just a plain and ordinary test…

I get an Incorrect system version message every time I try to start a DOS
application when running in enhanced mode (only in enhanced mode, tho)
What’s going on?  help, please!

Dave Moore
JDM…@psuvm.psu.edu

First Question: Does anyone know of a Windows 3.x driver for
the Brother Twinriter 5 (HR-35DD)? This is a printer which has both
a 9-pin printhead and a daisywheel, and emulates either an Epson
FX-100 or a Diablo-630.

Second Question: How can one convince the FX-100 driver to send
appropriate sequences when printing extended ASCII chars (like German
Umlauts) in the printer’s native fonts, rather than sending periods instead?

This also relates to the above Printer, it can select various national
charsets which redefine the chars "[\]{|}~" to print various accented
characters. This is also true of the Epson FX-100 printer; why does
the Windows 3.1 driver not send the appropriate escape sequences
but sends a period instead?

Alternatively, if one could convince the driver to use the extended
IBM-PC charset, the printer could handle that. (The Proprinter driver
does this, unfortunately some of the other Proprinter codes are not
compatible with FX-100 codes).

Is there maybe a character table in the driver which one could patch?

I guess the source code to EPSON9.DRV is not available for hacking?
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 I am starting WIndows programming, and would like the sources of the
examples (ee.g. input, output) given in the SDK GUide to Programming
book. I couldn’t find them on ftp.cica.indiana.edu – sorry if i just
didn’t look well enough. Are they there, and where??

  On a similar note – is it worth subscribing and reading the
Compuserve groups as contrasted to what is on Usenet and the source
available on the Internet??

   Thanks for info/pointers,
   Bob Waldstein  w…@mhuxd.att.com

I am trying to find out how files with LZH extension are stored and how to
read then. I have found these files mainlty in German archives.

Thank You

Michel Davidoff

The subject pretty much says it all. The current excel version plots only two
real axis, the third is a category. This is a serious hinder to scientific
viewing of data (e.g. three real axis (real number values)).

Does such a beasty exist? I would appreciate any and all information on it.

Please e-mail replies as I don’t normally read these groups.

Thanks.

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David K. Hess
Graduate Assistant                     David-H…@tamu.edu
Supercomputer Center                  Texas A&M University

Help!  
I recently bought a modem(2400 baud) for my PC.  I have never used one of these
before so its all been a learning experience.  I have my mouse on COM1 and
my modem on COM2.  I have used it to connect from my PC at home to our system
at work.  The system at work uses Kermit for file transfers.  Last week I
used Windows 3.1′s terminal package and successfully transferred a binary file
from work to home.  A few days ago, I tried to transfer another file but this
time the Windows terminal gives me a message saying it can’t create the file,
check to see if I have enough disk space.  It states the file(I assume the one
I am trying to transfer is NOT Read-Only and file name is valid.  
     I have also tried to do this outside of Windows with the DOS software
package (Bitcom) that came with the modem.  It connects just fine and also
communicates with the computer at work just fine but times out when I try to
do file transfers.  
     I have had no luck trying to transfer either text or binary files.  The
parameters for the computer at work are 7 bits, parity none and 1 stop bit.
I set the kermit parameters to packet-length = 94 and file type = binary.
I have no trouble creating files on my hard disk and I have tons of space.
     Since I successfully transferred one file, and since I can hook up and
talk to the computer at work, I don’t think its a hardware problem.  I suspect
I probably inadvertantly set some modem parameter or some system parameter but
I am clueless as to what I did, how to find it, or how to correct it.  I did
reset the modem(it has nonvolitile ram) to its default settings but that didn’t
help.
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

                                Thanks,
                                     John

Sorry if this is the wrong place for this, but I’m pretty new to news.
I have a PS2/30 with a 286 and 2 MB of RAM. I have Windows 3.0 and DOS 4.0,
but I haven’t bothered to update Windows or DOS because I doubted if it
was worth it on a 286 machine. A friend of mine suggested I add a few meg
of RAM, and someone else suggested that SMARTDRV on DOS 5.0 would help
speed things up, but I’m very ignorant about hardware. So basically, my
question is, is it worth it? Should I upgrade my software, and is there
anyway I can fiddle with my current system to make it run? Or should I
just wait until I graduate, get a job (hopefully), and eventually become
able to afford a new computer?

Thanks,

Maggie

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I am interested in people’s experiences/opinions regarding large
screen monitors for Windows.  I currently use a NEC 3D, but I find
that at higher resolutions than 640×480 the fonts get too small
for extended use.  I want to use higher resolutions to get more
useable desktop space, without having the fonts get too small
to read easily.

I have been considering a Sony 17" monitor (I forget the model number)
that is going for about $1000 from the mail order places, but I
am uncertain wheter 16"/17" is enough bigger to be useful, and I
can’t afford the 20" monitors that I have seen.

Any and all help/advice will be appreciated.

Chris

Christopher A. Vick
v…@cs.rice.edu

To all you interested BCW hackers out there that
might want to minimize a TDialog descendant main window
to an icon of their own making, read on.

                        Here’s what happened:

From: e…@tgm.CAM.ORG (Eric Trepanier)
To: pl…@cs.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowksi)
Subject: "Re: Where’s my icon?  Or, have you seen your’s missing?"

Mark Plutowksi once wrote….
>Having attached an icon to my windows application,
>it minimizes to the default blank white square.
>However, clicking and dragging on it shows the
>skeletonized version of the icon.
>[whereas it appears normally everywhere else.]

>I’m using Borland’s OWL interface, creating the gui with
>the Resource Compiler, then generating code via Protogen.

>My main window is a descendant of TDialog.  
>I attach the icon to it by redefining GetWindowClass(), setting
>the default registration attribute via
>       hIcon = LoadIcon(hWindow, "IconName");

This may or may not be of help, but I remember having a similar problem.
It turned out I had forgotten to provide the correct class name of the
dialog box.  All I had to do was to derive the GetClassName member function
and return the ClassName of the Dialog box.

And if this doesn’t help, it might be that you are using a BorDlg
dialog.  If so, you _must_ provide a unique dialog class name
(eg: BorDlg_MyClass), and you _must_ set the lpfnWndProc member of
the WNDCLASS structure to BWCCDefDialogProc (BWCCDefDlgProc?).

The above are only required if, as is your case, the TDialog is used
as the main window.  If this doesn’t help you, let me know, and I’ll
try to think of something that will…

Eric

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POSTSCRIPT:  It turns out that an extra step, in addition to the
(very important) aforementioned steps, is required to make the icon
display correctly..

============================================================================

                First a comment for PROTOGEN USERS:

It turns out that ProtoGen did not use the same
name when creating the mainwindow as it did when it redefined
GetClassName().  In GetClassName, it did

        return "MainWindow";

whereas in the constructor it did

        MainWindow = TMainWindow(NULL,"DIALOG_1");

where DIALOG_1 is the name given to the main window dialog’s resource.

SO:     MAKE SURE YOU VERIFY THAT YOU USE THE SAME NAME
        IN BOTH PLACES AS PROTOGEN FAILED TO DO SO HERE.

============================================================================
                        NEXT:   The Extra Step:
============================================================================

Edit the dialog box resource as text, (i.e., in the *.dlg file)
and just below the CAPTION line, put the following line:

CLASS "DIALOG_1"

where again, "DIALOG_1" is the resource name.  

                        RESOURCE WORKSHOP USERS NOTE:  

Resource Workshop failed to put this line into the *.dlg file.
So did Protogen when I attached this dialog to the
application to serve as the main window dialog.

=== Thanks Again To All Repliers Out There!!!
    I never would have put all the pieces together
    alone, and certainly would never have figured it
    out solely from the docs, examples, & tech support.

= Mark