Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!Info-IBMPC From: Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V89 #119 Message-ID: <8912172232.AA27021@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 17 Dec 89 10:13:01 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.mil Organization: The Internet Lines: 369 Approved: info-ibmpc@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil Info-IBMPC Digest Sun, 17 Dec 89 Volume 89 : Issue 119 Today's Editor: Gregory Hicks - Chinhae Korea Today's Topics: Changing Commands Cyrillic code page for DOS Joystick emulator for Microsoft-type mouse Kermit key definitions ? Looking for a good portfoilo program. RTF format super operating system? TeX archives on Internet The PC Magazine Directory (2 msgs) TSFORT12.ARC - Call MS Fortran from Turbo Pascal 5.5 UUNET Documentation Warning! 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Send Replies or notes for publication to: Send requests of an administrative nature (addition to, deletion from the distribution list, et al) to: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 89 12:56:16 GMT From: sjuphil!gb032119@princeton.edu (Glenn M. Brunette) Subject: Changing Commands I would like to know if there is a program such as Dos Boss (by Beagle Bros. for the Apple) for the IBM. I want a program that will allow me to change such commands as "copy, delete, etc..." as Dos Boss can do for the Apple. Though IBM and Apple are different in many respects, I was wondering if such a program exists. Please reply through Email. Thanks in advance. Glenn Brunette gb032119%sjuphil.sju.edu@bpa.bell-atl.com ------------------------------ Date: Thursday, 22 June 1989 09:35-MDT From: Subject: Cyrillic code page for DOS Some time ago I uploaded CYRILLIC.ARC, my hack for adding Russian letters to MS-DOS, to SIMTEL20. I received several letters asking me to add printer fonts to it. I have uploaded an updated version. The changes are: 1) I've included downloadable fonts for epson fx 2) I've included Russian hyphenation patterns 3) I've updated the document accordingly The new file is in PD1:CYRILIC2.ARC Dimitri Vulis Department of Mathematics CUNY GC ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Dec 89 15:23:22 IST From: Moshe Israeli Subject: Bypassing Kermit's error checking If one is using an MNP 4 or MNP 5 modem, that does error correction, how does one avoid Kermit's error checking in order to save time? Moshe Israeli ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Dec 89 23:17:55 EST From: "Doug Sewell" Subject: Joystick emulator for Microsoft-type mouse Can anyone point me to a joystick emulator for a microsoft-type mouse? I've seen the opposite: a mouse emulator for a joystick, but I haven't seen a program like this yet. Doug Sewell (DOUG@YSUB.BITNET), Tech Support, Computer Center, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555 >> 1. working software 2. on time 3. within budget (choose up to 2). ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Dec 89 10:35:30 EST From: Joe_Mullaney@um.cc.umich.edu Subject: Looking for a good portfoilo program. Hi, I'm looking for a program that will help me keep track of a small number of portfolios. What this should be able to do is: With one command print up a report on a person. List their stocks and bonds, information about these, and figure how much they are currantly worth. This does not have to be hooked directly up to the Stock Market, the stock prices would only need to be updated a couple of times a month. I have looked a product called The Professional Portfolio by Advent, It does what I need and about a hundred other things I don't. It is also about $2000 more than I want to speand. Any ideas? Thanx in advance. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Dec 89 16:07:26 PST From: JAJZ801%CALSTATE.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Jeff Sicherman) Subject: RTF format Can any one direct me to a definition of Rich Text Format (RTF), the interchange format for microsoft word processing documents. I have tried a number of their support lines/departments with no success. I have noticed some reference in the second volume of the 'file Formats' series of books but it doesnt appear comprehensive or up to date (with word version 5.0). Jeff Sicherman jajz801@calstate.bitnet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Dec 89 10:12:36 CDT From: david@wubios.WUstl.EDU (David J. Camp) Subject: super operating system? I seem to remember hearing somewhere about a company (I thought called 'MCS') that was producing a 'super' operating system for the 386 architecture that would run MS-Dos, OS/2, and Unix simultaneously. Since this makes ultimate sense, I have been trying to track them down, but have had no luck. Does anyone know anything about such an operating system in existence or development? -David- Bitnet: david@wubios.wustl ^ Mr. David J. Camp Internet: david%wubios@wucs1.wustl.edu < * > Box 8067, Biostatistics uucp: uunet!wucs1!wubios!david v 660 South Euclid Washington University (314) 36-23635 Saint Louis, MO 63110 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Dec 89 08:53:06 SET From: "Simon H.G. Rowell" Subject: The PC Magazine Directory Being a subscriber to PC Magazine but without a modem, I was delighted to discover that the Info-IBMPC program library included an archive of past and present PC Magazine executables and listings. Having delved into the library somewhat, I have come up with a couple of pressing problems: a) In Volume 8 Number 21 a utility for automatically compressing files that have not been used for a few days was described. This utility also expands files that have been compressed automatically when they are accessed by means of a memory resident program. Since, like most people, my hard disk seems to fill up all the time, I thought this is exactly what I needed. I downloaded VOL8N21 from and went through the correct installation process (making DCOMPRES memory resident first, setting the date on my PC to the dim-distant past, running PCMANAGE with the "/i" switch, resetting the date and then rerunning PCMANAGE with no no switch. It didn't work - the symptoms I noticed were... 1) No INDEX.CMP files were created. 2) If the DCOMPRES.EXL was used no files were accessed. 3) The hooked vectors utilised by DCOMPRES depended upon when I loaded the utility. where am I going wrong? b) The second aspect of my enquiry is that there exists an index to all reviews in the PC Magazine. This is called PCM.EXE (a self-extracting file). The index is complemented by a database search program called PCSRCH.EXE (another self-extracting archive). Those are my problems. I realise that you may not be able to help me find a solution to the first problem but are any of the following possible? i) Is it possible to gain access to PC MagNet over the Bitnet/Arpanet network? If so do you know the address? ii) Could the PC Magazine index be extracted from PC MagNet and placed in the PCMAG directory of the discussion list? I apologise for taking up your time, but hope that you will be able to help me. Thankyou in advance Bitnet Addr: ESC1515@ESOC.BITNET Simon Rowell Phone: +39 6151 886817 Address: c/o ESOC Robert-Bosch Str, 5 6100 Darmstadt West Germany ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1989 09:11 MST From: Keith Petersen Subject: The PC Magazine Directory Simon, Greg Hicks forwarded your message to me. The author of the compression program is Ross Greenberg . I have forwarded your message to him. I have never seen the complete index and the program to access it. It was my understanding that each issue's archive contained the index for that issue. We do have indexes for some PC Magazine issues. Directory: PD1: V7A_DB.ARC 53K 09-30-88 PC-Mag 1988 articles index in dBASE-III V7P_DB.ARC 97K 09-30-88 PC-Mag 1988 product reviews in dBASE-III Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of SIMTEL20's CP/M, MSDOS, & MISC archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil, w8sdz@brl.arpa BITNET: w8sdz@NDSUVM1 Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1989 14:07 MST From: Keith Petersen Subject: TSFORT12.ARC - Call MS Fortran from Turbo Pascal 5.5 [--forwarded message--] From: Duncan Murdoch I have uploaded the following file to SIMTEL20: TPFORT12.ARC Call MS Fortran from Turbo Pascal 5.5 TPFORT includes a unit to use in TP 5.5 programs to allow linking of external Fortran subroutines and functions. Use it to link Fortran libaries of functions into TP programs without translation. Calls can go from TP to Fortran and from Fortran to TP. Freeware uploaded by the author; source code not included. Version 1.2. Duncan Murdoch [--end forwarded message--] Thanks, Duncan! --Keith ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Dec 89 13:15:50 EST From: Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR%CMUVM.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu> Subject: UUNET Documentation Bruce Nevin (bnevin@cch.bbn.com) asks about documentation for UUNET. The best intro. I have found is UNIX Communications by Bart Anderson, Bryan Costales and Harry Henderson (Howard W. Sams, 1988; ISBN 0-672-22511-5). It has a few pp. of UNIX background and then is split into three sections: UNIX Mail, USENET, and UUCP. As one who had to learn UNIX communications from the book with no local handholding, I heartily recommend it. Elliott Parker BITNET: 3ZLUFUR@CMUVM Journalism Dept. Internet: eparker@well.sf.ca.us Central Michigan University Compuserve: 70701,520 Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 BIX: eparker USA UUCP: {psuvax1}!cmuvm.bitnet!3zlufur ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Dec 89 3:30:58 CDT From: david@wubios.WUstl.EDU (David J. Camp) Subject: Warning! CC.EXE from xxcp.arc can crash your system Please be advised not to try to run the CC.EXE nor the MAKE.EXE program that came with XXCP.ARC in a recent distribution. The are actually text files originally named 'CC EXEC' and 'MAKE EXEC' targeted for use with the Waterloo C compiler on VM/CMS systems. I have renamed them to be CCEXEC.CMS and MAKEEXEC.CMS for future release. My experience is that if you attempt to run CC.EXE your system may crash. Please do not try it. I will upload an improved and much smaller xxcp.arc soon. -David- Bitnet: david@wubios.wustl ^ Mr. David J. Camp Internet: david%wubios@wucs1.wustl.edu < * > Box 8067, Biostatistics uucp: uunet!wucs1!wubios!david v 660 South Euclid Washington University (314) 36-23635 Saint Louis, MO 63110 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Dec 89 10:26 MET From: Hello Networkers, Is there anybody out there who can recommend a book about plotters or any other information source. I am working on a drawing program which among other things will send output to a plotter. I want to make it as universal as possible, covering a wide range of plotters. I have not much information about any other plotter than my own. Incidentally, I am writing this program in Turbo-C but I post this question on many bulletin boards. Thanks, Anneke Sicherer-Roetman, Holland ------------------------------ Date: 4 December 89, 09:53:09 EDT From: Antonio@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu, Quezada-Duarte@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu, Subject: Disabling CTRL-ALT-DEL Marcelo H. Ang Jr in his letter dated Nov 11th 1989 asks for a program to disable CTRl+ALT+DEL, well.., here it is, i've used it on my TANDY 1000A with no problems and in PS/2's 25 and 50 and had no problems at all either. To use it just type, from the dos prompt: MASM NOCAD; (of course you need MASM) LINK NOCAD; (and of course you need a linker) NOCAD If you type NOCAD once it has been loaded, it will tell you so. I've used it with DOS 3.30, but it works just as well under DOS 2.00 and above. If you have any comment of any kind please let me know. And have a nice new decade everybody. [Program has been forwarded to WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL and will be found in CTRLADEL.ASM] ------------------------------ Date: 6 Dec 1989 From: GOMBERG%UCSFVM.UCSF.EDU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Subject: Disk cache and LIMSIM on clones. I have a no-name 386 clone with interleaved memory running at 20Mhz. I am a LIMSIM user, and need EMS for other software I run. Recently, I have been getting PARITY ERROR ?? SYSTEM HALTED when the machine is cold and there is intensive disk activity. It does not occur when I remove Lightning (my current cache, with DOS 3.3). I tried another cache package, PC-CACHE, and it does not appear to work with LIMSIM at all. So my questions are (1) anyone else had the PARITY ERROR problem during disk IO like I do? (2) anyone have any favorable experience with LIMSIM and a disk cache? Which cache product? ------------------------------ End of Info-IBMPC Digest ************************ -------