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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...
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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 ...
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: : >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 H...
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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 f...
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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...
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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
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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
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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 /*------...
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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),...
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Please post your response as well. I think many would be interested in this one. Thank You. --
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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 Do...
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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 ...
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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,
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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 ...
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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.
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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 di...
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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!
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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. T...
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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...
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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 ...
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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.
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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. --
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(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 tr...
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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.
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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.
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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 so...
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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 pro...
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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.
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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 o...
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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...
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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 y...
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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 (o...
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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 me...
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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. Be...
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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 reas...
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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 ...
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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 thi...
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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...
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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...
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[ 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 a...
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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. goo...
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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.
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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 gr...
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: >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?) ma...
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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
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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.
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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
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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....
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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.
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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
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Please help with MPEG description or sources:decoders & encoders. Great thanks in advance.
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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 recomme...
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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 ?
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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@UMNM...
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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? Than...
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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...
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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
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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.
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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 con...
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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 p...
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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. Fo...
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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.
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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 ma...
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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...
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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...
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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. --
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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...
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--- 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 wi...
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Macsee.zip on ftp.cica.indiana.edu is supposed to read and write Mac disks. I've never tried it, though. Good luck
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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, ...
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Could someone please post a list of good three-D modelers that will run on SPARC stations; preferably cheap. Thanks
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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 wit...
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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...
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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 telli...
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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...
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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 t...
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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 ...
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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 sever...
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The subject line says it all. /Thanks
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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 ...
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Hello, i'm interested in those devices too. Could also send me your suggestions. Thank in advance. Regards. --
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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 s...
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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 fil...
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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
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: 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 lightni...
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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 ...
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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 L...
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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 h...
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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 infor...
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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...
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*** 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 ...
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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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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. ...
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: : 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...
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I'm currently looking for a viewer for Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) pictures. Please inform me about a SHAREWARE or FREEWARE version. Thnx, Remco
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ubject: subscrive please subscribe me.
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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. ...
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