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I'm very proud to announce a new Online Community on the Web which is dedicated
to OS/2 Warp.
commTalk.de is starting on sunday, march 19. It features a wide range of discussion
forums with message boards, software libraries and chat rooms. You will find a big
OS/2 forum (with more than 600 MB of OS/2 related Software and documents) as well
as forums for Linux, Java, Palm Computing, Windows, Internet, but also Lifestyle
and Travel.
commTalk.de is a completely free service. And it may be of interest for you:
It runs in parts on OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business (rest of the presence is running
on Linux).
commTalk.de is based in Germany, but English messages and foreign members are
greatly welcome. The forums are designed for multi-language usage. This means, you
can define the language of the user interface of the database. To make it easy for
all of you, the default language is English.
I would be very happy to see you at:
Kind regards,
Carsten Mueller
http://www.warphouse.de
Ghostgum has released a new Ghostview Beta 2.81 for OS/2. Ghostview ist the PM-Frontend
for Ghostscript.
ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/ghostgum/beta/
After submitting a request on the Sun comment-form
http://www.sun.com/cgi-bin/comment-form.pl
for a new release of an OS/2 version of StarOffice 5.2 I received the following
mail (after a few days):
***
Dear Sun customer,
Thank you for your interest in StarOffice.
As part of the long-term planning for StarOffice, Sun has assessed platform demand,
momentum in the marketplace, the cost of porting to those platforms, as well as
the business case for adding or dropping platforms.
Based on this analysis, Sun will no longer release future versions of the StarOffice
Suite on OS/2. Version 5.1a will be the last version of StarOffice on OS/2. Sun
will provide a range of support and transition assistance to OS/2 customers. StarOffice
software will continue to be available on the Solaris operating environment, Linux
and Windows 2000/98/95/NT.
Sincerely,
Amanda Carter Sun Customer Service Specialist
***
I'd just like to let you know I released PMBitchX 1.0c16 release 2. I fixed a
couple show stopper bugs from release 1. And I am using my new installer, if you
are into IRC please try this out and let me know how the installer and the IRC client
works for you.
Thanks!
The PMBitchX home page is:
The new file is currently on Hobbes at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pmbx10c16.zip
and should eventually move to:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/irc/client/pmbx10c16.zip
The Aztech SC16-3D sound card with eprom uses the AD1816 chip but does not run
with the standard drivers provided by Aztech or Analog Devices.
I patched the driver to work with this card and uploaded it to Hobbes. The file
azsc163d.zip can currently be found here:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/azsc163d.zip
and will most likely be moved to:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os/system/drivers/sound/azsc163d.zip
Carrie R. Lust 1.17 out now!
Carrie R. Lust is a highly configurable free phone-cost and online time tracking
utility for OS/2 in the tradition of Richard Papo's "MemSize" systemresources
monitor.
v1.17 includes the following new stuff:
* Carrie R. Lust is now free software under the GPL.
* You may now give floating point numbers for the money per unit, which makes it
easier to configure for one second units e.g.
* Bugfix: Window was one pixel "to long".
* Bugfix: Window wasn't made the topmost one at startup.
Other features include:
* Fully user configurable display
* 11 different stats available
* User configurable, independent warnings for various events
* Ability to log all connections to disk
* Easy integration into existing login scripts
* Ability to remote control the program from outside
* User defineable telephone charges scheme
* Automatic detection what charges are to be applied for the current date
* Change color and font by simply drag'n'drop from the appropriate palettes
* Extensive online help
Carrie R. Lust is now free software under the Gnu Public License. You can find
out more about the program at:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/CIP/thielen/clust/
You can get your copy of the program on the above home page or from Hobbes. Carrie
R. Lust 1.17 is of course also available on the "Team Trier Collection"
CDROM for OS/2 (see http://www.teamos2.ipcon.de/en-cdrom.htm
for more info).
Platon's port of Squid 2.3 stable 2 has been released.
Squid is an enhanced caching proxy for OS/2 with many good features including
cache-digests, WCPP, HTCP, SNMP and delay pools. Squid has majestic acl features
and many other good things. _SN and _DP packages contain SNMP and Delay Pools binaries.
To use them you should download common Squid too.
Find it in the Stars section of Birdy.HPage:
SysInfo/2 project now has a home page;
http://www.os2.ru/projects/sysinfo/indexeng.shtml
in English and in Russian. These pages will be updated regulary.
Since the release of Win2000 there has been alot of discussion about how Win2000
will kill the BM for OS/2 every time you boot Win2000. In looking through the news
groups today I stumbled across this bit of news which should help everybody. The
following is the text of how to fix it.
Windows 2000 RC2 did not destroy Boot Manager the way the final release version
does. The problem has been traced to a single Win2000 file. The file is FASTFAT.SYS.
It lives in the WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS directory and the WINNT\SYSTEM32\DLLCACHE
directoy.
What you need to do is copy this file from a Win2000 RC2 (possibly earlier version
also - I don't know) install onto your Win2000 final version install above directories.
You need to copy it to DLLCACHE first. This is a hidden directory, so you need to
go to a command prompt and CD to it. Rename the original one first and then copy
the RC2 version there. You will get an error message box about a system file being
changed. Press CANCEL. Now copy the file into the DRIVERS directory. These directions
assume you are doing the coping under Win2000. I guess if you do it under OS/2 it
might be easier, I dunno. I did it under Win2000 because it's installed on a FAT32
partition so OS/2 can't see it.
Anyways, reboot with your OS/2 install disks and re-install the Boot Manager.
You can also add Win2000 to the Boot Manager. Now, when you boot Win2000, BM is
no longer destroyed.
Version 0.8.4 of DIA has been released for OS/2. Now it also runs in every color
depth.
DIA is a VISIO-like Diagram program. It has the normal simple vector drawing
tools (rectange, circle, text, pixel graphics...), specific Diagram things (connection
line etc) and a useful symbol list (a few for every thing).
The March issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now online at http://www.os2voice.org/.
The Newsletter is available as online HTML, downloadable HTML http://www.os2voice.org/files/vnl0300h.zipand
downloadable OS/2 INF format http://www.os2voice.org/files/vnl0300i.zip
In this month's issue you will find:
The Editor of VOICE speaks out: "Stealthy OS/2"
A Scanner that works in OS/2, The HP 6200 and 6250, SCSI version By: Beth Flunker
Papyrus Office 8.05 for OS/2, By: Thomas Gunzelmann
Junk Spy 1.0, Part 2, By: Wilson Rook
Ghostview 2.8/Ghostscript 6.0, By: Mark Dodel
View from the End (User): The black plague was common, but it sure wasn't popular.
By: Don K. Eitner
And of course letters, addendums, Tips and the compiled monthly OS/2 news!
The VOICE Editors would like to thank everyone who made the March VOICE Newsletter
possible.
If you need to find something in a back issue of the VOICE Newsletter, the Newsletter
Master Index and Search Function is now online. You can directly access this at:
http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/vnlindex.html
or from a link on the General Newsletter page:
http://www.os2voice.org/newsletters.html
For those who may be thinking about doing an article for the Newsletter, we have
added a page with Guidelines for Article Submissions to the VOICE Newsletter:
http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0300H/vnewsfs.htm
Henk Kelder has updated the WPTOOL to V. 3.2 and OS2FAT32 to V. 0.92. WPTOOL
is a collection of WPS tools and OS2FAT32 is a FAT32 driver for viewing Win9x formatted
hard drives under OS/2.
http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/
We have put online a step-by-step guide to help IPSec users configure the InJoy
IPSec for interoperability with selected Windows clients.
http://www.fx.dk/ipsec/comp.htm
The guide covers two products in detail:
- PGPNet 6.5.2a for Windows 95/98/NT/2000
- SafeNet/Soft-PK for Windows 95/98/NT
We have also tested for interoperability with the F-Secure client. E-mail possible
questions to:
Napster/2, an OS/2 native PM multithreaded Napster clone is now available.
Napster is an application used for sharing MP3 music files. It allows users to
see others who are online, to see what MP3 files they have on their hard drives
and to download any of those MP3 files.
Version 1.0 Alpha 1 available at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/napster_os2_10alpha1.zip
It should eventually reside at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/misc/napster_os2_10alpha1.zip
Enabled Features:
Server Dynamic or Fixed;
Register new user function available;
Search by Music/Artist name with filter options;
Retry when download interrupted;
Resume supported for direct download;
Library control to MP3 Files with list of Complete, Incomplete,
Downloading, Other and All files;
Private message;
ID3 Tag Editor;
Information when downloaded file is Unavailable or Download limits are exceded;
Together with Brian Simpson I have created a German version of the great astronomy
program, Night Vision 2.3. Check it out at the Night Vision home page:
http://home.att.net/~bsimpson/nvsn.html
Where do you get it?
You can download SciTech Display Doctor 7.0 for OS/2 BETA 22 from our ftp site
using the following URL:
ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.0-b22.exe
What's new:
. Added the latest IBM Natural Language Versions of their GRADD components to
the installer. This means that SDD/2 should now properly install and function correctly
on all versions of OS/2, including far east versions. Of course our installer is
still English only, but we plan to internationalise it further down the track.
. Added support for a number of laptop chipsets, including full flat panel support.
This includes
. All remaining changes are now tracked on the web. Public changes are tracked
at the following URL:
http://www.scitechsoft.com/sdd2_changes.txt
What is SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2?
SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 brings SciTech's proven DOS and Windows device
support technologies to the OS/2 Operating System. Although one of the core features
of our DOS and Windows products is the support for the VESA VBE/Core standard, the
OS/2 version has nothing at all to do with VESA services. Rather SciTech Display
Doctor for OS/2 incorporates the new SciTech Nucleus, Graphics Architecture device
driver technology to bring SciTech's device support to the OS/2 platform.
SciTech Nucleus is a binary portable, OS neutral, device driver architecture.
As binary portable drivers, SciTech can fully develop and test the core device drivers
in the DOS and Windows environments, while being able to target any Intel x86 based
OS as the runtime environment (such as OS/2). This essentially allows the OS/2 product
to utilise the same SciTech binary device drivers as the DOS and Windows versions
of the product, improving the quality and performance of the drivers for all supported
operating systems.
Runtime Requirements
SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 requires a version of OS/2 Warp 3 or OS/2 Warp
4 in order to run. More imporantly, it requires at least Warp 3 with fixpack 35,
or Warp 4 with fixpack 5 installed. If you have a version with earlier fixpacks
installed, SciTech Display Doctor will refuse to install.
List of all supported chips:
This is a complete list of the various graphics cards that this version of SciTech
Display Doctor supports. Please note that this list refers to the actual chips being
used, not a board-level implementation. Thus you will not see any products from
Hercules or STB on the list, but their products are supported because they use S3,
Cirrus, Tseng, etc. chips. Also, any card with less than 512KB of memory cannot
be supported by SciTech Display Doctor.
Note: Please check the separate list of supported laptop chipsets for more information
if you are using this product on a laptop. All laptop chipsets are still listed
here as many laptop chipset can also be used in regular PCI/AGP boards.
. 3DLabs Permedia, Permedia 2, Permedia 2V
. 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3
. ATI Mach64 GX, Mach64 CX, Mach64 CT, Mach64 VT, 3D Rage, Mach64 VTB
. ATI 3D Rage II, 3D Rage II+, Mach64 VT4, 3D Rage IIC, 3D Rage Pro
. ATI 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage Mobility, Rage XL, Rage 128, Rage 128 Pro
. Alliance ProMotion 6422, ProMotion AT24, ProMotion AT25
. Alliance ProMotion AT3D
. Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434, CL-GD5440, CL-GD5436, CL-GD5446
. Cirrus Logic CL-GD7555 LCD, Laguna 5462, Laguna 5464, Laguna 5465
. Cyrix Media GX, Media GXi, Media GXm
. InteGraphics CyberPro 2000, CyberPro 2010
. Intel i740, i740 PCI
. Macronix 86250, 86251
. Matrox MGA Millennium, MGA Millennium II, MGA Mystique
. Matrox MGA Mystique 220, MGA-G100, MGA-G200, MGA-G400
. NVIDIA RIVA-128, RIVA-128ZX, RIVA-TNT, RIVA-TNT2, RIVA-TNT2 M64
. NVIDIA RIVA-TNT2 Vanta, RIVA-TNT2 Ultra
. NeoMagic MagicGraph 128, MagicGraph 128V, MagicGraph 128ZV
. NeoMagic MagicGraph 128ZV+, MagicGraph 128XD, MagicGraph 256AV
. Number Nine Imagine 128, Imagine 128 II, Ticket 2 Ride
. Number Nine Ticket 2 Ride IV
. Philips 9710, 9712
. Rendition Verite V1000, Verite V2200
. S3 Vision 864, Vision 964, Vision 868, Vision 968, Trio32, Trio64
. S3 Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Trio64V2/DX, Virge, Virge/DX/GX, Virge/VX
. S3 Virge/GX2, Trio3D, Trio3D/2X, Savage3D, Savage4, Savage2000
. SiS 6202, 6205, 6215, 5597/5598, 6326, 5595/530, 5595/620, 300
. Sigma Designs RealMagic 64 GX
. Trident TGUI9440, TGUI9440-R2, TGUI9660, TGUI9680, ProVidia 9682
. Trident ProVidia 9685, 3DImage 975, 3DImage 985, Blade 3D
. Tseng Labs ET4000/W32p, ET6000, ET6100
. VESA VBE 1.2, VBE 2.0, VBE 3.0
List of all supported laptop chips:
The following is a complete list of the various laptop graphics chipsets that
we support in this version of SciTech Display Doctor. Please note that this list
refers to the actual chips being used, not the laptop brand or model itself. Thus
you will not see any products from Gateway or Dell on the list, but their products
are supported because they use NeoMagic, ATI, Cirrus etc. chips.
. ATI 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage Mobility
. Cirrus Logic CL-GD7555 LCD
. NeoMagic MagicGraph 128, MagicGraph 128V, MagicGraph 128ZV
. NeoMagic MagicGraph 128ZV+, MagicGraph 128XD, MagicGraph 256AV
. VESA VBE 1.2, VBE 2.0, VBE 3.0
Brian Hayes, a subscriber to ISP800 services, recently submitted this letter
to WarpCast offering a bit more info on the status of ISP800's toll free and local
Internet services: ----
Everyone knows the ISP800 service has been set back a bit by a complex set of
circumstances (I'm glad it's not me dealing with it) but there are 'real people'
behind it so they will no doubt survive. They are very willing to be helpful when
you can find them (they're a bit busy).
Subscribers can reach help at 1-877-247-9666.
In short; they hope to be up with additional local POPs this Fri. ; the 800 lines
(I don't know if they will be the same) will be reinstated on a metered basis (pay
per minute). The metered fees will be low. ----
ISP800's web site is: