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Blueprint Software Works, Inc. has released NetDrive for OS/2 Beta 2. NetDrive
is a new virtual file system. NetDrive allows users to mount an FTP site or a local
directory or a network resource to a virtual volume. NetDrive for OS/2 Beta 2 is
available from:
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/netdrive/ndfsb2.zip
Two years ago, I started a project to link Psion PDA's (and potentially any PDA)
to OS/2 through a serial link. I named it the PSI Project (PSI = PDA Serial Interface).
This project had a site at www.oprit.rug.nl; now that I have finished my studies,
the original site has been removed and I had to move to a new location. The new
site has been available for some months now at:
http://sibylarchive.hypermart.net/psi/
Hoping some of you will enjoy my software,
Erik Huelsmann
HCS Software
The 16 June 2000 issue of OS/2 eZine is now available.
In this issue:
Richard Klemmer talks with Bob St. John about eCommstation, and writes about
his time at WarpTech 2000
We take a look at the ORB removable drive
Tom Nadeau discusses what the recent Microsoft Antitrust ruling means to OS/2
users
and more!
Note: Due to some last minute hardware catastrophes combined with ongoing FixPak
13 problems, this issue has been published in a very raw state... expect typos and
grammatical errors to abound. These will be fixed within the next few days.
In a month there will be a successor for SecureDesktop available SecureOS/2:
This product does NOT use SES (=Security Enabling Services).
Please watch my home page:
http://home.t-online.de/home/Juergen.Dankoweit
regulary. On my site I will announce the product if it is available.
RxWav package is a freeware (open source) REXX library, with some REXX command
examples that add some useful function for editing of audio file with REXX procedure.
New: Mus2wav, simple synthetizer using RxWav
http://katobleto.dyndns.org/rxwav.html
The June 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/vnl0600h.zip
and downloadable OS/2 INF format http://www.os2voice.org/files/vnl0600i.zip.
In this month's issue you will find:
The Editor of VOICE speaks out: Breaking News - Changes at the VOICE Newsletter
TeXnical stuff for OS/2 - Creating PostScript and PDF documents with VTeX/2, By:
Stefan Schwarzer
How to Supercharge OS/2 Warp, By: Christian Hennecke
Better Hardware Means.... Worse Software?, By: Tom Nadeau
IBM Wireless LAN Kit, By: Mark Dodel
Report from WarpTech 2000, By: Richard R. Klemmer
View from the End (User): CD Grabbing For The Masses, 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 June 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/VNL0600H/vnewsfs.htm
Since the last official update on IPS is getting quite old I feel that I should
post this informative message to let old and new users outside the IPS mailing list
know what is going on.
The last IPS version have undergone major internal redesign to make IPS even
more powerfull and flexible. Almost all old complaints are now resolved and there
are no more sluggish performance or missing features.
The current code includes working SMTP and POP3 as well as updated FTP with Virtual
File System support.
So far the new code is only announced on the IPS mailing list as it is not documented
and users need to be on the list to know what to do to be able to make the new code
work.
But, I still need more testers. Please join the IPS mailing list to be updated
on the current versions.
The IPS mailing list can be found at:
http://www.egroups.com/list/ips-list
To sum this up, the current code includes most of the wanted features requested
for some time and IPS is back to the good old stability.
This is not a great role of IBM: Even the developers do not know which drivers
are SES-enabled and which not. This is really very sad!
(*) my own replacement of the WPDesktop-class: utilities like XWorkplace, XFolder,
ObjectDesktop will not run with SecureDesktop. I cannot considerate every WPDesktop-replacement
that will come up in future.
(*) SES-API has changed from Warp4 to Warp4.5 (This reminds to the WindowsAPI
of the week!)
Sorry for all who wanted to use SecureDesktop and thanks to all who tested this
for me. I repeat SecureDesktop is dead and I will not continue the development.
Many friends have been asking me how I did bootable CDs, so I've put up a quick
page containing a working OS/2 Warp 3 bootable CD image (command-line), along with
instructions on how to assemble and burn the CD.
The layout I devised can be used for both OS/2 Warp 3 and OS/2 Warp 4, as they
both use the exact same filenames. This particular boot image was built for my Toshiba
notebook (which can only boot CDs with 1.44MB images...)
The page is located at:
http://cobra.sharpnet.net/~slaughta/
The zipfile containing the boot image is also available there as well.
Later I'll add the other variations of this bootable CD (Warp 4 command line,
Warp 4 PM, both with and without network support).
Mati is a company that want to support "emerging" Operating Systems,
specially OS/2 Warp and Linux. Recently have signed contracts with Serenity Systems,
Sun Microsystems and other companies in order to bring Warp users (corporate or
home) solutions for their needs. Mati's Services includes Internet Service providing
and Internet (Intranet or Extranets) Solutions providers. The sales area is in need
for Mexican or non-Mexican people that want to help to develop this market taking
advantage of a fast growing need for economical solutions in the small, medium and
large business industry on Mexico.
If you are interested please contact Carlos de Luna at charly@mati.net.mx
and join our team of highly skilled personel.
A new version of the ICQ client, Licq 0.81, has been released. You can get it
from:
http://www.os2.spb.ru/software/internet/licq
Also you can subscribe for mail-list at:
http://www.egroups.com/group/licq-os2