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Info-IBMPC Digest           Mon, 21 Dec 92       Volume 92 : Issue 197

Today's Editor:
         Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <[e-mail]>

Today's Topics:
                      387SX installation problem.
                               antivirus
                 Speech Recognition Software available?
                       Apple IIc to IBM PC xfer?
                         c:\country.sys in os/2
                              Cache Memory
                Configuration for Maxtor 7120 hard drive
                 Documentation on IBM 8513 maintenance
                     dos 5 + win 3.1 'assign'-'bug'
                              FAX Software
                           Hard Drive "Burps"
                Converting .PFA fonts to .PFB (V92 #191)
                    interrupt 14 & net14 with kermit
          Can't find C:\COUNTRY.SYS. Please correct and reboot.
                        Question About Boot Mana
                os/2 ftp sites and Trickle Subscriptions
          PS/2 High Density Mode compatibility for 3.5" disks
                        SCO UNIX/XENIX (2 msgs)
              Graphics printer in Novell network (2 msgs)

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Date: Sun,  6 Dec 92 14:45:34 +0200 (UKR)
From: Levin Ilya Alexandrovich <[e-mail]>
Subject: 387SX installation problem.

Dear Sirs,

Can anybody help me in my problem?

I have the british made "AMSTRAD 3386SX" computer and after 80387SX
coprocessor installation, LOTUS MANIFEST says me: "Your coprocessor is
not detected by BIOS...", but "Coprocessor installed".

I've lost installation diskettes with AMSTRAD setup program,
traditional 286's SETUP.EXE says "Coprocessor Not Installed", PC
Magazine's BENCHTEST says "Coprocessor test passed OK", CheckIt says
"Coprocessor Not Installed", NORTON Sysinfo says "Installed OK" etc...

What's the problem??? Is it in CMOS setup? Is AMSTRAD CMOS different
from standard AT?

Another sympthom: When power on, computer says: "WARNING...Run CMOS
Setup. Set user options." But CMOS battery is operable and all is OK
with time and date.  When I run AT's SETUP.EXE, it says: "CMOS time
error..." every time.

Thanks in advance,

Ilya A. Levin, <[e-mail]>
               <[e-mail]>
Tel. [phone], 93-47-93. Fax. [phone].
                     BYTEX Company, Donetsk, Ukraine.

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 92 09:44:30 +0300
From: [e-mail]
Subject: antivirus

Hi folks,
just thought you might want to know: McAfee has Scan and Clean for OS2
available at their site at mcafee.com. It is still in beta and you can
get it via anon. FTP with your email adress as passwd.  Sincerely,
Alfred

Alfred Jilka             #
Geologic Survey, Austria # Shall I raise the white towel or throw the flag ???
[e-mail] #

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Date: Wed, 09 Dec 92 08:16:30 GMT
From: Arthur Laferriere <[e-mail]>
Subject: Speech Recognition Software available?

Does anyone know about speech recognition software for a PC?  A couple
years ago a company in California, PERX, marketed a hardware/software
package that allegedly could be trained to recognize 100 words.  It
appears that they have gone out of business.

Any leads of state of the art speech recognition for pc would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Art Laferriere, [e-mail]

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Date: 11 Dec 1992 04:39:29 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Apple IIc to IBM PC xfer?

Hello,

I need to transfer text data from an Apple IIc DOS3.3 to a IBM PC DOS
5.0.

I have been hearing about software that allows a PC to read Apple
floppies.  Does this type of software exist?  Or is there a hardware
solution with a cable between the two computers?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions,
Ian Millett
Towson State Univ.
Maryland.
[e-mail] or @toe.towson.edu

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:25:35 -0400
From: Hai Pham <[e-mail]>
Subject: c:\country.sys in os/2

Hi, I was just reading your message on INFO-IBMPC.  I had my bouts with
OS/2 this summer, and knows how great it can be, both while i'm using
it and in pain and anguish when it doesn't work.  But anyway, to make
what otherwise would be a long & rambling message short...yes, you can
boot up with the 1st two install disks, and then access your HPFS
partition.  what i ended up doing was making a copy of these two disks
and then leaving a text based editor lying around somewheres for
emergencies (like when my config.sys keeps getting garbled).

There are some great FAQ's and help files for os/2 kicking around on
the os/2 archives...the best one to look in is at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu I
found them much more useful than the standard IBM docs that comes with
the package. (this is not quite fair to IBM i suppose, considering that
there wasn't any documentation that comes with the windows-os/2
upgrade!)

Well, best of luck with that beast.
Regards,
Hai Pham

email: [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 11:25:53 EST
From: "Kenneth J. Cherasaro" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Cache Memory

I have a question about cache memory.  I am looking to upgrade my cache
from 64k to 256k.

    1) Will this make a noticable improvement(even if small) in
system performance?

    2) All the ads I have seem specify 32x8-15 or 32x8-20.  What
does the last two digits represent ?  I am assuming speed of the cache
memory.  If so can I get quicker cache memory than is on my board
currently ?

    3) What are some good prices for 32x8-?? chips ?

Please respond to me directly at [e-mail] and I
will post to IBM-INFO with any relevant information.

Thank you,
Ken J. Cherasaro

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 10:17:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Forest Edward Wilkinson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Configuration for Maxtor 7120 hard drive

Maxtor reccomends:
936 cylinders
16  heads
17  sectors per track
For your BIOS (CMOS) settings.

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Date: Mon, 14 DEC 92 13:56:11 BST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Documentation on IBM 8513 maintenance

Some time ago (over a year), some very helpful person distributed a
document relating to maintenance of IBM 8513 monitors (colour, VGA,
12"). I passed my copy onto our hardware chap, who can longer lay his
hands on it. My monitor has now developed a minor fault (a visible
horizontal scan bar during mode changes), and I would very much like to
locate a copy of the original document.  I have scanned SIMIBM.IDX to
no effect; if the original poster, or anyone having a copy, could get
in touch, I would be much obliged.

                    Philip Taylor, RHBNC.

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:50 GMT+0200
From: Marc Esser <[e-mail]>
Subject: dos 5 + win 3.1 'assign'-'bug'

If there is a possibility at all, I would recommend trying it like this
(or physically swap your drives!):

assign e=a
assign a=b
assign b=e

I haven't tried this out, but I'd be interested in the result.  Good
luck!

By the way, according to the specifications of ASSIGN, it is ignored by
several DOS commands such as FORMAT....  =:-)

Marc. ([e-mail])

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 03:46 GMT
From: Scott Begin <[e-mail]>
Subject: FAX Software

My office has a couple of Supra 144 V.42bis FAX modems which were
purchased for high speed data transfers.

As we have several things that must be FAXed each day, I would like to
be able to fax them directly from a PC rather than printing a copy and
waiting for the FAX machine.

I have seen several software products which work with FAX modems in
this way.  However, I have no experience using any of them.
Specifically, I am needing software which can run directly from DOS
(there isn't enough memory in the computer to run Windows), can import
either an ASCII file, a  WordPerfect 5.1 document or a Wordstar
(6.0/7.0) document, can FAX in either Standard or Fine resolution FAX
mode, can FAX in landscape mode, and can output text in a 9 point
Courier (or other non proportionally spaced font; we need 136 columns
wide on an 11" wide piece of paper).

Additionally, the ability to completely run the program from a command
line is desirable (but not 100% required).

Any replies will be summarized to the list.

Thanks in Advance,

Scott A. Begin        Oak Forest, IL
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:03 GMT+0200
From: Marc Esser <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hard Drive "Burps"

I would suggest that you have a Quantum harddisk, not too old:
Theyhhave a built-in automatic re-calibration process every 60 seconds
or so, which does not affect operation at all except for the short
'locking' you described. Besides that, Quantum harddisks are very
reliable - I have made very good experience with a medical data base
that operated 12 hours a day 6 days a week without hardware failure.
So don't worry.

.Marc.

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 11:44:11 MET
From: [e-mail] (Jeroen W. Pluimers)
Subject: Converting .PFA fonts to .PFB (V92 #191)

> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 92 10:25:10 GMT
> From: "Dr R. Dalgleish" <[e-mail]>

> I have a Postscript font which is written in pure ASCII. In other words
> it's a .PFA file. Adobe Type Manager requires binary font files of the

Well, not always. Some ASCII fonts are PostScript Type 3 files (which
normally have the extension .PSF) and can't be interpreted by ATM.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that ATM does understand Type 1 fonts
that are ASCII in stead of binary. Just be sure your WIN.INI and
ATM.INI settings are correct (i.e. specify the correct font file, .PFA
in stead of .PFB)

> type .PFB and so obviously I need to convert my file. Can anybody
> advise me how best to this?

I don't know yet of a public domain util that does the conversion. I do
know however of some cheap commercial software that does it. You should
contact Berthold Horn ([e-mail]) for more
information.

I wrote a .PFB to .PFA conversion program and I want to write a program
the other way around, but I don't have much time and payed work has
higher preferences for my boss...

>  A public domain or shareware solution would be preferred. Perhaps it
> may be possible to add the correct binary header if anybody could tell
> me what needs doing. Advice on a good textbook on the technical aspects
> of Postscript fonts would also be appreciated.

The best technical reference on this kind of things is the `black
book'.  It is a small book with the Type 1 PostScript font format. The
cover is black and the full info is:

Adobe Type 1 Font Format
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 0-201-57044-0

It costs about $15 (says the cover).
>
> In case somebody suggests it......I have tried using Corel's WFNBoss
> program to convert the file first to .WFN format and then to .PFB but
> the results were not perfect. ATM recognised the file but the
> characters did not survive the two step conversion very well.

Well, WFNBoss is not a very nice conversion program. First of all, it
understands a very limited set of encoding vectors (character sets) and
second, it doesn't handle hinting very well.

jeroen                             voice: [phone] (19:00-23:00 UTC)
                                   snail: P.O. Box 266
[e-mail]              2170 AG Sassenheim
[e-mail]  The Netherlands

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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 02:44:24 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Chris Thompson)
Subject: interrupt 14 & net14 with kermit

I'm new to DOS and would like to set up a PC with NCSA-telnet and use
the command 'net14' ?

The reason for all this is that I would like to run 'Reflection+' which
emulates a HP terminal but use it over the Internet link's we have here
at the University. We have someone who wants to access a HP3000.

Kermit v3.11 uses the WatTCP stuff to use the Internet, but it does not
support many emulations. It does support vt102.

Any help would be appreciated.

Kind Regards
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 09:10:03 -0400
From: Hai Pham <[e-mail]>
Subject: OS/2 drive partitioning, etc, etc.

There were so many message about OS/2 that seems to show the confusion
and anguish that I went through last summer while I was trying to get
OS/2 up and going on my computer, I couldn't resist jumping in and
adding a little to the confusion.  Anyway, I don't have OS/2 on my
computer at the moment - had to take it off because I only have an 80mb
drive, and a leathal monovga monitor which was trying very hard to make
me go blind everytime I used the desktop. (anyone with a spare 120mb+
HD or svga monitor willing to donate to a poor student so he can get
os/2 going and help them with it, please feel free to do so.. :) )

Hope it's all as clear as mud now... :-)

Best regards,
Hai Pham

email: [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 09:10:03 -0400
From: Hai Pham <[e-mail]>
Subject: Subject: Can't find C:\COUNTRY.SYS. Please correct and reboot.

But here is what I learned about some of the problems raised:

>From: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <[e-mail]>
>
...
>I tried to use the installation disk to reboot, but (I conjecture)
>because i have HPFS installed, I can't access the C drive.
...
>Any ideas on how to fix this problem (that is, edit CONFIG.SYS) so I
>can reboot OS/2?  I don't want to backup (again) DOS 5.0, but if I
>must, then so be it.  (I think I'd have to backup DOS because I also
>thing I'll have to repartition the hard-disk to make room for OS/2...)

Yes, you can boot from the install disks and STILL access the HPFS
partitions.  You can even read it from a DOS boot, but you'll have to
startup with a device driver (unfortunately, whoes name I can't
remember) which allows you to see any files with names which has the
standard DOS filename lenght.  Anyway, when you find yourself wishing
you could boot from floppy, just pop in the first disk and then the 2nd
disk when it asks you to...but DO NOT continue with the installation.
Quit the installation as soon as you're given the choice (i can't
remember where this is exactly, but I'm quite sure that it happens on
the 2nd disk).  The installation program will quit, and you'll be left
in the OS/2 command line.  If you need to edit files, like CONFIG.SYS
on your hard drive, make sure you have an OS/2 text editor lying around
somewhere of course.

Oh btw, the problem with the growing swap file was fixed by a bug
release in August.  I think it should have been incorporated into the
latest win-os/2 update.

[lotsa stuffs deleted]

Hope it's all as clear as mud now... :-)

Best regards,
Hai Pham

email: [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 09:10:03 -0400
From: Hai Pham <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Question About Boot Mana

>From: Larry Burns <[e-mail]>

>I installed the new drive as the primary drive.  I FDISKed it using
>OS/2's FDISK, set up BootManager, a DOS boot partition, an OS/2 boot
>partition and a shared partition.  I installed OS/2 on its partition,
>using HPFS (MUCH better than FAT, I might add), and installed DOS on
>the DOS drive (from the old drive).
>
>With this setup, when I boot from DOS, I do not have access to the OS/2
>HPFS partition; and in OS/2, I do not have access to the DOS partition.

There is a seldom known (at least the little dinky booklets that comes
with the install disks doesn't seem to want to tell us about) feature
of OS/2's that allows it to live happily in an EXTENDED partition.
This way, you can have DOS formatted in a PRIMARY partion and OS/2 on
the EXTENDED partition, and yes, OS/2 will even boot up from the
extended partition (at least from the boot manager anyway).  When setup
like this, your DOS partition is accessible as drive C and your OS/2
stuffs would be D.  This feature is very useful when using the DOS
compatibility mode.

It is also possible to access the HPFS partition from DOS - as I've
mentioned above...I think the correct proceedure to do this is hidden
in one of the booklets that comes with the package somewhere.  (I have
exams all all week next week, so I can't help then, but if anyone is in
real direstraits and needs help trying to figure it out, contact me
after Dec. 19th, and I'll see if I can help.)

Anyway, there are some very useful and informative FAQ files and other
help files in the archive at ftp-os2.nmsu.edu in the pub/os2 directory.
They go a long way to help fill in the gaps left by IBM's non existant
documentation.

Hope it's all as clear as mud now... :-)

Best regards,
Hai Pham

email: [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 11:06:06 GMT
From: Christopher Currie <[e-mail]>
Subject: new ftp sites and Trickle subscriptions

>Date: Sat, 28 Nov 92 12:19:52 CST
>From: [e-mail]

>[Forwarded by "Drew Derbyshire" <[e-mail]>, author of UUPC/Extended
>- an *excellent* mail handler, and, I think, now USENET news interface
>for DOS, Windows, and OS/2 machines.  gph]
>
>Sites from which to get OS/2 software by anonymous FTP.  (Includes
>those listed in the August issue of OS/2 Monthly.)
>
>      name                     address                  directory
>
>pdsoft.lancs.ac.uk           148.88.64.2              micros/ibmpc/os2

This site is now micros.hensa.ac.uk (directory unchanged). Check the
numeric address, since it has been changed at least once since the
verbal address change.

Christopher Currie
[e-mail]

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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 12:54:17 GMT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: PS/2 High Density Mode compatibility for 3.5" disks

Double Density (720Kb) 3.5" disks have one square 'write-protect' hole,
while High Density (1.44Mb) disks have a second square hole which is
there for hardware sensing of the disk capacity.

Not all machines make use of this information. I believe this is true
of IBM PS/2s as well as some PCs.

It is therefore possible to format a Double Density disk in one of
these machines as 1.44MB. If you then try to read such a disk in a
machine that makes use of the check it will see that it has no
'high-density' hole. It will assume that the format is 720Kb. When it
finds that this not the case it will give an error message - usually
'General error reading drive A:'

If this IS the cause of the problem, the best course of action is to
put the disk in an 'uncaring' machine, copy the files onto a disk
formatted to the intended capacity (ie Double density 720K or HD
1.44Mb) and then all will be well. Drilling second holes has been done,
but is not recommended!

Of course, you can provoke a similar situation by formatting a High
Density disk to the lower capacity. This is easier to get round - just
stick something over the second hole.

Hope this helps

Fiona Cameron
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 92 15:32:32 SCL
From: [e-mail]
Subject: SCO UNIX/XENIX

Hello,
I am looking for a device driver that enables SCO UNIX to drive an IBM
Artic Multiport/A adapter.  Does this exist ?  Where can I get this ?

(Is SCO on the Internet ?)

Thanks,

Frederico Terenas              "The opinions herein expressed are
[e-mail]            mine, not my employer's"
FTERENAS at SANVM1
IBM de Chile

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 7:14:47 EST
From: Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <[e-mail]>
Subject: SCO Unix/XENIX

You should send your query to [e-mail] instead of Info-IBMPC.
For some reason (mostly usage), the Info-IBMPC list is used for DOS
related hardware and software matters.  However, using the WHOIS
command, I found the following:

SCO Canada, Inc. (NET-HCR-ETHER)SCOTORO                           192.31.224.0
SCO Canada, Inc. (NET-SCOTOR1)  SCOTOR1                          192.138.128.0
SCO Canada, Inc. (NET-SCOTOR2)  SCOTOR2                          192.138.129.0
SCO Canada, Inc. (NET-SCOTOR3)  SCOTOR3                          192.138.130.0

Santa Cruz Operation Incorporated (NET-SCO1)
   400 Encinal Street
   PO Box 1900
   Snata Cruz, CA 95061-1900

   Netname: SCO1
   Netnumber: 150.126.0.0

   Coordinator:
      Thornburgh, Michael C.  (MT55)  [e-mail]
      [phone]

   Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

   WANLON.LONDON.SCO.COM        150.126.1.86
   SCOKATOO.LONDON.SCO.COM      150.126.1.17
   SCOPETSI.SCO.COM             132.147.152.21
   NS.UU.NET                    137.39.1.3

   Record last updated on 05-Oct-92.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Gregory Hicks
Editor, Info-IBMPC Digest


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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 12:31:27 +0200
From: Ugen Jan Antsilevich <[e-mail]>

Subject: Grphics printer in Novell network.

Hello!
I have a little problem:in our NOVELL network there is a laser printer.
So my only question is:how to print on it graphic images and what software
i must have to do it? Any suggestion will be welcome.
  Thank beforehand.
Ugen. [e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 12:29:48 +0200
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Hello!
I have a little problem:in our NOVELL network there is a laser printer.
So my only question is:how to print on it graphic images and what software
i must have to do it? Any suggestion will be welcome.
  Thank beforehand.
Ugen. [e-mail]

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