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ami pro and pctools compress doesn t like being moved has anyone had problems with ami pro after running pctools v compress i have not corrupted data due to having caches other than pc cache running so that is not it the first time i try to run ami pro after loading windows it loads but causes i think it was a segmentation fault in amipro exe right before it finishes with all times after that only managing to get to the logo box that first pops up when it begins loading and then causes a general protection fault in module amiproui dll at i have not been able to fix this problem except by reinstalling ami pro this has happened twice with both times being after having ran compress on my hard drive btw i am not running stacker or any other disk compression programs and if you don t already know pctools compress is actually a defragger despite it s name my system is a mhz with mb of ram and a nec oem hard drive etc but that shouldn t make a difference please email me as i can t keep up with the newsgroup and it will cut down on net traffic anyways thanks derek dpiaseck jarthur claremont edu
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re w wg novell in article apr csc canterbury ac nz cctr csc canterbury ac nz nick fitzgerald pc software consultant csc uoc nz writes in article rh mi ea msuinfo cl msu edu bilan cps msu edu thomas j bilan writes if i put lastdrive z in my config sys netx will run but i can t access drive f to log in to novell if i don t put lastdrive z in my config sys i can t access other w wg drives from the file manager it seems that there should be a way to make netx work with the lastdrive statement in my config sys first off i haven t used w wg but i think that s about to change the problem is the lastdrive command and the way netware in general and in this case netx in particular adds drives to the device chain setting lastdrive z means there are no unassigned as opposed to unused drive letters for netware to use as it tacks its drive mappings onto the end of the existing list of drives w wg obviously attaches its network drives to existing unused drive letters i d guess the next thing i d try is something like lastdrive m which on most machines will leave a fair swathe of drives for w wg and still allow up to netware drive mappings as well w wg requires dos drives i use lastdrive j which makes my first novell drive k and leaves me drives g h i and j for w wg my local dos drives use a f ron
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dos eid b i have a mb hard drive what should i set the compression ratio at using dos s double disk do i have to format erase everything to double the full mb to can i just make a mirror of my hard drive thanx the help darren lavallee wm v origin csrn files lines internet usenet
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re canon bj bubblejet and hp deskjet justin whitton ma jjw isis ajax rsre mod uk wrote in article c eki kvp vcd hp com edmoore vcd hp com ed moore writes thomas d fellrath nd edu nd edu wrote i think the ink now used in the deskjet family is water fast i ve had pictures ruined by a few drops of rain these were colour pictures from a deskjet c mind you it could have been acid rain the black ink is waterfast but the color isn t i use a bj ex ink dries fast but it really doesn t like getting wet justin whitton at ma jjw hermes uk mod relay where no man has gone before after august mail ma jjw brunel ac uk disclaimer my opinions count for nothing except when the office is empty i m a student intelligence bob taylor hp vancouver
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reboot when i start windows recently the following problem has arrisen the first time i turn on my computer when windows starts from my autoexec after the win title screen the computer reboots on its own usually the second time after reboot or from the dos prompt everything works fine s far as i remember i have not changed my config sys or autoxec bat or win ini i can t remember whether this problem occured before i optimized defragmented my disk and created a larger swap file thank you mathcad system sx mb stacker win dos carlos g niederstrasser only two things are infinite princeton planetary society the universe and human stupidity and i m not sure about the former einstein carlosn phoenix princeton edu space phoenix princeton edu ad astra per ardua nostra
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summary borland microsoft database c libraries well i m amazed at how successful this exercise was i received responses and requests for summary thanks to everyone who made it possible on my own i was able to find out about codebase accsys and q e codebase and accsys are c libraries without sql q e is a windows application that can be communicated through windows dde calls where you send a sql string and receive the results most people wrote to tell me about the paradox engine from borland other products mentioned were microsoft s odbc accsys quadbase codebase rbase and q e only odbc quadbase rbase and q e have sql for myself i decided on codebase mostly because it has an ansi c portability version that runs under dos unix etc and includes the source code and portability is important in my application it works with dbase foxpro or clipper files however i feel that microsoft s odbc looks very promising it s mostly a formalisation of building and submitting sql queries and formatting query results as the responses say it s available via ftp except it s effectively unusuable without two manuals the odbc programmer s reference and the odbc sdk guide moreover odbc doesn t actually interpret sql and liase with databases that s up to drivers that should be provided by database manufacturers also it s windows only it s actually an extension to the windows sdk nevertheless it s a start at a sql interface standard and should make life interesting in the future here s my original post followed by the responses separated by a line of asterisks does anyone know if borland or microsoft have libraries for accessing their respective databases paradox foxpro from within c programs i d really like to be able to build a sql query string and pass it to a function which returns the query results in some format failing that any other access would still be better than nothing i d also like to hear of third party libraries for doing the same thing if other people are interested i ll prepare a summary of what i m told and post it thanks to all borland has a product called paradox engine that does just what you want the current version is which is fully compatible with ack paradox why the versions are different i don t know pd engine was compatible with pdox and it consists of a rather broad library of functions for accesing database files from both pascal i think turbo pascal and up and c i think either microsoft or borland now reading the box it s borland paradox engine database frameworks works with any borland c c mocrosoft c or later turbo c for windows turbo pascal or later tp for windows or later for framework applications bc or later or ms c c it does have support for object useage i haven t had a real chance to really use it myself but it looks fairly complete i m planning to use it this summer rick rick osterberg osterber husc harvard edu harvard yard mail center cambridge ma usa borland has a product which is called paradox engine i do not know about ms the paradox engine i know very well and it definitiely not a replacement for sql but it will enable you to save and restore records has locking et al supposedly the paradox for windows was impemented on top of it charles parker phone technical support centerline software inc fax cparker centerline com cyberspace momma don t let yer children grow up to be cowboys i know borland has a library of routines for accessing paradox from within a c program they recently came out with version this works with both borland and microsoft s c compiler shailesh bhobe att psp smb ms has put their odbc sdk into the public domain it s big i believe mb but worth downloading over a fast link look at ftp uu net in vendor microsoft odbc sdk also some companies are starting to provide sql engines i just got one for rbase not exactly cheap at but it allows programs in c or vbasic under dos or windows to talk to data bases using sql functions in your code hth walter knopf fermilab knopf fnal fnal gov check out the odbc toolikt from microsoft it is available on ftp uu net vendor microsoft odbc sdk this is the way that we ve chosen to access databases from all of our apps mj ppppp sssssiiiiii specialists in ms windows and windows nt development pp ppss ii call for information about our ooa ood tool ooaid ppppp ssss ii michaeljon miller mikem apertus com pp ss ii proficient solutions inc pp sssss iiiiii holmes ave so minneapolis mn borland sells the paradox engine which is a c language interface to paradox dbase btrieve ans asci files they also sell database frameworks which includes the engine plus a collection with source of c classes for using the engine earl roethke eroethke ems cdc com i actualy have paradox engine it is a library of functions large model for accessing the paradox s databases it seems to be working fine but i never did try it thouroughly it costs hope it will help you from david lefebvre david hp speedware com borland provides a database lib called paradox engine which can access and use the database files aswell as many other things gary bell nellads cc monash edu au gary bell department of robotics and digital technology faculty of computing caulfield campus monash university australia paradox engine is the library for paradox artur babecki artur ii uj edu pl borland sells the paradox engine which has all the paradox calls in it its hardly sql though you can do searches on key fields and on indivual fields but no comparison operators like so its pretty painful in my opinion do do anything besides simple retrieval and inserts updates i m currently using it i have an eval copy and i ve linked it in to some entry screens i ve written the engine library adds about k to the size of the program but you can load it as an overlay using borland s vroom manager now borland claims that later versions of the engine will have sql support but they don t really expect it till late in the year or even next year they are trying to get thrid parties to help out if you have any other questions let me know mike kamlet mike vpnet chi il us yes borland sells their paradox engine separately it has c c and pascal interfaces although the underlying interface is in c well at least for version of the engine which i have costed at egghead they now have version of the engine and a separate c class package for it michael d kersenbrock adc kentrox portland oregon michaelk kentrox com uunet kentrox michaelk i ve used accsys for paradox new version is almost ready for paradox to access paradox files from c its pretty good not sql though have heard of borland paradox engine or some such which is supposed to do likewise but not sure of what it is exactly hope this helps good luck chris from fernand slinky cs nyu edu christopher fernandes borland sells their paradox engine it s a library of functions for accessing paradox db files it comes with libraries for ms c bcc turbo pascal v and i believe it comes with turbo pascal win libraries as well the c libraries come in both dos and windows flavors the win stuff being dll s when i got it it also came with crystal reports which is a graphical report generator it allows you to create a generic form and use it within a compiled program using pdox engine i don t know if they still offer it or what the current price is i paid something like for an upgrade from the earlier version though hope this helps david taylor the commander it is easier to change the internet gt c prism gatech edu specification to fit the program also dtaylor cfd gatech edu than vice versa and root cfd gatech edu author unknown but very wise if you want to do sql from within your programs check out quadbase i don t have their address oops yes i do quadbase systems inc lucerne dr sunnyvale ca usa phone voice fax ask for the sql win demo disk it looked good to me i have a background in embedded sql in ingres this looked real similar it s a little expensive but if you order the demo and then just wait they will probably send you a special offer that ll probably run about us good luck best tom delosh from delosh emunix emich edu tom delosh borland has the paradox engine library it has libraries for both c and pascal to access paradox files under dos windows but for paradox i believe you d have buy have the sql link since pdox itself isn t sql compliant i ve used the engine for over a year now and have been pretty satisfied with it under dos it s a real pig it tacks on about k to the size of your programs tim ma associate programmer university of utah email tim src cppa utah edu i don t know about microsoft but borland sells the paradox engine for c c pascal in one package and if you want dbase compatible files there is a library called codebase from sequiter software that works with c c from davidr rincon ema rockwell com david j ray we re using q e database libraries to do what you describe it s a set of dll s accessed through a common api to talk to most of the major database formats we re using it to build an application that queries several databases using sql queries all access using q e is done using sql the package is available through microway in melbourne i believe it is produced by pioneer systems in the us we have no association with microway or pioneer systems other than being satisfied customers feel free to mail me for further information chris programming for nsw national parks and wildlife service chris hutchinson box u research programmer university of new england chris sulaw law su oz au armidale nsw paradox engine provides a complete set of c libraries for accessing paradox tables however it seems that it supports only borland turbo c and microsoft c when i tried to compile the engine s sample applications with the waterloo watcom c c bit compiler it complains that the library file llibce lib is missing even though i am quite certain that the file is not part of watcom c or the engine anybody have any success with other c compilers ron k ng hydro on ca i m currently developing an app with borland s paradox engine for c it also comes in pascal which has recently gone to version i e px engine is compatible with paradox and downward compat w there are indeed c libs for fox access but i can t think of the names offhand i m sure someone has already written you in that regard i think i just saw an add for a fox lib in the c users journal which is a good place to look for this type of package in general by the way i ve been paying my dues to learn a lot of the quirks of px eng over the past year wouldn t recommend it for a complex multiuser app but i m staying with it for now it s like a bad marriage i ve got too much time invested in learning and work arounds but if your interest is limited to a simple single user interface you want to build your own sql engine i take it px engine will do the job easily it doesn t sound like you ll be bumping into any of the gotchas if you do write me i may be able to point you in the right direction from raymond cruzio santa cruz ca us raymond borland has a paradox engine and database framework which gives you a c and assembler api to paradox databases this is part of boca borland s object component architecture they have technical briefs on boca pdoxeng and other products of theirs from jdm jumbo read tasc com james d mcnamara james d mcnamara tasc walkers brook drive reading ma x john bongiovanni systems analyst orbital engine company perth australia oecjtb oec orbital dialix oz au bongo alumni caltech edu opinions expressed are my own and not those of my organisation
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re telephone of cirrus logic in article c m s m news hawaii edu chen galileo ifa hawaii edu hua chen writes is there anybody who knows the telephone number of cirrus logic co maker of a graphic card please reply to chen cfa harvard edu thank you very much hua chen center for astrophysics bbs number ron
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re program manager two questions in apr vpnet chi il us lisbon vpnet chi il us gerry swetsky writes can you set up a short cut key to return to the program manager i know ctl esc esc will do it but i d rather set it up so i can avoid the task list and get back to the p m with alt f you might try the recorder and make a micro i done that to do certain operations in a windows app that didn t have the ability to use a micro it should be in the accessories window the only problem is that it has to be runing for it to work but good luck warren e fridy iii st street north st petersburg fl internet wefiii axion palan palantir com uucp palan deep axion wefiii
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re drivers for stealth doug ward writes i recently purchased a diamond stealth video card and received the wrong drivers does anyone know where i can ftp the proper drivers the dstlth file at cica does not work with this video card please respond to doug sun sws uiuc edu thank you doug ward if you want to get them and get them now also the most up to date use the bbs at they may take an hour to download so do it when rates are low yeah i know it costs but locking up your system gets old quick maybe someone has them on the net i ve got the stealth drivers david
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mouse jumpiness solved can t guarantee that it ll work for everyone but i finally fixed my mouse jumpiness problems i installed a bus mouse sorry i didn t say the solution was free in the past i d tried everything with my microsoft serial mouse cleaning it unloading all kinds of tsrs turning off smartdrv write cacheing changing com ports nothing worked yesterday i finally broke down and bought a mouse systems bus mouse the improvement is even better than i had imagined so much so that my old mouse must have been jumpy all the time i just thought it was jumpy sometimes and i had gotten so used to it i didn t notice my wife who uses the computer about once a month noticed the improvement literally within a second i can t say anything about other bus mice but with the mouse systems one you ll have to give up either com or lpt to an irq also if you don t know mouse systems mice have three buttons the driver includes a utility that lets you assign keystrokes to the middle button hope this helps someone else if you re anywhere near as frustrated as i was it s well worth the stephen thomas at t tridom email sat eng tridom com attmail tridom sat
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is kermit available for windows hello all i was wondering is the kermit package the actual package not a different program with kermit file transfers available for microsoft windows any information would be greatly appreciated please e mail or post thanks in advance unabashed shabba ranks fan steve frampton frampton vicuna ocunix on ca steve frampton i collect postcards if you send me one from a princess st your area i ll send one in return send to kingston ontario don t forget both email and mailing address canada k l c
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re summary borland microsoft database c libraries could you post a description of objectbase your chosen product thanks
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win nt file systems ok will some one out there tell me why how dos can read i havn t tried writing in case it breaks something the win nt ntfs file system i thought ntfs was supposed to be better than the fat system keith
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mail order sales billing receivables program surely some one of you is familiar with what a mail order company goes through this company has only a few products but thousands of clients i need a sales billing and receivables program to handle the thing but i need to be able to customize it myself own the source etc anyone willing to sell me the basic stuff in any development language i ll be willing to pay about to it has to be ready now i need this sort of solution immediately with more time i ll just develop one myself if you can have me a prototype in two weeks you can make some quick cash dixon berry i see the light cfdeb ux cts eiu edu at the end of the tunnel now eastern illinois university thanks bill clinton booth library someone please tell me computer resource center it s not a train cracker
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re ami pro and pctools compress doesn t like being moved sorry about that don t want to alarm anyone i don t think there is any correlation between the crashes and pctools i reinstalled ami pro and ran compress again with no problems i think problems may have been related to filling my disk until it had bytes left while ftping although i would think it wouldn t matter since ami pro wasn t running at the time and i made space available immediately anyways but whatever the cause it is working now derek
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re workspace managers for win a small review cah tactix rain com chris huey writes jamie scuglia jamie zikzak apana org au wrote thanks to all those people who recommended workspace managers for windows i found shareware workspace managers from australia s ms windows archive monu cc monash edu au which mirrors some sites in the u s the three i found were workspaces wspace zip review deleted workshift wrksft zip review deleted bigdesk and backmenu backdesk zip review deleted i really appreciate this information however given that i don t have direct internet access which means i don t have archie access i must resort to using ftpmail this means that i need the site name and the directory where these workspace managers are located backdesk zip is on cica but i m not sure of the whole directory another to throw into the running is topdesk it is alsow on cica but i m not sure where it is more complicated then backdesk but i ve found it to be more stable and more usefull i recomend it to people who have already used a virtual desktop oh yeh it s free copyright microsoft and sanford staab carl zmola cicero spc uchicago edu
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dos w wg problem i am running windows windows for work groups and just loaded dos what s happening appears as a graphics problem with file manager i ve added some menubar buttons but there appears to be a gray boxed region that covers the top rds of the button row these buttons are in a row below the pulldown menus the pulldown menus look fine and the disk label region looks fine but you only see the bottom few pixels of the task buttons anyone else experience this thanks david ransier davidr pdx mentorg com these comments are my own i paid for office them i own them they re not my fax employers and you can t have them
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re canon bj bubblejet and hp deskjet in article c n k l vcd hp com robertt vcd hp com bob taylor writes justin whitton ma jjw isis ajax rsre mod uk wrote in article c eki kvp vcd hp com edmoore vcd hp com ed moore writes thomas d fellrath nd edu nd edu wrote i think the ink now used in the deskjet family is water fast i ve had pictures ruined by a few drops of rain these were colour pictures from a deskjet c mind you it could have been acid rain the black ink is waterfast but the color isn t i use a bj ex ink dries fast but it really doesn t like getting wet justin whitton at ma jjw hermes uk mod relay where no man has gone before after august mail ma jjw brunel ac uk disclaimer my opinions count for nothing except when the office is empty i m a student intelligence bob taylor hp vancouver
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for sale borland c w application frameworks please excuse me if this is inappropriate to post here but i do not read these groups normally and i did not see any pc related marketplace newsgroups for sale borland c with application frameworks full professional developer kit borland c programming package including unopened software unopened manuals and registration card software includes still plastic wrapped high density inch disks for borland c total of diskettes in individually wrapped packages each disk has borland c and bc app frameworks on label amish system utilities for windows one high density disk amish launch amish desk utilities for windows phar lap s dos extender lite version one hd disk manuals include still plastic wrapped manuals include i e unopened a boland windows api volumes i reference guide ii reference guide iii windows reference guide b borland turbo debugger user s guide c borland turbo profiler user s guide d borland turbo assembler users guide e borland c user s guide integrated environment optimization command line compiler installation f borland c programmer s guide language structure class libraries advanced prgramming techniques anci c implementaion g borland c library reference runtime library global variables cross reference h borland c tools and utilities guide error messages winsightm make help resource compilers tlink i borland object windows for c user s guide tutorials class reference opened no plastic wrapping but unread manuals include a borland turbo assembler quick reference guide b borland turbo vision for c user s guide c borland resource workshop user s guide this package was purchased by a former employee of my father s and my father has asked me to try and sell it since neither of us have any use for it retails for most software houses have it for approx i am asking if you are interested please e mail me directly because i do not normally read this newsgroup aaron herskowitz aherskow alleg edu allegheny college meadville pennsylvania
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strange enhanced behavior howdy we have been having a real problem with an ast sx machine with mb of ram we installed paradox for windows but i don t think paradox is the real problem here and the installation went ok windows is installed on a local drive paradox installed on a novell network netware v or greater dos win but the program will not load in enchanted mode the thermometer bar goes to and we then either get a invalid command com or a windows nastygram talking about an illegal instruction i ve checked out the command com thing but as a long time c programmer i ve crashed my share of machines with pointer problems and this is a standard behavior anyway paradox will run in standard mode but not enhanced we also have quattro pro windows exhibiting the same behavior spent about hours with borland s tech people with no avail the guy i talked to a microsoft didn t want to really dig in and help as he gave up pretty quickly somewhat disappointing really i expected more from microsoft you d think with all the millions of windows installations that they would have seen all the possible problems but i guess not microsoft had sent us a page fax on fixing uae and general protection faults sorry i can t fax anything out of here so please don t ask try microsoft which we tried we did everything they said and still no luck so if you can help please mail me this problem is driving us nuts i will greatly appreciate any information anyone can pass on thanks kelly this is the real signature please ignore the following demon signature kelly j grant grantk nosc mil hancock st the next time someone asks you if you san diego ca are a god you say yes kelly grant grantk manta nosc mil computer sciences corp important manta uucp won t get to me hancock street if you are given lemons see if you can trade for san diego ca chocolate me
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re why is my mouse so jumpy ms mouse ecktons ucs byu edu sean eckton writes i have a microsoft serial mouse and am using mouse com was using i think but switched to to see if it was any better vertical motion is nice and smooth but horizontal motion is so bad i sometimes can t click on something because my mouse jumps around i can be moving the mouse to the right with relatively uniform motion and the mouse will move smoothly for a bit then jump to the right then move smoothly for a bit then jump again maybe this time to the left about inch this is crazy i have never had so much trouble with a mouse before anyone have any solutions try this flip your mouse over and open up the cover that holds the mouse ball in place remove the ball and inside you should see probably rollers if any of the rollers have a tiny layer of caked on dirt dust or otherwise unidentifiable scum on them carefully scrape it off with a small knife xacto works great be careful you do not want to gauge the rollers just clean off the dirt put the ball back in put the cover on and there you are i clean a couple of dozen of these every month here another symptom is that when you move the mouse it seems to click along if this doesn t solve your problem at least you have a clean mouse i highly recommend using a proper soft mouse pad and if you are a clean freak place it in your drawer every night or when you don t use it to keep the dust off personally i prefer track balls oh which brings me to another point if your mouse or trackball tracks optically and the sunlight is streaming through the window onto your mouse trackball you may notice that it will stop working if this happens to you close the curtains or blinds or simply shade your pointing device and see if that helps peter goudswaard goudswaa sfu ca preferred pgoudswa cln etc bc ca pgoudswa cue bc ca there s no gift like the present goudswaard s observation
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re winqvtnet with ndis on token ring
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re more diamond ss x dil admin mhs unc edu dave laudicina writes has anyone experienced a faint shadow at all resolutions using this card is only in windows i have replaced card and am waiting on latest drivers also have experienced general protection fault errors in wspdpsf drv on winword tools option menu and in winfax setup i had a ati ultra but was getting genral protection fault errors in an spss application these card manufactures must have terrible quality control to let products on the market with so many bugs what a hassle running on gateway dx thx dave l might the problem not be with the video monitor instead many of our monitors as they age develop shadows on white and bright colors peter goudswaard goudswaa sfu ca preferred pgoudswa cln etc bc ca pgoudswa cue bc ca there s no gift like the present goudswaard s observation
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what does the bmp format mean what exactly does the windows bitmap format look like i mean how is the data stored width height no of colours bitmap data i couldn t find anything in ths user manual is there any other reference material which would give me this information thanks andrew
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dll s and registerclass createwindow hi all i have a dll in which i register a class and create a window of that class type both calls require a module instance handle hinstance petzold s book says that it is best to use the module instance handle of the calling program not the module instance handle of the dll page i have two questions is there a way to find out the module instance handle of a module what are the possible problems with using the instance handle of the dll thanks in advance mike mike smith e mail m smith ma bull com bull hn information systems inc phone concord road ma a fax billerica ma usa
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roman bmp in response to the requests for cool bitmaps i am posting one due to the resolution and size it is in parts this is a uuencoded bitmap x colors the picture is a marbled gazebo on a desert with blue sky background the size is just right for centered wallpaper on a x display because it leaves a border at the bottom just big enough for icons to fit in without being on top of the picture reguarding image quality and resolution i have not seen much better for those of you who haven t worked with pieced image files here is how to put it back together save the parts to individual files use a text editor to remove the header and footer in each file concatinate all the parts into a single file uudecode the file there are tools available to do this without the hassle such as uuconvert unix and uucoder windows if neccesary i could post these tools or where to get them by ftp let me know keywords bitmap wallpaper
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stealth video drivers i recently purchased a diamond stealth video card and received the wrong drivers does anyone know where i can ftp the windows video drivers for the stealth i tried the drivers at cica and they don t work the right drivers are on the diamond bbs but the file is almost meg and it would take a while to download them at baud any information would be appreciated please contact me at doug sun sws uiuc edu thank you doug ward
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netware win fileman is there a update or something that will allow a person when using novell and windows file manager to view the files with the name of the person who created it or changed it like the novell command ndir tim osburn osburn halcyon com tim osburn kb gbq osburn halcyon com bellevue washington
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re bbbbig problem with w w print file help in article mar jupiter sun csd unb ca dwoo unb ca writes to all the w w experts i have a file that is three pages long with to line equations plus a by diagram the size of this file is about kb before unlinking all the embedded objects and kb after unlinking all the embedded objects well when i print it since i don t have a laser printer i have to send it to a print file w w gives me back a bbbbbbig file that is well over mb long i just fail to see how a k file can be boosted to a mb file obviously i will not able to carry this mb file to the public printer unless i find myself a network card a cable etc could anyone please enlighten me with a solution i already try to print a page at a time it still won t fit into a hd floppy thanx a mil dennis woo department of mechanical engineering e mail dwoo unb ca university of new brunswick tel i once had this problem all i did was to copy the whole doc to a new file the problem was gone hope this helps hua
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re tidying up after removing an ole server in article c y kz liverpool ac uk qq liverpool ac uk chris wooff writes a while ago i installed spss for windows as part of an evaluation once the evaluation was complete i duly deleted the software from my pc unfortunately there is still a ghost of spss left when i run something like write and go to embed an object then spss chart appears on the list of objects i m offered i looked around all the obvious ini files without success the next thing i tried was looking for the string spss chart in every file in the windows directory it turned up in a file called req dat or reg dat unfortunately the file was binary and so i didn t feel inclined to edit it i d welcome a solution for removing spss from the list of ole servers chris wooff c wooff liverpool ac uk you can edit that file with a utility that comes with windows called regedit registration info editor bob hodge i m going fishing you got worms yeah but i m going anyway
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re win nt file systems in article apr spider co uk keiths spider co uk keith smith writes ok will some one out there tell me why how dos can read i havn t tried writing in case it breaks something the win nt ntfs file system i thought ntfs was supposed to be better than the fat system keith dos cannot read the ntfs file system although the ntfs file system can read the fat file system of dos i have windowsnt on a seperate partition on my machine at home and i can read my dos disks from windows nt but not vice versa as far as the robustness of the file system it seems to be very fast and i have yet to have a single problem with it that doesn t prove it s better than the fat system though read the book inside windows nt it will give you all the info you re looking for scott scott reimert reimert mamacass etdesg trw com standard disclaimer redondo beach ca blah blah blah always store beer in a cool dark place
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re viewsonic experience sought vs vs nec fg i d appreciate if you can email or post you positive or negative experience with this monitor especially compared to to nanao i i d summarize if i got multiple responses i bought a viewsonic for use at home but after a week i took it back i felt for the money my nec fg that i use at work was a much better monitor the nec is sharper flatter less distorted and more stable i have heard complaints from people about the nec fg series having some quality control problems but mine has been in use for about a year with no problems at all there was nothing really broken with the viewsonic but overall it did not match up i used my ati graphics ultra in setup mode to push the frequencies to their limits and the viewsonic exhibited some problems that the nec did not i personally like the non etched nec with the ocli filter and the tube on the was not as nice the had some uncorrectable pincusion and edge distortion problems also it would change brightness when i switched modes and i was constantly having to fiddle with the controls and the yoke was crooked and i had no way to compensate for the raster that tilted downhill on the postive side although not as handsome as the nec the had a smaller footprint and was not as heavy i have heard that panasonic owns viewsonic and the model is being sold through oem channels with a panasonic label on it if it s available that way at a lower cost i could get more serious about it for now the nec has my vote but i m searching for one of the new cheaper nec fge s to see if it s just as good as its older brother the fg before i decide which one to buy i have no experience with the nanao i can never keep the nanao models straight and don t have any place i can walk in to get a good comparison of all models standard employer disclaimers apply keith w johnson tektronix gpi nd info services wilsonville or usa internet keith w johnson tek com voice fax
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rfd comp os ms windows nt misc setup this is the official request for discussion rfd for the creation of two new newsgroups for microsoft windows nt this is a second rfd replacing the one originally posted in january and never taken to a vote the proposed groups are described below name comp os ms windows nt setup status unmoderated purpose discussions about setting up and installing windows nt and about system and peripheral compatability issues for windows nt name comp os ms windows nt misc status unmoderated purpose miscellaneous non programming discussions about using windows nt including issues such as security networking features console mode and windows win compatability rationale microsoft nt is the newest member of the microsoft windows family of operating systems or operating environments for those who wish to argue about the meaning of an os the family ranges from modular windows through windows and windows for workgroups to windows nt at the high end to date microsoft has shipped over beta copies and pre release sdks of windows nt the actual release is slated for may june while windows nt has an entirely new design internally it shares an application programming interface with the other members of the windows family its win api includes the win api used in win dows and the win s api subset win less threads networking and security can be used to create bit applications for windows the user interface is also practically identical to that of windows with the addition of logins and a few other features it uses program manager file manager and other applets and generally pre sents an identical appearance to the user many of the announced windows nt applications are ports of existing windows apps and nt also runs existing applications thus it appears logical that windows nt should share the following groups with the other members of the windows family comp os ms windows apps comp os ms windows programmer tools comp os ms windows programmer misc comp os ms windows programmer win the following groups are also clearly applicable to windows nt as well as windows comp os ms windows announce comp os ms windows advocacy in conclusion the only clear argument for the separation of the windows and windows nt hierarchies is different internal structures of windows and windows nt and yet operating systems such as os macintosh os xenix and coherent all have undergone major rewrites without having been split into separate newsgroup hierarchies further windows is due for a major rewrite itself in when the fully bit protected mode and with dos built in next generation windows chicago debuts next year surely it should remain in the same hierarchy and what then would be the jus tification for separating windows nt from other windows versions discussion period the discussion period will run from april to may voting the cfv call for votes will be issued around may based on the feedback received during the discussion period no votes will be accepted prior to the cfv tom haapanen tomh metrics com software metrics inc waterloo ont stick your index fingers into both corners of your mouth now pull up that s how the corrado makes you feel car january
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dde frustrations can you help i am starting to work on a project using dde to transfer data the application came with an excel macro which can transfer the data i need to port it to w w uses a very different setup for dde macros does anyone have any suggestions as to good references i have downloaded ww windows dynamic exchange dde the ms application note any books worth getting the specifics are server application dionex ai chromatography data system client application for windows v except for the macro dionex did not provide any documentation for dde also i am having problems because i am trying to develop the application on my pc but to actually get data you need to be connect to the instrument any help here would be appreciated too thanks leon m olszewski nothing is worse than having an itch you can internet leono uiuc edu never scratch leon bladerunner
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dos window macros does anyone know a program that will record keyboard sequences that i do in a windowed dos box i would like to have something that starts a telnet program and then logs me into my accounts windows recorder doesn t seem to be able to record the key sequences thanks steve
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adobe and adobe i wanted to create a postcript file with win to print it on a laserwriter ii it created a postcript file version adobe but our laser accept only adobe how resolve this problem thanks
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wanted bus card for logitech mouse i ve acquired an old logitech series button mouse and i m told that this is a bus mouse does anyone want to unload an old pc clone bus card for this mouse email replies to bobmon cs indiana edu thanks
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flame therapy i think it would be a great idea to have a new group created comp sys ibm pc flame therapy anybody agree
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re warning on copy ii pc board help on copying in c zwc lk acsu buffalo edu v kcbp ubvmsd cc buffalo edu mitch writes now does anyone know a way to back up the masters of word perfect for windows windows and norton so i can send another copy to my permanent non college address for safe keeping students keep borrowing my masters and i m worried they ll get screwed up please don t tell me you realize of course that inevitably some anal retentive moron is going to come along and wag his fingers and his jowls in outrage that personal politics are more important than smcap bold font god pt the law smcap bold font but that s irrelevant to the problem here windows came with my system but on disks i hate using disks so i copied them over to high density s using xcopy it worked fine in fact for a while i was changing configurations and whatnot so much that i decided to try putting them on the hard disk not only can you copy them over with one disk per directory but if you want to you can simply copy them all into one directory makes it a lot nicer when you re switching printer emulations around norton i don t have much experience with but when a friend s system crashed we restored from a backup rather than from the originals and it worked fine this would imply that arj a r norton c nu would create a workable backup and if you did a full install the first time you ve got the whole thing never played with wp for windows i m not too big of a fan of anything from utah good luck disclaimer don t copy that floppy tm just say no r respect your elders for the wages of sin is sic death and a hefty legal bill do you offend rob rob kudla acm rpi edu keywords oldfield jane s leather yes win phish light blue right bondage r e m dtp steely dan ds fnm owl genesis in the spaceship the silver spaceship the lion takes control
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re pc keyboard in article hxg nxl rpi edu wen yingyang ral rpi edu john wen writes from wen yingyang ral rpi edu john wen subject pc keyboard summary location of cap lock and ctrl keys on pc keyboard keywords cap lock and ctrl key date mon apr gmt does anyone know of a software that can exchange caps lock and ctrl keys on the at style keyboard i m looking for a memory resident program that can work with other programs rather than a feature in a specific program i am aware of a shareware program back and forth that provides this feature within that program thanks a program in the archive keymap zip on simtel and mirror sites in the msdos keyboard directory will do this it is written in assembler and it best if you have a compiler to create a new keyboard map it is possible however to use a binary editor to edit the provided compiled keyboard driver if you do not have a compiler i used hexed zip also available on simtel simply serach for the codes to locate the biginning of the normal keyboard map then swap the codes for the keys that you wish to swap see the keyboard directory of simtel for programs that report the scancode for each key to you some bios programs also have this info good luck pete peter j mckinney pm longs lance colostate edu electrohydrodynamic laboratory fluid mechanics and wind engineering program civil engineering department colorado state university
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please help identify video hardware i need a device either an isa board or a subsystem which will take two rgb video signals and combine them according to a template the template can be as simple as a rectangular window with signal one being used for the interior and signal two for the exterior but i beleive fancier harware may also exist which i do not want to exclude from my search i know this sort of hardware exists for ntsc etc but i need it for rgb please email and or post any leads gordon lang glang smail srl ford com or glang holo srl ford com
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how long do monitors last well my inch vga x interlacing year old no brand monitor just bit the bullet i pressed the power switch and a few seconds later the power light went out with a pop gawd it s only been two and half years how long would normal monitors last i think the problem with my monitor is the power switch but the image was getting pretty dim anyway i needed to have my contrast all the way to the max and the screen did flicker from time to time is this normal hehehe or do i just have the worst of luck question what do i do now buy a new one get it fixed save up for a really good one and get by with a cheap ega monitor for now i rather save my money to upgrade my sx to though thanks what engineers say extensive effort is being applied on a fresh approach to the problem what they really mean we just hired three new guys we ll let them kick it around for a while robert bobby yung ry lehigh edu
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attn ken smith it is model number d a interlaced dp btw if you have a number to contact the company that would really be helpful to thanks for replying i was beginning to believe that i was never going to get a reply i posted this on the netnews bboard because the first message i sent to you was returned and i didn t know if my second message would get to you calvin
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re share your optimization tips in article pm pinnp geraldo cc utexas edu jbodnar ccwf cc utexas edu john bodnar writes according to e p unl edu edgar pearlstein here s another one my computer arrived with the following statement in its config sys file stacks i changed it to stacks and saved bytes maybe it could be lowered even more but i haven t tried it exactly regardless of what microsoft says i have set stacks on every single computer i have installed windows on from a simple sx up to dx with eisa motherboards ndi volante tiga adapters intel ethernet express cards and caching scsi controllers from dpt and dtc not a problem yet and the extra k gained means a lot with conventional memory gobbling programs like orcad and tango pcb john bodnar while we liked developing windows the university of texas at austin applications we never inhaled internet jbodnar ccwf cc utexas edu uucp cs utexas ut ccwf jbodnar borland ceo philippe kahn i remember reading somewhere qemm manual i think that stack is needed only for the windows setup program otherwise use stack rich
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gateway and ati lb problem i was wondering if anyone out there has had the same problem i am having with my gateway dx vl bus system with ati graphics ultra pro lb when i have my computer in any resolution other than x everything is fine but whenever i use it in x windows autocad gifs the screen gets about inches shorter at the very top and very bottom of the screen there is about a bar of black the screen isn t cut off it just squeezes everything into the smaller space and messes up the aspect ratio while i can manually change the v size on the back this is a pain in the ass and it just shouldn t happen anyway i ve called gateway numerous times and they haven t been able to help me at all two different times they sent me a new card and both times the new card didn t work at all in my computer they even tried to bill me for the first card because they didn t get it back in a couple of days when they told me over the phone that they would wait more than weeks before billing my card but their customer support is a different story so if anyone has had this same problem please let me know if you know what to do hell let me know if you don t have a solution just so i know i m not the only one with this problem thanks in advance jude m greer jmgree starbase spd louisville edu p s i already tried going into the mach install program and manually set ting up the card doesn t work whenever i try to increase the vertical size of the x screen it just starts to cut off the top and bottom
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re gw and simms in article bu edu nshah acs bu edu writes i have a gateway local bus system it has slots for simms that either have to use or mb simms my question i just received a x ns simm and it has pins the slot on the motherboard has at least or so pins did i get the wrong simm or can i still use my simm although not all the pins on the slot would be flilled i have never encountered such a long slot for simms before anyone have suggestions i can t get a hold of gateway yet thanks please post to the net or nshah acs bu edu yes you bought the wrong simms you need x or x which are pin simms these are better anyway becuase the send receive data in byte bit bit parity one for each byte chunks you will undoubtedly see these simms becoming more widely used in the near future jason jason walters jpw lehigh edu jpw pl eecs lehigh edu a k a modem mouth
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re intel the pentium and linux inabu ibm rz tu clausthal de arnd burghardt writes hi folks yesterday i visited the cebit hannover germany where intel was presenting the pentium processor they had four in words machines with this beast running so they presented it nicely unly by running picture shows this i could do on a the presentor promised it to be binary compatible to the i and i said i don t believe i showed him a one disk linux system emergency disk with patched lilo to boot from disk and said him convice me boot this no guts no glory a he decided no glory he won t let anybody touch his holy cows and not even boot a suspect os i thought by myself this is the coward of the day and went back to earth what cn we learn this technology is far from industrial standarts so you can expect this beast in your local computer shop at least in spring next year only my cents yes only your here s mine if i were running at a new chip at a trade show and had little to no real technical knowledge i wouldn t let some stranger with a diskette boot my demo machine if the demo machine is down too long people will not see my nice demos and if this purposted linux diskette is really something that will wipe the disk or is loaded with a virus i m in deep trouble no marketer in their right mind would let you do this unless they had specifically invited people to do so and provided machines to do it with we can we learn this technology will be shipping from pc vendors in may and will be i compatible the golden gryphon gryphon openage com the crown jewel of the american prison system president bill clinton on living in the white house openage the premier sco unix integrator in the washington d c area
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re warranty extension by credit company applies to the phurchase of computer huayong yang yang titan ucs umass edu wrote most if not all credit card companies offer to double the warranty up to one year namely if you make a purchase by a credit card you get additional warranty up to one year does it apply to the purchase of computers i wonder if anyone out there has used it is there any catch thanks in advance i am just about to post the results of my big computer purchase one of the key points was the ability to use my american express card i read the fine print between double warranty policies of amex and citibank visa sure both will allow you double warranty on computers but citibank has a maximum claim of could you imagine trying to get your monitor or mother board fixed for amex has no limit on claims remember if you use amex you must either send a copy of the warranty info to them in days from purchase or you must call them to pre register and then send them the paperwork within days of purchase my pre register pak arrived today citibank visa requires no pre registration ken
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another happy gateway owner since i ve been seeing all kinds of complaints regarding gateways lately on here i thought i post my recent pleasant experiences my machine dx v this past friday this was two weeks to the day from when i called the order in upon unboxing it i found everything to be in perfect order all the peripherals i ordered were properly installed jumbo cd rom i was very impressed with the quantity and quality of the gateway documentation all software came with the original disks and manuals the gateway manual itself is in a nice ring binder the ati gup came with build drivers all other software i specified microsoft office was properly installed the machine came right up out of the box and has been performing flawlessly it s been on all weekend and it hardly even reaches room temperature i think the big roomy tower case has a lot to do with it it s up and running dos with no problems i ve also read about some people having problems with high speed serial communications i used the dos interlink program which lets me link to my old computer via a serial port at k baud it then maps the other machines two hard disks as my disks f g you can cd to these drives and either run programs or copy files it s almost like a peer peer lan except you can also run programs on the other machine it s not a two way street the other machine is the server and this machine is the client so thats where it seems to differ from the peer to peer stuff for a bundled dos utility its very impressive my jumbo took about minutes to back up mb of data i also by passed any potential gateway monitor problems by taking the credit and applying it towards a nec fg i love this monitor so i m glad there is some good news gateway stories and i m glad it was me now if it just keeps working john john gayman wa wbu uucp uunet wa wbu john packet wa wbu wb eah
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winmarks where can i get it where can i get the winmarks benchmark to run on my pc via ftp would be best roger bix ruzun net uzun crash cts com
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re gateway and ati lb problem in article jmgree starbase spd louisville edu jmgree starbase spd louisville edu jude m greer writes i was wondering if anyone out there has had the same problem i am having with my gateway dx vl bus system with ati graphics ultra pro lb when i have my computer in any resolution other than x everything is fine but whenever i use it in x windows autocad gifs the screen gets about inches shorter at the very top and very bottom of the screen there is about a bar of black the screen isn t cut off it just squeezes everything into the smaller space and messes up the aspect ratio while i can manually change the v size on the back this is a pain in the ass and it just shouldn t happen anyway i ve called gateway numerous times and they haven t been able to help me at all two different times they sent me a new card and both times the new card didn t work at all in my computer they even tried to bill me for the first card because they didn t get it back in a couple of days when they told me over the phone that they would wait more than weeks before billing my card but their customer support is a different story so if anyone has had this same problem please let me know if you know what to do hell let me know if you don t have a solution just so i know i m not the only one with this problem thanks in advance jude m greer jmgree starbase spd louisville edu p s i already tried going into the mach install program and manually set ting up the card doesn t work whenever i try to increase the vertical size of the x screen it just starts to cut off the top and bottom maybe its a monitor problem you mentioned that you swapped cards but not monitors perhaps that could be it dan daniel matthew coleman internet dcoleman utxvms cc utexas edu dcoleman ccwf cc utexas edu the university of texas at austin decnet utxvms dcoleman electrical computer engineering bitnet dcoleman utxvms bitnet
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simm for sale i have mx ns pin simm for sale it is in perfect condition it will not work in my system because it requires pin simms i would like to get what i paid for it for insured shipping in addition if you have a mb ns pin eisa or ps type simm for sale drop me a line thanks nimesh shah nshah acs bu edu
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re the infamous gateway video monitor problem info requested greg spath gks psuvm psu edu wrote in article c ueom evf odin corp sgi com mikey sgi com mike yang says so by going mailorder through gateway i save plus i get technical support over the phone free software package have fun trying to get hold of technical support over the phone at least locally you can walk right up to the dealer and tell him what is wrong and he has to fix it phone support is quick and competent from many mail order firms but not so quick and not so competent from others gateway included but my experience with computer retailers which is significant has lead to the conclusion that sales personnel and retail technical personnel are forbidden to actually learn about the products they sell talk about incompetent o k so a few percent of their answers are correct but those salesmen don t even realize how stupid they are o k i ll settle down now let me catch my breath fact retail stores never provide a better value in terms of price per product retail outlets are desirable however to those people who aren t interested in learning about computers enough to make their own decisions this is fine for example most of my education about carpeting wall paper lawn mowers microwave ovens etc has come from sales personnel i assume i must be an idiot but i don t care about those things i do however care about my computer i e i demand features and performance and i ll be damned if i ll pay some high school drop out commission on an over rated over priced system and in the process be subjected to his distorted b s g l are generally so
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re what is a shadow mask andrew bw colfelt colfelt ucsu colorado edu wrote shadow mask is when you put your face into main memory keep your day job
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re drive controller compatibility thanks to all who responded to my original post i got the number for western digital tech support and determined that i need to upgrade the bios to the super bios it will handle hard drives with up to read write heads and up to cylinders the upgrade is payable by check or money order send to western digital corporation technical support group p o box irvine ca the super bios is for any wd xt hard drive controller card in the wd series the bios on my system would only handle up to mb drives the responses to my request for help follow my sig warning it s long keith d keith rice university of north texas department of computer science denton texas usa drice ponder csci unt edu drice cs unt edu responses below from ravalent mailbox syr edu sat apr received from mailbox syr edu by ponder id aa sat apr from ravalent mailbox syr edu bob valentine received from mothra syr edu by mailbox syr edu cns id aa sat apr est received by mothra syr edu spike id aa sat apr est date sat apr est message id aa mothra syr edu to drice ponder status or to drice ponder csci unt edu subject re drive controller compatibility newsgroups comp sys ibm pc hardware in reply to drice ponder organization syracuse university syracuse ny cc in article drice ponder you write i recently bought a used seagate st hard drive the guy told me that it had been fully tested and that it was good i took it home to install in my compaq portable ok i m a little behind in technology i already had an mfm controller i installed the drive and powered up the system i got a post error my controller is a western digital wd s wx rev c as i said above the drive is a seagate st the system is a compaq portable circa ah finally a question i can answer i mess with this older stuff alot kinda fun first problem i can forsee is that the st will not be compadible with that wd card unless it has the right bios rom check the numbers on it it should be the only non smt chip on the board slightly below center and left the bios should read either or x if the last digits are you got problems controller jumpers are set as follows represents jumper w w w w w w w looks right w and w are factory jumped with a trace between pins and to select the primary controller address the drive jumpers are as follows represents jumper looks right art deleted here are my questions are the drive and controller compatible w each other i notice you left out the s jumper table settings those are what control what drive the controller thinks it has if you have the rom set it like this open open open open closed closed open open note those are how wd runs the numbers on the jumper block top to bottom s represent the jumper pins pins and select the first drive setting drive and pins and select the second drive drive if you have the rom it s a auto config and i ll have to look up how to do it i don t have the big book right here are the jumpers on the card drive set correctly see above you might have problems if the s jumpers are not right also at the risk of being insulting make sure the cables are on right and good on the jumper on the try moving it to the opposite side of the drive it s one or the other the narrow data cable goes to j i ve thrown it on j a few times and banged my head for a day is my system s bios in need of an upgrade dunno ibm roms had to be later than a quick way to check is to boot dos and run debug enter d f fff fffc the is the debug prompt this will return the rom date if it s of any use keith rice if i oversimplified any of the above i appologize it s just hard to know what caliber of person i m talking to bob valentine ravalent mailbox syr edu from chpp unitrix utr ac za mon apr received from unitrix utr ac za by ponder id aa mon apr received by unitrix utr ac za smail id m nfpma x c mon apr gmt message id m nfpma x c unitrix utr ac za from chpp unitrix utr ac za prof p piacenza subject st to drice ponder date mon apr gmt x mailer elm version pl mime version content type text plain charset us ascii content transfer encoding bit content length status or if you are using a twisted way cable then move the jumper on your drive to the neighbouring pins make sure that the twisted cable is for a hard disk and not a floppy disk the coloured stripe pin should be furthest from the twist this may also help products for xt systems hard disk controllers for mfm hard disk drives reference note wd a wx feature f r half slot size hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports mfm drives with up to heads and cylinders and is jumper configurable for secondary addressing and default drive tables built in rom bios supports non standard drive types virtual drive formatting dual drive operation bad track formatting and dynamic formatting this board features a power connector for filecard applications and it will also operate in at systems please note that this controller card will be unavailable from the manufacturer western digital after march reference note wdxt gen feature f r half slot size hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports mfm hard disk drives with up to heads and cylinders built in rom bios supports non standard drive types virtual drive formatting dual drive operation bad track formatting and dynamic formatting please note that this controller card will be unavailable from the manufacturer western digital after march wd a wx feature f r half slot size disk controller card with an st st interface it supports mfm drives with up to heads and cylinders and is jumper configurable for secondary addressing and default drive tables built in rom bios supports non standard drive types virtual drive formatting dual drive operation bad track formatting and dynamic formatting this board features a power connector for filecard applications and it will also operate in at systems reference note wdxt gen feature f r half slot size hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports mfm hard disk drives with up to heads and cylinders built in rom bios supports non standard drive types virtual drive formatting dual drive operation bad track formatting and dynamic formatting reference note hard disk controllers for rll hard disk drives reference note wd x feature f r half slot size hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports rll hard disk drives with up to heads and cylinders and is jumper configurable for secondary addressing and default drive tables built in rom bios supports non standard drive types virtual drive formatting dual drive operation bad track formatting and dynamic formatting this board features a power connector for filecard applications and it will also operate in at systems please note that this controller card will be unavailable from the manufacturer western digital after march reference note wd a x feature r half slot size hard disk controller with an st st interface it supports rll drives with up to heads and cylinders built in rom bios supports non standard drive types virtual drive formatting bad track formatting and dynamic formatting please note that this controller card will be unavailable from the manufacturer western digital after march wd x feature f r half slot size hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports rll hard disk drives with up to heads and cylinders and is jumper configurable for secondary addressing and default drive tables built in rom bios supports non standard drive types virtual drive formatting dual drive operation bad track formatting and dynamic formatting this board features a power connection for filecard applications and it will also operate in at systems reference note wd a x feature f r half slot size hard disk controller with an st st interface it supports rll drives with up to heads and cylinders built in rom bios supports non standard drive types virtual drive formatting bad track formatting and dynamic formatting note at t the at t and the at t plus contain system bios chips that support the hard disk drive when using a western digital xt controller card the system will not boot to solve this problem one of the rom bios chips must be disabled to disable the bios on your western digital xt controller card you must remove the jumper at position w or add a jumper at position r depending on which model of xt controller you are using note tandy systems the wd a wx wd a wx wdxt gen and the wd x can be modified to operate in tandy series computers models sx tx and the original or a version these computers utilize an interrupt of irq instead of irq the ibm standard to modify the wd a wx or the wd x to operate in these systems you must cut the etch between pin and pin at jumper position w then solder pin and pin at the position w to complete the modification a jumper must be added to position of switch s rows of pins please note that any physical modification to your western digital hard disk controller voids the warranty on your board to modify the wd a wx wdxt gen or the wd x for your tandy system a zero ohm resister must be soldered to jumper position w this will change the interrupt from irq to irq xt controllers for floppy disk drives wd a fox half slot floppy disk controller for xt or at systems four versions of the board are available feature f supports two floppy disk drives feature f supports four floppy disk drives and includes an optional pin control data and power connector and an optional pin power connector feature f supports two floppy disk drives and includes a rom bios that will enable your system to recognize floppy disk drive that may not be supported by your at system rom bios the optional rom bios will also allow this controller card to operate high density floppy disk drives in an xt system feature f supports four floppy disk drives and includes an optional pin control data and power connector an optional pin power connector and a rom bios that will enable your system to recognize floppy disk drives that may not be supported by your at system rom bios the optional rom bios will also allow this controller card to operate high density floppy disk drives in an xt system products for at systems hard disk controllers for mfm hard disk drives no floppy support wd wah feature f r hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports mfm drives with up to heads and cylinders interleave wd v mm feature f r hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports mfm drives with up to heads and cylinders interleave the v boards can run in high speed at systems to megahertz system speed wd wah feature f r hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports mfm drives with up to heads and cylinders interleave wd v mm feature f r hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports mfm drives with up to heads and cylinders interleave and faster data transfer due to look ahead caching the v boards can run in high speed at systems to megahertz system speed hard disk controllers for mfm hard disk drives and floppy disk drives wd wa feature f r hard disk controller card with an st st interface full at form factor it supports mfm drives with up to heads and cylinders at interleave and floppy disk drives k and mb wd a wa feature f r hard disk controller card with an st st interface full xt form factor it supports mfm drives with up to heads and cylinders at interleave and floppy disk drives k and mb wd v mm feature f r hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports a maximum of mfm drives with up to heads and cylinders at interleave and floppy disk drives k mb k mb the v boards can run in high speed at systems to megahertz system speed wd v mm feature f r hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports a maximum of mfm drives with up to heads and cylinders at interleave and faster data transfer due to look ahead caching and floppy disk drives k mb k mb the v boards can run in high speed at systems to megahertz system speed hard disk controllers for rll hard disk drives no floppy support wd rah hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports rll hard disk drives with up to heads and cylinders at interleave wd v sr hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports a maximum of rll hard disk drives with up to heads and cylinders at interleave the v boards can run in high speed at systems to megahertz system speed feature f r includes an optional rom bios that allows the user to define the drive s parameters feature f r does not include the rom bios and you must use the drive tables on your system s rom bios that must contain the appropriate drive parameters wd rah hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports a maximum of rll hard disk drives with up to heads and cylinders interleave feature f r includes an optional rom bios that provides additional drive parameter tables feature f r does not include the rom bios and you must use the drive tables on your system s rom bios that must contain the appropriate drive parameters wd v sr hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports rll hard disk drives with up to heads and cylinders interleave and faster data transfer due to look ahead caching the v boards can run in high speed at systems to megahertz system speed feature f r includes an optional rom bios that allows the user to define the drive s parameters feature f r does not include the rom bios and you must use the drive tables on your system s rom bios that must contain the appropriate drive parameters hard disk controllers for rll hard disk drives and floppy disk drives wd ra feature f r hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports a maximum of rll hard disk drives with up to heads and cylinders at interleave and floppy disk drives k mb wd v sr hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports a maximum of rll hard disk drives with up to heads and cylinders at interleave and floppy disk drives k mb k mb the v boards run in high speed at systems to megahertz system speed feature f r includes an optional rom bios that allows the user to define the drive s parameters feature r does not include the rom bios and you must use the drive tables on your system s rom bios that must contain the appropriate drive parameters wd v sr hard disk controller card with an st st interface it supports a maximum of rll hard disk drives with up to heads cylinders and floppy disk drives k mb k mb it also features interleave and faster data transfer due to look ahead caching the v boards can run in high speed at systems to megahertz system speed feature f r includes an optional rom bios that allows the user to define the drive s parameters feature r does not include the rom bios and you must use the drive tables on your system s rom bios that must contain the appropriate drive parameters hard disk controllers for esdi hard disk drives no floppy support wd a wah this controller card will support up to esdi hard disk drives megabit per second data transfer rate and interleave feature f r includes an optional rom bios with shadow ram that will enable the controller card to interface with all types of esdi drives without modifying the system rom bios feature f r does not include the rom bios and you must use the drive tables on your system s rom bios that must contain the appropriate drive parameters wd v se me this controller card will support up to esdi hard disk drives megabit per second data transfer rate and interleave the v boards can run in high speed at systems to megahertz system speed feature f r includes an optional rom bios with shadow ram that will enable the controller card to interface with all types of esdi drives without modifying the system rom bios feature f r does not include the rom bios and you must use the drive tables on your system s rom bios that must contain the appropriate drive parameters hard disk controllers for esdi hard disk drives and floppy disk drives wd a wa this controller card will support up to esdi hard disk drives megabit per second data transfer rate interleave and floppy disk drives k mb k mb feature f r includes an optional rom bios with shadow ram that will enable the controller card to interface with all types of esdi drives without modifying the system rom bios feature f r does not include the rom bios and you must use the drive tables on your system s rom bios that must contain the appropriate drive parameters wd v se me this controller card will support up to esdi hard disk drives megabit per second data transfer rate interleave and floppy drives k mb k mb the v boards can run in high speed at systems to megahertz bus speed feature f r includes an optional rom bios with shadow ram that will enable the controller card to interface with all types of esdi drives without modifying the system rom bios feature f r does not include the rom bios and you must use the drive tables on your system s rom bios that must contain the appropriate drive parameters wd a wa this controller card will support up to esdi hard disk drives megabit per second data transfer rate interleave and floppy disk drives k mb k mb this board also has a serial port and parallel port feature f r includes an optional rom bios with shadow ram that will enable the controller card to interface with all types of esdi drives without modifying the system rom bios feature f r does not include the rom bios and you must use the drive tables on your system s rom bios that must contain the appropriate drive parameter hard disk controllers for scsi hard disk drives asc a scsi host adapter that serves as an interface between the at bus and the scsi bus all necessary drivers and receivers are included permitting direct cable connections to the scsi bus through a pin connector and to the at bus through two edge connectors the asc utilizes jumper configurable options that enable the address space dma channels and interrupt requests to be selected to suit the end user s application the board also features word data transfer at megabytes per second synchronous an on board floppy disk controller and a rom bios please note that the asc operates using standard dos or dos only fasst this scsi host adapter card provides the same features as the asc plus additional support capabilities using software developed by columbia data products the fasst will support ms dos compaq dos pc dos pc mos version xenix microsoft windows novell and sytos tape backup wdatxt fasst kit an unintelligent scsi host adapter that is compatible with the ibm xt at and compatible systems it uses a pin external scsi bus d connector with a standard pin internal scsi cable the wdatxt fasst can be used as both a target and an initiator and it serves as an excellent tool for scsi designers it also provides a low cost alternative for end users desiring to install a scsi peripheral device such as a hard disk drive or a tape backup unit the kit includes an bit scsi hba board manual fasst software diskettes and an internal scsi cable sytos tape backup utility for fasst fasst sytos fasst version of sytos tape backup utilities ms dos compatible it runs with fasst software products revision hard disk controllers for ps model systems microchannel architecture wd v mc feature f r hard disk controller with an st st interface for microchannel systems it supports mfm drives with up to heads and cylinders interleave and faster data transfer due to look ahead caching the v boards can run in high speed at systems to megahertz system speed wd v mc feature f r this controller card will support up to esdi hard disk drives megabit per second transfer rate and it contains a rom bios with shadow ram that will enable the controller card to interface with all types of esdi hard disk drives without modifying the system bios it uses interleave the v boards can run in high speed at systems to megahertz bus speed controllers for floppy disk drives only wd a fox half slot floppy disk controller for xt or at systems four versions of the board are available feature f supports two floppy disk drives feature f supports four floppy disk drives and includes an optional pin control data and power connector and an optional pin power connector feature f supports two floppy disk drives and includes a rom bios that will enable your system to recognize floppy disk drives that may not be supported by your at system rom bios the optional rom bios will also allow this controller card to operate high density floppy disk drives in an xt system feature f supports four floppy disk drives and includes an optional pin control data and power connector an optional pin power connector and a rom bios that will enable your system to recognize floppy disk drives that may not be supported by your at system rom bios the optional rom bios will also allow this controller card to operate high density floppy disk drives in an xt system prof l piacenza chemistry department university of transkei internet chpp unitrix utr ac za preferred tel internet sppp hippo ru ac za from necis mydual uucp olson transfer stratus com mon apr received from transfer stratus com by ponder id aa mon apr received from necis uucp by transfer stratus com jjm id aa mon apr edt received from mydual by necis necis ma nec com id aa apr edt received by mydual uucp smail id aa mon apr est date mon apr est from kirtland h olson mydual olson transfer stratus com message id aa mydual uucp to drice ponder subject re drive controller compatibility newsgroups comp sys ibm pc hardware in reply to drice ponder organization the harvard group reply to necis olson mydual uucp transfer stratus com cc status or suggest you move jumper on drive rightward one position regards kirt kirtland h olson harvard ma usa olson mydual uucp necis ma nec com
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com com is there a hardware standard help i need to implement com and com on a board that i m designing and i m finding it dificult to track down a definition hardware that is of com and com i have the io adresses and the fact that com shares irq with com and com shares irq with com except exactly how this irq sharing is done is not clear especially if the existing com does not allow irq sharing does the standard allow for a different irq to be used and if so how please answer by email to neil stone oz au thanks in advance neil watkinson
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re null modem pin serial bruce maynard drac uumeme chi il us wrote in article mal psuvm psu edu mitch lewars mal psuvm psu edu writes can someone give me the specs on a null modem cable i ferget which get crossed mal psuvm psu edu that s an easy one carry all pins straight thru with the exception of pins which should be crossed as someone else already mentioned don t carry thru the other pins plan a minimal null modem sg sg td rd rd td if you re transfering files betwen pcs this ought to work unless you have a persnickity comm program plan b null modem with modem control sg sg td rd rd td dcd dtr dtr dcd some comm software will wait for dcd before transferring anything such software will raise dtr to enable the modem to accept a call with this cable each side s dtr will drive the other s dcd plan c null modem with hardware flow control sg sg td rd rd td rts cts cts rts for high speed transfers you want the flow control plan d deluxe null modem combine b and c sg sg td rd rd td rts cts cts rts dcd dtr dtr dcd this one is ideal it leaves out dsr and ri rarely used anymore if you re really paranoid or you just have an th wire to spend you might add fg fg the pin numbers above are obviously for pin connectors i don t have a pin pinout handy wayne hamilton i net hamilton osiris cso uiuc edu lowtek box urbana il voice bbs
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wanted slot card with vga hdd contr hello i am looking for a pc card with the following features controller for ide at bus harddiskdrive controller for floppydiskdrives standard kb vga graphics including feature connector important there are some manufacturors distributors of this kind of card but i have not found them yet if you can help me please mail to ich djukfa ich zam zam kfa juelich de thanks a lot martin mueller
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how to program a pc keyboard itself hi all i have heard that somewhere there exist programmable keyboards eg one can program displays on the keys to show some specific characters et c does it mean that there is some way of transmitting some non trivial data to the kb as opposed to standard numlock on off typeamatic specs from inside the pc software i have not found any corresponding reference in the specs for the pc kb interface anyone have any ideas except that they may encode data by the sequences of the standard commands mentioned above which wouldn t look too neat besides what would one do from an xt great thanks in advance andrew
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re dcc and minidisc next dat dds like st st brownvm brown edu wrote as far as i can tell the md is an offshoot of technology that already exists it is an mo drive mo drives exist already for computers they re expensive and a bit slow but the disks are cheep mb disks dan i read a recent article in personal computer world mainly about the new digit audion formats dcc and md but at the end talked about how nice it would be to use these for data storage with a brief calculation of how much data you could store the author had been talking to someone from sony about these formats and mentioned this to get the reply md is a purely audio format we wouldn t use it for data then when pressed for info about mo the sony man basically admitted that it was no more than a slight adaptabtion on md what i think the original poster was wanting was mo drives at md audio player prices i d assume that the problem here is that an md system can have higher tolerances than an mo system as the ear doesn t pick up the occasional bit error as well as an archiving program david shepherd des inmos co uk tel x inmos ltd aztec west almondsbury bristol bs sq they didn t like the rates they don t like the poll tax and they won t like the council tax nicholas ridley
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problem maxtor lxt s spins down with no reason please help if you can with the following strange problem the maxtor drive in my clone would from time to time for no obvious reason spin down completely one can tell by the sound and simply refuse to be accessed dos reacts with an error drive d cannot be accessed or something the like unfortunately i cannot just reproduce the error sometimes it occurs more often sometimes less the last time it happened was when i wanted to demonstrate some software to a colleague i would like to know if anybody has experienced similar problems i don t like to take the thing to the dealer only to be told that there s nothing wrong with it i checked the other post in this group about maxtor and i don t seem to be the only one who has problems however no one describes the same problem and i also have a different configuration thanx in advance for any e mailed help peter list of equipment computer mandax mainboard mb adaptec scsi master maxtor lxt s scsi ii hard drive nec cdr cd rom reader problem remains with cd rom removed et vga card config sys files device c dos setver exe device c windows himem sys device c system aspi dos sys device c system aswcdnec sys d neccd dos high country c dos country sys device c dos display sys con ega autoexe bat c windows smartdrive sys path c windows c dos set temp c dos mode con codepage prepare c dos ega cpi mode con codepage select keyb sg c dos keyboard sys c system mscdex d neccd l d v peter schneider englisches seminar e mail pschneid es unizh ch universitaet zurich phone plattenstrasse fax ch zurich switzerland
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ati gup and vpic could someone tell me if the ati graphic ultra pro is supported in a version of vpic now if so where is it located thanks robert email replies would be appreciated robert merlicek cbr from hell robert ctpm uq oz au engage ludicrous speed
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thanks backing up masters just a quick thanks to the many who explained the backing up of my masters apparently they are not copy protected i just used a program that is unable to handle high density old shit i was surprised to hear that no programs on high density disks have copy protection which someone back there said huh learn something new every day mitch
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irq limits help i would like advice on how to configure my to accept com com currently on irq and lpt irq bus mouse irq sound card no idea what to do can be set to any using irq for bus mouse gobbled up too many cycles and caused loss of communications with floppy disks and a few other problems i could i suppose switch the com devices externally and disable the second port on the super io card but i really want to have them both available could the sound card use irq without horsing up the works all replies apppreciated and i only just subscribed to this newsgroup i assume there is an faq somewhere rather i m sure someone will tell me about it thanks mark fraser
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is mb sec hd transfer slow for dx eisa with ultrastor f hi i recently switched my old amiga with a dx my computer configuration is dx mhz kb eisa micronics motherboard asic eisa mhz mb ram st n mb harddisk scsi ultrastor f eisa cache controller when i use norton harddisk benchmark i get a harddisk data transfer about kb sec and sometimes mb sec is that good i thought that with eisa i could get about mb sec somewhere in the manual for my harddisk i have read that some host adapters need to perform a low level format to optimize the harddisk performance in that system do i need that a guy i know gets a hd transfer about mb sec and he has an st a and a isa dx how can a isa with the same system be faster is there anything that i can do to get a speedier harddisk thanks phantom diku dk e mail is preffered working on a sign are we live or on tape
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dx vs dx ay in many recent advertisements i have seen both dx and dx ay based systems does the first really exists and does it imply that all ay circuitry on the motherboard with it works at that speed as opposite ay latter where only the internals of the cpu are working at mhz ay ay many thanx in advance ay ay andrew andrew yes there is a dx and dx version of the mhz if you are considering buying one or the other definitely go for the dx with a nice size external cache the performance is far greater the dx only has the internal k cache to work with at mhz while the dx has a potentially much larger cache to work at mhz with neither systems could actually run a program out of main memory since dram is still too slow for that high of bus speed ns mhz mhz rdd winqwk b unregistered evaluation copy kmail d w net hq hal k ann arbor mi us or hal bbs qwk to usenet gateway four v bis dial ins free usenet mail and newsgroups pcboard am uupcb kmail call or member of eff asp asad mb disk serving ann arbor since
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re i don t understand si mg joohwee students neural iss nus sg wrote mg i went buying simms recently and the sales person told me that the mg are chip simms and chip simms and one cannot use them interchan mg if you use one you have to use all of the same type don t believe everything you are told i can tell you that mixing them between banks ok and i can t see why mixing in one bank is not unless they are of different speeds e g mixing of ns and ns simms in one bank the two only differ in the type of chips it uses assuming that the simms are mx bit wide here is the two equivalent configuration the chip simm uses two bit wide mbit m of bit nibbles and one bit wide mbit chip for a total of bit wide mbyte the bit simm uses nine bit wide mbit chips these are equivalent because of the way that it is pinned on the simm board at the simm interface they both act as bit wide mbyte simms sorry if too techie for ya mg similarly one cannot plug in two mb simms and one mb simms to gi mg the system a total of meg why is that so if my system supports mg of meg it has simm slots can i plug in mb simms to give my mg mb that sounds correct the problem is that if your computer takes bit wide simms you can not mix different sizes in one bank why you ask simple if you understand why there is banks assuming you have a bit cpu dx or the data bus e g the mechanism to retrieve data from memory is bits wide so the computer expects to see bits when it asks for data to get that bandwidth bit wide the motherboard links mx one bit is not data but parity so i will ignore that in this simple explaination to get bits bits that means that a simm in a bank stores only of the bit wide data if you have a bit bus two mx simms are linked together to get bit wide data which is the reason why banks are simms wide and bit banks are simms wide if your computer required mx e g bit wide data with parity bits used in some ps s and asts you could upgrade by one simm at a time hope that this message is not over your head but the answer to your question was not simple i could of just said because i said so rdd winqwk b unregistered evaluation copy kmail d w net hq hal k ann arbor mi us or hal bbs qwk to usenet gateway four v bis dial ins free usenet mail and newsgroups pcboard am uupcb kmail call or member of eff asp asad mb disk serving ann arbor since
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dx km is the dx anything more than a myth i haven t heard of it km from any source that i trust and i sure don t see any ads for dx km machines in computer shopper intel is pretty busy with the pentium km right now i can t seem them introducing their own competition i heard the rumor as well but the story differed intel was not coming out with the tripling clock a clone from ibm was i got this rumor from a pretty good source has designs computer equipment and hav never been wrong let but there is a first time for everything i can just hear that rumor mill turning now rdd winqwk b unregistered evaluation copy kmail d w net hq hal k ann arbor mi us or hal bbs qwk to usenet gateway four v bis dial ins free usenet mail and newsgroups pcboard am uupcb kmail call or member of eff asp asad mb disk serving ann arbor since
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simm speed b bk is it possible to plug in ns or ns simms into a motherboard saying bk wants ns simms you shouldn t have troubles i have heard of machines having problems with slower than recommended memory speeds but never faster bk also is it possible to plug in simms of different bk speeds into the same motherboard ie megs of ns and megs of bk or something like that sure i have ns simms in one bank and ns simms in the other i have a i wouldn t recommend mixing speeds within a bank just to be on the safe side rdd rdesonia erim org winqwk b unregistered evaluation copy kmail d w net hq hal k ann arbor mi us or hal bbs qwk to usenet gateway four v bis dial ins free usenet mail and newsgroups pcboard am uupcb kmail call or member of eff asp asad mb disk serving ann arbor since
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vesa local bus is it possible to plug an ordinary isa card into a vesa localbus slot i am running out of slots and i have one spare localbus slot doug rabson ioc ltd email dfr ioc co uk phone drabson cix compulink co uk fax
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compaq and standard simm ram help hello can anyone out there tell me if it is possible to put ordinary standard simm ram chips ns in a compaq prolinea or do compaq require special compaq ram chips please also email me thanks in advance jesper jesper honig spring spring diku dk if animals believed in god university of copenhagen denmark the devil would be a man
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appletalk hookup what ways are there to hook up to an appletalk network to use an apple laserwriter is there a way i can use an appleshare file server also the less memory used the better thanks any help greatly appreciated
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re cmos memory loss any idea why how is the cmos backed up dry cell batteries or ni cad cell your batteries may be dead mwallack kean ucs mun ca mwallack kean ucs mun ca wrote a friend s computer recently failed to recognize its hard drive on examination it was discovered that the cmos had lost all data no other problems were discovered when the cmos was restored everything appeared to work as before this all happened after a long period of stable operation the most recent change had been the addition of a second hard drive as a slave qemm had been installed along with deskview for quite a while any ideas the computer is a dx with megs of ram an ati wonder xl card and is about a year and a half old
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re dx vs dx anonymous i saw a posting about the choice between dx and a dx i was wondering although a dx is faster because of the path to it s external cache shouldn t the choice be the dx as that one can be made to work properly with a local bus i mean cache speed is one thing but all your speed will be blocked during video i o so just get that faster i m willing to speculate that the dx with local bus will be times as fast as the dx and probably as expensive or cheap regards jv name j v meuldijk o o address gildelaar hw teteringen holland e mail volkert kub nl oooo oooo
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vga on atari monoitor is it possible to connect a atari monochrome monitor to some kind of vga card if someone have done this please let me know how thanx l l max brante m max tdb uu se l l l l l l l l l l institutionen f r teknisk databehandling l l l l l l uppsala universitet
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re dx robert desonia hal k ann arbor mi us robert desonia writes i heard the rumor as well but the story differed intel was not coming out with the tripling clock a clone from ibm was no rumour ibm s clock tripling chip was seen in some trade show last fall comdex or something i wasn t there all you people who are drooling after this chip do realize that it has no fpu just like sx that evil marketing ploy tm from intel don t you it has k of internal cache which probably is where the saved silicon real estate went because of some contract ibm is not allowed to sell its chips to third parties so these chips are unlikely to become available in any non ibm machines of course nothing prevents other companies from implementing a dx but nobody hasn t even come out with a real dx fpu and all clone yet although amd soon will segmented memory helps structure software
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quantum prodrive at drive parameters needed hi i have got a quantum prodrive at ide harddisk and would like to format it when trying to format it no low level format just fdisk and dos format i somehow messed up the parameters i had entered fdisk mbr not exactly knowing what this does the suggested drive type formats the drive only to mb i tried type but this gives only around mb and not the nominal mb could i use user type however i don t know the actual parameters cylinders heads could someone give me them and how does fdisk work together with user type please reply by email to gerthd mvs sas com thank you thomas thomas dachsel internet gerthd mvs sas com fidonet thomas dachsel camel fido de subnet dachsel rnivh rni sub org uucp in germany now active phone work home fax snail sas institute gmbh p o box d w heidelberg tagline one bad sector can ruin a whole day
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re diamond stealth windows problems in article pifisinnhsr dns nmsu edu jdiers dante nmsu edu diers writes i own a stealth card from diamond when using the x x mil win driver the card and driver work but are not very fast all of the other windows drivers have a number of bugs shadows remain when windows are erased and text boxes are often unreadable all attempts to get help from diamond have failed i have called the tech support and never been able to get past the hold line a toll call in a reasonable time ie min leaving voice mail has not helped either the bbs is a joke it always has too many people on to download anything you cannot even get a file listing it considers that a download i have faxed the tech support group all this with no reponse the bottom line is if you are looking for a fast card and want to use it for windows do not get a diamond product try another vendor i wish i had while others here may have had better experiences i too share the sentiments posted above though i have the original stealth vram it is only relatively recent that the windows drivers for this card have evolved to a point of decent performance note that there are still a couple of modes i cannot use ie will not due to shadowing mis drawn check boxes etc i believe the version i have is if there s a more recent release i d appreciate if someone would drop me a note to let me know i haven t been able to get on their bbs lately to check again naturally diamond doesn t even bother notifying me of fixes releases diamond was helpful when i finally reached the right person in curing some of my windows problems due to an address conflict the conflicting addresses e e were omitted in at least my version of the diamond vram manual i hope it has been corrected by now the tech rep explained that all s based boards use these addresses i have not confirmed the validity of that statement when i upgrade my motherboard in the near future hopefully with some form of local bus i ll seek a video solution from someone other than diamond lance hartmann lance hartmann austin ibm com ibmpa awdpa ibm com yes that is a percent sign in my network address all statements comments opinions etc herein reflect those of the author and shall not be misconstrued as those of ibm or anyone else for that matter
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cards on a card motherboard this may be the dumbest question of the year but is there a way to piggyback or expand a slot motherboard all bit to get the usual my case has slots for and i d like to get a scanner but with all my other cards i m already max d out i m hoping that a simple solution exists e g an adapter that turns one slot into three i don t mind if it turns it into bit slots as i can put my i o card midi card and soundblaster card there my other cards are bit ide floppy svga modem if there is such an expander does that screw up performance of everything else i d hate to buy a new motherboard carl christensen dept of computer science christen astro ocis temple edu temple university curiouser and curiouser lc philadelphia pa usa
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tape drive problems please reply via e mail since this is job related i have a colorado jumbo back up system at one of my places of employment and it has eaten two tapes by winding the tape off the spool is there an easy fix or is the tape drive fried does it simply need cleaning any and all comments will be appreciated stephen husak what am i trying to do what am i trying to say i m not trying to tell you anything you didn t know when you woke up today depeche mode nothing music for the masses stephen r husak husak ux cso uiuc edu univerisity of illinois
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re gateway dx too noisy in article bu edu lcai acs bu edu says i just received my gateway dx mini desktop system the first thing i noticed when i plugged in the power cord is the noise that comes from the fan in fact i can hear the noise in if your gateway is equipped with a western hard drive then the noise is probably coming from there and not from the fan the western drives are notoriously noisy on the other hand if you don t have a western drive then maybe it is the fan there s not alot to do about it except insulate around the cpu somehow barry aldridge u of i chicago hour bar b q standard old disclaimer
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re is mb sec hd transfer slow for dx eisa with ultrastor f in apr odin diku dk phantom diku dk haktan bulut writes hi i recently switched my old amiga with a dx my computer configuration is dx mhz kb eisa micronics motherboard asic eisa mhz mb ram st n mb harddisk scsi ultrastor f eisa cache controller when i use norton harddisk benchmark i get a harddisk data transfer about kb sec and sometimes mb sec is that good i thought that with eisa i could get about mb sec somewhere in the manual for my harddisk i have read that some host adapters need to perform a low level format to optimize the harddisk performance in that system do i need that a guy i know gets a hd transfer about mb sec and he has an st a and a isa dx how can a isa with the same system be faster is there anything that i can do to get a speedier harddisk dont rely on benchmarks they often show incorrect due to different tsr programs scsi often needs a driver to get the speed from the card make sure the card is operating in synchronus mode which is x faster you can disable disconnect and get some kb s but just to loose the mouse or other int s when diskaccesing i get mb s with dx lb and scsi lb and maxtor lxt sy coretest i get mb s sysinfo jens ejvinson nackstavagen c vii internet asyvan solace hsh se s sundsvall sweden tel act sweden fax nope advanced computer technology bbs not yet
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re share your optimization tips in article apr cbfsb cb att com rmm cbnewsg cb att com richard m maniscalco writes in article pm pinnp geraldo cc utexas edu jbodnar ccwf cc utexas edu john bodnar writes according to e p unl edu edgar pearlstein here s another one my computer arrived with the following statement in its config sys file stacks i changed it to stacks and saved bytes maybe it could be lowered even more but i haven t tried it exactly regardless of what microsoft says i have set stacks on every single computer i have installed windows on from a simple sx up to dx with eisa motherboards ndi volante tiga adapters intel ethernet express cards and caching scsi controllers from dpt and dtc not a problem yet and the extra k gained means a lot with conventional memory gobbling programs like orcad and tango pcb john bodnar while we liked developing windows the university of texas at austin applications we never inhaled internet jbodnar ccwf cc utexas edu uucp cs utexas ut ccwf jbodnar borland ceo philippe kahn i remember reading somewhere qemm manual i think that stack is needed only for the windows setup program otherwise use stack rich hmmmmmm i got my comp with windows pre installed and stacks is still if it was needed only for setup wouldn t the morons take it off also i don t have the qemm manual as verything came with the comp but not the qemm manual so could anyone verify this mickey pe michael panayiotakis louray seas gwu edu ace uunet seas gwu edu louray jack straw from wichita cut his buddy down dug for him a shallow grave and lay his body down gd
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help needed hello i hope somebody out here can help me i am currently working on a project where i am trying to communicate from an ibm with phoenix bios using c to a board that i made with an intel cpu with uart chip the board works fine with the transmit command and terminal emulation mode of kermit but there seems to be something wrong with the initialization or protocol used when i try c i need to access the unit i built using c because i have a sizable chunk of c code that i will be using to perform calculations and operations that will be very difficult to code in assembly language for the i have included the assembly code that i am running and the c code that i am trying to use if anyone can show me something that i am doing blatantly incorrectly or that i am missing because of my lack of knowledge about rs serial communications please e mail me i wrote the assembly language to wait for a character to be received and then to check it against the x character if a x is received the leds will indicate this two c programs that i have written do nothing but set up com port and send the x character one uses the bioscom function in bios h the other uses the software interrupt int function in dos h i have triple checked the baud rate the parity none the stop bits the character length bits and the interrupt calls for x currently i am at a loss as to what may be wrong any hardware gurus out there want to comment thanks alot hubert de jesus dejesus eniac seas upenn edu intel asm command equ h command register on porta equ h port a on timerlo equ h high bits of timer timerhi equ h low bits of timer uartdata equ e h uart data register uartcmd equ e h uart command register org h sram location mvi a h set low timer bits sta timerlo mvi a h set high timer bits sta timerhi mvi a b start timer enable port a sta command mvi a h display on segment leds sta porta mvi a h clear uart command sta uartcmd sta uartcmd sta uartcmd mvi a b internally reset uart sta uartcmd lda uartdata remove extraneous data mvi a b init uart for data bits sta uartcmd no parity stop bit x async mvi a b enable transmit and receive sta uartcmd init lda uartcmd read status register ani h is rxrdy jz init no loop lda uartdata read data character cpi is character x jnz init no loop mvi a h character received sta porta display on segment leds hlt end c using bioscom include stdio h include stdlib h include bios h define init define send define receive define status define com void main char abyte abyte xa bioscom init abyte com printf initialized comm port n while bioscom status com x abyte bioscom send abyte com printf sent start character n c using int include stdio h include stdlib h include dos h include bios h main union regs registers registers h ah x registers h al xa registers x dx x int x registers registers printf com initialized n registers h ah x registers h al x registers x dx x int x registers registers printf sent start character n
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re gw and simms they are actually pin they come in and with s soon if you are interested in s or s i may be able to help please call after pm pdt i may be interested in a trade nab asan nasa it s all done with mirrors in article pq ofinne t darkstar ucsc edu banshee cats ucsc edu wailer at the gates of dawn writes in bu edu nshah acs bu edu writes i have a gateway local bus system it has slots for simms that either have to use or mb simms my question i just received a x ns simm and it has pins the slot on the motherboard has at least or so pins did i get the wrong simm or can i still use my simm although not all the pins on the slot would be flilled i have never encountered such a long slot for simms before anyone have suggestions i can t get a hold of gateway yet thanks please post to the net or nshah acs bu edu yes you got the wrong simm you need pin simms in or meg flavors the wailer at the gates of dawn banshee cats ucsc edu just who are you calling a froofroo head dod just a friend of the beast banshee ucscb ucsc edu banshee ucscb bitnet
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re warranty extension by credit company applies to the phurchase of computer in article c cv mll cup hp com staggers cup hp com ken staggers writes huayong yang yang titan ucs umass edu wrote most if not all credit card companies offer to double the warranty up to one year namely if you make a purchase by a credit card you get additional warranty up to one year does it apply to the purchase of computers i wonder if anyone out there has used it is there any catch thanks in advance i am just about to post the results of my big computer purchase one of the key points was the ability to use my american express card i read the fine print between double warranty policies of amex and citibank visa sure both will allow you double warranty on computers but citibank has a maximum claim of could you imagine trying to get your monitor or mother board fixed for amex has no limit on claims remember if you use amex you must either send a copy of the warranty info to them in days from purchase or you must call them to pre register and then send them the paperwork within days of purchase my pre register pak arrived today citibank visa requires no pre registration ken i just talked to a rep for my at t mastercard regarding this there is no maximum claim and you only have to notify them of the warranty when the item needs repair if it can t be repaired you get the amount you paid for it curiously though the at t gold mastercard has a limit of on claims definitely not upgrading to that card bryan bryan welch amateur radio n sfg internet europa vnet ibm com best bwelch scf nmsu edu everything will perish save love and music scots gaelic proverb
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eps technologies experience anyone after a rough start purchasing a system see earlier post i m trying again i m looking at the following system offered by eps technologies dx mhz w k static ram cache ami bios bit vesa local bus slots bit slots bit slot teac mb floppy drives maxtor mb hard drive ms ide w k cache buffer bit vesa local bus video card w mb ram x ni i think it s an orchid fahrenheit card ni multisync monitor x keyboard watt power supply windows mouse dos years limited warranty year on site service i m probably going to add the for a flat screen digital monitor and will also want to go for at least mb ram extra has anyone bought from eps technologies particularly a system like the one i m considering i m especially interested in their warrantee and service can anyone recommend other companies who offer similar packages with support and comparable prices i see fastmicro just bit it thanks in advance toby loftus tal brownvm tal brownvm brown edu brown university
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looking for ad pc board this is for a friend of mine please send answers directly to him e mail adress see below highspeed analog digital pc board hello ladies and gentleman i am looking for a highspeed a d pc board with a sampling rate above mhz an a resolution of bit the sampling rate can be arranged by an interleave mode where the time equivalent sampling yields or times higher sampling rate than the a d converter uses in non interleave mode the board must content an a d converter similar to analog devices ad or ad or if available a faster on if you a pc board bit slot isa with this specification or better please send me an email hansch cdc ikph uni hannover dbp de or a telefax to thanks in advance for your help sincerely matthias hansch ikph university of hannover germany andreas heinbokel heinboke tnt uni hannover de all wisdom is print on t shirts
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zeos vesa video changes specs as most of you know we have recently changed our standard vesa local bus video card from our own ncr based card to the new diamond stealth vlb card for packages and package still has the ncr screamer we also have added the upgrade from the stealth or ncr to the diamond viper to our product list below are the comparisons of the different cards in the configurations we will offer ncr stealth vlb viper vlb ox colors k k m k k m oox oo colors k k k k x colors x colors video processor ncr c e s c weitek power video ram m m m max ram addressable by vid processor m m m ram type dram dram vram user ram upgrade no no sockets no no sockets yes thru diamond ox refresh hz hz hz oox oo refresh hz hz hz x refresh hz hz hz oxl refresh hz hz hz pin vesa feature connector no yes no conflict with x e port addr com no yes no drivers for win yes yes yes acad yes yes yes acad no yes yes vesa yes yes yes os winnt no no no win winmarks m m m l viper vlb with m of video ram also gives oox oo m x k k and xl color s based cards since they are downward compatible will have the conflict with e diamond admits conflict will exist with the stealth the prelim viper manual incorrectly lists the s port addresses no conflict autocad drivers are now currently available for stealth speedstar x stealth vlb and viper vlb they can only be obtained from diamond tech support and not on any bbs os is supported for standard vga for all cards svga drivers available in the near future windows nt is not released yet and no drivers are available currently diamond hopes to have all current products supported in the win nt release on the nt disks ncr testing is coming from tests ran in our tech support department was at zeos at x x on zeos dx these results are not official diamond results are from their own dx x colors ohz refresh
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please help looking for books hi netters i often have troubles with my pc and would like to fix it by myself is there any book that show you how to fix your own pc hardware monitor printer problems etc of course no book would tell you the exact problem with your pc but at least it will give a general idea what might be wrong thanks so lot for your help
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looking for books hi netters i m looking for books that showing how to fix your own hardware problem please let me know if you have any books in mind thanks
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re motherboard and bios in article apr news unomaha edu hkok cse kok hon yin writes can someone please tell me where can i get the best deal for micronics or ami motherboard with vl bus you can reply to me thru e mail or to this group i purchased a super voyager vlb mhz board from washburn company a month ago i don t have the mailing address clyde washburn advertises regularly in pc week he can also be reached via compuserve the phone number is i think washburn has very competitive prices compared to other ami distributers plus i liked the fact he s a ee that knows what he s talking about concerning hardware and he can be easily reached via compuserve for non critcle questions and is very informative to his customers over the phone regards dan moyer dan moyer columbiasc ncr com
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needed prodesigner iis drivers could anybody please provide me a copy of the windows drivers and grabbers from orchid technologies for use with their prodesigner iis isa video card currently i do not have access to a modem to dial out to orchid bbs if you can help me please do any of the following wichever is most convenient to you copy the binary files to a directory readable by any user in any cell of the andrew file system upload the binary files to an anonymous ftp site where allowed uuencode the files and send them to me by electronic mail please notify me by electronic mail at towwang caen engin umich edu thanks in advance francisco
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modem for sale i am selling a usr hst k baud modem with v bis compression upgrades there is no manual as it was lost going from one side of the u s to the other at some point the modem is setup for max throughput and it has built in help but a quick reference guide on the bottom of it so its use it not difficult by any means any offers
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re ibm value point acifuent acifuent isluga puc cl wrote hi i will change my soon and i read something about the ibm ps value point anyone have one the video card is really a bit card how much cost in u s and the last question can the ps value point sx mhz upgrade to a dx mhz thank you veeery much in advance alejandro cifuentes h acifuent isluga puc cl these questions can be answered by any dealer of ibm value points but i will provide some unsolicited advice the most amusing kind of advice today tueday ibm is supposed to officially announce the introduction of the vesa local bus value point systems these systems still have on board video and disk which are far better than the prior value point systems and you get vesa local bus for future upgrades we are going to buy three of them with monitors also a newly available and one of the three will immediately be upgraded to ultrastor f caching scsi disk controller and either the ati gup or the viper graphics board do not buy a sx sytem my personal philosophy on upgrade policy is that it is not loss free when you earn money you pay taxes when you spend money you pay taxes i e they get you coming and going translated this means take infrequent but large steps you are far better off short term and long term if you avoid the sx models and go straight to the dx or dx models gordon
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netbios and bios hello everyone could anyone tell me where to find some information about netbios and bios interrupt calls a book or maybe an ftp site thank you in advance emilio
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re zeos vesa video changes specs in article apr zeos com root zeos com superuser writes ncr stealth vlb viper vlb ox colors k k m k k m stuff deleted video ram m m m max ram addressable by vid processor m m m just a note even though the can address megs of dram the stealth vlb can only handle meg unless diamond has a newer design or some special deal with zeos stephen lau elec engineering univ of hawaii using a friend s account while waiting for my new grad account death to fm synthesis go gus
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wen monitor help does anybody have any info on this monitor or the manufacturers all help through e mail please scotty
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re how much memory for wp for windows in article ps pjinndua rave larc nasa gov jka air larc nasa gov writes the documentation says that wordperfect for windows requires m of ram but when i try to install it on my laptop i get a not enough memory error message i ve unloaded everything that i possibly could but still not enough memory anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening are you sure you re not running windows in real mode is it windows do you have a permanent swapfile built
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scsi help howdy sorry if this has been covered before one of my pc illiterate friends asked me to help him install drdos on his nec powermate sx sx of course i said no problem and went to work unfortunately the drdos refuses to recognize the hard drive during installation even though i am still able to boot off of the hard drive using the old dos after openning it up i discovered it was using an bit seagate scsi controller on a st n scsi mbtye drive i then booted with drdos off of the floppy a second time and ran fdisk to see if i could access the drive lo and behold the primary mbyte partition was intact created by dos no less i didn t think you could go over a mbyte partition in the older doses i could be wrong i then tried to remove the primary partition which it wouldn t allow me to do i am unaware of anything special that has to be done with a scsi drive i kinda expected it to work just like an ide mfm rll drive for dos installations any suggestions would be greatly appreciated except for throw it in the garbage and buy a new pc thanks in advance paul mr scsi not fincke
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