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A new virus signatures file, av30fl.zip, dated 10 march 2000 for the IBM Antivirus
for OS/2 has been released on the Symantec site at:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download.html
This news from mgs-os2-soft (see http://www.os2ss.com/warpcast/wc4915.html
for details of the MGS OS/2 software mailing list):
There is a new release of cURL for OS/2 available.
cURL is a tool to grab URLs using a myriad of protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, Telnet,
dict, file), supporting reget (FTP+HTTP), append, passive mode (FTP), HTTP proxy,
customized HTTP headers and more.
It's similar to wget but DOES NOT do site mirroring.
Download it from hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/curl64os2.zip
will be soon moved to:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/curl64os2.zip
There have been a few reports now that ISP800, a US-wide ISP which had featured
toll free access numbers and specifically solicited OS/2 users, has closed its toll
free access lines. One report claims that ISP800 has closed, without warning, all
user accounts that do not have local access numbers as of Friday March 10, 2000.
The ISP800 web site is:
BgMetrics, a native OS/2 solution to track Blood Glucose readings and dietary
info for diabetics is now publicly available.
In doing research for the program it was discovered that the previous name of
BgTracker was already in use. The name has been changed to avoid any conflict and
the program has been updated.
BgMetrics will...
Track Bg readings for specific periods of the day.
Track meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks)
Track meal "carb" values.
Track weight.
Track daily average of Bg readings.
Track daily total "carbs"
Graph Bg values, carbs and weight for any date range.
Print Bg or meal reports and print graphs.
Future plans include support for downloading data from selected glucometers and
developing the database for other trackable items. (Fat, calories, A1C readings
etc.)
We would also like to find a source of food data that we can glean fat, calorie,
carbohydrate information from in order to create a meal calculator. If you know
of a database or flat file that we can harvest (legally) please contact us.
If you, your family or friends have to track blood sugar and are looking for
an OS/2 solution, please stop by the PillarSoft website and see if BgMetrics can
work for you.
BgMetrics is not for sale at this time. We ask all users to please use it freely
as the features are fleshed out and do not worry about it becoming commercial if
you feel you won't be able to afford it. We will find a way to make it available
to you without missing any usage or losing any data. It is our intention that no
person go without any help we can provide.
Downloads and more information is available at the PillarSoft website under the
"Products" category. PillarSoft is located at:
A direct link to the BgMetrics page is:
http://www.pillarsoft.net/bgmetrics.html
I'm proud anounce the 10,000th visitor to Birdy.Hpage. This is a lot I think
especially if you hear how small The OS/2 community is supposed to be.
In the beginning we had the small spaceport and fortune city account carrying
a file mirror of the Russian Enlightenment/2 files. Than GNOME/2 was added and after
the work was done, the pages became the official GNOME/2 and E/2 pages. With time
it became the name Birdy.Hpage and upgrades to the webspace were often needed.
Now Birdy.hapge has many sections: GNOME/2, E/2, KDE/2, an Alpha section (that
will get interesting in the near future if you want to start porting or help us
find bugs) and of course the main section. The favourite pages of the Main section
are the News page of course, the SCREAM:driver page (please write SUN about Staroffice
if you didn't already) and the latest page the survey.
So that seems to be a long way, but that all happened in the last 5 month. :-)
Birdy.Hpage can be found at:
http://birdy.hpage.net
http://birdy.hpage.de
I have been receiving a great deal of inquiries regarding using the MPU-401 driver
with various sound cards. Most of the time it is because of interest in MIDI Station
Sequencer.
To make everyone's life easier I have added a table of sound cards to the RTMIDI
section of the web site. This table has settings for various sound card drivers
AND the MPU-401 driver that users have found successful.
Please take a look at the link below and if you're using the MPU-401 driver successfully
and your sound card isn't listed PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE send me your settings so that
I can update the page. I'd like this information to be as accurate as possible.
Thanks in advance for your input,
Christopher Hodges
Author of MIDI Station Sequencer
Link: http://www.dinosoft.it/~midistation/rtmidi.html
Last summer, native versions of the Complite File Comparison Family became available
for OS/2 Warp and Windows NT. These are word-by-word comparison utilities for programming
language source, ASCII text and data files.
Since July, the DOS and NT versions have continued to generate downloads, inquiries,
and sales, but the OS/2 versions have languished. Since the NT and OS/2 versions
are virtually identical, I was surprised at the huge disparity in activity between
the two.
Although I use the OS/2 versions regularly, is there an OS/2 only problem that
doesn't affect the NT versions? I'd be interested in hearing from OS/2 users that
have tried the utilities.
Descriptions and demonstration versions are on my web page below.
I can also supply a few fully functional, but time-limited evaluation copies
with the exchange of contact information, and hopefully a U.S. phone number.
Sincerely yours,
Jim Veale
email: jdveale@world.std.com
web: http://world.std.com/~jdveale/index.html
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The OS/2 Warp versions consist of:
o CompDeux and TigDeux - General purpose with fast, or rigorous comparison engines.
o TFuzDeux - Fuzzy number comparison allows you to treat numbers which are close
to each other as equal, based on user specified ranges. Avoids problems with round-off
and number formats.
o SibDeux - Sibling software merge utility, maintain local modifications to vendor
updated source.
Contact: Craig Greenwood captain@warptech.org
1-480-968-8625 office
WarpTech's design team has created an outstanding logo for the upcoming WarpTech
OS/2 conference. Take a look at the new WarpTech banner logos at:
http://www.warptech.org/WTBanners.html
These banner logos (large and small) are intended for display on OS/2 web sites
everywhere. WarpTech has one purpose -- to support OS/2 users -- and if you have
a web site with a similar purpose we'd love to have you use them.
And when you've added WarpTech to your web site, let us know so we can add you
to our Supporters list! Send an email with your url to webmaster@warptech.org and
we'll add a link from WarpTech to you. It's our way of saying "thanks"
for supporting WarpTech OS/2.
- - -
WarpTech 2000 is a 3-day OS/2 technical conference taking place May 26-28 at
a pristine 463-acre desert resort in the beautiful Southwest. Come to Phoenix, Arizona
USA for three full days of OS/2 -- the biggest OS/2 conference ever held.
Visit the WarpTech web site at:
To volunteer or just to watch the goings-on, subscribe to the WarpTech 2000 planning
list by sending mail to steward@bitranch.comwith
the following text in the body (not subject!) of the message: subscribe w2k
Hosted by the Phoenix OS/2 Society, Inc.
Since February 21, IBM has finally included the special IBM Edition of SDD for
OS2 version 7 at
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/sddse700.zip
The latest information about StarOffice for OS/2, coming from within Sun/StarOffice
GmbH, Hamburg, Germany, confirms an earlier WarpCast message to the point that there
won't be any further development. All other rumors are said to have been misunderstandings
and quotations out of context (one of them originally supposed to be aimed at OS/2
itself, not StarOffice for OS/2).
So all we can still do seems to be tell Sun that we don't like this and that
for interoperability reasons, in case there'll be no more StarOffice for OS/2, we'll
also have to migrate all our Windows desktops to Lotus SmartSuite.
This URL seems to be suitable for the purpose:
http://www.sun.com/cgi-bin/comment-form.pl
Date March 1, 2000
F/X Communications announced today the release of the industrial strength InJoy
Firewall version 1.4.
It's an afforable and powerful solution that offers tremendous value for businesses
relying on OS/2 as part of the network topology. Using the InJoy Firewall, the customer
receives full gateway, firewall, interoperable VPN capability and PPPoE - all in
one product!
Takes pride in being the most reliable and comprehensive security solution you'll
find for OS/2 today! Ships in different shapes and the modular plugin technology
assures clean interfaces and easy deployment of new features. Start small ~grow
as your needs dictate - the well proven design assures superior speed and efficiency
for both consumers and businesses.
Install the Firewall stand alone or use it to safely share the connection among
multiple work stations. With no reconfiguration of network applications, the Firewall
is easy to install and works transparently. The InJoy Firewall is Also widely used
as a stand-alone VPN client/gateway or PPPoE Client.
The connection protected, can be of nearly any type, including Cable, xDSL, dedicated
T1 circuits, Frame Relay and even satellite connections.
New support for the PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) protocol adds seamless connectivity
to industry leading ISPs. The PPPoE support is easy to configure and operate. Includes
support of multiple ISP profiles and demand connections. Coexists with IPSec, NAT,
filtering and Firewall support. Prepared for third party licensing!
Comprehensive and unique OS/2 support of the interoperable IPSec VPN standard
allows OS/2 companies to easily create secure channels to other major vendors in
the market or to other InJoy products.
Used in combination with sound security policies, the Firewall provides a secure
technology to regulate both in- bound and out-bound communications. Operates beneath
the routing layer on "raw" packets and out performs application proxies.
New major features in this OS/2 version:
- full list: http://www.fx.dk/firewall/download.html
- PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)
- PPPoE PM GUI based configuration
- New licensing option: IJF PRO - 2 user. Cost-effective VPN client, PPPoE client
or PC security solution for a 1-2 user setup.
- New option for easy protection of the Firewall PC.
- New firewall/filter rules to demonstrate popular use.
- Automatic rescan of Firewall IP address
- IPSec support for internal nets behind Road Warriors.
- IPSec support for the faster, yet less secure 1-DES.
- IPSec through NAT.
- IPSec interoperability tests with Windows clients.
* F-Secure VPN+ 4.2 for Win 9x/NT/2000
* PGPnet 6.5.2a IPSEC Client from Network Associates
* SafeNet/Soft-PK
o Ask for configuration guides!
IPSec (Internet Protocol Security) is an Internet standard for interconnected,
secure networking devices and the predominant technology in Virtual Private Networks
(VPNs). The IPSec Plugin is released as part of the InJoy Dialer (dial-out), InJoy
Connect" (dial-in) and the InJoy Firewall. The Plugin enables these products
to serve as an IPSec gateway or function as a VPN Client.
PPPoE (Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet) specifies how a host PC interacts
with a broadband ISP (via xDSL or Cable) in order to achieve Internet access. It
relies on two widely accepted standards, namely Ethernet and the point-to-point
protocol (PPP). Service providers are implementing PPPoE to replace the static IP
addressing or DHCP systems that do not offer authentication, billing, or service
differentiation.
A russian programmer devoted to the OS/2 Warp cause, Alex Smirnov, has elevated
the system info to the state of the art releasing SystemInfo. I tested this beta
on my Warp 4 FP12 and I'm just publishing a review about it on my web site, where
you can download this software quickly from my high speed server.
StWTV 1.13 is now available.
It features:
User-defined station buttons
Float on Top Blitting in a separate thread
Free defineable priority of the blitting thread (for a good frame rate)
Rexx-API GRADD-Support (use wcast driver 1.040H or later)
Station preview
StWTV is now shareware and can be found at:
http://home.t-online.de/home/stefan.milcke/homepage.htm
You can register via BMT Micro.
Found this while looking for work. I'm an old OS/2 user but not a developer so
thought maybe somebody here would be interested. The url is:
http://www.jewelcon.com/msie/job_ops.html
I am proud to announce the availability of MIDI Station Sequencer 2.0 Final Edition.
MIDI Station Sequencer is an integrated MIDI/Audio sequencer for OS/2 that uses
the Real-Time MIDI subsystem available in Warp 4.
Some of the features if MIDI Station Sequencer include:
1) Record, playback and editing of MIDI data
2) Record, playback end editing of audio waveforms
3) Full integration of MIDI and audio in sequences
4) Simultaneous playback of up to 32 waveforms
5) Direct-to-harddisk audio playback and recording with
6) Audio streaming to handle very large waveforms
7) Audio effects unit
8) Multiple MPU-401 port support
9) Piano roll view with full editing
10) 1 millisecond accuracy for rock-solid timings
11) MIDI Delay unit
12) Realtime mixer
And many, many others! I invite you to visit the MIDI Station Sequencer web site
at:
http://www.dinosoft.it/~midistation/index.html
There you can read more information and see some screenshots of the sequencer
in action. You can also download the program to evaluate it (while unregistered
the program will not allow you to save any of your sequences).
In the next few days I'll be adding some pages to the website listing specific
examples on using the MPU-401 driver with various soundcards.
I'd also like to take this time out to say thank you to those users who took
the time to give me feedback and submit bugs that they have found.
If you're interested in MIDI and music then come on by and take a look at the
most advanced sequencer available on the OS/2 Warp platform!
Christopher Hodges
Author of MIDI Station Sequencer
MIDI Station Sequencer web site:
http://www.dinosoft.it/~midistation/index.html
Also available at BMT Micro:
The new Gimp/2 v1.1.8 has been released.
Gimp/2 is a powerful pixel graphic program that runs under Xfree86OS/2 and is
part of the GNOME/2 project. Gimp/2 is able to work with layers&channels, has
a big bunch of Filters and it's know Script language Fu-Script, with a lot of useful
examples. Together with X-Scanimage and SANE you also can directly scan into Gimp/2.
Gimp/2 is OpenSource, that means free for everyone to use and free for us to
continue porting it.
Find it at:
http://www.os2.spb.ru/software/xfree86/gimp118/
Daniela Engert has updated her danis506 and daniatapi OS/2 disk drivers again.
Now included in the daniatapi driver is support for system viewing of ATAPI drives
as SCSI drives. This means that writing CD-R discs is now possible on ATAPI drives
under OS/2 with various OS/2 freeware applications.
DANIS506 is an EIDE driver with support for Intel, VIA, ALi, SiS, CMD, Promise,
Cyrix, HighPoint and AMD chipsets, and generic busmaster support for all SFF-8038i
compliant chips. It can be found at:
http://hobbes.mnsu.edu/pub/incoming/danis506.zip
and later at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/storage/danis506.zip
DANIATAPI is a filter driver which supports all types of ATAPI devices. It is
a superset of IBMIDECD.FLT, IBMATAPI.FLT and DaniADsk.FLT, and supports all devices
that the mentioned drivers do. Additionally, all ATAPI devices can be accessed through
the OS/2 ASPI software interface. Each EIDE channel shows up as a SCSI channel,
and each ATAPI device as a SCSI device (master = SCSI ID 0, slave = SCSI ID 1).
It can be found at:
http://hobbes.mnsu.edu/pub/incoming/daniatapi.zip
and later at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/storage/daniatapi.zip
There is an updated (0.09) version of Rxwav available. Rxwav is a REXX library
for audio editing (change volume, expand dynamic, filtering, get info on RIFF wave
file...) with sample.
http://www.geocities.com/katobleto
The OS/2 Netlabs proudly announces a new project, namely
T H E W O R K P L A C E S H E L L T O O L K I T
What is the Workplace Shell Toolkit ?
This toolkit is a collection of APIs being designed to greatly reduce the amount
of effort required to build common Workplace Shell Classes. These APIs are divided
into several minor and major categories. Most of the APIs are helper functions,
grouped in subcategories:
- Module helper functions (EXE and DLL)
- PM control helper functions
- System helper functions
- Error helper functions
- File helper functions
- Date and time related helper functions
Of course, many more are still to be implemented.
Larger function categories deal with a whole set of tasks being required to provide
certain WPS class functionality, making the implementation much easier compared
to the formerly required large amount of code, needing a lot of testing and also
having much nearly redundant code. Two major categories are already implemented:
- Settings and details manager functions
- Extended Attributes manager functions
The detailed online help povides a syntax explanation as well as a programming
guide for the major categories, both in the well known INF book layout style, that
programmers are used to from the IBM Toolkit for OS/2 WARP. Moreover, for each category
a sample program is provided, enabling you to easily test all APIs with your compiler
and toolkit configuration.
Supported compilers/Requirements
The following compilers are supported
- IBM C Set ++ Version 2.1 with nmake support
- IBM VisualAge C++ Version 3.0 with nmake support
- gcc of emx V0.9d with GNU make support
Also required is:
- the IBM Toolkit for either OS/2 WARP 3 or WARP 4
- an HPFS partition for being able to compile the toolkit library, sample programs
and online docs.
Where can I obtain the Workplace Shell Toolkit ?
The Workplace Shell Toolkit is free software and OpenSource, as such it can be
used, modified and redistributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in
the "COPYING.LIB" file of the WPS Toolkit source distribution.
In short, this license allows everyone to use the unmodified toolkit library
in both free or commercial software products without any other limitation or any
fee. Only if a modified version of the toolkit library is being used, the modified
toolkit and its modified sources must be made publicly available. This applies to
the modified toolkit only, but not to a program using the toolkit.
OS/2 Netlabs provides an Open Source Archive on the Netlabs CVS Server, from
where you can download the current developer version either with the "Netlabs
Open Source Archive Client" or plain CVS.
If you have good ideas for extending the library, or if you are interested in
participating the Workplace Shell Toolkit project team, then contact us vial email
at:
See the following web pages:
The OS/2 Netlabs home page:
The home page of the "Netlabs Open Source Archive Client":
If you use plain CVS, point your CVSROOT to:
http://www.netlabs.org:d:/netlabs.src/wpstk
and login as "guest" with password "readonly". The recommended
way for CVS beginners is to use the Netlabs Open Source Archive Client though.
Send comments and suggestions to:
What's next ?
As soon as the forthcoming home page of the Workplace Shell Toolkit is up, a
binary distribution will be made available on internet FTP servers (like Hobbes
etc). This distribution will already contain the library compiled for all supported
compilers and the compiled online help and thus be ready to use.
In addition, we of course search for programmers wanting to share their special
WPS code with us, that could be of use for other WPS prgrammers as well. Do you
have a particular useful function or a good idea of how to encapsulate a complex
task in a really simple set of APIs? Then don't hesitate to contact us at:
The toolkit is for you programmers, and you can help us most to make it the way
that you and all of the OS/2 Workplace Shell developers can get the most benefit
out of it.
I posted my new version of SysInfo into Hobbes. You can find it at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/SYSINFO015.ZIP
and then it will be moved to:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/SYSINFO015.ZIP
SysInfo is a self-made PM clone of well-known SysInfo from Symantec NU 3.0 for
Windows 95/NT. You can find info about your CPU/FPU, BIOS, HDD, Memory distribution,
Video and Printer Subsistem, LAN and Internet connection, OS/2 version and FixPak
installed and so on.
I am happy to recieve your proposals, bug reports and screenshots.
The new release of Ellie, the cutest among all the seti@home client frontends
for OS/2, is out and features support for the latest client v2.0.
Point your browser to:
http://www.cee3.demon.co.uk/ellie/ellie_dl.html
This is a special message for people who work as church secretaries. I have developed
a small tool for administering all addresses in a church community. On my home page,
you will find more information at:
http://home.t-online.de/home/Juergen.Dankoweit
IDK, Inc., is proud to announce our new Email list for KeyRing/2, the Secure
Password Keeper for OS/2.
Company president, Kevin McCoy says: "The response to KeyRing/2 has been
phenominal, with hundreds of demo downloads and many more orders than we expected.
Join our discussion list by sending an email to:
keyring2-subscribe@egroups.com
The mailing list list will cover questions about KR2 installation, tips on use,
feature requests and new release announcements.
KeyRing/2 is an encrypted database you can use to store passwords, URLs, bank
PIN numbers, product registration codes, addresses - any small secrets. KeyRing/2
for North America uses 448 bit Blowfish encryption. The export version uses 56 bit
DES.
More information and a free demo is available at:
http://www.idk-inc.com/kr2index.htm
SORRY!
Some days ago, I announced ghostscript 6.00 which works in both OS2 PM and in
XFree86 is available.
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~vtgf3mpr/index-e.htm
A neary fatal problem was found by some users: When ghost-script is called by
viewers like`gv',sometimes it does not work.
If you have downloaded from my web site, do this:
emxstack -s640 gs.exe
emxstack -s640 gsos2.exe
emxstack -s640 gspmdrv.exe
Or download the fixed version from my page:
http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~vtgf3mpr/index-e.htm
From the Odin News page, http://www.netlabs.org/odin/News.phtml#21
The latest working release of Odin, the Netlabs project to run win32 applications
under OS/2, now has 3dfx Glide support as well as the first implementation of hardware
accelerated OpenGL on OS/2.
"Hardware accelerated OpenGL by Nenad Milenkovic 5 Mar 00 05:15 CET Native
3dfx Glide drivers for OS/2 (Voodoo and Voodoo 2) are now included with Odin and
they support Win32 applications (mostly games) that use it. Furthermore, an Odin
port of the free OpenGL clone Mesa GL is now also included. There are two versions
of Odin's Mesa/OpenGL: one that does the rendering in software and the one that
uses 3dfx hardware for the job."
The Russian Underground has a new English version of the Phone-Dialer (with Phonebook)
Dialer/2:
http://www.os2.spb.ru/software/projects/pmdialer/
EmTec's ZOC for OS/2 has been updated to version 3.14. The URL is:
http://www.emtec.com/download.html#zocfiles