rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) (02/23/90)
Here is an announcement of a Windows/PM User/Developer Group. I found this article on GENIE last night. Hope you find this helpful. -----Dale Rogerson----- =============================================================================== Microsoft Window and OS/2 Presentation Manager Users, The National Windows Users Group Network is pleased to announce the availability of the first indepedent technical journal for users of the Micrsoft Windows and OS/2 Presentation Manager users. WUGNET members include both Window and OS/2 PM users and developers. Our press release below really just briefly explains what the journal is about. We have many new announcements concerning the publication that will be released very soon! If you have any questions, or wish to receive further information on WUGNET, the WUGNET Journal and membership services, please eplex your inquiries to Howard Sobel, Editor, WUGNET Journal, PO Box 1967, Media, PA 19063. If you wish to be added to our upcoming informational mailing, please forward your mailing address and tel# via Eplex for our official WUGNET Journal mailing. Howard Sobel, Editor, WUGNET Nat'l Windows Users Group Network WUGNET Publications,Inc. ====================================================================== For Immediate Release WUGNET Publications, Inc January 30, 1989PO Box 1967 Media, PA 19063 Tel: 215 565 1861 FAX: 215 565 7081 Contact: Howard Sobel, Editor, 76357,2064 WUGNET, National Window Users Group Network, Announces Technical Journal for OS/2 and Window Users "WUGNET", the National Window Users Group Network, is pleased to announce the availability of a bimonthly journal, providing a forum for the exchange of technical information between users and developers of Windows and OS/2 Presentation Manager supported software and hardware. Articles and features will provide expert tips on third party applications and integration strategies, overviews of technologies including software and hardware, application programming and customization guides by leading independent experts. Published bimonthly, the WUGNET Journal features articles offering insights and how-to s that enhance the use of the powerful software specifically designed to operate under the Intel CPU-based GUI environments. The WUGNET Journal provides subscribers with a secondary source of independently generated information, resulting in productivity gains in everyday computing! In addition,the WUGNET Journal staff and contributing editors will demystify the powerful features of OS/2 PM and Window environments and show you how they can easily be applied to your computing environment and application needs. Upcoming articles include: Excel & Pagemaker Integration:Tricks & Traps, Interfacing Windows Communications to Personal Information Management, SQL*Server & Window Workstations Optimization, Connectivity Clinic (Unix and Windows): Configuring Strategies Win386/286 for Novell, 3rd Party Window Printing Enhancement Strategies, Integrating Windows Email with Word for Windows, Designing Standardized Benchmarks for WinApp Performance, Porting Windows Excel applications to PM Excel, Attack of the Graphics Illustration Packages, WUGNET Innovation Award of the Month, PC WInapp Tricks: File Finders, Corel WFNBOSS - Ins and Outs; Windows of Opportunity, and much more. Guest columnists include Windows Industry analyst Carole Patton of ACKnowledge, and Ray Heizer, developer and distributor of over 1000 Excel applications. The WUGNET Journal will inform readers on past and upcoming presentations, seminars, regional user group meetings, industry trade shows, putting you in touch with the information you need to know concerning MS Windows and Presentation Manager events around the country. For the on-line set, a special resource section will keep you posted about happenings on on-line services that focus on the Windows and PM environments, including various CompuserveWindow related Forums (w/ WUGNET Technical Experts Online!), The Windows Center on CONNECT!, and the National Windows ECHOMAIL via Fidonet! WUGNET maintains a Windows Cardfile of over 600 commercial shipping Window applications from third party firms, providing a database indexed by application category, company name, address and phone number, and description. Journal Subscribers will receive disks containing the best of the WUGNET library, selected from over 50 megabytes of valuable shareware, data files and programming aids for both Windows and OS/2 Presentation Manager. These disk will be mailed quarterly to all subscribers. WUGNET also maintains a large and diverse Windows and OS/2 PM Disk Library featuring , user group and author public domain contributions, and shareware titles. The WUGNET Data Library will also include many exclusive Windows and OS/2 Presentation Manager utilities and applications, provided by the Journal editing and technical contributors. WUGNET s most extensive collection of data files will contain specfic data files for third party commercial application specific files including: Superbase 4, Word for Windows, Microsoft Excel, Crosstalk for Windows, Dynacomm, Bridge, Xerox Formbase, AMI PRO, Windows Scrapbook Plus, Zsoft Publishers Typefoundry. Aldus Pagemaker, SQL Windows, Micrographx Designer , Bridge, Corel Draw, ToolBook, Descartes, and many others. These third party application specific data files will recommended and approved be by their respective software publishers! The WUGNET Journal first volume will feature the following articles: Pagemaker OS/2: Managing the Windows Pagemaker Transition Implementing Mission Critical DDE with Packrat Network Version, Hands-On: Create Your own Dyancomm Dialing Directory Excel/Pagemaker Integration: Tips, Tricks & Traps Corel WFNBOSS Productivity Hints & Fontography Inside the WUGNET WinApp Cardfile Catalog & the WUGNET Data Library Case Study: Fortune 50 Pension Department:Windows/PM/SQL*Server Integration Ask the Window Wizards: Power Answers from the Experts Designing Integrated Time and Billing Applications with 3rd Party Winapps The Frugal Desktop Publisher (Desktop FAX Publishing ) DDE Premier I for Application Integrators The HP New Wave Office Systems Architecture Troubleshooting Windows 2.X Part I:Support Methodologies Vertical Application Integration Projects WUGNET Resource Guide * WUGNET Reviews: Reviews by users for users. * User Groups Happenings and Directory * Seminars and Conference Announcements and Reports * Online Services Coverage - Best Threads, Uploads, Announcements! * Training Material and Workshops WUGNET Journal Staff: Howard Sobel, Editor in Chief Contributing Editors:Steve Shubitz (Graphics),Dave Howell (Resources), Leon Chalnick (Connectivity), Noel Bergman (Development). Joel Diamond(Technical); Brian Moura(Reviews); Barry Nostradamus Sher(Fontography); Mark Ryland (OS/2 PM Applications). Participating Window Users Groups: Philadelphia Area Computer Society - GUI, OS/2 and Windows SIGS (Special Interest Groups), Boston Computer Society - OS/2 and Window SIGS, Houston Area League PC - Windows SIG, NYPC, Capital PC Users Group - Windows SIG, Portland Area PC Users Group - Windows SIG, and the National Echomail Windows Conference. For more information on subscribing to the WUGNET JOURNAL, contact: Howard Sobel, Editor WUGNET Publications, Inc. P.O. BOX 1967 MEDIA, PA 19063 Voice (215) 565 1861 FAX (215) 565-7106 eMAIL:CompuServe: 76357,2064 MCIMAIL: JDIAMOND Annual Subscription: $75, includes 6 issues, and 4 disks (quarterly update to the WUGNET Windows & Presentation Manager Applications Catalog, WUGNET Cardfile Resource Stacks, and much more!) WUGNET is a registered Trademark of WUGNET Publications,Inc. Microsoft Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Other packages mentioned are the respective trademark of their software publishers. * WUGNET Publications, Inc., employees and it's contributing staff hold no formal business or working relationships with commercial Window developers. As an independent publication for users by users, The WUGNET Journal is an advertisement- free publication. All opinions are the opinions of their authors.