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Info-IBMPC Digest           Mon,  5 Apr 93       Volume 93 : Issue  48

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

Today's Topics:
                       386MAX installing problems
                    486 memory parity error -summary
                              DOS Settings
                      Problems with CorelDraw 3.0
                         Geographic Coordinates
                 HELP: Software to embed audio in text
                       Help getting 2 HD working
                         Help on 486PC problem
                           Help on on problem
                      IBM Value Point Impressions
                   Image-In for Windows -- any leads?
                                 IRQs ?
                      kermit server remote login?
                      Looking for VESA documention
            Needed: Info on software for wedding receptions
                    persyst multi-io card settings?
                          Request for support
                     Self-reading document creator?
               Trying to locate Guettenberg 2001 Company

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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 11:24:29 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Haktan Bulut)
Subject: 386MAX installing problems.

Hi. I have a big problem with 386MAX V6.01. Well when I have installed
the memory manager and boots my computer it wont work. It just reboots
my computer as soon it reads the config.sys file:

device=c:\386max\386max.sys pro=c:\386max\36max.pro   <-- reboots right
here!

I can't figure out the problem, I have made some changes in the profile
file and so on, but it wont help. It just reboots as soon as the memory
test is over. I am bit suspicios about my SCSI controller. I have
excluded some memory, where the controllers' bios is: c8000-d000, but
it wont help. My computer configuration is :

486DX-50 Mhz. 8+256kB cache EISA
16MB Ram
Seagate 3283A 240MB SCSI Harddisk
UltraStor24F EISA Cache Controller

The Motherboard is Micronics ASIC, and the BIOS is Phoenix 1988 I hope
there is experienced 386Max Users, that can help with my problem.

                                                Thanks...

[e-mail]
DIKU is the Depart. of Computer Science University of Copenhagen.

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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 02:36:34 TUR
From: David de Leeuw <[e-mail]>
Subject: 486 memory parity error -summary

I wish to thank all all of the respondents to my initial request for
help. The following sums up my conclusions, which could=20 be helpful
for others on the list.

1. Hardware / Software ?
Jim Ritterbusch,  Bill Ryan, Kris Lebacq and Steve Rimar were convinced
tha= t a faulty memory chip was to blame.=20

I ran Checkit overnight. Without EMM386 driver Checkit didn't report
any=20 problems. (Which would leave a hardware error possibility only
in UMB between 640k-1024 k memory range as far as I understand it.)

2. MS-DOS/DR-DOS dependent ?
Thaddeus P. Bejnar has similar problems with his 486-33 computer. The
setup was very different, using DR-DOS:

>I also have a 486-33 and am experiencing the same problems with
>?random? "Parity error" especially in Windows in graphics programs.
[...]
>My feeling is that it is a memory allocation problem.  The
>following is a wild guess. Something is writing to a given memory
>location without letting the appropriate system "know" it.  When
>something else uses that location the Parity Error occurs."  I do
>not know enough about the nature of memory or the memory allocation
>control systems in BIOS (or elsewhere) to know if this is a real
>possibility.  It is just a feeling.  It could just as well be a bug
>in the BIOS, so far as I know.

Thaddeus put me on the track of QEMM.

3. QEMM as a diagnostic tool
Installing QEMM I still encountered memory errors, but also system=20
crashes with "QEMM has encountered an illegal instruction...".

At Simtel and its sisters a public directory is called QTRDECK. I
retrieved a number of help-files. Working systematically through the
flowcharts in QEMMWI.ZIP, cleaning up the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
and returning TSR's one at the time I found removing a virus-scanner
solved the "illegal=20 instruction" problem.=20

Windows was still crashing when starting a non-windows word-processor.
Adding=20 the "nvr" vlag on QEMM386.SYS solved this problem.

Checkit noted thet the area F000-FFFF was used by QEMM and by the
system-ROM.

Excluding troublesome areas from QEMM386.SYS and testing I got to a
point I could not reproduce the "memory parity error" any more!

4. Present setup - no memory parity errors

The CONFIG.SYS is now:

DEVICE=3D\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS ram  noems nvr x=3DF000-FFFF=20
DEVICE=3D\dos\setver.exe
DOS=3DHIGH
FILES=3D60
buffers=3D30
country=3D972
STACKS=3D0,0
DEVICE=3Dc:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:2 sjdriver.sys
break=3Don

and the AUTOEXEC.BAT:

PATH \qemm;\WINDOWS;\DOS;\;\text;\sir;\utils;\norton;\qtx;\wp51
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 smartdrv
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 doskey
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 print /d:prn
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 \mouse\mouse /1
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 hebrew
c:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 explosiv m5
mode lpt1: retry=3Dp
set TEMP=3D\SWP
prompt $l$p$g
verify on
mirror c: /tc

LOADHI reports:
=BA Region     Area      Size     Status        =BA
=BA   1    C600 - C7FE   7.9K   Available       =BA
=BA   2    CC00 - CC64   1.5K   Used (SJDRIVER) =BA
=BA   2    CC65 - CC6C   0.1K   Used (MOUSE)    =BA
=BA   2    CC6D - D356    27K   Used (SMARTDRV) =BA
=BA   2    D357 - D459     4K   Used (DOSKEY)   =BA
=BA   2    D45A - D5C3   5.6K   Used (PRINT)    =BA
=BA   2    D5C4 - D9B1    15K   Used (MOUSE)    =BA
=BA   2    D9B2 - DB73     7K   Used (HEBREW)   =BA
=BA   2    DB74 - DE31    10K   Used (EXPLOSIV) =BA
=BA   2    DE32 - EFFF    71K   Available       =BA

QEMM reports:

Current Mode               =3D ON
Expanded Memory Available  =3D 0K
Page Frame Address         =3D None

Expanded memory is being used.

=BA     Area      Size      Status    =BA
=BA 0000 - 0FFF    64K   Excluded     =BA
=BA 1000 - 9FFF   576K   Mappable     =BA
=BA A000 - AFFF    64K   Video        =BA
=BA B000 - B7FF    32K   Mappable     =BA
=BA B800 - BFFF    32K   Video        =BA
=BA C000 - C5FF    24K   ROM          =BA
=BA C600 - C7FF     8K   High RAM     =BA
=BA C800 - CBFF    16K   Adapter RAM  =BA
=BA CC00 - EFFF   144K   High RAM     =BA
=BA F000 - FFFF    64K   Excluded     =BA

Everything works fine ! No crashes or parity errors.

5. Conclusions:

-  I am still not sure if this is hardware or software....
-  My guess is that memory address conflicts caused the trouble
-  The Microsoft documentation isn't helpful in these cases.
-  The QEMM documentation and especially the flowcharts on Trickle=20
   are very helpful.

-  Windows lacks diagnostic tools. Crashes as "memory parity error.=20
system halted." without even giving an address of the memory at fault
[?] and "application has violated ...etc." shouldn't happen.

David

David de Leeuw
Fac. of Health Sciences
Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev
Beer Sheva=20
Israel

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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 13:33 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: DOS Settings

i have a 486-33 system running with a swap file/virtual memory.  is it
possible to create a ram-disk in memory and place the swap file into
the ram-drive?  i ask because i have a disk compression program that
will compress the ram-disk.  the end result would be more real disk
space and a doubly large ram-disk due to compression.  i have tried
several times to get this to work but windows will not aknowledge the
ram-drive for the swap file.

any suggestions?

T. Charles Yun
in%"cyun@albion

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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 93 12:00:09 +01
From: Wim=[e-mail]
Subject: Problems with CorelDraw 3.0

For some time now I've been working with CorelDraw 3.  Recently I've
bought a CD-rom player and now I'm looking for CD's with clipart,
examples, fonts, etc.  for use with CorelDraw.  So, if anybody among
you has any experience with this kind of stuff, please send some advise
as to which ones to buy and which ones to avoid.  Other advise
concerning CorelDraw (tips and techniques, good advanced manuals, ...)
is also very welcome.

If you don't want to drown the other subscribers with information, you
can send your mail directly to me, and I'll try to make up a summary,
which I'll then send to the list.

Thanks.
Wim

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 93 11:31:14 EDT
From: David Kirschbaum <[e-mail]>
Subject: Geographic Coordinates

I'm trying to build a data file of cities or towns and their geographic
coordinates (you know, the old latitude-longitude thing with degrees,
minutes, seconds).

I've looted a Pascal flight navigation program, and an astrology
program, and a grid coordinate conversion program .. and that's all the
locations I can find (a measly several hundred of them).

Can anyone point me to a *big* source, with lots and LOTS of cities or
towns?  (International is OK, but I'm mostly interested in the USA.)
Free, of course .. like from an anonymous ftp site.  If the data is
imbedded in a weirdly formatted data file .. well, that's ok too: I can
usually figure them out and extract what I need.  So it doesn't *have*
to be plain ASCII.

I've checked out a bunch of map-drawing programs (like in the SIMTEL20
archives), but they seem to only have the outline coordinates of
countries and other geographic features.  No coordinates for the cities
and towns that lie within.

Any help would be appreciated.

David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 13:22:43 EST
From: [e-mail] (Steve Portigal)
Subject: HELP: Software to embed audio in text

  To run an experiment, I need some software that will quite simply
allow me to embed audio as part of the structure of a text document.
What I want to do is play the audio when the user scrolls past that
part of the text.  They should not have to launch sounds with a mouse
click, etc. This is intended for blind users who won't be using a
mouse, but will (perhaps) be listening to the text (and audio cues)
through sound output.

  I'd rather not code this up myself (even if I knew how) if something
exists out there that would suit my needs.

  Thanks to anyone who can help...

 Steve Portigal
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 21:04:38 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Joe Trott)
Subject: Help getting 2 HD working

"J. Pilant" <[e-mail]> writes:

>Steve Sherwood <[e-mail]> writes:
>>I am having a lot of trouble getting 2 Hard drives working on my 386sx.
>>I have a 65Mb RLL, and a 32Mb RLL.  One drive can be connected easily,
>>and works fine, but as soon as I try and connect the second drive, it
>>stops recognizing the first one.  Can anyone help ?

>Sounds to me like they are both responding at the same address.  That
>is: same i/o address or both set up as drive #1, or some such.

If the cable that connects them to the controller has a twist in it,
then both drives need to be set to the same physical drive number,
typically drive 1.  If the cable does NOT have a twist in it, then the
one that is to be drive "C" should be set to be drive 0 and the other
one should be set to drive 1.  This is usually accomplished by a jumper
block located near the cable connectors.

-JTT

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Date: 27 Mar 93 01:22:31 GMT
From: [e-mail] (ZHUHAN JIANG)
Subject: Help on 486PC problem

I am having trouble with my 486 PC machine. I was wondering if anyone
can shed some light on the matter.

The program is that my two floppy drives (5|1/4 and 3|1/2) failed
*simultaneously* during a machine-to-machine file transfer done by a
friend of mine. My PC since ceased to read data from either of the
floppy disks--screaming 'data reading error' for a formated disk and
'general reading error' for a unformated disk.

The machine, under DOS 3.3, is working as usual on hard disk. But I can
neither read or directly reboot from floppy drives. I have looked at my
CMOS configuration at the booting point, the disk configurations are
correct.

I firmly believe that the problem lies in software or configurations as
I can hardly believe that both drives physically failed at the same
time when no violent physical impact was experienced by the PC.

If you have any idea or advice on how to locate the problem of my PC
properly, please give me some suggestions---big or small, complete or
incomplete--all of them will be greatly and equally appreciated.

Thank you very much for your efforts

Zhuhan

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 23:52:59 LCL
From: [e-mail]
Subject: IBM Value Point Impressions

I've worked with some of the ValuePoint models, though mostly the 433dx
and 466dx2.  They're very well-made and if you want strict AT- bus
compatibility, you get it (IBM's is the only "true" AT-bus).

There's certainly no reason to not buy from IBM since they're really
turned around and have become really service-oriented (at least in
Canada).

Now, for your specific point:
> 1)  Performance.  How does it run against a similar Gateway?
You can't fairly compare this.  The new Gateways are all local-bus
based and have additional enhancements for the old "speed at any cost"
routine.  If you can wait a bit (like 2 months), IBM has announced new
ValuePoint models which do have VESA local bus slots and local bus
adapters for disk and video.  If you really do want a comparison, the
ValuePoints are faster (relative perception) than the old non-VLB
Gateway 486dx/33.

> 2)  Maintenance.  What does it cost for common replacement parts like
>floppy drives.

I don't know since the installations only use 3.5 inch drives and none
of the machines are 1) broken or 2) off warranty.  You could ask IBM
Direct for a price but since the floppies are made by Sony and Toshiba,
there shouldn't be too much of a problem.  Anyway, these things have a
3 year parts/labour warranty.

> 3)  Expandability.  Can you add another hard drive easily.  Can you
>swap the existing hard drive easily?  Does it take standard SIMMS or
>are they some- thing special from IBM?

Yes to the drive questions.  You have a maximum of three drive bays so
disk expansion is no problem.  Additions and swap-outs are pretty
quick.  If your installation is networked, you shouldn't have to care
about the disks since your server(s) should take care of it (they are
Novell-certified).  I think RAM is from IBM but their prices have
dropped and there are lots of 3rd party mail-order companies that can
provide you with what you need.

> 4)  Will the Windows NT Beta run on it?
Yes.  Make sure you have the Oct92 beta and install a CD-ROM first so
you don't have to sit there and flip disks.  All ValuePoints with 486
CPUs ship with pre-installed OS/2 2.00.1 by the way.
- ivan

Ivan Shaw "The Angel of Death"
Neuroimmunology Unit
Montreal Neurological Institute
Montreal, Canada  H3A 2B4

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1993 22:56 EDT
From: Reality is overrated <[e-mail]>
Subject: Image-In for Windows -- any leads?

Hello all,

        I'm looking for a software package to drive my Canon
Ix-12/Ix-30F full page scanner.  I've heard of a package called
Image-In that allegedly works with it.  Anybody know where I can get
it?  Anyone heard of it?  How about other software that will work with
the scanner?

Thanks.
Jason

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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1993 08:25:13 EST
From: Drew Derbyshire - UUPC/Extended Support <[e-mail]>
Subject: IRQs ?

On Wed, 17 Mar 93 23:39 GMT, (Jim McBride) [e-mail] wrote:
> MHS:   Source date is:      17-Mar-93 15:37 PDT
>
>           When more than one copy of uupc, can you share IRQs?
>
>           IE: Can I run UUPC on com 1,2,3,4 at the same time or only
>           1 and 2 or 3 and 4?

No normal program can share IRQ's, including UUPC/extended.  Under
OS/2, however, UUPC/extended will use any IRQ you can configure; I use
IRQ's 2 (actually 9 as mapped on the bus), 3, and 4.  I could also use
7, 5 is used by my mouse.

-ahd-
--
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                                   Telephone:  [phone]

 Note: The PO Box is WRONG in the UUPC/extended 1.11m register.doc;
       it is correct above.

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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 13:54:01 CST
From: Glauber <[e-mail]>
Subject: kermit server remote login?

Hi,

        I was playing with kermit the other night, but couldn't figure
out how to make a remote login to a kermit server. I'd like to leave my
computer at work "serving" at night, so that i could log in from home
if i needed any file, etc. If i do this, i can get to the server,
transfer files, ok. But i couldn't make the command REMOTE LOGIN work.
I can

SET SERVER LOGIN username password,
but when i try

REMOTE LOGIN

from the other computer, i get prompted for username, password and
account! What is this "account"?

                                                Glauber

--
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[e-mail]
[e-mail]
constantly risking absurdity

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Date: 17 Mar 1993 20:32:47 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Rajiv Sud)
Subject: Looking for VESA documention

        I am having trouble finding documentation on the vesa graphics
standard. Anyone have any suggestions for reference books, etc?  Please
reply by e-mail. Thanks.

..Rajiv

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Date: 24 Mar 93 15:39:10 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Warren Mayer)
Subject: Needed: Info on software for wedding receptions

Hello,

I need information which will assist me in arranging a wedding
reception (or a black-tie party/reception).  Specifically I need
software which will help me to make table arrangements, sitting plans,
etc.  There is a big black-ie affair coming up and I would like to make
things like figuring who should sit next to who/ who shouldn't sit next
to who/ what table assignments are to be made for guests etc. much
easier to handle, especially since the table sitting list will be
scrutinized by many folks who probably won't agree on whatever anyone
else thinks.  I need to make this process as easy for me as possible so
I can get onto other things which take up my voluminous free time.

Please send me any information you can directly to my email address
below since I don't read news on a daily basis and I'd like this info
as soon as possible.

Requirements:  Software needs to run on either DOS or Windows 3.1

AdTHANKSvance,

Warren Mayer
Rutgers University - Newark, NJ
Microcomputer Applications, Systems, and Netware Support

Internet:  [e-mail]

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Date: 21 Mar 93 04:43:11 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Andy Meijers)
Subject: persyst multi-io card settings?

Need DIP switch and jumper settings for a 1984-85 vintage persyst 'time
spectrum' card. sw1, 8 posit, sw2, 4 posit, about 5 other sets of
jumper blocks.  The usual multi i/o card, 384k, ser, par, clock?.

If these are in a FAQ somewhere, pointers appreciated.

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Date: 23 Mar 93 07:50:36 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Nathan Gasser)
Subject: Self-reading document creator?

Hi all,

   Does anyone know of a way to create a self-reading document under
Windows?  What I mean is, you run the program and up pops a window with
a bunch of text and pictures, or maybe just technically one picture,
and you can page through the document and stuff, forward, backwards,
quit.  Nothing fancy.  I'd prefer a non-commercial method, if any is
available.

Any leads most welcome -- email preferred.
Nate

Nathan Gasser       ><>
[e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 14:44:58 EST
From: Joel Saunders <[e-mail]>
Subject: Trying to locate Guettenberg 2001 Company

A friend of mine runs a printing service and had just recently
purchased the package called "Guettenberg 2001".  Recent calls have met
with a "number has been diconnected" message.

The president of the company was named Carl Golling and the company was
out of Brooklyn, NY.

Does anyone know how to locate this company or it's president?  My
friend would like the source code so that he can maintain the software
in the future

Any help would be appreciated!!!!

Another idea would be to point me to a List that deals specifically
with the printing industry.      Thanks..... Joel

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