SCOUG OS/2 For You - July 1994

July Meeting Topic

July Meeting(sort of) A New Meeting Format Starting Promptly at 9 AM

The SCOUG general meetings will follow a new format starting in July. It's not really all that different, just more is compressed into the available time. The general meeting will begin at 9AM sharp with announcements and whatever business needs attending to. That will be followed, in short order, with the presentation for the month. Then, an open question and answer period and raffle, and the meeting will conclude about 11AM.

But, it's really not over at 11 - that's actually the break time before the new special interest groups (SIGs) meet from 11:15AM - 12:30PM. There will be one group focusing on introductory OS/2 topics such as templates, Palettes, Settings Notebooks, and the OS/2 productivity tools; one for those interested in programming (possibly in C, C++, and/or REXX) for OS/2, Presentation Manager, and the Workplace Shell; and another more specialized group for local area networks (LANs) such as LAN Server and Novell NetWare. These groups are open to all interested members and you are encouraged to participate if one of the topic areas strikes your fancy.

Fastback for OS/2 The presentation this month will be on Fastback for OS/2 from the Fifth Generation division of Symantec. Vince Pfeiffer, product manager for Fastback for OS/2, will show off the new edition of this backup product.

Fastback for OS/2 backs up hard drives - both FAT and HPFS - to floppy disks, QIC-40 and QIC-80 floppy tape drives (such as the Colorado Jumbo series), Bernoulli drives, and optical media. The program handles OS/2's long file names and extended attributes, and, when necessary, can be used to restore the system.

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