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Mike8SKN.INF - 3 200 perfect skins for PM123 !

Mike8SKN.INF version 1.60 is a revolutionary English file in the native INF format, offering a detailed overview of 400 perfect skins for PM123. In practice, it is an accurate catalog of all skins with order numbers from - 2 801 to 3 200.

Mike8SKN.INF is a part of the NEPTUNE project, which contains -- 3,200 skins !

New features:
- Added Czech translation !!
- What's new (Revision History)
- Neptune-CD Cover(necd3200.sda)

Direct download link (7.37 MB) ---
http://www.os2ecs.net/neptune/mike8skn.zip

Url:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=mike8skn&pushbutton=Search

OS/2 e-Zine February 2004 Issue On-line

The February 2004 issue should be on-line now. Thank you for your patience. Hopefully no fun and interesting bugs! :-)

Contents:
- Chinese-English & Japanese-English Dictionaries
- NLS Office Suites
- A couple of home projects with a database
- Running RealPlayer 9 under OS/2
- A simple art project using Photo>Graphics

http://www.os2ezine.com

Warpstock 2004 update

Warpstock has received notification from two groups that they would be interested in holding Warpstock 2004. Both of these sites are located in great locations for the family to visit with many exciting things for everyone. Warpstock's board members are working with the groups to develop the bids so that we can try to have a bid by the end of this month.

One group is also investigating having an extended conference with several days of training available prior to the classic weekend event we have been holding. So, this may be the year that we see something new.

If you wish to have some input into Warpstock 2004 or you want to volunteer now for speaking or being on the Team, please use the Warpstock-public forum on Yahoogroups.com send a email to Subscribe: Warpstock-public-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and we'll approve your membership. (We made the group closed so that we don't get spammed.)

Warpstock 1997 - Diamond Bar, California
Warpstock 1998 - Chicago, Illinois
Warpstock 1999 - Atlanta, Georgia
Warpstock 2000 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Warpstock 2001 - Toronto, Canada
Warpstock 2002 - Austin, Texas
Warpstock 2003 - San Francisco, California
Warpstock 2004 - ? :-)

Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock web site :
http://www.warpstock.org

Win32Prn project is updated to version 1.0.0 prerelease 1

Hello.

Win32Prn project is updated to version 1.0.0a

Project URL is http://www.gtech-ua.com/vit/en/win32prn.jsp

Here is the history:

1.0.0a Wed 18/02/2004
+ Added WarpIn installation with Odin included

Note: Win32Prn is the project to run MS Windows 2000 printer drivers under OS/2. It can run virtually any printer driver but currently has only few models tested. Please try it and contact me no matter if you have succeded or failed.

Tame/2 1.0RC3

Tame/2 1.0 RC3 has been released. It is a bugfix only Release. Nconvert updated to 4.16 (Thanks to Pierre e Gougelet) Faxview updated to 1.13d

(Thanks to Harald Pollack) Bugs (e.g. overwriting first line in config.sys) in TameInst.exe fixed. Bug with very small pictures and drctrl016.dll (Thanks to Chris Wohlgemuth) fixed. Bug in Tame.exe when 'print' is pressed first fixed. Shortcuts on some actions added

http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=tamedown

For those who don't know Tame/2 is a scanning suite.

ePDF PS 30.800.b

I've uploaded an update for the "ePDF PS" PostScript printer driver.

http://www.subsys.de/ePDF/download/ePDFup30800b.zip

req. installed ePDF PS 30.800

This should fix some problems with page forms, and comes with a new form: Organizer (9,5 x 17 cm).

VCDGear for OS/2 Updated!

The VCDGear for OS/2 has been updated. It is available at http://www.vcdgear.com

Moderator Note:

OS/2 download: http://www.vcdgear.com/files/vcdgear176-040205_os2.zip

Online forums to ask questions about VCDGear are at
http://www.vcdquality.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?forumid=31

A readme.os2 file states the following:

"To get the executable to run, the following DLLs must be present:

Imported Modules:
0 IBERTY
1 EMXLIBCM
2 EMX"

NOTE: A quick Google search shows IBERTY.DLL as part of the GCC library, though the binaries no longer were available at the site http://www.goof.com/pcg/os2/download.html I found a version of IBERTY.DLL buried in http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx/v0.9d/gcc3.2.1.zip EMX.DLL and EMXLIBCM.DLL are part of the EMX runtime available on hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx/v0.9d/emxrt.zip

"What is VCDGear?

VCDGear is a tool written to effortlessly extract MPEG streams from CD images, convert VideoCD files to MPEG, correct MPEG errors, create (Super)VideoCDs and more!. The first public release was back in late 1997 and ever since then, VCDGear has continued to grow in complexity, offering a multitude of features to make this a very powerful tool for VideoCD enthusiasts. VCDGear is the result of over 6 years of work.

Some of the features you will find in VCDGear are:

* MPEG stream extractions from popular CD images
* On the fly MPEG correction to fix certain types of MPEG errors
* Super VideoCD and VideoCD image creation
* Sample generation
* Multilanguage support
* Graphical interface and command-line versions available
* Cross platform
* Free! (donations are accepted!)

Anyone requiring the need to transport their video materials will find VCDGear as a useful tool to assist them in getting the video to play on their computer or VideoCD player."

GOAT update posted on Hobbes

For those who don't/can't access the Yahoo groups. I've managed to upload to Hobbes.

GOAT is a frontend for GOCR, the Gnu Optical Character Recognition Program. This release contains mostly bug fixes:

New in this version
* Unencoded executable allows for end user changes, bug fixes and experimentation w/o VisproRexx (simply open GOAT.exe in any text editor. Thanks to Keith Cotroneo
* Fixes for external editor buttons
* Fix for "Open last scan" menu item
* Fix for text change detection
* Fix for image load detection when starting OCR
* Cleaned up some error messages
* Two versions of GOCR included...Oldest (v0.35) is default (read more below)
* Included the HTML manual from which the INF was (improperly) built with HTMLtoINF
* Included some files that were missing from the last release

Current url:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/goat_006a.zip

Proposed dir:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/graphics/scan/goat_006a.zip

OS/2 Kit for Acrobat Reader 4.05 Release 3 available

http://ubb.innotek.de/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=25;t=000005;p=1#000000

"We have put up a new release of the OS/2 Kit for Acrobat Reader 4.05. This version incorporates several bugfixes (mainly printing related), is based on the new InnoTek installer and the InnoTek Runtime for OS/2 and provides FT2LIB integration.

New Innotek Runtime for OS/2 Version 1.04 (Build 10) required:
http://download.innotek.de/acrobatos2/4.05R3/OS2KitAcrobatReader405R3.exe

Innotek OS/2 Kit for Acrobat Reader Web site:
http://www.innotek.de/products/acrobatos2/acrobatos2general_e.html

OS/2 Kit for Acrobat Reader Support forum:
http://ubb.innotek.de/ultimatebb.php?category=7

From OS/2 Kit for Acrobat Reader installation readme:

7. List of Changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

2004-02-02: Release 3 (Build 26)

- converted to use the InnoTek Runtime for OS/2

- converted to the new common InnoTek Installer

- added support for the InnoTek Font Engine for OS/2

- integrated German NLS support

- several printing bugfixes

- installation bugfixes

- various other bugfixes

Java Lotus Notes Client available 2nd Half 2004

Looks like we will eventually get an up-to-date fully functional Lotus Notes Client that will run on OS/2. Stefan Pettersson, technical manager for IBM's Lotus division in Sweden, has been quoted as saying that there will be a Java client of Lotus Notes some time during the second half of 2004.

The quote is from an article on Infoworld http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/13/HNlinuxoffice_1.html that talked about IBM's efforts to get MS Office running on Linux.

OS/2 and USB Site Announcement

The OS/2 USB Site has finally merged with the OS/2 CHL site.

Now I will be updating directly the OS/2 CHL.

You can visit it updated at

http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=usbnews

The site had also been updated with:

PRINTERS
- Epson Stylus C84
- Epson Stylus Color 680
- Panasonic KX-P7105

STORAGE
- Lexar Media Jump Drive 128MB
- Sandisk Mini Cruzer 256MB USB flash drive
- SanDisk Cruzer Mini USB Flash Drive (128 mb)

HUBS
- D-link 4 Ports USB Hub

CAMERAS
- Fujifilm s5000 SLR digital
- Canon PowerShot S30
- Canon PowerShot S50

Again, thanks to everyone for their feedback. I can't not reply to everybody but their information are always usefull !!!

So, from now on visit:
http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=usbnews

GOAT beta 0.06a released

GOAT is a frontend for GOCR, the Gnu Optical Character Recognition Program. This release contains mostly bug fixes:

New in this version
* Unencoded executable allows for end user changes, bug fixes and experimentation w/o VisproRexx (simply open GOAT.exe in any text editor. Thanks to Keith Cotroneo * Fixes for external editor buttons
* Fix for "Open last scan" menu item
* Fix for text change detection
* Fix for image load detection when starting OCR
* Cleaned up some error messages
* Two versions of GOCR included...Oldest (v0.35) is default (read more below)
* Included the HTML manual from which the INF was (improperly) built with HTMLtoINF
* Included some files that were missing from the last release

You can access this file at the URL

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OS2-OCR/files/GOAT/goat_006a.zip

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