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CW-MM Classes 0.22
Chris Wohlgemuth has relased the CW Multimedia Classes 0.22
These classes are for extending the MM subsystem of OS/2. They integrate
the MMIO procedures for MP3 and OGG files written by Russel O'Connor http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/ seamlessly into the WPS. A new
media folder plays any audio class known to OS/2. CD player with FreeDB
support.
This package contains updated versions of the CWAudio classes (now at
0.2.2) so you need only this distribution.
New with V0.2.2:
* CD player with FreeDB support.
* Some minor fixes.
And (something Chris Wohlgemuth forgot to tell everybody ;-) the
WPS-Crashes introduced by the Audioeditor and the Memoryleaks have also
been fixed.
http://www.os2world.com/cdwriting/
updated IBM printer drivers (PrintPak 21)
IBM's Web pages will probably be fixed by the time this gets posted, but
just in case they aren't here are correct direct URLs for the updated
drivers:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/printerpak/en/omnien.exe
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/printerpak/en/laserjeten.exe
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/printerpak/en/pscripten.exe
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/printerpak/en/plottersen.exe
For other NLS versions, replace both occurrances of "en" in each URL with
the appropriate two-letter NLS code. For example, the Brazilian version of
the omni driver would end in .../br/omnibr.exe.
I have not been able to find these by FTP.
I have not been able to find these by FTP.
Phil Parker
Lynx 2.8.5 dev.8 with SSL and NLS support
Lynx 2-8-5 web browser with SSL and NLS support, now packaged as a self
installing exe file.
Program URL: http://lynx.browser.org
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/lynx2-8-5-dev8-os2.exe
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=lynx2-8-5-dev8-os2.exe
Updated IBM Laserjet Printer driver
IBM has updated the Laserjet printer driver to V. 30.765
PRINTER DEVICES ADDED SINCE Ver 30.759
------------------------------------------
Brother HL-1850
Brother HL-1870N
HP Business Inkjet 2230/2280
HP Business Inkjet 2600
HP C Laserjet 4600
Kyocera FS-8000C
Kyocera Mita FS-9100/9500DN
Kyocera Mita KM-3530
http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/WebCat?OpenView&Start=1&Count=300&Expand=36#36
Updated IBM Postscript Printer driver
IBM has updated the postscript driver to version 30.765
PRINTER DEVICES ADDED SINCE Ver 30.759
------------------------------------------
Brother HL-1850/70N
HP Business Inkjet 2280
HP Business Inkjet 2600
HP Color Laserjet 4600
Kyocera Mita KM-3530
Minolta-QMS Magicolor 2210
Minolta-QMS Magicolor 3100
Minolta-QMS Magicolor 6110
OKI C7200
OKI C7400
OKI C9200
OKI C9400
OKI OKIPAGE 8c
OKI OKIPAGE 8c Plus
OKIPAGE 14i
Xerox Phaser 6200B
Xerox Phaser 6200DP
Xerox Phaser 6200DX
Xerox Phaser 6200N
Xerox Phaser 8200B
Xerox Phaser 8200DP
Xerox Phaser 8200DX
Xerox Phaser 8200N
PRINTER DEVICES UPDATED SINCE Ver 30.759
--------------------------------------------
Kyocera Mita FS-9100DN, PPD updated
Kyocera Mita FS-9500DN, PPD updated
Minolta-QMS Magicolor 2200, PPD updated
http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/WebCat?OpenView&Start=1&Count=300&Expand=36#36
Updated IBM Omni Printerdriver
IBM has updated the Omni Printerdriver to V.30.765
PRINTER DEVICES ADDED SINCE Ver 30.759
------------------------------------------
Canon S100
Canon S300
Canon S500
Canon S630
Canon S6300
HP DeskJet 920C
HP DeskJet 930C
HP DeskJet 935C
HP DeskJet 940C
HP DeskJet 950C
HP DeskJet 960C
HP DeskJet 980C
HP DeskJet 995C
6.0 PRINTER DEVICES UPDATED SINCE Ver 30.759
--------------------------------------------
Canon S400, added 720dpi support
Canon S450, added 720dpi support
Canon S4500, added 720dpi support
http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/WebCat?OpenView&Start=1&Count=300&Expand=36#36
OS/2.cz Newsletter delayed
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full of the news about OS/2 and ECS, we have some problems with sending
the news. We are sorry for this and we are working hard to solve the
problem. You can still subscribe to our OS/2.cz Newsletter on our site.
Thanks.
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Xitami/2 Webserver Version 2.5b5-patch 2
This are the OS/2 executables of Xitami v2.25 beta 5 patch 2 which
corrects a bug in the CGI SERVER_PORT environment variable. Xitami is a
"small, fast, and powerful multiplatform Open Source web server."
Program URL: http://www.xitami.com
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/bos225b5p2.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=bos225b5p2.zip
Your primary DBMS in OS/2
OS2.Ru has started new survey "Your primary DBMS for OS/2". We'll hope
that this survey will help OS/2 developers in question of DBMS supporting.
Url: http://os2.ru/voice/survey.phtml.en?pollid=15
From: Konstantin Okounkov ok@os2.ru
BT32.SYS, BT8X8 driver for TV-Cards
New version of BT32.SYS available.
BT32.SYS is a port of the Linux bttv driver which supports Radio, TV and
VideoText with BT848/BT878 based tv-cards. Radio is working already. I'm
now working on TV support. TV Capture to clipboard is working.
Program URL: http://www.nord-com.net/s.milcke/bttv_en.htm
Free generic preprocessor (html/rexx/ipf/inf/ipfc)
Generic preprocessor with specific support for HTML and rexx. Includes
external files and supplies usual #define, #include, #if, #ifdef etc as
well as many others such as #import to import data from databases. Can
import SQL. Text to HTML. Its syntax is very simple yet the tool is very
powerful. It is extendable using rexx, for example "#if GetEnv("FRED") ==
substr(Var, 2)". Macros support parameters and conditional logic. Create
FTP like pages from dir trees (or WPS URL objects), validate generated
HTML or rexx, automatically create thumbnails, photo albums. Spell check.
HTML example inclusion from file with automatic tagging. As this tool is
basically a "Super SSI" there is a "SSI" add-available which simplifies
migration to PPWIZARD. "OL_DOC.DH" header for creation of IPF/HTML from
common source. Looks to be handy as a XML, XSL and DTD preprocessor. Also
runs in Windows, DOS, Unix and Mac OS X.
Program URL: http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~dbareis/ppwizard.htm
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ppwizard.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ppwizard.zip
Correction: URL for new CDRWiz
New version of CDR/RW Wizard Creator, first Release Candidate.
Some bugs fixed!
URL: http://www.quasarbbs.net/rocco/
According to the link on that page, the URL is
http://www.quasarbbs.net/rocco/cdrwiz2.wpi
In fact, the correct URL is
http://www.quasarbbs.net/rocco/cdrwiz.wpi
Phil Parker
The Netwide Assembler v0.98.33 (binares only)
"NASM is the Netwide Assembler, a free portable assembler for the Intel
80x86 microprocessor series, which uses the traditional Intel instruction
mnemonics and syntax. "
Program URL: http://nasm.2y.net
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/nasm-0.98.33-emx.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=nasm-0.98.33-emx.zip
URLCopy for OS/2 v.1.1
Create URL objects to favorite Web Addresses from any text
English:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/urlcpye.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=urlcpye.zip
German:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/urlcpyd.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=urlcpyd.zip
DFSee 4.24 released, minor updates
DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. With
FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery, FIX commands, UNDELETE for
HPFS/NTFS and imaging and cloning. Details at:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm
Direct download links:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee424.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/dfsee424.zip or
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee424.zip
Most important changes:
- PL Auto display of LVM/JFS fake EBR sectors
- CLONE no size-warning if no parameters given, just usage
- CR '-d' or '-d:0' will use current disk (after VMA -o)
- VMA '-o' option, making it the current disk (for CR -d)
Check DFS*.TXT files for details
Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 4.xx versions and get
support plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email.
But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee!
Regards, Jan van Wijk
Announcement of the worldwide eCS IRC network
First of all I want to give a BIG thanks and a round of applause to
Massimo Sangriso from Italy who came up with the idea to build up the IRC
network for eCS. He has invested much time in building the network. The
network has been put up so eCS/OS/2 users can have a chat. Maybe drop a
question if they can't solve a problem. Or developers who want to talk
about a problem and want to try and get a fast answer.....
In the last couple of months there has been worked hard on the eComStation
IRC network. There are currently 14 IRC servers in the network active.
The network will continue to be expanded.
ITALY
irc.quasarbbs.net port 6667 (International Hub)
irc.ecomstation.it 6667
irc.itisvinci.com port 6667
irc.dinosoft.it 6667
SWITZERLAND
irc.aroa.ch port 6667
NETHERLANDS
irc.ecomstation.nl 6667
U.S.A.
irc.dacdigital.com 6667
irc.gamezero.com 6667
www.ecomstation.com 6667
RUSSIA
irc.rnlease.snc.ru 6667
irc.ecomstation.ru 6667
AUSTRALIA
irc.ecs-site.com 6667
BELGIUM
irc.celkunststoffen.khlim.be 6667
CANADA
irc.ecomstation.ca 6667
You can get an IRC client from hobbes http://hobbes.nmsu.edu. My personal
favorite (maybe not the best around), is EZIRC. Which has some easy
features. This and other clients can be found at Judy's Warped World IRC
page:
http://www.gt-online.com/~bri/irc_clients.html
If you don't want to dive into an IRC client goto http://www.ecomstation.com/ and
click on "support/FAQ for eCS". Choose for "Live eCS Chat" and click on
"open chat window". Choose your nickname and connect.
The direct URL is:
http://www.ecomstation.com/support-faq_view.phtml?url=content/ecs_community_chat.html
Please note if your browser crashes it could be that you are running a
wrong version of Java (1.1.8 or 1.3 should work) or something is wrong
with the configuration. The Java applet has been succesfully tested with
Netscape 4.61 for OS/2, Opera for OS/2, Warpzilla for OS/2 and the IBM
Browser for OS/2. If you don't have an OS/2 box handy and you want to
connect, it also has been tested with Netscape 6.2 and Internet Explorer
5.5 under Windows 2000.
You can however via the webinterface only connect to the default eCS
channel. If you want to reach other channels on the network, download an
IRC client and connect to one of the servers directly.
For the OS/2 advocates who would like to know. All servers in the network
so far are OS/2 /eCS machines. Possibly some Linux boxes will join in the
future.... But our intention is to keep it mainly running on OS/2 of
course...
Enjoy
Roderick Klein
Mensys
NewView: Replacement OS/2 help viewer
Rewrite of OS/2 View.exe, reads INF and HLP files. Improvements include a
new UI, remember size/position, select and copy from the window... etc
Recent changes: printing, improved layout
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/newview1.37.7.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=newview1.37.7.zip
RealPlayer works again with newest daily Odin build!
After three long months, where the new Odin builds were incompatible with
Real Player 8, the problem is now fixed:
ftp://ftp.os2.org/odin/daily/odin32bin-20020526-release.zip (there's no
debug build of this version).
CDR/RW Wizard beta 7 RC1
New version of CDR/RW Wizard Creator, first Release Candidate.
Some bugs fixed!
http://www.quasarbbs.net/rocco/
MR2PGP 1.1 released.
These scripts install into mr/2 ice (version 2.19 and 2.31a tested) as
inbound and outbound filters and provide for the automatic encryption and
decryption of email using pgp (version 5.0 tested)
This is a bug fix release - Public key encryption was handled improperly.
MR2PGP now supports encryption by any public key on your keyring.
If you're upgrading from MR2PGP 1.0;
** READ THE DOCS ** - the encrypt procedure has been changed.
http://www.catherders.com/w3f/mwc-enterprises/mr2pgp11.zip
Mike-
Mike120.INF, version 1.2
Michal Pohorelsky has released Mike120.INF
Mike120.INF is a hypertext file in the natural INF format, comprising 120
complete articles in the Czech language. All of these were published in
several Czech specialized magazines.
http://www.os2ecs.net/
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=mike120.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/mike120.zip
WOL - Power on your ATX PC
With wol you can 'wake up' your pc simply by sending a 'magic packet' over
the network. For this I have ported wol.c written by R. Edwards to NetWare
and Win32; changed parameter parsing, added file input, so that you can
wake up a group of machines from cron; added switch for delay between
sending packets; added switch for broadcast address to make directed
broadcasts. The NetWare NLM is tested with NW 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, the
Win32 EXE with W9x, NT, W2K. The source is available as contribution part
of the Etherboot package. It runs also on nearly all Unix flavours. The
archive wol_gcc.zip contains a NLM and a Win32 command line version, the
NLM is compiled with GCC on Linux, the Win32 version with Mingw32-GCC and
uses Winsock2. The archive wol_mcw.zip also contains a NLM and a Win32
command line version which are both compiled with Metrowerks CodeWarrior.
With version 1.06 now the delay parameter has changed to milliseconds.
new! With version 1.10 added new broadcast parameter to make directed
broadcasts to subnets. new!
Now also an OS/2 version available!
Program URL: http://www.gknw.de/wol.html
Direct download: http://www.gknw.de/cgi_bin/downlcnt.pl?wol_os2.zip
LanScan is a tool for the network administrator.
It allows to get the "instant list" for the all working devices of TCP/IP
network which have an "legitimate IP address".
Latest changes:
It's possible to write the scanning results into HTML file.
Program URL: http://ru.ecomstation.ru/lanscan/
http://ru.ecomstation.ru/lanscan/LS23-Bin.zip
MMIOMP3 Codec 0.4 released
Russell O'Connor has released an updated MMIOMP3 Codec 0.4. MMIOMP3 is
an MMIOProc for OS/2 that allows OS/2's multimedia system to play MP3
files. After installation, MP3s and Ogg Vorbii can be played in any OS/2
player.
* Files can play by double-clicking on the file’s icon.
* Files can play in any Rexx program by using Multimedia calls.
* Files can be played with the Rexx program PLAY.CMD.
* Files can be streamed over the Internet.
* Changes from 0.3.1 to 0.4 (2002-05-27)
o Correct time for variable bit rate files that are not remote.
o Seeking improved for files that are not remote.
o Broke context menu convert. That convert routine never worked
all that well.
http://math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/MMIOMP3/
JMDB (Java Movie Database)1.00 Beta #1
English Version:
============
After one and a half after the previous release, we released on 2002-05-27
the latest JMDB version!
The Java Movie Database (JMDB) is a Java program which stores the Data
from the IMDB Text files (Internet Movie Database) in several MySQL
Tables. After you have imported the data, you can search for actors,
movies, producers and actors. About the movies and people some details are
shown. For more details look at the JMDB-Homepage!
There are a lot of changes since the last release (here are some of them):
-JRE crash: more debug infos in the logfile
-new search method WordSearch implemented, so the program searches only
for the words and not the exact string entered
-expert result window re-implemented
-"Edit"-menu removed
-fixed a bug in placing a result window when "SameWindow" option was
enabled
-all windows have close buttons again
-when the text field in the search window gets the focus again, the whole
text is selected
-when "same window" option in search window is checked, the last result
window is closed before starting the actual search
-search window bugfix: when "start"-button was default button and the user
pressed enter in the text field, the search was startet two times.
-new option "search again" in File menu activates the last search window
that was used
-F1 opens help, F3 opens the last search window, F7 creates new search
window
-ALT-S in main window is "search window" again (was assigned to the wrong
button)
-Setup - FileChooser-dialog added for selecting a directory and files
-codepage problem with german umlauts solved
-connection check at every search - the status bar is updated when JMDB
looses server connection
-added latest MM.MYSQL database driver (V2.0.12)
-checked latest OS/2 release of Java 1.3.1 (IBM build co131-20020405)
-updated OS/2 installation script (instos2.cmd) to find both Java 1.3 and
Java 1.3.1 versions
One note:
We still have sometimes JVM crases while importing the files, so we would
like to hear some feedback from the users so we can finally find and fix
it.
You should use for the first couple of times the Debug Version
(JMDB-JavaDebug - startos2debug.cmd), because the console is visable, so
you can see what's happening.
You should also disable "close window on exit" in the Icon properties.
If the JVM crashes while converting you can see it at the console.
You may wonder what's going on, if nothing happens.
PMFORMAT.EXE replacement
PMFORMAT.EXE replacement, PM program to format volumes with options
Program URL: http://acsoft.yi.org
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pmformat.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pmformat.zip
Intel P6 / AMD K7 MTRRs management IOCtl PDD, ver.0.08
P6K7MTRR.sys is a simple interface physical device driver (PDD) that can
manage Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) of Intel P6 / AMD K7 series
processors. A sample executable, VFBWC.exe, sets MTRR write-combining
strategy to video frame buffer aperture. It can often improve graphic
performance, especially DIVE.
Program URL: http://www.sys3175.com/~jjsuwa/
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/p6k7mtrr_v008.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=p6k7mtrr_v008.zip
New software releases (sort of)
I have several mostly completed programming projects that simply won't be
released this year due to scheduling and health problems, so I'm going to
do something unusual. Now available on Mikes Notebook are some short
descriptions of projects, along with links to the source code. If you want
to hack around with them, they're yours.
I'll answer questions on a 'time available' basis via email. With the
exception of W3F, these projects aren't particularly complex - I would
classify them as 'quick hacks'. I'm releasing them because I suspect they
could be useful to others.
1) The W3F HTML/PHP/MySQL file archive system. I had originally planned to
release this project as open source freeware when I completed it, but when
I posted a message in the php newsgroup, no one was interested. There's
one major function (area delete) unwritten, and a few messed up links in
the menu structure, but it works pretty well. (You can see it on
catherders). It's not documented.
2)Thumbkin - The image catalog thumbnailer. This is mainly a rexx front
end for "Montage", available from hobbes. If you take a look at the photo
galleries on catherders, you'll see what it does. This needs to be
documented, and it could probably stand to have a user interface...
3) Treesync is a high-speed directory tree synchronizer. I originally
wrote it because I move my project files (80K+ files) from my laptop to my
desktop and back again on a weekly basis. Prerequisites to using it are:
Access to a MySQL server, RexxSQL, and RexxBos. This needs to be
documented, and it should be more extensively tested than I have given it
to date.
Mikes Notebook is located at http://www.catherders.com/mwcexp.shtml
Mike-
Worldclock 1.3.0
Goran Ivankovics has released Worldclock 1.3.0
http://www.os2world.com/goran/wclock.htm
World Clock is a highly configurable clock for OS/2.
Features:
* Display time, date, UTC difference and TZ descriptor for 1 to 30
cities from a provided list of more than 2000 cities
* Fully qualified TZ (Time Zone) environment variable and coordinates
(latitude and longitude) for all cities
* Calculate and set TZ environment variable for CONFIG.SYS, using
properties for selected city
* Additional information for each selected city: coordinates (latitude
and longitude), DST start/end, Sunrise/sunset, ...
* Various date and time display formats (ISO 8601 and
country-specific)
* Arrangement of selected cities in rows and columns, normal or
compact display, 'Stay on top' option
* Alternate views of selected cities: Standard, Banner, List,
Minimized and Title view
* Selectable position, size, font and fontsize
* Bubble help
* Events
* Sound schemes
* Universal date &. time (UDT), Coordinated Universal Time (UTC),
Internet time ("Swatch beat" @), Julian date (JD) in title bar
* World time (Standard time in all Time zones) with World map
* Calculate distance between two selected locations on the World map
* Configurable Calendar for current month/year with holidays and notes
for selected date and time
* Moon phases for select month and year between 1923 and 2084
* Stopwatch
* Add new cities (e.g your own if not in the list), or change city
properties
Support for other languages (Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Slovenian
and Swedish) is available in wclock130lng.zip
World Clock is free software but it is not public domain.
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