Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!Info-IBMPC From: Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V7 #65 Message-ID: <8901120050.AA26092@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 28 Dec 88 06:38:21 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.mil Organization: The Internet Lines: 595 Approved: info-ibmpc@walker-emh.arpa Info-IBMPC Digest Wed, 28 Dec 88 Volume: 7 Issue 65 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Ventura, Calif Today's Topics: 80 meg in Novell 2.0, real AT, 1985 bios? BBS CDVI and TeX Editors written in Pascal Accounting Packages...which one? HP Laserjet TSR Emulation Package wanted Bell type 202 modems in PCs Hard disk backup to VCR Re: VCR Hard Disk Backup ILEAVE16 updated to IAU19A.ARC ILEAVE16 IND$FILE file transfer protocol Communication Software for OS/2 Info on PC Blue and other PD archives at Simtel20 Description for 8250 chip Wanted New MSDOS upload PCFile+ 2.0 Info Wanted Plotter redirection Problems with donloaded TurboPascal units Question for PC Digest--EGA, VGA boards Stand-Alone XMODEM Found Voice synthesis Wordperfect Scientific Wordprocessing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 16:47:22 EST From: hsi!stepstone.com!aad@uunet.UU.NET (Anthony A. Datri) Subject: 80 meg in Novell 2.0, real AT, 1985 bios? I've got a real IBM AT here, bios date 11-15-85. It's got a 40 meg type 15 drive in it now, running as a Novell 2.0a server. I need to stick a bigger drive in there, like a Seagate 4096 (80 meg), but I'm told that the BIOS is too old to have those drive types in there, and thus the Novell stuff won't format it. Someone told me that a DUB14 board by Golden Bell could be stuffed in there to fake out the bios, and someone else told me that I could stick a Phoenix or Award bios in there in place of the IBM one. Any suggestions? If I can just stick another 40 meg in there and have Novell treat it as one drive, it'd be just as well. The current plan is to take the existing 40 meg drive and stick it in a hitherto floppy-only XT, so I need a recommendation for a controller for that as well. Any info greatly appreciated. anthony a datri aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad cthulhu@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu ------------------------------ Date: 14 Dec 88 16:08:20 GMT From: mcvax!tnoibbc!hin@uunet.UU.NET (Hin Oey) Subject: BBS Early next year we want to start some experiments with telecommunication. Last week I have purchased a Compaq386 with 110MB harddisk. In the first stage we want to use a BBS under XENIX. More important, however, is that we want to link to databases and applications. If there is some experience I would appreciate an email. Regards, Hin Oey (hin@tnoibbc) Institute TNO for Building Materials and Structures (TNO-IBBC) UUCP: ..!mcvax!tnoibbc!hin PO BOX 49 Hin Oey USENET: hin@tnoibbc 2600 AA Delft Expert Systems Group VOICE : +31 15 606435 The Netherlands ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Dec 88 11:16:21 GMT From: "Wayne G. Sullivan" Subject: CDVI and TeX The CDVI archive of screen previewing programs for TeX has been upgraded to CDVI12.ARC. This includes versions for CGA, EGA, VGA/MCGA, Hercules and ATT/Olivetti graphics. The directory is PD1: which also contains SBTEX.ARC. TeX is a text formatting program written by D.E. Knuth: only typesetting by hand can produce higher quality output. The two mentioned archives allow one to get started with TeX at minimal cost. If you want phototypeset output, it will cost a bit more. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Dec 88 16:21:14 EST From: "Larry Bradley" Subject: Editors written in Pascal Thanks to all those that responded to my request for Turbo Pascal Async packages ... I found several. This encourages me to ask if anyone knows of a (simple) text editor in Turbo Pascal. It does not have to be fancy ... I don't need many features. I just don't want to write one from scratch if there is one I can get and modify. Looking through the index for the library hasn't turned one up yet. Thanks. *------------------------------------+--------------------* |Larry Bradley | LARRY@VM.NRC.CA | |Communications Manager | or | |National Research Council of Canada | LARRY@NRCVM01 | |Networks Branch | | |M60, Montreal Road | (613)993-0240 | |Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R6 | FAX:(613) 954-2561 | *------------------------------------+--------------------* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Dec 88 15:34:07 EST From: (James Messer) Subject: Accounting Packages...which one? I am in the process of changing accouting packages for a small business, and have found a program that might be useful. It's name is Database Accouting Library, and it is made by SBT Corporation. The program works on a 640K IBM PC or compatable, and is primarily used for small networks. Has anyone used this system? What was your opinion of the package? If there is anyone who has used ANY accounting package which was helpful or easy to use (yet powerful), I would appreciate hearing from them. Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. Please send responses to JAMES@FSU.BITNET. James Messer Florida State University JAMES@FSU.BITNET ------------------------------ From: "John A. Potelle" Date: Tue, 13 Dec 88 10:38:46 EST Subject: HP Laserjet TSR Emulation Package wanted I'm looking for a TSR program that will make an H.P. Lazer Jet emulate an Epson FX80/100, 286 compatible graphics printer. Or even an IBM Proprinter. Anyone ? John A. Potelle POTELLE@MAINE.BITNET ------------------------------ Date: TUE 13 DEC 1988 17:24:00 EST From: "Richard J Reiner (bd)" Subject: Bell type 202 modems in PCs We have a largish inventory of old simplex modems of the Bell 202 spec. and are wondering if the software to operate these exists for PCs. These are 1200 baud modems, and most of ours are in fine shape, so we would really like to be able to get some use out of them. They are FS keyed, and so will never be able to talk to Bell 212A type modems (i.e. what everybody uses on PCs), since 212s are QPS keyed. What is required to make them work? is a comm prog which can control the direction of data flow by manipulating the RTS line in the RS-232C interface: the modems send when RTS is marking, listen when it is spacing. (Half duplex, remember?) The ability to use the modems reverse channel (which operates at all of 5, yes five, baud) would be nice too -- this would involve program sampling of Secondary CTS in the RS-232 when sending, and manipulating of Secondary RTS when receiving. If anyone has used or knows of such software, please mail directly to me: I don't imagine many other PC users have this problem. Thanks, Rich. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Dec 88 14:14:46 PST From: lee#robert%e.mfenet@NMFECC.ARPA Subject: Hard disk backup to VCR In the issue dated June 23, 1987 of PC Magazine (Volume 6, Number 12), page 105, there is a small blurb on the VCR-based backup system made by Alpha Microsystems. Robert Lee ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 10:58:09 PST From: ccicpg!billm@uunet.UU.NET (Morita Bill) Subject: Re: VCR Hard Disk Backup In article <940@arnav.UUCP> jru@arnav.UUCP (John Underwood) writes: Does >anyone out there know of an interface and software available to enable >hard disk backup from an IBM PC compatible to a video cassette recorder? > >A friend told me he knew of such a system for backing up hard disks >connected to a mainframe computer. > >Please reply by posting to this newsgroup, but be sure to include >the word "tape" somewhere in your reply. > >John Underwood at&t : 1-503-684-1600 >Arnav Systems, Inc uucp : ..!tektronix!nscpdc!arnav!jru >16100 SW 72nd Ave, P.O. Box 23939; Portland, OR 97223 The there are several available. The only one that I am personally familiar with is the AlphaMicro VideoTrax (tm) system. This system will backup approximately 30 Mb of file structured data on to a standard 120 VCR tape at standard play speed. The device comes in two forms, a interface board by itself that you plug into a VCR (using a cheapo VCR is _not_ recommended) for in the neighborhood of $300-$500 or a version that includes a VCR that has been adapted for computer remote control and status checking (the board only configuration lets YOU play VCR controller with the computer giving instructions to rewind, play, record.) The product is a sound one. I used to work for AlphaMicro. Their technology is good. Their marketing used to stink. These units are available throught many Radio Shack outlets. You can find an ad for them in BYTE or you can contact AlphaMicro directly at (714) 957-8500. It is sad to note that Alpha missed the window on marketing this device. Alpha had used video technology for years on their own systems. They had a working version of this device for the PC's when PC's first started showing up with 10 Mb and 20 MB hard disks and no sensible way to back them up. The marketing department were not satisfied with the then version of the software, which used a command line interface. They demanded and got (at a 2 year delay) a fancy screen/menu version. They could have established themselves in a booming backup device market but blew it. And ah yes.. History repeats itself. The recently bungled and entry into the MAC market that was going through the same sort of transformation (to hard disks). They were originally one of 4 or 5 backup devices a one Apple trade show and were voted most interesting new (hardware) product with interest expressed directly from inside Apple. But bungle it again they did. Then next Apple trade show had 50+ such devices on display an Alpha still does not have a finished product. This product does show some promise in one area. Data broadcast. The data can be broadcast over standard video channels. Such channels exist even in the most backward of countries and there are time windows on satellite transponders that are dirt cheap. You can set your recorder on timed record and retrieved the data later. Hope this helps. Sorry for venting my spleen here about the blunders of my previous manangement, but I think it makes an interesting historical note. Bill Morita ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1988 23:08 MST From: Keith Petersen Subject: ILEAVE16 updated to IAU19A.ARC The disk interleave test and reformat program ILEAVE16 had problems with certain kinds of disk controllers and there was a problem properly recognizing the 8087 math chip, according to the author. The program has been updated to: Filename Type Bytes CRC Directory PD1: IAU19A.ARC BINARY 163657 4968H ILEAVE16.ARC has been deleted. --Keith Petersen Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.0.0.74] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 12:11:37 PST From: <1052P%NAVPGS.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu> Subject: ILEAVE16 There is a new version out and it's available from Simtel20. It's called IAU19A.ARC instead of ILEAVE, but it comes from the same author. I ran into a few problems with ILEAVE16 and switched to IAU19A which seemed to work better, though it didn't really solve my problem. I was trying to speed up the 10M removable drives that come with secure Z-248's. These drives are abominable, testing out at 0.4 with Norton's SI. I ran SPINTEST on it and it was taking an average of 14 revolutions to read a track. The recommendation I got for an interleave from IAU was 6. I changed it to 6 and the SI went up to 0.8. However, I started getting Bad Partition Table and all of those other nasty messages about disk read errors. Given that reliability was more critical than speed in this case, I did a low level format and brought them back to Zenith's interleave. If any one else out there has any clue as to how to make these things behave any better, I'd sure appreciate hearing about it. Alan D. Ariel BITNET: 1052P@NAVPGS LT USN DDN: 1052P@CC.NPS.NAVY.MIL SMC 1624 (or) LEEKW@A.ISI.EDU Naval Postgraduate School Tel: (408) 646-2786 Monterey, CA 93943 AV: 878-2786 Acknowledge-To: <1052P@NAVPGS> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1988 18:20 CST From: John Ladwig Subject: IND$FILE file transfer protocol Does anyone know of a standalone PD version of IND$FILE (the IBM file transfer protocol) for DOS, or if it is proprietary (as I fear)? My local 4381 host has a horribly inefficient version of KERMIT which is slow and costs an arm and a leg to use. If I can find a standalone package, perhaps I can intergrate it with my comm program, TELIX. Thanks in Advance, John Ladwig JLADWIG@UMINN1.BITNET JLADWIG@VM1.SPCS.UMN.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 00:09:55 EST From: Jimmy Law Subject: Communication Software for OS/2 Communication Software for OS/2: Are there any out yet? I hear there is a version of Kermit, but is very buggy. Are there any other shareware, or public domain ones available? Jimmy Law, Physics Dept, University of Guelph. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1988 12:37 MST From: Keith Petersen Subject: Info on PC Blue and other PD archives at Simtel20 The following is a copy of a reply to a user's questions about PC Blue and other PD archive info. I am forwarding it for those on this list who may not have seen this information before. >From: Keith Petersen Can you direct me to annotated files that describe the contents of the PD1: subdirectories? I have been able to get such descriptions of that for PD1:, but not for the other. Comma-delimited lists: Filename Type Bytes CRC Directory PD1: FILES.IDX ASCII 530228 8E6AH <--all files, no descr. PCB000.IDX ASCII 106474 D4D2H <--disks 0-49 PCB050.IDX ASCII 118657 B34EH <--disks 49-99 PCB100.IDX ASCII 88194 6DD7H <--disks 100-149 PCB150.IDX ASCII 107560 9FDEH <--disks 150-199 PCB200.IDX ASCII 155851 3A04H <--disks 200-299 PCB300.IDX ASCII 85646 6DF4H <--disks 300-399 PCB400.IDX ASCII 65678 DAD9H <--disks 400-499 In directory PD1: you'll find (all text files): PC/Blue Volume 000 Information Catalog (1-485) name size description CATALOG .SUM 29K Summary of all released PC-Blue Volumes PCBLUE .CAT 330K Listing of PC-Blue releases 001 thru 485 RELEASES.NEW 6K Listing of latest PC-Blue releases This directory is updated each time a new release of several disks is received. I have found your system to be quite helpful in getting at the latest PC Magazine utilities. It would be much more efficient if I could get the type of annotated directory listing for the Unix, PC-BLUE, and other public domain/shareware directors. Are there PD2, etc. directories available? Please download: Filename Type Directory PS: BOOTSTRAP.HELP ASCII SIMTEL-ARCHIVES.INFO ASCII SIMTEL20-ADA.INFO ASCII SIMTEL20-CPM.DIRLIST ASCII SIMTEL20-MACINTOSH.INFO ASCII SIMTEL20-MISC.DIRLIST ASCII SIMTEL20-MSDOS.DIRLIST ASCII SIMTEL20-UNIX-C.INFO ASCII SIMTEL20-VHDL.INFO ASCII --Keith Petersen Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.0.0.74] w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 13:58:28 SET From: Karl Keyte Subject: Description for 8250 chip Wanted Has anyone a discription (or a pointer to a good reference) for the PCs 8250 chip(s). I want to program the chip directly for Modem comms. I need to know things like how to drop and raise the DTR, how to set non-standard baud rates, etc.. Please send any info. to me directly at ESC1332@ESOC.BITNET. Thanks in advance for any offerings. Karl ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1988 11:20 MST From: Keith Petersen Subject: New MSDOS upload Now available via standard anoymous FTP from Simtel20: Directory PD1: TOAD_IAC.PAS - Demo on using the InterApplication Comm area [Turbo Pas] Got lots of queries in Info-Pascal about the IAC, where is it defined, how to use it, etc. Here's one demonstration (with required magic numbers) on how to use the IAC to communicate between programs (via bytes, reals, strings). David Kirschbaum Toad Hall kirsch@braggvax.ARPA --- Thanks, David! --Keith Petersen Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.0.0.74] DDN: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr- simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 07:43 CET From: Ulf Emanuelson Subject: PCFile+ 2.0 Wanted I need information on the PCFile+ 2.0 program that's in the SIMTEL20 server. I have tried to download it (via TRICKLE at DKTC11.BITNET) but with varying success. I have been able to get the three parts (PCFILED.ARC, PCFILEU.ARC and PCFILEP.ARC), but the last one comes a lot smaller than indicated in the directory of PD1: and UNPAKing (after UUDECODING) failes CRC-check. I have actually tried twice to get PCFILEP but with the same result. Has anyone else experienced the same thing? Has anyone an explanation, or, even better, a solution to this problem? Thanks in advance for your help, Ulf PS. Just want to say that TRICKLE has always served my requests very prompt and efficient| DS. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 13:20:18 SET From: BAKT55%AWIIMC11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Subject: Plotter redirection PC/AT, NEC2200, Graphic- packages I prefer to have Plotter-output to have on file (and printing it with a NEC routine to 24Pin printer). I tried that with "STATGRAPHICS", it worked 2 times well. But after changing all driver- settings (direct print- ing to printer via EPSONLQ.SYS didn't work always) i never found again the settings. Has anybody tried it too? How do you do with other packages (Chart, Havard...)? Thanks in advance Emil KOCI Univ. Klinik f. Chemotherapie Wien, Austria KOCI AT AWIIMC11 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 16 Dec 88 16:35:32 EST From: "Larry Bradley" Subject: Problems with donloaded TurboPascal units HELP! I have recently downloaded via the LISTSERV for SIMTEL some TurboPascal Version 4 programs that have units (TPU). I am using Version 5 of TurboPascal, and if I try to compile a program that USES one of these units, I get an error complaining that the unit file format is invalid. In once case, I had the source, so I recompiled the units and all was well. In the other case (the LCOMMTP package) there IS no source. How do I solve this one? Nothing in the Turbo Pascal manual talks about differences in the format of units. And I don't think it is a problem with the download, since the .PAS and .EXE files are OK ... I can run a demo, I just can't compile the source for it. I finally found a good comm. package for Turbo, and now I can't use it! HELP! *------------------------------------+--------------------* |Larry Bradley | LARRY@VM.NRC.CA | |Communications Manager | or | |National Research Council of Canada | LARRY@NRCVM01 | |Networks Branch | | |M60, Montreal Road | (613)993-0240 | |Ottawa, Canada K1A 0R6 | FAX:(613) 954-2561 | *------------------------------------+--------------------* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Dec 88 22:05:28 PST From: Gerald Hawkins Subject: Question for PC Digest--EGA, VGA boards I am beginning to investigate adding EGA or VGA hardware to my clone. As I start to gather information on the various boards and monitors, comparison shopping and watching for comment in print and on networks, I've started to wonder: Has anyone recently compiled a list of the various EGA & VGA boards, with their features? It doesn't seem to me such a list would be awfully long. There are only about 25 popular boards ... though there are no doubt 25,367,209 little known ones that I've never heard of. If anyone has already done this research, I'm sure I and others would make good use of the information. jerry@starfish.convergent.com ----- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 15 Dec 88 14:22:04 EST From: kobus@NADC.ARPA (D. Kobus) Subject: Stand-Alone XMODEM Found In #61 Rick Rohan comments on how anyone could get XMODEM to even run under KERMIT. Well one suggestion offered to me by Keith Petersen was to shell out to DSZ to the x/y/zmodem protocols when using KERMIT. The main reason I originally requested a stand alone protocol (#58), is that although I frequently utilize Columbia University's KERMIT because of its features like producing Tektronix plots on my IBM-clone and enabling me to intercept the serial communications interrupt normally processed by the ROM BIOS, some bbs systems only use x/y/or zmodem. I thought that instead of utilizing a completely different communication package which might not be public domain and would be difficult to keep the embedded XMODEM, KERMIT, etc. upgraded to the state of the art, an approach similar to the one offered by Mr. Petersen might be viable. In conclusion, many thanks to the myriad of informative responses that I received concerning this inquiry. David B. Kobus Naval Air Development Center ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Dec 88 18:51 PST From: Michael Bass Subject: Voice synthesis >From: "Donald_T.C._Sun.WBST129"@Xerox.COM > >I am interested in obtaining any information I can on an inexpensive voice >synthesis system for a friend who has lost his ability to speak. Any in- >formation on hardware/software for a complete system would be appreciated. You might check out the "Speech Thing" from Covox Inc, 675 Conger St., Eugene, OR 97402. Tel (503)342-1271. The blurb I got from them says it delivers "clear, clean digitized speech and music" all for $79.95. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Dec 88 11:16:08 est From: marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) Subject: Wordperfect Scientific Wordprocessing I have heard it rumoured that some company (not Wordperfect Corporation), produces an add-on to Wordperfect which greatly improves its capability for scientific wordprocessing. If anyone has any information on this and any opinions on its performance, I would be very interested to hear more. Gordon Marwood ------------------------------ ************************ End of Info-IBMPC Digest -------