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Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN 1.0 - now available!
Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN 1.0 is here!
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What is Open Watcom?
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Open Watcom is an effort to take the commercial Sybase Watcom compilers,
and turn them into an Open Source Project. When Sybase realised that the
Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers were no longer commercially viable,
they searched around to find a solution for their existing customers.
SciTech Software, a long time user of Watcom compiler products contacted
Sybase about turning the compilers into an Open Source project, and hence
the Open Watcom Project was born.
The Open Watcom products are so far the first and only proprietary
compilers to be Open Sourced. With more than a million lines of source
code the Watcom products represent one of the largest pools of
proprietary source code ever released under an Open Source license.
Sybase has released the code under an Open Source license that complies
with the Open Source Definition, published by the Open Source Initiative
(http://www.opensource.org). The Sybase Public License used by the Open
Watcom project can be viewed online here:
http://www.openwatcom.org/license_info/open_watcom_lic.html
Multiple Platforms In A Single Package!
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Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN supports a wide range of host and target
platforms including Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000/XP, OS/2, extended
DOS and Novell Netware. This impressive platform support is amplified by
the powerful cross-platform capabilities of the IDE and tools, which
enable building applications for a wide range of target environments from
any of the host systems. For example, from Windows XP you can build and
debug Windows 98, 32-bit DOS and 32-bit OS/2 applications, in addition to
Windows XP applications. This extensive cross-platform support helps you
to exploit the capabilities of your host platform.
Powerful remote debugging capabilities!
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The Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers support powerful remote
debugging capabilities right out of the box. Support is included for
remote debugging over the serial port, parallel port, TCP/IP for all
supported platforms (including DOS!). There are also remote debugging
layers for Novell Netware networks (IPX and NetBIOS) as well as remote
debugging within virtual DOS machines and more. The best feature of the
Open Watcom remote debugging support is the ability to cross compile and
debug any target platform from any host platform! You can if you want
develop and debug Win32 applications from OS/2 or DOS, and when the Linux
port is complete you will be able to build and debug Win32 applications
from Linux!
Free OS/2 and Windows SDK's included!
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One of the biggest missing links with the Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN
compilers is the lack of SDK headers and libraries for OS/2 and Windows.
Thanks to the efforts of some of our Open Watcom team members, we now
have fairly complete SDK headers and libraries for OS/2, Win16 and Win32!
The Win32 SDK headers and libraries are actually based heavily on the
w32api project developed and maintained by the MinGW compiler folks.
Thanks to these efforts we now have a reasonably complete set of Open
Source OS/2, Win16 and Win32 headers and libraries for use with Open
Watcom! Please feel free to contribute updates and additions to these SDK
projects if you find things are missing or incorrect.
Free DOS extenders included!
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Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN includes a number of royalty free and Open
Source DOS extenders right out of the box. Thanks to Tenberry Software's
gracious donation, the original DOS/4GW DOS extender from Watcom C/C++
and FORTRAN is included royalty free with the Open Watcom compilers. Also
included is the now free CauseWay DOS extender developed by Michael
Devore. Both binaries are included as well as complete source code in the
source archives. Finally we have also included the free PMODE/W and
DOS/32A DOS extenders as part of the package.
Where can I get Open Watcom?
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The Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers are freely available in both
binary and source code form from the official Open Watcom web site. You
can download the files directly from the web site, or if you prefer you
can purchase the Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN official CD-ROM and help
support the Open Watcom effort! For more information on getting Open
Watcom, see:
http://www.openwatcom.org/download/download_licenses.html
Want to Join the Team?
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Now that the Open Watcom source code is freely available, anyone can join
the Open Watcom development team. If you would like to get started
developing and contributing to the Open Watcom project, please join the
Open Watcom community by visting:
Regards,
---
Kendall Bennett
Chief Executive Officer
SciTech Software, Inc.
Phone: (530) 894 8400
http://www.scitechsoft.com
HTML Tidy for OS/2
HTML Tidy is a cross-platform tool for checking, correcting, and
formatting HTML and XML code. It supports several codepages and is able to
convert between them. Tidy is even able to extract something useful from
the mess that MS Word creates when saving a file as web page.
The latest OS/2 build by Christian Hennecke is based on TidyLib and adds
support for OS/2's favorite codepage IBM850. Asian codepages and UTF-16
should also be supported, but this hasn't been tested. Feedback is
welcome!
Get it at:
Christian Hennecke
Forespace
For those of you using ForeSpace (the PovRay frontend)...
I have had the "Black Icon" disease (where most of the button graphics
are blackened) for a number of years and had taken the liberty of fixing
the problem.
This distribution is essentially the same as the fs042b.zip that Sean
Ryan distributed except for "fs.exe" which has had it's resources changed
in an attempt to fix the "black icon" problem. I have no claim to any of
this software and can accept no credit or blame for it's use.
I have tried to find Sean for permission to make this fix available but
was unable to so. I am now making it available to others in the hope that
I would have had Sean's blessing. If anyone knows how I can contact him
and get permission, I will upload this to Hobbes.
Get it here: http://www.pillarsoft.net/news.htm
Regards,
Wayne Swanson
Italian NLS for XWP1.0.1 is available
The Italian NLS for XWorkplace V1.0.1 is now available as WarpIN package
at the usual address:
http://www.quasarbbs.net/xwp/download.htm
Direct link (900 Kb):
http://www.quasarbbs.net/xwp/101-xwp-it.exe
GNU units converts between different system of units
GNU units converts between different system of units. "Ported" from
Unix/Linux version.
Program URL: http://www.cam.cornell.edu/~adrian/units.html
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/units-os2-181beta.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=units-os2-181beta.zip
Links-2.1pre7
Text mode browser with PM graphic support.
Also SSL (for secure transactions) and Javascript
Plus frames
Program URL: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/links-2.1pre7.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=links-2.1pre7.zip
PMMail/2 integration in Mozilla
Small program to integrate PMMail/2 in Mozilla
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=startpmm_02.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/startpmm_02.zip
openssh 3.5p1 binary build for OS/2
Includes both client and server.
Requires Security/2 installed
Program URL: http://ecomstation.ru/openssh
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/openssh-3.5p1.2-bin.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=openssh-3.5p1.2-bin.zip
German NLS for XWorkplace 1.0.1 available
The German NLS package for XWorkplace 1.0.1, the most feature-rich and
free enhancer for OS/2's and eComStation's Workplace Shell, is now
available.
Besides the updates for version 1.0.1, issues with clipped text in dialogs
have been fixed, as well as a large number of typos in the documentation
and help.
Download the WarpIN package from:
http://www.os2world.com/os2files/files/xwp-1-0-1_nls-de.exe
Christian Hennecke
WarpIN and XWorkplace 1.0.1 are out
ENGLISH VERSION (GERMAN FOLLOWS)
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WarpIN 1.0.1 and XWorkplace 1.0.1 have both been
released. These are both pure bugfix releases without
any new features.
WarpIN is intended to become the new universal OS/2
installer. It is becoming more and more popular among
OS/2 developers because of its flexibility and ease of
use. It has full system configuration (CONFIG.SYS,
WPS classes, WPS objects) and can fully undo all the
changes to your system again.
XWorkplace is the most feature-rich freeware Workplace
Shell enhancer on the planet, and even better, it is
OpenSource. XWorkplace is the successor to my popular
XFolder utility and has become a Netlabs project. You
need WarpIN to install XWorkplace.
To get the new WarpIN and XWorkplace, please go to:
WarpIN and XWorkplace are Netlabs projects, released under
the GNU General Public Licence. The source code is
available on the Netlabs CVS server. See the above
address for details.
Have fun!
Ulrich Moeller
RexxMail build 20030202.124344 released.
A new build of RexxMail is available from my web site:
http://www.degeus.com/rexx/rexxmail_english.html
or
http://www.degeus.com/rexx/rexxmail_nederlands.html
where you can also view the RexxMail on-line tutorial, and the readme,
history, changes, and tips 'n' tricks files.
The distribution ZIP file is also available from the Hobbes repository:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=rexxmail
For an explanation of the major changes in this release, see the changes
file at:
http://www.degeus.com/rexx/rexxmail_changes_txt.html
RexxMail is an object-oriented WPS e-mail client, written in REXX, which
uses the standard WPS user interface. It features an extensive range of
functions and options with full command-line access.
RexxMail is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
see: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Best regards,
Marcus de Geus
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