July - The Winnipeg PC User Group

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WINNIPEG PC USER GROUP, INC.
APCUG)
A Charter Member of the Association of PC User Groups (
VOLUME 15
NUMBER 11
JUL, 1997
80XXX
1. Would you like to use your computer to carry out banking transactions? Come on
out to the July general meeting and find out all about this new banking service from
a representative of the CIBC.
2. The July General Meeting will be held on Thursday, July 17th at 7 p.m. at the Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute, Jubilee Auditorium, 181 Riverton. The facility is
wheelchair accessible.
3. The last revision of the bylaws (which will be voted on at the July general meeting)
is included in this issue of the newsletter. Read them thoroughly! There are major
changes to the executive structure of this organization!
4. “Flow Through” has been added to ALL articles in this issue. If you want each
column of text to occupy your full screen, then download Version 3.0 of the appropriate reader (Win3.x, Win95, OS/2 or Linux) from File Area 9 of the BBS.
5. Want to run for President or another executive office? Now’s your chance. BIOS of
candidates will be published in the August issue of the newsletter.
6. If you haven’t made your initial $40 deposit towards our Internet service, bring
along your VISA or MASTERCARD to this meeting. You can also enroll by charging
it to your “plastic” by opening the door called INTRNET on the BBS. Renewal of
your User Group membership can also be made through the BBS using your credit
card. Just open the door JOINUG and follow the on screen instructions.
Karl Strieby has tendered his resignation as co-editor
of this newsletter. If an August issue is to be produced
by ME, articles MUST be received by July 19th!
NO ARTICLES NO NEWSLETTER!
Winnipeg PC User Group, Inc.
Volume 15, Number 11, Page 2
July 1997
T
he Winnipeg PC User Group, Inc. is a non-profit organization formed to provide those with an interest in
the IBM Personal Computer or compatible computer,
with an opportunity to come together and otherwise assist
one another in the use and understanding of these computers.
The group serves as a forum to exchange ideas, to discuss the
latest developments, and share information.
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This periodical is published monthly for the purpose of advising members of the various group activities and sharing of
information between other similar User Groups around the
world. It is mailed by bulk mail to all members of the group
and to all other User Groups who reciprocate with a copy of
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The group is not affiliated with any commercial organization
and receives no financial support other than through membership dues and paid advertising in the periodical. The officers
are volunteers and only receive the following benefits: they
learn more about their computer; gain satisfaction from having helped others and meet many people with common interests and problems.
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Group By-Laws describing the purpose of the group, can be
obtained from the Executive Secretary at no cost.
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Monthly Meetings are on the 3rd Thursday of each month.
The Executive meets on the 4th Thursday. Volunteers for
many activities are always needed.
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Winnipeg PCUG BBS
Elected Officers for the fiscal year ending Aug. 1997:
Home Phone
Past President
Roger Buchanan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 2936
President
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Vice Pres.
Darryl Draeger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831 7163
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July 1997
Contents Of This Issue
Mailing Addresses
General Correspondence:
Membership:
Attn: Exec. Sec.
Attn: Membership Secretary
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Winnipeg PC User Group Inc.
P.O.Box 3149
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Periodical Exchange & Review Software:
Paul Stephen
401-1025 Grant Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Controlled Escape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Upgrade? Maybe Not... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Generic Internet Exec Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . .
Group Meeting Schedule/Coming Attractions . . . . .
Winnipeg PCUG Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . .
WPCUG Inc. By-Law Number Two,
Effective July 17, 1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Internet Insights — Taking “Cookies” from a Stranger
Minutes of the June 20th General Meeting . . . . . . .
WebQuick Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
QuickView Plus 4.0 — What a File Viewer! . . . . . .
Learn Something New Every Day . . . . . . . . . . . .
Web Pages with Corel’s WEB.GRAPHICS Suite . . .
Flea Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
New Logo and Mission Statement . . . . . . . . . . . .
ICQ (I Seek You) — The Internet Personal On-line
Contact Programme . . . . . . .
Proper Diskette Care and Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Expiring Memberships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Internet Subscription Information . . . . . . . . . . . .
Winnipeg PCUG Forums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Two Movie Legends Pass On . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
A Letter from a Member . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Internet Application Form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Items This Month
Yearly Membership Dues:
Junior Membership(under age 18)
Adult Membership . . . . . . .
Associate Membership . . . . . .
Corporate Membershp . . . . . .
Cache Computers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Coldwell Banker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Copperfields Book Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Healey Visual Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Manlab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Pembina Village Restaurant (New Advertiser!)
Tellier Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tower Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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With an adult membership you may receive one copy of The
Computer Post and any member of your family (age 12 and
under) may attend the UG meetings. After an adult membership has been purchased, additional associate memberships
may be purchased which include a BBS ID and draw ticket..
A corporate membership entitles any member(s) of your organization to attend our general meetings. Ask Brian Lowe
for further details. (The benefits of each membership are my
“best guess”. All benefits are subject to executive approval.)
Periodical Submissions
The editor will accept almost anything you wish to contribute. Short
submissions may be in any form whatsoever.
Longer submissions should be made on 5.25/3.5" floppy disks or
uploaded to our BBS. Files must be zipped before uploaded. If you
use the BBS, send a message to Paul Stephen, and use the SA
(save attachment command) to attach the file to the message.
Other acceptable formats include: WordStar 3.x—5.0, WordPerfect
4.x—5.1, Word 4.0, XyWrite and ASCII. If you use one of the above
wordprocessors, DO NOT put blank lines between paragraphs or attempt to “format” your text!
The Periodical
Toolbox
This periodical is produced using the following software and
hardware tools:
WordPerfect 5.1 (donated by the WordPerfect Corporation),
WordStar 4.0, Corel Publisher, HiJaak (donated by Inset Systems), Adobe PostScript Cartridge (donated by Adobe Systems), HP Series 4M LaserJet.
A special friend of this User Group is Corel Systems which
has provided us with CorelDRAW! and and an entire CDROM system. Thanks to its CEO, Dr. Michael Cowpland!
Request Your “Oldies” on CJOB’s Retro-Rock:
Click on the graphic to submit your requests!
July 1997
July 1997
Controlled Es ape
c
? by Paul Stephen
[email protected]
F
irst off, thanks to Karl
http://www.shareware.com/SW
Strieby for jumping in
600/Feature/SIAF/Detail/0,124
and becoming co-editor.
,629-1,00.html?sw.button.SIAF
Karl has to be taking vitamin
txt
supplements — leader of the
ICQ
OS/2 Forum, co-leader of the
Each month I start an issue, I
Install Fo ru m, an d now a
am terrified I won’t have anynewsletter editor — one who
thing
to write about. However,
has the energy to produce it in
something
always seems to ocboth PDF and HTML formats.
cur to help fill the pages. This
I will only offer it in PDF formonth, the most exciting piece
mat. I prefer to use the time
of software I’ve seen with reand energy that would be exgards to the Internet is ICQ (I
pended in creation of two forSeek You). It’s been around for
mats in “researching” new
six months or so, but I just
products on the net and writ“discovered” the program the
ing review articles.
first week in June. It would be
Figure 1. An ESP Price Search
Karl offered to produce an
nice if some of you shared
HTML version of the July ediYOUR “discoveries” with the
tion, but I just don’t have the
rest of us.
energy to assemble all the
I won’t get into any more
various files that went into
details here as George
creating this newsletter. It is
Bowman has written up a
“If ICQ were a movie,
just more work which I feel
review of the program for
is unnecessary.
this issue of the newsletter.
I’d give it an Academy Award.”
Suddenly, on July 5th,
My comment about the proKarl announced his depargram — “If ICQ were a
ture from this User Group.
movie, I’d give it an AcadI don’t know what brought
emy Award.”
about this action. He will be
Computer Price Comparisons
missed!!!
If you would like to see what
Elections in August!
the best available discount
Next month it will be time for
price is on a particular piece of
our annual general meeting
computer hardware or software
and elections! All BIOS of
then
head
off
to:
candidates running for UG exhttp://www.computeresp.com.
ecutive positions must be reSee Figu re 1. This is one
ceived by July 21st!
speedy site and you can get
prices on about anything —
1997 Shareware
then go shopping LOCALLY!
Industry Awards
Anonymous Surfing
The 1997 Shareware Industry
Awards have just been anIf you want to surf the net
nounced. Some of the winners:
“anonymously”, then you
T he Best Application —
should
check
out
CoolEdit 96 (sound editor),
http://www.anonymizer.com.
The Most Innovative New
Figure 2 shows you some of
Pr od uct — ZipFolders for
the things that site “knows”
Figure 2. The Anonymizer Web Page
Windows (you read about that
about me!
here in March!) and the runE-MAIL
ner up in this category was ICQ and the Best Internet Program
I never know what’s going to pop up in my e-mail box. In May,
— ICQ — which you’ll read about in this issue. If you’d like
I got some correspondence from a fellow who had won a Rodto see all the winners, this URL will do it for you:
July 1997
ney Dangerfield contest too. He told me Rodney had just gotten out of the hospital. He was suffering from neck pain. So... I
did what any loyal fan would do... send a note to “cheer up” the
king of “no respect”. Within two days, back came e-mail from
Rodney — sent by his wife, Joan. I suggested that he was in
good hands and that he was being “touched by an angel”.
Rodney had Joan send me the following: Touched by an angel
— are you kiddin? My neck hurts from her trying to bite my
head off. You should know what I go through. When we got
married she insisted we put everything in both names, her and
her mother’s.
Anyway, thanks for the sympathy. Are you still doing the computer newspaper? I think that was you. If I’m wrong, I’m sorry.
Pretty good memory for a 75 year old guy with a gazillion other
fans don’t you think! His wife typed the response and added
that Rodney was recuperating from a flare-up of cervical degenerative arthritis. Gee, Rodney and I have something in common
— arthritis!
A Canadian Internet
Package — DICE 1.1
While in a newsgroup I
happened to see a request
for beta testers for an Internet chat program. It
turned out to be written
by a BC software company called Destiny Software.
It turned out that the chat
program was just one
module in a complete Internet suite called DICE (Destiny Internet Command Engine). It contains an e-mail module, a time
update module, a streaming audio module — one that actually
allows YOU to broadcast to the net! (Radio Destiny), and several standard Internet programs such as Telnet and Finger.
I will admit that the e-mail module is weak with respect to filters, but it has some advantages that “non power” users will
love. First, your e-mail is automatically stored/separated by
month. This makes it a bit easier to find things. The niftiest
thing is that you can define up to 3 Internet addresses so in one
swoop you can collect everything without having to setup forwarding commands. If you want encryption and the ability to
add voice files or file attachments this package makes those operations child’s play.
One advantage to this package is that all messages are stored in
either an INBOX or OUTBOX single file. Some other e-mail
packages store each message as a file. This technique can eat
up massive amounts of disk space.
The “station” module of the DICE package allows anybody to
broadcast over the Internet — if they have the bandwidth. Currently only one commercial radio station is broadcasting over
the net. It is in Kingman, Arizona.
DICE also has a module to set your computer time — I’ve tried
other packages that do this sort of thing with little success. This
one works — although the default FTP site used by the program
for time “lookup” needs to be manually corrected for our time
zone (plunk -660 in the “time zone correction” box).
DICE is a bit pricey, but you can take it for a 30 day spin (the
July 1997
“radio” module is FREE).
Another Requirement for Software Boxes
After reviewing Corel’s WEB.GRAPHICS Suite, I am convinced software publishers need to add the following to their
list of requirements: Internet Access Required! If you aren’t on
the net you won’t find out about software upgrades and patches
and will pay big $$$ for unnecessary tech support calls.
Corel is really building a first rate support site on the Web —
why you can even order the latest revision of certain Corel
products on line. Go and visit them at: http://www.corel.com. If
you want to go directly to their support forum page, go here:
http://www.corel.com/support/newsgroup.htm. This site is getting extremely large!
New Forums for Corel Products
If you are using CorelDRAW, WordPerfect or other Corel applications here’s some info for you. Chris Dickmann has just
closed down his CorelNet site (some of its features will be incorporated into “corel.com”) and has opened IUS.COM. A
whole slew of forums for many Corel applications are offered.
Th e f or um mo derators are experts — hike off to:
http://www.ius.com.
Be a Hollywood Mogul
Miss out on all those “stock market” games offered by the Winnipeg Free Press? Want to make virtual money off the “stars”?
If so, traverse to http://www.hsx.com — the headquarters of the
Hollywood Stock Exchange. Get $2,000,000 to buy and sell
stars and movie stocks. Lots of fun. Highly recommended!
The Editor WHINES
It’s a bit ironic that I get more e-mail from Rodney than from
the readers of this newsletter. And when I asked for feedback
about members’ concerns I got ONE local phone call, and email from the editor of the London, ENGLAND User Group
newsletter, Connectivity!
So gang, what I am trying to say here, is that if you want this
group to survive, you’ve GOT to get involved. You cannot depend on the dozen or so executive members to do everything
for you! I can assure you that exec members are doing many
ancillary tasks simply because no other members have come
forth to help out. Surely two or more of you could volunteer to
run the coffee/donut table at the general meetings — and more
of you could write a few articles on your computer activities for
the newsletter.
I am TIRED of BEGGING you folks to help out. If you have
never offered your services to the group, do so now!
Your Editor is a DUMMY!
(I know that’s not news)
In December of 95 I treated myself to a Creative Labs multimedia kit upgrade. Of course, I never really read any of the
manuals or “on line” documentation. Just recently I started
playing around with GoldWave, an excellent sound editor. I figured there was no way you could directly create WAV files from
your audio CDs. Well, as 99.9999% of you folks most likely
know, there is! Do I feel STUPID! And there’s a DOS utility
called CDDA which is available at http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/ that “may” be able to directly read your CDs and
convert specific tracks to different digital audio formats. I say
“may”, because not all CD ROM drives are compatible with the
July 1997
ATAPI Identify Device parameters
Device Type
: CD-ROM Device
Removable
: Yes
CMD DRQ Type
: Microprocessor DRQ
Command Packet Size
: 12 bytes
Serial Number
: NONE
Firmware Revision Number
: 1.01
Model Number
: CD620E
DMA support
: No
LBA support
: Yes
IORDY supported
: Yes
IORDY can be disabled
: No
Overlap Operation support
: No
Proxy Interrupt support
: No
Interleaved DMA support
: Yes
PIO data xfer cycle timing mode
: 2
SW DMA txfer cycle timing modes
: none, Active: none
MW DMA txfer cycle timing modes
: none, Active: none
Typical release time after command: 227ns
Typical release time after service: 180ns
Major version number
: Not supported
Initial ATA buffer count: 0x1c, Mode sense buffer count: 0x38
ATA buffer count remaining: 0x1c bytes
ATAPI Drive Parameters
Mode Data Length: 0x38
Medium Type: 120mm CD-DA audio only, door closed or caddy inserted
Mode Page 0x01
Parameters enabled: none
Error retry count: 16
: Error Recovery Parameters
Mode Page 0x0d
: CD-ROM Parameters
Drive Inactivity timer:
Number of MSF-S Units per MSF-M Unit: 60
Number of MSF-F Units per MSF-S Unit: 75
Mode Page 0x0e
: Audio Control Parameters
Logical Block Per Second of Audio Playback: 0
CDDA Output Port 0 Channel Selection: Channel 0, Volume: 0xff
CDDA Output Port 1 Channel Selection: Channel 1, Volume: 0xff
CDDA Output Port 2 Channel Selection: Muted, Volume: 0x00
CDDA Output Port 3 Channel Selection: Muted, Volume: 0x00
Mode Page 0x2a
: CD-ROM Drive
Capabilities and
Mechanical Status parameters
Maximum Speed (kB/s): 902
Number of Volume Levels Supported: 255
Buffer size supported by drive (kB): 240
Current selected speed (kB/s): 902
Drive does support Audio Play
Drive does not support delivering a composite Audio/Video stream
Drive does not support digital output (IEC958) on port 1
Drive does not support digital output (IEC958) on port 2
Drive does support reading sectors in Mode 2 Form 1 (XA) format
Drive does support reading sectors in Mode 2 Form 2 format
Drive does support reading multiple session or Photo-CD discs
Drive does not support reading Red Book audio using the Read-CD command
Drive does not support reading Red Book audio with an accurate stream
Drive does not support commands that return sub-channel data
Drive does not support de-interleaving R-W sub-channel data
Drive does not support C2 error pointers
Drive does support returning the ISRC information
Drive does support returning the UPC information
Drive does support locking media in drive
Drive is in allow lock state
Drive’s prevent jumper is present
Drive does support the eject command
Drive loading mechanism is Tray type loading mechanism
Drive does not support separate audio level controls
Drive does support separate audio mute controls
Drive does not support Disk Is Present information
Table 1. Output of ATAINF
software. At the site there’s a couple of great utility
programs for examining that CD ROM you’ve got
in your system. ATAINF will tell you if CDDA will
wo rk and the actual transf er r ate of that
6X/8X/12X (or whatever) CD you’ve just bought.
If you get the text that’s BOLDED in Table 1, then
you won’t be able to use CDDA.
Any of these “created” CD WAV files should NOT
be “shared”! I was just generating them to play
around with in the sound editor.
I must confess I’m very impressed with the software Creative Labs supplies to allow you to label
the tracks on your CDs. It’s all so invisible. Where
in the world does it “store” that text track info anyway — inside the its EXE file??!! It would seem
to me that some sort of mechanism should be provided by the CD makers that would automatically
read this info from your CD rather than all of us
having to manually “key it in”.
Speaking of Music
CJOB has started an “oldies” radio show with
Tom Lucas who used to do the Goldmine oldies
show on CKY. This time the show is called
“Retro-Rock” and requests can be sent in over a
toll free number or via the Internet. It is broadcast
on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. — 11 p.m. On
the June 8th show, they started to ask listeners to
send in pictures of themselves. I just knew my picture with Bill Gates would get their notice, especially since the show is broadcast from a computer
firm, Doppler Communications.
Sure enough, within 10 minutes of me e-mailing
them the file, it was mentioned over the air —
with the notation that I was from the Winnipeg PC
User Group.
To me, the folks at “Retro-Rock” know what the
Internet is all about — a medium for interactivity.
Yo u can ch eck o ut th eir web site at
http://www.retro-rock.com o r go directly to
http://www.retro-rock.com/fame/ and you’ll see my
picture on their “wall of fame”.
Their 4 hour broadcasts are archived in Real
Audio format, so you can hear the old shows by
visiting their web site. Hugh Dobbie, affectionately known as “’Net Boy”, tells me that each hour
of Real Audio data takes up only 8 megs of space!
If you send in an e-mail request to them at:
[email protected], tell Hugh I sent you!
MSN to Fold as an ISP?
I see from a column in the Free Press that Microsoft might kill the ISP portion of its ISP service. It makes perfect sense to me. This sort of thing
is much better provided by local companies. And
I’ve always said that the content inside the MS
Network should be available FREE to everyone.
Tear down those WALLS, Bill!
July 1997
Marc Camm
Long time members of this User Group will know Marc
Camm. Marc worked for Microsoft for a number of years (remember the DOS 5.0 rollout at the Westin, followed by another
stint at Delrina/Symantec. He left that company early this year
and in late June Marc e- mailed me to tell me that in September
he will be moving to Boston to work in a start up software
company (NETECT) which specializes in network security
products.
Oh yeah, one final note — his job title — CEO!!!
Humor
One morning Bill was sitting at the breakfast table. Suddenly
his wife whacked him with a frypan.
“What’d you do that for?”, he asked.
His wife replied, “I found this piece of paper in the pocket of
your pants — who is Mary Ann?”
“Well, dear, last week a friend gave me a tip on a horse and
that’s the name of the horse.”
“Oh”, she replied.
A week passes. At supper, Bill suddenly receives another
whack of the frypan.
“What’s that for?”, said Bill.
His wife replied, “Your horse called this morning!”
Peter Warren
Guess who’s exchanging e-mail? Yours truly and the “let’s get
right down to business” broadcaster, Peter Warren!
The Future
Depending upon what happens in this
User Group in the next two months, I may
or may not be back as editor.
I would like to continue in this position as
it gives me something to do — but this is
your newsletter and your User Group. It’s
in your hands.
Paul
Upgrade? Maybe Not...
P
? by Steve Bass, PIBMUG
op quiz: What’s “Now! With Basil!” on Hamburger
Helper’s box really saying? It means the product’s manufacturer must have used the word “new” at least six
months ago. The FTC stopped companies from using “new” to
describe everything from a different color on the box to a decrease in the product’s weight. So the marketing geniuses found
a work-around. The magic word is “now!”
Okay, I have an idea. I want the FTC to look at software upgrades.
Zowie, It’s Big, Big Business
It’s obvious software upgrades are an essential ingredient for
companies to survive. Look at Microsoft: a recent press release
claims that there are “60 million Office application users,” and
“more than 8 million Office 97 licenses” have been sold to
date. If only half of them upgraded, Uncle Bill would be a rich
guy.
But upgrading your existing software is not only big business,
it’s tricky business. Upgrading to Office 97 is a prime example.
I use WinWord for almost all my writing (and no, that’s not an
endorsement). There are things I like about the new version:
The Binder’s a handy tool, managing many Office documents. I
like the Document Map for navigating through long files.
The other nice feature is the grammar checker. While it’s not
perfect, it’s solid enough to catch mistakes I’d usually miss.
Enough so that my columns are just a little sharper. Or at least
don’t have too many dumb mistakes. For example, the checker
notices when I use “it’s” instead of “its,” and “you’re” when I
should use “your.” (The checker still needs human intervention.
It flagged “grammar checker” as a subject-verb agreement error. It’s not.)
The problem with upgrading, though, is not always so obvious.
Besides the cost of the upgrade, there are seemingly dozens of
things that chip away at your day’s productivity. And it some-
times only becomes apparent after the company’s maintenance
upgrade (in Microsoft’s case, the Service Pack) is released.
Take My File. Please...
One of my Office 97 struggles — and it’s a big one — is sending WinWord files to colleagues using Word 6.0/95. Without the
details, either the person needs software to translate my file. Or
I have to save the document as a Rich Text Format (RTF) file.
The bottom line is there’s extra work — keystrokes — for
someone. I’m also very displeased that many of my hard earned
macros no longer working. I have one that does unique word
counts, another to strip hard carriage returns from a document,
and one to import data into a document and quickly format the
page.
Here’s something interesting: Microsoft’s recent press release
goes on to say they’re “responding to customer feedback about
migration challenges...hard at work on a release that will address those needs.”
They go on with their spin, explaining how “providing solutions to help customers move to Office 97 is our No. 1 priority,” and that they’re “now hearing feedback from them about
migration challenges.” Just now? I guess Office 97 users haven’t been yelling loud enough. But don’t fret. Microsoft’s still
unreleased Service Release “will address migration challenges
such as backward file compatibility and coexistence with previous versions.” In the meantime, kindly stop by Microsoft’s
Migration Web site, a spot with “important resources for migrating to Office 97.” (www.microsoft.com/office/migration/)
My sense is that everything in the Service Pack should have
been in the upgrade. Which is a very good reason for you to
wait before upgrading.
By the way, anyone have the number for the FTC?
Steve Bass is a contributing editor with PC World and president
of the Pasadena IBM Users Group.
July 1997
Group Meeting Schedule
Regular meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday (2nd Thursday
is charged for non-members which includes a copy of our lat-
in December!) of each month. Mark your calendar now so you
est newsletter (while supplies last).
dont miss any of the great sessions that will be happening
through all of 1997.
The General Meeting format is as follows:
Meetings are held in the Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Insti-
6:30 p.m.
Doors open get acquainted
tute Jubilee Auditorium located at 181 Riverton Avenue.
7:15 p.m.
MAIN PRESENTATION!!!
8:30 p.m.
Break
8:50 p.m.
Questions/Answers, Mini-SIGs
9:30 p.m.
Adjourn
Free parking for 150 cars and lots of on street parking.
Ramp access for wheelchairs. Call any member of the executive for more information.
Members attend general meetings at no cost, while a $5 fee
COMING ATTRACTIONS
August: Nothing booked.
Use our group’s main telephone number at 958-7228 to confirm meeting presentations. (You need a touch-tone phone as
there are now 3 separate message areas.)
Attending meetings can pay big dividends as you never know
when a vendor will offer a hot deal on a piece of software
that is good for “that night only”.
Contact Steve Vincze for suggestions on vendor presentations.
One individual’s suggestion to invite one or more of the
“banks” to give a presentation on Web banking is happening
this month! We do take your suggestions seriously!!!!.
Have you always wanted to see a certain piece of software or
hardware? Maybe you’d like the rep of a hard disk company to
explain the “inards” ot that disk drive you’re using.. or how
does that inkjet printer work?
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WINNIPEG PC USER GROUP INC.
By-Law Number Two
Effective July 17, 1997
BE IT ENACTED as a by-law of the Winnipeg PC User Group
Inc. (hereinafter called the “Corporation”), superseding BYLAW NUMBER ONE (including amendments) dated the 29TH
DAY OF AUGUST, 1989 as follows:
CONTINUATION
1. This Corporation is a continuation of its preceding unincorporated organization, the Winnipeg PC User Group, and except as herein provided, all rights, obligations and privileges
that existed for members of the preceding organizations
shall be continued for the same members within this Corporation.
CORPORATE OBJECTIVES AND
ETHICAL STANDARDS
2. The following are the objectives and ethical standards of the
Corporation: to create and maintain a volunteer service organization by giving responsibility and latitude to those volunteers who provide service to the membership; to promote
the use and understanding of microcomputers in general and
the Personal Computer (“PC”) in particular; to engage in
and provide forums for the dissemination of information
about these machines; to cooperate with other recognized
organizations that have similar goals and interests; to engage in activities beneficial to the common interest of the
members; and to recognize and respect the legal and moral
rights of owners of copyrighted computer software and
hardware.
REGISTERED OFFICE
3. The Registered Office of the Corporation shall be in the
City of Winnipeg, in the Province of Manitoba, and at such
place therein as the directors may from time to time determine.
SEAL
4. The seal, an impression whereof is stamped in the margin
hereof, shall be the corporate seal of the Corporation.
DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS OF THE CORPORATION
5. The Officers of the Corporation may be elected, designated,
or appointed, according to the following provisions:
The President, Vice-President of Membership, Vice-President of Communication, Online Services Manager, Events
Coordinator and Treasurer shall be elected at each annual
general meeting. The Past President shall be designated by
due process to be the person who held the office of President immediately prior to the incumbent President.
The Board of Directors, hereinafter called the Board, shall
consist of the elected officers plus the Past President. The
whole Board shall be retired at each annual meeting. No
elected officer shall hold more than one elected office.
The Executive Council shall be comprised of the President,
Vice- President Membership, and Treasurer.
Appointed officers shall include those members who receive
appointment to carry out tasks required in the functionality
of the Corporation.
Appointments shall be made by the Board no later than November for the following calendar year. No appointed officer shall hold more than one appointed office.
Designated officers shall include all volunteers that represent the Corporation in their actions while doing work on
behalf of the Corporation.
Designations shall be made by the appropriate Appointed
Officers no later than one month following their respective
appointments.
ADDITIONAL OFFICERS
6. The Board may, by resolution, appoint such additional Appointed officers as it may determine necessary.
Appointed officers may, by approval through the Board appoint such additional Designated officers as it may determine necessary.
DUTIES OF OFFICERS
7. Regardless of circumstance or context, all officers of the
Corporation are seen, by members and the public, as officers and representatives of the Corporation. Therefore it is
the duty of all officers to conduct themselves in an appropriate and professional manner at all times when dealing
with members and the public.
It is also the duty of all officers to make every reasonable
effort to attend business meetings as required.
Specific duties of officers shall be as follows:
7a. PRESIDENT
The President is charged with maintaining Vendor Relations
in all avenues and aspects, including insuring a proper channel for dialogue between the different Vendors and the Corporation is maintained and enhanced. The President shall be
in charge of ensuring all business meetings of the Corporation are run in an efficient and professional manner.
7b. VICE PRESIDENT - MEMBERSHIP
The Vice President shall be in charge of maintaining all aspects of membership information, including processing of
new and subsequent applications. The Vice President shall
also ensure that the Corporation is publicized to the public
in a positive manne r in which to expand and grow its
membership base.
7c. VICE PRESIDENT - COMMUNICATIONS
The Vice President shall ensure that all information relative
to the Corporation is available and kept up to date in a
timely manner. This shall be handled by ensuring that all
information (Meeting minutes, Bylaws, etc.) is properly collected.
The Vice President shall have overall responsibility for all
information that is released by the Corporation (Newsletters,
Web Pages, etc.) to be accurate and properly distributed.
These duties will include all transmissions to the internal
membership as well as to the public, including, but not limited to, Advertisers and Media personnel.
7d. ONLINE SERVICES MANAGER
The Online Services Manager shall endeavor to maintain
and operate the electronic online services for the use of the
membership. The responsibilities will include, but are not
limited to, hardware maintenance and upkeep, software usability and maintenance, account maintenance, file maintenance and electronic message maintenance.
7e. EVENTS COORDINATOR
The Events Coordinator shall ensure that all events relating
to the Corporation shall be run and presented in an efficient
and professional manner. These duties will include, but are
not limited to, the running of General Meetings, Forums,
and other Special Shows that the Corporation shall become
involved in.
The Events Coordinator shall maintain a proper staffing and
training for all events and for other places that require direction of personnel.
7f. TREASURER
The Treasurer shall keep full and accurate accounts of all
receipts and disbursements of the Corporation in proper
books of account and shall deposit all moneys or other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the Corporation
in such bank(s) or other financial institution(s) as may from
time to time be designated by the Board .
The Treasurer shall disburse the funds of the Corporation
under the direction of the Board , taking proper vouchers
therefor and shall render to the Board at the regular meetings thereof or whenever required of him, an account of all
his transactions as Treasurer, and of the financial position of
the Corporation. He shall have available, at all general
meetings and executive meetings, a statement of the Corporations financial position. He shall maintain an inventory of
all Corporation property.
The Treasurer shall be responsible for maintaining the fiscal
viability of the Corporation through the process of properly
approved budget.
DUTIES OF OTHER OFFICERS
8. The duties of all other officers shall be such as the terms of
their engagement, or such as the Board requires.
RESTRICTION ON DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY
9. No elected officer may delegate his responsibility to any
person other than another elected officer.
No appointed officer may delegate his authority to anyone
other than another officer.
COMMITTEES
10. The Board may constitute committees by resolution, and
prescribe their duties as it deems necessary.
VACANCIES, BOARD OF DIRECTORS
11. If the Past President position becomes vacant, that position
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shall be filled by the immediately prior Past President.
If an elected office becomes vacant within four months prior
to the annual general meeting, that office may be filled temporarily by way of appointment by a resolution of the
Board.
If an elected office is vacated four months prior to the annual general meeting, an election for that position shall take
place at the next General Meeting in accordance with election procedures described in these bylaws.
A vacancy shall be defined as a contiguous period of three
months of inactivity in the operation of the Corporation.
INDEMNITIES TO DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
12. Every director or officer of the Corporation or other person
who has undertaken or is about to undertake any liability on
behalf of the Corporation and their heirs, executors and administrators, and estate and effect, respectively, shall from
time to time and at all times, be indemnified and saved
harmless, out of the funds of the Corporation, from and
against: (a)all costs, charges and expenses whatsoever which
such director, officer or other person sustains or incurs in or
about any action, suit or proceeding which is brought, commenced or prosecuted against him for or in respect of any
act, deed, matter or t hing whatsoever made, done or permitted by him in or about the execution of the duties and his
office or in respect of any such liability; and (b) all other
costs, charges and expenses which he sustains or incurs in
or about or in relation to the affairs thereof; except such
costs, charges or expenses as are occasioned by his own initial neglect or default.
FOR THE PROTECTION OF DIRECTORS
AND OFFICERS
13. No director or officer of the Corporation shall be liable for:
(a) the acts, receipts, neglects or defaults of any other director or officer or employee or for joining in any receipt
or act for conformity;
(b) any loss, damage or expense happening to the Corporation through the insufficiency or deficiency of title to
any property acquired by the Corporation or for or on
behalf of the Corporation or for the insufficiency or deficiency of any security in or upon which any of the
moneys of or belonging to the Corporation shall be
placed out or invested;
(c) any loss or damage arising from the bankruptcy, insolvency or tortious act of any person, firm or corporation,
including any person, firm or corporation with whom or
which any moneys, securities or effects shall be lodged
or deposited; or
(d) any loss, conversion, misapplication or misappropriation
of or any damage resulting from any dealings with any
moneys, securities or other assets belonging to the Corporation or for any other loss, damage or misfortune
whatever which may happen in the execution of the duties of his respective office or trust or in relation thereto;
unless the same shall happen by or through his wrongful
and willful act or through his own wrongful and willful
neglect or default.
The directors of the Corporation shall not be under any duty
or responsibility in respect of any contract, act or transaction whether or not made, done or entered into in the name
or on behalf of the Corporation, except such as shall have
been submitted to and authorized or approved by the Board.
If any director or officer of the Corporation shall be employed by or shall perform services for the Corporation otherwise than as director or officer or shall be a member of a
firm or a shareholder, director or officer of a company
which is employed by or performs services for the Corporation, the fact of his being a director or officer of the Corporation shall not disentitle such director or officer or such
firm or company, as the case may be, from receiving proper
enumeration for such services.
REMUNERATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS
14. The directors and officers shall receive no remuneration for
acting as such, but they may be reimbursed for reasonable
expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
EXECUTION OF DOCUMENTS
15. Deeds, transfers, licenses, contracts and engagements or
other instruments on behalf or in the name of the Corporation shall be signed by any two (2) directors of the Corporation as designated by the Board . Contracts extending
beyond one year shall require the approval of the Board. All
monetary expenditures must be approved through the Board
either directly or through an approved budgetary expense.
VOTING SHARES AND SECURITIES
IN OTHER COMPANIES
16. The Corporation shall not hold any shares in any share capital corporation.
MEMBERSHIP TYPES
17. The Board shall establish types and privileges of Membership in the Corporation. Changes in Membership types and
privileges by the Board shall be subject to approval by the
Membership via a Written Motion.
MEMBERSHIP TERM
18. The membership term shall commence with payment of the
membership fee and shall continue until the last day of the
same calendar month one year following. The membership
term of a renewing member shall commence with expiry of
the old membership term and shall continue for one year.
MEMBERSHIP FEES
19. Membership fees shall be established and revised by the
Board whenever deemed necessary. A member shall pay
annual fees in advance of the beginning of his membership
term, but not more than 60 days in advance, according to
the fee schedule in effect at the time of payment. No refund
shall be given if a membership is voluntarily terminated.
TRANSFER OF MEMBERSHIP
20. No member may transfer or assign his membership and
such benefits derived from his membership.
ELIGIBILITY
21. A person may be refused initial or continued membership in
the Corporation, by resolution of the Board, for failure to
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abide by the spirit and intent of the Corporation’s objectives, ethical standards or by-laws.
APPEAL OF DENIAL OF MEMBERSHIP
22. A person who has been denied initial or continued membership in the Corporation may appeal such decision within 30
days by serving notice on the Corporation. Such decision
shall then be stayed until it comes before the next general
meeting of the Corp oration, where the person shall be
given an adequate opportunity to hear the reasons and any
supporting evidence for such denial and to present his evidence and argument as to why he should not be denied
membership.
A two-thirds majority vote of the members present is required to sustain the denial of membership. If the vote to
deny membership is less than two thirds majority, the membership shall continue or be issued.
ANNUAL AND OTHER MEETINGS OF MEMBERS
23. The annual general meeting of the members shall be held at
the regular meeting location of the Corporation on the third
Thursday of each August.
At every annual meeting, in addition to any other business
that may be transacted, the report of the directors, the financial statements and the report of the auditors (if any) shall
be presented. In addition, the Board shall be elected for the
ensuing year. Assumption of office shall take place immediately following the meeting.
The Board or the Executive Council shall have the power to
call a general meeting of the members of the Corporation at
any time.
23a. ELECTION OF OFFICERS
Election of Officers shall be held each year at the Corporation’s Annual Meeting. In order to encourage maximum
membership involvement in the running of the Corporation,
all elected positions are deemed available regardless of
whether the incumbent is standing for reelection.
The Board shall ensure a proper formation of a Ballot
Comittee prior to each election. The Ballot Comitte shall
ensure the Election is conducted in an efficient and unbiased manner.
Nominations for Elected Officers may be made from the
floor, by any member in good standing, preferably at or before the previous General Meeting.
When there is only one nominee for a position, that Office
will be deemed Elected by Acclamation.
The election will be accomplished by a written ballot.
When there are more than two nominees for a position, the
above procedure shall include a runoff phase until there is a
clear majority election.
GUESTS
24. Guests may be invited by a member to the meetings and to
other events of the Corporation. A nominal fee may be
charged for such attendance, at the discretion of the Board .
MEETINGS, BOARD OF DIRECTORS
25. A majority of the Board shall form a quorum for the transaction of its business and affairs. Except as otherwise re-
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quired by law, the Board may hold its meetings at such
place or places as it may from time to time determine. The
appointed officers may attend these meetings, but only the
Board members may vote.
VOTING OF MEMBERS
30. Subject to the other provisions of this by-law, each member
of the Corporation shall at all meetings of members be entitled to one vote.
Between meetings of the Board, the affairs of the Corporation shall be conducted by the Executive Council. The meetings of the Executive Council shall be called by the President or by two voting members of the Council. Minutes of
all Executive Council meetings shall be forwarded promptly
to all members of the Board.
Decisions taken by the Executive Council shall be deemed
to have been ratified or approved by the Board unless reversed or modified by resolution of the Board. At meetings
of the Executive Council, the President, the Past President
and the Treasurer shall have one (1) vote each.
GENERAL MEETINGS
26. The general meetings shall be the main vehicle for personal
interaction and personal information exchange for Corporation members. At least three such meetings shall be held
annually.
At all meetings of members every question shall be decided
by a majority of the votes of the voting members present
unless otherwise required by the by-laws of the Corporation,
or by law. Every question shall be decided in the first instance by a show of hands unless a poll be demanded by
any member. Upon a show of hands, every member having
voting rights shall have one vote, and unless a poll be demanded by a declaration by the President that a resolution
has been carried or not carried and an entry to that effect in
the minutes of the Corporation shall be admissible in evidence as prima facie proof of the fact without proof of the
number or proportion of the votes accorded in favor of or
against such resolution.
The demand for a poll may be withdrawn, but if a poll be
demanded and not withdrawn the question shall be decided
by a majority of votes given by the members present, and
such poll shall be taken in such manner as the President
shall direct and the result of such poll shall be deemed the
decision of the Corporation in general meeting upon the
matter in question. In case of an equality of votes at any
general meeting, whether upon a show of hands or at a poll,
the President shall be entitled to a second or casting vote.
ADJOURNMENTS
31. Any meetings of the Corporation or of the directors may be
adjourned and reconvened at any time designated. Business
may be transacted at such reconvened meetings as might
have been transacted at the original meeting from which
such adjournment took place.
The determination of the date, time, location, format, topic
and activities to take place at each general meeting shall be
the responsibility of the Board.
The President shall conduct the business section of the general meeting in the following order:
(1) Minutes of previous general meetings;
(2) Report of previous Board meetings, including motions
passed;
(3) Committee reports;
(4) Unfinished business; and
(5) New business, including Notices of Motions and motions from the floor.
QUORUM OF MEMBERS
27. A quorum shall be 10% of the membership (rounded up) but
not less than 15 members.
RULES OF ORDER
28. All meetings shall be conducted in accordance with the procedures in the current edition of Robert’s Rules of Order.
MOTIONS
29. Any member in good standing may bring a motion to the
floor of the General Meeting. All motions must be initiated
by a written Notice of Motion to the Board at least 21 days
prior or before the close of the previous general meeting to
the general meeting at which the motion will be presented.
The Board shall ensure that this Notice of Motion is distributed to all members in good standing, at least seven days
prior to the general meeting at which the motion will be
made, indicating the date, time and location of this meeting,
and the general substance of the motion. Motions properly
brought before the general meeting may be amended or otherwise dealt with prior to passage, in accordance with the
Rules of Order.
NEWSLETTER
32. The newsletter shall be the main vehicle for interaction and
information exchange for members. At least three newsletter
issues shall be published annually. The newsletter shall be
designed to fulfill the stated objectives of the Corporation
and to serve the needs of the members.
ADVERTISING
33. All advertising shall be subject to approval, pursuant to the
Corporate Objectives and Ethical Standards of the Corporation, by the Board .
CHEQUES, ETC.
34. All cheques, bills of exchange or other orders for the payment of money, notes or other evidences of indebtedness
issued in the name of the Corporation, shall be signed by
such officer(s) of the Corporation and in such manner as
shall from time to time be determined by resolution of the
Board .
Any one of such officers may alone endorse notes and
drafts for collection on account of the Corporation through
its bankers, and endorse notes and cheques for deposit with
the Corporation’s bankers for the credit of the Corporation
or the same may be endorsed “for collection” or “for de-
posit” with the bankers of the Corporation by using the Corporation’s rubber stamp for the purpose. Any one of such
officers so appointed may arrange, settle, balance and certify
all books and accounts between the Corpora tion and the
Corporation’s bankers and may receive all paid cheques and
vouchers and sign all the bank’s forms or settlement of balances and release or verification slips.
DEPOSIT OF SECURITIES FOR SAFEKEEPING
35. The securities of the Corporation shall be deposited for safekeeping with one or more bankers, trust companies or other
financial institutions to be selected by the Board . Any and
all securities so deposited may be withdrawn, from time to
time, only upon the written order of the Corporation signed
by such officer(s) of the Corporation, and in such manner,
as shall from time to time be determined by resolution of
the Board and such authority may be general or confined to
specific instances. The institutions which may be so selected
as custodians of the Board shall be fully protected in acting
in accordance with the directions of the Board and shall in
no way be liable for the due application of the securities so
withdrawn from deposit or the proceeds thereof.
The financial institutions chosen by the Corporation for the
deposit of securities and the financial transactions shall be
specified by resolution of the Board .
FISCAL YEAR
36. Unless otherwise designated by resolution of the Board, the
fiscal year of the Corporation shall terminate on the last day
of June in each year.
RECORDS
37. The Board shall see that all necessary books and records of
the Corporation required by the by-laws of the Corporation
or by any applicable statute or law are regularly and properly kept.
All records pertaining to the Corporation shall remain the
property of the Corporation, and shall be surrendered to the
Corporation upon demand.
NOTICE
38. Whenever under the provisions of the by-laws of the Corporation, notice is required to be given, such notice may be
given either personally or by depositing same in a post office letter box, in a prepaid, sealed wrapper addressed to the
director, officer or member at his or her address as the same
appears in the records of the Corporation. A notice or other
document so sent by post shall be deemed to be sent at the
time when the same was deposited in a post office letterbox
as aforesaid.
BORROWING
39. The directors of the Corporation shall not:
(a) borrow money on the credit of the Corporation, excluding a line of credit for $500.00 on one checking account;
(b) issue, reissue, sell or pledge debt obligations of the Corporation;
July 1997
(c) give a guarantee on behalf of the Corporation to secure
performance of an obligation of any person; or
(d) mortgage, pledge or otherwise create a security interest
in all or any property of the Corporation, owned or subsequently acquired, to secure any obligation of the Corporation. Notwithstanding, the Corporation may
maintain trade accounts with suppliers providing that the
sum total indebtedness of the Corporation at any one
time does not exceed $1,000.00 with any one supplier,
or $2,000.00 in total, except as otherwise specified by a
resolution of the Board.
DISSOLUTION
40. In the event that the Corporation, by special resolution requiring a majority of two-thirds of the members voting on
such resolution, decides to dissolve, all property necessary
to be liquidated to satisfy any outstanding liabilities shall be
so liquidated; any remaining property, tangible or otherwise,
shall be donated to a worthy institution. The choice as to the
institution shall be made by the Board immediately prior to
dissolution.
AMENDMENTS TO THE BY-LAW
41. Amendments to this by-law may be made by a motion of
the general membership in writing and will be dealt with at
the next General Meeting.
CONTINUITY PROVISION
42. This by-law shall continue to have force and effect unless a
two thirds majority of members attending the Annual General Meeting approve amendment or replacement of this bylaw.
INTERPRETATION
43. In this by-law and in all other by-laws of the Corporation
hereafter passed unless the context otherwise requires,
words importing the singular number or the masculine gender shall include the plural number or the feminine gender,
as the case may be, and vice versa, and references to persons shall include firms and corporations, and “Act” shall
mean The Corporations Act of Manitoba, R.S.M. 1987 c.
225, as amended from time to time or any Act that may
hereafter be substituted therefor.
SEVERABILITY
44. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this
bylaw shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the
remaining provisions of this by-law.
PASSED by the Board and sealed with the corporate seal this
17th day of August, 1997.
_________________________
President
_________________________
Treasurer
July 1997
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Internet Insights
Taking “Cookies” from a Stranger
? by Welden Andersen,
Blue Chips Magazine June 97, Utah Computer Society
L
went to a web site and filled a shopping basket full of music
et’s revisit one of the all-time honored messages from
CD’s. With cookies, the music site will have set some informaparents to their children: “Never take candy from a
tion in the file to reflect your last state. The next time you visit
stranger”. The reasoning is to keep our children from pothat site, Voila, your basket is just as you left it. There are all
tential harm or danger that may be disguised by something that
types of information that can be set including ordering inforhas great appeal, such as candy. Currently there has been plenty
mation, background colors for
of discussion concerning Inpages, text colors, passwords
ternet “Cookies” that are placed
and even the locations within
on YOUR SYSTEM hard disk
by server side HTTP headers
“For the most part, cookies provide the web site that you prefer to,
or not visit again.
named “Set-Cookie”.
useful bi-directional information about
When Four11 reads your cookie
So far, this sounds as though
the places you visit on the web.”
file, it can only read the
Cookies should be avoided like
.four11.com listing within the
a serial killer, or at the least a
file. It is not permitted to
nasty computer virus.
browse around and snoop for
Why are they called cookies
data that has been set by other web sites. The value for the web
and where did the name come from? Of the several theories
site is that they can better supply you with what you want, and
floating out there, here is the “Official” one from Netscape. It
they can use this data to analyze the areas of the site that are
seems that there was “no compelling reason.” Those familiar
the most and the least popular with the Internet Community
with UNIX will remember that tokens are also called magic
they serve. There currently is a limit of 300 cookies that can be
cookies.
set in your file with no more than 20 items for any particular
A closer look reveals a real value to Cookies
domain name. Once the total limit is reached, the oldest cookUnlike ActiveX Controls that can truly write to any of your
ies are deleted first from the file. In addition, each cookie can
system files, including system.ini, win.ini, or config.sys, cookconsist of no more than 4,096 characters. Anything extra will
ies are only stored in a specific file under control of the
be lopped off.
browser. Netscape stores them in C:\netscape\cookies.txt and
Concerns have been raised about insecurity issues and terrible
Internet Explorer stores them in the C:\windows\cookies\ directhings happening with cookies. The stealing of information
tory. These cookie files are created when the web page sets a
through cookies are a small part of anyone’s security problems
cookie. You may set your preferences to ask you if you will
on the Internet today. For the most part, cookies provide useful
allow this to happen or not. If this is not selected, all cookies
bi-directional information about the places you visit on the
sent will be set into this file or directory. If it is, EVERY time a
web. So if you are taking “cookies from a stranger”, maybe
cookie is sent, you will be hounded to agree or cancel the reyou will have a more pleasant experience on the Internet than
quest. Since many pages can send up to 8 or more requests,
the rest of us.
you will spend lots of time canceling the requests before you
Send comments or suggestions to [email protected]
ever see the whole page. Quite annoying to say the least. Here
is a small Netscape cookies.txt file of mine:
[EN(Winnipeg): Very recently, Welden’s son was kidnapped.
Thankfully he was located unharmed — at least physically.]
HTTP is a stateless protocol. That means it doesn’t remember
what state it was in when you last closed it. It forgets that you
Weldens Cookie File
# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
# This is a generated file! Do not edit.
www.ucs.org
FALSE
/
FALSE
946511999
RoxenUserID
.four11.com
TRUE
/
FALSE
942275579
Urid
www.cdnow.com FALSE
/
FALSE
942189160
cookTrack
0x9027d5
9427418
111276159-852605358
July 1997
Minutes of the WPCUG General Meeting
June 20th, 1997
? by Karl Strieby (aka The Little Bird)
Taken by a little bird who made the mistake of walking into the
meeting with a pen and paper.
The President, Steve Vincze, called the meeting to order at approximately 7:05 p.m.
Items of Business
Vice President Darryl Draeger brought a Notice of Motion to
the floor, motion that Bylaw Number 1 be replaced by Proposed Bylaw number 2. The Motion will be formally brought
to the floor at the July General Meeting for discussion and a
vote by the members in attendance.
Steve requested that all members become familiar with the proposal so as to be able to make an informed decision. ASCII
Text file versions of the Proposed Bylaws in question are available on the bulletin board as BYLAW97B.ZIP. The current bylaws are also on the BBS as BYLAW95.ZIP. Efforts will be
made to also make these files available via the Group’s web
site.
Steve called for volunteers to form a Nominating Committee to
bring forward candidates for the August Elections for Executive
positions. The exact positions available will be determined by
the approval of the new Bylaws in July, but it is not too soon to
start looking for candidates.
Out of the current serving Executive, there may only be one
returning member, Treasurer Fred Legace. Pending ratification
of the new Bylaws, we need to find people who will serve in
positions under either organizational structure. The jobs need to
be done.
Fred was not able to be at the meeting due to Thursday night
classes, but has indicated that he was willing to chair a Nominating Committee to find a new Executive. Four volunteers
stepped forward to help:
Ralph Cruikshank, Kim Zayac, Lorin Berard, and Martin
Pepin.
Newsletter Editor Pro-Tem Karl Strieby announced that the
HT ML versio n of the June Newsletter is online at:
www.wpcusrgrp.org/~newsletter.
Steve turned the floor over to Chris Bond of Frantic Films,
who demonstrated two new video production tools: Speed Razor, by In Sync, and Digital Fusion, by an unnamed Canadian
software company.
Frantic Films is a Winnipeg-based company, devoted to video
production. The tools they use are now within reach of any
high-end PC user, while a few years ago, such tools were only
available using video production equipment costing in the high
tens of thousands of dollars, rather than under ten thousand.
The system Chris was running was not “your average home
PC” — but it was still a PC. It is a dual-processor Pentium
II/200, 128 MB of RAM, 2 GB of SCSI/2 Fast hard drives, a
Turtle Beach sound card, and a (name illegibly noted) video
capture board, running under Windows NT 4 Workstation.
Using Speed Razor, Chris built a couple of creative video clips
for us in real time, incorporating bits of a Monty Python VHS
tape with some other elements he had on disk. You can mix
video and audio with this product and synchronize the elements
easily. Example, a drum roll in the audio track to an event on
the screen.
Using Digital Fusion, Chris demonstrated how you can take a
“green screen background” video image of a live actor, and incorporate it into a computer-generated virtual reality environment. Time limitations made him gloss over some of the intermediate steps involved in the process.
It was an enjoyable and informative presentation. Chris earned
a warm round of applause for his presentation, and his obvious
skill with PC-based video production.
Just before the break, Steve announced that there were no door
prizes (other than the “Buck for your Butt”) available tonight,
but that tickets from tonight would go into the hat for the July
meeting door prizes. Therefor members attending both tonight
and July would have an extra chance at a door prize.
Following the Presentation, Group Buyer Martin Pepin announced the availability of a Group Buy on a collectors’ item
T-shirt reading “Resistance is Futile, you will be Assimilated”
with a very lifelike representation of “BillGatus of Borg” from
the cover of Boardwatch Magazine. Cost is thought to be approximately $25, depending on US exchange rates. Interested
members should contact Martin.
After the break, Steve moderated a discussion group about
some of the items before the WPCUG Executive. Salient
points:
The newsletter is an ongoing concern, and a printed edition
may come back in a bimonthly or quarterly mailing.
Ongoing news of a timely nature continues to be posted to the
BBS, and all e-mail to all users of the WPCUG ISP.
WPCUG would like to get information to everyone that uses
e-mail, but we do not have everyone’s addresses yet.
Other discussion and Q/A followed.
Winners of the “Buck for your Butt” raffle:
Karl Strieby:
Tom Blatch:
Len Driscoll:
Quarterdeck’s Web Compass
Lotus Screen Cam 97
Weird Wild Web (book) and
Wild Card CD ROM
Art Kaebe:
Discover Windows 95 (book)
Geoff Titcomb: Build Your Own Home Page
(CD ROM with T-shirt and frisbee)
WPCUG
July 1997
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Please remember that the Internet Service is a
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Make the RIGHT connection so YOU
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July 1997
WebQuick Warning!
I
? by Greg McClure, Winnipeg PCUG
want to share my experiences with a Win95 based software
package called WEBQUICK from Europa Software. The
program is a utility which allows easier access to their
Netscape bookmarks. I downlaoded and installed the program
and then a week later decided it did not meet my requirements
so I uninstalled it using Win95’s Add/Remove Programs
which reported no errors.
Then several days later I tried to open shortcuts to HTML files
on my desktop. Well low and behold Win95 properly opened up
an error box and indicated that it could not find the program
wqhelper.exe which suppose to be used to open HTML files.
This wqhelper.exe is, of course, the WEBQUICK that I had uninstalled above :(.
Well after looking through the File Associations using Win95
Explorer I found that all of the associations for URLs etc that
involved HTML type files had been changed to use this
wqhelper.exe. I had to reset these to use Netscape. Also two
entries for .HTM and .HTML extensions in the actual Win95
Registry had to be changed by editing the Registry using
REGEDIT (something I would not recommend unless you
know what you are doing and have a backup of the registry)!
After that everything was back to normal g. Needless to say I
would not recommend WebQuick to someone unless they were
are certain that they would not be uninstalling the software.
Also Europa Software’s web site indicates that there are no
known bugs with the software <VBG>.
[EN: This “article” was posted on the User Group BBS. If
you’re not signing on to this service you just might miss a piece
of very important information!]
QuickView Plus 4.0 — What a Viewer!!
D
? by Paul Stephen, Winnipeg PCUG
the file into its native apo you get e-mail
plication if you own it.
with attachments
Printer options depend
created with appliupon the filetype.
cations you don’t own?
Do you hate having to
Got a zip file? Just click
wait “forever” (while the
on it and you will see all
program loads) to view
the files inside. Want to
or print files from appliview one of those files?
cations you do own? If
Just click on the filename.
eith er or bo th of the
Not only will you see the
above scenarios apply to
file or image, but the proyou — well, friends, the
gram will tell you the
Inso Corporation has
version of the application
the product for you —
that created it.
QuickView Plus 4.0.
When I tried out the proThe application is availgram I was just thinking
able in 16 or 32 bit forms
that it would be great for
so both Win3.x and
viewing word processing
Win95 users can use it.
and image files. Then I
“Available” these days
wo nd er ed about exmeans — you can get a
ecutable (EXE) and DLL
Figure 1. Opening 2 Filetypes from within a ZIP!!
30 day full trial version
files. I thought if I clicked
of the product from the
o n those the program
Inso website: http://www.inso.com.
would likely crash my system. Wrong! Instead, QuickView displayed a list of information about these programs that would
According to the literature, you can view files created from 200
prove to be invaluable in diagnosing “problems”.
different applications. So far I’ve loaded all flavors of word
processing documents, spreadsheets, a myriad of image files
For example — do you know what DLL’s are called by your
(GIF, JPEG, TIF, WMF, BMP, CDR, etc.!), database files,
executable Windows program? No doubt you could hunt
HTML documents, Powerpoint presentations and on and on!!!
through your EXE file for this info, but QuickView Plus gives
(See Figure 1)
you an instant list of all the files called by that application —
and lots of other technical info that could be understood by true
I was amazed by the fact that full formatting and font informaprogrammers.
tion is preserved in word processing documents. After viewing
a file, you can send it to your printer, cut and paste text, or load
July 1997
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July 1997
For the past 4 months I have been unable to load the Message
and Chat modules of Mustang’s Winserver Client Software. If I
tried to access these modules I was dumped out of Win31 to
DOS. I told my grief to a technician at Mustang and he thought
there must be problems in one of my system files — autoexec,
config, win.ini, etc. I personally did not think this was the case
as the program was running fine previously and I had not made
any substantial changes to these system files.
I thought that another program might have installed a buggy
shared DLL into my Windows system subdirectory — don’t you
just love it when you see an installation program copying DLL
files into that area!
Now, thanks to QuickView Plus, I printed a list of DLLs for
each Winserver module. And guess what — the two modules
that were buggy both had one thing in common. They used a
DLL called MFCO250.DLL. When I went into the Windows
system directory and tried to copy this file, I got a read error.
After some file maintenance, the file was restored to health and
now everything works tickety boo!
I’ll admit any experienced programmer could find out this information by looking at the EXE file with an editor, but for
rookies like me, QuickView Plus 4.0 presented the information
in an understandable form and helped me solve a problem that
Word Processors
Ami/Ami Professional
DEC WPS Plus
DisplayWrite 2 & 3 (TXT)
DisplayWrite 4 & 5
Enable
First Choice
Framework
HTML (Internet World Wide Web)
IBM FFT
IBM Revisable Form Text
IBM Writing Assistant
JustWrite
Legacy
MacWrite II
Manuscript
MASS11
Microsoft Rich Text Format
Microsoft Windows Write
Microsoft Word for DOS
Microsoft Word for Macintosh
Microsoft Word for Windows
Microsoft Works for DOS
Microsoft Works for Macintosh
Microsoft Works for Windows
MultiMate
Navy DIF
Nota Bene
Office Writer
PC-File Letter
PC-File+ Letter
PFS:Write
Plain Text (including ASCII, ANSI)
Plain Text with UUEncoded objects
Professional Write
Professional Write Plus
Q&A
Q&A Write for Windows
Samna Word
SmartWare II
Sprint
Total Word
Volkswriter 3 & 4
Wang PC (IWP)
WordMARC
WordPerfect
WordPerfect for Macintosh
WordPerfect for Windows
WordStar
WordStar 2000
WordStar for Windows
XyWrite
Versions through 3.1
All versions
Versions through Release 2.0
Enable
Versions 3.0, 4.0 and 4.5
First Choice
Framework
Version 3.0
Lotus 1-2-3 Charts DOS/Windows
Lotus 1-2-3 Charts for OS/2
All versions
Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS & Windows
All versions
Lotus 1-2-3 for OS/2
Version 1.01
Lotus Symphony
Microsoft Excel Charts
Microsoft Excel for Macintosh
Version 1.1
Microsoft Excel for Windows
Version 2.0
Microsoft Multiplan
Mosaic Twin
Versions 4.0 through 6.0
PFS:Professional Plan
QuattroPro for DOS
QuattroPro for Windows
SmartWare II
SuperCalc 5
VP Planner 3D
All versions
Version 3.0
Version 4.0 to 6.0
Access
DataEase
Versions A, B, and C
dBASE
n/a
dBXL
n/a
Enable
First Choice
Version 1.0
FoxBase
Version 2.0
Framework
Version 3.0
Versions through Samna Word IV+
Version 1.02
Paradox for DOS
Version 1.2
Paradox for Windows
Personal R:BASE
Q&A
Versions through Composer Plus R:BASE
R:BASE System V
Reflex
SmartWare II
was driving me nuts!
QuickView can be run as a stand-alone application or used as a
“helper application” or a “plug in” for use with Netscape Navigator. Configuring Netscape to run with QuickView allows you
to embed any supported file format inside of an HTML file or
as a message attachment. So, if you attach a Quattro spreadsheet to your e- mail message and it is received through
Netscape Mail, your recipient can view that spreadsheet, or
whatever, just as GIF or JPEG files are seen now.
Once you are viewing any file whether it be in “stand alone” or
“browser” mode, you can “right click” your mouse and do a
“find” operation on your data.
If you have to look at a myriad of files created by a myriad of
applications, I would definitely download this program for
evaluation. The only “negative” thing about the program that I
could find is that with CorelDRAW files (CDR) it loads the
“image header” instead of the actual CDR file, so that you cannot “zoom” the image to full screen.
Publisher:
The Inso Corporation
WWW Site:
http://www.inso.com
You get a 30 day evaluation period with the trial version —
after that the program won’t run. It can be “unlocked” by purchasing the program.
Version 1.0
Versions through III Plus
Spreadsheets
Version 3.0
Versions 1.0,1.1 and 2.0
Versions 3.0 - 7.0
Versions 3.0 - 4.0
Version 4.0
Version 2.5
Version 1.0
Version 1.02
Version 4.0
Version 1.0
Database Software
Graphics Software
Ami Draw (SDW)
AutoCAD DXF (Binary and ASCII)
Binary Group 3 Fax
CompuServe GIF
Computer Graphics Metafile
Corel Draw (TIFF header only)
DCX (multi-page PCX)
EPS (TIFF header only)
GEM Paint (IMG)
HPGL Version 2
JPEG
Lotus PIC
Lotus Snapshot
Mac PICT1 & PICT2 (Bitmap only)
MacPaint
Micrografx Designer and Draw (DRW)
OS/2 Bitmap
PCX (Paintbrush)
TIFF
TIFF CCITT Group 3 & 4
Truevision TGA (TARGA)
Windows Bitmap
Windows Cursor
Windows Icon
Windows Metafile
WPerfect Graphics [WPG and WPG2]
n/a
Versions 12 and 13
All versions
All versions
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
All versions
n/a
All versions
n/a
n/a
All versions
All versions
Versions through 6
Versions through 6
Version 2.0
All versions
All versions
All versions
Presentation Software
Version 4.0
Version 1.3
Version 2.1
Version 3.0
Version 1.0
Version 1.0
Version 2.0
Version 1.02
Freelance for OS/2
Freelance for Windows
Freelance 96 for Windows 95
Harvard Graphics for DOS
Microsoft PowerPoint for Macintosh
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July 1997
Learn Something New Every Day
I
? by The Gunner, Winnipeg PC User Group
How was I to do this? I checked the Help file and sure enough
guess I’m not a very imaginative sort. Take for instance my
it had a reference to the Forwarding of Received faxes! Just
use of software. Once I’ve learned how to do the basics
that, at reference, insufficient information for me to tackle the
things, for which I purchased the software I don’t seem to
job.
spend any time checking out the software features, finding the
little goodies that really make software fun to use. No, I’m very
Then I remembered, Version 4.0 still came with a printed manmuch unlike Paul Stephen, who
ual
rummages through the vendors ofChecking the index for ‘Fax, forferings on the World Wide Web and
warding’ sent me to a section
is continually coming up with neat
dealing with this subject.
“To quickly forward an event,
little (or big) programmes for the
The section was four paragraphs
rest of us. Paul really puts the softdrag and drop it on the
long, which in turn consisted of
ware he downloads through their
Send Command icon
twenty sentences. While I thought
paces and, fortunately, is available
I got the idea I really wasn’t that
to give good advice and help with
on the toolbar.”
confident. Then I noticed a Marthese programmes.
ginal Note alongside the Section,
I’ll quote you an example, a for inwhich said:
stance of my lack of knowledge of
“To quickly forward an event, drag and drop it on the Send
the many things that some of my software will do for me, if I
Command icon on the toolbar.”
but took the time to check some features.
The event referred to in the above was the Received Fax mesI have owned and used WinFax Pro since Version 1.0. I’m up
sage in the Received Log. So I highlighted the message I
to Version 4.0, which I realize is a little out of date. However, it
wanted to forward, then dragged the Fax Icon onto the toolbar
does the basic job I want, which is of course to send and reSend command icon, and dropped it. Immediately the Send Fax
ceive faxes.
dialogue box appeared on the monitor. Double clicking on my
Yesterday I learned something knew about Version 4.0, it had a
daughter’s address in WinFaxPro 4.0’s address list put all the
feature I never suspected. I came home to find my wife in a
requisite information into the correct spots on the dialogue box.
dither. A friend of my daughter’s in the country had wanted to
Then it was simply a matter of clicking the Send button and the
send a fax to my daughter. However, at that particular moment,
Received Fax was now a Send Fax — marvellous!
my daughter’s stand-alone fax machine wasn’t doing its thing.
Learn something new every day — maybe there’s a hint in all
So my daughter gave my fax number to her friend and had her
this that I should be experimenting more with my software insend the fax material to my computer.
stead of just using it to do a few mundane tasks.
Now my daughter wanted my wife to send her a copy of the
[EN: I never read manuals if I don’t need too. I didn’t know
material received from daughter’s friend. I was ordered down to
about this feature, George — err, Gunner! Thanks!]
the office and told to get the fax messages to my daughter’s
machine, which by this time, had become operative again.
Generic Internet Exec Addresses
These addresses will always put you in touch with the current person in charge of various UG activities.
Internet Address
Current Recipient
[email protected]
Steve Vincze
[email protected]
Roger Buchanan
[email protected]
Darryl Draeger
[email protected]
Liz Heide
[email protected]
Fred Legace
[email protected]
Brian Lowe
[email protected]
Jon Phillips
[email protected]
Paul Stephen
[email protected]
Len Thornton
[email protected]
Egbert Gutzmann
It appears that exective members check their Internet
mail more often than BBS mail, so if there is some urgent matter, you might get a faster response if you
send mail to their Internet mailbox.
July 1997
Web Pages with Corel’s WEB.GRAPHICS Suite
? by Paul Stephen
[email protected]
S
o bunky, you’ve got that Internet account and you haven’t
yet created your own set of
web pages — don’t you think
it’s about time you did?
Now folks, you can create web
pages simply by memorizing the
HTML command set and using
Notepad, but wouldn’t using a
WYSIWYG environment to create
all HTML those tags for you behind the scenes be easier? You bet it would. And what if it
came with ways to create HTML files from popular word processing documents, a whole slew of templates, graphics, sound
files, and its own graphic and animation editor too! Like the
sound of this? Read on!
WEB.GRAPHICS Suite comes on a CD ROM with six modules
to make creation and maintenance of your web pages a breeze
(with qualifications which will be discussed later).
The modules included in the package consist of: Corel
WEB.DESIGNER, Corel WEB.TRANSIT, Corel WEB.MOVE,
Corel WEB.DRAW, Corel WEB.WORLD and Corel WEB.GALLERY.
Corel WEB.DESIGNER
The designer module is the heart of the web graphics suite. All
the other modules can be loaded directly from this application
to allow for creation of elements that can be imbedded into an
HTML page.
The WYSIWYG editor allows you to literally add any element
to a web page — easily. You can add pictures, sound, movies,
forms, links, etc. and have the ability to easily scale and color
added text. You can even “spell check” your creation!
Maybe you’ve wondered how clicking on different areas of a
web graphic sends you to different web pages. Wonder no
more. A complete image map editor makes creation of such
things trivial. The editor allows you to easily define URL areas
on a GIF/JPEG image (Figure 1). The code for both Client and
Server image maps is automatically generated for your web
page.
Figure 1. Constructing an Image Map
On my 486-50, addition of text to a web page in the DESIGNER WYSIWYG mode was
quite slow — especially if graphic
files had been imbedded. In fact,
even without imbedded graphics,
text addition was like creation of a
message file using a slow BBS
link — you know the lag between
typing a character and its display
on the screen.
Fortunately, you can view and edit the background HTML code
in non-WYSIWYG mode— so if you have to add a great deal
of text to a formatted web page, that is one route to take. Another is to use another module — WEB.TRANSIT.
Corel WEB.TRANSIT
If creating a
web
page
from absolute
“scratch” is
not desired,
and you have
files in WordPerfect,
Word,
Ami
Pro or Rich
Text Format
( RTF) you
can instantly
generate web
pages. I originally thought
Figure 2. Template Conversion in
th at
th ese
WEB.TRANSIT
wo uld have
to be Windows created documents, but I discovered that files created with
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS work just fine! You simply tell the
program where your original document is located, and it “remaps” the styles contained in your document to web-related actions.
Figure 2 illustrates how a secondary template remaps the style
sheet of the original document. Quoting from an HTML file
that was included with the package: “A secondary control template preserves the hard-copy structure and layout of the word
processing document, but allows full control over content, appearance and behavior of the electronic publication.”
The user simply defines what HTML codes are to be used
whenever certain styles are found in the original document. For
example, a Header1 style might trigger the beginning of a new
web page and hence a new HTML file.
I found this “remapping” module to be very powerful. It
“forces” you to be more organized and consistent — which is
frustrating sometimes, but yet is very rewarding when out pops
a fully constructed set of web pages!
At this point, I should mention that this module was written by
Infoaccess (http://www.infoaccess.com). Users can upgrade to a
more powerful “TRANSIT” module from the original publisher.
Also, the WEB.GRAPHICS Suite was discontinued just after I
received it for review. It was replaced by Corel WebMaster
Suite. It appears that the TRANSIT module is not shipped with
this package. This omission is likely due to the fact that HTML
code can now be easily generated directly from Corel WordPerfect 7/8 or Ventura 7.
Corel WEB.MOVE
If you are graphically inclined — or even if you’re not... this is
one fun module! It allows you to create an animation comprised
of “actors”, “props”, “sound” and “cues”.
An actor is usually a moving image that can be created through
a link to the Corel WEB.DRAW module. In the sample file included with the package, the “actor” is an animated dollar bill
that extends over a series of 20 cels (each cell moves the actor’s
arms, legs, etc. to give a feel for motion — this isn’t that easy a
task if you aren’t an artist though!).
Figure 3. The Timeline in the MOVE Module
The props are parts of the scene — in the sample file they are
pictures, a desk, “point” bullets and text blocks.
A timeline allows you to introduce all these elements into the
overall presentation at specific times. It is easier to do than describe — totally “intuitive”!
In the sample file the presentation required 80 frames. The desk
and picture were present for all 80 frames. The actor’s 20 cells
were replicated 4 times and as the actor moved (both in terms
of position in the overall frame and in body language) the
graphical and text props were added.
Sound and cues can be also be included. However, these elements are only active if the file is “published” as a Barista file.
Barista is a Java-based technology pioneered by Corel. Unless
your ISP has installed the ancillary files necessary to run
Barista-published files, you won’t be able to use all the elements offered in this module for your web page — such as
sound.
However, you can export files to be animated GIFs or movies
(AVI) files. I attempted to publish the sample file in this format
but I was unsuccessful. This might have been due to insufficient
memory or disk space. I found a great number of TMP files
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stored in my TEMP directory after my publication attempts
failed.
Figure 4. Creating Cels in the DRAW Module
I doubt if many users will opt to create such presentations. The
file size is just too large. However, many users will use the
MOVE module to create simple animated GIFs. Even an “artistically challenged” individual like myself was able to easily
whip up a few animated GIFs.
To give you an idea how easy this is, you just fire up the
MOVE module and define a new actor. A new actor can be
created with the bitmap editor inside of MOVE or using the
DRAW module. If you choose the latter (that’s the best starting
point), you are then shown the familiar CorelDRAW screen
(with some additions/deletions) that allows you to begin your
“creation”. In my case I entered the string “Winnipeg PC User
Group”, and colored it. You will note that each “drawing” goes
into a “cell”. I could copy Cell 1 into Cell 2 and color the text a
different color. Then I would exit the DRAW module and the
two cells would by default alternate up to the maximum number
of frames I had defined for this “animation” — that is cell 1
would be Frame 1, cell 2 would be Frame 2, cell 1 would be
Frame 3, etc. Other options allow created cells to be randomized, or cell sequences lengthened.
The animation option
screen (Figure 5), allows you to define
the number of frames,
and other options.
Here you are also allowed to define the
size of your graphic
— so y ou adjust
width and height option s u ntil yo ur
“scene” (actors and
props) fit within this
area. This will ensure
that you don’t have
too much “dead
space” when you inFigure 5. Setting Attributes in the
sert the animation file
MOVE Module
into your web page.
Once your scene is
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rate viewer is available that web surfers can use to experience
complete you can save the original file and “publish it” as an
all the features of Corel WEB.WORLD. When you save your
animated GIF, Barista file(s), separate GIF files (one for each
work, both a WRL and a MUS (Corel’s VRML ASCII) file are
frame) or even as a “Quick Time” movie (AVI file). At the curcreated.
rent time, an animated GIF file would be your best bet, however!
Although it is possible to run Corel WEB.WORLD under Corel
WEB.DESIGNER, my 8 meg Win 3.11 system locked up conI almost missed the fact that Corel has included a myriad of
tinually when I attempted this task. I guess more memory might
different actors (2D/3D) and sounds in the suite for us “non
solve this problem. (Corel recommends 16 megs on the box.)
artists”. They are stored in *.MLB files and are accessed
through a toolbar in the MOVE module. The animations are
Corel WEB.GALLERY
just GREAT!
Corel has always realized that a great many of its users are not
In summing up working with this module — it was a BLAST!
artists. Thus, thousands of images, icons, buttons, bullets, fonts,
etc. are included to make the creation of “professional looking”
Corel WEB.DRAW
web pages much easier for the end user.
Here, the name says it all. The DRAW module contains most of
the tools found in “regular” CorelDRAW 5 allowing the user to
create very sophisticated images. It can be run “stand alone” to
create images for your web pages. A series of cells can be created for an “actor” if the DRAW module is accessed through
the MOVE module.
There are quite a number of import filters built into the web
version of DRAW, but a only a few export options (that’s all
you need anyway). You can save images as either GIF or JPEG
files. You can associate a “URL” with any image, and the
DRAW module allows you to “publish” this image — the image and the HTML code required to load the image and send
you to its URL is automatically generated. This code could then
be “pasted” into any HTML file.
The module comes complete with a viewing modCorel WEB.WORLD
ule that allows you to preWant to design your own
view and create custom
“virtual world” at your
folders for images you
website? If so, here’s anwish to use off the Corel
other module you can reCD.
ally use. Throw up some
Documentation
walls anywhere in your
“wo rld ” and you can
When I first opened up the
quickly paint, wallpaper,
box, I just took the “manadd pictures, sound, text,
ual” out of the box and
etc. to your structure. I
started working with the
thought that this module
software. I needed more
would be extremely diffihelp with some of the
cult to use, but was pleasmodules than was found in
antly surprised that even I
the electronic help files.
(someone who cringed at
No problem, I thought. I’ll
the word “perspective” in
just look it up in the manhigh school art class) could
ual. So I opened up the
quickly whip up a simple
book and discovered exstructure. Like the newer
tremely sparse information
CAD programs, you can
on all the programs in the
Figure 6. The Corel WEB.WORLD Module
create a “walk through” of
suite — the “manual” conyour creation. Even on my
sisted of illustrations of all the graphics and fonts included in
486-50, movement was pretty perky. A whole slew of virtual
the package.
world templates are included for you to examine, modify, etc.
So..., I decided to hike off to http://www.corel.com and see if
With some work, it should be possible to give members a “walk
there was any help on their website. I discovered that there
through” of the Winnipeg PC User Group Resource Centre (forwere electronic manuals for all the modules in the package.
merly known as the clubhouse).
One problem — they were in Envoy format — not PDF format.
You can save your “world” in “WRL” format which contains
Th er ef or e I had to go to Tumbleweed Software
ASCII code that can be imbedded in your HTML file. However,
(http://www.tumbleweed.com) and download the Envoy viewer
this format does not support many of the enhanced features
— another megabyte file on my system.
found in Corel’s program — sound, for example, and so a sepaIf a person plunks down over $100 for a software package, hard
copy documentation should be provided! I hope Corel will rectify this in its next release — or at least make printed manuals
available at minimal cost to those who need them.
One good thing came about as a result of this exploration — I
discovered a patch for Ventura Publisher 4.2 that I can use!
WEB.MASTER Suite
Just after I received the WEB.GRAPHICS Suite I discovered
that Corel replaced it with the WEB.MASTER Suite. Although
the former suite runs under both Win 3.x and Win95, the latter
suite only runs with Win95/NT. It appears that in the new suite
the “TRANSIT” module has been dropped and modules to
make site maintenance easier have been added.
Browser Incompatibilities
Creating web pages that will run under all browsers is not possible at this time. For example, the Designer module allows you
to define a WAV file that can be sent to play continually when
yo ur page is loaded. The HTML code (<BGSOUND
SRC="RD-JAN.WAV" LOOP="INFINITE"> currently is recog-
July 1997
nized by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer but not Netscape Navigator (Version 3, anyway.) Let’s hope the two major players
standardize on a common format!
Conclusion
I would consider the reviewed suite (and its replacement — the
DESIGNER, DRAW, MOVE, WORLD, and GALLERY modules are all in the WEB.MASTER Suite) a great package for
those individuals who wish to create top notch web sites. You
get great value for your money!
Of course, even with all these tools, you have to be a bit artistic
to make effective use of the graphic tools.
Product:
Publisher:
WWW Site:
Street Price:
Corel WEB.GRAPHICS Suite
Corel Corporation
1600 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 8R7
http://www.corel.com
CAN$269 (Misco)
Flea Market in July
Possibly July 26th!
T
he WPCUG is planning on holding a computer
flea market on July 26th at our Resource Centre.
XTs, 486s including various individual cards,
motherboards etc. will be for sale. Members can also donate hardware and software for this event or sell their
stuff for a small fee. The date is still tentative at this
time, but we wanted to get this into the newsletter. We
will confirm this event at the July General Meeting and
also on the BBS and via our internet site soon.
Contact Jon Phillips for more info at 888-9180 or use
the e-mail address: [email protected].
New Logo and Mission Statement
Just in case you didn’t notice it — we’ve got a new logo. I understand Brian Lowe came up with the initial design and
Darryl Draeger put the finishing touches on things using CorelDRAW — if I’m not correct on all these facts, please forgive me!
“To provide the means for computer users of varying backgrounds
to pool their resources and share knowledge.”
July 1997
ICQ (I Seek You)
The Internet Personal On-line Contact Programme
T
? by George Bowman, Winnipeg PC User Group
you have registered at this
he other day I received a
server you are assigned a UIN
message from our editor,
— mine is shown in the title
Paul Stephen, telling me
b ar of my C on tact L ist,
of yet another programme he
1535186. When I have conhad found on the ’Net and
nected to the Internet and have
wished me to try. (You will reactivated ICQ, I can carry on
call from Neil Longmuir’s arwith other tasks. As soon as
ticle about our Editor in the
someone, say Paul comes on
June issue, that Paul is forever
line as I said above, the promooching through the Internet
gramme alerts me to the fact
looking for programmes that
that he is now online.
might be of interest to members of our Group).
I can then send him a message,
carry on a ‘chat’ with him,
The biggest selling point, insend him a piece of e-mail and
itially for this programme is
do a file transfer. Of course he
that, providing your friends
has the same options in regard
have registered the programme
Figure 1.
Figure 3.
to me and any other of his
at one of its servers, you will
George Bowman’s
Contact Options
contacts contained in his Conbe ad vised whenever they
tact List.
come online. This of course
in ICQ
"ICQ" Contact List
presumes that you, yourself,
The chat feature really works
are online at the time they join
well. By clicking the right mouse button on Paul’s name on my
the ’Net. The programme alerts you, in real time, when they do
contact list, a list of activities, including ‘Chat’ is displayed
sign on. No more searching to see if your friends are on.
(Figure 3). Clicking on the ‘Chat’ activity presents me with a
Chat Request dialogue box. I simply fill in the Chat Subject
As can be seen from the Contact List illustrated at Figure 1 you
matter then click the Send button. Paul is paged (and this proimmediately know whether or not your friend is online. Note
gramme has some really wild sounds for these alerting functhat Paul (Stephen) was offline at the time I made this capture
tions) and can see that it is I who wish to chat with him, and
— I connected to our ISP, and when I activated ICQ it immedithe subject I want to natter on about. He can accept my call
ately detected that Paul was not online. So far Paul is the only
immediately or defer it until later.
other person, besides myself whose UIN (User Identification
Number) I know.
In the example shown in Figure 2 the “My Chat view” was
Paul’s window while my typings appeared in the bottom winThe space available for your contacts increases as you add
dow. Needless to say, as the text
more names of friends who have regclearly indicates, Paul was the one
istered and therefore have a UIN.
who made this screen capture, and the
Note also that there is a space for Fusubject of our Chat was this very
ture Users Watch. Names of people
screen capture. At my end, the Chat
whom I think may register at some
view was the reverse of Paul’s. What I
point in the future. Of course there is
type appeared, at my end, in the “My
space for me to Add Users, people
Chat view” (the upper window) while
whom I know have a UIN but had
in the lower window, labelled ’Paul’
not been on my Contact List as yet.
ws where the things which he typed
This Contact List is very important,
appeared...on my monitor.
as it is the engine that allows one to
Transferring files works just as simuse th e many f eatures of this
ply...I was alerted by the programme
progrmme. It is only effective, quite
when Paul wanted to send me a
naturally, when you’re online. You
file...and when I indicated acceptance,
can try these things out before cona dialogue box appeared which alnecting to our ISP but it’s not quite
ready identified, without any prompts
the same as when things are live on
from me, that the file would be
the ’Net.
Figure 2. George and Paul "Chat".
“Saved” in D:\(Pgms)\Temp which is
Registering is simple. Once you have
where I customarily save all my
installed ICQ, the programme will prompt you to register at a
downloads from the ’Net.
server, which one is unknown to you and is irrelevant. Once
Untried, since I have none of these toys, ICQ supports such
external applications as internet video voice/phone applications.
Some of these are, according to the overview of the programmes features are NetMeeting , Internet Phone , VDOPhone . All in all it is a great programme for those who spend
a great deal of time on the ’Net and would like to simplify
contact with their friends.
Addendum from
the Editor
ICQ was written
by a small start up
company in Israel.
Its CEO, Sefi
Vigiser, is only 25
years of age.
I just “discovered
ICQ” in June, and
by that time over
1,000,000 p eople
had their own
UIN. The reason
fo r this rapid
spread of the proFigure 4. Main ICQ Menu
gram is that each
new u ser “recruits” new users. The ICQ database can be searched by name,
e-mail address, or UIN (if known). If it is not known, you simply add a personalized message and the server fires a small
HTML file off to your friend giving complete details about the
program and how to download it.
Figure 5. Preferences Menu
Each user is given a dynamic web page, so that folks who haven’t yet installed the program can send notices to your UIN
address. For example, you can bring up my ICQ “web pager”
by entering the URL: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1529264. If you
want to send a “flash” e-mail message to me, you just send the
message to [email protected]. This feature will
only send the first 450 characters of a message, but it will
quickly get the attention of your ICQ contact. (What you do is
send the full length version of your message to the person’s
regular e-mail address and “CC” it to the “pager” address.)
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Icons and code to add messaging and “E-mail Express” ability
to your own home page are available at: http://www.mirabilis.com/enablingsite.html.
Figure 6. E-mail polling “pop-up”
Another great feature of the program is its ability to monitor
your e-mail inbox. The program will check for new mail and
notify you whenever any new mail has arrived. Once mail arrives, the program allows you to immediately start up your mail
application. You can set how often “polling” of your inbox is to
be conducted. Currently you have to wait 5 minutes before the
program polls your inbox.
Hopefully the developers
will change the program
to poll your mailbox on
program startup. You can,
of course, force the program to manually poll
your inbox at any time.
When a user “registers”,
you can enter as much or
as little personal identification as you wish. If you
enter your home page
URL, clicking on a contact’s name and a menu
“Home Page” option will
automatically load your
defined browser using the
URL found in that contact’s database.
One nifty feature (for
some reason it is “wacky”
for some accounts — my
Figure 7.
suspicion is that their loPaul’s Contact List
cal “clock” was not set
properly when they registered the program) is that it stores a “live” time field in its
database. This is GREAT when you are corresponding with
people around the world as you simply bring up a contact’s
database entry and see what the current local time is for that
user.
I have added Figure 7 to show you that you can rename the
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some written by Steve Bass, President of the Pasadena PCUG,
contact list e-mail addresses with “real names”. You will also
and a contributing editor to PC World magazine. In one APnote that although I have found the UINs of two individuals,
CUG article, Steve included the following text from Steve Gibthey have ICQ setup to not directly allow me to add them to
son, author of Spinwrite: “Steve, here’s a KILLER DILLER
my contact list. I have to ask for their permission.
CONCEPT!! Wish I’d have thought of it! I’ve been using it for
There are a myriad of options in ICQ — from message threads,
awhile, and wanted to be sure that you’d seen it! What a COOL
the ability to instantly forward a URL from the web page you
IDEA — knowing who else that YOU KNOW is surfing
are viewing to a contact — and as George has already said,
around the net — on the fly — and being able to contact them
“chatting” is really easy. Not only can you “chat” in ASCII, but
for a chat or a message send!”
you can bring up any voice/video application to use with ICQ.
So, gang, it’s not just me that thinks ICQ is terrific. The proIf you don’t have the program on your system, ICQ will go off
gram has also just won the 1997 Shareware Industry Award
on the net and retrieve it for you!
for Best Internet Program! It is available in both Win 3.x and
Some people may be reticent about trying the program for fear
Win95 versions and right now is completely free. Of course,
that their privacy may be invaded. Fear not! There are a whole
once
you get hooked, it would be very easy for the developers
slew of options that allow you to be as
to turn on a “flag” on their server that
“open” or “closed” to Internet corresponwould deny you access to their server until
dence as you wish.
you register the program.
I sent some correspondence to the CBC’s
The program is super for those of you with
Pamela Wallen a few days ago. Of course,
one phone line and who are “on the net” a
“Pamela” doesn’t really read such e-mail
Figure
8.
Click
HERE
to
go
great deal of the time. You can always be
herself, but I sent info about ICQ (as dein constant contact with friends if they all
to
the
Mirabilis
Website
scribed above) to her mailbox. Within 2
are running ICQ!
days, one of her producers had downloaded
When you get yourself a copy, send me a message and tell
the program and was corresponding with me.
me how you like it — PLEASE!
I happened to download some files from the APCUG BBS —
Proper Diskette Care and Usage
from Neil Longmuir, Winnipeg PC User Group
(1) Never leave diskettes in the drive, as the data can leak out
of the disk and corrode the inner mechanics of the drive.
Diskettes should be rolled up and stored in pencil holders.
(2) Diskettes should be cleaned and waxed once a week. Microscopic metal particles may be removed by waving a
powerful magnet over the surface of the disk. Any stubborn
metal shavings can be removed with scouring powder and
steel wool. When waxing a diskette, make sure the surface
is even. This will allow the diskette to spin faster, resulting
in better access time.
(3) Do not fold diskettes unless they do not fit into the drive.
“Big” Diskettes may be folded and used in “Little” drives.
(4) Never insert a diskette into the drive upside down. The data
can fall off the surface of the disk and jam the intricate
mechanics of the drive.
(5) Diskettes cannot be backed up by running them through a
photo copy machine. If your data is going to need to be
backed up, simply insert TWO diskettes into your drive.
Whenever you update a document, the data will be written
onto both disks. A handy tip for more legible backup copies: Keep a container of iron filings at your desk. When
you need to make two copies, sprinkle iron filings liberally
between the diskettes before inserting them into the drive.
(6) Diskettes should not be removed or inserted from the drive
while the red light is on or flashing. Doing so could result
in smeared or possibly unreadable text. Occasionally, the
red light remains flashing in what is known as a “hung” or
“hooked” state. If your system is hooking, you will probably need to insert a few coins before being allowed to
access the slot.
(7) If your diskette is full and needs more storage space, remove the disk from the drive and shake vigorously for two
minutes. This will pack the data enough (data compression)
to allow for more storage. Be sure to cover all openings
with scotch tape to prevent loss of data.
(8) Data access time may be greatly improved by cutting more
holes in the diskette jacket. This will provide more simultaneous access points to the disk.
(9) Periodically spray diskettes with insecticide to prevent system bugs from spreading.....
Newbies
The above article is a SPOOF!
Don’t follow any
of these instructions!!!
July 1997
MEMBERSHIPS THAT EXPIRE AT THE END OF JULY
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2. All dial lines are 33,600 bps
Gang.... the Internet is GREAT,
but remember
downloads from the BBS are totally
FREE and FASTER!
July 1997
Winnipeg PC User Group Forums
? by George Bowman, Forum Coordinator
Meet at the Resource Centre
A forum is a group of members who meet to share information
on topics of mutual interest, i.e. Beginners Forum, Hardware
Forum. Members can help, and learn from, each other. Each
forum has one or two leaders.
Meeting Place
Unless otherwise stated all Forums meet at the WPCUG Resource Centre (The Clubhouse) at 337C Fleet Street (Pembina
Highway at Fleet Street).
And Now....Here are the Forums
(listed alphabetically)
Beginner’s FORUM
Meets the second Saturday of the month. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m.
Leaders: Barb Randle and Liz Heide
Communications FORUM
Meets first Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Leader: Tim Kruger
Genealogy FORUM
Meets the fourth Monday of the month.
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Leader: Lorin Berard
HTML — Hyper Text Markup Language
Meets first Wednesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Leader: Shawn Zayac
Hardware FORUM
Meets the fourth Tuesday of the month. 7:00 p.m. - 9: p.m.
except for the months of July and August.
Leader: Jon Phillips
W
ell, it was a big surprise to see my
“history” in June’s newsletter. Just for
the record, there were a few errors.
Although Carman was my “longest home” (my
dad was a United Church minister), I wasn’t
born there — Kenora, Ontario was my birthplace.
And no, Johnny Carson wasn’t born in Carman. He was born in Corning, Iowa. However
Jack Carson (his real name was John Carson), who appeared in many movies and television shows was born there. One of his most
memorable performances was in “Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof”.
I also started doing the newsletter in the Spring
of 1985. Don Elliott, our first newsletter editor,
was the individual who printed each page twice
Lotus FORUM
Meets the third Tuesday of the month. 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Contact person: Robert Snyder
Linux FORUM
Meets the second Thursday of the month. 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Leader: Len Thornton
The OS/2 FORUM
Meets the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Leaders: Thomas King
OS — Install
Meets every Saturday of the month EXCEPT the second Saturday which is the Beginner’s Forum. 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Leader: Len Thornton.
Windows FORUM
Meets the second Tuesday of the month. 7 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Leader: Gary Dikkema
WordPerfect FORUM
Meets the second Wednesday of the month. 7:00 p.m. - 9:00
p.m. EXCEPT for the months of June, July and August, annually.
Leader: Neil Longmuir
KEEP ME POSTED!!!
FORUM Leaders, please keep me updated on your FORUM
happenings and I’ll get the information to these pages.
Errata
Jack Carson
was born in Carman.
(to achieve multiple columns). I used a combination of WordStar and Edix (a text formatting
program) to accomplish the task — no multiple
printer passes required.
I had to order Edix, figure out how it worked,
get enough articles for the newsletter, and print
it (on a NEC Spinwriter) in about 5 weeks. I
also would like to add that at the time I didn’t
even own my own printer. (In fact, I still don’t
own my own printer!)
Thanks to Neil for the surprise article! Your editors would like to get bios from other members
and find out what YOU do for a living and
what YOU do on your PC — be it at work or
home!
Paul
July 1997
Two Movie Legends Pass On
W
? by Paul Stephen
hen you’re “young”, you
think you’ll live forever.
You are insulated from
death by shielding from your
older “kin” — your grandparents
and parents. Then slowly, as the
years pass, these people die and
you realize that YOU are next in
line to face the “grim reaper”.
So you create other shields, perhaps your favorite actors and actresses. Unfortunately, you discover that they too are not really
immortal. (George Burns had me almost believing it, though!)
On July 1st, Robert Mitchum left us — and then on July 2nd,
Jimmy Stewart passed on.
Most of you will never get the chance to meet a real “movie
star”. On one of my visits to Hollywood in the 70’s I attended a
Mike Doug las tap ing.
Jimmy Stewart was one of
the guests.
The show ended, and the
audience and most of the
“stars” disappeared — except one — Jimmy Stewart.
He was shaking hands and
speaking freely to individuals from the audience who
wanted to say “Hello”.
I could have gone back and joined in. I didn’t. I wish I had.
Watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” will be very different for me
this year.
One thing I know for sure — Jimmy won’t have to wait to get
his wings! (Robert might have to wait a bit though! <VBG>)
A Letter From a Member
Please take this as what I would have said had I been able to
attend the June/July general meetings. It is to be taken as being
from a “member” and NOT “newsletter editor”.
his is YOUR User Group. I hope you folks take the time
to read the new bylaws very carefully. There are major
changes imbedded in them — especially in the area of
“elected” positions. Also, they are being presented to you at
exactly the same time elections are being called. Such “reorganization” in this User Group should have been debated and
voted on MONTHS ago!
I think it “interesting” to note that the newsletter editor/co-editor positions are no longer going to be elected positions. Instead, these appointed positions will no doubt be under the
“direction” of the VP of Communications (a new position).
[Read the job description of VP of Communications very carefully!]
If the bylaws are passed as written, then the newsletter editor/co-editor will be appointed (“annointed”) with no vote and
“in theory” will essentially have to carry out the edicts of the
elected board.
Due to illness, I really haven’t voted on any issues since the
Spring of 1994 (I haven’t been able to attend exec meetings.). I
am not a power broker or a political animal — but do feel that
individuals who spend 40+ hours a month doing work for the
group should have at least have a chance to vote on issues.
Do you folks not think it strange that you should elect an “Online Services Manager” (a technical position) and an “Events
Coordinator” and NOT your Newsletter Editor/Co-Editor team
(information positions)? I am not arguing that the “OSM/EC”
shouldn’t be elected — just arguing that the newsletter team
should be elected. The editors should be responsible to YOU,
T
the MEMBERSHIP, and NOT to the Board of Directors.
Since Day 1 the newsletter editor(s) have successfully
“shipped” the newsletter out to you. Do you want an “external”
board member put “in charge” of the newsletter? Too many
“cooks” always spoil the broth!
I would urge you to reject the bylaws as presented.
This is YOUR User Group, however, and YOU will make the
final decision. Make sure you attend the July General Meeting
and cast your vote.
Paul Stephen
Member, Winnipeg PC User Group
July 1997
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