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5,785 | Hi. One of my coworkers is having a very odd problem. His mouse
works fine in DOS applications, if you load them from the C: prompt.
Under Windows, the mouse pointer is present, but does not move. Even
if you load a DOS app under Windows, the mouse doesn't work.
The computer is a Zeos 386SX-20 w/Diamond Speedstar VGA running MS
DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1. Mouse driver is Microsoft's 8.2. I've tried
switching the mouse from COM1 to COM2, I've tried a different mouse,
I've reinstalled MOUSE.DRV, and I can't get the blamed thing to work.
The only difference between his system and mine (where the mouse works
perfectly) is that he has an expansion card with an additional
parallel and serial port. Could that cause the problem?
Thanks in advance for any help. | 2 |
5,075 | Quantum LPS240A hard disk phantom seeks
I just purchased and installed a 240MB Quantum 3.5" hard drive, model
LPS240A, and have a concern about its behavior.
Although the disk drive itself seems to behave properly with respect to
file I/O, it performs what I call phantom seeks.
When the PC is absolutely idle, I can hear a spurt of activity in the
drive every 30-40 seconds, lasting 1-2 seconds. This activity seems to
be initiated strictly within the drive itself since the disk LED never
comes on. [The disk LED is attached to the disk controller card, not
the drive.]
My other hard disk, a Seagate ST3283A, does not have this kind
behavior.
Can anyone comment on this strange phenomenon?
--
---------------------
Steve Harrold swh@cup.hp.com
HPG200/11
(408) 447-5580 | 2 |
354 | :
: >Recently my cousin got a second internal IDE drive (a Seagate 210MB,
: >I can look up the model number if it's important) and I've been
: >trying to help him install it. [I've got a vested interest, since
: >my machine's busted and I have to use his until I get mine fixed.]
: >He already has a Seagate 85MB IDE HD (again, I forget the model number
: >but I can find out.)
:
: >Anyway, I can't seem to get the bloody thing up. I've managed to get
: >one or the other drive up (with the other disconnected), but not both
: >at the same time; whenever I try, the thing hangs during bootup -
: >never gets past the system test. The IDE controller's instruction
: >sheet says it supports two drives; I think I've configured the CMOS
: >correctly; the power's plugged in properly; I even learned about the
: >master/slave relationship that two HDs are supposed to have (didn't
: >know PCs were into S&M! 8^) and I think I configured the jumpers
: >properly (the 85MB one is the master, the new 210MB one is the slave).
:
[deleted]
:
: >Many, many thanks in advance! This is practically an emergency (I have
: >two papers to do on this thing for Monday!)! Help!
: >--
: >-----------------------
: >William Barnes SURAnet Operations
: >wbarnes@sura.net (301) 982-4600 voice (301) 982-4605 fax
: >Disclaimer: I don't speak for SURAnet and they don't speak for me.
: I've been told by our local computer guru that you can't do this unless you
: perform a low level format on your existing hard drive and set your system
: up for two hard drives from the beginning. I took him at his word, and I
: have not tried to find out any more about it, because I'm not going to back
: everything up just to add another HDD. If anyone knows for sure what the
: scoop is, I would like to know also. Thanks in advance also.
:
: Bill Willis
:
1. do not do a low level format on an IDE drive unless you have the
executable for doing so supplied by the manufacturer. These are
available from bbs's or mail but the mail version costs a nominal
fee.
2. In addition to the master/slave jumper on an IDE drive there is also
another jumper to indicate whether a slave is present. Get it right!
3. The cabling is not an issue as long as pin 1 goes to pin 1 goes to
pin 1. No twisting or swapping on an IDE cable. Be sure of pin 1
on all three components - do not make assumptions (guesses are ok
but assumptions are bad).
4. If the cable and jumpers are correct, and the CMOS setup is correct,
then you may have to do an FDISK followed by a high level format.
I have NEVER personally found this necesary, but perhaps there is
something gone wrong with the data on the disks? Probably not but
I understand your predicament - You will probably throw salt over
your shoulders, wear funny clothes and do a spooky sounding chant
while dancing around the room if someone said it might help.
Good Luck | 2 |
1,200 | Article #61083 (61123 is last):
From: scholten@epg.nist.gov (Robert Scholten)
Subject: Re: How hot should the cpu be?
Date: Wed Apr 21 19:01:49 1993
The temp on my 486DX2/66 is over 96C (measured with a K-type thermocouple
and Fluke 55 dig thermometer). This is an "idle" temp - not doing lots of
bus i/o, not doing floating point, not doing 32-bit protected mode etc. This
is in a Micron computer, without heatsink.
I recently put a heatsink/fan on the chip, but I might take the fan off. It
makes a horrible whine at times, and I wonder what the vibration is doing to
the pins on the cpu etc...
--
Rob Scholten
scholten@epg.nist.gov
End of File, Press RETURN to quit
Rob,
Don't worry about the whine of the fan it will go away in about 3 weeks
of use, mine did...
As to the vibration well that something I thought about to as I have
a tower case and the mb is mounted vertically. So I mounted the fan
on the case so that it just blows air at the CPU and its heatsink
instead. Work just like a charm, but the realy biggy to think about
is after the whine goes away on the fan. If the fan should stop (burn out)
how would you ever know this before the cpu goes up in smoke. Thats what
you should be thinking about. I have the parts together but have not
had the time to assemble them as yet. But you build a thermistor controlled
circuit that will turn on a pesso speaker and a LED when the temp. goes
above the normal operating range (96c) or there abouts. Cheep to do if
you use Radio Shack junk under $5....Think about that one for a while!
Sam | 2 |
2,562 |
vamilliron: Yes, Intel's PCI is (another) Local Bus standard, which
can be used for graphics, although I believe Local Buses can be used
for other things, too. As far as I know, though, PCI Local Bus
would compete with VESA Local Bus, not the VESA graphics standard, but
others more enlightened might be able to shed more light on this
matter.
| 2 |
1,754 | I need the jumper settings for the achieve io card...usually found in
xt's. It is affecting my video card and forcing the machine into 40 col
mode. Any help?
-The Ghoul Hath Spoken | 2 |
6,761 |
Make sure you use the small fonts driver & not the large fonts driver. Check
that in your setup. That's the only explanation I would find.
Hope this helps
| 2 |
5,845 | Hi, all:
I am studying the book --> "UNIX Desktop Guide to OPEN LOOK".
There is an example --> winprop.c that demonstrate how to program
WM_PROTOCOLS property in chapter 8. It can run, but only show the
static text messages, no Notice pop_up. What is the problem?
Thanks in advance for help!!1 IOP
/*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* File: winprop.c
*
* Shows how to set properties on a window.
*
*/
#include <X11/Xatom.h> /* For definition of XA_ATOM */
#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
#include <X11/StringDefs.h>
#include <Xol/OpenLook.h>
#include <Xol/StaticText.h>
#include <Xol/OblongButt.h>
#include <Xol/Notice.h>
/* This file defines the atoms with _OL_ prefix */
/* ID of the top-level and NoticeShell widget */
static Widget top_level, notice_shell;
static Widget make_notice();
static char message[] = "Clients use properties to communicate \
with the window manager. This example illustrates how an OPEN \
LOOK application requests notification from the window manager \
when certain events occur. The communication is in the form of \
a ClientMessage event that the application processes in an \
event-handler.";
/* Atoms used for inter-client communication */
Atom ATOM_WM_PROTOCOLS, ATOM_WM_DELETE_WINDOW,
ATOM_WM_SAVE_YOURSELF;
static void handle_wm_messages();
static void save_and_exit();
static void save_yourself();
static void pop_notice();
static void do_exit();
/* String to hold comand line (for use in responding to
* the WM_SAVE_YOURSELF protocol message.
*/
char saved_cmdline[128];
/*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
void main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
Widget w;
int i;
/* Save the command-line for use in responding to the
* WM_SAVE_YOURSELF protocol message.
*/
sprintf(saved_cmdline, "%s ", argv[0]);
if(argc > 1)
for(i = 1; i < argc; i++)
{
strcat(saved_cmdline, argv[i]);
strcat(saved_cmdline, " ");
}
/* Create and initialize the top-level widget */
top_level = OlInitialize(argv[0], "Ol_main", NULL,
0, &argc, argv);
/* Create a StaticText widget */
w = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("Stext",
staticTextWidgetClass, top_level,
XtNstring, message,
XtNwidth, 200,
NULL);
/* Create a NoticeShell widget for later use */
make_notice(top_level);
/* Intern the atoms */
ATOM_WM_PROTOCOLS = XInternAtom(XtDisplay(w),
"WM_PROTOCOLS", False);
ATOM_WM_DELETE_WINDOW = XInternAtom(XtDisplay(w),
"WM_DELETE_WINDOW", False);
ATOM_WM_SAVE_YOURSELF = XInternAtom(XtDisplay(w),
"WM_SAVE_YOURSELF", False);
/* Add an event-handler to process ClientMessage events sent
* by the window manager
*/
XtAddEventHandler(top_level, NoEventMask, True,
handle_wm_messages, NULL);
/* Realize the widgets and start processing events */
XtRealizeWidget(top_level);
/* Append the properties WM_DELETE_WINDOW and WM_SAVE_YOURSELF
* to the definition of the WM_PROTOCOLS property. This step
* requires the window ID of the top-level widget. The window
* ID is valid only after the widget is realized.
*/
XChangeProperty(XtDisplay(top_level), XtWindow(top_level),
ATOM_WM_PROTOCOLS, XA_ATOM, 32,
PropModeAppend,
&ATOM_WM_DELETE_WINDOW, 1);
XChangeProperty(XtDisplay(top_level), XtWindow(top_level),
ATOM_WM_PROTOCOLS, XA_ATOM, 32,
PropModeAppend,
&ATOM_WM_SAVE_YOURSELF, 1);
XtMainLoop();
}
/*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
static void handle_wm_messages(w, client_data, p_event)
Widget w;
XtPointer client_data;
XEvent *p_event;
{
if(p_event->type == ClientMessage &&
p_event->xclient.message_type == ATOM_WM_PROTOCOLS)
{
if(p_event->xclient.data.l[0] == ATOM_WM_DELETE_WINDOW)
{
save_and_exit();
}
if(p_event->xclient.data.l[0] == ATOM_WM_SAVE_YOURSELF)
{
save_yourself();
}
}
}
/*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
static void save_and_exit()
{
/* Display a notice giving the user a chance to respond */
pop_notice(top_level, notice_shell);
}
/*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
static void save_yourself()
{
/* Set the WM_COMMAND property to the saved command-line. */
XChangeProperty(XtDisplay(top_level), XtWindow(top_level),
XA_WM_COMMAND, XA_STRING, 8,
PropModeReplace, saved_cmdline,
strlen(saved_cmdline) + 1);
}
/*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
static Widget make_notice(parent)
Widget parent;
{
Widget w, n_text, n_control, n_exit, n_cancel;
/* Create a button and provide a callback to pop up a Notice */
w = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("QuitButton",
oblongButtonWidgetClass, parent,
XtNlabel, "Exit...",
NULL);
XtAddCallback(w, XtNselect, pop_notice, NULL);
/* Create the NoticeShell widget. Note that you have to use
* XtVaCreatePopupShell instead of the usual
* XtVaCreateManagedWidget.
*/
notice_shell = XtVaCreatePopupShell("QuitNotice",
noticeShellWidgetClass, w,
NULL);
/* Get the ID of the text and control area widgets of the
* NoticeShell.
*/
XtVaGetValues(notice_shell,
XtNtextArea, &n_text,
XtNcontrolArea, &n_control,
NULL);
/* Place a message in the text area of the NoticeShell */
XtVaSetValues(n_text,
XtNstring, "Please confirm exit from program.",
NULL);
/* Add buttons to the control area of the NoticeShell.
* Each button has an appropriate callback.
*/
n_exit = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("NoticeExit",
oblongButtonWidgetClass, n_control,
XtNlabel, "Exit",
NULL);
XtAddCallback(n_exit, XtNselect, do_exit, NULL);
n_cancel = XtVaCreateManagedWidget("NoticeCancel",
oblongButtonWidgetClass, n_control,
XtNlabel, "Cancel",
XtNdefault, True,
NULL);
return w;
}
/*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
static void pop_notice(w_emanate, w_notice)
Widget w_emanate, w_notice;
{
XtVaSetValues(w_notice, XtNemanateWidget, w_emanate, NULL);
/* Pop up the NoticeShell widget. The NoticeShell widget makes
* sure that the aplication waits until the user selects from
* one of the buttons in the NoticeShell's control area.
*/
XtPopup(w_notice, XtGrabExclusive);
}
/*-------------------------------------------------------------*/
static void do_exit(w, call_data, client_data)
Widget w;
XtPointer call_data, client_data;
{
XCloseDisplay(XtDisplay(w));
exit(0);
}
| 2 |
2,496 | Hello,
I am interested to hear from people working in the field of visual
simulation, ie driving simulation, flight simulation etc.
Would be very pleased to see, what is going on in the field of research
and industrial development.
For those of you interested as well: There is a workshop (preferedly
held in German), situated in Wuppertal, November 18/19 1993, specially
related to the above topic.
The title:
"Sichtsysteme - Visualisierung in der Simulationstechnik"
Complete details are available. Please contact me. | 2 |
4,185 |
Please post your response as well. I think many would be
interested in this one. Thank You.
-- | 2 |
3,994 |
Get ghostscript and ghostview. Ghostview is a postscript previewer
that uses ghostscript.
From the ghostview README:
Ghostview -- An X11 user interface for ghostscript.
Ghostview is full function user interface for ghostscript 2.4.
Brief list of features:
- Ghostview parses any known version of Adobe's Document Structuring
Conventions.
- Page size is automatically determined from the Document Structuring
Comments. The user is able to override the values from the comments.
- Window size is set to the bounding box for Encapsulated PostScript figures.
- Default page size is Letter and can be changed via Xresources or
application defaults file to A4 (or any other valid size) for our
European friends.
- Scrollbars appear when necessary.
- Page orientation is automatically determined from the Document Structuring
Comments. The user is able to override the values from the comments.
- Ability to view at 4 orientations: Portrait, Landscape, Upside-down,
and Seascape (for those who rotate landscape the other direction).
- Ability to preview in any supported visual. (Can preview in gray-scale
or color on a Color monitor.)
- Ability to mark pages for printing, or saving. (Good for people that
printed a 100 page document and lost page 59 due to a printer jam.)
- Can popup zoom windows at printer resolution
(1 display dot = 1 printer dot).
The Ghostview distribution includes a Ghostview Widget that people
are encouraged to use in other programs.
Ghostview-1.3 is available via anonymous ftp from:
prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ghostview-1.3.tar.Z
appenzell.cs.wisc.edu:/pub/ghostview-1.3.tar.Z
From the ghostscript README:
*****************************************************
* This file describes version 2.4.1 of Ghostscript. *
*****************************************************
********
******** An overview of Ghostscript ********
********
Ghostscript is the name of a set of software that provides:
- An interpreter for the Ghostscript language, which very
closely resembles the PostScript (TM) language; and
- A set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library) that
implement the graphics capabilities that appear as primitive
operations in the Ghostscript language.
The Ghostscript language interpreter and library are written entirely
in C, with some assembly-language accelerators for MS-DOS platforms.
Currently, Ghostscript is known to run on the following platform
families:
- IBM PC and compatibles with EGA, VGA, SuperVGA, or compatible
graphics under MS-DOS 3.1, 3.3, or 5.0;
- A wide variety of Unix systems using X Windows version 11,
release 3, 4, and 5, including Sun-3, Sun-4, Sun-386i,
Sun SPARCStation 1; generic 80386 machines running 386/ix;
H-P 9000/300 and 9000/800; DECStation 2100 and 3100; VAX
running Ultrix; Sequent Symmetry; Convex C1 and C2;
Tektronix 4300; SGI Iris Indigo;
- Sun workstations (Sun-3, SPARC, Sun-386i) running SunView;
- VAX, VMS with X11R3/4/5, gcc and DEC C compiler (DEC C compiler
version 3.1 or later is required).
(Get ghostscript from the same ftp site you get ghostview.)
| 2 |
7,316 | Three q's:
1) is it reliable?
2) how does it send the information from a MS Windows app over
the X11 protocol? Does it just draw everything as graphics into
one window, or does it use multiple windows and essentially work
more cleverly?
3) If I want to run MS Word, for example, remotely, do I have to
run a separate copy of MS Windows remotely, and then start MS
Word from that, or can MS Word be started remotely on its own? | 2 |
1,138 | I was wondering if somebody knows of a PD program for converting
any graphic formats such as fig, pic, unixplot, tek, etc. to
gremlin. Thanks, | 2 |
4,962 | I posted this May 12th:
I got a few requests asking for a summary, so I'll attempt one
here:
Here's the ones I know of:
Wind/U - Bristol Technologies
Hunter SDK - Hunter Systems
MainWin - MainSoft
LIBWXM - Visual Solutions
Hunter
The company is going through some big changes. I expect
to eventually see the Hunter SDK pop up with a new name. At the moment, it
is difficult to get phone calls returned and otherwise obtain info.
Hopefully they will post something about themselves once things settle down.
Visual Solutions
LIBWXM is a product that I just heard about. They don't
yet support MDI or MFC. Libwxm was used to port VisSim, a mathematical
modeling package. Does native Motif Widgets, like Wind/U from Bristol.
Contact Carrie Lemieux at 508 392 0100 for more info. She's very helpful.
MainSoft
This translates Windows source to a Unix executable that
can switch off between a Windows or Quasi-Motif look and feel at
runtime. They skip the Xt and Xm (Motif) X toolkit levels and go
straight to Xlib. They don't yet support MFC. They're at 415 896 0708.
Bristol
This company that seems to be on the right track. Wind/U uses
Xlib/Xt/Xm to give a *real* Motif app. They seem to be doing the most work
in trying to support things like DDE, Common Dialogs, and more on the horizon.
My contact there is knowledgeable, responds to my email, and wrote an example
program for me showing how to obtain X widgets from Windows handles.
They're at 203 438 6969, or you can email info@bristol.com.
| 2 |
1,303 |
No, I'd rather not. First of all, I don't have exact figures, and I don't
want to disclose how I know this. However, I will say that Jim Francis
from Microsoft just posted a figure of $26 million (payment from IBM to
Borland) and that's somewhere in the range that I've heard. | 2 |
584 | I am saving an image on one machine and redisplaying the image on
another machine (both are HP 9000 Model 750s). The image is created
using XCreateImage and XGetImage and displayed with XPutImage. The
image is redisplayed correctly except that the colors are wrong because
the server on the other machine is using a different colormap.
I tried saving the colormap (pixel and rgb values) and on the redisplay,
performed a table lookup against the new colormap. This didn't work
because some rgb combos don't exist in the new colormap.
Is there a way to force the server to load colors into set pixel values, or
is there a simpler way to solve this problem? I tried using xinitcolormap
but couldn't get that to work either.
Any help would be appreciated.
| 2 |
5,141 |
Users can't find the cursor? Run "xneko" - it'll turn the cursor into a
mouse (rodent variety (-: ). If your users still can't find it, the cat will!
| 2 |
45 | I've done a bit of looking, and havn't been able to
come up with a mailing list or newsgroup for users
of Adobe Photoshop. Assuming I've just not missed
it, I'll go ahead and see if there is enough interest
to start a mailing list (and/or alt. newsgroup).
Drop me a note if you might be interested in subscribing.
THANKS!
--Bob Wier (NOT of the Grateful Dead :-) | 2 |
1,667 | I am trying to setup two Seagate Tech. hard drives as
master and slave in the same system...
what i need to do such is the jumper schematics of the
two hard drives that i have...
my two Seagate HD: ST3144A, 124MB
ST3283A, 233MB
I need the jumpter setting schematics for these two Harddrives...
thanx for you help in advance... | 2 |
4,541 | The latest issue of The Andrew View, newsletter of the Andrew Consortium
is available. The simplest way to get it is via ftp from
emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu (128.2.45.40) in directory ./newsletters;
subdirectories ASCII and PostScript contain the newsletter in those
formats.
If you have requested it in the past, you will receive an email copy.
You may request to be placed on the mailing list by sending your request
to info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu. | 2 |
2,743 | Anyone have any recommendations/warnings about the Texel 5024 CD-ROM drive
or about any of its competitors? I'm looking for a CD-ROM drive for
connection to a PAS-16 SCSI port. | 2 |
3,566 |
I'm 99&44/100% positive that uwm isn't ICCCM compliant. If you want it,
the R4 sources are still available on export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12)
in /pub/R4.
-- | 2 |
3,057 | (stuff deleted)
This sounds like what happened to my HD a month ago. My HD was stacked
with Stacker v.2.0 (I run Dos5) Suddenly everything hung up, and most of
the HD got corrupted (directories changed into unreadable files with
'funny' names). In other words: it is probably just the doubledisk part of
Dos6 that is troublesome.
I now use Stacker v 3.0, and so far I have had no trouble.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Elisabeth Bull e_mail: eliza@swix.nvg.unit.no | 2 |
2,984 | Hi there,
I'm looking for tools that can make X programming easy.
I would like to have a tool that will enable to create X motif
GUI Interactivly. Currently I'm Working on a SGI with forms.
A package that enables to create GUI with no coding at all
(but the callbacks).
Any help will be appreciated. | 2 |
979 | Dear Netters:
Could you mail the source code of the book:
"Advanced X window application programming"
by Johnson and Reichard
TO ME?
If you need any source code, just ask me.
Thank you very much!
Sincerely,
Zeng, Qiyong. | 2 |
2,995 | Hello,
I install one wav driver: pc-speaker, then install mpeg 2.0
phoenix.oulu.fi:/pub/incoming/mpeg2_0/mpegexe.zip --/
in Windows 3.1. but when I load one MPEG file and make sound type to
WAV or MPEG,it always say error.
when I load one mpeg file which have wav file( ~.wav),then
select sound type to WAV,it is normal and no error,but I still can't
hear sound. What should I do? fix the SoundDrv number in MFW.INI?
Thankx for any help...
--
Internet Address: u7911093@cc.nctu.edu.tw
English Name: Erik Wang
Chinese Name: Wang Jyh-Shyang | 2 |
3,381 | You CAN print to a file from an HP (or any other printer). Just go into
the Printers section of your Control Panel. Select the printer you want
to re-direct to a file, and click on Connect. Then choose :FILE as the
port to connect the printer to.
When you print from any application to that printer, Windows will prompt
you for a file name for the file into which you want to capture the
printout.
It's pretty easy.
Good luck!
| 2 |
7,116 | I recently read in a book that the TIFF version 6.0 specification was due
to be released in the spring of 1992. I am interested in finding out about
the new features of the TIFF spec (and if it is out). Specifically, I need
to know if TIFF 6.0 supports VQ decompression and/or image
tiling.
| 2 |
1,868 |
You can't customize a command line interface? Where have you been? I
can change the prompt, I can make aliases (so someone like me who is
used to say, ls, can type it on my dos machine and still get a
directory listing), and under Unix, if I don't like the command line
interface, I throw it out and get a different one. (csh, bash, ksh,
sh, etc...)
This is true.
A decent GUI for all variations of Unix? Lessee... what about Motif?
Or the stuff from MIT? (twm comes to mind...) those are pretty
standard. Heck, an xwindows program runs like it likes to -- all the
end user has to really know is how to manipulate the actual windows
with the mouse, and since it is a GUI, it's *graphical* and a bit
easier to figure out. (Something the windows people have been pressing
down our throats for some time now...)
The thing I fear is that there will be a gap between the normal users
running windows (all flavors) and the other "power" users running Unix
and other more advanced OSes. At least right now, DOS is still pretty
much king. I can bring a copy of my latest whiz-bang programming demo
over to my friends house, and since we both run DOS, he can enjoy it
too. | 2 |
4,236 | Hello,
I'm trying to use the BIOS timer interrupts (which occur every .055
seconds, or 18.2 times a second) to time people's response times, in a
psychology experiment, and the response times are on the order of .01
seconds. Is there any way I can get better precision than by counting
ticks? Or can I make the ticks occur more frequently? I'm trying to do
this in DOS 5.0 on a 386, and it would be nice if this could also work
on our old 8086 machines running DOS 2.1 (I know, I know, I don't like
them any more than you do) but this is by no means a requirement, just a
possibility.
So, basically, any information on the BIOS tick scheme and the
related inrterruots would be appreciated, as well as any information on
alternate ways of improving accuracy. Email is preferred, as I'm
planning on posting this to a few boards, and I don't read all of them.
Thanks | 2 |
436 | I must say that I have been a customer of Midwest Micro for over 4
years now, and have been well taken care of on each purchase.
I have had many friends that have bought that same modem and (THEY)
do have some experience with setting up modems, so there have been
no problems in 6 of them that I know of. The fact that your time
to valuable for you to spend on the modem is where you went wrong.
WHY you say because I must tell you of the 12 yes I say 12 PPI modems
that I have had in the past that I was trying to use on my bbs. They
all were junk and were replace 3 times each, to ther point that
I just said forget it and I wanted my money back. PPI's teck even
said that they didn't even repair them. That they just strip the
parts that are good and junk thr rest of the modem.
I think it was more your fault than Midwest Mirco's faulkt...Sam | 2 |
7,041 | Hello,
I want a little network for 3 users. All users want to run Windows.
The most important things I want for the network are: file-sharing,
mail utility, two printers on one of the computers and a fax/modem
card on one of the computers. We all want to use each others harddisk.
My idea was to buy three computers (one 486DX and two 386DX). All
three have a 40Mb local harddisk, the 486 also has a very large
harddisk. All three also have a network card. The 486 is connected to
the printers and contains the fax/modem card. And last but not least:
Workgroups for Windows.
My questions:
- Is this possible?
- What exactly are the possibilities and advantages of Workgroups
for Windows?
- Will all the computers be fast enough? Behind all three, someone
is working. | 2 |
2,019 | I need a graphics display program that can take as a parameter the name of
the file to be displayed, then just display that image and then quit.
All of the other graphics display programs come up with a menu first or some
other silliness.
This program is going to be run from within another program. I have lots of
memory and VGA color. Any graphics format will do. Has anyone heard of such
a beast?
Keith
| 2 |
4,533 | Hello again,
About a week and one-half ago I posted a query looking for people feelings
on the inkjet family of printers. Specifically, a comparison between the
Canon BJ200 (BubbleJet) and the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 500. Many people
asked me to post the summary/account of all the postings and e-mail I
received. Below is my original query and the responses I received. I have
not deleted any part of the responses, only the headers and signatures, so
you can extract what you find necessary. Some people asked me for an
unbiased account; however, the very nature of the question suggests
favoritism and biased comments, you must extract the information you
believe unbiased and a fair representation of each printer. There are a
wide range of comments, each has its own value.
There was no clear winner, some like the BJ200 (especially its
price/performance ratio), others preferred the durability and reliability
of the DeskJet (the original inkjet with proven drivers and a solid
background). Two new inkjet printers have drawn some attention, a new
printer to be introduced by Hewlett-Packard later this year (around
summertime), and an addition to the Epson product line (their first
inkjet). You will find that after the initial purchase, the costs of
re-filling or replacing the ink cartridges are about the same (this largely
depends on where you purchase the re-fills or replacements -- so shop
around first since this aspect will most likely dominate the cost of your
printer). No one mentioned approx. how many sheets each ink cartridge will
print, but I suspect they are roughly equal at about 1000 - 1500 sheets
(laser printers will do 4000-5000 sheets per toner cartridge). Well,
that's a brief research summary of my personal research. ENJOY!
===========================================================================
Well I bought the BJ 200 about a month ago at the start of their $50 rebate
program on that printer (it ends 5/31), and I bought it from Computer
Discount Warehouse because their price of $325 couldn't be beat anywhere I
looked, and I think it's a HOT printer. Just using regular copier paper
produced fantastic results just in high quality mode. I compared the
output of a Micrografx Designer legal size drawing with 4pt type done on my
BJ 200 with the same drawing printed on an HP Laserjet IID and I was amazed
how well I could read the small print on the BJ 200. Printing speed was
several seconds faster on the BJ 200 which is amazing considering that the
HP has 2.5M ram installed. I measured the time from when the printer first
indicated it was receiving data (as I used print manager in Windows).
I showed the output to several people at work and one manager bought one
immediately for his office, and two other engineers placed their orders
too. If you need CDW's phone number, it's 800-598-4239. Delivery to NY
was two days.
Good luck!
Craig Witkowski, CENG51@maccvm.corp.mot.com
Motorola Communications & Electronics Inc.
Glen Rock, NJ
===========================================================================
I own a Deskjet 500. Performance isn't spectacular under Windows using
TrueType fonts but neither is the Canon from what I have seen. Quality for
the HP is very much dependent on paper quality - on 'standard' photo-copy
paper the characters have slightly 'frayed' edges but on better quality
'distinction' type paper things look better. For most applications I find
copy paper fine - still better than dot-matrix. Comes with a Windows
driver, which seems to by-pass print manager, has a few
'intelli-fonts'which are HP scaleable fonts - probably faster than TrueType
but haven't really tried them out. Can get RAM & FONT cartridges but unless
the speed of TrueType is a problem I wouldn't bother. The RAM cartridges
can't be used as buffer - soft fonts only.
For graphics, i.e. BMP images etc the HP can be put into a dither mode via
the HP supplied Win driver. There a number of dither options such as
'scatter', 'pattern' etc. The manual gives recommendations depending on
the type of image being printed. Text is not so good in this mode. Problem
arises when you have a document which contains both graphic and text. The
range of tones for graphic images isn't brilliant but I think that is more
of a limitation with inkjet printers in general.
However, a printer definitely worth looking at is the new inkjet from
Epson. This printer is faster, cheaper, and capable of producing
laser-like quality on normal copier paper. Can't remember the model #, LX
- something I think?
I purchased my HP days before the Epson was released here :-{. The
introductory price on the Epson was the same as the HP here in New Zealand.
===========================================================================
About a month ago, I got a Canon BJ200. I absolutely LOVE it. It is
incredibly fast, except for printing from PSPICE (I don't know if you ever
do stuff with that or not.) Most of the stuff I print is either from
Microsoft Word for Windows or just plain text. The only problems I've had
are printing headers/footers (the printer freaked out), and printing on
cheap paper (lots of streaks). Normal copy paper works great with it, you
can only tell it's not laser-printed by holding it, oh, less than twelve
inches from your face. (That is, if you're nearsighted, like me! :) ) The
printer comes with its own driver for Windows 3.1!! I have no other
complaints. The printer also can act just like some EPSON or another for
those archaic software packages that haven't written a driver for it yet.
The teeny-weeny footprint is a real plus, too--AND, if you purchase it
between now and May 31, you get a $50 rebate from Canon!! I bought mine
from a store called CompUSA, and the price now is $340. I have a friend
who has the HP you are looking at. It also prints very well, and everyone
has drivers for it, BUT it is VERY slow!
Hope I helped!
(360dpi sure looks great!)
Heather Stehman
===========================================================================
I guess I have some experience with both: I have a BJ-300 at work and a
Deskjet 500 at home. I prefer the Deskjet. The printing speed and quality
are similar (I tested both with text and graphics before buying the Deskjet
for home). The feature that sets the Deskjet apart is the driver support
in so many applications. The BJ ends up emulating the Epson LQ or IBM
Proprinter to get it to work with many non-windows apps and this will be
the case for a long time. The design is superior if you just want to use
cut paper, the Deskjet is quieter, AND the ink cartridges are quite a bit
cheaper due to the number of Deskjets out there in comparision to the BJs.
Just my $0.02 worth..
--
Mike Mattix
Agricultural Group of Monsanto
P.O. Box 174
Luling, LA 70070
INTERNET Address: dmmatt@bigez.monsanto.com
===========================================================================
Yes, there is the landscape mode printing problem, but it does not
present a problem in Windows as the Windows printer driver handles the
translation. I actually thought of some other points after I posted the
note. The Deskjet has an unprintable area of approximately .5inch around
the paper the Bubblejet does not. You are right about the graphics
resolutions, I tested the printers with the applications I had access to:
Wordperfect, Harvard Graphics, WinGIF, Paintshop PRO, and Paintbrush and
could not tell a difference. In fact one of the HP Deskjet Windows drivers
gives you significant control over the contrast and density of the printer
hence controlling the amount of ink you put down. The Bubblejet did not.
I had no imaging software to test the printers with and so had no
comparision there. Finally, I wanted sheet feeding. In that configuration
the Bubblejet cost approximately $100 more than the Deskjet.
I went through a pretty thorough evaluation and chose the Deskjet when I
spent my own money. BTW, I am replacing the BJ-300 with a Deskjet 500 at
work this month anyway.
Regards
Mike Mattix
Ag Group of Monsanto
Luling, LA
===========================================================================
I spent some time comparing the two. We ended up getting the Bubblejet
BJ-200 versus the HP. Our reasons were:
1) The HP seemed to have worse banding than the Canon
2) 360dpi versus 300 - we felt we could see the difference
3) Price - Canon has a $50 rebate program going on at the moment.
The BJ-200 was our choice over the BJ-10ex - we could have 100 pages in the
BJ-200 feeder. The BJ-10ex holds only 30 pages, I think.
As you can see, up to 100 pages on the BJ-200. We haven't done anything
big with the BJ, but its performance seems reasonable under Windows. I
know that the Microsoft BBS has a newer windows driver than comes with the
printer, but I don't know how it compares (also the driver included with
the printer is Canon's whereas I don't know where the Microsoft BBS one
comes from - Microsoft?)
Hope this helps.
--
Thomas V. Frauenhofer, WA2YYW
tvf@cci.com, ...!uunet!uupsi!cci632!tvf, tvf@cs.rit.edu
Mandlebratwurst: The Meal that Eats Itself!
===========================================================================
Altough I'm sometimes also a salesperson (if I'm not suppost to study :-))
I would recommend to buy the BJ200. The printing quality is a bit better,
but you you've got much more possiblities. Don't forget the HP engine is at
least 2 years on the marked, the Canon engine (witch is also used in
other "new" bubblejet printers like e.g. the Epson ones) is quite recently
available..
I've seen during a short demonstration (from someone who tryed to sell me
Canon printers) 2 times the same picture, one printed with the BJ200, one
with the Canon, the other with the HP, and.. there was a difference in
printing- quality,.. The Canon was a bit better..
Greetz,
Kris
===========================================================================
When we decided we needed quiet printers in our hospital we looked to
inkjet printers. They have near laser quality, speed, and they are quiet.
We use both HP Deskjets and the Canon BJ-200s. I prefer the paper handling
qualities of the Deskjets but I feel the Canons have superior print
quality. The Ideal would be a Canon with a sheet feeder, however I did end
up buying a deskjet for home use (got too good a deal). Anyway, we are
using Canons in high volume areas and they are holding up very well. Out
of 15 Deskjets and 4 BJ-200s I have only had one problem with a deskjet and
that was taken care of very quickly by HP.
-Nate
===========================================================================
Whenever I buy anything I look at what the "experts" say, pick out the top
few and then buy on whatever criteria are the most apt. I've been
unusually flush lately (no begging letter please) and so I've done this a
few times including - about four months ago - with inkjet printers.
I can't remember much about the process except that I read about three
reviews of inkjets and that the 500 was always at or near the top. I
bought the 500C because of the added dimension of colour (I intend to build
a multi- media machine at some stage and have just bought a colour scanner
towards that). Although I haven's used the colour thing in earnest yet I
tried it out on a couple of Windows bitmaps and I was pleased with the
result.
I note that even though you can now get the 550C (the one with both colour
and mono with no need to change the cartridge), the 500C and 500 are still
readily available (at least in the UK). The following are my
views/experience:
1. I don't know anything about the Canon except that I came away
from reviews (and replies to a posting similar to yours) with
the idea that the HP offered the best performance/price ratio.
2. I believe HP are the originals in the field - not always the
ideal place to be but the market's still young so one assumes
they have the expertise.
3. The 500C is worth the extra. Operation in mono is perfectly
acceptable and I get good crisp reproduction of fonts from
Windows.
4. I used to work for Monotype when they still manufactured
typesetters (before their AMERICAN owners closed them down!)
and I can tell you that in terms of definition 300 dpi is
pretty poor anyway so 360 dpi is just a bit less poor...
5. The HP comes with a reasonable set of drivers.
6. If you buy it invest in the additional RAM pack - it's pretty
slow with it, God knows what it's like without!
I actually work in Germany and my PC is home in the UK so it's not in daily
use. I would say that apart from my not reading the manual properly and
having a really dumb problem at the start it's easy peasy to operate.
Hope this is of use.
Regards
David
===========================================================================
Just bought the BJ-200. I thought the price couldn't be beat ($329, with
$50 rebate thru 5/31) and so far it is comparable, even superior, to the
DeskJet in print quality.
Speed: Per page rate seems to be faster (I don't have figures).
I don't print long docs, though.
Quality: I think the graphics quality is excellent. Print quality is
excellent as well, unless you use small fonts and hold it up
close; you can see a lot more "jaggies" than on a LaserJet.
The 360 dpi is offset by a little less accuracy in holding the
page/print head in place, I would imagine.
Large docs: Not room in the standard model for a whole lotta pages ...
manual says up to 100, though. Haven't tried it.
Drivers: No problems under Win3.1 yet. WinWord doesn't want to print
the envelopes the same way the Canon does, though.
Know nothing of add-on costs.
Daniel A. Hartung -- dhartung@chinet.chinet.com -- Ask me about Rotaract
===========================================================================
I just bought a BJ-200 printer a couple of days ago. I compared it to the
sample print of an HP DeskJet 500 and knew that the HP wasn't for me. The
BJ-200 is pretty fast and really prints with good quality. I can compare
it with the HP LaserJet IIID PostScript and they look almost identical (
depending on the kind of paper). I don't have problems with the ink not
being dry, it seems to dry VERY fast. Probably within a second. Since
Canon is giving a $50 rebate until the end of May, it is really a good buy.
---
Sean Eckton
Computer Support Representative
College of Fine Arts and Communications
===========================================================================
Wow, it's funny you should ask this. I'm a little behind in news reading
so I know this may be late.
I just purchased the Canon Bubblejet last night. I was really worried
that I wouldn't like it but the print quality, and noise level is
fantastic! I printed quite a few documents with lots of graphics and it
printed DAMN near laser quality. You can't tell it's not laser unless you
get 2 inches from the page.
no problems with drivers. The printer came with the driver diskette
which is good because I was beginning to panic when I couldn't findi it
under Windows or WordPerfect. It works well under both. I have yet to
install Word for Windows so don't know how it works with them.
I had a DeskJet 500 at work last year. It was a good printer as well ut
I felt it was awfully slow. And much noisier than the BubbleJet. I won't
say the BubbleJet is MUCH better, but I really do like it more. Just my
$0.02 worth.
-=- Brett
===========================================================================
--
Sincerely,
Robert Kayman ---- kayman@cs.stanford.edu -or- cpa@cs.stanford.edu | 2 |
2,096 | This is a question aimed at those who have done some server code hacking:
I am attempting to add a working SaveScreen function to a new
server. I have been able to get the screen to blank out properly, and through
debugging I can see that my savescreen function is being called with on=0,
which (for some arcane reason) means to blank the screen.
My problem is that this function is never being called again with on=1, even
after I have moved the mouse and/or typed some keys. My question is: what am
I likely to be missing that would cause this problem? I copied the basic
design of my function from the existing versions:
static Bool next_savescreen(scr,on)
ScreenPtr scr;
Bool on;
{
/* this was copied from the omron server code -- is it the right way? */
if (on != SCREEN_SAVER_ON) {
nextSetLastEventTime();
}
if (on == SCREEN_SAVER_ON) { /* Save user's current setting */
next_save_screen_brightness = NXScreenBrightness(my_eventhandle);
NXSetScreenBrightness( my_eventhandle, 0.0); /* Blank the screen */
}
else { /* Unblank the screen */
NXSetScreenBrightness( my_eventhandle, next_save_screen_brightness);
}
return TRUE;
}
I can see in the server/os code where the screensaver is called to turn on the
saver, but I cannot find where it "wakes up" the server and unblanks the
screen.
Any tips/help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
| 2 |
3,813 | Does anyone know of any c or c++ libraries for preparing
and displaying quickly pages of mixed text, mathematical equations,
and graphics (circles,ellipses,etc) on the vdu? The maths wouldnt
need to be up to TeX quality, but it would be useful to be scaleable.
The main thing would be to be able to generate the display quickly
from a minimum set of formatting code.
Thanks,
Ed Campbell
| 2 |
2,245 | The fan in my power supply, like most, is distractingly LOUD. Has anyone found
a solution to running a pc with peace and quiet? Short of buying a notebook
PC, I don't know what to do. Oh yeah, I did hear about a power supply called a
"Silencer" - which is supposed to be more quiet. Has anyone had experience with
this? I was quoted a price of $225 (!) for a 270Watt Silencer.
I've even considered stuffing my PC case in one of those acoustic "printer
enclosures", but that wouldn't be the most elegant solution. Also, I'm
guessing that would also cut the ventilation.
Any other ideas?
Thanks in advance for ANY suggestions! Please E-mail whatever you post...
| 2 |
7,282 | I'm working on a system which uses a given set of 3D key frame
positions (x,y,z) to control an imaginary camera movement. I'm
using Kochanek-Bartels splines (as described in the SIGGRAPH '84
proceedings) to create a variable number of inbetweens between
the key frames. I want the inbetweens to be given in the form
(x,y,z,dx,dy,dz) where the last three argumentsa are the x, y and
z component of the viewing direction vector of the camera when
positioned at (x,y,z).
The method presented by Kochanek and Bartels only deals with the
positions of the inbetween view points to be generated. I've
tried to set the viewing direction at a view point equal to the
chord between the two adjacent view points (which in general are
not key frames), but this causes a sligt discontinuity of the
viewing direction vector at the key frame positions (although
the spatial movement seems to work fine; and I'm quite certain
- I think :) - that I've not simply made an implementation
error...)
Now I wonder if anyone out there has used this spline form for
similar purposes and how they decided the viewing vectors.
I'd appreciate replies to be emailed to me at
iharkest@lise.unit.no
Anyone else interested in the answer will be sent a summary of
the replies if they contact me.
--
_________ __________________
\\ \\ \\
\\ N G E \\==\\ A R K E S T A D iharkest@lise.unit.no Comp. Sc.
\\________\\ \\_______________ NTH (Norwegian Institute of Technology) | 2 |
4,127 | Hi,
I am running X11R4 on an IBM RS/6000 (AIX 3.2) and X11R5 on a Sun4 (SunOS 4.1).
Since I run X on both colour and black&white displays, I need different
values for the same resource, so I want to use #ifdef COLOR in my
application defaults files. However, cpp is only invoked by xrdb, and
not when the resources are loaded on demand.
Is there a proper solution to this?
So far, the only proper solution I've come to think of, is to create 2
different files in my ~/app-defaults/, say XTerm and XTerm-color, and
set my XFILESEARCHPATH to either $HOME/%T/%N or $HOME/%T/%N-color.
But that does not always seem to work (e.g. executing a remote shell
command without reading the .cshrc does not set XFILESEARCHPATH).
Furthermore, I thought of using #include "XTerm" in XTerm-color.
However, for resources in XTerm that I want to override in XTerm-color,
things are different on both machines. On a Sun, the FIRST found resource
is used (i.e. the one from XTerm, the b&w one), while on an RS/6000, the
LAST found value is used (i.e. the one from XTerm-color). What can I do
about it?
I have one last question: for the specification of XFILESEARCHPATH, I
can use %T, %N, %C and %S. %T stands for app-defaults, %N for the
resource class, but what do %C and %S stand for?
Thanks in advance for replying,
Marcel. | 2 |
4,198 | [ Lots of stuff deleted because I felt like it ]
This MS bashing has definitely lost all its humor value.
I think most of the people posting are forgetting that most users
of MS products do not even know about internet, and Unix is that
very unfriendly place where bizzare abreviations replace the rather
comfortable abreviations they know. And the abreviations have subtle
differences between the different vendors. While PC users tend to
customize any windowing setup, they can not do much with their
command line.
So to most of the computer users in the world MS product symbolize
quality. MS has made their life easier, and more productive and to them
that is quality. They do not care about what innovative things MS has
done, other than to make their life with a computer one heck of a lot
easier. You may know better than most computer users in this world
but that will not change their perception.
Face it until Unix come up with a decent GUI that is available to
all variations of Unix it just will not catch on with the mainstream
of computer users. We here on the net are not mainstream computer users.
Brian
--
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are mine not those of BNR. | 2 |
6,000 |
To windows 3.0, yes.
It's definitely dated - I used OS/2 1.21, & alpha 2.0 (when msft was
developing it...)
I preferred Windows 3.1 because it was more stable & faster than 3.0,
but could still run more apps than OS/2 (again I made this choice
before 2.0 was released).
No, I've seen no such data.
hee hee. good one ;> ;>
...and one that I've encountered as well...
Hmm. Are you sure? I'm speaking from my own experience as an
OS/2 _user_. Certainly people in, say, the NT marketing group
would be in a unique position to present the results of, say,
research on upcoming NT and OS/2 apps (vs Windows and MS-DOS apps).
Part of my point was that just cause one works at microsoft does
not mean one has access to such data (if it exists).
I will confess to, at times, attacking the poster.
Again, my point was that not all microsofties are here to "sell"
readers on our products (which would conflict with the "no-ads"
philosophy of usenet). Nor do we necessarily have access to info
that others have.
I also get tired of people assuming that microsofties are, like,
members of the BORG.
-jen
-- | 2 |
7,480 | I just ordered my 4DX2-66V system from Gateway. Thanks for all the net
discussions which helped me decide among all the vendors and options.
Right now, the 4DX2-66V system includes 16MB of RAM. The 8MB upgrade
used to cost an additional $340.
| 2 |
5,481 | The copyright notices themselves seem to be making conficting
restrictions. I do not know how to reconcile:
/* Copyright Notice
* ================
* Copyright 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 by John Bradley
*
* Permission to use, copy, and distribute XV in its entirety, for
* non-commercial purposes, is hereby granted without fee, provided that
* this license information and copyright notice appear in all copies.
*
... with:
*
* XV is shareware for PERSONAL USE only. You may use XV for your own
* amusement, and if you find it nifty, useful, generally cool, or of
* some value to you, your non-deductable donation would be greatly
* appreciated. $25 is the suggested donation, though, of course,
* larger donations are quite welcome. Folks who donate $25 or more
* can receive a Real Nice bound copy of the XV manual for no extra
* charge.
*
* Commercial, government, and institutional users MUST register their
* copies of XV, for the exceedingly REASONABLE price of just $25 per
* workstation/X terminal. Site licenses are available for those who
* wish to run XV on a large number of machines. Contact the author
* for more details.
...
It strikes me that the first part gives you the right to use, without
fee, the program for noncommercial purposes if the info appears in all
copies. This seems to cover educational institutions despite what the
rest of the notice says. And the first part doesn't say subject to
the conditions outlined below...
Chris | 2 |
3,362 | : >IS3does anyone know whether or not it is possible to have 2 monitors working
: >IS3with Microsoft Windows 3.1? I have a Taxan Multi Vision 550 and a NEC
: This may work when using a VGA and a Hercules card in one system, but
: using two VGA-cards in one system will never work.
I believe that two 8514 (8514/A?) may be used in tandem on one system.
This is the one exception to the VGA+Mono dual monitor combo that I
have heard about. Has anybody done this? | 2 |
1,722 | HI
I`m looking for some assistance in locating information on how to run
win 3.1 on a CGA monitor. The setup suggests you look at the manual, but
the guy I`m helping is part of a large office and computer assistance
must be booked in advance, therefore he cant get windows onto his CGA
system.
Thanx in anticipation | 2 |
3,147 |
Why should he have to? This sort of thing should be included. How about
the millions of people who don't have access to pd libraries over networks?
Just because people can work around it, doesn't mean that something shouldn't
be done to remedy the situation. | 2 |
5,098 | Hi, there were a couple of articles posted to this group the other
day with the above subject heading. Unfortunately, they expired
before I could read them. I could really use an xterm-like thing
on my Amiga 4000; could somwone give me any information.
Thanks,
Larry R. Nittler
| 2 |
3,850 | We are making a transition from NextStep to X-windows. I am trying to find the best GUI tool for our needs. I have looked at several tools but they all seem basically the same (each salesman will beg to differ). I realize that there are differences but I don't have an infinate amount of time to discover what they are. The tools I have looked at so far are UIM/X, X-designer, Tele-Use, tcl/tk,Interviews, and SUIT.
So far I've drawn the following conclusions:
1) The builder for Interviews is not very mature, bad docs
2) Tele-Use is very expensive and uses a proprietary toolkit
3) UIM/X & X-designer seem about the same, even though X-designer does not have a interpreter (I'll by Centerline if I need one)
4) tcl/tk is a little buggy
5) I know very little about the ICS Builder (just have the sales info)
6) Due to a corporate agreement X-designer is much cheeper than any other comercial product.
7) For the time I'm spending I could have bought all of them (well different money)
8) We will have to live with any shortcomings and make it work
9) this type of tool seems great, but noone seems to talk about them on the net. Is there another news group for this ?
10) SUIT cost too much for comercial development.
I'm hoping someone out there has a strong opinion on at least one of these products.
thanks
| 2 |
6,181 | Is there a way I can save a snapshot of my screen to a file, under
Windows? (Similar to the way one can press CMD-SHIFT-3 on a Mac.)
Please email rather than posting. | 2 |
1,272 | I am looking for an available program that would convert gif
files to other formats usable on DOS-based software such
as WordPerfect Presentations (which will handle .wpg and .tiff,
among others).
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you very much for
your time and help.
Steve
alford@novavax.nova.edu
| 2 |
6,563 | Please help with MPEG description or sources:decoders &
encoders. Great thanks in advance.
| 2 |
6,950 | I went out and bought the PAS16 yesterday, and installed it into my Gateway
DX2-66V. I followed the instructions and set the SB side with DMA 1 and IRQ5
(the default) and then the PAS side with DMA 5 and IRQ 10. My question is how
should I configure for MPU-401 compatibility. The manual and installation
program recommended IRQ2, but on my machine it is configured to [cascade] to
IRQ8-15. So can I still use IRQ2, or should I choose a different one? Right now
I have the MPU-401 emulation mode turned off. Actually what is this "cascade to
IRQ8-15" business?
A related questions (to other GW or VL-bus machine owners) I was told that
only DMA 5, 6, 7 are 16 bit DMAs, and 0-4 are 8 bit DMAs. Now what about
32-bit VL-bus mastering DMAs?? Which DMA channel(s) is used by the VL-bus
extension to do 32-bit DMA?
Yet another question, after installing PAS16, my Links (golf game) will hang
the machine when I select SB mode and run, but works with Adlib mode??
Civilization however works fine ( at least so far). Any body knows what I might
have done wrong? | 2 |
1,628 |
i also noticed this was out. the readme that comes with it
doesn't tell you squat, except to warn you that bad things may
happen. anyone have any idea what these can do for me in terms
of, say, performance ? | 2 |
4,622 | Is it possible to have xdm put up a multi-line greeting? If so, how do
I specify such a thing in the Xresources file? I don't have much
(anything) for X books, so I can't look it up. Thanks.
--
Mark Van Overbeke Systems Software Programmer
Computing Services BITNET: Mark@UMNMOR.BITNET (VMS)
University of Minnesota, Morris INTERNET: Mark@caa.mrs.umn.edu (VMS)
Morris, MN 56267 1-612-589-6378 mark@cda.mrs.umn.edu (Ultrix) | 2 |
1,698 | I just donwloaded a *.bin file from a unix machine which is
supposed to be converted to a MAC format. Does anyone know
what I need to do to this file to get it into any Dos, Mac
or Unix readable format. Someone mentioned fetch on the unix
machine - is this correct? Could someone explain the .bin
format a little?
Thanks,
Elizabeth
--
| 2 |
2,935 | Posted for a friend without posting access (but with e-mail access...)
----------------------------
Help, anyone!
I have a X client that is abnormally terminated with the following message:
XIO: fatal IO error 22 (Invalid argument) on X server "xxxxx:0.0"
after 10058 requests (10057 known processed) with 78 events remaining.
It has been known to occur when displaying on the Xsun (X11R4) server. It
occurs with a higher frequency when the client displays on the Xdomain
(X11R4) server running on DomainOS 10.3.5 on an Apollo.
Anybody know why this may be happening? Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.
Reply-To: has been set to me. I'll summarize to the net.
Doug Leary
REDARS Software Development
Boeing Computer Services
dcl@luey.ca.Boeing.COM
| 2 |
4,016 | Could someone please tell me if the 486SLC and 486SLC2 processors
IBM is putting in their Thinkpad 700's and other PC's is a REAL
486 with a math coprocessor or if it is really some Kludge that
should not be called a 486 at all?
Thanks,
Eric | 2 |
649 | Apollo (now HP) have a graphics board that does 80-bit graphics. When I
heard that, I jumped. The answer isn't that it can do 100 trillion-trillion-
trillion colors. It actually does 10 planes of 8-bits (or 5 planes of 16
bits, etc.) for very fast graphics. | 2 |
7,009 | I'm running xterm under X11R5, Motif 1.1, mwm and UNIX SVR4 on a UNISYS
386 based machine. My default shell is /bin/csh or the C shell. Whenever
I run xterm, I get the following message before the first C shell prompt:
Warning: no access to tty; thus no job control in this shell...
After this, I can't run any job control commands like fg, bg etc. Also,
I can't run another xterm from the command line of this xterm (I can only
launch additional xterms from a .mwmrc menu).
I'd appreciate some help with this problem, or pointers to where I can get
some help. By the way, my environment variable TERM is set to xterm.
----------------------------
Saad Mufti
Personal Library Software | 2 |
2,974 | I have found a situation which I think is a bug in X or Motif, but I'm hoping
is really just a mistake on my part. Does anyone know anything about
this problem........
- I am using an XmTextField, and setting its XmNvalue to a hardcoded
text string (ascii or Kanji) either via XtSetValues or XmTextSetString.
The problem is that when the XmTextField is displayed, the text is getting
truncated, depending on the setting of the environment variables
LANG (more specifically LC_ALL). When they are set to japanese,
the text gets truncated. When they are set to english, everything
works fine. I am taking the default for XmNcolumns.
(Please note that hardcoding of text is NOT done in my actual
application, just in my sample code to make things easier)
- I am running Motif 1.2, X11R5 via HPUX9.01. My test program is set up
to handle 16 bit Kanji characters. I have remembered to do
XtSetLanguageProc() prior to my MrmInitialize and my font resources
are set to japanese fonts.
- Don't know if this matters, but my dialog box and TextField is initially
created with UIL.
The problem does NOT happen with XmText. Unfortunately substituting
XmTextFields with XmTexts in my application is not an acceptable
alternative (way too much code to be modified while in beta!)
I have a small test program which illustrates the problem if anyone
wants it. My best guess is that either the X code or Motif is not
properly allocating memory for japanese, but since I don't have the
source to look at it is just a guess.
Please let me know if this sounds familiar, or if you have a suggestion,
or if you want the sample program.
THANKS!!!!!!!!
- Susan | 2 |
3,695 | I heard a friend who just return from NAB from Las Vegas confirm
that RealSoft will be releasing a Windows version of REAL-3D 2.0
this summer. He was told that the rendering speed on the DX50 isn't
as fast as A4000. However, he was also told that they are switching
from Microsoft C++ to Watcom to gain more speed. For people who is
looking for a powerful 3D animation software for PC. The wait
shouldn't be too long. Real 3D 2.0 is absolutely the most powerful and
flexible 3D package out there that sells for less than $1000. | 2 |
3,796 | Hi.
I'd like to substitute the exciting win3.1 opening logo for our own
company logo at boot up time. Is this a matter of replacing the logo
file with our own logo? And what format should the company logo be
in? Thanks. | 2 |
1,578 | Hello,
Our application requires us to capture keypad presses for all windows
in a number of applications. We are trying to use action translation
tables to implement this. We have only succeeded by assigning the
translation table to every individual widget in all windows in a single
application. The Xt calls we make are included below.
It would be much more convenient if we could assign the translation
table to a class of widgets rather than individual widget instantiations,
and also accomplish it for MULTIPLE applications. If someone could
describe how do this it would be greatly appreciated.
Platform: Sun Sparc w/ X11R4 & Motif 1.1.4
***********************************************************************
static XtActionsRec actionsTable[] = {
{"up", do_up},
{"right", do_right},
{"middle", do_middle},
{"left", do_left},
{"down", do_down},
{"bye", quit},
};
static char defaultTranslations[] =
"<Key>KP_8: up() \n\
<Key>KP_6: right() \n\
<Key>KP_5: middle() \n\
<Key>KP_4: left() \n\
<Key>KP_2: down() \n\
<Key>KP_1: bye()";
XtTranslations trans_table, trans_table2;
(. . .)
XtAddActions(actionsTable, XtNumber(actionsTable));
trans_table = XtParseTranslationTable(defaultTranslations);
widget = XtCreateManagedWidget("msg", xmPushButtonWidgetClass,
form, wargs, n);
XtOverrideTranslations(widget, trans_table); | 2 |
2,528 | 2 | |
7,313 |
COM files are limited to a total size of 64KB. Thus, win.cfn plus vgalogo.log
plus your RLE file must be less than 64KB. Thus, your RLE file should be
around 30KB.
Rob
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
____ ___ ____ / \ Any resemblance between the above views and
================== / .clarku.edu \ want Clarkies to think about them. | 2 |
3,207 |
No, MIS folks have infinite budgets of death, and they also get parts
of their budget allocated "upgrades", "maintenance", and "new purchases",
and a lot of IBM mainframe purchases are actually "leases" and so
is the software.
Basically, the engineers who have tight budgets, i.e. the coders and
designers of a company, bitch and moan when they drop 15,000 on a
Sparc 1 only to see a faster machine appear a year later. MIS types
upgrade once every 5-10 years, and their costs are amortized and
depreciated over a longer period, and the budget office justifies
the expense because they actually use the machines for accounting,
payroll, etc.
Now, if the budget office was dependant on the engineers for some
reason like payroll and accounts, you'd sure as hell see every
engineer with a new Cray on his desktop every year. :-) | 2 |
6,947 |
A friend of mine had the same problem, it turned out that his floppy was
set up as a 5 1/4 1.2Mb drive instead of 3.5 1.44Mb.....
might help...
Matt.
-- | 2 |
3,346 |
I have done this before, but I'm not sure I used the best approach (although
I tried several methods...).
You have to run up the window heirarchy (using XQueryTree()) until you get
to the root window. Now, this is not so simple because some window managers
slap a window over the root window that is the same size as the root window,
so be sure to take that into account for further calculations.
Calculate the position and width/height offsets for each window using
XGetGeometry(). BE SURE TO TAKE THE BORDER_WIDTH INTO CONSIDERATION.
Remember a windows border_width IS ON THE OUTSIDE of a window, so the
windows x,y,width,height must be adjusted accordingly.
All of this should give you pretty good numbers for how much space the
window-manager is using.
Now, to place the new window, you have to use the same numbers to calculate
where you want to place it, because the window-manager will re-parent it on
the OUTSIDE of where you place your window (if I remember correctly).
DISCLAIMER: All of this is from memory, and I no longer have the code. But
I did get it working under several window managers correctly. Feel free to
call or e-mail for further info.
-McGary
| 2 |
3,444 | --- other stuff delete...
If you happen to be running the new msdos 6, you could use multi-
setup to provide a menu with a menu choice for each person using
the machine ... power up, select your name, the menu will use your
personal sections of config.sys and autoexec.bat thus setting up the
path, then running your windows copy!
Ron
------------ Temp at Intel, views are my own -----------------------
| 2 |
1,922 |
Macsee.zip on ftp.cica.indiana.edu is supposed to read and write Mac disks.
I've never tried it, though. Good luck | 2 |
5,758 | I recently corrected the resolution on my Sparcstation by changing
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers from:
:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -ar1 500 -dpi 100
to:
:0 local /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -ar1 500 -dpi 85
I determined that my 19" 1152x900 monitor was 85 dpi by measuring the
active screen area and dividing by resolution.
However, this has caused my application fonts to behave strangely.
After some research, I believe this is caused by my applications
requesting fonts by Family, Weight, Slant, and Pointsize. I believe
that X is grabbing the first font on the path with these characteristics
and displaying it. Since I have only 75dpi and 100dpi fonts on my
path, the results are inaccurate. I do have some Speedo fonts, but
not for the family I am using (Helvetica).
I think this is incorrect. The fonts should always be provided in the
resolution of the display. This never seems to happen unless you
explicitly request fonts by xres and yres! This is true of both the
scaleable and bitmapped fonts! For instance, the command
xfd -fn '-bitstream-charter-*-*-*-*-*-240-*-*-*-*-*-*'
Will invoke a 75dpi font (despite the fact that this is a Speedo font).
The command
xfd -fn '-adobe-courier-*-*-*-*-*-240-*-*-*-*-*-*'
Will invoke a 75dpi font or a 100dpi font (depending on my font path).
Despite the fact that X knows my display is 85 dpi, and that it can
generate an 85dpi font for me! Unless I my applications specifies a
resolution, X appears to pick a stupid default.
Is this a bug? Is it a feature? If so, why? Is there anything I can
do to get around this problem? People have suggested that I lie about
my resolution, and specify a single font path (75 or 100, not both).
This would at least make my app consistent, but I like being able to
look at rulers that appear in my paint application and say: "Yup, thats
an inch". Anyone have a set of 85dpi bitmapped fonts I can use?
System info:
Sun Sparc 10/41 w/32 MB, SunOS 4.1.3.
xdpyinfo:
version number: 11.0
vendor string: MIT X Consortium
vendor release number: 5000
screen #0:
dimensions: 1152x900 pixels (348x272 millimeters)
resolution: 85x85 dots per inch
xset q font path:
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
| 2 |
7,171 | Could someone please post a list of good three-D modelers that will
run on SPARC stations; preferably cheap. Thanks | 2 |
4,280 | I'm looking for some recommendations for screen capture programs. A
couple of issues ago, PC Mag listed as Editor's Choices both Conversion
Artist and Hijaak for Windows. Anyone have any experience with those or
some others? I'm trying to get an alpha manual in the next few days, and
I'm not making much progress with the screen shots. :^(
I'm currently using DoDot and I'm about to burn it and the disks it rode
it on. It's got a lot of freaky bugs and *oversights* that are driving
me crazy. Tonight it decided that for any graphic it writes out as a
TIFF file that's under a certain arbitrary size, it will swap the left
and right sides of the picture [!]. Usually it confines itself to not
copying things to the clipboard (so I have to save and load pix for
editing in paintbrush) or crashing every hour or so.
The one nice thing it has, though, is it's "dither" option. You'd think
that this would turn colors into dots, which it does if you go from, say,
256 colors to 16 colors. But if you go from 256 or 16 colors to B&W,
you can set a threshold level for which colors turn to black and which
turn to white. For me, this is useful because I can turn light grays on
buttons to white, and the dark grays to black, and thereby preserve the
3d-effect on buttons and other parts of the window.
If you understood my description :^) can you tell me if another (less
buggy!) program can do this as well?
Much thanks for any help.
---------------------------------Signature---------------------------------
David DelGreco | "What lies behind us and what lies
Technically a Writer | before us are tiny matters compared
delgreco@rahul.net | to what lies within us."
| - Oliver Wendell Holmes | 2 |
1,155 | I need to find how to program the WD7000 FAAST SCSI controller (A 16 bit DMA
SCSI controller for the PC (ISA bus)). Can somebody point me in the direction
of some low level docs on the net? Or will I have to get hold of the
manufacturers? Who did actually make this anyway? Who will have the docs?
TIA.
PS> I don't ant the BIOS docs, I want to know how to attack this sucker from
the ground level (ie send my own SCSI commands out it from OS/2)
--
Hamish Marson, Computer Services, University of Waikato|
hamish@waikato.ac.nz. Fax +64 7 8384066 | Computers are only
Disclaimer: Remember. You heard it here first! | Human..... | 2 |
430 | I recently set Windows 3.1 up on my 486DX-33 VLB system, and I didn't
notice until last night that I don't have the 386 icon in my control
panel. I don't remember Windows setup asking me about 386 enhanced
mode (whether I wanted it or not). Now I've got a program that I
just bought (Aldus Freehand 3.1) that is telling me that I should be
running Windows in enhanced mode (looks like I'm running in standard
mode).
How can switch to enhanced mode without the little icon thingie? Are
there some issues involved with VESA LB systems which cause Windows
to not want to give you enhanced mode?
Thanks for any help!! | 2 |
1,548 |
Personally, I'll be blasphemous and say that if Microsoft keeps doing
what it does so well, I hope to see much harsher/stricter copyright
and patent laws for computer algorithms, concepts, interfaces, and
other intellectual properties to protect real innovators. I'd hate to
be one who actually does innovate, and then have Microsoft come in
like a huge vulture and use their brute mass (development staff,
marketing, etc) to get fat off of my innovation. I don't have all
that much sympathy for Apple's complaint against Microsoft, since
they just took the ideas from Xerox's PA Research Center when the
Federal government forced Xerox to disclose their patents over
antitrust fears. However, for other companies and individuals who
have a great idea, yet get it "borrowed" by larger corporations who
can afford to quickly bring it to market, without any licensing from
the original innovator, I feel much sympathy.
Larry | 2 |
4,085 |
Since there is no BIOS support for ST-506 interface hard disks in an XT,
that support must come from a BIOS extension ROM on the (MFM/RLL) hard disk
controller. Usually the controller has a ROM-based low level format
program (a common jump address is C800:0005 ... you can type G=C800:5 from
debug to see) and a small table of drive geometries it "knows" about.
Sometimes these are selectable using jumpers on the card, sometimes you
can enter them manually in the LLF menu. Failing that, you must use a
third-party HD prep program like SpeedStor, Disk Manager, or the like.
IDE drives come formatted already, and since the is controller part of the
drive mechanism itself, concerns about geometry are irrelevant. Plug
it in and go to FDISK.
| 2 |
2,863 | I need help in creating my 4x4 perspective matrix. I'd like to use this for
transforming x, y, z, w in some texture mapping code I got from Graphics Gems
I. I have many books which talk about this, but none of them in simple plain
english. If you have Graphics Gems I, I'm talking about page 678.
I'd like to have a perspective matrix that handles different field-of-views
and aspect of course. Thank's for your help.
--
Yes, of course everything I say is my personal opinion! | 2 |
5,933 | On a recently acquired Gateway 2000 machine, when starting Windows,
three copyright statements flash on the screen right after the MS logo
disappears and before ProgramManager takes over. This does not happen
on any other of our machines, and I am wondering whether this is a
feature or whether this is related to several problems we are having
with the machine.
The system is a Gateway 2000, 4DX-33 machine.
The messages that appear are:
(c) Copyright 1989-1992 Western Digital Corporation
All Rights Reserved
(c) Copyright 1985-1992 Congruent Corporation
All Rights Reserved
(c) Copyright 1985-1992 Microsoft Corporation
All Rights Reserved
The AUTOEXEC.BAT file looks like this:
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G
SET MOUSE=C:\MSMOUSE
C:\MSMOUSE\MOUSE
PATH=C:\;C:\DOS;C:\WINDOWS;c:\123;c:\wp51;f:\apps;f:\system;f:\winapps;f:\public
SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
lh wd8003e -n 0x62 5 0x280 0xd000
lh winpkt 0x60 0x62
lh ipx
lh netx
f:\login\login
win :
The CONFIG.SYS file looks like this:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,umb
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=D000-D1FF
STACKS=9,256
FILES=50
BUFFERS=30
SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /P /E:1024
Does anyone know what is going on? Any help would be much
appreciated.
| 2 |
6,394 | The subject line says it all.
/Thanks | 2 |
397 | I am considering adding to my 386 system equipped with a 130meg Maxtor
HD, a second Maxtor 245 Meg HD. I assume this will not be a problem.
However, I remember reading somewhere that to do this, you needed to
reformat your original drive ? Is this true ? If so why ? My drive is
full and I really don't like the idea of to re-installing everything
from floppy!!
Please E-mail me, or post to the group
--Mike
------------------------------------------------------------------
Mike Tancsa INTERNET:#1 mdtancsa@watarts.uwaterloo.ca
Waterloo, Ontario #2 mike.tancsa@canrem.com
CANADA
__________________________________________________________________
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þ RoseReader 2.10á P004555 Entered at [CRS] | 2 |
17 | Hello,
i'm interested in those devices too.
Could also send me your suggestions.
Thank in advance.
Regards.
-- | 2 |
4,162 | I've posted a couple of notes about encountering this problem. Based on some
suggestions from:
Mark Aitchison, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
and
Chris A. Larrieu @cs.wm.edu
I think that my problem is a screen saver that also outputs sound (to my
PC speaker). I'm still looking at some of the other screen savers that I
use (with a randomizer), but this one definately caused the loss of several
minutes over night (but not the date this time). | 2 |
7,124 | I'm working at a workstation which is usually attached to a Novell
network (using shell version 3.22, I think). The workstation, a 386, was set
up to run Windows 3.0 with the network about a year ago. Needless to say,
I'd like to upgrade it to Windows 3.1, and have it work with the network.
Basically, the Windows files'd be on the local hard drive, but
several DOS applications, like Word Perfect, will be on the network. I'd
mainly want Windows to access the network drives, the network printers, and
perhaps handle some network functions as well. If I could multitask the DOS
apps whose executables are on the network, that'd be great, but I could live
without it.
Eventually, I'd like to get a few other 486s in the office working
with the network and Windows 3.1 as well. (However, most of the terminals
are 286s, which leaves the network pretty much DOS-bound, and I guess that
leaves out Windows for Workgroups.) And in the future, maybe there'd be
Norton desktop, but that's gettingahead of myself.
As you can guess, I've never done anything like this before. I've
read through the networks material that came with Windows, but still, I'd
like to know if anyone out there has any experience in such an area.
Please reply by Email. I don't scan these newsgroups often.
Thanks for any replies.
Brian "Rev. P-K" Siano revpk@cellar.org | 2 |
5,434 | My 3.5" floppy drive stopped recognizing low density (720K) floppies.
The controller and drive works fine in another system. I was told it
could be the DMA chip. The system is a 386DX-25 using Chips & Technology
chip set. I'm open to all suggestions. Please send your replies to:
ken@jazz.concert.net | 2 |
819 |
: Size is another factor. The BJ-200 is much smaller, but the HP is built
: like a tank. I bet the BJ-200 would get damaged first.
You bet your bippy it's built like a tank.. and not just mechanically either!
This past weekend we had a nasty thunderstorm and the impossible (*&^%)
happened - I got a direct lightning strike on my house - and to the second
floor outlet box into which my faithful DeskJet 500C was connected. There
was a .303-bullet-sized hole in the aluminum siding with some solidified
aluminum slag dripping from it. You could actually see the electrical box
through the hole! The outlet itself was fried and I'm still amazed the
whole damn house didn't burn down.
I lost 2 electric garage door openers, 2 vcr's, 2 telephones (all of which
were on the opposite side of the house), a ZyXEL U-1496E high speed modem,
a VGA monitor, a 1024x768 color monitor, the RS232 and parallel ports on my
X terminal and a WD LAN card in my PC. Not a good night!
But, the DeskJet ran as soon as I found a functioning serial and parallel
port to connect to it. | 2 |
3,221 |
Well, I am placing a file at my ftp today that contains several
polygonal descriptions of a head, face, skull, vase, etc. The format
of the files is a list of vertices, normals, and triangles. There are
various resolutions and the name of the data file includes the number
of polygons, eg. phred.1.3k.vbl contains 1300 polygons.
In order to get the data via ftp do the following:
1) ftp taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
2) login as anonymous, guest as the password
3) cd pub/dabro
4) binary
5) get cyber.tar.Z
Once you get the data onto your workstation:
1) uncompress data.tar.Z
2) tar xvof data.tar
If you have any questions, please let me know.
george dabro
dabro@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil
--
george dabrowski
Cyberware Labs | 2 |
3,967 | Article #61153 (61302 is last):
From: nstassen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Nicki A Stassen Lantz)
Subject: HELP: LED connectors for motherboard
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:02:48 1993
I bought a 386DX-40 motherboard for 50$... no documentation at all. Everything
appears to work, except I'm having trouble getting a few of the LED connectors
working. I've looked at the manuals for 4 other motherboards, but the pin
configuration doesn't look anything like what is on this board. Does this
pin arrangement look familiar to anyone out there??? Any hints on where I
can find this information?
1 10
"speaker" . . . . . . . . . .
"keylock" . . . . . . . . . .
11 ^ 20
J23 |
|The board came with a jumper vertically across
these two pins.
I can get the power/keylock to work across pins 11-15, reset across pins 9 and
Shown 82%, press <SPACE> for more, 'q' to quit, or 'h' for help
19, but would prefer not to blow something up by further experimentation.
The date on the board itself is 6/92, opti chips.
I would really appreciate any help, and thank you in advance.
N A Stassen Lantz
End of File, Press RETURN to quit
Nicji,
It would realy realy help if you said what chipset and if the board
was an upgradable or not board and how old it and the bios is???
Sam | 2 |
4,429 | I am working with Visual Basic v2.0 for windows.
Specifically, I am working on an application that generates formatted reports.
Since, some of these reports can be rather large, my first question is:
1. Is there a way to increase the size of a list box or text box in
Visual Basic/windows beyond the 64k limit?
As I have not (as yet - being optimistic :-) come across a way to get
around the above problem, I am working on the following approach:
I am trying to create my own defined template in MS-Word, using the
WordBasic Macros so that I can open up Word from Visual Basic(VB) and load
this template of mine, which will work in the following way:
It will first open MyOwn.INI file (created in VB - at the time when the
user selected the kind of report he weanted) and read the section from the
.INI file and jump to the appropriate code in template - which will then
open and read a file pertaining to the section it read from the .INI file.
1. When using the GetProfileString function in WordBasic, is there a way
to specify/change the default .INI file (which is win.ini) to MyOwn.INI file?
2. When using the file Input$ function in WordBasic - is there a way to
read more than the 32k at one time?
---
Any help will be appreciated. | 2 |
1,499 | 2 | |
3,417 | We are doing a research about a passive dynamic vision guided
vehicle.
Completed the first theoric part, we have to make the effective
realization of this vehicle.
We need the necessary hardware for image acquisition from a videocamera
and for their subsequent elaboration (tipically: edge detection).
We ask for informations about available products in the market for
this purpose (in real time, 20-25 frames/second).
Hence we need frame-grabber cards and/or DSP cards for SUN or PC platform.
We are also very interested in receiving comments and suggestions from users
of these cards, especially about programming tools.
Furthermore we are looking for the same kind of informations about
digital controlled Pan&Tilt devices.
Thanks in advance
Best regards
Enrico Fedrigo | 2 |
6,821 | 2 | |
4,348 | I am considering creating a "demo" for the IBM PC for my band.
I would like to combine interesting graphics and a sample of
my music in the program. I have seen things like this
done for other platforms, and even a few for the PC, but since
I'm completly new to this, I have no idea wher to start.
I'm pretty sure that I am not skilled enough to put this
together, but I was hoping that you (collectivly) could
A. Let me know what issues I need to worry about, things I
Should take into consideration when developing the
concept.
B. Perhaps someone knows of a programmer/artist who would be interested
in this type of a project.
I know these are rather broad questions, but any information
would be most helpful. Thanks!!
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913 | *** Unecessary ...
might do it, too much trouble :)
*** Agreed Mixali...
*** Not entirely true..>
TRUE ***
Unecessary ...
Path of least resistance (TM) :) :
Get WinGIF 1.4 from cica (ftp.cica.indiana.edu pub/pc/win3/(desktop?) )
It will save to native .rle format unlike PSP (an otherwise fine, fine prog)
Make a file using anything that has to be less than 30k, as Michael said,
and less than 16 colors... Import it to WinGIF as gif, pcx or bmp and
save it in you windows/system subdir as vgalogo.rle (NOT .lgo). Exit Win,
and run setup in the windows subdir. Reselect your _current_ config. Run
Win. Voila'
(minor correction: the .rle file has to be <30k. that means ~15k gif ?)
Hope it helps... (and please, please someone put this in the group's FAQ)
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7,193 | Hi Xperts!
Where can I get a good example in which XGCValues.plane_mask is used, or
who can explain how is it for and how to use it.
Any hints welcome.
Thanks.
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1,213 |
Most likely reason is that your backup battery is failing - this battery
maintains the contents of the CMOS memory when AC power is turned off, and
if the battery is flakey then the contents of the CMOS will be lost and
the checksum will be wrong (along with most other of the CMOS data). Try
replacing the battery.
If, however, your PC doesn't use a battery but a large capacitor to power
the CMOS, you should check to see if you can replace the capacitor with a
more normal lithium battery. If this isn't possible, make sure you leave
your PC on for a half hour or hour each day; this will keep the capacitor
charged. I'd opt for the battery change, though. | 2 |
5,149 | :
: Then again, maybe $2445 for the gateway system isn't too cheap.
:
: I have a system from Micron computers:
:
: 486-2-50, 16 meg ram, 245 Maxtor HD, Local bus IDE / 2 meg video card, and
: the same 15" monitor. The system with shipping came to $2200. I sold the
: sx-33 chip that came with it and bought a dx2-50. Total price $2300-2400.
I think you got something wrong here. You state that the system was a
486dx250, then say that you sold the sx-33 chip that came with it. This
does not make sense.
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5,403 | I'm currently looking for a viewer for Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
pictures. Please inform me about a SHAREWARE or FREEWARE version.
Thnx,
Remco | 2 |
5,231 | ubject: subscrive
please subscribe me. | 2 |
703 | Hello,
I am admin for an RS/6000 running AIX 3.2, X11R5, Motif, and xdt3.
I want to prevent the user from hitting CNTL-ALT-BKSPC to exit X.
I've tried invoking X with 'xinit -T', but that doesn't work.
xinit appends the -T to the call to .xinitrc, and not to the
call to X.
The man page to xinit is no help. In fact, it tells
me that xinit is a script when it is really a binary file.
So far, the only way I've been able to accomplish this feat is
to add the -T to the call to X in /usr/lpp/X11/defaults/xserverrc.
I would rather not do it this way. Does anyone have any other ideas?
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Open Networks, Inc. Usenet: uunet!netwrx1!deford
11490 Commerce Park Dr. #205 Tel: 703-648-0013
Reston, VA 22091 FAX: 703-648-0016
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