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UG: Central Alberta OS/ User Group (CAOS/2) Jan. 98
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Whitelaw)
Sat Jan 3 21:58:11 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 03 Jan 1998 20:10:00 -0400
From: info@caos2.ab.ca (Jim Whitelaw)
Reply-To: info@caos2.ab.ca (Jim Whitelaw)
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Central Alberta OS/2 Users Group
FREE ADMISSION FOR EVERYONE! . . . New, Old, Future OS/2 users!
SECOND Thursday of every month, 6:30 pm
LOCATION: IBM Edmonton Office
1st Street Building (see map below)
10250 - 101 Street
14th Floor in Conference room 1406
* Check in with security at the main entrance to get to the 14th Floor *
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## This Month's CAOS... #############################################
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Agenda: January 8, 1998
Happy New Year to everyone! Have you resolved to learn more about your OS/2
system this year? Or maybe to teach a little about what you have learned?
Then 1998 is your year to get more involved in CAOS/2. If you've got
something to contribute, or a topic you'd like to see covered in one of our
meetings, then come on out on January 8th and let us know!
This month we're going to review two remote access/ remote control products,
learn about impending Year 2000 issues, and take a quick look at yet another
desktop DooDad. Here's the lineup:
o Remote Services Management
Remote Services Management provides remote control to Windows 32-bit
(NT & 95), Windows 3.1x, DOS and all OS/2 versions (16 and 32-bit),
from Windows 32-bit (NT & 95) and OS/2. R.S.M. creates a very secure
environment for communications (logon, passwords, authorization
restriction, etc.). Other functions included are: chat mode, screen
blanking, journal audit logging on all modules, clipboard content
transfers, marker mode, screen stretching (down, up), contextual help
bubbles, speed caching optimization and more.
o Distributed Console Access Facility (DCAF)
DCAF is IBM's own entry into the remote control software market. It
provides features and options similar to RSM. Doug Dancek will be
giving us a tour of DCAF, and we will be making comparisons with RSM.
o Year 2000
Gerry Danen, an IT specialist with Northlands will be speaking to us
about a number of issues regarding preparing computing systems for the
Year 2000. Is your system year 2000 safe? Find out how you can check
your system and software, and what you need to do if it's not.
o This month's DooDad - DragText
DragText's Basic (free) features add drag and drop text to windows. Its
Extended (shareware) features transform text into an object you can
exchange between windows, files, the clipboard, and other objects
- without ever thinking about a file name.
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UPCOMING MEETINGS:
February - Database software: DBExpert, R:BASE, DB/2
March - Spreadsheets: MESA/2 and Lotus 1-2-3
April, May, June: Programming tools, Graphics/Design, REXX
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!! We're Webbed! Stop by our site at http://www.caos2.ab.ca/ !!
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!! We're always looking for volunteers to work on the web site, !!
!! so feel free to offer up your Web talents or interests. !!
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Admission is free and open to everyone from N to G (newbie to guru).
Each meeting begins with a Q & A session and includes a draw for some
terrific prizes (OS/2 software, paraphernalia, etc.) If there is
anything you want to see, please suggest it or, better yet, show it off
yourself!
Web site........................................http://www.caos2.ab.ca/
Email..................................................info@caos2.ab.ca
Mailing list......................................caos2-list@nl2k.ab.ca
(To subscribe to our mailing list, send email to majordomo@nl2k.ab.ca
with "subscribe caos2-list in the message body)
Jim Whitelaw (Chairman).................................jim@oanet.com
Mach/2 BBS.....489.4250/484.3982............see the CAOSUG conference
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The rest of this message is a map of where we are downtown:
| | | Eaton Centre | |
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| 0 | 2nd Street | 0 |
| 2 | | Parkade | 3 |
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Holt | e | || 1st Street || e |
Renfrew | n | Building || n |
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Bank of | | Edmonton Centre | |
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Jim Whitelaw tel: +1.403.414.6664
jim-at-pdsys-dot-com fax: +1.403.484.9239
Pathways Data Systems Inc. http://www.pdsys.com
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