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From: kling@ics.uci.edu (Rob Kling)
Subject: Re: Article: Controversies about Computerized Work
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,comp.infosystems,comp.society.futures
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:42:29 GMT



Hello ...

The next 5 files contain the text of a long article "Key Controversies About
Computerization and White Collar Worklife" which I'm posting for your
possible enjoyment and also for any comments or questions.

Best wishes,

Rob Kling
Department of Information & Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
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From: allison@hal.COM (Dennis Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Groupware 92 information requested
Summary: Blurb on the conference
Keywords: groupware conferences
Date: 23 Jul 92 00:07:52 GMT
Followup-To: comp.groupware
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: dennis.hal.com

In article <199207221432.AA10867@tuna.wang.com> IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club") writes:
>Would anyone have any information or recommendations on
>Groupware 92?
>
>Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com

Here's the blub which was posted a while back....  

---------------------------------------------

GroupWare  92 
The First Commercial Groupware Conference and Exhibition
August 2-5  **  San Jose Convention Center

Groupware productivity tools are available NOW to increase the
productivity and lower costs within organizations.  Groupware 92 is
designed for IS managers, Department Managers, Developers, and others
who need to know about this technology.

Groupware 92 is a good place to learn about the current state of the 2
billion dollar groupware industry, the techology and methodologies
which support it, and to see demonstrations of over 100 different
product offerings from over 50 companies.

The conference program includes over 140 speakers drawn from industry
experts and groupware users in over sixty sessions.  A full day of
tutorials on a variety of topics ranging from groupware basics to
intelligent agents, graphical user interfaces, and workflow (to mention
but a few) will be given August 2.

Conference session tracks include 
  .. Groupware Management and Cultural Issues
  .. Technology and Groupware Development
  .. Groupware in the Commercial Marketplace
  .. Miscellaneous Groupware Issues
  .. User Experience, 
  .. Special Sessions (small sessions on specific groupware topics).


Confirmed speakers for general sessions include:
   Jim Manzi, President and CEO of Lotus          
   Philippe Kahn, Borland International
   Ray Noorda, President and CEO of Novell        
   Ron Whittier, VP of Software for Intel
   Esther Dyson, editor and publisher of Release 1.0 
   Dr. Thomas Malone, Professor of Information Systems at the MIT
      Sloan School of Business
   Dr. Terry Winograd, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
   Dr. Joel Orr, Past President of NCGA and AutoCAD Fellow
   Ms. Susanna Opper, co-author of Technology For Teams
   Dr. Douglas Engelbart the Director of the  Bootstrap Institute and
      the father of groupware.
   Daniel Petre, General Manager Workgroup Applications Division,
      Microsoft
   Sheldon Laube, National Director of Information and Technologies,
      Price Waterhouse
   David Stone, Vice President, Software Products Group, Digital Equipment
      Corporation


All attendees will receive a full set of conference papers and a 500
page Proceedings.  Special group discounts for attendees from the same
company or organization.

For more information  call 800-247-0262,or to register by telephone
call 1-800-925-4906 (in the U.S.) or 415-388-3506 for international
callers.
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
From: Barry Thomas <thomasb@ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: CalScan
Organization: Indiana University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.0
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 13:53:46 GMT

Does anyone use a product called CalScan, Mac/DOS software for calendar
scheduling?

Barry Thomas
thomasb@ucs.indiana.edu
Indiana University

Opinions expressed our my own and do not represent the University
From: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Subject: RE: Collaborative Architectural Design
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 12:13:18 EDT
Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Reply-To: wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu
Distribution: usa

I should have been more careful when I used the term
architectural. What I mean is the design of buildings!!
(You could tell from my address). So, if you are interested
in computer support for collaborative design of architectural
structures... (Is that any clearer!!!??!?) Send me e-mail.

--
Wassim M. Jabi                            (313) 936-0229
Doctoral Program in Architecture, University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Boulevard  Ann Arbor  Michigan 48105-2313
wjabi@libra.arch.umich.edu             NeXTMail-friendly
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From: consensus@aol.com (Christopher Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Are there any multiuser hypermedia tools fro SUN or Mac?
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:07:20 GMT
Organization: Consensus Development
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1

In article <1992Jul17.135145.12767@bernina.ethz.ch> Hannes Lubich,
lubich@bernina.ethz.ch writes:

>We are thus looking for products that allow simultaneous access to a
>shared hypermedia document and runs on Suns (preferred) under X-Windows
>or networked Macintoshes (under System 7 and Ethernet or Appletalk).
>We don't need very fancy functionality, text, bitmaps and line graphics
>should be sufficient (plus the ability for arbitrary links, and
browsing).

The closest I've seen for the Mac is "Aspects" by Group Technologies. It
does not have the hyperlinks, but you can "follow" other people in their
interactions, or go off and do your own.

From the list in the Mac Groupware Yellow Pages:

*Aspects (Version 1.03) Aspects allows up to 16 people to work together
interactively whether they are in the same room or spread around the
world. Members of a work-group can bring documents from their own
Macintosh into the conference, everyone can see those documents on
their screen, anyone can make changes to them, and those changes are
immediately visible to everyone in the conference. Aspects has a
complete set of word processing, drawing, and painting tools built in.
COST: $299 for a single user, $895 for 5 user pack. Group Technologies
(703)528-1555; f(703)528-3296 AL: Group.Tech AO:ReidLewis,
IN: Group.Tech@applelink.apple.com


| Christopher Allen                   Internet: consensus@aol.com |
| Consensus Development                       Tel: (415) 345-1060 |
| 3182 Campus Drive #501                      Fax: (415) 345-1714 |
| San Mateo, CA 94403-3123                                        |
From: jhjacobs%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (James Jacobs)
Subject: Group design software overview?
Date: 23 Jul 92 11:25:52 MDT
Organization: University of Utah

One of the goals of the systems project I'm working on is that it
should support CAD applications.  Since CAD seems to be heading towards
should cooperative (or group) design, I'm interested in find out what
type of systems support these applications need.  Can anyone point me at
a general overview of group design software?

Newsgroups: comp.groupware
From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
Subject: LAN TIMES article on Groupware '92
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:55:42 EST

I have sent out a copy of that LAN TIMES article
on Groupware '92 to everyone who asked for it,
I think.  If I missed anyone, please let me
know.  It's basically an interview with
GroupWare '92 chairman David Coleman.

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,comp.infosystems,comp.society.futures
From: sasha@advtech.uswest.com (Sasha Harris-Cronin)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: On-line multi-user bibliographies
Keywords: electronic bibliographies
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:03:28 GMT
Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies
Originator: sasha@mongo

I'm looking for software to create on-line
bibliographies suitable for multiple users to access and 
contribute to.  I know that there are database programs
which could be used to create bibliographies, but I'd like
to find something that has already been created specifically
for that purpose and that will support multiple users.  I'd
also be interested in experiences people may have had with
such software.  Software for a Macintosh LAN environment
is preferred, but something that would work on a UNIX network
would also be of interest.

Please Reply via email to sasha@uswest.com
If I get any interesting information, I will summarize it 
on the net.
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Reply-To: dn@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Daniel Neades)

I haven't tried them yet, but in the

/pub/downloads

directory on Hobbes (128.123.35.151) are two files

proii4.zip
proii8.zip

which are the new Orchid Prodesigner II drivers for OS/2 2.0.

Enjoy!

Daniel.
From: po.CWRU.Edu!dab6@overmind.mind.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Question: Using bitmaps for Background/Lockup
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:28:00 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
X-mailer: Stadel 3.4a-227
X-Spam-content: irrelevant


In a previous article, edg@Ingres.COM (Ed Goldman) says:

>Hi all,
>
>I got some gif files and converted them to os/2 bitmaps using a conversion
>utility, gif2bmp which I got from GEnie.  When I try to use the converted
>bitmaps as a background for the desktop or lockup, the image is not 
displayed
>correctly -- it is scewed and wrapped across a diagonal.
>
>I thought that the gif2bmp utility was probably messing them up in the con-
>version, but when I use vpic ( a dos-based image viewer ) it correctly 
>displays the image and identifies it as an OS/2 PM bitmap.
>
>Does anyone know what the problem might be and if it can be fixed?

>From what I understand, not all bmp's are created equal.
There are windows bmp's and OS/2 bmp's.  Some windows bmp's
will work under os/2 & vice versa.  But not all
From: zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Tseng Lab video Card and os/2 2.0
Date: 31 Jul 92 02:35:44 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

I would like to know if Tseng Lab ET 4000 video card can work well with
os/2 2.0. Someone on USENET said this video card works great with x-windows
under linux, but os/2 2.0 does not like it.
I am going to get a 486/33, with either Trident 8900c or Tseng Lab video 
card, cann't decide which one is better. Apprarently Trident card is not
supproted by X11R5.
Any feedback is appreciated.
zhao@unixg.ubc.ca
-- 
Jiansheng Zhao
Dept. Chem. Eng, Univ. of B. C., Canada. V6T 1Z4
zhao@unixg.ubc.ca
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From: keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating )
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Cursor Loss in DOS Window (OS/2 2.0)
Date: 22 Jul 92 20:11:42 GMT
Organization: Dowty Communications, Inc.

Hello All!

In a program running in a DOS Window on OS/2 2.0, I've found that my cursor
tends to never appear when it should be blinking.  It works fine in a full-
screen session, however.


Thinking it might be my video (IBM 8514 in a PS/2 Model-80), I tried the same
experiment on an identical computer using VGA.  Same problem.  Any ideas as
to what it might be?

Please mail any replies, as the news-feed tends to take 5 to 6 days to get
here.  (Not everyone has a leased line for news, ya know...  :^)

Thanks much!

John Keating, III



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 formerly  CASE/Datatel, Inc.   | The above message may not correspond with the
                                | views of Dowty Communications, Inc. -JWK3-
From: m-lp9966@JED.CS.NYU.EDU (Lewis Perin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: fax modems
Date: 26 Jul 92 15:53:38 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.os2.misc
Organization: New York University

Like everything else with no moving parts, fax modems have been
getting very cheap lately.  While I don't often need to send images
over the wire, the prospect of sending and receiving text at 9600 baud
makes me want to junk my old 2400 baud modem and get one of the things
I see advertised these days.  Since I don't want to foreclose the
possibility of ever doing fax, can anyone tell me if any of the fax
modems on the market today with text speeds >= 9600 are OS/2
compatible?

Thanks, Lew
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From: RFM@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Notebooks and OS/2...
Date: 28 Jul 92 02:35:22 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

There's an outfit in Calaifornia called TOTE-A-LAP that advertisese
hard drive upgrades for notebooks. They also have good prices for
notebook memory SIMMS. Plus they're a Tosiba dealer of some sort.
You might want to give them a call and see if'n you can install a larger
internal hard drive in your Toshie. Less hassle than hauling an
external hard drive around....
They advertise in BYTE Magazine. I've been in contact with 'em about
upgrading the hd on my Tandy 2810. All I need is the money....

BobM, Penn State-Harrisburg
From: ching@angelo.amd.com (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Drivers or OS/2
Date: 24 Jul 92 04:43:49 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA

In article <1992Jul23.191220.7257@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>In article <1992Jul22.102357.5515@ISF.Unisys.COM> starner@ISF.Unisys.COM (Mark Starner) writes:
>>I was wondering (before I start making a lot of long distance phone calls)
>>whether anyone knows whether there are any drivers for the Sony Bus CD-ROM
>>Drive (from the laser library package) and for the Colorado Memory Systems
>>Jumbo 120 Tape Backup?
>
>I don't know about the tape backup, but U heard a rumor about the Sony
>CD-ROM.  Someone claimed that you could use the IBM CD-ROM driver, and
>edit it with a binary file editor.  Replace the word "Toshiba" with
>"Sony".  Try this at your own risk.  Personally, I wouldn't want to
>attempt this on my own hardware.
>
>
Trying to read a CD ROM is pretty harmless. I changed Toshiba to
ShinaKen and my CD ROM drive works fine.

Mike Ching
From: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: POV-Ray and OS/2
Date: 30 Jul 92 08:41:00 GMT
Reply-To: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler)
Organization: SataLink Info Systems - Huntingdon Valley, PA - 215-364-3324

Folks, Drew Wells jusat sent me a message via Compuserve Email
mentioning that Bill Pulver has taken on the task of supporting
POV-Ray under OS/2 using IBM's OS/2 compiler.  Bill is a well-known
developer on the Compuserve circuit, is a genuine OS/2 fanatic, and
has posted many a message in various Compuserve forums giving out
assistance to those who need it.

Also, I've been making the mistake of referring to this product
as "POV".  I've since seen a number of messages on Compuserve
to the effect that the developers prefer to use the name "POV"
to refer to their group and "POV-Ray" to refer to their freeware
ray-tracer.  Mea Culpa.

                   Bert Tyler   (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
---
 . DeLuxe./386 1.25 #343sa . Your mileage may vary.  Your car may not run.
                                                                                                                     
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: poffen@rushmore (Russ Poffenberger)
Subject: Re: Improving OS2 performance question
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 22:34:21 GMT

rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
: kspeicht@kilcom1.ucis.dal.ca (Kevin F. Speichts) writes:
: >	I have a 486/33 with 4MB of RAM with a 120MB 14ms hard drive.  How 
: >can I improve OS/2's performance.   I'm using dual boot option, should I use 
: >the HPFS system.  Should I buy 4 more MB's of RAM.  Or should I purchase a 
: >coprocessed video card like the ATI Graphics Ultra 1.0MB.  Which one should 
: >yield the best performance boost.  Or should I try a combination of options.
: 
: 
: NOTHING is going to help you like 4 more MB of RAM is going to help
: you.  Get the RAM, change to HPFS, and you'll find that OS/2 literally
: runs several times faster.

True, but it still seems slower than native DOS, and Windows. I have 16Mb
memory, and a 300Mb SCSI drive (Adaptec 1542). Maybe I would feel better
if someone would get off their a** and write OS/2 drivers for the S3 card.
Or at least if IBM would fix it so I could switch from a full-screen WIN-OS2
session running Windows 3.x drivers to the PM desktop without making the
display go to pieces.

For me, Windows 3.1 beats the pants off OS/2 right now.

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
Schlumberger Technologies       UUCP:   {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen
1601 Technology Drive		CIS:	72401,276
San Jose, Ca. 95110             Voice: (408)437-5254  FAX: (408)437-5246
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Ralf.Wirth@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Ralf Wirth)
Subject: Two monitors under OS2
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:47:09 GMT
Summary: Looking for programs which support 2 monitors
Keywords: monitor

I run 2 Monitors under OS2, one VGA and one Hercules. I bought the second 
display, hoping that PM would run on two diplays. It doesn't.

Well, does anybody know a program, which uses 2 monitors? Maybe a debugger.
To my mind, Turbo Debugger under DOS does. 

Thank you.
Ralf.
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Fragmented EAs (was Couldn't stick it out...)
Date: 30 Jul 92 17:22:37 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <28JUL199219455993@summa.tamu.edu> rfs0838@summa.tamu.edu (SCHAFFTER, RODNEY FRANK, JR) writes:
>
>	No, at least not with  PC Tools Compress 7.1- In fact, I remove the
>hidden/system attributes from _EVERYTHING_ before running it(I return them 
>to their original attributes before rebooting, of course).  Rebooting is 
>quicker afterwards, but the speed of opening folders is not.  

Everything?!?!   If you un-hide the hidden DOS boot files, and
Compress decides to move them, you'll have a non-bootable DOS
partition.  And if anything is using hidden files as a copy protection
scheme, and it gets moved, your app will no longer run.

I'd only un-hide files which I hid in the first place.  Otherwise,
there's the danger of things not working afterwards.  This is, after
all, why compression programs don't compress hidden and system files.

>	Would it be possible to use EAUTIL to seperate the EA's into a file
>in each directory, and create a new, logically unfragmented EA DATA.SF
>file from these smaller files using a disk editor under DOS? (or better yet,
>using a REXX script)

I'd think you could.  I wonder how long this'd take, though.

-- 
   |)  David Charlap           "I don't even represent myself
  /|_  dic5340@hertz.njit.edu   sometimes so NJIT is right out!.
 ((|,)
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From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: GT16MB re: OS2LDR gone missing?
Date: 21 Jul 92 04:10:06 GMT
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <Brp5sw.M1C@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> meyer@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Don Meyer) writes:
>Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
>>Did I miss something? Is it really in the gtm16*.zoo?
>
>Try "gt16mb*" 

Anybody else find that this fix doesn't work?
I finally ran into some *real* memory, and OS/2 doesn't recognize all of it.
My AMI BIOS, however, reports all of it at bootup!
Any ideas?

Thanks.
Meir

C&T Peak DM 386/40, temporarily with 20 MB :-)

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From: menendez@trantor.harris-atd.com (Rolando Menendez)
Subject: Problem replacing *.DLL files 
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:21:18 GMT
Organization: Advanced Technology Dept, Harris Corp, Melbourne, FL
Keywords: DLL


The SOFTWARE.WATSON.IBM.COM ftp site contains some dynamically linked library
(*.DLL) files that eliminates some known problems with OS/2 (e.g., blkico.zip
to fix the "black icon problem", etc), as you may all know.

I tried to replace (copy over) some of these files in my \os2\dll directory,
but the old files were in use by the system and I was not able to
re-write them.

Instead, I copied the new files to root (\) and rebooted. The new files were
apparently used (the black icons disappeared), but I still was not able to 
move or erase the new files in the root directory. I was able to copy these
files to /os2/dll to update the old ones, but I can not get rid of the copies
in the root.

Before I try to boot from the distribution disk (and run the risk of wipping
my boot-up and desktop configuration),
is there a correct replacement procedure which I have not found?

Please feel free to point me to any specific reading material in which
this is covered (if any).

This issue was addressed a few days ago by someone, but I can not recall
the specific News item.

Thanks. 
 
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From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: (re-post) Reading a 720K write-protected disk hangs my system
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:49:08 GMT
Reply-To: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Organization: Columbia University

In article <1339@sake.salf.ac.uk> mrb@arrc.salf.ac.uk (Mark Burgin) writes:
>Appologies if you have read this already, but I am re-posting as I received
>no replies and I know we had problems with our news feed when I originally
>posted.
>
>I have found a new way to crash my system when using OS2.  If I try to open 
>the A: drive folder (a 3.5 inch drive on my system) immediately after booting
>and the disk in the drive is 720K and write-protected, then after a bit of 
>disk activity from the floppy and the hard disk, the system goes dead although 
>the mouse pointer still moves.  Pulse stops and nothing short of C-A-D seems 
>to have any effect.  If the disk in the drive is 1.44Mbyte or is not write-
>protected I don't see this problem and if I access the drive B: folder 
>(a 1.2Mbyte drive) first then all is well.  I haven't been able to tie down
>exactly what causes the problem to go away, but if I run an application or 
>two from my C: drive first, then I don't seem to get a problem either.
>
>Has anyone else experienced this behaviour.  Not a very serious bug, perhaps,
>as it only happens under very strict circumstances, but I am curious to know 
>if there is anything different about my setup that is causing the problem.

As a matter of a fact, I have been having similar lockups.  I think they are
floppy-related sometimes, but the floppies are 1.44, not 720k.  I also had
OS/2 crash *hard* (system is stopped) when I tried to turn MOUSE_EXCLUSIVE_
ACCESS ON while already running the program (Telemate) in the DOS box.  When
I pressed the reset button, not only had my new Program object disappeared
from the desktop, but all of my Application objects have disappeared from their
folder!!!

:-(

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