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Price $2.00 North - -----.- ------...-...--- .......... -~ ...-.~- -.-~ .... -- -.-.......... --....• -- -.----_- ~ ------- ------ ~--- ------- -- -- ~- North Texas PC Users Group, Inc. September 1994 VOLUME 13 • NUMBER 9 Submitting Articles for Publication in North Texas PC NF\I\'S 1. Article Style. Type all copy flush the main menu. Your default fill' North Texas PC NEWS left without justification. This includes transfer protocol will be displayed. J f headings, bylines, and the first line of you want to change your defa u I t Published monthly by members of. North Texas Personal Computer Users Group for their uSe. Members each re each paragraph. Place a credit byline protocol, use the (P}rofile option. Once ceive a free subscription; for others, price of the NEWS is (author's name) between the title and you have set the file transfer protocol, $2 per copy. Members are requested to notify the Mem bership Director in writing of address changes. Send all first paragraph. 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Agenda, Meetings The Visual Basic Comer .............. 4 & Times .. 1 Jim Carter DEADLINE SIG Reports. 15-24 Copy deadline for September Microsoft Office 4.3 - Part 3 (Review) 5-8 North Texas PC NEWS: Larry Linson New Disks from the Saturday, September 10th OOMSquad 25 Bringing Your Computer to Meetings . _ . .. 8 Mike Firth Volunteer Guide 26 Meeting Dates: Lotus Spreadsheet Contest Rules .. 11 September 17, 1994 - 3rd Saturday Mark Gruner User-to-User 27-28 October 29,1994 - 5th Saturday Variety Store .................... 12-14 November 19, 1994 - 3rd Saturday Reagan Andrews BBS - On-line. 24 Membership Fred Williams Application ... 28 Officers & People You should know . 29 September 1994 North Texas PC NEWS • • • 9:00 AM - 9:55 AM Internet - What The Future Holds Network-1 Software and Technology, Inc. Bill Hancock, Ph.D., Executive Vice President Come hear Dr. Bill Hancock discuss how the "freeB Internet will be impacted by dramantic growth, reduced government funding, and a shortage of user addresses.. How will new technology and the cableltelephone battles and mergers affect your access options, and at what cost Will there be room for you? Dr. Hancock has served on various standards com mitte;es at the :IEEE and ANSI, is a former U.S. Delegation Network Expert to ·the International Organization for Stand ardization(ISO). and former chair of the Open System Interconnect (OSI) architecture standards committee at tt"le ISO. 10:00 AM - 10:55 AM WordPerfect Envoy for Document Management WordPerfect Corporation Envoy is a cross-platform, portable-document software system, just released. It supports Windows and Macintosh, and soon Unix and Power-Mac will be added. Envoy promiSes to ease paperless-document generation and management with scalable font substitution and group-collaboration tools. There will be a drawing for free products .• 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM NTPCUG Business Meeting 1:00 PM - 1:55 PM dBASE and Paradox 5.0 for Windows Borland International dBASE for Windows is the fastest way to buifd Windows database appfications. If you have ever written a line of dBASE or Xbase code, you'l find this an exciting new entry into the windows database market dBASE for Windows breaks new ground for developers. power-users and end-users alike. Paradox 5.0 extends the power of Paradox in the Wmdows environment. continuing Borfand's tradition of providing major advancements in PC database technofogy with its newest release of Paradox. The object~riented design of Paradox 5.0 combines ease of use and state-of-the-art productivity support with powerful relational data management. There wifl be a drawing for free products for all attendees. • Tickets fOf' each drawing win be given out from 10 minutes before unti115 minutes after the start-time of the meeting to attencfmg NTPCUG members who show proof of membership. 8:00 - 8:55 10:00 - 10:55 (Cont.) 11:00 - 11:55 (Cont.) . 1:00 - 1:55 (Cont.) Microsoft Networking Fox Pro Database Spreadsheet Developers Business Apps.IDAC Easy VISual BASIC - Beginning Micrografx Windows Developers DATA FLEX Networking 9:00 - 9:55 Middle C PAF-Genealogy 11:30 - 11:55 Word for Windows BASIC Programming-Visual Paradox Orientation OS/2 Developers DOS Personal Users Personal Users General Genealogy 12:00 - 12:55 WordPerfectlWindows Alpha Four Spreadsheet Hardware Solutions UNIX Intemet C++/Advanced C 2:00 - 2:55 Personal Users 11:00 - 11:55 Communications Advanced Programmers Quicken BASIC Programming- Desktop Publishing Community Services Software Review -Begining Investors (Cont) North Texas FreeNet StarText Assembler OS/2 for End Users The Master Genealogist Visual BASIC Brother's Keeper Genealogy Personal Users Windows Applications CAD (Cont.) Roots IIIIIV (Cont.) Please consult the BBS WordPerfectIDOS Investors TI Pro and remember to check Micrografx (Cont.) the overhead display in 10:00 - 10:55 1:00 -1:55 MS Works the INFOMART lobby BASIC - Classic Access for latest SIG schedules OS/2-0 &A ACT! CAD and room locations Roots IIIIlV - Genealogy BBS 1 Remember the Professor I am proud to announce that the long-time OOM Chairperson, DOM Squad Leader, DOM Mom, Kathryn Loafman, has been selected to teach at North Texas State University. KL sadly must leave her volunteer job with NTPCUG behind. We will miss her, but she assures me that she will find ~e to drop in on us. ' . Thank 'you, Kathryn. Your assistance and your ' wit will be missed. OS/2 5IGs announcing the upcoming beta release Ii The Mailbox of an OS/2 communications program. Hey, that 1_1 i ! The Users Group maintains a post office box as might be exciting to an OS/2 person. i our official address. The main items that arrive in i A second shareware program tops the pile next. the P.O. Box are the new and renewal member This is the Buttonware personal database manager ships that people mail in. However, there are al for Windows titled buttonFile 1.0.