Comprehensive Windows Reference Prepares Users for Windows on the Digital
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Windows 3.1 Connectivity SECRETS Gathers Practical Know-How, Wisdom From
Huge Professional User Organization

SAN MATEO, CA--April 11, 1994 For power users, managers, and technical
professionals who work with communications, information services,
electronic mail or computer networks, IDG Books Worldwide has released the
first and only comprehensive guide to Windows 3.1 Connectivity.

At more than 900 pages, Windows 3.1 Connectivity SECRETS offers a
cornucopia of essential, practical information and know-how for managers,
power users and information systems professionals, and includes three
bonus disks packed with useful connectivity enhancement tools and
utilities.

The book was written by a team of Windows technology experts, headed by
Runnoe Connally in collaboration with David Rorabaugh, Sheldon Hall and
Victor Rezmovic. The authors drew heavily on input from the six year old
Windows User Group Network (WUGNET), a worldwide technical organization
for MS Windows professionals based in Media, Pennsylvania. The WUGNET
organization publishes a technical newsletter, the Windows Journal, and
maintains one of the most active technical information online forums for
Windows networking professionals on CompuServe, entitled WINUSER. In
preparing Windows 3.1 Connectivity SECRETS, the authors bolstered their
own expertise on Windows 3.1 Connectivity with the vast experience and
collective wisdom gleaned from the WUGNET CompuServe forum.

"Runnoe Connally and his co-authors live and work at the forefront of
Windows networking and communications ," said IDG President and CEO John
J. Kilcullen. "But this is fundamentally a practical book, offering
comprehensive coverage of networking and communications hardware and
software, remote/mobile computing, workgroup computing, e-mail and on-line
services."

Windows 3.1 Connectivity SECRETS covers networking and communications under
Windows, including the most up-to-date information on modems, faxing, DDE,
OLE, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, Advanced Server, LAN
Manager/Server, Unix, mainframe and both client/server and peer-to-peer
models of Windows networking.

Rigorously pragmatic, the book details the ins and outs of applications
interoperability on networks of Windows-based PCs, and also covers the
practical implementation of Windows Open Systems Architecture (WOSA),
Microsoft's programming interface that allows Windows applications to
access E-mail, document management databases, and other network-based
applications. The authors share a wide range of tips and "secrets" based
on their own experience and that of hundreds of other Windows
professionals. Readers will find how-to explanations and advice on network
configuration and optimization, application setup/installation,
integrating asynchronous communications packages, Windows fax, NetWare and
LANtastic, Wide Area Networking Windows 3.1 Connectivity, Windows to
mainframe networks and setting up a Windows BBS.

Windows 3.1 Connectivity SECRETS comes with a set of three disks containing
an array of the best Windows connectivity and configuration utilities
available commercially, and shareware. Also includes full commercial
versions of OTC Corporation's KingCom Windows communications port
enhancement, NetManage's Chameleon Sampler for TCP/IP Unix
email/connectivity based on the Windows WinSocket standard, and a series
of Windows network utilities, Turbo RPrint, SysMod and LANTech from
BrightWork!

A Windows e-mail solution for the Internet user, WinMail, is provided by
Computer WitchCraft. The shareware includes the best collection of
utilities for maximizing and maintaining Windows on networks, including
Banyan, Windows for WorkGroups, LANtastic, Netware, Microsoft Windows NT
Advanced Server, LAN Manager/Server, etc. For owners of high speed fax
modems, the included utilities will allow users to troubleshoot modem
connections, operations and performance. Two shareware games for network
and modem users are even included in the collection! The software is also
supported on WUGNET's CompuServe WINUSER Forum by the sysops and authors
of the software.

About IDG Books and International Data Group 

IDG Books Worldwide publishes high quality computer books that bring extra
value and skill-building instruction to the reader. The company applies
the technical, market, and editorial knowledge of IDG, the leading
publisher of technology periodicals, to provide timely and useful computer
books that meet the needs of computer users of all levels. IDG Books
Worldwide is the fastest growing computer book publisher with over 80
titles in print and foreign translations in over 20 languages. One-third
of all books published by IDG Books have become national bestsellers.

Headquartered in Boston, MA, International Data Group is the world's
largest publisher of computer-related information and the leading global
provider of information services on information technology. International
Data Group publishes over 195 computer publications in more than 62
countries, including such titles as PC World, InfoWorld, Computerworld, &
Macworld. Forty million people read one or more IDG publications each
month.

How to Buy

Windows 3.1 Connectivity SECRETS
by D. Runnoe Connally, Sheldon T. Hall, 
   David Rorabaugh & Victor Rezmovic 
Price: $49.95 USA, $64.95 Canada
ISBN: 1-56884-030-6
Pub. Date: January 1994
Specs: 969 pages, 7 3/8" x 9 1/4"

IDG Books are available wherever computer books are sold or direct from the
publisher at (800) 762-2974, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. PST. For reseller discounts and
information, contact IDG Books at (415) 312-0600.

IDG Books Worldwide, 155 Bovet Rd, Suite 610, San Mateo, CA 94402
415-312-0650,  Fax: 415-358-1260

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