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The x3270 at export.lcs.mit.edu supposedly does. I use another x3270 that was cleaned up by Brian Ward <ward@math.psu.edu> which adds better color support, and cleans up _lots_ of bugs, as well as cut&paste. I just put it on export.lcs.mit.edu, as x3270v2.65beta.tar.Z. --Dave
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What is MTEZ? A dealer? A repository? Any details? -- Penio Penev x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu
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What tube does the Viewsonic 17 use? Does is support 1600x1280? I've been looking a a Philips 1762DT which uses a Sony Trinitron tube, has digital controls, supports up to 1280x1024NI, and has .25mm dot pitch - It can be found for under $1000.
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I would like to know as well, since I just bought a 200MB Seagate IDE drive and want to add it to my computer (a four-year-old Gateway 386/20), which currently has an 80MB Seagate SCSI drive. The SCSI controller is such that the docs told me not to specify it in the CMOS setup, i.e. both hard drive settings are liste...
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Okay, I got enough replies about the Kubota Kenai/Denali systems that I will post a summary of their capabilities. I haven't actually used one or seen one, so take the specs with a grain of salt. I'd like to see an independent review of one against, say, an SGI Indigo Extreme or something. Basically, the Kenai works...
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I have been using the JOIN command for many years now, mostly with good success in duplicating unix-style file mounts. You will hear lots of people cursing JOIN because they confuse it with the dos APPEND command (a truely gnarly hack), but don't believe them. You also will hear people saying that Microsoft recommen...
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Certainly. Reference follows. Bear in mind that there are at least two conditions which may be called red/green colour blind. One, protanopia, is caused by a lack or major dysfunction of the L cones, those that respond best to long wavelengths. This gives much reduced red/green and red/violet discrimination and a...
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Boy are you going to look silly in a couple of weeks.
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Hi all, Of late my computer's Power supply fan has begun to make a lot of noise. What can I do about this? If I had to get new power supply, or get a new case, where is a good place selling good tower cases and PS. I know there are a couple dozen listed in the Computer Shopper, but I was looking for personal experien...
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Hi, I have bought a new harddisk and want to use it with my old TEAC SD3105 , 100Mb harddisk. Unfortunataly I do not have any documentation with this harddisk. Could someone please tell me how I should set the jumpers for master or slave ? Thanks in advance, Robert Tenback. ...
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Hello, I am writing a program which forks of a number of child processes and each of the children printing things on the screen (quite messy in one window)... The "xterm -Sxxd" option seems to be the solution to opening up slave windows only to display output and I use the following code to open up a pty (taken fro...
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How does the 16 bit color of HDTV work ? It can not be 5 bit Red Green and Blue like on the Macintosh. This gives only 64 gray levels. Apple also has developed a point-point network that is around 200MB (not sure if it is bits or bytes) per sec.
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Try swapping the phone cables in the back of the modem.
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One can only remap special-command keys in procomm it seems. I would like to remap other keys too - especially "altgr 2", and such combinations. Anybody know a plain OR dirty way to do this?? (of cause most people settle for remapping function keys, but I don't see why there should be a limitation...)
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Hiyas ALL, Upon getting Animated Desktop for Windows as a gift from my boyfriend, I couldn't wait to install it. I had gotten an advertisement for it and put it aside with my list of 'I Wants.' After installing the software, it didn't load. No part of the software would load even though the install went seemingly...
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Before I even think about getting this, is it going to be posted to comp.sources.x at any time in the near future? Greg.
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+In article <1993May7.211312.10403@bert.eecs.uic.edu>, rsc@siggraph.org +|> Computer Graphics experimental special online issue +|> May 1993 +|> +|> The May 1993 experimental special issue of Computer Graphics is online +|> as a set of files on the siggraph.org system in th...
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I'm looking for any information regarding Text Search Engines... Specifically, I'd prefer source or binaries which will run in a MS-Windows and/or UNIX environment scanning either flat files or common DB structures... References to PD, Shareware, or Commercial implementations welcome... Please reply via email -- I'l...
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Hi all, I've read the FAQ, I've fiddled around, but I am still having problems getting my poor old HP9000/300 to let me input/display characters above 127. I have the following in my .Xdefaults: XTerm*Font : -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso8859-1 So I believe that I have the correct font s...
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Greetings, I am looking to upgrade my hard drive to a much bigger one since I find myself kinda cramped on space, althuogh I have never filled it I would like the extra comfort of 30 megs or so. If anyone would like to sell/trade a newish 80 meg or bigger hard drive for 125 straight and 75 with a trade please e-mail...
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Hi! I have a question which is not directly related to X Screen Saver. What X Screen Saver does is to blank the screen if it has been idle for some time. I don't want my screen to go blank but to get locked or call xlock program. Is there a parallel call to XSetScreenSaver() which locks my screen or call my lock ...
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Any Tcpview-for-Sun users out there? I pulled down the pre-compiled executables made for Sun for Tcpview, but I'm getting a whole slew of the following types of error messages when I try to start it up: Warning: translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate Warning: ... found while parsing '<Key...
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Well, I'm glad that there's plenty of NT stuff at Xhibition. Not because I want to use it instead of X, but because I want to find out what the chances are that some time in the future I may not have any choice.
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Someone please fill me in on what 3do. Thanks,
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Yep, you can use any type of UNIX, or maybe VMS, or buy a MAC or something... If you want longer filenames for your documents, I heard of a wordprocessor for windows which let you assign long names to files. Those long filenames could only be seen from that programs open/save dialogs though... Maybe someone knows mo...
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Hi! Is it possible through either pin configuration or through software programming to change the IP numbers on an ethernet card? Thanks in Advance! -- =-Dave *Tigger!*
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: : or the biggest killer (IMO) : : 6) one's dreams are (sadly) shattered on the hard rocks of society's : version of reality. Without the dream the motivation dies, without : the motivation the effort seems useless. : Actually there are more possibilities -- one is that with practice the hacker has...
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It's not true. IDE bus uses signals which has similar name and same meaning to the counterpart of ISA bus but its (IDE bus) signal timing doesn't have to be same to ISA signal timing. My VL-IDE bus card has a set of jumpers to set its transfer rate from 3.3MB/sec up to 8.3MB/ sec (the manufacturer might have to corr...
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One of our users is having an unusual problem. If she does an Alt/Tab to a full-screen DOS program, when she goes back to Windows her desktop fonts have changed. If she goes back to a full-screen DOS program and then goes back to Windows, the font has changed back to its default font. It's not a major problem (every...
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Sorry if this is a FAQ but : "Where can I get a 286 (16 bit) version of POV-Ray ? " Any help would be greatly appreciated. I need the 286 version since Turbo Pascal won't let me run a 32 bit program from within my program. Any info on this would also be a great help. Thanks, ...
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<much deleted> Sounds like a memory conflict problem, which can cause truly weird symptoms like these. Call Dell tech support (or better, post to them on CSERVE if you have an account) and get the memory range(s) used by video RAM on your machine. The block windows from using those ranges with an EMMEXCLUDE= state...
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lioness@maple.circa.ufl.edu: pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz): lioness@maple.circa.ufl.edu: pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz): For both these questions, it's an inclusive or. Alpha plus stencil is supported (they're separate), as is double-buffered stereo.
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Howdy... I think you would be interested in Infini-D 2.5 for the Mac. There is no DOS or Windows version. It's quite an amazing program. "Some" of the features: * Bevel Text * Timeline based animation sequencer * Realtime bounding box preview * Object linking * Phong Shading * Ray Tracing * Bounding Box ...
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Wondering if somebody could tell me if we can change the cluster size of my IDE drive. Normally I can do it with Norton's Calibrat on MFM/RLL drives but dunno if I can on IDE too.
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is this the KX-P1124 you're talking about? or is there a KX-1124, too? I'll assume you just forgot the P.... this light is also the power light..... on (not blinking) just means that the power is turned on. if you look at the panel, it should read POWER --------- PAPER OUT right? don't know...
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.. blah blah .. talking about hackers.. you know .. Wow! A new proof for an NP-Complete problem, you guys in Eurpoe really got your stuff together! Base Step: [deleted too bad] Inductive Step: Inductive Hypothesis: Fodder Step: Like my mother always said, if you can't say something nice... or was that c...
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I am looking for software that reads a plot in PCX or other format and converts it into x,y coordinate.
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Would someone please leave me the full address for Canon in Canada. thank you. --- Via UCI v1.21 (C-Net Amiga)
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Does this need to have anything to do with disk compression? I have experienced the same thing a couple of times myself, but *without* any disk compression stuff installed. (For example, guess what happened when Norton SpeedDisk once crashed during defragmenting!) Bjorn- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *...
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============================================================================== Could someone please tell me the Best FTP'able viewer available for MSDOS I am running a 486 33mhz with SVGA monitor. I need to look at gifs mainly and it would be advantageous if it ran under windows...........thanks
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I noticed you post in comp.graphics and know a person with your name. I was wondering if you used to live in Paxton Mass. If so, I have a friend that would like to say HI. Sorry for the inconvience if this isn't who I think it is.
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Organization: Compact Solutions, Canberra ACT Australia > This may be a very naive question but is there any > basis for the > claim that a CPU will get hotter when a > computationally intensive > job is running? My friend claims that there will be > little difference > in the temperature of an idle CPU and a C...
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Text & Graphics: Bristol Technologies has help clone of MSWindows help Frame (makers of FrameMaker) has FrameView Text only: Graphical Software Technology has Xtra Widgets (includes help) There are probably others (check out ICS widget data book) I actually wrote one for the last company I worked for-- however...
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Yes, but what if my monitor only has 3 BNC's on it, and is expecting to get a composite sync signal on the "green"? There ought to be a little black box that takes the VGA signalling (which has horiz, vert, and composite sync on different pins, plus the R, G, and B pairs) and merges the green and composite sync togeth...
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I have a question about recursive, backward raytracing. When an incident ray (I) strikes an object at point P, first the normal (N) is calculated. Light rays are calculated (L1 to Ln where n is the number of light sources) - these being the light rays that do not intersect with anything. The reflected ray (R) and the...
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Hello Netters I recenlty aquired enough money to purchase a laser printer. The other day, I bought the COMPUTER SHOPPER mag. I was looking through printer review section and noticed the WINPRINTER800. The machine is incredibly low priced for all the features it has 800 dpi! 8Meg RAM Postscript compatabl...
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I ran into this about six months ago. My system is a GW2000 486DX/66V, 8 megs RAM, 1Meg ATI GUP VLB. It seems the problem is that the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro card consumes the COM4 port for some reason, so only COM1-3 are available. I believe this is documented somewhere in the system manuals, but I can't recall whe...
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: : Once again, someone else with a Gateway Monitor problem, anyone who can : help, please do, it would be much apprieciated. Thanks in advance. : : Ok, I have a Local Bus 486/66 machine, with the Crystal Scan 15inch : monitor. I have 1 meg of loca memory on the ATI ultra pro, w/ the : mach32 driver (the newest rel...
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I originally posted a complaint about how noisy my PC was. I got several useful suggestions, but 1 was the most seductive: run your PC in silence by removing the fan altogether! Two variables: 1) I always run my PC without the cover, and 2) I'd be willing to attach a CPU cooler if that would make a difference. Sh...
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I know this has been asked a million time, but.. What was the ftp site carrying 30-40 .ZIPs of full POV "source" files, including JACK.ZIP and KETTLE.ZIP? I've once been there but unfortunately lost the address. I'm in a little hurry with it, so please e-mail me at jtheinon@kruuna.helsinki.fi. Thanks..
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<It seems silly, but while I've located things like tgif that can edit <gif files, and various tools to convert to/from gif format, I haven't <been able to locate a program that just opens a window and displays a <gif file in it. I've looked thru various faq files, also to no avail. <Is there one lurking about in s...
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You don't give the precise error message, but I assume that the making of the target fails, because make can't find the rules. We've seen this happen with SunOS 5.x make as well and aat this point I'm not sure why it happens. It seems to happen with large Makefiles. The entries near the end get lost. Small changes...
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We have a problem with 'makedepend': it doesn't know how to correctly process #if clause in C preprocessor statements. It evaluates everything to true no matter what the conditionals are. [...] Has anybody come up with some solution/fix to 'makdepend' other than WriteYourOwnParser... and willing to...
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check prep.ai.mit.edu. It's called fax-3.2.1.tar.Z or something to that effect and is the software for netfax. Be forewarned that it requires (at the moment) a fairly costly $450 fax modem with certain capabilities to use it.
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A word of warning for those of you registering for SIGGRAPH '93. I just received my registration form back in the mail with the envelope marked "Return to sender. Moved - Left No Address. Closed PO Box". The address I used to register for SIGGRAPH '93 is the one printed on the registration form: ACM SIGGRAPH '93 ...
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Has anybody had a chance to find out how the new HP Laser Jet 4L behaves with Windows ?
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I am DESPERATELY trying to find a PC based e-mail wide area network service or the necessary network software to establish one myself. While I am aware there are various BBS's and other similar services avalible (like Compuserve, Canada Remote Systems etc.) I require fairly specific criteria. In approximate order of i...
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Hi everybody out there, I just got the third beta release disk (march 93) of WindowsNT and still am not able to boot up that system. The final step achieved is the display of IO-error 0x0069. But, since this is the beta release of the SDK for NT and not of NT, Microsoft does not include a manual on the OS itself, expla...
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My Windows 3.1 installation has somehow gone awry. Whenever I try to run Windows now, the logo comes up OK, but when it tries to enter Windows itself, the screen gets totally screwed up as if it's in the wrong graphics mode or something. It's completely illegible although functional as I can still exit to DOS with an...
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Jasen Mabus RPI student I am looking for a hman brain in any CAD (.dxf,.cad,.iges,.cgm,etc.) or picture (.gif,.jpg,.ras,etc.) format for an animation demonstration. If any has or knows of a location please reply by e-mail to mabusj@rpi.edu.
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I have two UN-opened, NEW Epson Action Printers 2250 for sale. List price at CompUSA is $169, I'm asking $100 + shipping for each. My friend and I got the printers at a promotional event at one of the CompUSA stores near our area. We didn't need printers, so we're selling it. Specs for printer: 9-pin dot matrix ...
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Take a look at TeleUSE, a complete UIMS from Alsys (formerly TeleSoft). In the US, you can reach them at (619) 457 2700. Alsys have an VMS version of TeleUSE v2.0.5 for VMS V5.5 or higher, built using DECwindows Motif 1.0 (based on X11R4 and Motif v1.1.1). BTW, the VMS port from the UNIX version was made at my compa...
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: Wasn't the shareware fee a "suggestion" by John? : Is so then it's up to the individual to make the choice whether or not to : honour it and part with money. Personally if I was in his position I would : do exactly the same thing, John has obviously put in lot of time and effort : into xv and why shouldn't he receiv...
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I am getting desperate. I have a report that must be finished by midnight, and W4W doesn't seem to have what appears to be a MUST! I use the autonum field for numbering chapters, but my document is distributed amongst several files. I just can't find a way to make Word start the numbering at something else than 0 or 1....
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I would like to see a serious discussion on the best way to install windows from a Novell administrator's point of view. I just got off the phone with MS Access support and was told that they (Microsoft) has decided to implement, as a standard for software support, the LOCAL setup (described below) as the "most advan...
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I have recently picked up a page scanner by the name of EZ-SCAN II model 35. The software for it was made for per-Windows 3.x windows and will not work with the newwer windows. Does any one out there kow were I could find the company that made this beast (Copyrights say 1987.) And the name GMS a division of DEST. Do...
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No, it does not. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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Is that the number of "left" legs, or both left and right?
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It's a request to personal users; it's a requirement for commercial, government, and institutional users. Someone else asked whether the authors of the JPEG and TIFF software had given permission to incorporate their code into a commercial product. I found the following in jpeg/README: We specifically permit an...
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Doesn't anybody actually read the licence agreement of WinBench before blindly running it? The licence agreement very clearly says that details about hardware configuration, driver, resolution and other relevant facts *MUST* be included when giving WinMark results. Ziff-Davis wants everybody to do this and that requi...
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i want to do something like this: date | xcb -s 0 | xcutsel to get the output of the date command put into the XPRIMARY selection. unfortunately, xcutsel is an interactive little bugger and there isn't a command argument to tell it to just do it and not put up its little window. so, is there some other command tha...
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-- In the R5 file fix-01 there is the line that reads as the subject line here. I don't see a file fix-00. When I got a few Hmmm... lines putting on fix-01, it made me wonder if I has missed 00. Am I off the mark? Thank you. ====================================================================== Ray Stell stellr@...
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Does anyone have any information on the Polaroid Palette system. It appears to be a gadget for transfering graphics images to film. Does anyone have any detail about it like the maximum supported resolution or types of video input???? What did Polaroid market them as????? Fletch
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Howdy, Netlanders: Can you put an ISA card into an EISA slot? Also, can you put a 8-bit PC card in an ISA slot? Please e-mail if possible, Thanks ahead of time,
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I have a 486 DX 33 motherboard in my pc that i'd like to speed up. I'd rather not replace the whole motherboard, instead i'd like to know if i can use a DX/2 66Mhz cpu. The BIOS is late model AMI, circa 1991, and the system crystal is approx 66.3Mhz. My question is, can i just replace the original 33MHz cpu with the...
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I replied: You answered: I think it is important to clear up your first reply. You gave the impression that you should not use smartdrive with stacker. You are correct re: caching the compressed drive. However, as I understand it, you can cache the uncompressed drive. Thus if you have compressed your disk C:,...
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Yes, it looks like very good indeed. Nope.
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It depends on wether you are going to replace this with an icon that comes standard with windows, or with an icon from some other icon manager. Well, if it is one of those that comes with windows, just highlight the item by clicking once on it, click on 'File' and then on 'Properties'. You should see a box which sa...
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: 09.05.93, 14:48 : Hi out there ! : Is there anybody who can write me how to add icons to the iconlist (which : is build-into) of Progman.exe ? : I'm grateful for every clue ! : Thanx and have a nice day ! One way is to use a program called Iconmaster. It's shareware and If you can't get it mail me, and I'll pos...
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[stuff deleted] The colormap element of SetWinAttrib must be a legitimate TrueColor colormap. So, use XCreateColormap() with the proper visual and use it in SetWinAttrib (and don't forget the mask!). And the inevitable caveat: I usually use widgets, setting the visual and colormap resources rather than direct X routi...
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Ithaca technical support can be reached at: tech_support@ithaca.com or by phone at: 510-523-5900
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I've got an old Super VGA card manufactured by SAMPO of Taiwan and I'm looking for a Windows 3.1 Driver for it. It's based on the Cirrus Logic CL-GD510A-32PC-B chip. I've contacted the suppliers here in New Zealand and they say that only Windows 2 divers were ever written by the manufacturer. So if there's a V3.1 dri...
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Has anyone ever heard of the X Professional Organization? Is anyone a member? Is the membership worth the $100 or so that they charge?
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Yes it invokes the associated application. That takes but 10 seconds?
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: Has anyone else experienced anything like this? If this just means that I : need to replace the screen then I guess I'll have to but I thought that the : "death" of my LCD screen would be a little less dramatic when it eventually : happened. I didn't want to take it in to be repaired before I asked on the : net abo...
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Thanks to everyone who mailed help, unfortunately the end problem was a REALLY stupid `oversight' on my behalf. The code was 100% perfect, but it might help to add Control.C to my makefile....... Anyway the mangled name was telling me it could'nt locate the Control constructor...
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2-The-Max VESA VL video controller/ Cirus Logic chipset (2Mb ram, 24-bit color, 1280x1024 NI) Does XFree1.2 (or 2.0) support this card?
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: This may be an FAQ (if so, please direct me to the known answer) but I : am getting frustrated and looking for help. : : I am running Win 3.1 with NDW 2.2 on a 486sx with 8 meg of memory and a : 6 meg perm swap file and am getting exceedingly frustrated that my : applications are not giving back ...
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Look be consistent. First you post something that seems to suggest that you see xv being an 8 bit program as some sort of error. So I post and asy it is not a bug, it is meant to be like that. So you post and say it is not a bug, you never said it was, I have misunderstood etc. Now you are saying: If you wou...
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[[ I posted this a few weeks back, but all I got back was an error message "pnews: /dev/null: Permission denied". Yep, /dev/null had a mode of 600. (Arrghhh!!) ]] With renewed interest in "setting the DISPLAY variable", etc.. I thought I would post my contribution. This Perl script is my solution. It trys t...
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Perhaps all of us hackers have become (ICK) PROFESSIONALS? I have noticed my and my associates progression from hackers to computer professionals. It is rather distasteful. It occurs when a series of things happen: 1) one's ego outgrows one's talent/knowledge 2) one's financial situation takes precedence 3...
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There are several CRT-to-film writers around. Agfa has some, they also might be called Matrix?, and I am pretty sure other companies sell the same equipment. You might want to talk to any company in your area that does presentation slides or offers graphics services. They should have those machines and they might poi...
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I have uploaded the most recent Windows drivers for the Cirrus GD5426 chip based display cards to the uploads directory at ftp.cica.indiana.edu (file is 5426dr13.zip). They're very recent, I downloaded them from the Cirrus BBS (570-226-2365) last night. If you are unable to get them there, email me and maybe I can ...
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Nanao: call 1-800-800-5202. Ask for a catalog.
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Is there an easy (ie via shell commands) way to tell what the DISPLAY environment variable is for any given client process? Sometimes I can get what I want by typing ps -axe if: a. the client was invoked with a -display argument or b. DISPLAY is one of the first few variables defined in the environment ...
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