Biographical sketch of author

Charles Rankin   IBM Server Group, 11401 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78758 (electronic mail: rankinc@us.ibm.com). Mr. Rankin is an advisory software engineer in the IBM Austin Development Laboratory. He graduated with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Florida in 1993, after which he joined IBM in Austin. He has worked extensively with IBM's PC-oriented operating systems and networking products. He was the system test lead for IBM's Directory and Security Server for OS/2 and IBM's OS/2 WARP Server for e-Business. He is currently the lead developer for STAF.