Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ucbvax!C.ISI.EDU!Info-IBMPC From: Info-IBMPC@C.ISI.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.computers.ibm-pc Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V6 #11 Message-ID: <8702230801.AA05787@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sun, 22-Feb-87 20:09:21 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8702230801.AA05787 Posted: Sun Feb 22 20:09:21 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 24-Feb-87 02:33:13 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: INFO-IBMPC@C.ISI.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 804 Approved: info-ibmpc@b.isi.edu Info-IBMPC Digest Sunday, 22 February 1987 Volume 6 : Issue 11 This Week's Editor: Billy Brackenridge Today's Queries: Co-Processor Board Meridian Ada Problems with ProComm Terminal Emulation Optimizing BIOS UNIX Like C Compilers TURBO C F6's appear in .exe and .bat files Anyone know why? 3.5 Drives GRAPHICS.COM Logicsoft's 60MB Internal Tape Backup Printing from Hercules Plus Need Compact Memory Model Micro Emacs Request for XMODEM program Copy Won't Copy 0 Length Files WYSE Compatible PC/RT Configuration and Software Connecting a WYSE-60 Terminal via COMx. Systat or Statgraphics PCWATCH MS CodeView and EGA Software Carousel AutoMenu Hard Disk Setup Disk Optimizer Disk Organizer XON-XOFF Flow Control ASCII to Display Writer 3 Lotus 123 Graphs to HP Laserjet 3278/3279 Terminal Emulation Bug in Microsoft MASM or DOS 3.2 or RAMdisk drivers? Cheap CAD/CAM Where can I find RHM? malloc / free info requested BTRIEVE Replacement for Compaq Power Supply Wordstar 2000+ EOF Problem ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Feb 87 22:03:44 PST From: johnston@lbl-csam.arpa (Bill Johnston [csr]) Subject: Co-Processor Board I need some information and recommendations. How do the co-processor boards that include, say, an 80286 and memory, on a PC bus board work. How do you generate code for them (standard compilers)? How do you load the code into them? Do they run their own operating system? How do you get information into and out of them? Do they share an address space and/or I/O functions with MSDOS? Clearly there are variations. Looking at a Byte add for Micro Way I see that the "FastCACHE-286" has cache memory only, but that the "Number Smasher ECM" has main memory. Does anyone have any good (or bad) experience to share? What I need to do is get compressed images from an Ethernet interface, decompress them and write them into a frame buffer memory. Do I have to copy the data from PC address space to co-processor, and then back out? If the co-processor can access PC memory, could I write directly into the frame buffer (which is in PC address space). To do this I would probably have to slow down the co-processor memory writes (by adding dummy instructions between each transfer to PC memory?) Can I call routines resident on the co-processor board? If not, is there a synchronization mechanism? (E.G. how can I execute a task on the co-processor and then inform a PC program that the processed data is ready for use.) Currently, all of our coding uses Microsoft C, and we would like to keep it that way, if possible. Any information would be appreciated. Please respond directly to me, if possible. I will summarize the responses. Thanks, Bill Johnston johnston@lbl-csam.arpa or wejohnston@lbl.arpa ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 87 04:39:20 EST From: Kenneth Ng Subject: Meridian Ada Does anyone have any experience with the AdaVantage Ada Compiler for the IBM PC? Its written by Meridian Software Systems Inc. I have their brochure, but I'd be more inclined to buy it if I knew others had used it first. I have their brochure and have read the article in Computer Language Dec 86. ------------------------------ From: Stephen Herman Date: 16 Feb 87 15:02:01 GMT Subject: Problems with ProComm Terminal Emulation Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY. I am using ProComm version 2.4.2 to access VAX computers running BSD UNIX 4.3. I am having problems with the terminal emulators built into ProComm. When I set both the VAX and ProComm to VT-100 then everything is fine except that there is no scrolling in the vi editor. The scroll setting of the terminal emulator is set on and it does scroll, but not within vi. The same problem occurs if I use the Heath 19 emulation. If I use the ANSI emulation in both the PC and the VAX, the scrolling problem goes away--almost. After displaying one screenful of text, the emulation loses all color settings and reverts to white on black. Any ideas on what is the problem? ------------------------------ Date: Mon 16 Feb 87 12:42:20-PST From: Cliff Yamamoto Subject: Optimizing BIOS Greetings. I was wondering if anyone out there could provide a direction or some information about this subject. With the great amount of accelerated machines on the market, I have heard (a rumor possibly?) that all fast machines usually utilize an optimized bios written specifically for the given clock rate (i.e. a bios for an 8 Mhz machine would be different than one in a 10 Mhz machine). If this is true, I was wondering if anyone can tell me what exactly are the changes that one makes to the bios? With the many companies out there making bioses, aside from Phoenix, it appears as though it is not to difficult to design one. I pose this question because I have sped up my Ibm AT after reading the all Ibm issue of Byte magazine a few months ago and I'm wondering if I really am getting the max performance. Is just speeding up the clock rate all there is to it? Other than the change for the timeout loop on the 1.2 Mg drive what other difference, if any, exists? There must be room for improvement since at the moment I am using one of those TSRs that really speeds up the bios scrolling output. I have the newer bios (#6480090, dated 6-10-85) and I have the Technical Ref. manual handy #6280070. Unfortunately I am not too familiar with the inner workings of the bios routines, especially those like Int15 that play around with the protected mode. Can these routines be optimized for a faster clock? (or should they be optimized?) I realize these are a lot of questions but if any of them can be answered I would be most grateful. I would be interesting in hearing about any bios routines that are affected when the clock speed is changed. Thanx in advance! Cliff Yamamoto Arpa : Cyamamot%Gumby%Usc-Ecl.Arpa ------------------------------ From: nina@cernvax.UUCP (nina) Subject: UNIX Like C Compilers Date: 16 Feb 87 11:29:17 GMT What's your opinion about the Archimedes Software's C-51PCC compiler. I'am very interrested to have a C UNIX compatible compiler for PC! Francis Somers (cernvax!uclfynu!some prlb2!uclfynu!some lln-cs!uclfynu!some) CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Sw ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Feb 87 09:33 EDT From: Peter Heitman Subject: TURBO C Just announced in the latest issue of PC Magazine is TURBO C from Borland. THe price is right ($99), but how is the compiler? TURBO PASCAL wasn't Pascal, TURBO PROLOG wasn't Prolog. Can it be that TURBO C is really C? The ad states that the compiler is ANSI standard. Does this mean that I can take sources that were written for Microsoft C and have a reasonable chance of compiling them under TURBO C? If you know about this product, let me know how complete it is. Anyone know when/where the reviews will appear? Thanks for any help. Peter Heitman heitman@umass-cs.csnet ------------------------------ From: Barbara Siefken Date: 17 Feb 87 17:48:04 GMT Subject: F6's appear in .exe and .bat files Anyone know why? I have an original, plain vanilla IBM-PC. Recently, it has started scribbling F6's in executables, in the autoexec.bat file, in the config.sys file, etc. I have not tried to update these files in 2 years, and the update dates have not been changed, but the files are altered. One program I was using needed to read another disk, and asked me to put it in Drive 6 (instead of A or B). Does this sound like a disk problem? A motherboard problem? Some other kind of problem? I am about to buy a hardcard for the computer, but if I need to replace something else expensive, it would be cheaper to buy a new system (if I keep the monitor), then to buy several parts for the old one. Help! Debug advice would be greatly appreciated. Barbara Siefken tektronix!tekecs!barbara 503-685-3876 ------------------------------ Date: Tue 17 Feb 87 13:39:16-PST From: Lawrence Subject: 3.5 Drives I've installed two 3.5 drives in my PCs. The problem I seem to have is in trying to get them to format at 720kb. I'm running 3.2 DOS, and tried to use the instructions for setting up a 3.5 disk drive. I set-up the drive to be the "b" drive, and in the manual for set-up under config.sys I used this format (device=driver.sys \d:1 \f:2). This form gives me a message at boot-up that D drive is now an external drive. I've made several changes, and none gives me a 720kb size on the B drive which is my 3.5 drive. Is there something I'm missing or is it possible to get this size? I under- stand there is a patch or two for a 3.5 drive. Will this help my problem? ------------------------------ Date: Tue 17 Feb 87 17:21:11-PST From: Michael Kahn Subject: GRAPHICS.COM The version of graphics.com supplied with PC-DOS 3.0 does not work correctly with an EGA card. Since it works perfectly with a CGA card but also does not work if the EGA is in CGA simulation mode (this is a Video-7 EGA), I assume that the problem is with addressing the right area of video memory. Is there an easy fix to graphics.com or is there a PD program that gives the same functionality as graphics.com but on an EGA card? All I want to do is to dump an EGA graphics screen to my printer by pressing ctl-PrtScrn. Nothing fancier. Michael Kahn (kahn@sumex-aim.stanford.edu) ------------------------------ From: lbafrin%GruMP.UUCP@tecnet-clemson (Larry Afrin) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 87 22:37:15 EST Subject: Logicsoft's 60MB Internal Tape Backup Straight to the point: has anybody out there had personal experience with Logicsoft's own brand ("Logic" brand) of 60MB internal streaming tape backup unit? They're selling it for $725, and I'm attracted by the 5-year unconditional repair/replace warranty. But as PC Magazine pointed out in its tape unit survey many moons ago, tape hardware is all pretty much the same -- it's the software that separates the men from the boys (please excuse my momentary chauvinistic lapse, ladies). The only thing the Logicsoft salesman can tell me is that it does image and file-by-file backup/restore and can transfer data at up to 5MB per minute, pretty much in line with other tape units' specs. Like I said, the warranty looks good, and the price sure is competitive, so the only thing I have left to worry about (since there's no money-back trial period) is the quality of the software. Can anybody comment on this (or any aspect of the unit, for that matter)? Each reply will be thankfully acknowledged, and I'll post a summary of the replies if anybody else is interested. -- Larry Afrin Dept. of Computer Science Clemson University ================================ Please send replies, if any, to: CSNET: lbafrin@clemson.csnet or lbafrin%eureka@clemson.csnet ARPA: lbafrin@tecnet-clemson.arpa USENET: ihnp4!seismo!{clemson.csnet|tecnet-clemson.arpa}!lbafrin I disclaim everything anybody ever said about anything. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 87 00:03:55 est From: Mike Ciaraldi Subject: Printing from Hercules Plus A friend of mine just bought an AT clone with the new Hercules Plus video board. Using Microsoft Word with the Hercules Plus driver he can see all sorts of special characters on the screen. But how can he print these out? He specified an Epson FX-80, which is the kind of printer he has, but it looks like Word can only print the standard characters built into the Epson. Does anyone know how he can get the other characters, or if Word permits printing them on any other model of printer? Mike Ciaraldi ciaraldi@rochester.edu ------------------------------ From: hplabs!felix!babich@seismo.CSS.GOV (Alan Babich) Date: 19 Feb 87 02:31:06 GMT Subject: Need Compact Memory Model Micro Emacs Organization: FileNet Corp., Costa Mesa, CA Lines: 5 I need a copy of the source for microemacs that will run on an IBM AT clone when compiled with the compact memory model (<64K stack, <64K code, >64K data) of the Microsoft 4.00 C compiler. Thanks. hplabs!felix!babich ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 87 14:28 CST From: Subject: Request for XMODEM program We have several versions of XMODEM for the PC but don't have one that will run on a VAX (running VMS). If possible could someone send me the source of an xmodem program that will run on a VAX (VMS) system. I'd appreciate it and thanks in advance. Alan Krantz KRANTZ@VUENGVAX (We have C, Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC compilers but no BLISS-32) [Use Kermit and save yourself lots of trouble. -wab] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 87 13:03:14 est From: Andrew Malton Subject: Copy Won't Copy 0 Length Files Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto I have a question, which probably displays ignorance. But, under PC-DOS the COPY command seems to refuse to copy empty files. Is this right? Is it a bug? Is there a way to do it? Can somone mail me an explanation please? [Some copy programs such as JET from Tall Tree will copy 0 length files if a switch is specified. -wab] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 87 15:33:23 est From: catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Tony Catone) Subject: WYSE Compatible I need a 10 Mhz IBM PC/AT compatible for 8 hrs./day, 5 days/wk. DBMS use (Oracle or Informix, not yet decided). Does anyone know of any reliability or compatibility problems with WYSE brand? Any other suggestions? Any advice would be greatly appreciated; I need delivery by 2/27/87. Thanks! - Tony catone@wharton.upenn.edu catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Feb 87 18:32:55 HOE From: xavier millet Subject: PC/RT Configuration and Software We are planning to instal a PC/RT (6150) mod25 in one of our units of software development. We have some information about the lastest RT model, but we will like to have some contacts with anyone with experience on it. In short, what happens in the new model with the 5080 configuration ? What happens with the software updates ? Does anyone has experience in multitasking usage of the PC/RT realted to the software development ?? Thanks in advance, Xavier Millet ZCCBXMP@EB0UB011 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Feb 87 10:07:07 +0100 (Central European Time) From: XBR1D770@DDATHD21.BITNET (R. Hoenig) Subject: Connecting a WYSE-60 Terminal via COMx. We want to built up a communication between a WYSE-60 terminal, which is able to run in IBM PC emulation (screen and keyboard), to an IBM PC under MS-DOS 3.1 via COMx. The problem is, that if you connect the terminal and use CTTY, the scancodes and control sequences are not handled properly. The piece of hardware or software needed should make the terminal (screen and keyboard) behave exactly like the main screen/keyboard of the PC in alternative mode. If this solution can handle the video RAM, too, this would be fine, but is not absolutely required. ASCII character transfer and scancode handling would be sufficient. Any (low cost) solutions known/at hand? Replies to Dr. Th. Brendel, Frankfurt via R. Hoenig/THD. drb 11.2.1987 [Sounds like a program could be written based on our interrupt driven COM packages such as COM_PKG2.ASM and something on the order of BUF160.ASM which would give you some ideas as how to link into the keyboard interrupt routines. I can't understand why anyone would want to do this, but you could achieve limited success. -wab] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 87 00:43 N From: Subject: Systat or Statgraphics Hello, I'd like to know more on the differences between the programs Statgraphics and Systat. The PC-version of SAS is very basic, and I don't like the user interface of SPSS/PC, might as well use a mainframe. More importantly, both SAS and SPSS are extremely expensive. Is it worth buying Statgraphics or Systat, using a PC with 8087, or should I stick to using SAS on our Vax and/or SPSS on th Cyber? Why? We never use very complicated statistical procedures, we do have a "lot" (in PC terms) of data. Which of the two is better/faster/easier to use/more reliable/etc ?? Send answers to me (if you can access bitnet/earn) and I'll summarize for the list. Thanks all, Nick Drayer jr. Groningen University Holland Earn/Bitnet: drayer@hgrrug5 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1987 10:36:27 ULG From: Andre PIRARD Subject: PCWATCH I once have seen at an IBM course a program called PCWATCH. It was said to be part of a suite called 'Directory of personal developped software' and available through mail order to U. S. residents only. It selectively displays interrupts events and is one of the most useful tool for debugging and getting an insight of DOS working. Does anyone know of of its wider availability (to Europe) or of a public domain comparable substitute? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 87 04:59 MST From: Allan Haggett Subject: MS CodeView and EGA We have just received MS C, 4.0. It comes with a wonderful symbolic debugger -- CodeView. However, whenever I run CodeView it resets the screen colors upon exit. If I simply fire it up and quit immediately, I get white on black. If I actually run a program when inside the debugger (i.e., cause it to switch to "program output" screen) and then quit, I get dark green an disgusting bright green. I would appreciate any advice on eliminating this annoying problem. We are running DOS 3.0 on a Compaq Deskpro 286, with ANSI.SYS, a MS Mouse (5.00 with MOUSE.SYS 5.02), a Princeton color graphics monitor, and a TECMAR EGA (Master). Thanks. -- Allan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 87 9:32:16 EST From: gdj5t@krebs5.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: gdj5t@krebs5.acc.virginia.edu Subject: Software Carousel AutoMenu Hard Disk Setup I'm getting ready to set-up a new AT&T 6300 with 20MB hard disk. We'll have several programs including Word-Perfect and Lotus 123. Not only does the disk need to be well organized, but also easy for many different people to use. (I think each user should keep his data & text files on floppies.) A shareware AutoMenu program that I glanced at looked useful. Word Perfect has introduced their "Library" program which has many nice features, but I have not seen any reviews yet. Also, I just got an offer from SoftLogic Solutions to buy Software Carousel for $39. Any advice someone could offer on these or other programs would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 87 9:48:18 EST From: gdj5t@krebs5.acc.virginia.edu Subject: Disk Optimizer Disk Organizer Does anyone know of any problems using either SoftLogin Solution's Disk Optimizer or the shareware Disk Organizer (DOG) on a 20MB Plus Hardcard in an AT&T6300 running (IBM) PC-DOS 3.2? Can these programs handle copy- protected programs, including Lotus 123 (ver. 2.01)? A review that I read several months ago made DOG sound like the better of the two. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 87 08:44:08 PST From: BINKLEY%OFE@ames-io.ARPA Subject: XON-XOFF Flow Control We have recently purchased several HP-Vectras (PC-ATs) to replace our aging (and slow) HP-150s. With these new PCs we are having a problem that someone may have a simple (and hopefully painless) solution. The MS-DOS print command (and some of our application software) does not use XON- XOFF flow control while printing. While this is not a problem for printers local to the PCs, it is when we use our facility's LAN to communicate with a printer in a remote area. This is a requirement as we cannot afford to purchase a LASER printer for every office and lab here. Is there some fix for print.com? The only solution we have come up with as yet is a converter from DTR to XON-XOFF from Black-Box. This is an expensive solution as it will cost ~$500 per PC. We didn't have this problen with our old HP-150s serial interfaces and have become dependent upon this capability. Thanks for listening... binkley%OFE@ames-io.ARPA [Use a print spooler such as Tall Tree's JSPOOL or AST's SUPERSPOOL. -wab] ------------------------------ Date: 20 Feb 87 13:00 EST From: harvey@nems.ARPA (Betty Harvey) Subject: ASCII to Display Writer 3 Does anyone know of a public-domain utility that will convert and ASCII file to a DisplayWriter 3 format file. I have never used DisplayWriter and am asking for a friend. Any help will be appreciated. Betty Harvey [Can't Display Writer read ASCII files? -wab] ------------------------------ Date: Fri 20 Feb 87 12:13:27-PST From: David Pope Subject: Lotus 123 Graphs to HP Laserjet Does anyone know of a utility to print Lotus graphs that have been saved to disk to a HP Laserjet printer. It seems that it would be relatively easy to send a "fil.PIC" bitmap to the laser printer. Please mail directly to me as I am not on this user group. Source code (preferably in BASIC) would be appreciated. Thanks, David E. Pope pope@sri-kl ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 87 12:50:52 EST From: John Shaver (STEEP-TMAC 879-7602) Subject: 3278/3279 Terminal Emulation Does someone have information about an IBM 3278/3279 terminal emulation program which will allow the information being displayed to be routed to a file. We will accept either an ASCII or an EBICDIS (?) file. Thanks in advance John ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 87 20:53:11 EST From: jcm@ORNL-MSR.ARPA (James A. Mullens) Subject: Bug in Microsoft MASM or DOS 3.2 or RAMdisk drivers? I have had an amusing experience with a bug somewhere in Microsoft Macro Assembler 4.0, DOS 3.2, or RAM disks running in extended memory. I have tried the following on 2 ATs -- one an IBM brand 6-MHz converted to 8 Mhz, with 2 hard drives and 3 Meg of Extended RAM which is used as a RAM disk. The second is a 10 MHz 0-wait-state RAM clone with 1 40 Meg hard drive logically divided into C: and D: by Everex's EVDISK driver, and 3 Meg of Extended RAM used as a RAM disk. Both machines are running PCDOS 3.2, and both had been using PCDOS's VDISK to use all of extended memory as RAM disk. I have a large (17Kbyte) assembly language file which assembles without error unless the source is on the ramdisk (E:) and the object file is built on the harddisk on the default directory. (When the assembler fails its error message is "Error 52: Illegal Operand Type" on the line "mov BX,seg _o_rete". There is *nothing* wrong with that line of code.) If I assemble with source and object in the same device/directory (root of E:\ OR C:\HFIR\STATE) the assembly proceeds without error. I called Microsoft technical support and they told me that the PCDOS RAMdisk driver VDISK is flaky for reasons no one understands. They told me to use any other RAMdisk driver. They approved of trying the RAMdisk from Windows version 1.01, so I did, and that failed also in exactly the same way. I have had this happen twice before without understanding what was happening. Both times the problem went away when I removed a few lines of assembly source -- like debugging lines -- just to get a shorter module. Still, I have assembled 90Kbyte modules without having this problem. The problem becomes apparent only rarely -- I have been running with the RAM/hard disk assemblies for several months and only had 3 assembly sources show this problem. Has anyone else had similar experiences using the assembler or the RAMdisk? jim mullens / jcm@ornl-msr.arpa / oak ridge national laboratory ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1987 10:46 EST Message-ID: From: LIN@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU Subject: Cheap CAD/CAM Does anyone know about good CAD/CAM packages for IBM PC? This would be for home use (designing furniture and the like), so very expensive packages are not appropriate? Comments to me directly, please. Lin@xx.lcs.mit.edu thanks. ------------------------------ Date: Saturday, 21 February 1987 20:12:28 EST From: David.Maynard@faraday.ece.cmu.edu Subject: Where can I find RHM? I retrieved a program call 'rhm' (Right-Hand Man) from SIMTEL20. From the documentation, it sounds like a program I would like to have. Unfortunately, when I try running the program, it aborts with a message like, "This program only runs on Z-100 series computers." The doc file indicates that there is a IBM-PC version. Does someone know where I can find it? Thanks, David David P. Maynard ARPA: dpm@faraday.ece.cmu.edu Dept. of ECE USENET: ...sun!faraday.ece.cmu.edu!dpm Carnegie Mellon University (412)268-3333 Pittsburgh, PA 15213 ------------------------------ Subject: malloc / free info requested Date: Sun, 22 Feb 87 10:09:20 -0500 From: feist@rochester.arpa I would appreciate any information anyone has to offer on the internal workings of malloc / free in Microsoft C 3.0 or 4.0, large model. I am also interested in known bugs. Pointers to any public domain implementations of malloc / free would also be welcome. -- Steven Feist feist@rochester.cs.edu ------------------------------ Date: 22 Feb 87 11:30:00 EST From: "G. B. Reilly" Subject: BTRIEVE I've been seeing references to a database product called BTRIEVE. The claim is that this product can "easily" exchange information with Lotus 1-2-3. Can anyone point me to more information on this product? ------------------------------ Date: 22 Feb 1987 12:56-EST Sender: SCHNUR@A.ISI.EDU Subject: Replacement for Compaq Power Supply From: SCHNUR@A.ISI.EDU To ibm-PC users group Is there an alternative to the Compaq power suply for their 286 machines? While everything else has proven to be quite reliable my gorup is going through quite a few power supplies. I also am interested in a source for the batteries since they will be soon beginning to fail I believe. Joel Schnur (Schnur@isi) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Feb 87 11:34:55 O From: Henry Nussbacher Subject: Wordstar 2000+ EOF Problem Posted on behalf of a friend - send replies directly to me - they will be forwarded: HELP OR ADVICE IS REQUESTED CONCERNING THE FOLOWING PROBLEM: A. I'M USING AN I.B.M P.C XT WITH 256KB RAM, 10MB HARD DISK, A WORDPROCESSOR WORDSTAR 2000+ BY MICROPRO WITH DOS 2.1 . B. WHEN I EDITED A FILE (256KB) AND TRIED GETTING TO END-OF-FILE (CNTRL CE) IT TOOK 5 MINUTES. C. I'VE REPEATED THE SAME PROCESS ON I.B.M P.C COMPATIBLE WITH 640KB AND 20MB HARD DISK AND A TURBO-CARD. IT TOOK ABOUT 4 MINUTES. D. ANY IDEA OR ADVICE HOW TO SHORTEN THIS PROCESS WOULD BE APRECIATED. ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest ************************ -------