[Announce] PASUG Mtg: Thurs, Jan 22nd

[Larry Lavins]

.           PHILADELPHIA ALTERNATE SYSTEMS USER GROUP
.                  http://www.phillyos2.org
The Philadelphia Alternate Systems User Group (PASUG) invites
all interested computer users to attend the January meeting.
.          THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2004  7:00-10:00PM
. Bryn Mawr Community Center, 9 S. Bryn Mawr Ave, Bryn Mawr,PA
.            ***  JANUARY 22nd MEETING AGENDA
. --  CSSDIR v.2.0 DIRECTORY/FILE SIFTING TOOL FOR OS2/eCS  --
.          >>>  SPECIAL TREAT:- FRESH HOT PIZZA!  <<<
  
For the first meeting of year 2004, I'm pleased to announce that
our guest speaker, Paul Curtis, an OS2/eCS user and developer,
will conduct a presentation/demo of his new CSSDIR v.2.0 release,
a command-line based, directory/file sifting tool for OS/2 & eCS.
  
The standard DIR command has changed very little since the birth
of OS/2 in the late 1980's, when most work was being done with
floppies, and program files were minimal in number. But today, we
typically deal with many hundreds or thousands of files, and the
DIR capability is too limited to sift through this many files.
  
CSSDIR's requirements are very minimal. It may be invoked on a
freshly booted OS/2 or eCS system via Alt-F1. It's not dependent
on the PMSHELL being available, nor on any non-standard DLL's.
  
A partial list of CSSDIR's many powerful features includes:
 - Over 75 user controllable options "CANable" via ini file
 - Save frequently used options for easy reuse
 - Baseline snapshots for later comparisons & system differences
 - Filter files by a size range and an EAsize range
 - Duplicate file detection, even named differently!
 - Unique files filter over multiple directory trees
 - Can apply a set of wildcards over base directories
 - Control depth of subDirectory searches
 - Reading search requests from batch input files
 - Excluding files/directories from searches
 - Case sensitive/insensitive text strings searches
 - User control over all file fields to display
 - Sorting by relative paths amongst multiple requests
 - Combining multiple requests into one integrated listing
 - Different sorted listings in one pass and invocation
 - Computes CRCs on files data and even EAs
 - Output can be easily parsed from REXX
 - HUGE gathering/sorting requests monitorable even over a LAN
 - Summary only report
  
Paul is a software engineer consultant with 20 years experience,
focused on real time embedded systems. Paul lives in the Scranton
area, but has been associated with our user group for many years.
He can be reached at: http://www.curtisSystemsSoftware.com.
  
Other agenda items include announcements, news & new software
releases, Q&A session, and 50/50 raffle. Paul also plans to
donate a copy of his new CSSDIR release for raffle. And you
will also enjoy fresh hot pizza, delivered to our meeting.
  
MEETING FORMAT & TIME SCHEDULE (Subject to minor changes)
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. 7:00 - 7:20  Mtg start: announcements/news/new releases, etc.
. 7:20 - 8:00  Q&A session
. 8:00 - 8:20  Pizza break & raffle
. 8:20 - 9:50  CSSDIR presentation/demo by Paul Curtis
. 9:50 -10:00  Close-down, pack-up & exit
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Mark the date and time: THURSDAY, JANUARY 22nd at 7:00pm.
PASUG meetings are open and free for all users, their guests and
others interested in learning about OS/2, Linux and associated
technologies. We have a very full agenda and tight schedule
which will be enforced. Please be on time promptly by 7:00pm
to avoid missing earlier parts of the meeting.
  
.          **   WE SUPPORT OPEN STANDARDS   **
  
PASUG meetings are held at the Bryn Mawr Community Center, next
to Ludington Library, at the corner of Lancaster and Bryn Mawr
Avenues, Bryn Mawr, PA. on the 4th Thursdays of Jan to Oct, and
the 3rd Thursdays of Nov and Dec.
  
Directions to the Bryn Mawr Community Center (BMCC) and other
useful information about the PASUG activities may be found on
our web site at http://www.phillyos2.org, or contact U/G Leader
Larry Lavins: llavins at earthlink.net, or phone (215) 878-9608.
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