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Info-IBMPC Digest           Fri, 11 Dec 92       Volume 92 : Issue 192

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

Today's Topics:
                environment in dos window under windows
           Re: File Corrupt, Please Help! (V92 #182) (2 msgs)
          Converter for IBM's Linkway-Live (.PCJ Files) needed
                          INTERNET -> FIDONET
                          Internet <-> FidoNet
              Need IP aware X-Client for DOS 5 or Windows
                             Screen savers
                             VersaTerm Pro
                         Weather Files (2 msgs)
                Wanted: Bolo-like PC game for MSWindows?

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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 92 17:22:54 MEZ
From: Erich Neuwirth <[e-mail]>
Subject: environment in dos window under windows

i want to accomplish the following: i want to open a DOS windows in
Windows which inherits the full environment from DOS (set up in
autoexec), and additionally starts a keyboard enhancer (anarkey in my
case).

now the plain DOS window in windows gets the environmnt, but any window
started by a DOS file does NOT get the envorinment.  i habe not been
able either to gibe the TSR name as a command line option to the
COMMAND.COM call needed for the window.  is there a way to get my
environmet automatically and the load my TSR?

ERICH NEUWIRTH
BITNET (EARN): A4422DAB@AWIUNI11
INTERNET:      [e-mail] = 131.130.1.2
Institute for Statistics and Computer Science
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, UNIVERSITAETSSTR. 5/9, A-1010 VIENNA, AUSTRIA
TEL.: [phone]    FAX: [phone]

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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 92 17:14:08 +0100
From: Frank Slootweg CRC <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: File Corrupt, Please Help!

  I saw your article with the above mentioned subject in the Info-IBMPC
Digest V92 #182. I also saw the advice from the different people, but I
didn't see one very important piece of advice which I want to share
with you:

  The next time you have these kind of problems, directly write protect
the "bad" floppy and use DISKCOPY and DISKCOMP to make a copy. Then
experiment *only* with the *copy*. If your experiments fail then you
can always take the original, make another copy and start again with
the new copy.

  With the procedure you used, you probably, as other people said too,
corrupted the orginal floppy even further with the "chkdsk /f" which
you did.

  Hope this will be of use to you and your friend in future.

  Best regards,

Frank Slootweg

[Another method of avoiding this type of problem, learned from the
school of hard knocks, is to make frequent backups of critical files.
gph]

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Date: Sat, 05 Dec 92 13:43:26 IST
From: Aviel Roy-Shapira <[e-mail]>
Subject: File Corrupt, Please Help! (V92 #182)

>Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 23:51:40 -0600
>From: Vijaykumar Bollapragada <[e-mail]>

>The problem is as follows:
>He has written his dissertation on a wordperfect 5.1 on a 3.5" disk,
>and he has finished about 43k of writing.  But, now when he retrieves
>the file in wordperfect only 27k is retrieved (upto page 18) and then
>says that sector not found.

[Much text deleted, but explaining steps attempted to recover text.  gph]

The solution is to read the CHK files into a binary/text editor, clean
them up there, and retrieve the resulting ascii/text file to WP, using
text in/out function.

Some possible editors are WP's own PE. Beaver 132 (available on SIMTEL)
Your friend will lose some formatting, by will find all the text.

Avi

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Date: 6 Dec 92 17:16:27 EDT
From: George Kalamaras <[e-mail]>
Subject: Converter for IBM's Linkway-Live (.PCJ Files) needed

Hi,
Does anybody know the Linkway-Live!? It's a multimedia authoring tool
from IBM.

This Package needs a special format for images (a variation of PCX)
with the extension .PCJ in 640x480x256 resolution. As I know there is a
converter GIF2LW . Does anybody know where could I find it?

G.Kalamaras
Univ. of Patras
Greece                          e-mail:[e-mail]

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Date: 6 Dec 92 15:08:36
From: [e-mail]
Subject: HOW TO INTERNET -> FIDONET

    Thanks for all the people that send me a help about how to send a
message from InterNet to FidoNet.

    I receive many messages from people interested in know how to do
it. So, following is a little explanation about how to make it :

        If the person who you want to send a message is Steve Vai, and
he has a account in BBS witch node 1:250/56.2, address the message to :

        [e-mail]

        * The number are put in inverse order :


        1:250/56.2     @p2.f56.n250.z1
        !  !   ! '-------'  !    !   !
        !  !   '------------'    !   !
        !  '---------------------'   !
        '----------------------------'

    If the FidoNet Node haven't the point (p), exclude it from the
address.

    Good Luck !

    ** I don't know if Steve Vai has a account in this node, so, do not
send a message to him.

     Carlos H. Cantu

     [e-mail]
     [e-mail]

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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 92 18:27:44 EDT
From: David Kirschbaum <[e-mail]>
Subject: Internet <-> FidoNet

In Info-IBMPC #184:

>Date: 22 Nov 92 18:23:17
>From: [e-mail]

>    I would like to know what I have to do to send a message from
>InterNet to FidoNet.

I have little luck at sending via my uunet link to "unusual" address like
yours, so I hope you're still reading Info-IBMPC!

Here's an excerpt from a FIDO message.  Hope it helps.

David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall
[e-mail]

  From: david begley               To: Jim Orlowski
  Subject:  Internet <==> Fido     Date: 24 May 92  22:12:00
  Conf: `Dr. Debug Conference'

 * On Wednesday May 20 1992 at 21:00, Jim Orlowski writes to All:

 JO> Does anyone know of the proper syntax to send e-mail to/from internet
 JO> to a Fido (Opus) based BBS?  I know that a "gate" is needed, but where
 JO> can you find such a gate, and how do you address the mail?

In the Fidonet nodelist, any system with ",GUUCP" in their entry is almost
guaranteed to be a gateway.  Off-hand, the only one in the States I can think
of is 1:105/42 (..!m2xenix!puddle).

The syntax, however, is highly dependent upon the gateway software itself.
In most cases, the following guide should help:

1.  Sending messages from Fidonet to the Internet

    a.  Address the message to UUCP (this seems to be the de facto
        standard recipient name for Internet/UUCP-to-Fidonet gateways).

    b.  Send the message to a gateway machine, such as 1:105/42.

    c.  Place whatever subject you want in the subject header, as per
        normal.

    d.  In the message body, place the actual recipient addresses at the
        top, followed by a single, blank, separating line, then the message
        itself.

    e.  If the gateway supports the feature, you can "cc" (carbon copy) a
        message to multiple recipients by including multiple addresses.

    f.  The recipient's address takes the form "To: " followed by either a
        UUCP bang path, or full domain address (again, assuming the gateway
        supports both).

2.  Sending messages from the Internet and UUCP to Fidonet

    a.  Use the full login name of the recipient (for example, if
        you are sending a message to John van Hoeven, and he uses all
        three parts of his name to login to his local bboard, then you
        must likewise use all three parts).

    b.  Replace spaces in the recipient's login name with periods.

    c.  Using the domain ".fidonet.org", reverse the Fidonet address,
        and separate each part with a period.

    d.  Prefix each part of the Fidonet address with the appropriate
        letter - "z" for zone, "n" for net, "f" for Fidonet node, and if
        necessary, "p" for point.

    (Example so far, "[e-mail]".)

    e.  If you are forced to use UUCP-style addresses, then re-arrange
        the address appropriately.  For example, if the intended gateway
        is 1:105/42, then using the same sample so far we now have:

        ..!m2xenix!puddle!2!129!216.4!john.van.hoeven

[end of excerpt]

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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 92 23:09:35 EST
From: Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Need IP aware X-Client for DOS 5 or Windows

We have a visiting faculty member who needs to Telnet to her Unix host
from a PS/2 on TokenRing with TCP/IP connectivity.  She'd like an
X-Windows client.  Our budget is small, but bigger than zero.

I'd appreciate knowing what's available (via ftp or the usual mail
order suspects).  Something that runs under DOS 5 alone would be
preferred, but we can spring for Windows if we have to (which probably
would entail buying more RAM too :-(

I would appreciate a direct mail response as I'm not a regular reader
of this list (sorry, but I read more lists than I should already :)

/s Murph Sewall <[e-mail]>

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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 16:02:52 CST
From: Glauber <wheaton!david.wheaton.edu![e-mail]>
Subject: Screen savers

Hello pcdiggers,

    This is more of a hardware question. I use a program to
customize the collor pallete of my VGA monitor, so that the colors look
nicer.

    The problem is that the background color is not black. So when
the screen blanker (e.g. burnout) blanks the screen, it does ot become
black, but rather whatever color happens to be set in the pallete as 0.

    The question is: i suppose this makes the screen blanker
useless (i.e.: it won't save the screen from burn out, will it?).

                        Glauber
Glauber Ribeiro - Wheaton College, IL  (USA)
                  [e-mail]
                  [e-mail] <-- safer
          Who was that Maud person anyway?

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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 92 12:07:49 EST
From: Jeffrey Marans <[e-mail]>
Subject: VersaTerm Pro

I'm forwarding this message to the net in the hope someone has a
useful suggestion.

Please forward replies directly to either

    [e-mail]
or
    [e-mail].

There's an attempt to make our library information services generally
available via the campus ethernet, but no appropriate pc and mac
terminal emulation software seems to be available.  Jennifer Campbell
writes the following:

    "Have you heard of this?  Warning -- I made up the spelling.

        VersaTerm Pro
    It's a terminal emulator, supports TCP/IP, can be scripted
    (to store our logins), and will save downloads [to local
    disk file]... Does IRC have it floating around somewhere?
    I still haven't given up on the search for a better way,
    although I am getting tired!"

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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 92 11:35:40 EST
From: Jim Ennis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Weather Files

Enter the command 'CD WX' after you connect to vmd.cso.uiuc.edu and it
will place you in the weather files 'minidisk' or directory.

Jim Ennis - Senior Systems Programmer | UCF Postmaster
University of Central Florida         | [e-mail]
PO BOX 25000                          | [phone]
Orlando, FL 32816                     | "Bite me - it's fun" - Crow T. Robot

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Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 15:19:55 GMT
From: Tim Reincke <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: weather files

[e-mail] writes:

>The IP number for VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU is  128.174.5.98
>Out of curiosity I tried to see weather files: there is no default
>directory (you know, it's an XYZ computer..., you must know the
>userid and CUU of the disk you want to access, just don't expect a
>path from their system; if you don't know what's a CUU, ask XYZ they
>may tell you).

Actually, if you anonymous ftp to vmd, you can cd to WX and you don't
need a special userid or CUU.  Use the ANONYMOUS login convention.

The weather files are in a .gif format in the directory /WX.

- Tim
--
Timothy J. Reincke                         | Email to: [e-mail]
Junior, Computer Science                   |--------------------------------
CCSO Resource Information Consultant       |   G o  I l l i n i  B e a t
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |    T h e  R a i n b o w s

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Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1992 18:19:06 GMT
From: [e-mail] (James R. Saker Jr.)
Subject: Wanted: Bolo-like PC game for MSWindows?

Help! I've become addicted to the Mac shareware game "Bolo" and would
love to find an equivelent (or something similar) to run under
MSWindows. Is anyone aware of either a Windows version (probably
unlikely since Bolo runs across Appletalk) or a PC game (Windows or
not) which has a similar attraction?

(If you're not familiar with Bolo and have access to a Mac and a
network...beware of trying it! You'll find free time and wives
disappearing rather quickly!).

.  Jamie Saker                    [e-mail]    .
.  Network Costing Analyst            Business/MIS Major       .
.  Telenational Communications            Univ. Nebraska at Omaha       .
.  [phone]                               .

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