Minutes of TAMU OS/2 User's Group Meeting
4 April 1995  --  George R. Welch
8 people in attendance.

	We began the meeting with a discussion of how to get more people
to attend.  One person present said he saw the announcement in The
Battalion, so at least that is being useful:  Thanks Frank!.  For the
next meeting, Chris Robison will distribute flyers around the campus.
We discussed the parking problems faced by non-students who would like
to attend, and Neal will see if anything can be done to accommodate them.

	All present agreed to change the meeting time to 7:30 p.m.
instead of 7:00 p.m., so from now on, meetings will be the first Tuesday
of each month at 7:30 p.m.

	George Welch demoed the new WWW page for the users group.  The
URL is "http://os2www.tamu.edu/os2/".  Currently os2www is a CNAME
pointing at leona.tamu.edu, George's computer.  We have the chance to
move the site to the Ag. Engineering computer, but no one saw any reason
to do so.  (Leona has plenty of disk space, and is not overloaded now.)
Thus os2www will continue to point at leona for the time being.  Email
submissions and suggestions for the group's web site should be sent to
os2web@os2www.tamu.edu.


	Dwight Miller and George Welch had each reviewed the product
"Sytos Premium" and distributed write-ups of their review.  These should
soon be available on the WWW page.

	Of the currently available books owned by the club, Dwight
checked out "Teach yourself REXX", and "Inside OS/2" went unclaimed.

	Other products demoed and discussed were:

	"Corel Draw" for OS/2.  This was recently acquired by Frank
Swidersky, who hated it.  He couldn't import many file types, and the
program kept complaining about many things.  Everyone felt dissapointed,
but Frank said it was so bad he had returned the software.

	"Performance Plus".  This got a very favorable review, by Frank
and [I missed your name, what was it?].  This is given a very favorable
recommendation.  [If any of you gentlemen would summarize what you
reported, I will include it here.]

	"WPCLS".  This is a shareware app that installs a replacement
class for folder objects.  It is very nice, and several members took
copies.  Wpcls installs a new item ``size'' into the folder object's
pop-up menu.  When you highlight objects within a folder, choose
``size'' you get a dialog reporting how much disk space is consumed by
those highlighted objects.  The app also adds new tabs to the folder
object's settings notebook.  These allow password protection of
individual folders, and all sorts of other check boxes such as:
``no-drag'', ``no-copy'', etc.

	"WarpLOGO".  This is a cute little app that changes the boot-up
logo.


	The feature presentation was a head-to-head demo of BackMaster
and Sytos Premium back-up software.  George used his computer to
do the demo, with a Colorado Jumbo 250 streamer.  The upshot of it
all is that Sytos has better drivers, and outperforms BackMaster by
between 5 and 10 percent, but that Sytos has a really crappy interface,
and is much less nice to use.

	We spent a good amount of time making fun of how silly
Microsoft's WWW page is, and the meeting then degenerated into various
discussions, and broke up.