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Symantec has updated (7.1.2000) IBMAV to av30fh:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html

The great FC/2 has been updated to Ver. 2.12.

http://silk.apana.org.au/fc2.html

File Commander is a 32 bit text mode file manager and shell that allows you to locate, copy, move, delete, view, edit and execute your files in a quick, convenient and customizable manner.

Licq version 0.71, an ICQ clone ported by Alex Galkin, is out. Visit:

http://www.os2.spb.ru/software/internet/licq/index.html.en

to see what's new.

Another web poll was started: what type of Internet connection are you using now? You can participate in this poll at:

http://www.os2.spb.ru/gbook/ru2survey.html

and view its results at:

http://www.os2.spb.ru/gbook/ru2v_res.phtml?lang=E

Java 1.1.8 is updated - Jan.07.2000:

ftp://ncc.hursley.ibm.com/pub/java/fixes/os2/11/118

Hi,

I am the author of the file manager DirMaster for OS/2. In case you have not heard about DirMaster, the product is a Directory Opus (Amiga) and Norton Commander inspired file manager. First released in 1993 work on DirMaster ceased in late 1995. Since then I have had countless requests to add features, do bug fixes etc. On December 31. I released a Y2K compliant version to ensure that the DirMaster users out there could keep using DirMaster.

The reason for this post is that I am planning to open the source, either through the GPL or some other license. If anyone is interrested in taking over the maintaining and coordination of updates to the source please contact me by email.

Best wishes.

--
Alexander Wilkens
Enriva Development
http://www.enriva.com

Found the following on comp.os.os2.apps from Trevor Hemsley. He has compiled a fixed DLL for the last publicly available version of Pronews/2 to fix several Year 2000 problems.

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The replacement DLL is now up on ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pn2_15b1_y2k_dll.zip

Read the readme.1st file please!

It disables the Spell Checker since I don't have the source for that.

Problems fixed by the replacement DLL

• Posted replies with year of 3900.
  
• Every day is Sunday.
  
• NEWGROUPS send year 100 requests.
  

This replacement DLL is for the version of ProNews/2 that's in ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/news/reader/pn2_15b1.zip ONLY.

Apologies but the 1Kb patch file is not yet working (now thinks it's 1900 or 1970 )-:)

Trevor

NeoComm, the Brazilian company that has released the Multicast file-distribution tool Vector is providing a "real-world" sample of its usage in distributing and installing software to several machines simultaneously.

You can download the CID unattended simultaneous installation of Netscape Communicator 4.61 for OS/2 on multiple machines using NeoComm Vector from NeoComm's web site at:

http://www.neocomm.com

Found this in USENET, this evening, and though it might be of some use.

http://service2.boulder.ibm.com/devcon/showcase/ftprestart.htm

FTP Restart

The FTP Restart feature allows your browser to request only that portion of the file that was not received, if your connection is disrupted during the download process. This is useful when downloading "large" files like some that are available from the Developer Connection. If FTP Restart is available, only the portion of the file that was not received is sent by the FTP server when the connection is reestablished.

FTP Restart must be supported on both ends (server and client) of the FTP connection in order for it to be enabled for a given download. Most Internet FTP servers today, including the IBM Developer Connection FTP servers, do support this feature. Therefore, the more important consideration is whether the feature is supported by your Web browser. Current versions of the most popular browsers (Netscape Navigator 4.0 or higher and Internet Explorer 4.0) do support this feature.

When this feature is available, the FTP client and server periodically exchange information describing the current position within the file being transferred. If the FTP connection is broken before the transfer completes, the client and server resume from the most recent file position that was successfully transferred when the connection is reestablished.

Note to Users of Netscape Navigator 4.0:

Netscape Navigator 4.03 supports FTP Restart provided the size of the file being downloaded fits within the current "Memory Cache" limit. Because the maximum Memory Cache is 99,999 KB, files larger than approximately 100 MB cannot currently use this feature.

To use this feature when downloading a large file, adjust your Memory Cache settings.

COMPUTERWORLD DAILY
January 7, 2000

Papows to resign as Lotus CEO

IBM's general manager of networking software will replace Jeff Papows, who is credited with boosting company sales but also faced controversy over charges that he exaggerated his resume.

http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/CWFlash/000106DA46

Version 2 of C-side is now online at:

http://inet.uni2.dk/~kimfoder/C-SIDE.HTM

The new version includes some new features and some error corrections. For more information see the C-Side home page.

C-Side is a native OS/2 WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) CD-cover and label editor, capable of color text and graphics design, and print.

PS. Thank you for your overwhelming response to the publication of C-Side!

OS/2 Around The World has been updated, and has a new address:

http://os2.walkabout.org/atw

Please stop by and drop a line on what you think, use the address on the Site for comments and submissions.

IBM has updated all four of the language specific printer drivers they have to Dec. 29, 1999.

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/printpak/

The files are:

OMNIxx.EXE, LASERJETxx.EXE, PLOTTERxx.EXE, and PSCRIPTxx.EXE

(xx = language, en = english for example)

A new fixpak for TCP/IP 4.1 for OS/2 has been put up on:

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/tcpip/fixes/v4.1os2

New fixpak is un_2001, and supersedes UN1001.

Desktop Clock is a freeware, configurable clock for your Desktop. You can configure date and time display and add your message to display with date and/or time. When started, Desktop clock becomes (and remains) the bottom window - behind all other windows on your Desktop.

Features:

• Various date and time display formats
  
• User's message (stopped or scrolling from right to left)
  
• Selectable color, position, size, font and fontsize
  
• Source code is included
  
• Manual.
  

To download Desktop Clock 1.00, visit:

http://Goran_Ivankovic.tripod.com/

cdplayer for WarpCenter is a little cd-player that lives in a WarpCenter-tray and displays disc-info in the tasklist.

Req. Warp 4 with running WarpCenter, REXX and MMPM.

cdplayer is emailware.

New in version 1.4

Bugfixes:

• now _really_ runs with Object Rexx as well as Classic Rexx
  
• power - button starts and stops the player
  
• stop button reset the player to cd-start
  
• eject works now without a disc inside the cd-rom.
  
• application-exit works now without a disc inside the cd-rom.
  

download version 1.4. at:

http://www.SubSyS.de

look for WC_CD_14.ZIP

Fixkit #2 for Object Desktop 2.0 for OS/2 was released today at Stardock:

http://www.stardock.com

The update addresses a number of minor issues brought up by customers over the course of the past year.

Object Desktop is a desktop environment designed to take advantage of the power of OS/2's Workplace Shell.

Object Desktop 2.0 adds Internet features to the shell, Internet monitoring to Control Center, and multiple OS "personalities" in the form of look and feel changing. It has won the Readers' Choice Award for best enhancement on OS/2 e-Zine! every year the award has been given.

I've been invited to evaluate the upcoming Pre-Beta OS/2 guest client software from VMware on a Linux host machine. According to VMware's web site - http://VMware.com, from a Linux or nt host machine you can have multiple virtual machines running at the same time on your desktop. No rebooting is necessary to switch between Linux, win??, or soon OS/2. They did not have a specific time frame for release of the OS/2 guest, but I'm sure that any interest in their product expressed by members of the OS/2 community would help spur them onward.

If you are interested, you can register for evaluation software and product information at:

http://www5.vmware.com/forms/Register.cfm

Styler/2 version 1.2.0 is available for download

The archive smw120.zip (992 Kb) is available from:

the incoming directory (ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/smw120.zip)

or later the new directory of hobbes (ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/smw120.zip)

or from my web site at ghostbbs (ftp://ftp.ghostbbs.cx/pub/os2/os2team/alcant/smw120.zip)

or at tin.it (http://space.tin.it/scienza/acantato/files/smw120.zip)

Note:
If you installed version 1.1 please check the exception pages of the titlebar, titlebar hiding and window rolling features: you can find some odd sentences in the list besides MPTS.EXE. This is due to a bug in the installation program of version 1.1 and shouldn't cause any real problem. In any case, please use the Remove button to get rid of them.

This version (1.2.0.* - smw120.zip) corrects the following problems and add the following new features:

• The links for registering the program through the BMT Micro pages have been corrected.
  
• I realized that the term Upgrade license was confusing for what has been so far its real purpose so I renamed it Advanced license. See the Licenses page for more details.
  
• The next release will probably have all the features planned for this version and will probably be ready in February. The price will be slightly increased then. I expect to distribute a first release of version 2 in March.
  
• The program now works correctly even if CADCMDR.EXE replaces PMSHELL.EXE in the PROTSHELL command of the CONFIG.SYS file.
  
• Default values used by the program on its first installation have been corrected.
  
• Now the shade style button in the Titlebar page of the preferences application shows the correct style.
  
• Increased performances when serializing access to shared resources.
  
• The clipboard enhancements in OS/2 and DOS command windows were causing system traps with some particular conditions. Now they should work correctly.
  
• Now bitmaps and text used by SMARTWIN.DLL are no longer enclosed in the DLL itself, but are loaded dynamically and when the roll/unroll and hide/unhide titlebar are added to the system menu, the accelerator keys are displayed as for the default menu items.
  
• >Full window drag now works in warp 3 and has been improved for OS/2 and DOS command windows in warp 4 as well. This is a full implementation compared to the limited full window dragging of NPS WPS Enhancer. It works with the keyboard as well as with the mouse and works even when moving windows by dragging the window frame, when dragging rolled windows and when resizing as well as when moving the windows around.
  
• Now the feature Auto-unroll windows vertically resized works correctly when used along with the Full window drag and size feature.
  
• A divide by zero exception was occurring with particular styles of titlebar shades. Now it has been fixed.
  
• A Push one step behind sub-option has been added to the Push behind all other windows feature in order to allow moving windows behind other windows step by step.
  
• A Reduce folders height option has been added to the Titlebar hiding page.
  
• An Include titlebar sub-option has been added to the Double click emulation option in the Mouse page.
  
• Various other controls and a Windows keys page have been added to the preferences notebook. The corresponding features do not work at the moment.
  

Please check my home page for more details and screenshots:

http://acsoft.ghostbbs.cx
http://space.tin.it/scienza/acantato

On the news corner of the OS/2 BBS www.os2bbs.com I found this news:

Massimo Sangriso reports massimo@dinosoft.it that KRFTech (http://www.krftech.com/) has a product line "which automates and simplifies writing PCI / cPCI / USB / ISA / EISA device drivers for Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, CE, Linux Solaris and OS/2." It looks like their OS/2 version is in beta, and you must contact them for more info.

News on generic WIN/OS2 driver and in the future maybe DOS!

Why this long subject line? At the moment you may call this driver the generic WIN-OS/2 driver simply because DOS support is not sure yet! It looks good however.

Have you only got sound in normal OS/2 (on your OS/2 Desktop) but is WIN-OS/2 silent? This driver will be your solution (in many cases). It may not be so good as a native driver from the manufactor but the difference in performance is quite small. It does not matter if you have a MCA, PCI, ISA or PCMCIA sound card, in many cases it will work! For more info how it works (and download it!) look on:

http://home.wxs.nl/~rwklein/index.htm

or

http://www.mensys.nl/rwklein/

when you can't view the other page.

At this moment WAVE in and WAVE out under WIN-OS/2 is working quite well and MIDI support is getting along quite well. John is already able to play a MIDI file. There MAY be a release this month. After WIN-OS/2 support works well, Soundblaster support will added (it is quite a job!). If this will work is not certain!

The driver that you can now download from my site will not crash your system but it has a small bug! When you have video for Windows installed WIN-OS/2 will start up with an error in winshld.exe. If this happens with all OS/2 configurations is not known. The problem can be solved by placing a ; in front of this line: "WaveMapper=MSACM.DRV" in your system.ini. In the next release this will be fixed (we hope).

Until now about 650 people have downloaded the driver from my site. But not many people have sent their comments! We wan't to hear from you! Send your positive comment, suggestions or problems to:

rwklein@mensys.nl

To put one thing straigt, I (Roderick Klein) did not do any programming, John Gow did (jag12@leicester.ac.uk).

Oh yes, this driver is freeware.

Pretty Pop Software released Goose 1.01, Jasmine 2.86 and Gismo 2.14, today.

a. Goose 1.01

Goose is a `Checking Updated Homepage' utility. Goose is `Buy-My-CD-Ware'! If you like our pop music, please order our CD :) You can listen some MP3 editions and order this CD at the MP3.com home page.

MP3.com - Pretty Pop
http://www.mp3.com/prettypop

Updated topics are:

Version 1.01 (04.Jan.2000)
a. Fixed the minor inconveniences (some GUI and default parameters).

b. Jasmine 2.86

Jasmine is the ftp front-end using of the OS/2 WARP geniune part for FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for the maintainance of your web pages. Jasmine can copy local files to a destination directory with the same functions of FTP Mode. Jasmine will put/copy only the files and directories, which are changed or altered from the last put/copy. You can also select if you want to put/copy this time such automatically selected files and folders. You may record the logs of uploaded files by either daily or monthly, too. And you can remove remote files that uploaded/ copied and managed by Jasmine.

Updated topics are:

Version 2.86 (04.Jan.2000)
a. Fixed the minor inconveniences (some GUI and default parameters).

c. Gismo 2.14

Gismo is the unique color coordinating utility for those who uses editors to make html documents with various color RGB codes. You may copy the RGB codes which indicated in Gismo to the Clipboard and copy it into the appropriate form in your html documents. You may use your favorite text editors and/or html editors. The Gismo can be worked with any editors that can be corresondent with the clipboards.

Updated topics are:

Version 2.14 (04.Jan.2000)
a. Fixed the minor inconveniences (some GUI and Font).
b. Changed the minor specification.

You can get a copy from:

Pretty Pop Music and Software
http://prettypop.tsx.org/

Eicon is hardly the only ISDN card maker with OS/2 support. Others include Elsa (http://www.elsa.de/), HighSoftTech (http://www.high-soft-tech.de/) and AVM (expensive B1 only, www.avm.de). There's a list at:

http://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/~haase/isdn/hardware.html

(in German), although some of the cards, like the ones from Teles are quite old and probably hard to find. There's even a card from IBM.

I have created a egroups mailing list for my PMPDF tool. The mailing list can be found at:

http://www.egroups.com/group/pmpdf/

I received this email from OTI (Object Techonology International Inc). The problem is that Emsrv.exe doesn't run under Aurora, but they are going to resolve this problem soon.

Hello Martin,

The following has been created for you: 1FNJDFR: EMSRV:OS2 - Would like EMSRV to work on OS/2 4.5 (Aurora)

This is a known problem and plans are that this will be fixed in the next release of EMSRV 6.24. The current plan is to have EMSRV 6.24 sometime during the first of 2000 (January).

-Brooke-

OTI Homepage : http://dns.oti.com/

EMSrv is the server of the code repository for some IBM VisualAge products, like VisualAge for JAva 3 Enterprise Edition. It allows to work on a network for the VisualAge enterprise editions.

Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for Dragen FTP beta testing. I have received 119 emails from people who are interested in helping to bring Dragen FTP to the OS/2 community.

I have a short list of items that I want to clean up before releasing the Dragen beta. From the people who have responded, I will select a smaller number who I will ask to review the core code application. After this group has reported and I have made adjustments based upon their input, I will release a shareware beta to everyone who has responded to my request for assistance.

Here are some things that Dragen can do:

• Drag En-abled (DragEn FTP) capability for drag and drop ftping
  
• Dragen drop objects from the Desktop to open and log on to a site
  
• Dragen drop objects to Dragen to upload to a site
  
• Dragen drop objects on local window to download
  
• Long file name capability (including spaces in file names or directories)
  
• Site monitor - will keep a remote directory list up to date
  
• Automatic reget - go to bed while those long downloads are in progress
  
• Typical FTP functions - make directory, delete, rename, get, put, unix sort text file view
  
• Multiple gets (with reget) or puts
  
• Streaming FTP MP3 Interface - stream and play MP3 files from an FTP server
  

After the rollover to year 2000 we want to discover how OS/2 users made out with this problem.

http://www.OS2.org/

Eicon is a company producing high-quality communications cards. They produce ISA, PCI and PC Card a.k.a PCMCIA ISDN cards (see http://www.eicon.com/DIVApro2/default.htm and http://www.eicon.com/DIVAprpc/default.htm) as well as some server cards for dialin servers.

It seems that all these cards are now supported under OS/2 ! Take a look at:

http://www.eicon.com/dios2/default.htm

Eicon is likely the first ISDN PC Card adapter to support OS/2.

Dear Warpstockers,

As chair of Warpstock, Inc. I wanted to inform everyone of the progress being made on Warpstock 2000. Originally, the Warpstock Board wanted to announce the location of Warpstock 2000 on January 1, 2000. Due to the fact we did not receive any satisfactory bids, this announcement will be delayed until January 31, 2000.

The current plans for Warpstock 2000 have the board soliciting volunteers for the event team and being the actual sponsoring group. So if you're in the mood to make a difference for Warpstock 2000, please contact me (pethmon@hethmon.com). In the meantime, the board has narrowed down the location to three choices: Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia, Orlando, Florida and Los Angeles, California.

We would like to ask you for your input in making this decision. Please visit the Warpstock website (http://www.warpstock.org/2000/location.html) and choose your favorite. Your input will be one of the factors in deciding where Warpstock 2000 will be held.

Thanks,

Paul Hethmon
Chair
Warpstock, Inc.

We are proud to announce the selection of WarpZip as the Best OS/2 Program of the year at the fourth annual ShareWareJunkies.com ShareWare Awards.

WarpZip is the latest in Zip and OS/2 "Packed" file management. Beneath its stunning interface lie revolutionary and powerful functions that will save both time and effort and boost your productivity when dealing with archives. If you are not familiar with WarpZip, we always have a fully functional download available for your testing and approval at:

http://www.pillarsoft.net

We humbly wish to thank each one of you who voted for us and for your past support. We'd also like to offer our continuing commitment to providing function and updates to WarpZip as well as the other solutions we provide. It may be familiarity with OS/2 that got us here but it is our affinity for all the great friends and unmet users of the platform that makes us steadfast OS/2 developers.

More information and downloads are available at: http://www.pillarsoft.net WarpZip may be registered online ($29) at BMT Micro [http://www.bmtmicro.com]

Note: While you are visiting us, be sure to check out the new collection of applications in the PillarSoft Suite.

Thought I'd pass this on in case anyone may find it useful. This is one of only two Java apps I have ever registered. This is a stock market quote tracking application that works with several stock quote providers, including Yahoo and Datek. It runs well under OS/2's Java and includes a foreign exchange module and a portfolio management. Mark

A new release of the QG is available at:

http://www.aparima.com/quote/download.html

2000-01-04 QuoteGrabber 2.0-BETA14 release.

The QuoteGrabber is now free software, released under the GPLv2. It means is that you can freely copy and distribute it, however if you modify it and wish to distribute the resulting software you must make the modified sources available to the community under the same license. Separate commercial license agreements which don't carry this source code clause are still possible.

The full source code for the QuoteGrabber is available at:

http://www.aparima.com/quote/classes/qg2src.zip

Releasing the QG as open-source software is done with the objective of letting its users/developers improve and extend the software. More data providers should be supported, more bugs should be found and new features added faster. Further, the QG's future is now better guaranteed because it doesn't rest on the fate of a single company or developer.

From now on QG development will be organized on the quotegrabber-dev@apartia.ch mailing list.

Changes summary:

• No more installers: the QG is now released in the JAR format, a 400K file containing everything necessary to run the QG on a Java2 platform (aka Java-1.2.2).
  
• A developer's mailing list is open for subscriptions at quotegrabber-dev-request@apartia.ch. Send the word "subscribe" in the subject of your message.
  
• A CVS server will soon be setup for collaboration on the QG source code. Initially the mailing list will be the main development tool.
  

You can perform a quick upgrade of your QG version only by downloading and replacing the qg2.jar file in your installation. It is available at:

http://www.aparima.com/quote/classes/qg2.jar

Additionally, if you have the Sun Java2 JRE installed you need only this file. Put it on your desktop and double-click to launch the QG.

-- Louis-David Mitterrand - ldm@aparima.com - http://www.aparima.com

I tested Autoget/2 and I'm just publishing an illustrated report on my web site:

http://macarlo.com

about this resumer for Netscape downloads on OS/2. Fantastic, this freeware by the young brazilian programmer D.J. Caetano runs really fine, as GetRight for Windows, and all broken downloads are secure and quickly authomatically resumed!

VOICE has compiled a listing of the few reported Year 2000 Application issues along with known fixes/work-arounds. These were compiled from various Usenet news group postings, OS/2 Mailing List posts as well as reports sent directly to VOICE. You can view the current list at http://www.os2voice.org/Y2K/y2klist.html

If you know of any issues not reported on this list, please send them to editor@os2voice.org with Y2K in the subject. Please include the full application name, version(s) affected, a description of the problem and any known fix or work-around, including a URL if possible.

If you know of any fixes, work-arounds or errors for issues already listed, please report them to editor@os2voice.org as well.

Reply to: swanee@pillarsoft.net

We are proud to announce the selection of WarpZip as the Best OS/2 Program of the year at the fourth annual ShareWareJunkies.com ShareWare Awards.

WarpZip is the latest in Zip and OS/2 "Packed" file management. Beneath it's stunning interface lie revolutionary and powerful functions that will save both time and effort and boost your productivity when dealing with archives. If you are not familiar with WarpZip, we always have a fully functional download available for your testing and approval at: http://www.pillarsoft.net

We humbly wish to thank each one of you who voted for us and for your past support. We'd also like to offer our continuing commitment to providing function and updates to WarpZip as well as the other solutions we provide. It may be familiarity with OS/2 that got us here but it is our affinity for all the great friends and unmet users of the platform that makes us steadfast OS/2 developers.

More information and downloads are available at: http://www.pillarsoft.net WarpZip may be registered online ($29) at BMT Micro [http://www.bmtmicro.com]

Note: While you are visiting us, be sure to check out the new collection of applications in the PillarSoft Suite.

A new millennium, and a new version of the DFSee utility. :-) I just released version 3.13 today, 02-01-2000.

The most important updates in the last few versions are:

• DFSDOS fixes and better extended int-13 support (large disks)
  
• HPFS UNDELETE speed improvements
  
• NTFS updates to MFT related displays
  
• NTFS UNDELETE and file-list support
  
• FAT2OS cmd, make FAT bootable for OS2, Win-NT, IBMDOS or MSDOS
  
• QUERY cmd, return any of 40 disk/partition related values in the DFSee exit-code (RC) to aid in automatic FDISK or recovery
  
• Some enhancements to the user-interface, history and completion
  

For those of you that don't know DFSee yet, DFSee is an FDISK, display, analysis and recovery tool for disks and filesystems.

Because of the targeted use for DFSee it is a command-line and text-only utility (no GUI). At the moment an OS/2, Win-NT and DOS version exist.

I would very much like to hear about experiences you have with DFSee, either positive or negative.

You can get DFSee from the following sites:

http://www.fsys.demon.nl
http://fsys.dhs.org
ftp://fsys.dhs.org/pub/dfsee

With some delay, it will be on HOBBES as well...

The January edition of "The Warped Perspective" can be found at OS/2 Headquarters. The URL is:

http://www.os2hq.com/