequoia.execu.com!cb@uunet.UU.NET (Christopher D. Brown)
R: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
R: marshall@alpha.ces.cwru.edu
R: stephen@hantsq.enet.dec.com (Stephen Wong)
R: raster@pawl.rpi.edu (Jerry Bain)
R: vera@cadence.com
R: miket@algol.cs.umbc.edu (Mike Taube)
Q: clee@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Chang L. Lee) 11 Oct 90
R: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy) 17 Apr 90
R: apple!netcom!cmilono (Carlo Milono)
S: Postscript to HPGL converter
Q: wjp@cbnewsm.att.com (william.j.penschow) 28 Jan 91
S: Print-Screen for VGA to HP LaserJet II
Q: robert@ireq.hydro.qc.ca (R.Meunier) 13 Apr 90
S: Printer Drivers for Word Perfect 5.1, making your own
Q: lance@helios.ucsc.edu (Lance Bresee) 13 Apr 90
Answer: Use the PTR.EXE program that comes with WordPerfect.
S: Printing graphics on 24 pin printer
R: sreekanth@rgb.dec.com (Jon Sreekanth) [summary] 22 Mar 90
S: Punching holes in 3.5" disks, comments
Q: sid@sybase.com (sid cowles) 21 Apr 90
S: QuadRAM board, help
Q: mjp10434@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mark) 17 Mar 90
S: QuarterDeck
R: medici@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici) 8 May 90
>There tech support has always been impossoble to reach. Yes -- if get
>to talk to someone you get great support, but this is no easy task.
R: klee@cs.ubc.ca (Kenneth Lee) 9 May 90
>Not only is Quarterdeck's technical support line poor (I've never been
>able to get through), their mail support and upgrade notification is
>also inadequate.
S: QUICKEN/TURBOTAX
R: pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) 11 Apr 90
>I bought the package and think it was definitely worth the money.
R: csusac!utgard!pyrgard!gary (Gary Manning) 10 Apr 90
>I am very happy with both programs.
R: singer@uwovax.uwo.ca (Ben Singer) 17 Feb 91
>For keeping track of assets, I have found it to be obscure, clumsy, and
>even to mess up things.
R: albert@endor.uucp (David Albert) 18 Feb 91
>Quicken 4.0 is much better at keeping track of certain types of assets
>than was Quicken 3. Even so, there are some things it won't do and a
>few bugs in some of the reports.
R: rob@lafayet.UUCP (Rob Freyder) 18 Feb 91
>I use Quicken 4. Support for mutual funds, credit card accounts, stocks etc.
S: RAM disk that survives warm boot
Q: dubner@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Joe Dubner) 29 Jan 91
S: Re-inking Deskjet/Deskjet Plus cartridges, comments
Q: tt3x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Bobby Li) 4 Apr 90
Q: cyee@argon.berkeley.edu (Clayton Yee) 24 Nov 90
R: tj@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (Todd R Johnson) 24 Nov 90
>Go to a kitchen store and buy an instant marinate device (about $5.00).
>[further instructions available by email]
S: Remote control communications software
Q: tmcclory@odin.wright.edu (Tom McClory) 5 May 90
Q: ira@athena.mit.edu (Ira Hochman) 6 May 90
>In particular, Carbon Copy and Close-Up.
Q: U5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (CARDIOLOGY, R.M.H.) 10 May 90
R: uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!uafhp!uafhcx!jms (Michael Stanley) 11 May 90
>A place where I worked used a program called Carbon Copy which worked
>beautifully. Only problem is that this *is* a commercial program.
>But in my opinion, it is worth the cost.
Q: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) 23 Oct 90
S: Reset switch, how to build
Q: luongt@tekig6.PEN.TEK.COM (Lu Tran) 3 May 90
S: Retrieving information that scrolled off the screen
Q: twb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.w.beattie) 3 May 90
S: REXX for PC
Q: soh3@midway.uchicago.edu (min-woong sohn) 17 Jun 90
R: indra@rosalyn.amd.com (Indra Singhal) 17 Jun 90
>Mansfield Software Group, P,O. Box 532, Storrs, CT 06268 (203) 429-8402.
>FAX: (203) 487-1185, BBS: (203) 429-3784
S: Run PC from a terminal
Q: lin@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Yi-C Lin) 17 May 90
>Keyboard is broken, but has a VT100 terminal.
R: rreiner@yunexus.UUCP (Richard Reiner) 17 May 90
>Basically a bad idea. Some options:
>CTTY only redirects DOS-level IO through the comm port; crashes easily
>Use a BBS "doorway mode" program. Only redirects DOS- and BIOS-level I/O.
>Reliability unknown.
>Use one of the DOS-clone OS's like PC-MOS/386 and login over the comm line.
>This isn't so bad. But MOS uses over 100K more than DOS for itself; MOS's
>overhead may be unacceptable on an already slow machine; MOS costs
>hundreds of dollars.
R: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) 18 May 90
>Look at CTTY.
R: ganzer@cod.NOSC.MIL (Mark T. Ganzer) 18 May 90
>Marshall Dudley's DOORWAY program (on SIMTEL20) will also allow you to
>redirect direct video I/O. It worked well enough for me to register it.
R: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) 18 May 90
>PC magazine published a program to do this
Q: derykm@oz.plymouth.edu (Dez) 7 Feb 91
R: jporter@twaddle.dell.com (Jeff Porter) 12 Feb 91
>The CTTY dev command can be used in some limited situations.
R: AVP100@psuvm.psu.edu 12 Feb 91
>Use a communication program (Telix, Procomm+, etc..) and set the pc as a host.
S: Scheme compiler
Q: JJJ101@psuvm.psu.edu 14 Feb 91
S: Scientific graphing programs
Q: eer36024@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Erik Reuter) 24 Apr 90
R: ormohrbh@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Richard Ohrbach) 25 Apr 90
>The March 14, 1989 issue of PC Magazine was devoted to numerical
>analysis, wherein they reviewed scientific graphics programs.
S: Screen blanker
Q: butterworth@mscf.med.upenn.edu (David N. Butterworth) 13 Apr 90
Q: cs121dt@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Mike Stangel) 23 Apr 90
Q: fredy@uivlsi (Fred L. Yang) 17 Jun 90
Q: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman) [PS/2] 10 Dec 90
R: steven@pro-odyssey.cts.com (Steven Wells) 16 Dec 90
>I personally use BLANKIT.
Q: jhl2@po.CWRU.Edu (John H. Leach) [no details given] 27 Jan 91
Q: jc58+@andrew.cmu.edu (Johnny J. Chin) [source code] 6 Feb 91
>It must work with every type of display (from Mono to Color VGA).
R: leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis) 7 Feb 91
>Burnout works on all kinds of displays and comes with assembler source.
S: Screen blanker that watches for screen activity
R: schow@bcarh185.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow) 10 May 90
>The screen accelarator/blanker from Multisoft monitors screen
>activity. It is part of their PowerPak which includes their disk
>cacher, keyboard accelerator, print spooler. A good package generally.
R: wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales) 10 May 90
>PD1:<msdos.screen>blank16b.arc on SIMTEL20 can be told to monitor video
>activity. Only takes 700 bytes when resident.
S: Screen blanker, VGA
Q: cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!lcra!mike (Mike O'Donnell) 7 May 90
S: Screen blanker, Windows
Q: uunet!cbmvax!hutch!cattie!marks (Mark Schaffer) 9 May 90
Q: jrey@pnet12.cts.com (Jim Reynante) 21 Jun 90
Q: kms@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Ken Steele) 24 Oct 90
R: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) 25 Oct 90
>Try Screen Peace, available from cica.cica.indiana.edu
Q: kroger@scarecrow.cognet.ucla.edu (James Kroger) 28 Nov 90
S: Screen blanker, mouse-aware
Q: wales@gidday.enet.dec.com (David Wales) 4 May 90
R: djb@wjh12.harvard.edu (David J. Birnbaum) [summary] 13 Apr 90
S: Screen capture (many of the requests are vaguely phrased)
Q: skyer@quantime.co.uk (Susannah Skyer) 6 Mar 90
Q: hollyr@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Holly Raab) 12 Mar 90
R: christ@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Chris Thompson) 29 May 90
>In one of the last *PC Magazines*, they ran a review of 5 screen-
>capture utilities.
Q: gris@surf.sics.bu.oz (Dave Gris) [VGA or EGA] 1 Jun 90
Q: banshee@ucscb.ucsc.edu [VGA to GIF/PIC/PCX]
Q: noring@netcom.UUCP (Jon Noring) [to GIF] 23 Nov 90
R: lalibert@bcarh188.bnr.ca (Luc Laliberte) 23 Nov 90
>I have written one for the standard VGA 320x200x256 mode.
>writing your own is not that difficult.
Q: RAR100S%ODUVM.BITNET@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu (Rob Rypka) 13 Dec 90
Q: 852028e@aucs.AcadiaU.ca (Amari M. Elammari) [no details] 4 Feb 91
R: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle) 7 Feb 91
>BOSSKY13.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> Capture screen to disk/display captured screen
>CAPBUF.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> TSR captures any text screen to disk
>CONCPY11.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> Copy screen output to file & still see it
>LAMNETH.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> Redirect PrintScreen to print to a disk file
>LASTSCRN.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> TSR: Store scrn for later recall w/color v1.01
>NAB15.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> Selective screen capture to file/kbd/printer
>PHOTO.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> TSR EGA/CGA/TEXT screen capture & replay
>PIPEV20.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> Redirect console output to a disk file
>PSPLUS.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> TSR: Shift-PrtSc saves to disk or printer
>SCAP225.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> Screen capture utility, all or part of screen
>SCRIPT11.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> Saves console output to a file
>SNIPPR22.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> TSR to save part of screen to disk/print/keybd
>SOS310.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN> Save/restore text screens to/from mem or disk
>and for use with print screen.....
>DMP203.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Resident print spooler, spools to disk, memory
>LPT2DSK.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Capture LPT output to a disk file
>LPTCOM02.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Redirect LPT to COM2
>LPTX600.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Redirect printer output to a file
>LPTX700.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Updated LPT (redirect PRN to file) [.ASM src]
>PRIND25.ZIP PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Redirect printer to file/screen/printer on cmd
>PRINDIR.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Redirects printer output to disk file
>PRISC.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Selective print screen by lines, disk option
>PRN2FILE.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Redirect printer to disk (w/asm)
>PRNDSK.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Redirect Printer Output To Disk
>PSTASH20.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Redirects lpt output to file
>RPRN.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Redirect printer output to disk file
>VPRINT20.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Redirect printer output to disk file V2.01
>VPRNT301.ARC PD1:<MSDOS.PRINTER> Printer redirection to disk file, v3.01
S: Screen dump
Q: cyj9h@hudson.acc.virginia.edu (chuck j. boyeeee!) [to Postscript] 5 Mar 90
Q: rlm@ceres.physics.uiowa.edu (Robert Mutel) [VGA to Epson FX85] 7 Mar 90
Q: houwers@ssd.kodak.com (Michael Houwers) [for `a variety of' printers] 27 Nov 90
Q: sven@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Sven Anderson) [VGA to HPLJ] 21 Jan 91
Q: RCG903@MAINE.BITNET (martti toivakka) [VGA EGA or Hercules to Epson] 16 Feb 91
S: Searching all files for a text pattern
Q: jem@sm.luth.se (Jan Erik Mostr|m) 19 Apr 90
S: Serial port interrupt, programming
Q: elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce) 20 Apr 90
Q: glex@uh.msc.umn.edu (Jeffrey Gleixner) 3 May 90
Answer: Consult a book.
R: reino@cs.eur.nl (Reino de Boer) 24 Apr 90
>For details (and you need a lot of them to do anything
>useful) see (e.g.) The MS-DOS Encyclopedia (Microsoft Press)
>Section II, Article 6: Interrupt-Driven Comunications.
S: Soundex, source code
Q: GMoretti@massey.ac.nz (Giovanni Moretti) 12 Apr 90
>PC Magazine, September 26 1989, p377-378, in the "Languages" column,
>edited by Tony Rizzo. Turbo Pascal. Includes a discussion of how it works.
S: Source control packages
Q: cleggj@jupiter.rtp.dg.com 14 Mar 90
Q: uunet!atexnet!donovan (Dennis Donovan) 23 Mar 90
S: Source level debugger
Q: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld) 10 Apr 90
S: Speaker, programming
Q: ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang) 22 Nov 90
S: Speaker, silencing
Q: cook@darwin.ntu.edu.au (Robbie Cook) 13 Feb 91
S: Speech synthesizers
Q: emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) 4 May 90
Q: chris@attain.teradyne.com (Chris Maslyar) [software] 5 Feb 91
R: doron@oboe.cs.cornell.edu (Leor Doron) [software] 11 Feb 91
>PC Week (28Jan91) reviews Monologue 2.0, $149
>from First Byte of Santa Ana, CA, (714) 432-1740.
S: Spell Checker, PD/shareware
Q: allred@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Kevin L. Allred) 12 Apr 90
R: psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) 15 Apr 90
>ShareSpell 1.6 (WP6.2 in the PBS catalog, $20 shareware registration)
>has a 51,000 word dictionary, and can suggest "PUBLICBRAND" should be
>"PUBLIC BRAND". It doesn't run as a TSR.
>
>Jorj (two disks, WP28a.0 and WP28b.0, $30 shareware registration) is
>stand-alone or TSR *dictionary*; it has the spelling and *definition*
>of 58,000 words.
>
>PBS also has shareware word processors with spelling correction
>(PC-Write 3.03, Galaxy 2.43, PC-Type II, NYWord 2.3), and three disks
>full of word and abbreviation lists.
Q: marc@pinet.aip.org (Marc Wiener) 30 May 90
Q: raja@osc.edu (Raja Daoud) 18 Jan 91
S: Spreadsheet compilers
Q: anthes@geocub.greco-prog.fr (Franklin Anthes) 14 Mar 90
S: Spreadsheet templates
Q: singer@uwovax.uwo.ca (Ben Singer) 15 Mar 90
S: Suppressing the "Terminate batch job?" question
Q: ucbvax!unisoft!hoptoad!mkl (Mark Lottor) 31 Mar 90
S: Teacher gradebook program
Q: melw@tekig3.PEN.TEK.COM (Melvin E Wunderlich) 5 Apr 90
S: Technical books on BIOS, memory management, DOS
Q: bsingh@jove.rutgers.edu (Bhupinder Singh) 2 Apr 90
S: Telex from a PC
Q: tektronix!reed!mdr (Michael Rutenberg) 9 May 90
R: ken@wybbs.mi.org (Ken Jongsma) 10 May 90
>Western Union (EASYLink) and MCI (MCI Mail) let you send Telexes via modem.
S: Telnet VT220/VT320 terminal emulators for MS-DOS
Q: uunet!spsd!hanson (Jim Hanson) 27 Mar 90
S: Telnet for IBM PC
R: bbesler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Brent Besler) 2 Apr 90
>KA9Q allows `slip' connections through serial lines into an ethernet.
>It is avialable from Merit at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
R: hhp00389@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Quincey Koziol) 27 Aug 90
>NCSA Telnet for the PC 2.3b10, ftp zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu (128.174.20.50).
>Bug reports to telbug@ncsa.uiuc.edu.
S: Terminal emulator with 132 columns, VT200 emulation
Q: weeber@cs.hope.edu (Steve Weeber) 18 Apr 90
R: azarian@hpcc01.HP.COM (Randy Azarian)
>Walker, Richer & Quinn, Inc.'s Relflection 7+ will drive my Paradise
>VGA card in 132 column mode by 27 lines.
S: Terminal emulator, VT100
Q: cfoeller@bbn.com (Carl Foeller) 31 Jan 91
R: rc7@prism.gatech.EDU (Richard Catrambone) 31 Jan 91
>Kermit works great.
Q: acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) 21 Feb 91
R: rgc@raybed2.msd.ray.com (RICK CARLE) 26 Feb 91
>Try mskermit, v3.01.
S: Tree-drawing software, linguistic construction trees,
Q: helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!rreiner (Richard Reiner) 17 Apr 90
S: troff for DOS
R: wayne@teemc.UUCP (Michael R. Wayne) 27 Jan 91
>tplus (Textware International) has numerous shortcomings and bugs,
>they don't answer their e-mail and I've about given up using the product.
>Elan (advertises in most UNIX magazines) rumors to be outstanding.
R: francis@atmos.cse.ogi.edu (Francis Moraes) 1 Mar 91
>proff and pcroff are available from garbo.uwasa.fi. pcroff is the simpler
>of the two; both come with source.
Q: Renee@cup.portal.com (Renee Linda Roberts) 26 Feb 91
R: craig@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Stuart A Craig) 28 Feb 91
>Elan Computer Group, Inc.; 410 Cambridge Avenue, Suite A; Palo Alto, CA 94306
>Ph# (415) 964-2200
S: Typing tutor
R: uunet!ulticorp!ultixrs!rick (Rick Poleshuck) 29 Jan 91
>Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing (commercial, <$50) is the BEST I've seen.
S: Unerase program for DOS 4.0
Q: dkyoon@priam.usc.edu (Dae-kyun Yoon) 6 Apr 90
Q: wnbell@acsu.Buffalo.EDU (william n bell) 19 Apr 90
Q: hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) 20 Nov 90
R: sonny@charybdis.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) 21 Nov 90
>PD1:<MSDOS.DIRUTL>UNERA13.ARC
S: UNIX-like tools
Q: joe@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Joe Galea) 21 Feb 91
R: ajy@pivot.sbi.com (Yee Ark) 21 Feb 91
>I use MKS Toolkit.
R: vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta) 21 Feb 91
>Gnu-ish msdos project, SIMTEL20 pd1:<msdos.gnuish>.
S: UNIX uw client
Q: bradley@cs.utexas.edu (Bradley L. Richards) 18 Apr 90
Q: hegarty@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Christopher Hegarty) 18 Apr 90
R: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
>I'm writing one. It's now at a useable state, but it's not polished.
>Email me for a copy.
S: Upgrading AT to 386 via expansion slot
Q: james@einstein.eds.com (Robert James) 10 Apr 90
R: RFM@psuvm.psu.edu (Bob Munzenrider) 11 Apr 90
>See PC Resource magazine, p 83, May 1990 (#38), article titled
>"386 Smarts for the 286". Discusses the Sota Pop and the
>All Computer's All Chargecard. The article says that they are
>a bear to install.
R: uunet!sequel!rdg (Roger D. Gough) 17 Apr 90
S: VCPI specifications
Q: antoniop@cernvax.cern.ch (antonio pastore) 8 May 90
R: david@metapyr.UUCP (David Relson) 31 May 90
>VCPI (Virtural Control Program Interface) documentation is available from
>Phar Lap Software (617) 661-1510 or Quarterdeck Office Systems (213) 392-9851.
R: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) 4 Mar 91
>Write to Bob Moote, VCPI Coordinator; Phar Lap Software, Inc.; 60 Aberdeen
>Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138.
S: VCR Backup
Q: anthony@batserver.cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee) 18 Apr 90
R: cah@genrad.com (Chris Heitmann) 20 Apr 90
>I recently purchased the Omnitronix VCR tape backup board (Omnitronix,
>Inc; 760 Harrison St., Seattle, WA 98109; 800/765-5576; 206/624-4985).
>I was NOT impressed.
R: MARX@vms.huji.ac.il (Michael Marx) [summary] 8 Jul 90
>Microstorage Technology, Trudos House, Heath Ride, Wokingham, Berks.
>RG11 3QJ, England; Telephone:0734 733414, 212.75 pounds Sterling.
>Also, Omnitronix, Inc. [see above] The opinions I got as for this
>company are so-so. It backs up 55megs per hour. not very good, $219 or so.
Q: jdwhite@iastate.edu (Jason White) [Omnitronix] 26 Jan 91
Q: 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) [Videotrax] 19 Feb 91
S: VESA BIOSes, any machines use them?
Q: nelson@SUN.SOE.CLARKSON.EDU (Russ Nelson) 25 Mar 90
Note: Article in April 1990 Dr. Dobb's Journal, "VESA VGA Bios Extensions"
S: VGA emulator for CGA or Hercules
Q: 2fjeequal@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Kunadi Tjahjadi) 8 May 90
S: VGA monochrome monitor with Hercules Card, can it be done?
Q: ns299ad@sdcc6.ucsd.edu palvarez@ucsd.edu (Pablo R Alvarez) 28 Mar 90
S: VGA, changing screen font
Q: ding@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Yijun Ding) 2 Apr 90
Q: albert@harvard.edu (David Albert) 5 Apr 90
R: hd7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Sanjay Aiyagari) 7 Apr 90
>I use a PC Magazine utility called FONTEDIT.
R: davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) 14 Dec 90
>I have used a program called vfont to do this, I got it from my local
>Shareware dealer so I don't know what archives or BBS's might have it.
R: macress@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Mark A Cress) 16 Dec 90
>There is a program, avaialable on most FTP sites, called fe.zip.
Q: hp0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Hokkun Pang) 11 Dec 90
S: VGA, programming extended modes
Q: zmacy26@doc.ic.ac.uk (Jason C Edmeades) 2 May 90
S: Virus checkers
Q: shahryar@sutro.SFSU.EDU (Persian Nightmare)
>Looking for list of all known virus checkers, with reviews.
S: Voyager pictures, availability
Q: tt3x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Bobby Li) 12 Apr 90
R: psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) 15 Apr 90
>GIFs of Voyager pictures are available from CompuServe. Type
>GO GALLERY. You can also get them (for seven to eighteen dollars
>a disk) from CompuServe's source, Event Horizons
>(1-607-697-7700 voice; I see their BBS listed as 1-607-77-1758,
>but I don't think that's right :-).
S: VT100 control sequences
Q: skeeve@pawl.rpi.edu (Sean C. Cox) 19 Mar 90
>Get the file MSVIBM.VT from the Kermit distribution.
S: Weitek 3167 "Abacus" numeric coprocessors
R: medici@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici) 2 May 90
>The 3167 is not a substitute or replacement for the '387 chip--it is
>an alternative.
S: Windows drivers
Q: tt3x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Bobby Li) [HP Deskjet+] 7 Apr 90
Q: dale@wucs1.wustl.edu (Dale Frye) [Paradise VGA 640x480/256] 24 Oct 90
R: dorsai@aix03.aix.rpi.edu (G. Donald Moncreaff) [Panasonic 1624 printer] 24 Oct 90
>all panasonic dot-matrix printers emulate either epson or ibm.
Q: DSB100@psuvm.psu.edu (David Barr) [Paradise 640x400/256] 25 Oct 90
Q: a526@mindlink.UUCP (Brad Murray) [Tseng 800x600/256] 24 Oct 90
R: drk@athena.mit.edu (David R Kohr) [IBM PGA board, summary] 11 Nov 90
R: uunet!bnrgate!bcars53!mussar (G. Mussar) 11 Nov 90
>I have found 3 of the 7 supplemental drivers disks on cica.cica.indiana.edu.
S: Windows/386, editing screen font, how?
Q: wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu 6 Apr 90
S: Word processor, Arabic
Q: muns@tank.uchicago.edu (Ziad Munson) 23 May 90
R: princeton!idacrd!gmk (Gary M. Kuhn) 24 May 90
>ARABRITE, for Arab/English Word-data processing, has been indicated to me as
>something of a standard. A slightly out-of-date version indicates the
>program can be bought from Gulf DATA Inc., 5301 Beethoven CA, Suite 126, Los
>Angeles CA 90066, (213) 306 0559
S: Word processor, Chinese
Q: fagan@multiflow.com (Brendan Fagan) 15 Mar 90
Q: GMoretti@massey.ac.nz (Giovanni Moretti) 11 Jun 90
Q: tingli@pollux.usc.edu (Ting Liang) 19 Oct 90
Q: ghyu@castle.ed.ac.uk (Gonghua.Yu) 14 Dec 90
S: Word processor, Hebrew
Q: muns@tank.uchicago.edu (Ziad Munson) 23 May 90
Q: sjh@briar.Philips.Com (Stephen Herman) 12 Jun 90
Q: mjs4709@isc.rit.edu (M.J. Solomon) 15 Jan 91
S: Word processor, Hindi
Q: coa44@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Mark Scase) 10 Jan 91
S: Word processor, Japanese
Q: john@spot.twinsun.com (John Min) 1 Jun 90
R: hartmut@JANE.RUC.DK (Hartmut Haberland) 8 Oct 89
>EW+ from ITL, 280 Park Ave. 4th floor, New York, NY 10017 (212) 557-0177
>FAX: (212) 557-0179. $800. Demo disk available.
R: edwards@macc.wisc.edu (Mark Edwards) [the author of MOKE]
>MOKE 1.1 is currently available for anonymous ftp at 128.104.30.31.
>Do a mget of mk11*.zoo, jis24.zoo, jprint.zoo using binary mode.
>Or send $10 to Mark Edwards, 29 Sandy ct., Madison, WI 53717, (608) 262-7585.
Q: botyan@trace.eedsp.gatech.edu (Al Boyers) 18 Oct 90
R: rsmith@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Rusty Smith) 12 Jan 91
>MOKE does Hiragana, katakana, kanji and ascii.
>From KiCompWare, 1812 North Erb St., Appleton, WI 54911. ($50)
>Received a good review in June 90 ATArashi.
Q: lupienj@hpwadac.hp.com (John Lupien) 21 Jan 91
Q: barry@loki.une.oz (Barry Wilks) 6 Feb 91
S: Word processor, Korean (Hangul)
Q: ran@doc.ic.ac.uk (Robert A Nicholls) 19 Apr 90
Q: fritz@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Frederick Herrmann) 26 Sep 90
Q: horne-scott@CS.YALE.EDU (Scott Horne) 24 Oct 90
S: Word processor, Polish
R: KAMINSKI-S@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (kaminski) 27 Oct 90
>[suggests Word Perfect]
R: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) 31 Oct 90
>ChiWriter is unfortunately a little hard to find. Just in case you
>have trouble that way, here's the address of the manufacturer:
>Horstmann Software Design Corporation, P.O. Box 5039, San Jose, CA 95150
S: Word processor, Russian
Q: uunet!microsoft!randyd (William R. DAY) 11 Apr 90
Q: asobolev@emdeng.Dayton.NCR.COM (Alex.Sobolev) 3 Apr 90
R: princeton!idacrd!gmk (Gary M. Kuhn) 12 Apr 90
>We use ChiWriter from Horstman software in San Jose, CA, (408) 298-0828,
>for Russian and math. $180 gets you 17 fonts and the font editor, and
>support for dot matrix printers. Very helpful over the phone.
R: DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET (Dimitri Vulis)
>I've been involved with the work on a Russian version of TeX.
>It works and is freely available. There's a mailing list RUSTEX-L
>on LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU.
>American Math Society's Cyrillic fonts for TeX (Canon engine, 300 dpi)
>is available from AMS, P.O.Box 1571, Annex station, Providence, RI
>02901-1571 for about $40 for s/h.
>I've written a Cyrillic code page for MS-DOS, <MSDOS.SCREEN>CYRILIC2.ARC
>on SIMTEL20.
R: forbes@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Jeff Forbes)
>Check terminator.cc.umich.edu in msdos directory.
R: dlawyer@balboa.eng.uci.edu (David Lawyer)
>Try DOSGOST UUEARC from LISTSERV@UBVM.bitnet.
R: ruslan@uncecs.edu (Robin C. LaPasha)
>Cornell U has a special package to go along with WordPerfect;
>for about $50 you get screen fonts and printer support.
>
>Note the way-cool Glasnost collection of Cyrillic PostScript
>fonts now out by Casady and Greene. Expensive but looks nice.
>
>Nota Bene now has a Cyrillic version.
>PC-Write with the Duke Language Toolkit might work.
Q: fredb@ferret.rtech.com (Fred Buechler) 5 Jun 90
R: wallaces@ucs.indiana.edu (Steve Wallace) 6 Jun 90
>Woodsmith Software (812) 988-2137 sells WordPerfect fonts.
R: djb@wjh12.harvard.edu (David J. Birnbaum) 6 Jun 90
>AATSEEL Newsletter, Vol 32, Letter 6, May 1990 contains a complete survey
>of computing in Cyrillic.
S: Word processor, Spanish
Q: uunet!bcstec!bcsfse!dare (Larry Dare) 3 Jul 90
S: Word5.0 equations converter
Q: leoh@hcxio.hdw.csd.harris.com (Leo Hinds) 12 Apr 90
>Converting to roff/pic/tbl/eqn.
S: WordPerfect drivers, how to obtain
R: eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu (Eugene Wang) 14 Apr 90
>Call WordPerfect's BBS at (801) 225-4414. There they have printer
>drivers for all the ones that they support. The printer drivers are
>all compressed using PKZIP and are generally no larger than 20K.
>To create your own driver, use the PTR program supplied with the program.
>You can order the manual from WPCorp for a nominal fee (around $10).
R: mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) 2 Aug 90
>From area 12 of the WPCorp BBS, 1-801-225-4414
S: WordPerfect, mailing list
R: IKDC0@EBCCUAB1.BITNET (Javier Castro) 2 Oct 90
>Send a "subscribe wp50-l your name" message to LISTSERV@HEARN.BITNET
R: MAINT%UQAM.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca (Peter Jones) 12 Oct 90
>To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@UBVM.bitnet on BITNET containing:
>HELP (optional)
>SUBSCRIBE WP50-L Your name
S: WordPerfect, producing Postscript
Q: swamy@cs.ubc.ca (H.V. Sreekantaswamy) 11 Oct 90
R: will@ils.nwu.edu (William Fitzgerald) [same as below] 11 Oct 90
R: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) 12 Oct 90
>Go to the "Select Printer" screen off the main Printer screen. Go to
>the Apple LaserWriter IINTX driver, and select (E)dit. Change the
>(P)ort to "(O)ther", and then specify the filename you want to print
>to.
S: XMS specifications
R: david@metapyr.UUCP (David Relson) 31 May 90
>XMS (eXtended Memory Specification) is available from Microsoft Corp
>(800) 426-9400.
Q: danderer@brahms.udel.edu (Dave Anderer) 18 Feb 91
S: X-windows
Q: akempka@eecs.wsu.edu (Tony Kempka) 6 Feb 91