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March 1998

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Mar 17, 1998, Just a reminder. VOICE, the Virtual OS/2 users group is very happy to announce that there will be a second special Speakup session in March. This one will be Monday, March 30th, at 8PM EST (01:00 GMT), this moderated session will be held on IRC on the WEBBnet IRC network in the #voice channel. Our special guest that night will be Sam Detweiler of IBM OS/2 Development, Device Driver development and Support. Sam has worked on the removable drive support for OS/2 as well as just about all other OS/2 hardware support. If you have an OS/2 hardware support question, this is the man to ask.

The next regular VOICE meeting in #voice on WEBBnet on Monday April 4th at 8PM EST (01:00 GMT). All OS/2 users and those interested in learning more about OS/2 are invited.

Please check out our web site for inormation on IRC, WEBBnet and VOICE meetings - http://www.os2voice.org/meetinginfo.html

Mar 16, 1998, From Paul Hethmon on the Warpstock mail list:

Well, it's been a long wait and I want to thank everyone for being patient. The Warpstock CDs are officially shipping this week. I am not sure what day they will start to ship, but start looking for them over the next week to 10 days. They are being shipping from Ohio so you can judge when you get yours when everyone starts saying they got them.

thanks,

Paul

Editor's note: "This disc includes presentations, demo software from presenting vendors, and some other goodies." You can order this CD from BMT Micro - http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/warpstockcd.html

Mar 16, 1998, There is now a second site devoted to listing win32 applications that have been tried with the win32-OS/2 projects pe2lx translator. This site http://alientek.dyn.ml.org/pe2lx/ will display converted apps that have been uploaded to their ftp site. This site is also not affiliated directly with the win32-OS/2 project team. The url for the official win32-OS/2 project is http://www.io.com/~timur/win32os2.html

Mar 15, 1997, VOICE is looking for nominations to fill the vacant position of board secretary. If you want to help us to support the SOHO/Individual OS/2 user please send a list of your qualifications to voicevp@ibm.net. Nominations will be accepted through March 31, 1998 and voting will take place in April. The current list of nominees is located at http://www.os2voice.org/secretary_nominees.html
Mar 15, 1998, From a post on Warp cast submitted by Eric W. Burgin:

Anyone who wants IDE Bus mastering drivers for Motherboards with VIA Bus Master IDE chipset VT82C580VP or later should check out http://www.via.com.tw. There are currently no supported drivers but I got this note in response to my inquiry:

>Hello Eric,

>Our driver engineers have their hands full at the moment, but I am sending you a beta version which you can try if you like.

> <<OS2580_238.EXE>> <<OS2readme.txt>>
>Best regards,
>Patrick

So if you contact Patrick (patrick@via.com.tw) you may be able to get them.

Eric-

Mar 13, 1998, This post about the imminent release of Lotus's Smart Suite for OS/2 Warp 4.0 was found on comp.os.os2.apps:

We went Gold today, begin manufacturing CD-ROMs next week, and will be shipping SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 to vendors the following week (no later than 3/27). Check out the "News" page of the SmartSuite for OS/2 Web site at http://www.lotus.com/smartsuiteos2 (the "News" link is at the bottom of the page). I believe you'll find it says:

"The Global English edition of SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 will ship at the end of March, 1998, followed by the release of:
- German, Global French and Danish editions mid-April
- Global Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, and Dutch editions in early June"

Next, visit our "OS/2 Links" page. There you'll find a list of software resellers who plan to offer SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4. Finally, check out our "Downloads" page. There you'll find advance copies of each of the SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 books in Adobe Acrobat format. The README files (Release Notes) shipping with the Suite will be posted later this month.

Does that help?

Sr. Product Manager
SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4
Lotus Development Corporation

Mar 12, 1998, News from Chris Graham, of WarpSpeed Computers and author of the Graham Utilities for OS/2:

Re: My new address details.

Well, as you may or may not know, last thursday, we finally managed to more into our new home. No hot water that day, and still a few things to do, but what the hell... <G>

After the first builder going bankrupt (on my 31st birthday of all things!) and the new one giving us just as much hell by not being overly responsive to our position (after 11 years in the same flat/unit the owner of the flat wants to sell so we _HAD_ to move out (but we manager to extend by a week)) we are finally in. [Just an aside to anyone who doesn't know better (both we and the salesman didn't): A 230 Litre hot water server is not really a hot water service that holds 230L. It actually holds about 145L of hot water in reserve - the 230 comes from the fact that it can HEAT 230 litres of water PER HOUR. Not much good to fill a 200+ litre Spa... :-(. So, don't get caught like we did! <G>]

Anyway, these are all of our new contact details.

Chris and Kate Graham
11 Birchwood Way
Delahey VIC 3037
AUSTRALIA

(melways ref 13 E-5 for those of you that are interested. A GPS reference will be shortcoming... <G>)

Domestic Phone: +61-3-9307 0344

So that kate knows that I am still alive and kicking, my office has moved (but not up and functioning totally yet anyway... <G>) also. My business details are as follows:

Street Address:

WarpSpeed Computers
11 Birchwood Way
Delahey VIC 3037
AUSTRALIA

Postal Address:

WarpSpeed Computers
PO Box 212
Brunswick VIC 3056
AUSTRALIA

Yes, a bit of a drive (20 minutes), but too damn hard to change!

Business Phone details:

Phone: +61-3-9307-0611
Fax: +61-3-9307-0633
BBS: +61-3-9307-0644

Email details (as before):

Normal and preferred: chrisg@warpspeed.com.au
AEST hours (day job) chrisg@21c3.com.au
(please CC to chrisg@warpspeed.com.au).

Please NOTE: the chrisg@21c3.com.au is subject to change without notice,
so please CC (or BCC for that matter) to chrisg@warpspeed.com.au.

-Chris

WarpSpeed Computers - The Graham Utilities for OS/2.
Voice: +61-3-9307-0611 PO Box 212 FidoNet: 3:632/344
FAX: +61-3-9307-0633 Brunswick Internet: chrisg@warpspeed.com.au
BBS: +61-3-9307-0644 VIC 3056 CompuServe: 100250,1645
300-28,800 N,8,1 ANSI Australia Web Pages:
http://www.warpspeed.com.au
http://www.netins.net/showcase/spectre

Mar 12, 1998, Interested in trying the latest HotJava web browser from Sun? Here's where to find it courtesy of Warpcast:

Get Suns HotJava browser 1.1.2 for OS/2 from:
http://java.sun.com/products/hotjava/1.1.2/index.html

Select "HotJava Browser 1.1.2 for Other Platforms" to download.

Requires Java JDK 1.1.4 for OS/2
Runs straight out of the box

Mar 11, 1998, The Unofficial Netscape Navigator for OS/2 site- http://people.netscape.com/law/os2nav/index.html has been updated today, March 11th. They announced that some pages are now translated to Swedish and more importantly the site maintainer Bill Law gives some information about Netscape/IBM's plans for the release of OS2 specific release 5.0 code. Bill states: 'This page contains some random thoughts on the topic of what I've cleverly named "Warpzilla." Warpzilla is an OS/2 port of the "freely released" Netscape Communicator v5.0 source code, AKA Mozilla.'

The specific page is http://people.netscape.com/law/warpzilla/index.html

Mar 10, 1998, for those of you who are using the Star Office 4.0 beta which has timed out, here is a reprieve from the warden via Warpcast:

Paul Clarke (pjclarke@bigpond.com) says that Star Division gave him a patch for the most recent beta of StarOffice v4 which allows it to run until the end of May, 1998. He's been given permission to distribute the file, so it's been uploaded to the Hobbes OS/2 archive:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/staroffice-patch.zip

If it's been moved out of /incoming by the time you read this, use the
search engine at Hobbes' main page (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu) to locate it.

For more information about StarOffice 4.0, see:
http://www.stardivision.com/staroffice/so40.html

To download beta 2 of the international OS/2 version:
ftp://ftp.stardivision.com/pub/so4/os2/01/beta2/IB2_os2.exe (~35 MB)

Mar 10, 1998, From Jim at J3 comes more news on Smart Suite for OS/2 Warp 4.0:

J3 Computer Technologies
http://www.os2store.com

NOW TAKING PRE-ORDERS FOR LOTUS SMARTSUITE FOR WARP 4

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Lotus SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4 provides you with a complete set of 32-bit OS/2 desktop applications, with all the tools you need to streamline everyday business tasks - plus quick, easy ways to connect and collaborate with others. Whether you're creating a document, working with colleagues on a report, or communicating results via the Internet, SmartSuite helps you do it faster and better.

Everyone who orders the Lotus SmartSuite for Warp 4 from J3 Computer Technologies will be automatically entered into J3's Sony Mavica FD7 (1st prize) and Epson Perfection 600 (2nd prize) drawing.

We expect the product to ship in April.

086575 SmartSuite for Warp 4 Full $379.00
092275 SmartSuite for Warp 4 Upgrade $139.00
086785 SmartSuite for Warp 4 Academic $89.00

Additional/site licenses are available.

To place orders or for more information visit http://www.os2store.com

Sincerely,
-Jim

Mar 9, 1998, More news on related to the win32-OS/2 project:

In order to help testers of the Win32Os2 project, a web site has been set up by PowerDale IT Ltd at http://www.yoursite.co.uk/os/2/

It is a database of peoples' experiences with converting applications. Should you have any luck with converting an application, need to check if an application can be converted or want to report that an application does not convert, this is the resource for you.

ps. We are not part of the Win32OS2 development group please do not direct questions regarding the project to our account.

Mar 6, 1998, Dr. Martinus reports on the OS2-L:

There is a survey about which OS you'd like to boot up in the year 2000. The people who maintain the site are anti-Windows, but also not pro-OS/2, so you find quite a lot of Linux and DOS choices. The survey started on 3rd of March. Have a look there, and make your choice:

http://www.naf.cz/arachne/survey.html

Mar 8, 1998, From Brad Wardell of Stardock:

Stardock prepares to make Entrepreneur widely available

Near the end of last Fall, Stardock released Entrepreneur 1.0 and it immediately became popular with strategy game fans all over the world. But Entrepreneur was only released in select areas. Due to the game s unusual game mechanics, Stardock was uncertain of how well it would be received and held back its general availability until after it could receive initial feedback.

Entrepreneur is a real-time strategy game in which players start their own companies and must compete against others in a chosen market. By balancing their resources between marketing, researching, and manufacturing, the players grow their hold on the world until they have conquered the vast majority of the market. One Usenet player described it as "SimBillGates" though its emphasis on making tough resource choices makes it similar to Civilization.

The games lead designer, Brad Wardell, says he was inspired to develop Entrepreneur not by Civilization so much but by a classic game called MULE. "I had been hesitant on developing Entrepreneur because I figured that someone else would eventually create a good follow-on to a game like MULE." Said Brad Wardell, Stardock Systems, Inc. "Though in actuality, the game also has a lot of elements of a lesser known game called Lords of Conquest." To Stardock s relief, Entrepreneur 1.0 has received universal praise from the mainstream print magazines such as Computer Gaming World, Strategy Plus, and PC Gamer. The magazines pointed out the game s addictive game play, outstanding computer AI, and unique strategic elements help combine into making a very good game.

One unexpected chain of events have gone into Entrepreneur s favor: Microsoft and the Justice Department. With the object of Entrepreneur to take over the market using extremely ruthless tactics and one of the computer players called "MitroSoft", Entrepreneur has caught the attention of the general press.

With articles from the Wallstreet Journal, Business Week, and Corporate Detroit and TV mentions on NBC Today and The Nightly Business Report Stardock has suddenly found it has a hit on its hands.

"We re getting a lot of calls from the press about Entrepreneur and how it plays like Microsoft would," said Wardell. "We wrote the game in the days of the OS-wars DOS vs. Windows vs. OS/2 vs. Mac and it did influence our development considerably. All I can say is, Yea, Microsoft plays to win and I m sure there are a lot of people out there who want to play a game in which they crush their opponents in a somewhat real-world scenario." But Stardock hasn't been sitting on its laurels since its original release, it used the time between 1.0 and now to address the feedback received from the early reviews as well as from gamers. While the reviewers praised the game itself, they also pointed out that the game s steep learning curve and very dry graphics might turn off some players. To that end, Stardock worked on enhancing those two areas of Entrepreneur.

Entrepreneur 1.1, due to be generally available on Wednesday, March 11, brings a complete graphics face lift to Entrepreneur (see included screen shots of 1.0 and a similar 1.1 screen shot). It also made subtle playability enhancements to make the game more intuitive to beginners while maintaining the challenge for expert players. The computer players, already considered amongst the best in the genre, have been heavily enhanced and will continue to be enhanced well into the future.

The game ships with a single market module the computer market, to play in. Stardock used the time between 1.0 and now to work on two new markets that will be available in late March. Moreover, the game ships with over a dozen different maps to play on and Stardock plans to release several new maps in the coming weeks.

The free multi-player service that comes with Entrepreneur, Stardock.Net will also get a free Windows client so that users can not only launch multi-player games from within Entrepreneur itself but also launch games from a small GUI client. "With the Stardock.Net client, people will be able to keep a little window up on their desktop and chat with people and wait for just the right game to start instead of having to keep Entrepreneur loaded all the time." Said Wardell.

Stardock expects Entrepreneur to be available in the following stores by March 11 or soon after:

CompUSA (March 11)
Micro Center (March 11)
Future Shop (March 11)
United CD ROM (March 11)
Babbages (Late March)
Software Etc. (Late March)
Fry's (Late March)
Electronic's Boutique (Late March)

Stardock can be reached at 1-800-672-2338. Entrepreneur lists for $49.95, requires Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, or OS/2 Warp to play and 8 megabytes of memory on a 486DX2-66 or better system.

Entrepreneur 1.1 update will be available FREE to all 1.0 users on Stardock's website on March 11.

Stardock s website is http://www.stardock.com

Mar 8, 1998, From a post by Felmon John Davis on the OS2-L:

People who want updates on Opera for OS/2, for MAC, et al., might have a look at http://opera.nta.no/alt_os.html.

Here's the quotation about OS/2:

---- quoted stuff----
OS/2: I leave it uncommented:

"Opera/2 is coming along fine we have about 75% of the code provided to us is now compiling with only minor changes to the header files. 10% are C++ class problems (due to the difference in compilers) - we are working on this. 5% are unsupported API's; the remaining 10% we haven't had time to fully go over yet. We spent a few days doing a down and dirty port to get an idea of the problems involved and are now doing a proper port (with the #ifdef etc..), and will be providing these to Opera within the next few days.

Mar 7, 1998, From OS/2 Users List:

English version at the end

Bonjour =E0 tous

Et bien voici une nouvelle version du site WEB du groupe Les Utilisateurs d'OS/2 de Montr=E9al OS/2 Users Group.

Une nouvelle version =AB4 en 1=BB maintenant vous avez acc=E8s =E0 une version sans cadre en plus de la version avec cadres et le tout en anglais ou en fran=E7ais.

******************************************
Hi to all

There is a new version of the WEB site for the group Les Utilisateurs d'OS/2 de Montr=E9al OS/2 Users Group.

A new version =AB4 in 1=BB, now you can access the site in the no-frame version plus the old framed version and all that in french or in english.
/*
/* Gerald Brosseau
/*
/* Les Utilisateurs d'OS/2 de Montreal
/* Montreal OS/2 Users Group
/*
/* http://www.contact.net/os2/
/* =20
/* os2user@contact.net
/*
/* utilisant PMMail 1.95a et
/* OS/2 Warp 3.0

Mar 7, 1998, The Distributed.net RC5-64 stats have finally been updated. Team Warped is still firmly seated in the #4 position (between the Japan Linux Users Group and LinuxNET RC5). Team Win32 has fallen to #6. Keep those RC5-64 keys cracking!

URL for Distributed.net stats is: http://rc5stats.distributed.net/

Mar 6, 1998, From Warpcast:

Team OS/2 Italia announces the release of the september/october issue of the italian OS/2 e-zine JustWARP! which is now online on

http://www.mclink.it/mclink/teamos2it/justwarp/index.htm

and on the official mirror

http://volftp.tin.it/TEAMOS2/jwarp/justwarp/index.htm

This issue features

* HPFS
* Partition Magic 3.02
* XFree86
* REXX programming course - part V

... and many others

Jurgen Assfalg - JustWARP! Editor
Team OS/2 Italia
http://www.mclink.it/mclink/teamos2it/ita/
http://volftp.tin.it/TEAMOS2/

Mar 6, 1998, The code at ftp.hursley.ibm.com has now been refreshed, and can be found at ftp://ftp.hursley.ibm.com/pub/java/fixes/os2/11

The Java -fullversion is JDK 1.1.4 IBM build o114-19980304

Here are the appropriate apars from the fix list file of runtime.exe, since the 012198 update :

o114-19980127 004042 Voluntary suspend w/JIT causes GC failure
o114-19980203 003763 IC19975 3398 & 3653 fixes did not propogate to o114
o114-19980204 004339 Support for timezone envar in lower case
o114-19980204 004427 IC19982 URLConnection security problem
o114-19980206 004445 IC19997 Tooltips steals focus
o114-19980206 004331 IC19999 *NEWSGRP* JIT Trap in portalnet application
o114-19980213 004233 IC20042 *WEB* Choice does not resize correctly
o114-19980214 004503 IC20029 ClassNotFoundException with Netscape+114
o114-19980221 004563 IC20129 setEchoChar() stops TextValueChanged event
o114-19980227 004677 IC20168 GPF and SYS3175 in JAVAI.DLL
o114-19980227 004681 IC20169 Fix list panel & scrollbars positioning
o114-19980228 004680 IC20170 java.lang.OutofMemoryError: invalid peer
o114-19980304 004615 IC20229 Trap in JAVAX.DLL: insufficient stack space

Mar 5, 1998, Here's some good news from Tom Rowe about Lotus's eSuite software which has been reported to only run on NT and AIX.

"I'm in Chicago for a DB2 class, and while here I saw a bit of the WSoD road show. Guess what, Lotus e-suite server running on Warp Server. Guess Lotus's web site is very misleading."

Mar 5, 1998, From IBM's Update News site http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/java114.html

Important Java 1.1.4 Install Information

If Java version 1.1.4 for OS/2 is installed over OS/2 FixPak 6, some files will be overwritten and downleveled.

To avoid this, please install Java 1.1.4 prior to installing this FixPak, or please reinstall this FixPak after installing Java 1.1.4.

The above warning is included in the WARP 4 FixPak 6 ReadMe. The same warning will also apply to later WARP 4 FixPaks. The files that are overwritten include the changes made for EuroCurrency support.

Mar 5, 1998, Some news of new functionality in the recently released FixPack 6 for Warp 4.0 and FixPack 35 for Warp 3.0 from IBM's Update news site - http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/newfp6.html and http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/newfp35.html

NEW FUNCTIONS added to FixPak 6

It is our policy not to include new function in FixPaks. However, as with any policy there may be exceptions. If any exception occurs in the future, we will communicate them to you in the README.1ST of a FixPak.

PARTITIONED REMOVABLE MEDIA SUPPORT

With the popularity of the new SCSI Syquest Syjet 1.5 GB portable and Iomega Jaz 1 GB and 2 GB personal hard drives, OS/2 Warp extends the support of these removable hard drives with caching HPFS and FAT file systems. These large removable drives are ideal for file transfers, backups, archiving confidential data and on-line storage. By updating your OS/2 system to Warp V400 FixPak 6 you will be able to fully exploit these large drives and manage your data efficiently and effectively. For Warp Server Advanced HPFS386 support you additionally need LAN Server SelectPack IP_8508. HPFS386 is not supported with any LAN Server products prior to Warp Server. The following are new features:

Ability to divide removable media into multiple partitions (Iomega Zip ATA drives are
supported with single partition media only)
Ability to format with either HPFS or FAT
Ability to exploit caching performance
Ability to use HPFS long file names
Ability to have drag/drop capability through the Workplace drive icon
Operating system protection to safely eject media through software eject utility
Assignment of drive letters to end of drive lettering chain to prevent floating drive letters
Single drive letter will be assigned for media if the drive is initialized with no media present
Ability to predetermine a fixed number of partitions to use for removable media
Enabling of vendor supplied media protection utilities

See README.RMS on the first FixPak diskette for additional information.

EUROCURRENCY

The European Monetary Union is creating the euro as a new common currency for Europe. As part of this effort the European Commission has introduced a new character which represents the euro. This character looks like an uppercase C with two horizontal lines through it. The euro will come into existence on January 1, 1999 for use in banking. Euro notes and coins will be issued starting January 2002. See http://europa.eu.int/euro for details.

The OS/2 basic support for Euro consists of adding the euro character to fonts, codepages, and keyboards. The euro is added to all display and ATM fonts. It is added at codepoint 0xd5 to codepage 850 and 857, and to codepoint 0x80 in the Windows codepages. The euro is added to all western European keyboards and the US International keyboard. It is placed at ALTGR-e or ALTGR-4 on these keyboards. The euro is not supported in WinOS2.

Mar 4, 1998 - An OS/2 web institution is moving. Judy's Warped World web site is moving to a new home as of April 1, 1998. The new URL is http://www.gt-online.com/~bri
Mar 3, 1998 - Both Warp 4.0 Fixpack 6 and Warp 3.0 Fixpack 35 are now available from the IBM Software Update page - http://ps.software.ibm.com/softupd.html

In addition FP6 is available on CD from BMT Micro http://www.bmtmicro.com If you've purchased any Fixpack CD from BMT in the past you can get Fixpack 6 on disc for $8 plus shipping.

Also Mensys http://www.mensys.nl/ has FP6 along with additional national language fixpacks, and other items on a CDROM as well.

Mar 3, 1998 - Lotus Development is pleased to report that the SmartSuite for OS/2 web site: http://www.lotus.com/smartsuiteos2 has been updated with the latest information on the upcoming release of SmartSuite for OS/2 Warp 4.
Mar 2, 1998 - IBM has released Fixpack 6 for OS/2 Warp 4.0. Disk images are available at ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4warp/english-us/xr_m006 and RSU install is available via netscape at http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj2.pl?/pdocs-usa/xr_m006.rsu
Mar 2, 1998 - At last nights VOICE Board meeting the board agreed to make Don Eitner the Assistant Editor of the VOICE Newsletter. Congratulations Don and welcome officially to the team. :-)
Mar 1, 1998 - From Warpcast news on the win32-OS/2 Project:

Peter Fitzsimmons sent me an official copy of Win32-OS/2 this morning via irc. He said it would be available from The Win32-OS/2 Project home page http://www.io.com/~timur/win32os2.html as soon as they get around to updating it (probably sunday afternoon..)

- dink http://ozbbs.ml.org/dink

Feb 22, 1998 - From Warpcast
IBM has released Bamba v1.1 for OS/2. Bamba is an audio and video streaming tool that supports high-quality audio and video streaming for low-bandwidth connections. This new version will run on OS/2 v3.0 ( w/ FixPak 26 or greater ) and OS/2 v4.0.

You can download a copy from AlphaWorks at: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/formula/

Feb 21, 1998 - From a post on Warpcast:
I'm proud to announce the first LIMITED beta test for GIMP/2.

We need some testers:

- you MUST HAVE a running XFree86 installed! Please do not mail us if XFree86 is not installed on your computer!

- you should know GIMP (the Linux version). But I think most of us don't know it yet, so you should be at least very interested in exploring the GIMP/2! We have to check a lot of things, and be sure that you _will_ find bugs in this version!

- you have to contact the programmers, so you should be able to describe the problems you've got with the GIMP port!

If you think you are able to support us in beta testing, please send a mail to ktk@netlabs.org. I will tell you more details about the limited beta test.

For more informations about GIMP, please visit http://www.netlabs.org/gimp.html

(For new users: GIMP is a great image-manipulation program, it's like Photoshop, but it's FREE!)

For more informations about the OS/2 Netlabs visit http://www.netlabs.org

Thanks

Adrian Gschwend
@ the OS/2 Netlabs

Feb 21, 1998 - From comp.os.os2.apps the following news about Lotus Smart Suite for OS/2 Warp 4.0:
I also saw the add in the IBM Direct catalog (nice add, actually) and it does mean we plan to release soon. We're planning an update to the SmartSuite for OS/2 area of the Lotus Web site (see our URL below) around the first of March, and when we post the update we will provide additional information on the targeted ship dates for Global English and all other language editions (keep an eye on our "News" page).

I can tell you we're still planning to ship the Global English edition later this quarter followed by local language translations as follows:
o within 30 days of Global English we will release:
- German, Global French and Danish editions
o within 60 days of Global English we will release:
- Global Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, and Dutch editions

Like the winter olympics... we can see the gold (code), and we will soon have it in our hands as well as in yours. Thank you (everyone) for your patience and for your assistance in providing us with excellent feedback during the Beta program.

Sr. Product Manager
SmartSuite for OS/2
Lotus Development Corporation
http://www.lotus.com/smartsuiteos2

Feb 18, 1998 - From VOLUME 3 of the OS/2 WARP FM InfoFlash available at: http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/warpfm

The 128 Bit encryption version of Navigator 2.02 for OS/2 with Java 1.1.4 support will be available March 1, 1998 only to citizens or legal permanent residents of the US or Canada.

To order this program on CD in:
the US., call 1-800-513-7043
Canada, call 1-800-426-2255 and ask for PSP product support for
complete details. (IBM will only ship to North American addresses.)

Feb 16, 1998 - Please note that beginning in March, VOICE general meetings on IRC will be held on the first and third Monday's of the month. So for March the meetings are scheduled for Monday March 2 at 8PM EST (01:00 GMT) and Monday March 16, 1998 at 8PM EST (01:00 GMT).




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