--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EBK00002 Date: 07/14/97 From: ANTHONY TIBBS Time: 10:59am \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: Gone Away * Crossposted from: C_Echo This is just to let you all know that I'll be out of the area until the 30th or so of July, and will not be able to respond to any mail. Sincerely, Anthony Tibbs ___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30 [NR] --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: World of Power BBS Private Ottawa, ON (1:163/215.38) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EBK00003 Date: 07/16/97 From: RUSSELL RICO ROGERS Time: 07:27am \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: Video Driver Problems I am having problems with my video driver. Micorsoft Word for Windows 95 & Microsoft Wordpad for Windows 95 will not give good picture viewing. When I import pictures into them, they look terrible with a lot of green, purple and yellow through them. I am running a 5x86 133 mhz with 16 megs of RAM with a Viper VLB video card and VPR95201 video driver. I downloaded athe VPR95224 video driver last night. However, the files that it contained were not recognized by my system. Has anybody else experienced this kind of problem? If so, how did you resolve it? Here is another weird twist. After I have failed to get them to look decent in Word, when I go back to the Desktop section of Windows 95, I can pull up the photo image that I attempted to view within Word and view it perfectly. This is strange. The photo program that I am using to view and convert the photo to pcx and bmp formats is Photo works version 230. I have experienced no problems with that program at all as far as viewing the photos. I guess it uses its own filter system that does not rely on Windows 95. Also, I have had no problems viewing anything on the internet, just with Wordpad and Word --- * Origin: Rico & Chely's BBS Kansas City, Mo. USA (1:280/140) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EBL00000 Date: 07/16/97 From: KIM HEINO Time: 01:08pm \/To: DALE ROSS (Read 3 times) Subj: Bbs > What exactly is BBBS/NT? BBBS v3.33 How is finally released! BBBS is complete BBS package with full internal FidoNet and InterNet support. It contains everything you need to run a BBS! Some key features: - Native versions: OS/2, Windows NT, Linux, PC-DOS, Ultrix, HP-UX, IRIX, SCO OpenServer, FreeBSD, UnixWare, Solaris, SunOS/SPARC, SunOS/Motorola. - PC-DOS version is DESQview and OS/2 aware, FOSSIL driver is optional. - ISDN CAPI support (OS/2). - Full FidoNet support: Mailer (EMSI, FTS-0001), mail processor, TICK processor, message tracker, AllFix, NameFix, AreaFix, outbound manager, nodelist compiler and differ, remapping, echo- and tickarea autocreate. - InterNet support: Telnet, FTP, Finger, SMTP (email), POP3 (email), NNTP (news), IRC, Hunt, Time. - FidoNet mail sessions over TCP/IP. - Gating both news and email between FidoNet and InterNet. - Multilingual support, also national character sets, including ISO and IBM. - VT320, ANSI, Dummy-ANSI, RIPscript and TTY terminal emulation support. - Advanced security features, for example encrypted passwords. - Hypertext help system for both SysOp and user, with ASCII/HTML converters. - Internal message base compression, saves 50% of your disk space. - QWK, OMEN, HIPPO, BlueWave and ASCII offline reader support. - Virtually unlimited number of message areas. - Fast full screen message editor (FSE), Mg2a (Emacs-clone) and line editor. - Full multinode and multitasking support. - Advanced groups-based access control system with regular expressions. - Accounts for commercial systems. - Callback. - IRC-alike groupchat, with feelings and real IRC connection. - On-line reading made easy: read messages by threads, by number or use the search features to mark just the messages that you want to read. Automatic on-the-fly message reformatting. - Directory-based file system, packing and unpacking, private files/dirs, viewing files. - Full CD-ROM support, supports for CD-ROM change on the fly! You can change CD-ROM and user will see new CD-ROM immediately. CD-ROM changer support. Easy installation of CD-ROMs with a built-in installer. - File areas are limited only by your free disk space - Fast file search by wildcard or keyword. - Internal protocols: HYDRA, Zmodem, ZedZap, Ymodem Batch, Ymodem, Kermit, Xmodem CRC, Xmodem checksum, Slow-HYDRA, Slow-Zmodem. Instant dupecheck. - Up to 250 external protocols and packers are supported. - Long filename support everywhere, including HYDRA. - Effective BZLink-Lite connection protocol (you can upload and download at the same time than you use BBS normally). - Small VT320 terminal emulator. - Send and receive FAXes and voice calls, you can share one single phoneline with data/fax/voice. - Full-featured, powerful C-alike script language. Also supports REXX (OS/2), Java and perl. - Easy to customize to suit every need imaginable. Configurable also from the user's point of view. - Hundreds of utilities available. - International support echo areas. - ...plus much much more... For more information see http://www.bbbs.net, ftp://ftp.bbbs.net/pub/dist/bbbs/ and telnet://fix.no, or mailto:b@bbbs.net or NetMail to Kim Heino @2:22/222. File request from 2:22/222, filenames are bbbs_2.zip, bbbs_nt.zip, bbbs_l.zip, bbbs_d.zip, bbbs_uld.zip, bbbs_hp.zip, bbbs_irs.zip, bbbs_sco.zip, bbbs_fbi.zip, bbbs_uw.zip, bbbs_sos.zip, bbbs_sus.zip and bbbs_sum.zip, about 1MB each. Replace '_' with 'r' to get a version with RSA support. More info in WINDOWS.NT_BBS echo. --- BBBS/2 v3.42 Cyber-1 * Origin: BCG-Box 4 (2:222/0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EBL00001 Date: 07/16/97 From: RICK PALI Time: 10:54pm \/To: ALL (Read 3 times) Subj: SP3 and Java hang I have had a problem that I thought was due to the first preview release of IE4 so I decided to reformat and reinstall everything. I needed to adjust my partitions anyway. Much to my dismay, the problem came back only when I installed SP3. It's fine with no service packs. The problem is that when I go to pages that use a certain java scroller applet, my browser hangs when trying to run that app. IE 3.02 and Netscape 4 both do the same thing. Do me a favour, if you've got SP3 loaded and you use either of those browsers, go to http://www.applink.net/rscott/ign/welcome.htm and see if you get as far as being able to read the scrolling text under the main title bitmap. If there's a hotfix or a workaround, I'd love to hear it. I'd normally revert, but Links LS 98 requires SP3. Rick. --- GoldED/W32 3.00.Alpha4 UNREG * Origin: Critical Mass (1:163/328) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EBL00002 Date: 07/16/97 From: DON BOSMAN Time: 10:38am \/To: SCOTT PARKS (Read 3 times) Subj: Long file name backuk SP> DB> LFNBK doesn't convert long file names, it destroys them. SP> DB> It keeps an index so you can rename the files after backing SP> DB> things up. Windows 95 installs and runs long file name SP> DB> files. Destroy them and '95 won't start up in GUI mode. SP>If you can rebuild them with LFNBK after you've done whatever SP>it was you needed .... I would call that a conversion. It must SP>also keep a record third party names because it will work on SP>a completely installed workstation. Semantics can be, or cause, problem(s). I say "destroy" as one can not run Windows 95 after running LFNBK the first time. Only after running LFNBK the second time to restore the file names can one start Windows 95. For me a conversion would convert the file names and allow one to run Windows 95 in full GUI mode. It does keep a record of all the long file names, not just the Microsoft files. If you are interested in using such a utility DOSLFNBK is a shareware program that does a much better job of managing the file names for backup purposes. From a DOS boot you can run it, use a DOS tape backup program and then recreate the long file names. In the event of a crash you boot off a floppy with your DOS tape drive files and restore from tape. Run DOSLFNBK on the restored system and your are back to Windows 95. * OLX 2.2 * Never assume conspiracy, where stupidity will surfice. --- T.A.G. 2.7c Standard * Origin: The Abacus * v.32/v.42 * (517)645-0026 * Node 2 (1:159/100) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EBL00003 Date: 07/16/97 From: DAVE BEDWIN Time: 05:53am \/To: RUSS JOHNSON (Read 3 times) Subj: defragmentation prog Russ Johnson wrote in a message to Mark Krieg: >DOS uses FAT and Win95 (and sp1, Win95a) uses VFAT. If you use FAT >specific applications (such as Norton Disk Editor or Norton Speed >Disk) on a VFAT partition, it will trash the system! RJ> Well, not exactly "trash", but you will lose your long RJ> filenames, and this could cause programs that use those long RJ> filenames to not work.... RJ> None of the data in those files would be lost, however. yes it dose as with long file names there are empty sections in the fat/vfat every 13 blocks of the file and the dos defrag/ndd will clear them away thereby losing part of the file data. Groetjes, Dave [Team Os/2 Ver 4] --- timEd/2 1.01 * Origin: Xstream V21-V34/X2 [Md1.10/Max3.11] +44-151-488-0698 (2:250/210) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EBL00004 Date: 07/16/97 From: DAVE BEDWIN Time: 05:58am \/To: SCOTT PARKS (Read 3 times) Subj: TCP/IP network and Inet? Scott Parks wrote in a message to Jerry Schwartz: JS> He specifically said "static IP address," which means that JS> it is not assigned by his Internet provider but rather JS> assigned by the Internic. SP> Static means hardwired and the local administrator is SP> responsible for assignment. Dynamic is non-hardwired and SP> uses RARP or DHCP. you can have hardwired networks using dhcp Groetjes, Dave [Team Os/2 Ver 4] --- timEd/2 1.01 * Origin: Xstream V21-V34/X2 [Md1.10/Max3.11] +44-151-488-0698 (2:250/210) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EBM00000 Date: 07/11/97 From: JEFF GUERDAT Time: 07:27am \/To: MARK KRIEG (Read 3 times) Subj: RE: defragmentation prog On 07-09-97, MARK KRIEG said to DALE ROSS: > HS>And the stupid question of the day is......is VFAT = FAT? "VFAT is > HS>Virtual FAT"? > > Yes VFAT is FAT MK>Actually, VFAT is an extended version of FAT to handle long file MK>names. But they are NOT the same. VFAT refers to Virtual FAT. LFNs are a function of the directory structure and the drivers that interprets that information. Directory entries are not part of the FAT since that only indicates used disk space. --- *Durango b200 #NR* DurangoMail for Windows NT/95 * KMail 3.10o Knight Moves --- QScan/PCB v1.17b / 01-0406 * Origin: Knight Moves - Rochester,NY 716-865-2106 (1:2613/313) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EBM00001 Date: 07/13/97 From: ERNIE BOKKELKAMP Time: 05:37pm \/To: HECTOR SANTOS (Read 3 times) Subj: Drive Redirection Password On 09 Jul 1997 16:34, Hector Santos (1:135/382) wrote: HS>I have Win NT 3.51 server as our LAN server. HS> HS>On my personal Win95 workstation, I have the NT drive C: mapped HS>to W:. HS> HS>I don't know what I did and I can't for the life in me see HS>anywhere in HS>the NT network adminstation what I did to put a PASSWORD on HS>this connection. HS> HS>So whenever Win95 restarts, I have to enter a password to HS>connect to it. HS> HS>I have done everything I could in: HS> HS> Server Manager HS> User Manager HS> User Profile HS> HS>etc, to make sure there is no password associated with this HS>DRIVE C. Its HS>alias on the network is CDRIVE, the share permissions has HS> HS> HECTOR HS> HS>as a user with FULL CONTROL. HS> HS>Where is password coming from? NT or WIN95? HS> HS>If I setup a new account, i.e, HS> HS> TESTUSER HS> HS>and it give it full control and log into the NT server from the HS>Win95 HS>workstation, there is NO password prompt. HS> HS>What gives? What setup am I missing? HS> HS>Hector Santos/Santronics Software HS> At times win95 will ask for a password when it actually should report that connection was rejected. But I don't think that is the case here. When you connect from windows 95 to a share on a windows nt machine then you are required to login onto Windows NT. Win95 does this in the background using your current userid and password. If the current userid and password combination does not exist on the nt system then win95 will prompt for a pasword. I suggest you check that your userid / password on the NT system. Cheers Ernie --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: MsgedQ/Binkley/WinNT 4.0, Fuerth/Muenich, Germany (2:2490/2001.20) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 206 WINDOWS 32BIT Ref: EBM00002 Date: 07/16/97 From: MARK VELDHUIS Time: 11:30am \/To: DALE ROSS (Read 3 times) Subj: MSIE4 out? Hallo Dale, Saturday July 05 1997 17:52 schreef Dale Ross aan Christer Solstrand: CS>> I've heard rumors that MS Internet Explorer 4 is out now. CS>> Are the rumours true? I've spent endless nights poking CS>> around on MS FTP site, but to no avail. CS>> Anyone? DR> Preview 1 has been out for a long time and Preview 2 is just around the DR> corner. It has been released yesterday, July 15th. Regards, Mark Veldhuis. mark.veldhuis@tip.nl --- FMail/Win32 1.22 * Origin: Still haven't found what I'm looking for... (2:283/347.4)