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Info-IBMPC Digest           Mon, 10 Aug 92       Volume 92 : Issue 131

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

Today's Topics:
                Any good/PD FAX software out there  ???
               Accessing time and date from DOS bat file
                        DEST SCAN DRIVERS WANTED
                         Graphics Library for C
                       Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #122
                       INTERNET & FTP Connections
                   ITT Xtra Amber/Monochrome monitor
          Key mapping for ZCOMM to map a PC to the VAX editors
                               Mac-in-Dos
              Memory conflict w/ Token ring card (2 msgs)
                   Response to formatting 3.5" disks
                Source for ADLIB SOUND.COM Driver Needed
                 Need source for Adlib SOUND.COM driver
                  Subject: Re: Graphics Printer Codes
                   Windows 3.1 with 2MB RAM (2 msgs)
                   Info on IBM ROM BIOS Books wanted
                           Modem doesn't work

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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:47:07 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Mubashir Cheema)
Subject: Any good/PD FAX software out there  ???
Keywords: FAX software
Summary: Fax software for PC ?

  Is there any good/bad PD/shareware FAX software for IBM pC out there
at any ftp sites ?  I'd love to get one.

 Mubashir

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 11:05:10 -0700
From: Pat Kane <[e-mail]>
Subject: Date & Time output

>re:      Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #118
>Date:    Fri, 22 May 92 13:30:27 EDT
>From:    [e-mail] (William Grant)
>Subject: Accessing time and date from DOS bat file
>
>Simply put, I'd like my autoexec.bat to type the current system time
>and date to the console, without asking for a new time and date (and
>therefore requiring me to type a carriage return for each).
>...
>Liam Grant, NRL, Code 5541, Washington, DC 20375-5000, [phone]
>[e-mail]

you may want to try several variations of these commands --

     echo.|date|find "Current"
     echo.|time|find "Current"

I can't remember where I found that little trick, but it works great.
The idea is to find something unique that is on the first line, but not
on the second line, when you type DATE or TIME at the system prompt.

By the way, I noticed you are at NRL and just MAY have an old Zenith.
On a Zenith just put RTCLOCK in your batch file and it will output date
& time.

Another option is to use a public domain utility -- TifaWARE DAT,
v1.3a, 08/28/90, by George A. Theall, [e-mail] (ARPA
Internet).  The utility displays the current date and time and an
optional message on ONE LINE (above technique requires two lines).  It
is available on SIMTEL20 as:

Directory PD1:<MSDOS.BATUTL>
DAT13.ZIP     B   11535  901118  Display date and time for program logging

From its documentation file:
     "DAT is a simple assembly language utility to display the current
date and/or time preceeded by an optional message. Its output can be
easily redirected to a file so a log can be kept of program or system
usage."

Good Luck,
Pat Kane
[e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 16:59:18 EDT
From: "Aaron Kramer"@BRL.MIL, "GE Hypersonic Systems Dept"@BRL.MIL,
Subject: DEST SCAN DRIVERS WANTED

We have a working scanner, but alas, no MS-DOS *.sys files for it.
It's a DEST SCANNER, Model 651, and the config.sys lines are

device=c:\dest\scandrvr.sys s:n /c:1 /p:220
device=c:\scan\imageinf\imageinf.sys

We have called the company, and they sold the product line a few years
ago, and the company they sold it to has either filed Chapter 11 or has
stopped supporting this line.  If anyone has these driver files, please
email directly.  I'll pay postage, I can FTP, or accept UUENCODED
files.

Thanks,
Aaron Kramer, GE Hypersonic Systems Department
[e-mail]
[phone]

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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 7:26:55 CDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Graphics Library for C

   Can anyone out there direct me to a good graphics printing library
for C.  I really would like a library that provide good business
presentations charts such as line graphs and curves.  The library must
provide printing capability.

   I have seen some in the Programmer's Shop such as INGRAF.  However,
I would like to know if anyone has had any experience with such a
library.

Thirston Phillips
Computer Programmer/Analyst
[e-mail]
AV 788-8200   Com. [phone]

Commander
US Army Missile Command
Attn: AMSMI-IM-AD-IA-PA  Thirston Phillips
Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-5172


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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 09:38:59 MST
From: David Bear <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info-IBMPC Digest V92 #122

On Thu, 16 Jul 1992 05:43:13 BST you said:
>      I have recently upgraded my pc to a 286 with an HT12 (?) chipset.
>I really miss not being able to use UMB's, as my networking software
>consumes a great deal of memory.Some of it can be loaded into EMS, but

Not all chip sets will support remmapable UMBs on 286's..  You may not
be able to get your chipset to give these to you.

>      The motherboard came with an EMS driver which announces itself as
>Quadtel Expanded Memory Manager 4.00 (HT12 03.01), which works well.  I
>would still like some UMB's as there is bags of spare space in the
>upper memory area, and plenty of unused XMS/EMS.

If you have the Quadtel BIOS, you may be SOL for UMBs also.  I've not
had much luck with that BIOS and upper memory.  It is a very fast EMS
provider though.

>One way might be to map in some EMS pages into other slots, and lock
>them (somehow ?), but the EMM doesn't seem willing to use anything

Mapping on 286 is very limmited.  Your best bet is to get something
like DR DOS 6 that can make good use of the HMA.

>ii)   There is an alternative EMM which WILL do both EMS and UMB's
I don't know of any on a 286 platform.

>iii)  Which ports to write to to manipulate the mem controller ?
>       (yes - I'm desperate !).

I wish you luck -- repost any solutions you may find, but I think your
problems are threefold, the 286 architecture, the BIOS, and MS DOS

David Bear
Office Automation
ASU COPP [phone]
.. I think -- therefore I am a formal system -- I think?
[e-mail]

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Date: Sun, 05 May 91 19:08:14 mst
From: [e-mail] (David Dodell)
Subject: INTERNET & FTP Connections


On <Sun, May 05 14:00>, Gregory Hicks (...!WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!GHICKS )
wrote:

>... try FIDONET...

 >send a note to <[e-mail]> or <[e-mail]>
 >and see what they say.

 >David <ddodell> has been most helpful ironing out problems
 >with the Info-IBMPC list... (I haven't had much opportunity
 >to talk with Tim Pozar yet...)

Thanks, what can I help everyone with?
David

          St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona
        uucp: {gatech, ames, rutgers}!ncar!asuvax!stjhmc!ddodell
    Bitnet: ATW1H @ ASUACAD                    FidoNet=> 1:114/15
    Internet: [e-mail]       FAX: [phone]

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 21:19:38 EDT
From: Etop Udoh <[e-mail]>
Subject: ITT Xtra Amber/Monochrome monitor

   I'm looking for information concerning an ITT Xtra amber/monocrome
monitor, and specifically the pinouts for the power connector which is
a din type connector....

:    Etop Udoh                             [e-mail]            :
:    1112 Hudson Rd.               Southern College of Technology   :
:    Marietta, Ga 30060                   Marietta, Georgia         :

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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 10:40:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: Wm B Kendall <[e-mail]>
Subject: Key mapping for ZCOMM to map a PC to the VAX editors

Does anyone have a .MK file for ZCOMM which will map a 101-key PC
keyboard to the requirements of the VAX editors, i.e., to emulate a
VT200 or VT300 terminal?

A related question: What about the NumLock key?  In ZCOMM it appears
not to generate a scan code and therefore can not be mapped to be used
as the VT terminal "Gold" key.  However, I have one program (ZSTEM)
which _does_ this, so I know that it isn't physically impossible.  Can
anyone tell me how this is done?

Bill Kendall

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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 17:08:18 MDT
From: Zhenqiang Wang <ZWANG2@ualtavm>
Subject: Mac-in-Dos

Does anybody have experience with Mac-in-DOS?  I FTPed Binhex4.bin from
a ftp site (binary mode) to VM/CMS, and then downloaded it to my pc
(binary mode) which is an at&t 286.  I made a "Mac" disk using
Mac-in-DOS and copied binheq4.bin to the Mac disk using image copy
(F10).  I insert this disk in to a Mac (classic) disk drive and copied
the binhex4.bin to the hard drive without any problem and warning or
error msg.  However, when I tried to run the program (binhex4.bin) I
got a msg: "the application is busy or unavailabl

Can anybody tell me what I did wrong or there is no way to do that,
Mac-in-Dos is only good for text files?

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

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|          Zhenqiang Wang                     |
| e-mail:  [e-mail]              |
|     or:  [e-mail]          |
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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 13:55:13 CDT
From: "Ralph W. Pike" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Memory conflict w/ Token ring card


I have a DELL 486/33 with 8MB RAM.
Recently, I was trying to optimize the system by installing the device
drivers in the UMB allowed by DOS 5.0. Whn i enable the UPPER MEMORY
AREA by the command in config.sys

                device=himem.sys
                dos=high,umb
               device=emm386.exe noems

The token ring card does not initialize and I cannot start the network.
I am not installing the network drivers in UMA, Infact just by enabling
the UMB the token ring card does not get initialized irrespective of
any thing else. I have also tried taking out all the other drivers from
config.sys but it still does not work.

There is no problem if the UMB is not used and e'thing works fine.  I
have not yet opened the m/c to look at the switch settings of the token
ring card to see what address space it is occupying. But, even if it
occupies space in the UMB why should there be a problem whwn i am not
installing any device drivers?

The starting address of the UMA is C800 Hand 92kb is free.  Dis anyone
of u have a similar problem, Any pointers welcome.

Thanks in Advance
Vijay Bollapragada

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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 08:27:55 CST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Memory conflict w/ Token ring card

In the device=emm386.exe . . . .  line, you have to have an exclusion
for the RAM area being used by your token ring card.  If the card (for
example) has its RAMBASE at D000 and has 16K buffer, you would put in
X=D000-D3FF.

 8K is 1FF in segments
16K is 3FF
32K is 7FF

This should help.

John J. Schuster                       ELECTRONIC ENGINEER
UNIV. OF MS.           /^^^^^^^\       OFFICE    [phone]
OCIS                  <--0-/\-0->      MESSAGES  [phone]
POWERS HALL, RM. 302   \ \\\\\\ /      BITNET    CCJJS@UMSVM
UNIVERSITY, MS  38677   \///////       INTERNET  [e-mail]

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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 20:31:34 EDT
From: "The Meltz Inc." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Response to formatting 3.5" disks

In response to Dody Bautista's question:

    The only difference between a 720 Kb disk and a 1.44 Mb disk is a
little hole in the corner.  That is the ONLY difference.

    As far as the formatting ability of your computer, it is very
possible that your disk drive doesn't care if the hole is there or not.
I've had this same occurrence on some IBM PS/2 machines.  They
formatted the disk to 1.44 Mb, but my computer couldn't read the disks.
I'm not totally sure why this happens, but my guess is that it is due
to the disk drive itself, not the DOS.

            [e-mail] is
                 Marc Meltzer
              President of The Meltz Inc

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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:52 EST
From: "Thomas M. Deso" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Source for ADLIB SOUND.COM Driver Needed

Date:    28-JUL-1992 19:34:03
From:    Thomas M. Deso <[e-mail]>
Subject: Need source for Adlib SOUND.COM driver

    I have a Creative Labs, Inc. SoundBlaster board.  I also have a
Legend Entertainment Company game, Spellcasting 101... which supports
the Adlib board.  In order to use this game with the SoundBlaster board
I need the Adlib SOUND.COM driver.  I have tried using the SBFMDRV.COM
driver from the CMFEXE collection but the game does not recognize it,
even after I patched it to change the identification FMDRV to ADLIB-.
I have looked virtually everywhere but cannot find this driver at any
FTP sites.  I would appreciate it if anyone could point me in the right
direction to aquire this driver.

 Thomas M. Deso                      BITNET:   desotm@snyplava
 System Programmer                   INTERNET: [e-mail]
 SUNY at Plattsburgh, NY 12901       VOICE:    [phone]

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 17:28:44 -0400
From: "J. Fisher" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Subject: Re: Graphics Printer Codes

Terry Lewis <##[e-mail]> says:
> I need a couple of control codes for the IBM Graphics printer.
> (Manual has been lost)
>
> 1)   Change to 12 pitch print

Esc M    (1Bh, 4Dh)

> 2)   Reset back to normal.

Esc P    (1Bh, 50h)

:                            - J F -                            :
:              Bitnet:   ai260%cleveland.freenet.edu@cunyvm     :
:              Internet: [e-mail]            :

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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 09:28:00 CDT
From: CARL BRITTON <[e-mail]>
Subject: Windows 3.1 with 2MB RAM

I am trying to use Windows 3.1 on a 2MB RAM PC.  I want to run 2
SETHOST sessions and a Word Perfect session concurrently.  I am using
QEMM memory manager.

The problem is Windows crashes constantly.  I have plenty of disk space
for the swap file.  I tried taking out QEMM and using HIMEM, but then I
can't run 3 sessions at all.

Does anyone know how to use Windows on a 2MB system with QEMM while
running PCSA?

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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 13:12:59 EST
From: William Flusek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Windows 3.1 with 2MB RAM

>I am trying to use Windows 3.1 on a 2MB RAM PC.  I want to run 2 SETHOST
>sessions and a Word Perfect session concurrently.  I am using QEMM memory
>manager.

>The problem is Windows crashes constantly.  I have plenty of disk space for
>the swap file.  I tried taking out QEMM and using HIMEM, but then I can't run
>3 sessions at all.

>Does anyone know how to use Windows on a 2MB system with QEMM while running
>PCSA?

I don't know if this is going to work at all.  It seems as though you
have the memory overhead of Windows plus two DOS sessions that cannot
(or at least should not) be swapped out and WordPerfect (DOS or
Windows?).  Since it sounds as though you need 386 Enhanced mode, and
this mode of Windows needs 640K + 1MB to run, so I think by the time
you take out a couple of DOS sessions there is nothing left.  If these
were Windows apps, switching to Standard mode might do it for you, but
DOS apps won't like that.

Sounds like time to buy more memory.  Here we had trouble getting
WordPerfect for Windows and Lotus for Windows to run in 6MB of RAM
together.  (Those programs are memory hogs, but the latest releases be
a bit better.)

Bill Flusek, Indiana University

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Date: 28 Jul 92 09:11:00 MET
From: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <[e-mail]>
Subject: Info on IBM ROM BIOS Books wanted

Hi to all, folks !

First of all, don't be confused. I come from Madrid, Spain, and my
first language is spanish. All by it I have terrible 'psichological'
problems in buying translated books when I can read them in their
original language. But in a very special case I did it, and once and
never again!

I'm speaking of the spanish translation of Ray Duncan's Programmer's
Quick Reference for the IBM ROM BIOS. - By the way, how must does it
cost in the States? -

Int 13H, function 5 is said to take the sectors per track from the DPT
pointed at by INT vector 1EH. The sad experience is that this will
never work. AL has to hold this number.

Now a question. I own an ACER 1100 386DX computer. When trying to use
my own DPT to set the CP/M fill byte 0E5H, it will refuse and
obstinately write the 'damned 0f6H for DOS'. Is it my computer or are
there other people who have experienced the same trouble?

The sequence I use to format is :

1) INT 13H Function 18H to define media type. As a result, ES:DI points
at a DPT I fetch and copy into my programs own workspace.

2) Redirect INT 1EH to point at my copy of the DPT.

3) Change the fill byte DPT[8] to 0E5H

4) Perform the format loop for both sides and the 40 tracks

I'm trying to make a program formating CP/M86 DSDD disks to use the
worderful ZSIM by J|rgen Weber but both the program he gives and my own
fail in formating usable disks for the system.

Thanks for all in advance and congratulations to J|rgen for a superb
program.

Pedro Andris ARANDA GUTIERREZ
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

PS: I don't know why, but somehow I have a fealing, it has nothing to
do with the computer but rather with the Dummy Operating System (I'm
working with version 5.0)

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 13:23:02-040
From: "LDC - Luis E. Mun~oz" <emsca!usb![e-mail]>
Subject: Modem doesn't work

Reply To: emsca!usb![e-mail]
CC: lem

Hi there folks:

    Some time ago, I picked up an internal 2400-bps mode. The problem
arose when I connected it in my machine. (A 286/12MHz clone).  The
modem doesn't work OK with the supplied multi I/O card (also, a clone).
I've tried to setup the card to disable any of its ports, but even
removing the chips from it and setting the jumpers, some test programs
report 2 serial ports present. The program that came with the modem
reports only a serial port (correct), but when you I put the modem in,
it just doesn't work. If you remove the multi I/O card, the modem works
fine (but I need at least a serial port).

    I've tried all the possible pin-settings, port numbers, IRQ settings,
praires, etc. and nothing seems to work. I would like if someone gives
me a hand on this. Please reply directly to the address in my signature
(down there, DON'T do a reply to this message). I will summarize if
there's enough interest...

                    Thanks a lot...
     / -----------------------------------------\
     |   Luis E. Mu\~noz R.                     |
     |   emsca!usb![e-mail]                  |
     \------------------------------------------/

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