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Welcome to the Toronto OS/2 User's Group Newsletter!
[*][IMAGE]"volume 1, issue 5
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[IMAGE][*]Introduction/ Administrivia
From the Warped Mind of the Editor
Meeting Schedules
Meeting Map
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[IMAGE][*]News of the Month
Group Announcements
Latest News from Vendors
Shareware/Freeware Information
Products in Review
Classified Advertisements
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[IMAGE][*]Tools, Tips and Tricks
Tips for Users New and Old
Vital OS/2 Tools and Utilities
Fixes, Patches and CSD's
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[IMAGE][*]OS/2 Information
OS/2 BBS List
OS/2 Echoes and Mailing Lists
OS/2 Vendors
OS/2 Books
Team OS/2
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[IMAGE][*]Details and Legals
This Month's Contributors
Request for Contributors
Request for Sponsors/Advertising
Disclaimer/Copyrights
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[*]Introduction and Administration
[IMAGE][*]From the Warped Mind of the Editor
[IMAGE][*]Membership Information
[IMAGE][*]Meeting Schedules
[IMAGE][*]Meeting Map
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[*]From the Warped Mind of the Editor
Well, now, here's a dilema. I sit at my 486, Eddie, literally
on the
Eve of the release of Windows 95. And I actually have nothing
to say. I am filled with loathing, fear, dread, excitement (that
it may bomb as did NT initially), and anticipation. Not only is
Windows 95 being touted in the market, but the amount of advertising
Microsoft is going to do is even making the press. They just have
to threaten a media blitz, and one happens. That may be because
the world is still enamoured with Bill Gates, the
'nerd' who made it big. Or because MS is now one of the largest companies
in the world, and Bill G. is the richest man in the U.S. Or because
anyone that spends half a billion dollars must be important. It doesn't
matter - what's at issue here is not MS, but rather the buying public.
If I recall, an upgrade to Win '95 will cost roughly $199.99.
This
will likely brought down to as low as $149.99 on the street. Will
the average Windows user follow like a lemming and buy this stuff?
Maybe. BUT they will then want to/have to (because the market tells
them to) upgrade their present applications to (presently non-existent)
Windows '95 apps. Funny, but remember a while back when you could
upgrade from one company's app to another's for about $50.00? Gone
are the days. MS's backwards compatibility with 16 bit Win apps
is a nice touch, but really pinches the performance gains that
would be achieved through using 32-bit apps due to Win '95's insistence
on running in the lowest common denominator, ie Window's 3.1 16
bit co-operatively multitasked environment. All this could add
up to a really expensive upgrade to Windows '95, especially for
corporate users. Rumour has it that lasts month's editorial was
slightly off track.
IBM purchased Star Writer and Star Math from a German manufacturer
just prior to purchasing Lotus. Now, it seems, the former two products
will be shelved indefinitely, possibly to have chunks of them turn
up in future versions of SmartSuite applications. If there is something
you would like to see in the NL, just drop me a note:
[*][IMAGE]Martin Moran, Editor
"The opinions expressed in this editorial are only those of the
editor, and do not reflect any opinions at IBM or with the Toronto
OS/2 User's Group"
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[*]Membership Information
Presently, membership in TO/2 requires only that you show up at
the
monthly meetings. Normally, we have a crowd of roughly 70 people
attend, but this swells and dips on a regular basis. Please
ensure that, should you attend to the meeting, you sign the
Sign-In sheets, so that we can properly account for you as a member.
Presently there is no membership fee for TO/2, and the
Executive is
currently debating this. Until such time as a decision has been
made, all TO/2 meetings and events are free of charge. For more
information about Membership, please contact
[*]Kevin Quinn, Membership Co-ordinator by e-mail.
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[*]Meeting Schedules
All TO/2 meetings take place on the second Thursday in the month,
in the
Auditorium of 3600 Steeles Avenue East, Markham. Meetings begin
with a half hour question and answer period with the New User SIG
at 7:00 in room D109, and then presentations start at 7:30 with
the group news. The main presenter appears from 7:45-8:45, and
then we have a 15 minute break. A number of smaller presenters,
including members of TO/2 and the Executive, will take us to conclusion
at 10:00pm. The September meeting will take place on Thursday,
September 14,
1995. The October meeting will take place on Thursday, October 12,
1995.
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[*]News of the Month
[IMAGE][*]Group Announcements
[IMAGE][*]Latest News From Vendors
[IMAGE][*]Shareware/Freeware Information
[IMAGE][*]Products in Review
[IMAGE][*]Classified Advertisements
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[*]Group Announcements
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First meeting of the Programming SIG
Wednesday, September 12th. 7:00PM
The IBM Canada Ltd. Building
3600 Steeles Avenue East
Room D109
Note: Regular TO/2 meeting is still Thursday evening. This meeting is
for the programming SIG.
Speakers will include:
TO/2 Information
Continuing updates from the TO/2 Executive Committee & SIG executive.
Any Requests? - Who would you like to see come and talk/demo/etc.
Meeting Night - Are Back to Back meetings a problem...
Guest Speaker/Demo
Roger Pett - From the Toronto Lab will be with us to demonstrate the
latest VisualAge C++ products, integrated development
environment, and latest goodies, etc. (approximately 1-2
hours including question and answer period).
Overview:
1. What's changed since C Set++ V2.1 for OS/2
2. Demonstration of VAC++, with emphasis on:
- Data Access Builder
- Visual Builder
- Workframe/2 V3.0
- LPEX Editor
- Class Browser
3. Discussion of other major new functionality
- C++ Direct to SOM
- New linker
- New heap manager
4. A Q&A session
We may also have an additional presenter, details are being worked out.
You never know who might decided to 'pop' in.
FREE ADMISSION FOR EVERYONE! . . . New, Old, Future OS/2 users!
Norval Oswald,
Toronto OS/2 UG Programs Coordinator
norvco@ibm.net
http://www.teamos2.org/~norvco
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[*]Latest News from Vendors
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PowerQuest is EXTENDING the $20 offer for PartitionMagic.
Because of a lack of communication on our end and difficultly getting the
news out we have decided to extend the deadline on our orginal offer until
September 15, 1995 to all those who were registered team members before
July
31, 1995.
Original Offer:
>Dear OS/2 Team Members,
>PowerQuest Corporation, the makers of PartitionMagic, is extending
>a special product offer to all OS/2 Team Members. You can purchase
>PartitionMagic for $20 (international add $10 for shipping). This
>offer was originally extended at Spring Comdex by Eric Ruff,
>president of PowerQuest, to say thanks for all the great volunteer
>efforts being made by team members. We would like to continue this
>offer until July 31, 1995.
Please help your fellow teamers by getting the word out. There will be no
exeptions made after the expiration date of September 15, 1995.
For those of you who don't know about PartitionMagic, let me take a few
lines to describe the product. PartitionMagic is the world's only software
that lets you dynamically shrink, expand, and move hard disk partitions
without destroying data. You can also convert FAT formatted partitions to
HPFS. Several-hour projects (backup drive, run FDISK, reformat, and
reinstall) are now reduced to a simple point-and-click operation that takes
only minutes. PartitionMagic makes installing Warp and Boot Manager a
simple task. PartitionMagic is non-destructive and was designed with your
data's safety in mind. Check out our Home Page on the Internet at
http://www.powerquest.com for more
information.
To order a copy of PartitionMagic contact PowerQuest Corporation:
PowerQuest Corporation
P.O. Box 1911
Orem, UT 84059-1911
Toll Free in US: (800)379-2566
Outside US:(801)226-8977
Fax: (801)226-8941
Email: magic@powerquest.com
Homepage:http://www.powerquest.com
Regards,
Steve Fairbanks
(Marketing Manager)
P.S. A very special thanks to Janet Gobeille who is posting this message
for all to see.
Janet Gobeille - IBM PSP - Team OS/2 Support Programs (Austin,Texas)
janetg@teamos2.org
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[*]Shareware and Freeware Information
The last two editions of the Toronto OS/2 User's Group Newsletter
were written entirely with The Semware Editor/Jr. (TSE/J) for
OS/2 from The SemWare Corporation. This powerful little text editor,
with it's blinding speed and seemingly unfillable memory, is one
of the best products I've ever used. TSE/J was formerly known as
Qedit. Admittedly, I had tried Qedit
back in it's version 2.15 for DOS, and loved it. It was completely configurable
in every way. TSE/J did not let me down - you can choose the colours,
macros, how the keys respond - even personalized help menus! This
product is a knockout, especially for long documents and off-line
mail. This shareware product, valued at $99.99 US, is great for
editing
everything from your CONFIG.SYS file to... well, to this newsletter.
It has a fully developed macro language that is simple for a beginner
to understand (it uses plain english!), but powerful enough to
program complex document merges. For example, the lines below:
@o MacroBegin Return 'Martin Moran' Return 'Team OS/2' Return
'Editor, Toronto OS/2 Users Group Newsletter' Return GExit Return
would print the following on the screen when I pressed ATL+O:
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Martin Moran
Team OS/2
Editor, Toronto OS/2 Users Group Newsletter
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then it would save the file as edited and exit the editor.
If TSE/J is no enough for you, then you can always step up to
the
more advanced editor, The Semware Editor. With TSE, the macro
language is enhanced, and it falls into the lines of a full-blown
word processor. You can contact SemWare on CompuServe at
[*]75300,2710 or in the PCVEN* forums, at (404) 640-6213 (phone)
, or on their BBS at (404) 641-8968. They can be reached on the
'net at
com. All in all, the best text editor I have ever used!
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[*]Products in Review
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A short review of some aspects of Partition Magic.
Having been fortunate enough to win a copy of Partition Magic as
a door prize at the July Toronto OS/2 Users Group meeting I could hardly
wait to try it out. However prudence prevailed and a back up was made of
the system and the manual read ! (really) before starting. My experiences
with Novaback whilst doing this, a native OS/2 tape backup product, would
fill a small book!
Partition Magic may be run from DOS or OS/2, different programs
are on the disk for this so you get both together. As you will read I used
only some portions of the OS/2 version so far. I should also state I ran OS/2
version 3 or Warp as it is more popularly known and Partition Magic itself
was version 1.04.
My system was a 386DX with 8MB and two hard drives. The larger drive had
130 Mb as c: and 110 Mb as e:, both being FAT and f: was 155Mb HPFS as the
OS/2 system drive. The rest of the drive is Linux and takes 107 Mb. The second
hard drive is d: and is FAT, mainly used for the SWAPPER and some odd files.
After making backups of the two diskettes which comprise Partition Magic I
did an install from a: and away we went, finishing up with a colourful
Partition Magic Icon. I clicked on it and a map of my drive appeared in colour,
showing the various types of partitions and their sizes. It was very easy to
read due to the colour display and clearly showed if a partition was FAT,
HPFS, Boot manager or Linux. Partition Magic won't handle Linux at present but
does show you that it is there and it's capacity.
I had decided to free up 10 Mb or so of c: at this time, the intention
being to make a maintenance partition out of it. Having selected c: I asked
for a check on it (Partition Magic checks all partitions rigorously before
allowing a modification to commence). It soon came up with an error 1002 -
orphaned EA. This was not a big surprise as I had a chkdsk fail a few weeks
before and thought, I'll fix it one of these days! Now was the time, you
can't modify unless you fix first, a good feature. I exited Partition Magic
and ran a chkdsk, requesting things to be fixed. After this was completed
I ran Partition Magic again, this time the check worked fine and now I
selected the resize option. I was rewarded with a simple display of c: and was
able to slide a divider across the partition until I had an appropriate
amount on one side to remain as c: and on the other side the piece which was
to become my new small partition. I told it to go ahead and very soon had my
new partition and a slightly smaller c:.
If the modified partition is accessed via Boot Manager as mine is it is
necessary to use OS/2 fdisk to reenter the Boot Manager info.
It should also be noted that since Partition Magic can't work on a
partition with open files it is necessary to boot from floppy if you wish
to modify the boot partition itself, (or work from a maintenance partition
[G]).
Apart from resizing and checking partitions another very good feature is to
allow a FAT partition to be converted to HPFS on the fly, it's data being
retained in the process. This is something I may be doing to e: when a few
family use DOS\Windows items are rearranged.
This product proved both easy to use and informative, the manual is a
goldmine of information about primary and extended partitions, FAT and
HPFS etc. It is most professionally produced and I look forward to a
version to handle my Linux partition as well in future, the company
have it on their list of possibles at this time.
Partition Magic is a product of Power Quest Corporation and I believe
it's Canadian price to be about $130. This may be a bit expensive for a lot of
us but it certainly performs well and saves a great deal of time, if you can
afford it, buy it.
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"Ed note: please see the[*]'Latest News from
Vendors' for a special price on Partition Magic for members of
Team OS/2." Mike Fisher
[*]mfisher@interlog.com
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[*]Classified Advertisements
We have no classified ads for you this month. If you wish to submit
anything for this section, including job postings and special
events, please e-mail the editor at
[*]Tools, Tips and Tricks
[IMAGE][*]Tips for Users New and Old
[IMAGE][*]Vital OS/2 Tools and Utilities
[IMAGE][*]Fixes, Patches and CDS's
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[*]Tips for Users New and Old
This month's tips:
[*]How to tip... [WPS]
Submitted by[*]Kevin Linfield
[*]How to tip... [IAK]
Submitted by[*]Terry Hamilton
[*]How to tip... [CLI]
Submitted by[*]Norval Oswald
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[*]How to tip... [WPS]
To save space on your desktop, use small icons. Open your desktop
settings by clicking the second mouse button while on a blank spot
on the desktop. Then select settings, then for all three pages
of view select small. This way, you can fit more icons on your
desktop saving yourself valuable room.
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[*]How to tip... [IAK]
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How about this tip:
Just for the sake of speed I use the command line version of FTP
since it is faster than waiting for FTP-PM to react to mouse clicks.
Just type FTP ftp.site.address from the command line and you log onto
the ftp site.
Some of the basic command's you'll need:
close - logoff of this site but stay in "FTP"
open - logon a connection to another site - "open ftp.io.org"
bye - logoff / exit ftp
help - ?
dir - list files in this directory (almost same as DOS/OS2 cmd line)
cd - just like you are used to but be sure to put a space after
ie: cd .. not cd..
bin - set transfer type as BINary (ie: zip and exe files)
ascii - set transfer type as ASCII (ie: txt or doc files)
get - download the file - "get pmmail.zip"
put - upload the file - "put myfile.zip"
mget - download a number of files - "mget p*.zip"
mput - upload a number of files - "mput my*.txt"
Things to remember:
FTP is almost always case-sensitive. Make sure you type the
exact name. (commands are lower case)
Remember to set the proper transfer type before get/put.
Extra Hint:
Setup a file in your ETC directory (ETC should be an Environment
variable set in CONFIG.SYS) called "netrc".
The netrc file configures how you log onto a specific host
so with the file below, when I type "FTP hobbes.nmsu.edu"
FTP will automagically log me in as "anonymous" and type my
password for me.
The "boris.infomagic.com" example also defines
a macro command. When I type "go" from ftp while on "boris"
it automatically changes directories for me, and gets the index
file and log's off. Macro's can be any standard ftp commands.
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machine hobbes.nmsu.edu
login anonymous
password tch@io.org
machine ftp-os2.cdrom.com
login anonymous
password tch@io.org
machine boris.infomagic.com
login anonymous
password tch@io.org
macdef go
cd pub/mirrors/Hobbes/incoming
ascii
get 00Index.txt
bye
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[*]How to tip... [CLI]
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Changing the "DIR" Commands default behaviour..
Normally the DIR command displays files in the order the files appear in
the directory. You can change the default behaviour by using the environment
variable DIRCMD. If you put the changes in CONFIG.SYS, every OS/2 command
line session will use the new defaults. Of course you can also change the
settings for individual command-line sessions.
The following are a few examples (you can use any combination of the
valid parameters for the DIR command):
SET DIRCMD=/ON /P To produce a directory sorted by filename and pause
after each screen, use this command
SET DIRCMD=/N To produce a directory on HPFS format, use this
command
SET DIRCMD=/a-d To produce a directory of files only (without any
directories in the resulting output) *- also has
a side affect of displaying hidden files
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[*]Vital OS/2 Tools and Utilities
We have no submissions this month for tools and utilities. Check
here in the future for more info!
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[*]Fixes, Patches and CSD's
There is an update to the WebExplorer, beta 0814. This beta now
supports wrap around in-line graphics, tables, and backgrounds.
Be forewarned, though, that it is not as stable as WE 1.02 (it
is a beta, after all), and runs at the speed that 1.01 did, meaning
that it's not as fast as 1.02. It is available from
com .
[*]OS/2 Information
[IMAGE][*]OS/2 BBS List
[IMAGE][*]OS/2 Echoes and Mailing Lists
[IMAGE][*]Vendors
[IMAGE][*]Books
[IMAGE][*]Team OS/2
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[*]OS/2 BBS List
Local BBS' for OS/2 Users:
IBM BBS
905-316-4255
ONE LESS CAR
416-480-0147
Detached Process
416-447-9260
ATI Technologies
905-764-9404
World's Biggest Bookstore
416-240-8056
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[*]OS/2 Echoes and Mailing Lists
Echoes and Mailing lists:
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BBS:
FIDONET: OS2 ; OS2GAMES ; TOROS2 ; TEAMOS2
NANET: OS2 ; IBM
ibmNET: OS2SIG ; OS2SE ; IBMGENERAL
USENET:
comp.os.os2.*
MAILING LISTS:
If you don't know how to subscribe to a list, send a message
to the addresses below with the text 'help' (no quotes) as the body
of the message.
TEAMOS2-L - subscribe via
LISTSERV@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl
TEAMOS2HELP-L - subscribe via
LISTSERV@hearn.nic.surfnet.nl
WWW:
TeamOS/2 Toronto: Home Page
http://www.teamos2.org/
Computer Paper
http://www.wimsey.com/tcp
TORONTO COMPUTES!
http://www.io.org/~tcbang
International Business Machines
http://www.ibm.com/
WATCHCAT program info
http://www.uni-passau.de/~normann/watchcat.html
OS/2 Northwest UG
http://www.halcyon.com/os2_northwest/os2nw.html
PNWOS/2UG: (Maintained by Ward Kaatz)
http://www.halcyon.com/pnwos2ug/pnwos2ug.html
Stupid OS/2 Tricks, release #4
http://index.almaden.ibm.com/nonibm/tricks/tricks.html
One Less Car - Cycling the Web
http://www.ismcan.com/
U.S.S. Voyager: Sickbay
http://voyager.paramount.com/
Novell Inc. World Wide Web Homepage
http://www.novell.com/
The OS/2 Shareware BBS
http://www.os2bbs.com/
Mid-Atlantic OS/2 User Group, Va Beach, VA
http://www.pinn.net/~reaper/maos2ug.html
OS/2 Northwest BBS Home Page
http://www.os2nw.inetnw.com/
OS/2 WarpFlash Archives
http://www.iceonline.com/home/duncans/warpflash.html
NetWarp
http://www.iceonline.com/home/duncans/default.html
PSM EMEA Device Driver Repository Description
http://www.europe.ibm.com/getdoc/psmemea/progserv/device/
Below Zero/2
http://www.wimsey.com/PacificaBlue/belowzero/index.html
Internet Direct's *official* WWW Server
http://www.indirect.com/
World Wide Web FAQ
http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/faq/www_faq.html
The Berkeley OS/2 Users' Group Home Page
http://warp.eecs.berkeley.edu/os2
Inside OS/2 - January 1995
http://www.cobb.ziff.com/~cobb/os2/
Raj's OS/2 Urbana-Champaign AREA HOME PAGE
http://www.teamos2.org/~rsingh
IBM BookManager BookServer Library
http://books.ibmlink.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/bookmgr.cmd/library
The Kawartha Computer Club
http://knet.flemingc.on.ca/~csilvest/the-kcc.html
IBM Education & Training home page
http://www.edu.ibm.com/canada
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[*]OS/2 Vendors
We a presently working on a local OS/2 Vendor list, which should
be
available in a future newsletter. In the meantime, you can contact[*]
House of Technology, who are still dealing directly with consumers.
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[*]OS/2 Books
As with the vendors, we are trying to come up with a list and
brief
review of the books available for OS/2, and especially Warp. Please watch
this page for more info.
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[*]Team OS/2
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A day with Team OS/2 at Comdex Canada 95
"After a series of victories on the road at the regional Computerfests
our local team arrived at the SkyDome ready to battle. The line-up has
been fortified with a couple of all-stars from the various farm teams
and the "Pink Ninja's" are really looking Good! Biff."
"Right you are! Way up here at the Top of the SkyDome it's plain to see the
Ninja's have a lot of ground to cover ... the Microsoft pavilion in Windows
World appears to be like a huge octopus with tentacles reaching every-where?"
"Yep, It's going to be a tough job for the Ninja s to battle the Evil Empires
Win-Ever Vaporware out here but they appear to be winning at the Comdex
and LAN Expo shows..." "... Trust the Force Luke..."
All kidding aside - Comdex Canada 95/Windows World/LAN Expo was a BLAST!
It's one of the bigger challenges that TEAM OS/2 faces up here in the great white
north and one I wouldn't miss! Trying to coordinate that many Teamers for the best
part of a week on two sites covering several square miles is a little intimidating ...
But, Arylnn with the help of a small committee of Teamers planned ahead and with
a lot of Team-work things started to take shape quickly. I must say that it sure
appeared to be well organized and running smoothly when I arrived early the morning
Comdex opened ... but I quickly learned the truth, Ha! ;-)
This year the Team OS/2 HQ at Comdex was two adjacent (plushly appointed)
Sky-Boxes (WAY TO GO ARYLNN!) that overlooked the whole SkyDome. Balconies -
what a view ... "Those Microsoft guys look like ants from up here..."
Teamers had a place to get organized, relax, socialize, coordinate activities, etc.
Much better then last year when we tried to do it from the SkyDome floor behind the
IBM booth... (The best part about the Sky Boxes by far, special near the end of a
long day, was that you could take the elevator to the SkyDome floor and back instead
of marching up and down miles of ramps...)
Inside the HQ we had a technical wonderland ... several PS/2 and Value Points,
modems, scanners, tape drives, CD-ROMS, Video equipment, and a Thinkpad or two all
hooked together with Lan Server 4.0 (love the new interface) and Warp Connect.
We also had a Lotus Notes Server and a couple of clients running (keeping track
of all of the players, equipment, etc.) and someone who's "job" it was to greet
Teamers at the door, assit them in signing in or out, hand out goodies and feed us
JOLT Cola - what a job...
After signing in I wandered around the rooms. Said Hi to Janet (MOM), Arylnn, etc.
I then tried to find something useful to do ... everyone seemed busy so I moseyed
over to the busiest place and stuck my hand in ... YEOWW! Didn't know Jim Elliott
was hungry... (kidding). The Dispatch and Help Desk area was a hot bed of activity ...
coordinating the various teams of Teamers kept us pretty busy.
Each team of Teamers had a radio, clipboards, nap-sacks, a portable parallel port
double speed CD-ROM (not sure who supplied these but they were GREAT!), and
of course, a copy of Warp. Having advertised the phone number for Team OS/2 HQ
we were starting to receive calls from various vendors regarding OS/2 as well as
calls from Teamers who had approached vendors and asked if they wanted Warp
installed. There were also a few "continuing" installs from the previous days
activity. The calls ranged from installation/driver problems to configuration
inquires, training, and requests for more ... more EVERYTHING!...
Getting specific device drivers for the more exotic network and Video cards
made life interesting ...
We also had a WebMaster for keeping our friends on the Internet posted and
updating the www.teamos2.org site - FTPing to various places for drivers and
patches for the more exotic peripherals... plus logging into the various OS/2
BBS s for additional utilities, games, etc.
Interestingly enough we were able to get some additional corporate sponsors
(other then IBM) this year ... HOT (House of Technology - an OS/2 Software
Distributor) and JOLT Cola for example ... speaking of which, we had several
Teamers volunteer for the prestigious "JOLT MASTER" or "KEEPER OF THE COLA"
position this year... who's job is to drink all of the, um, I mean guard
all of the, um, I mean to distribute the JOLT Cola... ah that's it.
Unfortunately, the SkyDome has a contract with some food company so all food
and JOLT had to be removed from the Sky Boxes... too bad ... save it for
the Picnic or Party Arylnn...
Most of the HQ hardware and software installation and set-up was done the day
before by various Teamers ... so after Lunch I went down to the floor to check
out our booth - which was beside IBM in the Toronto Convention Centre this year.
We appeared to have a sizable crowd when I arrived ... two-three deep all around
the machines... Brian and Kevin we demonstrating the IAK and WebExplorer...
They had a TELNET session, several FTP sessions and several WebExplorer
sessions going on a single 14.4 kbps modem with respectable response times.
After several hours of answering questions about Warp, Team OS/2, Toronto,
Canada, Life in General, and showing off Warp Connect - I headed back to HQ,
Most of the Teamers were still there, time to socialize. I met many Teamers who
I've only met electronically before but never face to face .... It s nice to
have a face to go with all those poor E-Mail puns (right Denis?). Several of us tried
to organize an executive meeting for TO/2 the Toronto OS/2 User s Group (as we
were having a meeting the the following night up at 3600 Steeles). After several
attempts we managed to cover the basics and since it was getting late I called it
a night and signed out of the Notes database. Vowing to return - "I'll be Back"
Don't want to miss that Team OS/2 party ... but that is another story entirely...
PS - Next Computerfest is at the Automotive Building at the CNE September 14-17th
if you d like to come out and help Team OS/2 at this event ... contact me at
norvco@teamos2.org
or telephone at
(905) 316-1144. See you there ...
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This month we'd like to thank Norval Oswald for his
[*]Comdex Review, Kevin Linfield, Norval Oswald, and Terry Hamilton
for their[*]tips and tricks, and Mike Fisher for his[*]review
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[*]review of The Semware Editor/Jr. for OS/2, and as always, for
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