INDEX TO FILES IN THIS DIRECTORY --------------------------------------------------------------- INDEX.TXT You're readin' it buddy! For every tech note you enter, put a note here with a full description of the file and your name. Try to give enough info about the note to give an idea of the range of topic that are covered, without duplicating the note. TECHNOTE.HED The format file I would like everyone to start with. Fill in the blanks. LIST.COM LIST.COM is a shareware program which may be used to list the contents of text files. It is useful for divulging the .TEC files without editing them or erasing .BAK's later. Type a "?" at the Command> prompt for help screen. Anonymous Note from Stan: Many thanks to Anonymous who has given so much in the past. LIST is no longer in this directory. I moved it to PUBLIC because I want this directory "clean". However, you can still type LIST {technote} to see what's in the technote. --------------------------------------------------------------- *** THE TECHNOTES *** EXPAND.TEC This file is for the "Which exPANDed memory card should I buy?" EXTEND.TEC This file is for the "Will DESQview use my exTENDed memory?" MEMSTAT.TEC This is for "What do the numbers in Memory Status mean?" Perry MEMSIZE.TEC This file contains a further discussion of Memory Size Fields. EMS40.TEC This is for "Why doesn't my EMS40 driver allow me to multi-task?" LOADHI.TEC This file contains tips about the Loadhi programs. XDV.TEC XDV.TEC explains what XDV does versus DV. It explains why (and what to do if) XDV hangs the system and DV is alright. Perry XDV2.TEC A short-as-possible description of what to do if DV.EXE works and XDV.COM doesn't, listing all possible exclusions and omitting any discussion of the /L parameter to XDV. Use it if you have proved the existence of an XDV conflict and don't wan't to stay on the phone. (Sallitt) TOKEN.TEC This file discusses Token Ring Network Cards and QEMM. Sweeney AB_PLUS.TEC Gives a full description of how to set up the AboveBoard Plus. Explains some of the limitations of the board. S. Young COM3N4.TEC Tells about how DESQview handles COM3 and COM4. Explains why a single IRQ cannot be shared by a COM port. Talks about IRQ's that can be used. Mentions the use of FOSSIL drivers as a possible solution of the "COM port barrier". S. Young AMIBIOS.PAT Patch file for QEMM to fix the problem with AMI 3.0 BIOSes. S. Young EXCEPT13.TEC This explains what "Exception 13" error messages mean and what the user can do about them. Perry COMPANIO.TEC Gives a short synopsis of each of the DESQview Companions: Link, Datebook, Calculator, and Datebook. When will Stanton get more brochures for the Companions, anyway? Perry QRAMNOTH.TEC QRAM's "nothing useful to do" message. Perry BIX.TEC Quarterdeck Tech Support on BIX (Byte Information eXchange) is fully explained. How to subscribe, join the DESQview conference, search the database, communicate with moderator QOS.REP2, etc. -Perry PROTECT.TEC Explains what "Protection level" on Change a Program means, what it does and what it doesn't do. S. Young APISTART.TEC Describes the starting of an API program from the command line with: DV {program information filename}. Tells about the default status of DESQview in this mode and basic information about enabling DESQview functions (by default, they are disabled). S. Young TOSH5100.TEC Notes on running QEMM-386 and DESQview 386 on the Toshiba 386 machines. Describes how to disable the built in expanded memory on the Toshiba so that QEMM-386 can map the extended memory. S. Young DVANSI.TEC Describes how to run ANSI.SYS programs in DESQview using DVANSI.COM or DEVICE.COM (if you have DV 2.2 or above). S. Young AUTOSCRI.TEC Info on the DESQveiw autostart script and autostart script for a window. B. Perry LOTUS3.TEC Extensive information on running Lotus's 1-2-3 Release 3 in DESQview on 286 and 386 machines, with and without expanded memory. S. Young NOFF.DOC Documentation for the NOFF.SHR program. S. Young FORMFEED.PAT Patch file to remove form feed from printer contention driver. Note: for most users, the easiest thing is to turn Printer Contention off. S. Young BANYAN.TEC Info on running Banyan network with DV and QEMM. D.Sweeney NINSTALL.TEC Installing and running DESQview 2.2 files from a Novell server. Some info on Mapping drives. D. Sweeney. RAMDRIVE.TEC Outlines the problem of running QEXT.SYS with some versions of Microsoft's RAMDRIVE.SYS, which also shows up as VDISK.SYS in some OEM versions of DOS. - S. Young NEC_SX.TEC Basically, just tells the user to use the NOSH parameter. - S. Young BOOKS.TEC A list of 3rd party books on Quarterdeck products, or in some cases, on issues of great importance to our users - such as memory. - S. Young DIRECTLY.TEC "How can I tell if my program writes directly to the screen?" It also discusses how much memory to give an application, but there's not much to say on that subject. (Sallitt) MOUSE.TEC A general treatise on DV and the mouse. (Sallitt) WINSIZE.TEC Everything I knew as of August 1989 about how to increase your window size inside DV. A useful FAX to avoid time-burning situations. (Sallitt) LIM4-2.TEC A list of all the factors that must be in place before DV can multitask in expanded memory. A good FAX when someone has to go shopping for an expanded memory board for DV and you can't recommend anything. (Sallitt) ALL-HELP.TEC Captured "Help" screens from QEMM 5.00, QRAM 1.00, MFT 1.00 and associated utilities. (Young) VGA.TEC Several things about changing video modes and fonts in Desqview. AST286.TEC Info on setting up an AST Premium 286 for use with DESQview. S. Young 512AT.TEC Discusses the problem on AT-Clones which cannot be disabled below 512K with respect to multi-tasking support. Talks about the Charge Card and 386 options. S. Young EXCEL21.TEC How to run Microsoft Excel 2.1 with DESQview and QEMM. Probably super- ceded by WINDOWS.TEC, but might be the solution for a user who is specifically concentrated on Excel. S. Young WINDOWS.TEC How to run WINDOWS, WINDOWS Runtime, Windows applications and Windows 386 (WIN86) with DESQview, and QEMM. As of 6/5/90, does not cover Windows 3.0. S. Young SK-PLUS.TEC How to run Side Kick Plus with DESQview. S. Young QRAMC&T.TEC How to get QRAM to use the C&T shadow ram while also using and EMS driver. D.TRAVISON PCTOOLS.TEC Change A program information for PCTOOLS 5.5 Deluxe. D.TRAVISON DESQMEM.TEC How much memory does DESQview take up? The note also briefly references where DV can put itself and how much overhead a window takes. (Sallitt) IDE.TEC A download from Ontrack Computer Systems describing IDE (Conner) drives S. Lahti DVPALET.DOC Full documentation on the DVPALET program. S. Young LANTASTI.TEC Tips on running our products in the Lantastic network enviroment. Myke Keefe MULTI-T.TEC General notes on the requirements of multi-tasking. Pretty much covers the question: "Why isn't my program multi-tasking" or "What do I need to do to make it multi-task"? S. Young SER_PRN.TEC Notes on using a serial printer with DESQview. Suggests redirecting the an LPT port before entering DESQview, which is the recommended solution (though not the only one in recent versions of DESQview). S. Young QEXT.TEC Documentation for the QEXT.SYS driver. S. Young OUTMEM.TEC Talks about the various "Out of Memory" messages you might receive while running DESQview and possible origins and solutions. S. Young DOS4.TEC Discusses the DOS 4.0 "bug" problem with the "/X" parameter. S. Young HRAMFONT.TEC Gives you an explaination (the bad news) of why we do not, AND CANNOT support the Hercules RAMfont card very well. S. Young LOTUS2.TEC Info on running Lotus version 2 in DESQview. S. Young DBASE3P.TEC Info on running DBASE III Plus in DESQview. Describes a "colors" problem which arises as a result of a dBASE bug in their DESQview support and gives some suggestions for getting around this. S. Young ASTUTIL.TEC How to run AST's SuperSpool, Fastdisk and SuperDrive. These require a special setup when running with QEXT due to their tendency to overwrite QEXT. S. Young SERNUM.TEC Explicitly describes where the serial number can be found on the new products. If they can't find it using this, they can't read or it really isn't there. S. Young. TERMXDI.PAT Describes how to create a .COM program using debug to fix the problem of DESQview 2.26 running with DOS 2.X. INT 2Fh is not handled by DOS 2.x and DESQview 2.26 did not check to see if there is a handler before making the call. D. Travison