Personal Systems Magazine - January/February 1997 - What's New?

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This regular feature of Personal Systems brings you a variety of products designed to enrich your computing environment. Find out about the latest in file management software, bulletin board system software, and networking hardware solutions, just to name a few. Also, read about products that let you make telephone calls and route faxes over the Internet, as well as books that show you how to profit from the Internet, create interactive Web pages, and much more.

Software

File Manager for OS/2

Clear & Simple, Inc. offers The DiskJockey, a powerful, easy to use file manager for OS/2. Navigate your disk drives, directories, and files through The DiskJockey's clear, logical interface, then with the click of a button, you can view, copy, move, edit, or delete them.

The DiskJockey's Make Directory, Attrib, Rename, Copy, Delete, Move, Zip, and Unzip facilities eliminate the need for the command prompt. Plus, The DiskJockey retains HPFS long filenames when copying files to FAT partitions and diskettes--it even displays the long name when selected in The DiskJockey's list of files, restoring it when the FAT copy is restored to an HPFS volume.

Named for its unique multimedia capabilities, The DiskJockey contains a built-in jukebox that plays sound and video files. The DiskJockey queues and plays these files continuously, displaying the name of each file as it plays. Controls let you play, stop, pause, replay, skip forward, and control volume level.

The DiskJockey works with OS/2's Workplace Shell to give you fast navigation, combined with drag-and-drop capability (both inside The DiskJockey and to and from Workplace Shell folders) and has been designed for compatibility with OS/2 Warp 4.

With The DiskJockey's systemwide duplicate file search and clean-up routine, you'll see how much of your disk drive is being wasted by duplicate files. Mark the duplicates and delete them with a single button click.

Performance PLUS V4

Clear & Simple also offers Performance PLUS V4, a tuning kit for both novice and advanced OS/2 users. This performance oriented package consists of two parts: a book and a collection of software programs.

The book instructs you about elements of your system that will improve performance. The software is a collection of utilities that make it easier for you to update your system, providing you with simple tools that help you implement the tips and techniques described in the book.

Additionally, the utilities have grown beyond performance tuning and now include productivity utilities to simplify many OS/2 tasks. Performance PLUS V4 (PPV4) includes four tuning utilities:

  • Optimize, SimpleCT, and Stats--This trio forms the performance tuning heart of PPV4. Optimize places all of the CONFIG.SYS file's performance-oriented parameters on a single screen. SimpleCT tests the system before and after each tuning effort. Stats graphically reports SimpleCT's results, showing the effects of your tuning.
  • DOS BlackBox--Drag and drop your DOS/Windows applications to the BlackBox, and it creates a desktop icon with optimum settings.
  • SeeSwap--This small PM utility monitors Swap file growth.
  • VidPerf and DiskTimer--These benchmarking programs help identify performance bottlenecks.

Five productivity applications for viewing bitmaps, backing up files, playing sounds, archiving the desktop, and creating emergency boot diskettes are also included.


Bulletin Board System Software

From Clark Technologies, a division of Clark Development Company, a developer of interactive information software, comes PCBoard 15.3M, bulletin board system (BBS) software that lets you either develop your own BBS or connect with existing systems.

PCBoard 15.3 offers new functionality in several key areas of the software. Modifi-cations include greater than 4 GB totals allowed in the user record for total bytes uploaded and downloaded, modified "SLOW DRIVE" support to enhance performance on systems using CD-ROM changers, and added MIME and multiple file attach support to UUCP.

The PCBoard 15.3 upgrade is available to all PCBoard systems operators whose download access is current on the Salt Air BBS system. Clark Development is offering promotional pricing for PCBoard products, including the PCBoard Internet Collection, which allows dial-up SLIP and PPP access, plus a full range of standard text-based Internet applications. This collection allows an operator to sell Internet access rather than lose users to Internet service providers. The promotional pricing also allows PCBoard users to upgrade at a discounted price to MetaWorlds, an Internet server with full BBS capabilities and the newest product from Clark Technologies.


Software Servers for OS/2 Warp

IBM's Directory and Security Server (DSS) is now available for OS/2 Warp. Based upon open, scalable industry-standard technology, DSS provides businesses with a global directory and security solution to allow more users to easily and securely access distributed network resources on an OS/2 Warp Server Version 4 network.

DSS broadens the scope of OS/2 Warp Server and OS/2 LAN Server 4.0 by allowing easy, seamless access by thousands of users to system resources such as applications, files, printers, and modems anywhere in the distributed network environment, regardless of physical location. DSS benefits network administrators by allowing them to more easily manage a large number of users. With DSS, you can administer resources, users, and groups according to the way your company is structured, rather than making your organization fit into the limits of existing directory technologies.

DSS for OS/2:

  • Eliminates the need for unified administration and usage procedures for multiple organizations with a network.
  • Provides the ability to integrate distinct groups into an enterprise network over a wide geographical area.
  • Easily integrates with Warp Server and LAN Server 4.0 by using and extending a similar graphical user interface and drag-and-drop system management tools.
  • Eases installation by providing the option to use either a command-line install path or the graphical user interface and allows for "staged" migration, letting you install DSS on just one computer initially to quickly take advantage of its global directory benefits.
  • Provides easy to use, smart migration tools that take existing Warp Server or LAN Server directory and security databases and merge them into the DSS databases.
  • Provides multi-platform integration and support for transparent, secure access to other systems in heterogeneous, multi-location networks.
www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/wpdss2.html


OpenDoc Capabilities for Spreadsheet Software

OpenDoc, one of the impressive new technologies included in OS/2 Warp 4, enables users and developers alike to "build" cross-platform custom solutions using components such as Sundial Systems' Mesa 2 for OpenDoc.

Mesa 2 is similar to traditional spreadsheets in terms of layout, available features, and fundamental behavior but is unique in that it is designed to take full advantage of OS/2's advanced capabilities.

Mesa 2 for OpenDoc 2.1.6 brings substantial improvements to Mesa 2, including a reduced memory footprint and a faster recalculation engine. You'll find improved support for international settings and full REXX support for Mesa's feed/signal interface. Graphic objects can now be DDE-linked into other applications. The new release includes additional formula functions, scripting functions, and enhanced import/export support for other spreadsheet formats.


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