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I have been waiting (along with possibly thousands of other OS/2 users) for a
Native OS/2 Desktop Publishing app.
I might have found one. (I say "might" because I haven't had time,
yet to "put it through its paces").
It's called Maul, and is a Frames-Based "Professional" Desktop Publishing
app. It's available for download from hobbes. It currently resides in the /pub/incoming/delayed
directory as the upload wasn't accompanied by the required text file describing
what it was.
The downloadable version is a 30 day trial version which is fully functional,
but prints "Maul - Unregistered" in the center of your printed copy. Should
you decide to register it, you can do so via BMT Micro for the reasonable (if it
does everything they say it does) fee of $149.00 (US).
Go to: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu and do a search for Maul. Filename is maul101.zip
and it extracts to 2 files. FILEID.DIZ and MAUL101.EXE, a self extracting installer
based on the system UNPACK utility.
If anyone grabs it and feels compelled to evaluate it, there is an open slot
in next months VOICE Newsletter for a Review.
Dan Casey
President, VOICE http://www.os2voice.org
http://members.iquest.net/~dcasey
Team SETI http://www.seti-inst.edu/
Warpstock 99 in Atlanta ... BE THERE!!!
To request my PGP Public Key, send e-mail with "Req PGP Key" as Subject
Line
The documentation and set up instructions have been translated into German and
is currently available at:
http://weismer.virtualave.net/DreckBak.html
as well as BMT MICRO, Hobbes, and other popular sites.
I'm currently working on a version that will support both German and English
speakers.
[WarpCast Moderator's note: DreckBak is a backup program that works with drive
letter devices.]
In IBM Software Choice there are some news:
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/asd-bin/doc/en_us/catalog.htm
Subject: updated Java developer tools
Data Representations has released Simplicity for Java 1.1.0:
http://www.datarepresentations.com/
NetBeans Developer 2.1.1 has been released (5/4/99):
InstallShield for Java version 2.51 has been released (5/4/99):
http://www.installshield.com/java/
See announcement on www.ibm.com/java or go direct to http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/downloads/java/
to find:
IBM OS/2 Warp Developer Kit, Java Edition, Version 1.1.8 - Preview Try out the
new performance enhancements in our 1.1.8 preview.
You can now preview IBM's soon-to-be-released version 1.1.8 of the high-performance
OS/2 Warp Developer Kit and Runtime Environment. Version 1.1.8 continues the stable,
high-performance, compatible line of Java platforms for OS/2. Independent testing
has demonstrated that IBM's Runtime Environments are the performance pacesetters
and now version 1.1.8 raises the bar again.
Chris Tomlin
IBM Java Technology Centre.
TurboVision C++ 2.0 for OS/2 is ready on
Official English WWW page is:
http://www.os2.ru/projects/tv2
Turbo Vision (or TV, for short) is a library that provides an application framework
for C++ programmers. With TV, you can write beautiful object-oriented character-mode
user interfaces in very a short time. TV is available in C++ and Pascal and is a
product of Borland International. It was developed to run on MS-DOS systems, but
today it is available for many other platforms (ported by independent programmers).
What you get with Turbo Vision:
Author of this project: Andy Hohutkin (Andy@vdonsk.ru)
Dear Friends,
the Notebook/2 Site at:
http://www.os2ss.com/users/drmartinus/notebook.htm
hasn't been updated for a longer period, because I was first moving back from
India to Germany after 12 years of work in India, and second because I faced unexpected
problems finding an ISP. the biggest problem is solved currently, however, I am
accessing the Internet through Win95 (needless to say that I don't like it at all)
right now, and can only hope that I will be able at some point of time to connect
to the Internet through OS/2 again. At least I can update the site again, but it
will take me some time, since I am still unpacking and sorting a lot of things.
So please accept my apologies for the delays, if you submitted already material
and are waiting for it to appear on the Notebook/2 Site.
Hello, my name is Glenn McDonald and I'm a contributing writer for PC World magazine.
We're preparing a package dedicated to Windows vs. alternate OSes and I would like
to get input from OS/2 users.
Why do you prefer OS/2? What, specifically, does it do better than Windows?
Why do you think OS/2 never caught on? Bad marketing by IBM? Too heavy competition
from MS and Windows?
Do you use OS/2 for business, home use, both?
Please respond to this post or e-mail me at my Hotmail account: pcwglenn@hotmail.com.
If you don't mind being quoted for the article, please include your full name, occupation,
and contact information (phone number or e-mail is fine -- we will only use this
info to confirm your quotes.)
Thanks in advance for your time and any help you can give me,
Glenn McDonald
PC World
Warp Expo West announced for September
"Warp Expo West - A Warpfest Of OS/2 Excitement" was announced today
by the Southern California OS/2 User Group (SCOUG).
"SCOUG has already sponsored two successful end-of-summer OS/2 events,"
said Terry Warren, President of SCOUG, "and we'll continue this tradition with
Warp Expo West this coming September. Accordingly, SCOUG has already formed a Warp
Expo West Committee to plan this year's great event."
The Warp Expo West Committee is headed by Rollin White, a founding member of
SCOUG and experienced OS/2 showman. White had a major involvement in the first Warpstock,
has led two prior SCOUG-sponsored OS/2 Show Committees, and is a member of the Warpstock
Steering Committee. "We've got a great, experienced team in place to produce
this West Coast show," said White, "and Warp Expo West will be a premiere
showcase for the Warp OS/2 Operating System."
The Warp Expo West team includes Steve Schiffman, an experienced show planner.
"I'm negotiating right now for some of the finest show facilities in Southern
California," said Schiffman. "We want every Warp Expo West guest to have
the ultimate OS/2 experience. Every aspect will be perfectly planned--lecture facilities,
vendor hall, software demonstrations, topical meeting rooms, food service, transportation
and parking facilities, even out-of-town guest accomodations."
Carla Hanzlik, Editor of the monthly publication OS/2 For You, is also one of
the Warp Expo West planners. "In the past we've done great exhibits like The
OS/2 Museum and diversions like The OS/2 Carnival Games, and this year we'll have
new surprises for the guests," said Hanzlik. (OS/2 For You is published by
SCOUG.)
"OS/2 is still riding a crest of excitement as the highest-technology desktop
operating system on the market today," continued Warren. "We welcome everyone
to join us again this year for our Warpfest Of OS/2 Excitement - Warp Expo West."
Sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User Group.
Boca Raton, FL - June 9, 1999 - CrossTec Corporation (www.Crosstec.Net) has
introduced NetOp School v1.5 incorporating a dramatic increase in speed, Windows
NT support and several new options designed to improve networked classroom training.
NetOp School v1.5 now includes full 32-bit compatibility and supports PC's running
Windows NT, Windows 95/98 and older 16-bit Windows 3.1x PC's. Besides a substantial
improvement in speed the new version incorporates a number of enhancements for networked
instruction, based on input from customers throughout the world. NetOp v1.5, which
works over current TCP/IP, NetBIOS and IPX networks, is considered the cost effective
alternative to expensive hardware solutions for PC based networked classrooms, libraries
and labs.
Designed for teachers and corporate trainers, NetOp School is a powerful combination
of six essential tools for interactive PC based classroom instruction. NetOp School,
developed by Danware Data A/S, enables teachers to broadcast their screen, or a
student's screen to all several or just one classroom PC. Teachers can also view
student screens as they work, remote control a computer for one-on-one instruction,
chat with one or several students without disrupting others or transfer files without
floppy disks.
Tests show that NetOp School v1.5 is up to 75% faster then the previous version.
"Applications such as Microsoft's Power Point and web browsers are such an
important part of today's classroom instruction," commented Turner Dean, NetOp
School Product Manager. "With NetOp School v1.5 teachers can now run graphics
intensive presentations and display slides on student screens quickly and smoothly
with virtually no delay."
NetOp enables the teacher to send a demo as full screen to students for a fully
controlled demo or choose to provide the demo in a window, enabling the students
to perform step-by-step instructions and interactive learning. By displaying an
application on classroom PC's, teachers reduce the need for expensive overhead projection
systems and are better able to keep a student focused on a lesson.
To better maintain a student's attention a teacher can lock out students from
being able to use their keyboard or mouse. The teacher can accomplish this during
a broadcast session or the teacher can use a new "Attention" button that
enables a teacher to send a text or graphic message to students while also locking
out their keyboard.
NetOp School for Windows' bi-directional communication allows a student to request
help from the instructor without interrupting the rest of the class or becoming
embarrassed. NetOp School v1.5 even allows a "Request Help" icon to be
placed on the Window system tray. This enables the student to request help from
the teacher even if the NetOp Student module is running in a "Stealth Mode"
where a student does not have access to the program.
NetOp School for Windows does not require server installation and produces very
low network activity. Only screen changes and keystrokes (when activated) are transmitted
across the network. NetOp also takes advantage of screen caching and data compression.
NetOp School is available in combined teacher/student packages or as extra stand-alone
modules for maximum flexibility. Classroom packages are available at prices starting
at $845.
NetOp School is based on the award winning technology of NetOp Remote Control
v6.0, which recently was named Computer Reseller News 'Editor's Choice'. NetOp
Remote Control v6, which was released in March, also won the "Best Buy"
distinction from Secure Computing magazine which called NetOp, "Ridiculously
easy to use" and gave the product its top rating of five stars. In March NetOp
won the "BEST SERVICE INNOVATION" Award at the Service Management Europe
99 exhibition, held at Birmingham, England.
NetOp products, along with personalized pre and post sale support, are available
in North America directly from CrossTec Corporation or authorized resellers. For
a free fully functional evaluation copy and additional information visit the CrossTec
Web site at http://www.CrossTec.Net call 800-675-0729
(561-391-6560) or e-mail info@4ctc.com.
For additional press information or a review copy contact:
Doug Taylor
Marketing Director, CrossTec Corporation
800-675-0729 or 407-956-1369
dougt@4ctc.com
CrossTec introduces NetOp School v1.5
Announcement
I'm proud to introduce a first "EarlyPreview"-Version of a new OS/2
product:
MusicBase/2 is a full-featured music database solution for OS/2 Warp to collect
and organize data of your compact disc or record collection.
MusicBase/2 "EarlyPreview" gives you a first look at this new software,
which is a one-of-a-kind in the OS/2's software world. In this version, not all
of the features are implemented yet, but you can see what the software is supposed
to be.
MusicBase/2 "EarlyPreview" is available with German user interface
only. Of course, the final version will also provide an English user interface.
On the MusicBase/2 Web Site you can also find a sample database file with more
than 500 entries. This sample databse is recommended if you want to see how MusicBase/2
works without the need to manually add new entries.
Visit the web site http://www.warphouse.de
for download MusicBase/2 (and sample database) and get more information about this
product.
You can download the new version of Assistant/2 at
http://software.freepage.de/assistant2
or
http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/assistant2
new in V1.1 :
Assistant/2 is a WPS extension which provides the following functions:
For a detailed description of Assistant/2 visit:
http://software.freepage.de/assistant2/assist.html
First let me say thank you to the OS/2 community. Over the past two years many
of my fellow OS/2 users (and developers) have given great assistance in maintaining
The OS/2 Alternative, my list of more than 1,200 native OS/2 applications linked
and categorized with similar Windows applications (http://www.tstonramp.com/~freiheit/os2apps.shtml).
All the help was appreciated and the work was enjoyable. In the past 9 months
alone, the main OS/2 Alternative page received 23,465 unique accesses, which I consider
quite impressive for a non-commercial site.
Now, due to decreased time to spend maintaining The OS/2 Alternative the way
I had been (by hand with no database) and also due to no CGI-BIN access on my ISP's
server, this extensive list of OS/2 applications is moving to a new location and
changing hands. The good people at os2.org have set up a database with search capabilities
to provide several long-anticipated new features. The project's new name is SoftWhere
and can be found at the following URL:
http://en.OS2.org/software/softwhere/
The original OS/2 Alternative pages will continue to operate for several weeks
while the SoftWhere site is updated with new features and more comprehensive categorization
of applications. However URL updates and compliments should begin going to www.os2.org.
The remainder of my own OS/2 web pages will remain where they are including the
Wealth of OS/2 Information Page, OS/2-Friendly Hardware Developers, and Interesting
Facts About OS/2. These can be accessed from:
http://www.tstonramp.com/~freiheit/os2.shtml
OS2.org (http://www.os2.org) today released the new OS/2 application database
called "OS/2 SoftWhere!?". The list is based on the database of "The
13h Floor" maintained by Don K. Eitner which will be discontinued in the future.
If you are looking for an OS/2 application this page should be the first stop!
Users can also submit their own applications to the list, support us in keep it
up to date! This is not a replacement for the well known Hobbes server, it is "just"
a nice frontend where you can search for OS/2 applications.
Actually you will just find the name of the application but we will update the
data and enhance it with a short description about the products soon.
Check it out at:
http://en.OS2.org/software/softwhere/
This mesage is here, becasue of many emails we've got regarding WarpCD-Copy project.
It's not dead. We're still working on it and hope to release new version in June.
Upcoming features:
Plugin specification and sample code will become available on our home page (http://www.asua.org.pl) after program release.
Symantec has updated the virus defininitions for IBM Antivirus to version av30dq
for more information and the download go to:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ibm/index.html
Symantec also offers a very attractive transfer price from IBM AV to Norton AV
5.0 for OS/2.
Fear not, the OS/2 eBay report is back! Last week's Memorial Day holiday threw
my schedules out of alignment. To keep this from happening again, I've decided to
publish this report only once a week, every Monday. Keep in mind that because of
the timing, some auctions will never appear on a report, or will close before the
report is published. The purpose of this report is more to increase awareness of
OS/2 items for sale on eBay and comp.os.os2.marketplace, rather than be a single
source of the OS/2 marketplace.
As always, there are copies of OS/2 2.x, Warp 3, Warp 4, and Lotus applications
available for sale. A suggestion: if you're trying to sell a copy of OS/2 2.x, the
most you'll get is about $2.
Of note this week: BlueCAD for OS/2, an excellent CAD package. ColorWorks V2.
Warp Server 4. DeScribe 4.0. Object Desktop (1.0 I assume). A CD of OS/2 shareware
apps called "OS/2 Fever", which amusingly includes a sticker which says,
"Microsoft Windows Compatible". An old version of DB2/2.
There are also quite a few books available: OS/2 LAN Server Certification Handbook,
OS/2 Certification Handbook, Illustrated OS/2, Official Guide to Using OS/2 Warp,
Teach Yourself OS/2 Warp, OS/2 Warp Unleashed, Your OS/2 Warp Consultant, Using
OS/2 Warp: The User-Friendly Reference, the OS/2 Warp Professional Reference, OS/2
Warp for Dummies, and Dvorak's Guide to OS/2 2.1.
For programmers, we have the book OS/2 2.1 WPS Programming, Borland C++ 1.5 manuals
(no software), the book OS/2 Assembly Language, and Microfocus COBOL.
There's a promotional posted for OS/2 Professional Magazine with the image of
Locutus of Borg aiming his laser. There's also Novell Netware 3.12 for Mac, DOS,
Windows, and OS/2.
On comp.os.os2.marketplace, there is a copy of Warp 4, Warp 3, OS/2 2.0, the
book "Client Server Programming with OS/2", a bundle of OS/2 + some software
(OD, Impos/2, P>G), and a bunch of other stuff.
Those of you looking to sell your OS/2 related stuff, I strongly recommend you
put it on eBay and post an announcement on comp.os.os2.marketplace. If you include
the word "OS/2" in the title of your description, I'll see it and include
it in the next report.
If you're looking for OS/2 items on eBay, you should make two searches, one with
the search term "OS/2" and another with the term "OS2".
Dialog Enhancer '99 Released
The Dialog Enhancer coding team is proud to announce the release of Dialog Enhancer
'99 - The latest generation of the successful desktop update. Dialog Enhancer provides
a simple but highly effective update to your desktop and 3rd party applications
by neatly re-sizing dialogs, adding new icons, and changing the font used to WarpSans.
Features available in this new exciting release are :
Dialog Enhancer does NOT make use of desktop hooks or background processes to
modify the system at runtime, instead, it makes perfectly safe resource modifications
to files that it recognises. The result is indifferent CPU overhead, increased RAM
due to removal of redundant resources, and identical system stability.
To check out the vast improvements Dialog Enhancer '99 can make, and read up
on it in full, visit:
http://www-student.lboro.ac.uk/~mcrsc/ostrans.html
Dialog Enhancer '99 is Shareware. Previous Dialog Enhancer users remain fully
registered in Dialog Enhancer '99. Foreign language dialog packs due shortly.
FINALLY!!! GUI INTERFACE IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR ThermoProtect!!! (Thanks to Dmitry
I. Platonoff for his SysBar/2 :) )
The new ThermoProtect V1.25 is available on ThermoProtect Homepage at:
http://www.pcenduser.com/ThermoProtect
Please do not upload this file to Hobbes just yet, I'll need to sort some stuff
up before it should be uploaded to Hobbes or other FTP sites.
Thanks...
Freeware now and forever! :)
New Version Highlights :
First almost-GUI version!!! Yippee!!!
*Now Named Pipe works PERFECTLY!!! A copy of pre-configured SysBar/2's Pipe Monitor
is bundled with ThermoProtect, it will give ThermoProtect an ELEGENT GUI interface,
for only about 100 lines of code on my part. :) The Named Pipe will work with your
own program as well, see doc for detail. Millions of Thanks to Dmitry I. Platonoff,
the author of SysBar/2 for creating SysBar/2 AND for allowing me to bundle a copy
of Pipe Monitor with ThermoProtect.
*Now Winbond W83782D's Stand By Voltage monitoring is supported. If I missed
some monitoring feature of all those chips that I supported, please remind me. :)
!Remember that W83782D users often sees WEIRD voltage in place of their -12V
and -5V? Well, guess what? Winbond decided to get cute on us, and changed the way
that the value is calculated... Now ThermoProtect will automatically detect which
formula should be used.
!Sometimes the "*" mark indicating ThermoAlarm will sorta double, this
has been fixed.
@Modification to see if code change are required to use W83782D to read PII/Cleron/PIII's
on die thermal diode. The result? I was surprised as well... NO EFFECT... Weird,
hum? :)
The Register has some very extensive ramblings on what is going on now that the
DOJ is using the way Microsoft attacked IBM because of OS/2. This very long page
pulls information from the recent deposition of Gary Norris including documents
Micros~1 brought into the case:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/990604-000029.html
There are also 3 or 4 other snippets you can get from "The Registers"
homepage but this on seems to be a summary of those. Next week may explain tons
to us existing OS/2 fans and users....