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| Cover Story | |
| Databases for OS/2: The First Wave | 98 |
| OS/2 is celebrating its second birthday, but so far it's had a lonely childhood. Hundreds of applications have been promised; few have been delivered. PC Magazine looks at these powerful OS/2 databases that have made it to market: Paradox OS/2, Q&A OS/2, and R:BASE OS/2. Each promises to increase your productivity; each promises significant improvements over its DOS conterpart. But is that reason enough to make the switch to OS/2? |
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| Richard Hale Shaw |
| Features Table | 98 |
| Performance Tests | 122 |
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| Features | |
| Software: Forms Software Fills in the Blanks | 139 |
| Almost nothing permeates business as much as paper forms. But PC-based forms-generation programs, a hot new category of software, can help free you from huge paper stockpiles. Like the documents they produce, forms packages come in all shapes and sizes. PC Labs examines 16 of these exciting new programs, testing teir ability to handle tasks from forms creation to data entry an export. |
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| Henry Fersko-Weiss |
| Features Table | 154 |
| Fonts: The Elements of Type Style | 206 |
| Why let your laser printer emulate an ordinary typewriter when there are hundreds of creative, eye-catching fonts to choose from? Whether the look you want is elegant or offbeat, there is no better way to put your personal stamp on a document that by using fonts. PC Magazine looks at all the latest PC-based soft fonts and font cartridges as well as the newest font generators, utilities, and editors. We'll show you how to get the most out of your LaserJet or PostScript printer, and alsso out of your font software. |
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| Edward Mendelson |
| Editorial Product Index | 442 |
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| First Looks | |
| Hands On - Lotus's Magellan | 33 |
| Everyman's personal information manager? |
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| Hands On - 12-Mhz Toshiba T1600 | 33 |
| ..features a dazzling screen |
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| Hands On - Software Carousel 3.0 | 33 |
| Premier task switcher handles larger partitions, VGA screens |
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| Hands On - Publishers' VGA | 33 |
| .. combines VGA adapter, image capture |
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| Hands On - The Soft Kicker | 33 |
| $69 Ventura Publisher utility makes EGA, VGA monitors mimic full-page displays |
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| Hands On - ShortCut | 33 |
| A 12.5-MHz 286 accelerator board |
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| Hands On - DataType | 33 |
| The latest contender in the Lotus 1-2-3 print-enhancement fray |
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| Hands On - InterFont Cartridges | 33 |
| High-capacity font cartridges made to order |
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| After Hours | |
| Personal Ancestor File | 452 |
| Keep track of your origins |
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| Hidden agenda | 452 |
| A stategy game for the budding statesman |
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| Star Wars | 452 |
| Use your PC to battle the Empire's evil forces |
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| Looking for Love (In Several Wrong Places) | 452 |
| More fun with Leisure Suit Larry |
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| Universal Military Simulator | 452 |
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| Productivity | |
| PC Lab Notes: Moving Up to dBASE IV | 297 |
| With its walth of new features, dBASE IV can present a fomidable challenge to dBASE III Plus users. The overview and tips presented in this column will smoothly pave the upgrade road. |
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| Richard Hale Shaw, Tony Lima |
| Utilities: Putting Color in the OS/2 Kernel | 329 |
| The first OS/2 utility to appear in this column, COLOR.EXE lets you dress up your screen while using the text-mode applications likely to be the earliest ported to the new operating system. |
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| Jeff Prosise |
| Environments: PM Functions in Non-PM Porgrams | 343 |
| As a rule, PM functions can be called only from within Presentation Manager programs. But as INISHOW.EXE demostrates, rules can sometimes be broken. |
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| Charles Petzold |
| Power Programming: Using Extended Memory, Part 2 | 353 |
| Accessing memory in protected mode requires an addressing system that is very different from the one used by regular DOS programs. The program examples and explanations in this column will get you started. |
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| Ray Duncan |
| Spreadsheet Clinic | 363 |
| An in-depth look at altering the colors of structures in a Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet; calculating the standard deviation of a population sample with the @STD and @VAR functions. |
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| Douglas Cobb, Steven Cobb |
| User-To-User | 371 |
| Turning ATTRIB into a file finder with a DOS 3.3 feature; ensuring prper installation of program disks; copying the contents of an entire floppy disk to one hard disk file. |
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| Neil J. Rubenking |
| Power User | 377 |
| Create Microsoft Word files on one system and print them on another; avoid confusion when using multiple windows; speed up spell checking of large files with WordPerfect's dictionary. |
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| Craig L. Stark |
| Connectivity Clinic | 383 |
| Solutions for easy and inexpensive modem sharing; prevent anomalies and save RAM by removing programs from memory; making PC-to-Sun workstation connections. |
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| Frank J. Derfler, Jr. |
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| View Points | |
| Letters To PC Magazine | 15 |
| PC Advisor | 27 |
| Technical graphs from Lotus 1-2-3 data; cataloging software for coin collectors; a mini-network for two machines. |
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| Lori Grunin |
| Signs Of The Nineties | 65 |
| Bill Machrone |
| Crazy Mistakes, Part 2 | 71 |
| John C. Dvorak |
| Inside Track | 73 |
| John C. Dvorak |
| PCs and the Fax Culture | 77 |
| Jim Seymour |
| In Seach of the Killer App | 83 |
| William F. Zachmann |
| Mr. Computer, Take a Letter - Please! | 91 |
| Stephen Manes |
| Direct Marketing Connection | 391 |
| Marketplace | 416 |
| Reader Service Card | 443 |
| Coming Up | 445 |
| Advertisers' Product Index | 447 |
| Index to Advertisers | 451 |
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