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The web pages of the Config.sys Documentation Project has been updated to version
1.80. I have added 120 new entries. A lot of the pages have now a link to download
the related driver or program.
You have the option to read the informatin online or you can download the pages
in Html, plain ASCI or Inf format. As usual the project is available in German and
English.
If you know something about the config.sys which is not included in the CSDP
than please tell it me. You don't need to be a config.sys expert to do so, I'm interested
in every little piece of information. Or you can simply send me your config.sys
file. Everyone who send me information will have the chance to win one of two lifetime
licences for Tyra/2.
The votes have come in and the winner of the Joystick device driver contest is:
Vesa J
for his enhaced version of gamedd.sys. Vesa's driver adds support for GrIP devices
and CH Pro Compatable joysticks (most flight sticks are) with the ability to change
joysticks w/o having to reboot. Vesa has said that he will continue to improve on
the driver.
The runner up is:
J Da Silva
for his optimized version of gamprt.sys. J's driver adds advanced polling and
speed optimizations.
You can look at both entries at:
http://home1.gte.net/stefanj/contest.htm
Thank you to the individuals and companies who donated money to make this contest
happen.
As a companion to the Ghostview 2.73 Beta there is also a precompiled Ghostscript
5.99 for OS/2 available (it is necessary for running Ghostview 2.73):
ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/ghost/aladdin/test/
Book Search:
http://www.snmputils.com/booksearch/
This is an tool that searches over two dozen online book stores for a particular
book. You type in an ISBN number (which can be easily obtained), and this site searches
the stores and presents a list of stores, in price order, that carry the book.
Although not OS/2-specific, this tool is a great way to find various OS/2-related
books and save money in the process. As we know, few retail book stores carry OS/2
books, so being able to search so many stores in one shot is a big help.
CALL FOR PRESENTERS
WarpTech: An OS/2 Warp Technical Conference
May 26 - 28, 2000
The Phoenix OS/2 Society, Inc is creating a special three-day technical event
for OS/2 Warp users, developers, and vendors. The event will be held at the world-renowned
Wigwam Resort in Litchfield Park, Arizona, USA (near Phoenix) over Memorial Day
weekend. You can learn more about the event and its venue at:
We want technical sessions to cover the gamut from home to corporate users and
from novices to software developers. We're planning presentation tracks as follows:
Several sessions are already booked, ranging from "The OS/2 fixpack process"
to "Take a Message, Maria: OS/2's message passing and the Single Input Queue"
to "A technical introduction to XML." We'll also have sessions on OS/2
troubleshooting, working with IBM as a business partner, and REXX programming. But
there's still room for more.
If you're interested in exploring the idea of making a presentation at WarpTech,
please contact the program chair, Esther Schindler, at esther@bitranch.com. (If
you have a product you'd like to show -- whether specific for OS/2, friendly to
OS/2, or OS-agnostic, contact the exhibit chair, Marilyn Pizzo, at mpizzo@mindspring.com.)
Here's what I'd need to know, to begin with:
We can take it from there.
IBM is being quite helpful in supporting WarpTech. If you work for IBM and we
agree that you're the right person to give a presentations, IBM is willing to help
you do so. Once we agree on the scope of the session, I'll put you in touch with
our IBM liaison, who's working to streamline the process so that we don't walk on
each other's toes.
Every presentation will be get-your-hands-dirty useful -- no fluff, no grandstanding,
no wishful thinking. This isn't a marketing conference; it's a *technical* conference,
and we want you to go home with a head full of ready-to-roll ideas about how to
use your computer more effectively. Dozens of OS/2 topics will be offered at WarpTech
2000, covering everything you've ever needed to know about OS/2.
Interested? Contact me via email, and let's get the conversation started.
--Esther (esther@bitranch.com)
There is a new CSD for Unimaint 5.0 available at:
http://www.filestar.com/pages/download.html
Unimaint is an OS/2 utility to backup and restore your Desktop, perform INI file
maintenance, view/edit extended attributes and uninstall applications.
There is now an OS/2 specific distribution of JNapster, which includes an install
script and icon for the Desktop.
JNapster is a Java implementation of the famous Napster client. It provides a
GUI similar to the Napster Windows client. Napster connects you to the online community
of MP3 users, and allows you to share files.
The JNapster home page:
http://www.tux.org/~daneel/content/projects/10.shtml
For more information on Napster:
In Styler/2 version 1.2 winOS2 sessions were not closed properly. This caused
various problems like unability to start another winOS2 program, system hangs and
unability to properly shutdown the system. To fix this you can download smw121.zip
(49 KB) from:
the incoming directory (ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/smw121.zip)
or later the new directory of hobbes (ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/smw121.zip)
or from my web site at ghostbbs (ftp://ftp.ghostbbs.cx/pub/os2/os2team/alcant/smw121.zip)
or at tin.it (http://space.tin.it/scienza/acantato/files/smw121.zip)
Note:
At the beginning of February Styler/2 version 1.6 will be available.
All the features not yet implemented and planned for version 1 will be included.
The standard license price will be increased since the new version (1.6) will be
available.
A first release of version 2 should be available within March.
The long-anticipated update of PMView is now finished. The name has also changed
from PMView 2.0 to PMView 2000. Upgrades for registered users are free, upgrades
to the now-available Windows version are also available (for a fee, of course).
Other registration options/combinations are also available.
For details see:
There is new PM ICQ client: pwICQ by Perry Werneck. It supports some REXX scripts,
sounds, away messages, etc. and has a quite cool outlook.
Second alpha (0.27) was just submitted to Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pwicq027.zip
Eventually it should end up in:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/chat/pwicq027.zip
SysPage/2 is yet another OS/2 system monitor. Highly configurable, it emits HTML
to display system status values. Those with Warp Server environments may find it
especially useful. For more information, see:
http://www.dimensional.com/~serls/sorbis.html
Pentium GCC compiler for OS/2 v2.95.3 is available at:
http://www.goof.com/pcg/os2/index.html
IBM has released for their notebooks ThinkPad 380, 380D, 380XD, 380Z, 385XD,
560X, 560Z, 600, 600E and 600X updated NeoMagic MagicGraph 128/V/ZV/XD and MagicMedia
256AV/ZX Drivers:
http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/DSHY-3Y5M7P.html
The well-known and unsurpassed zip.exe by InfoZip has been updated to Ver. 2.3
as of January 9th, 2000.
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/OS2/
XFree86/OS2-3.3.6 has been now released. It is downloadable from:
ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.6/binaries/OS2
and borneo.gmd.de/pub/misc/XFree86OS2/3.3.6
(and soon from other general XFree86 mirrors as well).
XFree86/OS2 is the OS/2 port of XFree86, the free and optimized X11R6 implementation.
http://borneo.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86os2.html
Ok guys for the Brazilian users of OS/2 there will be EXPOSALT (Alt. Systems
Exposition) here in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Many and the best non-Windows systems
will be there such as Linux, MSX new generation, Mac, and of course OS/2 shouldn't
be out of that as well. The best part is that WarpSeeMe/2 will be on topic on the
OS/2 speech. On this speech we are going to be talking about security and why OS/2
is the chosen platform. Other than that we are also going to be taking a few words
from Netlabs crew to OS/2 Brazilian users regarding the highly-important ODIN project.
EXPOSALT 2000 is going to be happening this January on the 29th and the 30th.
The ticket price is only R$6 (about US$3 or so) in order to help cover the costs,
advertising, etc. If things go ok, by next year it's going to become a fair / meeting
such as COMDEX and the admittance is going to be free for spectators.
More info regarding EXPOSALT:
more info regarding OS/2 part on EXPOSALT:
or
Sundial Systems is proud to announce the availability of Junk Spy, the first
product that really tackles the problem of junk email.
As previously announced, Junk Spy is available effective today at a suggested
price of $49. This includes one year of automatic updates to Junk Spy's junk detection
database - a $24 value. Details and the product are available at:
http://www.sundialsystems.com/junkspy
Junk Spy is unique. It does its job based on a combination of techniques that
provide automatic identification and optional deletion of spam as it is retrieved
from your mail server by your email program. And it does so without your intervention.
"Frustrated users no longer have to waste time sifting through junk email,"
said Rollin White, Junk Spy Product Manager. "This is truly a hands-off approach.
Junk Spy examines your incoming mail to eliminate the junk messages before you see
them."
Junk Spy's initial junk detection database has been culled from thousands of
junk messages and literally tens of thousands of non-junk messages since a primary
goal of the product is to not inadvertently misclassify "real" mail as
junk. On-going analysis of new junk mail by Sundial will keep your copy of Junk
Spy current as encrypted updates are automatically sent to and incorporated into
Junk Spy as necessary.
For more information about Junk Spy and Sundial's line of productivity applications
for OS/2, visit http://www.sundialsystems.com.
Sundial has the answers!
'Glassman' has released the Ver. 2.0 of Keyboard Layer
Keyboard Layer/2 is the alternative keyboard layouts switcher for OS/2 version
4.0. It can be used also as a current layout indicator.
http://os2.dhs.org/~glassman/software/english/layer.html
I don't think that there is much discussion needed to come to the conclusion
that Netlabs is important for OS/2. Projects like Everblue or ODIN are great. All
the work is done by volunteers, but there are still things that need to be paid
for.
Sponsoring Netlabs is now easy!
http://shop.mensys.nl/cgi-bin/db2www/mns_art2.d2w/report?artname=NETLABS
Netlabs is doing important work for the OS/2 community. Through Mensys you can
sponsor Netlabs by purchasing one or more Sponsoring units of 10 Euro each. 100%
of your donation will go to the Netlabs organization.
At the time of this message 10 Euro is about 10.37 U.S. dollars.
WarpIN V0.9.0 has been released.
WarpIN is intended to become the new universal OS/2 installer. It has full system
configuration (CONFIG.SYS, WPS classes, WPS objects), user exists and can fully
undo all the changes to your system again.
The new version is available from my home page:
http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0444vnd/os2.htm
This version is the successor to the Alpha #4 which was previously available
on my home page. This is still a developer's release and not stable yet. However,
many improvements have been made.
WarpIN is a Netlabs project. The source code is available on the Netlabs CVS
archive. See www.netlabs.org/nosa for details. Even though WarpIN is released under
the GNU General Public License (GPL), it can be used for packaging commercial software
also.
We have now created two mailing lists at:
Subscribe to warpin-user (for WarpIN users, ie. those who wish to create WarpIN
archives) and/or warpin-dev (for WarpIN developers) if you wish to follow discussions
or get more information about creating archives.
Problem: OS/2 does not recognize >64MB when 128MB installed. Earlier submission
by others: Nov 9, 1999 (http://www.os2ss.com/warpcast/wc4411.html)
I recently bought an ABit BE6-II with 128MB on board. OS/2 did not recognize
more than 64MB. Trying to get to the cause of the problem I stumbled on the WarpCast
submission of Nov 9, 1999 which acknowledged the situation but did not offer a solution.
As I was unable to find any other submissions containing a solution, it seemed
a good idea to post the solution I found.
It is an OSLDR patch programmed by Daniela Engert, author of DANIS506.ADD. It's
as simple as saying "patch". Thank you Daniela!
This is her patch:
http://www.os2ss.com/archives/hobbes/os2/system/patches/patchldr.zip