From: "Digest" To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:00:00 +1100 (EDT) Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 282 Reply-To: Date:- 26 February 2002 1================================================ From: "Daryl Pilkington" Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:34:12 +1100 (EDT) Subject: [os2genau] Strange WIN-OS/2 behavior of Excel in Office 4.3 Hi, Has anyone seen the phenomenon where Excel opens an *.xls file & modifies the directory above where the file is located when the file is saved? i.e. k:\data\myfiles\data.xls The directory myfiles gets modifed when data.xls is saved. Is this some obscure locking type issue? Regards, Daryl Pilkington //// The PC-Therapist, Business Computing Integration O OS/2 Warp, Redhat Linux, DB2 IBM Certified Systems Expert email: darylpatpc-therapist dot com dot au ICQ: 91914134 Mob: 0425-251-300 2============================================== Subject: Re: [os2genau] Strange WIN-OS/2 behavior of Excel in Office 4.3 From: brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 17:23:52 +0930 Have not seen it myself but I suspect an embeded macro. ----------------------------------------- Brian Butler System Administrator brianbatkdfisher dot com dot au "Daryl Pilkington" To: "os2genauatos2 dot org dot au" Subject: [os2genau] Strange WIN-OS/2 behavior of Excel in Office 4.3 25/02/2002 16:04 Please respond to os2genau Hi, Has anyone seen the phenomenon where Excel opens an *.xls file & modifies the directory above where the file is located when the file is saved? i.e. k:\data\myfiles\data.xls The directory myfiles gets modifed when data.xls is saved. Is this some obscure locking type issue? Regards, Daryl Pilkington //// The PC-Therapist, Business Computing Integration O OS/2 Warp, Redhat Linux, DB2 IBM Certified Systems Expert email: darylpatpc-therapist dot com dot au ICQ: 91914134 Mob: 0425-251-300 3============================================== From: "John Angelico" Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:09:30 +1100 (EDT) Subject: Re: [os2genau] REMINDER - Melbourne OS/2 SIG Meeting On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 01:00:00 +1100 (EDT), List Admin wrote: >The gnome says "I would like to remind you of this upcoming event" > >Melbourne OS/2 SIG Meeting > > Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 > Time: 6:30PM - 9:30PM > Place: Melbourne PC Group > Victoria, Australia. > >Are you ready ? > Welcome everybody to the 2002 year of OS/2 and eCS. We have had a delayed start, but we will get going tomorrow evening. There is plenty of news to report both positive (for OS/2 and eCS that is) and negative (for the Dark Power, that is: heh, heh, heh!) We have almost reached the end of the famous Bug Squashing Month when His imperial Bill-ship (aka HIB) declared that MS was going to spend the entire month tracking down and fixing bugs (ahem, and making more money, which almost goes without saying). Anyone taking any bets on how few they found? How trivial they were? How little they actually affected users in the real world? It was also the month in which HIB discovered that users wanted security and reliability rather than new features. Wonder of wonders - the dawn of a new revelation in the halls of Gates-ville around the world! Apart from indulging ourselves at HIB's expernse, we will have to have a serious go at planning this year to meet the requirements of YOU the SIG members. As I previously announced, we are seeking a meeting co-ordinator and an intrepid reporter, since I must shed some of my load this year. We have one volunteer for reporter to write up SIG reports and submit them to PC Update, but no-one has yet stepped forward for the plumb job of getting to pick their favourite topics for the meetings. Does anybody want to see what OS/2 can do with multimedia? Development tools? XML? Website design? The latest browsers? Java? Freelance graphincs presentations? Video conferencing? Gaming? Rexx? PDA-connectivity? Since I'm not into those topics, there isn't much chance of me thinking them interesting and choosing them as a topic for a meeting. Anybody wanna fix these major defects in my character?? OK you will have to form a queue in the meeting , so BE THERE! Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG talldadatmelbpc dot org dot au or talldadatkepl dot com dot au -------------------------------------------- PMTagline v1.50 - Copyright, 1996-1997, Stephen Berg and John Angelico .... OS/2: TWICE an operating system, NOT HALF!