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Vol. 18   number 9
The newsletter of the Ottawa PC Users' Group  November 2001

Calendar

OPCUG General Meeting
National Museum of Science and Technology
1867 St. Laurent Blvd.
Second Wednesday of each month, 7:30pm
Nov 14, AMD by Hanif Mawji of J-Squared Technologies Inc.

Ottawa Paradox Users Group
Corel Bldg, 1600 Carling Ave.
Third Thursday of each month 6:00-8:00 pm

Internet SIG(I-SIG)
Second Wednesday of each month, immediately following the
OPCUG General Meeting at the Museum.

Developers SIG
Second Wednesday of each month, immediately following the
OPCUG General Meeting at the Museum of Science and
Technology, and occasionally at other locations in the
region.

Delphi User Group, 8:00 p.m.
at Chapters Store in the Pinecrest Mall (at the Queensway)

PIG SIG (or is it WING SIG?)
After all the other SIGS.
PIG SIG (i.e., Wing SIG)    **** NEW LOCATION ****
Good Times Cafe - 1125 Iris, corner of Baxter & Iris

Please note that unless otherwise noted, SIGs meet at 9:00
p.m. (immediately following the OPCUG General Meeting).
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CLUB NEWS
Domain name changes for OPCUG
by Chris Taylor

The Ottawa PC Users' Group has operated electronic services
for over three and a half years under the domain name
opcug.ottawa.com. This subdomain of ottawa.com was provided
free of charge through the courtesy of The Ottawa Citizen
(who owned Ottawa.com) and Magma (who provided the DNS
services for The Ottawa Citizen). Recently, Southam
Publications took over the DNS services for all their
publications including The Ottawa Citizen. They have been
revamping their Internet presence and the Ottawa.com domain,
which used to point directly to the Citizen's On-line city
guide ended up being redirected to Canada.com. During these
cleanup and redirection operations the domain name
opcug.ottawa.com was accidentally removed. We disappeared
off the Internet for almost a day before we got things
straightened out.

We had been warned about two years ago that we may not be
able to keep the opcug.ottawa.com domain name and we have
now been told that the reinstatement of the domain name is
only temporary, until we can establish our own domain name.

We have registered the domain name opcug.ca. As of the
writing of this article, both opcug.ottawa.com and opcug.ca
are working. They both point to the same address. However,
there is no guarantee how long opcug.ottawa.com will
continue to function. All members are encouraged to switch
over to using opcug.ca as quickly as possible. The Following
are the addresses/instructions for accessing electronic
services on PUB II. Note that only the web portion (and only
parts of the web portion) may be accessed without having an
account on PUB II.

Web
http://opcug.ca
http://www.opcug.ca (points to exactly the same as above)

FTP
opcug.ca (provides access to all the file areas)

E-MAIL
firstname.lastname@@opcug.ca (for personal email)

listserve@opcug.ca (for sending subscribe/unsubscribe
commands to the listserver)

listname@@opcug.ca (for sending mail to a particular list -
where "listname" is the name  of the particular list you are
subscribed to)

For more information on using the listserver, send a message
to listserve@opcug.ca. Leave the subject blank and in the
body of the message put "get help" (without the quotes)

Wildcat Navigator

If you use Wildcat to dial-up directly through a phone line
to PUB II, you do not need to change anything. If you use
Wildcat to connect to PUB II after you have connected to
your Internet Service Provider, in the Wildcat Connection
Manager, click once on the connection you have for PUB II.
Click the 'Properties' button. In the 'Phone or Host for
WinSock device', enter opcug.ca

Telnet
opcug.ca
POP3
incoming server: opcug.ca
outgoing server: your ISP's outgoing SMTP server

If you are a member of the OPCUG, do not have a PUB II
account and would like to set one up, you can download the
PUB II "Quick Start Guide" in Adobe Acrobat format by
inserting the following link into your browser;

http://opcug.ca/public/pub-qsg.pdf

If you want to sign up for PUB II through a browser, just go
to http://opcug.ca and click the "PUB II" button in the left
frame. Then click on "New User" and follow the prompts. Note
that after you log on for the first time, you must send a
message to Chris.Taylor@@opcug.ca with your name, address,
phone number and membership number (if you happen to know
it) in order to have your account upgraded so you can access
all parts of PUB II.

Alternatively, you can send an email to
Chris.Taylor@@opcug.ca. Let me know how you intend to access
PUB II (dial-up, Telnet, or web browser) and I can provide
you with step-by-step instructions.

On behalf of the Ottawa PC Users' Group, I would like to
thank the kind folks at the Ottawa Citizen and Magma
Communications for allowing us to use the opcug.ottawa.com
domain name for so long.

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COMING UP
CPU? This one's for U!
by Tim Mahoney

Hanif Mawji of J-Squared Technologies Inc. will be
presenting the latest on AMD processors and on AMD's roadmap
to future processors, at the November 14th OPCUG meeting.

J-Squared Technologies is a leading Manufacturers'
Representative in the Canadian market.Since its inception in
1990, J-Squared Technologies has distinguished itself as the
most technically proficient solutions provider in the
marketplace. J-Squared sales engineers are committed to
working with its customers and principals to provide
leading-edge solutions.

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CLUB NEWS
OPCUG elections coming!

In the last issue of Ottawa PC News, a call went out for
someone to head up the election committee. Claude Jarry has
come forward to volunteer for the job

As I said last month, I would encourage anyone to come
forward and stand for election to the Board of Directors. It
can be a lot of fun and you can influence the direction the
Group takes. If you thik you might be interested, you can
talk to any of the current Board for more information.

If you know you are interested, let Claude know. You can
contact him by phone at 526-9318 or by email at
al689@@freenet.carleton.ca. Please provide your name,
address, phone number and membership number (if known).

The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2001.

If there are more than nine nominations, an election will be
held at the February OPCUG general meeting. Candidates will
have an opportunity to include an article in the February
issue of Ottawa PC News, outlining why they feel they should
be elected to the Board of Directors. Candidates will also
be given an opportunity to speak to the membership prior to
the vote at the February meeting.

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CLUB NEWS
Member services

Do you operate a business that you would like to advertise
to other members of the Ottawa PC Users' Group? Do you have
an area of expertise you think other members of the OPCUG
might be interested in - either for free or at a reasonable
price?

Are you looking for a job and need a place to let people
know your skill set? Are you looking for an employee to fill
a particular position and want to get the word out?

Perhaps the new "Member Services" from the Ottawa PC Users'
Group is the place for you! Operated both as a conference
area and a list on the OPCUG listserver, "Member Services"
is set up to promote, advertise and share experience and
services among the OPCUG membership. Just one more way to
fulfill the OPCUG motto of "Users helping users".

If you already have an account on PUB II, you can dive right
in to the new conference area "Member Services".

If you don't yet have an account on PUB II (and are a member
of the OPCUG), you can create a PUB II account yourself by
browsing to http://opcug.ca. Click on the "PUB II" button in
the left frame. Then click the "New User" button and follow
the prompts. After you create an account, be sure to send an
email to sysop@@opcug.ca to have your account upgraded. Until
you do, you will not have access to the conference areas.
Please include your address, phone number and membership
number (if known).

Other means of accessing PUB II are detailed in the PUB II
Quick Start Guide, which may be found at
http://opcug.ca/public/pub-qsg.pdf. Please note that you
need the Adobe Acrobat viewer to use this file.

Another way of accessing "Member Services" is through the
OPCUG Listserver. To subscribe, send an email to
listserve@opcug.ca. Leave the subject blank. In the body of
the message put; subscribe MemberServices Within a few
minutes, you should receive a welcome message which includes
instructions on how to use send messages to the Member-
Services list, as well as the terms of usage and frequently
asked questions.

If you would like to read the full terms of usage and
frequently asked questions for "Member Services", you can
read the first posting in the conference area or send a
message to listserve@opcug.

Leave the subject blank and in the body of the message put;
get MemberServices-W Within a few minutes, you should have a
new email in your mailbox with the details.

For more general information on using the OPCUG Listserver,
send an email to listserve@opcug.ca. Leave the subject blank
and in the body of the message, put; get info.

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PRODUCT REVIEW
E-Remove: A pre-processor for incoming e-mail
by Alan German

I believe that it was at the first Orphan's SIG meeting
where Brigitte Lord, OPCUG's Web Master, mentioned that she
used E-Remove as a pre-processor for electronic mail. The
essence of this utility is that it provides an opportunity
to review messages on your ISP's mail server, and the
ability to delete specific messages from the server without
actually downloading them.

Since many SPAM messages feature rich text, which generally
increases the size of individual messages, and viruses
normally come in the form of large attached files, the
ability to erase such messages "at source" appears to be
rather attractive. As the recipient of lots of junk E-mail,
which usually comes in duplicate (but that's another story),
the prospect certainly caught my attention. While E-Remove
functions exactly as advertised, the program may not be the
ideal solution for everyone. In fact, my experience
indicates that the utility of this utility will depend
strongly on the nature of the E-mail which a given
individual receives.

The potential problem is the relatively long time taken by
E-Remove to download extracts of the messages from the ISP's
mail server. Over a three-week period, for my own incoming
mail, I made a check on the time taken by E-Remove to
download its partial versions of the messages, and the time
required by Eudora to retrieve the same messages in their
entirety. I also noted the number of bytes of messages which
I would have deleted from the server using E-Remove, and the
total number of bytes of the complete messages downloaded by
Eudora. On average, E-Remove needed about half of the
connect time taken by Eudora to pre-process the same batch
of messages, while offering savings of about one third of
the download traffic. Since, after deleting messages with E-
Remove, the remaining two-thirds of the message traffic
still need to be downloaded by Eudora, clearly this is not a
time-effective solution. Overall, in my specific case, it
proved to be more efficient to download all of the messages
and then delete unwanted mail in Eudora.

There were some exceptions to this general rule. E-Remove
identified a 1.6 MB attachment to a message and, by
screening the message header, I could identify that I didn't
wish to receive either the message or the file. This
provided a considerable time saving on my dial-up connection
for this particular session. In another mail session, the
program allowed me to delete 11 separate instances of 204 KB
files infected with the SirCam virus [I send you this file
to get your advice - Delete!]

So, whether or not E-Remove will be a useful utility program
for you will depend on the nature of the E-mail which you
normally receive, and if you value the ability to pre-screen
your mail prior to down-loading it from the mail server. I
suspect that one shouldn't get too hung up on download
times. My average mail session was just a little over a
minute, so even if using E-Remove were to double the time
taken to download the mail, it isn't a great hardship in the
grand scheme of things. And, using this program can give
great satisfaction in directly thwarting the best efforts of
the SPAM and virus merchants!

Installing the program is simplicity itself, one just has to
unzip the distribution file into a sub-directory and run the
resulting executable file, eremove.exe. There is a variety
of items to configure on the change-existing-settings
screen. You can enter the user ID and password needed to log
on to your ISP's mail server, and have the option to save
the password for use by future E-Remove sessions. You must
enter the address for your ISP's mail server and the port
which it uses. Advanced settings include letting you specify
additional mail accounts, an E-mail client to be launched
once the E-Remove session is complete (e.g., Eudora or
Outlook Express), and the number of lines of each message
which is to be downloaded for previewing.

Running the program, with an active Internet connection,
accesses the specified POP server and provides a summary
screen of information relating to the messages available for
down- loading. For each message, the information given is
the priority of the message, an indication if a file is
attached, the size of the message in KB, the date on which
the message was sent, the sender's E-mail address, and the
subject line.

A single click on any message in the list marks the message
for deletion. Multiple messages may be selected by clicking
on multiple entries in the list. Continuing the program's
operation, deletes the selected mail items, and moves on to
the final screen where the option to run an E-mail client on
exit is presented. Normally, one would continue in this
manner so as to download the remaining  -  wanted  -
messages from the mail server.

Double clicking on a particular message in the list provides
two information tabs. The "General" tab displays  the
initial lines of text in the message which E-Remove has
obtained from the mail server. The "Source" tab displays the
complete E-mail header information. A sort feature is also
provided, whereby clicking on any column in the list of
messages sorts the list on that specific category. Thus, one
can sort messages by size, date sent, priority, etc.

E-Remove is a freeware program which the author, Victor
Javier of the Philippines, has tested under Windows 95 and
NT. The current release appears to be Version 2.4, dated
July 4, 1988. However, at the time of writing, the web site
specified for user registration,
http://home.pacific.net.sg/~thantom/eremove.htm, was giving
an error message (Homepage Error: The userid that you have
specified does not exist).

A search on Google (http://www.google.com) identified an
alternative web site at http://eremover.bizhosting.com/
which provides information about E-Remove, and is a source
for downloading the software distribution. However, this
site does not appear to have been updated for some time, and
a number of the links are broken.

All this to say that it would appear further updates to this
software may not be available.  Nevertheless, Version 2.4
can be obtained from the bizhosting web site, and is quite
serviceable. OPCUG members can also download the E-Remove
distribution package, eremov24.zip (200 KB), from The PUB.

Bottom Line:

E-Mail Remover, Version 2.4

Freeware from Victor Javier
Web Site: http://eremover.bizhosting.com/

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PRODUCT REVIEW
DriveCopy 4.0
by Harald Freise

What is there to say? It works! Hard drive too small? Tired
of trying to free up disk space? Don't want to take the time
required to find and back up all your data, install one of
those inexpensive huge hard drives, re-install all your
applications and restore your files on the new drive? How
much your time is worth? DriveCopy from PowerQuest can save
you some.

DriveCopy is a well-known product from PowerQuest that got
better over time. In 10 easy to understand "follow the 10
steps" directions you can be up and running in a fraction of
the time required to manually add and configure a new hard
drive.

Before starting, check out the machine for a required extra
free power and data cable connector for the additional
drive. If there isn't a spare power connector there are "y"
cables available as a remedy. If your CD-ROM is a slave on
the only IDE cable in the machine, then it would be a good
time to place and configure the CD-ROM drive on the second
IDE port and purchase an additional IDE cable with 3 IDE
connectors for the hard drives. Follow the hard drive
manufactures' directions on changing the master and slave
jumpers on both drives as detailed by the instructions and
connect the drives to the IDE port. Configuring the systems
BIOS to correctly recognize the two drives isn't onerous as
it sounds since most BIOS's have been Auto Detect for quite
a few years.

SCSI drives controllers must support Int 13 devices for
DriveCopy to be used. If FDISK can see and partition the
SCSI drives, DriveCopy can be used to transfer the disk
data.

What's new in version 4.0 is the use of "virtual floppy
technology" that does away with the previous minimal task of
making a DOS boot disk. DriveCopy 4.0 now has support for
hard drives up to 80GB and DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 9x, ME,
NT, Win2K and OS/2. Good transfer speed is still found from
their SmartSector copy technology. If a sector is empty,
they don't bother copying it to the new drive. The usual
scenario is that the original drive is smaller than the new
drive.

The smaller partition is then expanded to fill the remaining
available disk space. The reverse situation wasn't as
straight forward. What was requested was to upgrade a large
slow drive with a much faster smaller drive. After doing the
requisite reading of the manual, DriveCopy apparently does
not resize partitions. After running scan disk and
defragging the hard drive (a stellar idea in any event),
PoweQuest's PartitionMagic was used to resize the original
drive so that it would fit on the new drive. After that it
was a straightforward DiskCopy according to the fine manual.

One annoying thing found was that after entering the serial
number demanded on the install, DriveCopy returned an error
message that stated bluntly "Incorrect serial number -
proceed anyway?" It was enough to make us start over, just
in case the utility would hold the data ransom or would in
any way compromise the data on either drive. After pulling
the plug (the manual says DriveCopy is "power-fail safe")
another attempt was made. The serial number is case
sensitive. It was later discovered that the drive copy
process goes through even if the incorrect number is used.

Recommended minimum requirements (or better) Intel 486, 32MB
memory and 5MB free disk space.

Imagine, if you will, effortless installation of your OS,
all applications and data from one drive to the other. It's
true. On another rather negative note: if your computer
didn't work well before adding another drive and using
DriveCopy; it won't work any better after.

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SOFTWARE REVIEW
Koala HTML (v1.0)
by Brigitte Lord

There are a number of programs available to the webmaster to
help him design and maintain a website. The simplest of
these is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) type of
program that lets you place text, images, and other elements
graphically on a page. As you work, you see almost exactly
how the page will look in a browser. The most difficult way
to create a web page is to work in a basic text editor such
as Notepad or WordPad and type all the HTML tags manually.
Not only do you not see what the page looks like as you
work, but you must know many common HTML tags and how to use
them. Because HTML tags are usually repeated many times on
any web page, this becomes tedious and can lead to typos
that will make the tags ineffective. The result is a web
page with elements that may not be rendered correctly or at
all.

Koala HTML by AVANTRIX Inc. falls in between WYSIWYG and
manual HTML text editing. The HTML tags are all pre-
formatted for you and you merely have to click them with
your mouse to insert them in the built-in text editor. This
eliminates HTML typos and greatly reduces keystrokes. The
interface of the program is laid out with a narrower window
on the left containing an extensive list of HTML tags, and a
wider window on the right containing a text editor for
inserting the tags and composing HTML "freehand". The
progress of the web page can be previewed at any time by
clicking the Preview tab. This shows the web page in an
Internet Explorer-type browser window. Alternatively, the
web page can be quickly launched in a browser of your choice
(provided you already have it installed on your system) from
the Tools button on the menu bar. All HTML elements are
colour-coded in the text editor, but a word wrap feature is
not available, forcing one to scroll horizontally. To make
matters worse, the left window containing the tags is not
resizable. Although it can be closed completely, this is not
practical for beginners.

Koala HTML offers three templates from which to build your
web page. The Basic template contains some sample text, a
block quote section, a bulleted list, and a hyperlinked e-
mail address. The Table template contains some of the above
with a preformatted table. These two templates offer a frame
onto which a less experienced user can build his web page.
The more experienced user will most likely use the Blank
template containing the bare-minimum in HTML tags.

The program offers a number of GIF and JPEG web images for
buttons, lines, bullets, and backgrounds. As well, many
animated GIF's are bundled with the program. Several scripts
are available in DHTML and Java such as Browser Redirect,
Add to Favourites, Slide In Menu Bar, Mouse Pointer Effect,
and Lottery Number Picker. I especially liked the Rain
Effect and the Chinese Zodiac. Much appreciated is the
extensive list of tag items that includes even the most
mundane elements like &nbsp (non-breaking space), and <! -
- > which lets you insert an internal comment on the page
that will not display in a browser.

Unlike HTML code generated by some WYSIWYG programs, the
code in Koala HTML is clean and non-proprietary due to its
list of standard tags. A web page created in an upscale word
processor, for example, may contain a great deal of
extraneous code that some browsers may ignore or interpret
incorrectly. Koala even tells you which tags work strictly
in either Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator (such as
the infamous BLINKING tag created by Netscape). Of course,
it would be easy to add all kinds of unnecessary code with
this type of program, after all, it's so easy to click-and-
insert all those tags. For this reason, it would be nice if
Koala HTML had a proof-reading feature for beginners to
clean-up their code if necessary.

Koala HTML also gives you the ability to publish your web
page. The built-in FTP client is basic but functional. It
can automatically upload any images or other web items
(called Dependencies) that you have included in your web
page. If it cannot find these items, it will prompt you to
browse for them on your hard drive. Advanced users can turn
this feature off, but this is a nice touch for beginners.

After working with Koala HTML, I found the program easy to
use and effortless. Insertion of HTML tags, images, and
scripts was a breeze. The experienced user will truly
appreciate the reduction in repetitive keystrokes and typos.
However, an inexperienced user with little knowledge of HTML
would have difficulty assembling anything but a basic web
page. In future versions, I would like to see an entire help
section devoted to defining each tag (as I have seen in
another program). Although AVANTRIX recommends Koala HTML to
users who do not have any experience in creating a web page,
I feel the user needs to be somewhat familiar with HTML in
order to use this program comfortably.

For those who would like to try Koala HTML, there is a fully
functional 15-day demo version available for download at
http://www.avantrix.com/download.htm.

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CLUB NEWS
OPCUG mugs and multitools are in!

Check out these great thermal coffee mugs and multitools
sporting our club logo at the back of the auditorium at
General Meetings! OPCUG insulated mugs are $15 and OPCUG
multitools are $20.

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Club News
Reuse, recycle

Bring your old computer books, software, hardware, and
paraphernalia you want to GIVE AWAY to the general meetings,
and leave them at the table near the auditorium's entrance.
Please limit your magazines to publication dates of less
than two years old. If you don't bring something, you may
want to TAKE AWAY something of interest, so look in on this
area. Any item left over at the end of the meeting will be
sent to the... recycle bin.

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Club Life
Fly West

Come to the "Good Times" cafe at 1125 Iris, corner of Baxter
& Iris, for chicken wings and a drink after the General
meeting: may be the best and most informative SIG meeting of
the evening.  See you there!

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OTTAWA PC NEWS

Ottawa PC News is the newsletter of the Ottawa PC Users'
Group (OPCUG), and is published monthly except in July and
August. The opinions expressed in this newsletter may not
necessarily represent the views of the club or its members.
Deadline for submissions is four Saturdays before the
general meeting.

Member participation is encouraged! If you would like to
contribute an article to Ottawa PC News, please submit it to
the newsletter editor (contact info below). Deadline for
submissions is three Saturdays before the General Meeting.

Group meetings

OPCUG normally meets on the first Wednesday in the month,
except in July and August, at the National Museum of Science
and Technology, 1867 St. Laurent Blvd, Ottawa. Meeting times
are 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Fees:
Membership: $25 per year.
Mailing address:
3 Thatcher St., Nepean, Ontario, K2G 1S6
Web address:
http://opcug.ottawa.com/
Bulletin board - the PUB II (BBS):
Up to 33.6 kbps v.34, 228-8951

Chairman and System Administrator:
Chris Taylor, ctaylor@@nrcan.gc.ca, 727-5453
Meeting Coordinator
Tim Mahoney, timothyr@@cyberus.ca, 225-2630
Treasurer:
Vince Pizzamiglio, vince@@monisys.ca
Webmaster
Brigitte Lord, opcug@@iname.com
Secretary:
(Mr.) Jocelyn Doire, jocelyn.doire@@opcug.ottawa.com
Membership Chairman:
Mark Cayer, Mark.Cayer@@StatCan.ca, 823-0354
Newsletter:
Bert Schopf, bert@@blackbirdpcd.com, 232-8427
Email: (Mr.)Jocelyn Doire, Jocelyn.Doire@@opcug.ottawa.com
Publicity:
Morris Turpin, morris.turpin@@home.com, 729-6955
Facilities:
Bob Walker, skywalk@@iname.ca, 489-2084
Beginners' and Windows SIG coordinator:
Duncan Petrie, petried@@onebox.com, 841-6119
Internet SIG coordinator:
Bob Gowan, GOWANB@@INAC.GC.CA
Paradox SIG coordinator:
John Ladds, laddsj@@statcan.ca, 951-4581
Delphi SIG coordinator
Stan Isbrandt, isbrandt@@trytel.com, 992-8141/729-7793
Orphan SIG Coordinator
Henry Sims, ha4326@@home.com
Developers' SIG
Bob Thomas, BobThomas@@msn.com

(c) OPCUG 2001. Reprints permission is granted* to non-
profit organizations, provided credits is given to the
author and The Ottawa PC News. OPCUG request a copy of the
newsletter in which reprints appear.

*Permission is granted only for articles written by OPCUG
members, and which are not copyrighted by the author.

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