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C04 ^'^^ • MontanaStaleLibrary 7r/3 inv V. /o N<r April 1993 ,|,l,JI|l|l,|ll|<|l||l|ll|l|lli|l|M|illl<|llll||l T^!"^'^5!'»"T"!T'J7TS!;7!?aT^"P~T~'TT!H!RT"'TH 3 0864 1004 3101 7 T!'!TT»"T!W™r»~~~T ISD News and Views Volume 10 No. 10 I \r I\ isy\jO Published by the Infonnadon Services Division MCNTANA Alt LIEKAR'i 'J! 1516 E. 6th AVE. Table of Contents HELENA, MONTANA 59S: iBM Library Reader IBM Library Reader .... ISD is announcing the availability of another Telebyte Model 701 Pocket Value Added Service, IBM Library Reader. Videoverter This service is free to all State agencies. IBM Term Contract Status 2 Library Reader is part of a family of IBM licensed programs and products that allow you to Microcomputers 2 view online manuals. IBM Library Reader is Microcomputer Maintenance 2 . available for State of Montana agencies, either Management Information Sys- through the campus network backbone, or on tems Services agency networks if installed. Virus Protection and Software Monitoring The IBM Library Reader product gives you quick and easy access to information in online Mainframe 3 manuals. In addition to reading your books you Online Help for Online Systems 3 . . can quickly search for words or phrases even if ISD Installs 3490 Cartridge they are not included in the table of contents or Tape Drives 4 the index; you can move directly to a referenced Catalog Your Tape Datasets 5 topic, figure, or table and then back to your Coding the Output Box Num- previous place in the book; you can retrace you ber 5 path through a book; or you can go directly Misleading Error Message on from a table of contents or index entry to a Laser Printer 5 topic in the book. CL/SuperSession 6 MVS Online Reference Infor- ISD has offered several IBM Library Reader mation 6 classes already. If you are interested in attending a class, please call Lois Lebahn at 444-3987 Techtalk 6 ISD Announces Support for 1- to be placed on a waiting list. When enough interest is received, more classes will be offered. 2-3 Release 3.4 6 WordPerfect 5.1 Columns 7 If you would like to gain access to IBM Library Windows Screen Saver on De- Reader on the ISD Services Ring, you need mand 8 only login or attach to ISD's server ISD Graphics Support 9 ISDNOVSOl as GUEST. Then change to the Calendar of Events 10 READIBM subdirectory and type READIBM.BAT. For more information about End Notes 10 using IBM Library Reader, please call Denny Submit Articles 10 Knapp at 444-2072 or Irv Vavruska at 444- ISD Network Assistance Center 2858. They will send you more complete in- 444-2000 10 structions on how to access the product and Training Information 11 how to create personal configuration files. Training Calendar 13 Data Network/Mainframe Classes ... 14 Telebyte Model 701 Pocket Microcomputer Classes 15 Videoverter Word Processing Classes 16 Spreadsheet Classes 18 With presentation software such as Freelance Database Classes 19 Graphics one can create presentations and store Communication Classes 20 them on a diskette for use on PC's which do not need the parent software. A copy of the what we are becoming used to with PC moni- presentation module is stored with the slides on tors. The TV display reminds me of CGA's a disk. This makes it possible for a central 320x200 resolution but with more colors. The group to create screen shows and distribute Videoverter supports most modem VGA them to remote areas for presentation on port- specifications, but the typical TV does not. able PCs. This means that slides prepared for high resolution monitors will most likely have to be revised Two problems occur with the common applica- for TV use, especially text slides which should tion of this technique: have less and larger text per slide. 1. The typical portable PC used is gray-scale so -Gary Wulf color is lost even if the resolution is VGA. 2. The screen is so small, large groups cannot Term Contract Status be accommodated. Devices such as the Kodak Videoshow connect to the PC and are placed on an overhead Microcomputers projector to solve the latter problem, but color qtoualpiatcyksaufrfoerusn.d iAnlstoh,etthyepidceavlicpeorittasbellfeiPsCtocoasbei.g Dell, DEC, and IBM have recently made several price reductions, product additions, and product The Telebyte Videoverter uses a standard televi- changes. The updated price lists have been distributed via electronic mail. All new products sion set to solve the color and group problems. Tpohweerdevsiucpepliytsselifmiilsarpotcoketthossiezeusbuetd iotnalmsoodheamss.a ounpotnhevelnisdtosrhacveretibfeiceantiaopnporfovceodm,pactoibnitliintgye.nt Supposedly, a TV monitor can be found most Agencies should be aware that ISD has not places a presentation will be made so one need rigorously tested these products. We will work not be carried by the presenter. with you if there are compatibility problems that need to be resolved with the vendor. The hookup procedure is fairly straight-forward, but is limited to 15 pin VGA output connectors If you have any questions about the latest prices on the PC. Some software must be copied to or products, please call the vendor or Brett hard disk and a program executed which loads a Boutin (444-0515). Term contract price lists TSR which provides a hot-key sequence to shift will be distributed, upon request, through Zip- back and forth between the PC and the TV Mail. If you would like to be on the distribu- monitor. You also have to execute the PC's tion list, please call Brett. external monitor switching sequence. Microcomputer Maintenance The manual is only 20 pages and is generally clear and straight forward. Two types of cables The microcomputer maintenance term contract are supplied to connect "AV" or "S-VHS" de- with IBM is available for agencies to utilize. A pending on what the TV accommodates. This new form used to place equipment under main- is the only thing in the manual which is not tenance has been developed and is now avail- well explained. The AV connectors are the old able for electronic distribution. Any equipment RCA phono plugs while the S-VHS resemble you want placed under this contract needs to go PC keyboard connectors. S-VHS is stated to be on the new form. Also, any requested additions higher quality and to be preferred if the TV or deletions must be placed on the form. supports it. The manual says to "select the When you have completed the form, send a appropriate channel related to input type you purchase order with the form attached to: have connected" but does not explain further. I used channel 3 for the AV connector and it IBM worked. 100 N. Park Ave. The biggest drawback to the Videoverter is that Helena, MT 59601. TV resolution is not very good compared to Im^ Afwujm .X^.^jD-.' y-^!^-;K-"V'-^^ !:ixi:»>-v-r»«a^^^»;^"»«-^^^/^-^^ ^N;^<gft^s$>y^?^<fS^- There have been some recent additions to the fore proceeding and preventing altered, un- ptrroinciecallislty. tTohtehonseewwhliost rweilqluebset daisctorpiyb.uteIdf yeloeuc- aruutnhnoirnigz.ed,SiotreLpoocsksiabllsyoihnfeelcptsedensfoofrtcwearceomf-rom would like the new list, or a copy of the form, pliance with software license agreements by monitoring application usage on NetWare please contact Brett for assistance. LAN's and limiting the number of simultaneous Management Information Systems users of an application. When available software licenses are all used, the user is placed on Services a waiting list, and then notified when a software license becomes available. This greatly simpli- A Request For Proposals (RFP) has been re- fies tracking software licenses. The reporting leased for a Management Information Systems features built into SiteLock are extremely useful (MIS) Services term contract. This term con- for LAN administrators. SiteLock can generate tract will provide additional MIS services to both reports and graphs on LAN usage and agencies. For example, term contract program- activity. By monitoring access and usage, Site- mer/analysts could be utilized for a large pro- Lock can let the LAN administrator know gramming project for which you have insuffi- which applications are in demand. With Site- cient staff. This term contract also will make lock, LAN managers can determine what soft- available a consultant to assist with administra- ware runs on the network - users can't run tive and staff support activities. If you are in- programs from their local drives without ap- terested in this service and would like more proval. SiteLock is also Windows Compatible. information, please call Brett Boutin (444-0515). SiteLock protects against software piracy by not allowing executable code to be copied from the Virus Protection and Software server to diskette or a local hard drive. Any software copied in this manner is not ex- Monitoring ecutable. ISD is renewing a contract with McAfee As- Although ISD will not be supporting SiteLock, sociates for the use of their virus protection we are recommending that any agency with software for the next two years. This contract these needs consider purchasing SiteLock. is a corporate-wide license and covers all state The latest release of SiteLock is 3.3. If you agency PC's. Many vendors including McAfee have questions regarding our evaluation of Site- also offer a LAN server version of their virus Lock, please contact Irv Vavruska in End User protection software to provide continuous pro- Computing at 444-2858. tection at the server level. This software is typically licensed on a per server basis. Due to Mainframe ISD budget constraints, our McAfee contract does NOT include the server product. In discussions at the February Data Processing Online Help for Online Systems Managers Meeting, it was recommended that server protection be considered as a vital com- The State of Montana has purchased two pro- pEovneenntthoofugohurIoSvDerdaolelsnv'itrushapvreottehcetiboundgstertatteogy. ducts from GT Software, Inc. called ASSIST/GT and ASSISTA'ISION. With these products all bisuybentehfeitseirnveervecroymopnoeneunsitngfotrheallsaagmeencsioefst,watrhee.re ohnellipneinCfoIrCmSatainodn ItoDMthSeirsyosntleimnsecaapnplincoawtioandsd. Several agencies are already using SiteLock by Brightwork Development. Based on the favor- able reports of a number of agencies who are With ASSIST/GT you can attach help windows, already using SiteLock we recommend that any help screens, or an entire user manual to each agency needing Novell server virus protection or field or screen in your online application. Generation of the help text is independent of software monitoring use SiteLock. your application and can be completed by the S(iNtLeMLo)ckfoirs NaovNeeltlWaNreetWLaoraedasbelrveerMso.duIlteprovides eprnodduucstesr,oyrouthheadveevtehleopompetnitonstoafff.genWeirtahtintghese your help windows in CICS, or they can be virus protection by verifying protected files be- um$ created in WordPerfect. User manuals must be to-reel tapes, but we wish to minimize this pro- created in WordPerfect. cessing. Documents created in WordPerfect must be The 3490 cartridge tape subsystem offers many processed by the ASSISTA'ISION software then advantages over the 3420 drives which our users loaded to the mainframe. WordPerfect's fea- will appreciate: tures such as Table of Contents, Index, Auto- matic Page Numbering. Holding, etc., will be 1. The tape cartridges themselves are much preserved by ASSISTA'ISION and will be func- more reliable than the reel tapes. The tape tional under CICS. media is completely enclosed within the cartridge protecting it from contamination. ASSIST/GT has additional capabilities that al- The number of reruns due to tape errors low you to attach an online calculator to your should be reduced by well over 95%. screen, as well as a sticky cursor function that allows you to transfer information from a help 2. A single cartridge will hold much more data window directly to your input field. than a reel of tape. Data is recorded on the cartridges in 18 tracks at 38,000 bytes per An additional benefit to be achieved with these inch verses 9 tracks at 6250 bytes per inch products is that your User Manual, or any other on the 3420 tape reels. But the main reason documentation you have, can be assigned to and for the increased capacity stems from the MENU selected from a without having to be fact that the data on the cartridges is com- attached to an online application. An example pacted. The compaction is performed by the of this is an Agency Manual of Standards which 3490 hardware so there is no cost to you in can be assigned as a menu option for viewing CPU cycles spent to compress the data. by one or more agencies. In one test we stored all the data from 2 IDMS systems can benefit from these products and a half 3420 tape reels on a single cart- as well. Our long term goal is for CICS to ridge. Another test involved a job (FDR) become the front end for all IDMS systems. that was compressing data via software be- The new SRS SEARCHS System is an IDMS fore writing it to tape. We modified the job application that runs under CICS. Currently to let the 3490 hardware do the data com- SEARCHS the System has over 1000 help win- pression. The same amount of tape was dows and help screens attached to their online used but the CPU time dropped from 92 system. seconds to 11 seconds since the software did not have to compress the data. For questions on ASSIST/GT contact Glen Stroop at ext. 2910 in the Application Support 3. The 3490 tape drives are equipped with Section. Any question or comments on automated cartridge loaders. MVS can re- ASSISTmSION please contact either Pat cognize when scratch cartridges are present Emineth at ext. 2921 or Sue Skuletich at ext. in the loaders. It will automatically cause 1392 in the End User Computing Section. one of these cartridges to be loaded when a job requests a scratch tape. No action is ISD Installs 3490 Cartridge Tape required by a computer operator. This will Drives improve the turnaround time for batch jobs since they will not have to wait for scratch tape mounts. ISD has just installed eight IBM 3490 cartridge tape drives. The cartridge tape drives offer 4. The 3490 cartridge drives are front-ended by many advantages over the 3420 reel-to-reel a control unit that contains a large data drives we have had for years. ISD plans to buffer. Data can thus be transferred to and work with our users to convert all active tapes from mainframe central storage at electronic in our library to cartridges over the next several speed rather than at the speed of the cart- months. Our goal is to replace the majority of ridge drive. the 3420 tape drives with 3490 cartridge drives. We will retain the ability to process 3420 reel- Our conversion plan calls for us to convert our internal ISD systems to the cartridges first. "AphilM: iXi»Vi,'.','>TT'""**** This will allow us to become acquainted with Coding the Output Box Number the drives without impacting our users. We will also be able to work out any kinks with new It is very important to code your output box wtaepebehcaondmleinmgorpreocfeadmiulrieasr dwuirtihngthtehi3s49t0ism,e.weAs number on the job statement of all jobs that are printed at the data center. This box num- will begin to convert some of our larger tape ber provides vital information to those respon- users to the new drives. sible for distributing the output. Most users have grown accustomed to coding this box num- One of the larger tasks we have in cWoneverting ber but many times it is coded incorrectly. to the cartridge drives is logistical. have to Coding this box number correctly has become free up space in the computer room by freeing more critical since the printer default has been up 3420 tape reels and drives to make room for changed to the laser printer. This is because tmhaejo3r49r0eadsroinvewseancdan'ctarmtraikdgeest.heTnheisw itsaptehecart- the banner page used for laser output is different than that used for the impact printer. ridges available to everyone right away. To be useful, this box number must be coded as Soon after the start of the new fiscal year we aantdwo7 doifgitthefieplrdoagnrdamimtemrusntambee ifinelpdo.sitDioonsno6t plan to make the cartridge drives available to add additional information such as the word aclalrtoruirdgeusedrrsi.vesBayndthisscrtaitmceh wcaertwriildlgehsavteo ehnaondulgeh "BOX". Below is a sample job statement which shows the correct way to code this box number. the demand for them. //CXOOOIZZ JOB (01234,PS),0001.99.JOE. ISD will provide you with the information and BLOW,CLASS=B,MSGCLASS=A assistance you need to use the new tape cart- // rUiNdgIesT.NAIt'MsEmainly a matter of changing a Coding this box number correctly will help as- is your JCL. This will be even sure that your output will be routed promptly easier for those applications which catalog their and accurately. If you have questions about tape datasets. how to code this box number, please call Dave Smith at 444-2860. "Joe Beausoleil, Technical Services Misleading Error Message on Laser Catalog Your Tape Datasets Printer If your applications use tape datasets we STRONGLY encourage you to catalog them. Output printed on the mainframe laser printers This takes a little more effort up front, but the may be followed by informational and/or error benefits to be gained by cataloging your tape messages. The context of one of these messages datasets far outweigh the one time effort to set is very misleading. This message appears as it up. Tlie additional effort will usually involve follows: defining a Generation Data Group (GDG) for the tape datasets. ISD's Application Services APS858I SYSTEM ACTION TAKEN: PSF TERMINATED THE section and the End User Computing section PAGE IN ERROR AND CONTINUES TO PROCESS THE DATA SET STARTING WITH THE NEXT can assist you in this effort if you need help. PAGE. Those of you who already catalog your tape This message leads one to believe that the page datasets should be able to convert to using the where the error occurred was not printed. Ho- new cartridge tapes with a simple one time wever, that is not the case. All pages of the change to the UNITNAME parameter in your output data set are printed as normal. If you JCL. If you do not catalog your tape datasets, have questions about this or other messages on we STRONGLY encourage you to begin cata- your laser output, you may call Jan Lewis at loging them as part of the conversion to the 444-2901 or Mick Plovanic at 444-2571. new cartridge tapes. "Dave Smith, Production Services -Joe Beausoleil, Technical Services Apniim'^ ''Pofief- CL/SuperSession PFKEY when you are in any of the MVS/QUI- CK-REF screens. If you use several different mainframe applications and would like to be able to use them Question or comments on MVS/QUICK-REF concurrently and jump between them easily, contact Glen Stroop in the Application Support SuperSession is the tool to use. CL/SS is a Section at ext. 2910 or Denny Knapp in the multi-session manager which allows computer End User Computing Section at ext. 2072. users to access more than one mainframe application (TSO, CICS, IDMS, etc) at the same time through the use of virtual terminals. Techtalk Many agencies are already using CL/SS and find it helpful in increasing their productivity. ISD is planning to convert existing terminals to CL/SS in the upcoming months. If you have ISD Announces Support for 1-2-3 any questions or concerns, contact Jerry Kozak Release 3.4 at 444-2907, or Iiv Vavruska at 444-2858, both from EUC. To request training for CL/SS, ISD is announcing full support for 1-2-3 Re- please contact Lois Lebahn, at 444-3987. lease 3.4. ISD is also offering full product sup- MVS port for 1-2-3 Releases 2.3, 2.4. 3.1, and 3.1-1- as Online Reference Information well as 1-2-3 for Windows LI with SmartPak. The State of Montana has purchased The most important improvement in Release MVS/QUICK-REF from Chicago Soft, Inc. 3.4 is the increase in speed in recalculating This product is designed for anyone who pro- large and complex worksheets. ISD found that cesses batch jobs on the state mainframe com- the startup time to load 1-2-3 Release 3.4 and puter. MVS/QUICK-REF contains summary Wysiwyg took about twice as long to load than information on a wide range of topics. In- Release 3.1, however all recalculations, macros, cluded is information on Error Messages, loading files, and erasing files from memory Abend Codes, Programming Languages, IBM were much faster. The increase in speed for Utilities, JCL, SYNCSORT, VTAM Printer many of these functions were between one and Support (VPS), and a whole lot more. ten seconds quicker which in turn corresponds to a 17% to 42% increase in speed. The most You can display the MVS/QUICK-REF Main noticeable differences were found when running Menu from within ISPF by entering U.Q from macros or doing recalculations which lake se- the ISPF/PDF PRIMARY OPTION MENU, or veral minutes to perform. Again, Release 3.4 QW by entering on the command line of any outperformed Release 3.1 by saving 6 minutes QW panel. Optionally, by entering TOPIC, or decreasing the amount of time to run the where TOPIC is an error message or abend macro by 45%. PC Magazine has found the code, MVS/QUICK-REF will display the text recalc times to be, on average, 22% shorter for the topic you entered. But the fastest way than those of Release 3.1-1- and less than 1% to use MVS/QUICK-REF is to define a longer than those of Release 2.4 when Release MVS/QUICK-REF command to one of your 2.4 was using expanded memory. PFKEYS. Then just move the cursor to the error message or abend code and press the Added to Release 3.4 are three-dimensional PFKEY. MVS/QUICK-REF will display the line, bar, pie, and area types, where each data text for the statement at the cursor location. series is plotted in a separate plane. Other graphing enhancements include the ability to To find out more about MVS/QUICK-REF suppress any portion of the graph frame and enter QW README on any command line in the option to display chart data as a table be- README ISPF. contains information on sett- neath the graph. ing up PFKEYS for invoking the quick lookup facility, searching the quick reference database, The DEL key now deletes the cell entry which and printing information contained in MVS/Q- is highlighted (similar to /Range Erase). Dragg- UICK-REF. You can also access the MVS/QU- ing with the mouse now selects cell ranges - ICK-REF help tutorial by pressing you HELP you no longer need to press F4 before dragging. Apriljm ' Landscape printing is available for dot matrix A. NEWSPAPER COLUMNS - Designed printers. Trace mode when debugging macros for a document such as a newsletter or now displays the address and contents of the magazine article where text flows con- current macro cell. A new command-line switch tinuously up and down through columns (-W) lets you run 1-2-3 with a particular work- on a page. sheet coming up automatically after starting 1- 2-3. New optional settings sheets also help you B. Place the cursor where you want the keep track of printing, graphing, and global columns to begin default options. 1. Press Columns/Table (Alt-I-F7) The most visible enhancement most users will see when they run Release 3.4 is the Smartlcon a. Select Columns (1) palette located on the right side of the screen. This Smartlcon palette is very handy when per- b. Select Define (3) forming routine tasks since you can assign var- ious tasks to each icon. There are many built- 2. Default Type is Newspaper in icons, but the icon palette is also able to be customized so each user can display the icons 3. Change Number of columns as ap- they want, and can assign their own tasks to propriate their own icons. 4. Press Exit (FT) to return to the ISD recommends that users who are currently Column menu using Release 2.x and who need 3-dimensional spreadsheets upgrade to Release 3.4 (rather 5. Turn Columns On by than Release 3.1 or 3.H-). If you do not need 3-dimensional spreadsheets, ISD recommends a. Selecting On (1) that you stay with Release 2.x. If you are already using Release 3.1 or 3.1+, and need to 6. To turn the Columns Off in the mid- take advantage of the increased performance in dle of the document, speed, or wish to use any of the other new features, that you upgrade to Release 3.4. Re- a. Press Columns/Table (Alt-hF7) lease 3.4 is very usable and much quicker than Release 3.1 or 3.1-I-. b. Select Columns (1) The upgrade price for updating from any re- c. Select Off (2) lease through Central Stores is approximately SIOO.OO. C. PARALLEL COLUMNS - Designed for documents such as inventory lists where If you have any questions on Lotus 1-2-3, please information moves across the columns. call Irv Vavniska at 444-2858 or Jerry Kozak at Each time you want to begin a new 444-2907, both from End User Computing. column, press CtrH-Enter (Hard Page Break). WordPerfect 5.1 Columns 1. Follow the instructions for Newspaper When creating a newsletter, inventory list, or Columns above. The only difference any text that flows into columns, use WordPer- is for type of columns, select Parallel fect's Columns feature to create newspaper or (2), or Parallel with Block Protect (3). parallel columns. 2. Parallel (without Block Protect) - A Before you define your columns. Press Format single parallel column can be longer (Shift+F8), select Une (1) and change Hy- than one page. phenation (1) to Yes and Justification (3) to Full. 3. Parallel with Block Protect - Protects a block of text in a column from being split by a soft page break. ApniI993 jPflge7 ft.-^j^^«wag^«vtf"Wjft.'>-.-^iAf^^ a. If a set of columns is longer than a (Alt+F4), select Block (1). then Move page, Block Protect is ended and (1) or Copy (2). When using move the text spills over into the same with Newspaper columns, do not se- column on the next page. lect Tabular Column (2) to move the text, or the columns cannot be re- D. EDITING THE COLUMNS trieved correctly. 1. Cursor Movement 2. The following features do not work with columns on. Your cursor cannot a. Use the cursor control keys to be between the [COL ON] and [COL move within the columns as you OFF] codes. would with any WordPerfect document. a. Left/Right Margins. However, Top/Bottom margins work fine. 2. Special Cursor Movement Between the Columns b. Footnotes a. Go to (Ctrl-I-Home), and the Left c. Endnotes Arrow - moves the cursor one column to the left d. Column Definitions b. Go to (CtrH-Home), and the Right e. Sorting - Only works on newspaper Arrow - moves the cursor one style columns and using paragraph column to the right type sort. c. Go to (Ctrl-I-Home), Home and If you have any questions concerning WordPer- the Left Arrow - moves the cursor fect Columns, or any WordPerfect related ques- to the first column tions please call Kyle Wynn 444-2859 or Sue Skuletich 444-1392 both of End User Comput- d. Go to (CtrH-Home), Home, and ing. the Right Arrow -- moves the cursor to the last column Windows Screen Saver on Demand e. If you are at the bottom of the The WINDOWS screen saver keeps images column, press the Right Arrow key from being "burned" into the screen phosphors to move quickly to the top of the in your monitor, and the password option on next column the screen saver prevents unwanted access to your system. One problem with the screen f. If you are at the top of a column, saver is that it activates itself only after a lack press the Left Arrow to move of keyboard or mouse input for a set amount of quickly to the bottom of the pre- time. It would be convenient to be able to vious column. activate the screen saver and password on demand, so that if you need to leave the office 3. To delete text inside columns use the your session is secure. Following is an explana- normal WordPerfect deletion key tion of how to set up your WINDOWS screen strokes. For example, to Delete To saver so that it can be activated immediately by End of Line use (Ctrl-J-End). Like- a "short-cut" keystroke or by clicking an icon. wise to Delete to End of Page use (Ctrl-f-PgDn) this will delete the text 1. Make sure you have the password option on to the bottom of the column. the screen saver setup panel checked, and you have your password chosen. (Click on E. COLUNDSI EDITING PRECAUTIONS SET PASSWORD, and enter a password). 2. Once you have your password set you need 1. You can use Move (Alt-»-F4) within a to edit your WIN.INI file. First, SAVE A column to cut or copy text. After BACKUP COPY OF YOUR WIN.INI blocking the desired text press Move ^ .^M.>..^^y...^.. Afrit 19&3 FILE. In WIN.INI find the line that begins If you have any questions about this article, or PROGRAMS=. with This will be in the about Windows in general, contact Denny [WINDOWS] section. Add the extension Knapp, End User Computing, 444-2072. SCR to the extensions already listed on that line. ISD Graphics Support 3. Save WthIeNcDhOanWgSes.made to WIN.INI and re- ISD is announcing full support for Freelance start for Windows Release 2.0 and limited support 4. Once you have restarted WINDOWS open for CorelDraw 3.0. If you are using a DOS the program group that you want to create a version of Freelance, ISD still is providing full support for Freelance Release 3.01. If you have screen saver icon in (i.e. main or applica- any interests in attending conversion or training tions). classes for these products please call Lois Lebahn at 444-3987. 5. Choose NEW., from the FILE menu in Pro- gram Manager. Freelance and CorelDraw for Windows are easy- PROGRAM to-use, fully compliant Windows applications 6. Click on ITEM, then click on OK. that leverage the Windows graphical user inter- face and environment. This includes Windows 7. Enter a Description, such as SCREEN SA- pull-down menus, sizable windows and mini VER. menu rollups, mouse support, icons, help system, memory management, font/color system, COMMAND output and screen device support. Dynamic 8. In the LINE section type the Data Exchange (DDE), Object Linking and filename of the screen saver you want to Embedding (OLE) and clipboard support. Fur- run, followed by a space followed by /S. For example, SSSTARS.SCR /S ther, the products are entirely consistent with other Windows applications. They provides The default screen savers and their associat- compatibility with all prior versions of Free- lance, and gives users access to powerful graphic ed filenames are: technologies. Freelance for Windows offers SSFLYWIN.SCR - Flying Windows users complete and easy publishing and presen- SSMARQUE.SCR - Marquee tation abilities for the novice and CorelDraw SSMYST.SCR for the experienced user offers a host of unique - Mystify SSSTARS.SCR illustration features. - Starfield Simulation 9. In the SHORTCUT KEY box the word Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) lets you trans- NONE fer data between your graphic presentation and will appear. Tab the cursor to the other Windows applications (Word processor, shortcut key box, and press the letter you want to use in combination with CTRL and Spreadsheet, etc) and update the information ALT in the destination file when information in the to activate the screen saver. For in- stance if you enter S in the shortcut key box, source file changes. Object Linking and Em- CTRL ALT S will active your screen saver. bedding allows you to link objects located in another file into your current presentation. 10. Click on OK or YES until you return to Both packages provide presentation backgrounds Program Manager. to assist one in creating a slide show. Free- lance provides Smartmasters which guide you in 11.You can now start your screen saver im- the placement of your text. It also has an out- mediately by either double-clicking on the line view which lets you create your slide show icon you created, or by pressing the shortcut on the fly. For the experienced user CorelDraw key combination that you selected (CTRL offers more dramatic illustration abihties such ALT S in the example above). as, object extrusion, blending, gradient fill and a whole lot more. *** Note that the screen saver and password still operate as usual in addition to the im- FreeDlaRncWe for Windows is compatible with exist- mediate method you have now set up. ing files from all DOS releases. Using 4praf79PJ -^..r-^-'^ ifw^.^v^;jsjyX-'AWw.'^Wfr?;'^.yyy»»»«-w-vk* Freelance for Windows, you can open files from End Notes those releases and save them in the new PRE format or export them to the DOS DRW format. CorelDraw does not directly support the DRW format. Files must first be con- Submit Articles COM verted/exported to a format for import into CorelDraw. 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