Duration: 1/2 Day

Instructor: Alex Taylor, Chuck McKinnis & David van Enckevort

Prerequisites:

Audience:

Anyone desiring help in installing and maintaining eComStation.

Course Description:

A hands on workship for eComStation installation and maintenance. Bring your PC and get eCS installed and humming.

Requirements:

Bring your eCS installation CD and PC in order to participate in the class exercises.

Speaker Info:

Alex Taylor is an OS/2 user and occasional programmer. He started back in university after being given a second-hand copy of Warp 3; this later led to a job working in OS/2 server and LAN support at the office of a large Canadian insurance company. Alex is currently a member of the eComStation Development Group, a loose-knit group of volunteers who contribute to various aspects of eCS development. His projects include Icon Themes, the Archive Viewer, and the Installation Volume Manager.

Chuck McKinnis retired from IBM in 1992 after 26 years as a systems engineer in large systems and communications. He has a private consulting practice and is the New Mexico Location Manager for Sirius Enterprise Systems Group, an IBM Premier Business Partner and largest IBM eServer reseller in the world. He is the author of the eCS Maintenance Tool, NICPAK, and a contirbutor to RexxAutoStart. He has been an OS/2 user since the beta days of 1989 and has programming experience with Rexx that goes back to the first release of Rexx by IBM.

David van Enckevort is currently employed at Mensys, where he is involved in the development of eComStation. For eComStation version 1.1 he has been the lead in the development of the new installer, which with improvements by others is still the basis of the eComStation Installation CD. Since he bought his first computer he has been active in several OS/2 related groups, and released a couple of programs (ASCII Table, Activity Monitor, xDel, etc.). He currently is board member of the editorial board of the Dutch OS/2 quarterly Draad/2.