Have a question about or problem with regard to disk partitioning? Felix
Miata has pulled together an excellent FAQ on the subject at:
http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html
Top
25 Jun 2004 13:45:52 -0500
From: Jason Stefanovich
I'm looking for a co-proponent for the comp.os.os2.ecomstation RFD. An
ideal candidate would have sufficient time to be able to check and respond
to comments on news.groups every other day for the next 30 or so days, be
familiar with (and supportive of) the current proposal, and be able to
assist me in drafting changes to the RFD and completing the Proponent
Questionaire. A Candidate need not be intimately familiar with the groups
creation process, as long as he is willing to "brush up" on the subject (I
will provide research links upon request).
Please send all responses to (remove the DESPAM
from the email address before sending).
-Jason Stefanovich
Top
24 Jun 2004 21:46:40 -0500
Forwarded message from Michal Necasek on Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:00:51 UTC
Posted on: comp.os.os2.programmer.misc
I have put together a collection of OS/2 related press releases from
Microsoft (1987-1991 timeframe):
http://pages.prodigy.net/michaln/history/pr/
They made OS/2 sound really great!
Michal
---END FORWARDED MESSAGE---
Top
23 Jun 2004 21:01:00 -0500
From: claDESPAM@clanganke.de
The first public release of the Wireless LAN Monitor is available. This
program is available both as a XCenter Widget as well as a standalone
program and is the successor of the older WifiState application of Jens
Glathe (being part of some Wireless LAN driver packages) as well as the
experimental XCenter Widget of Markus Montkowski of Warpstock Europe 2002.
This program program provides the following features:
- monitoring the status of your Wireless LAN connection
- support of multipe connection profiles, which can be exported and
imported
- optionally configuring the TCP/IP interface of the Wireless LAN device
- automatic connection scan on startup
- automatic generation of WEP keys
The program is available both as a XCenter Widget as well as a standalone
program. Currently connection profiles read and stored with the Wireless
LAN Monitor with few exceptions are downwards compatible to those of the
older application WifiState.
See the homepage and the docs included in the package for a complete
feature list.
Url: http://wlan.netlabs.org
From: Christian Langanke (claDESPAM@clanganke.de)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
Top
23 Jun 2004 11:07:30 -0500
From: Jason Stefanovich
VFATMon monitors drives and converts VFAT long file names to EAs using
Doodle's VFAT2EA.
New in this version
* Allowed monitoring of A: and B:. Because VFATMon was designed with
flash disks and other external removable media in mind, floppy drives were
overlooked.
* Fixed bug where only last listed drive was being read
* Fixed bug where window would pop up again after being manually
minimized
* Moved drives input code from timer function to start button function
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=vfatmon
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/vfatmon12.zip
Cheers,
Jason Stefanovich
Top
23 Jun 2004 08:06:35 -0500
From: Jason Stefanovich
Announcement of a request for discussion on a new unmoderated newsgroup.
Official discussion will take place on "news.groups".
REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
unmoderated group comp.os.os2.ecomstation
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of a
world-wide unmoderated Usenet newsgroup comp.os.os2.ecomstation. This is
not a Call for Votes (CFV); you cannot vote at this time. Procedural
details are below.
Newsgroup line: comp.os.os2.ecomstation Discussion of the Serenity
Systems operating system eComStation.
RATIONALE: comp.os.os2.ecomstation
The newsgroup 'comp.os.os2.ecomstation' would be a forum for discussing
issues related to the use of the eComStation operating system, a licensed
version of IBM's OS/2 from Serenity Systems Intl.
Currently, the comp.os.os2.* newsgroups are used as a resource for asking
and answering questions regarding all OS/2 versions, including
eComStation. OS/2 is the major operating system upon which eComstation is
based, however eComStation has gained sufficient interest to support its
own newsgroup.
In addition, the general audience for questions regarding eComStation and
Serenity Systems differ from the audience interested in general IBM OS/2
questions. Therefore, it seems appropriate for eComStation to gain its
own newsgroup for eComStation-specific questions.
Appropriate discussion in the group will involve eComStation and other
eComStation-related products (including Serenity Virtual Station.) Some
examples of topics that should be posted to comp.os.os2.ecomstation:
- General questions regarding the installation and operation of
eComStation
- Questions regarding eComStation specific programming
- Discussion of eComStation related technologies
- Questions regarding application software and hardware support
- eComstation user advocacy and debate
While several unmoderated online fora dedicated to eComStation do exist
and have a large amount of traffic, experience shows that the lack of a
unified forum hampers the development of a decent discussion.
The only other unmoderated newsgroups that offers some room for such
discussions today are in comp.os.os2.*. However, eComStation differs
significantly enough from the base OS/2 that discussions regarding it may
not be relivant at all to the general OS/2 user. Discussions involving
eComStaion have comprised a significant portion of the traffic in the
comp.os.os2 hierarchy to the point where it may be distracting for the
eComStation user and general OS/2 user alike.
The separation of eComStation issues from general comp.os.os2.* topics
will hence avoid user confusion and avoid disagreement on the general
relevance of eComStation in relation to OS/2 which was felt to be
unsatisfactory by all parties.
CHARTER: comp.os.os2.ecomstation
comp.os.os2.ecomstation is an unmoderated newsgroup for discussion of the
eComStation operating system and related technologies.
Posting guidelines:
1) Posts must be related to the discussion of eComStation, which includes
all the modern aspects of operating eComStation as well as related topics,
but excludes general OS/2 topics, unless a direct relevance to eComstation
can be made explicit. Original and interesting criticism of eComStation is
welcome.
2) Posts should not be made if they contain personal attacks, incitement
to retribution (i.e. flames and obvious trolling), or general hostility.
Clearly inappropriate postings include:
(1) Personal attacks;
(2) Discussion that isn't about or related to eComStation
(3) Multiple messages that all say the same or very similar things;
and
(4) Overly speculative postings and postings that are "not even
wrong."
3) Posts may include links to websites or personal pages that contain
relevant and on-topic information about eComStation.
4) Posting of binary files is prohibited. Short segments of source code or
quotes from papers may be posted; however, large projects and complete
papers should be archived elsewhere, and a link to the download site
included in the post.
END CHARTER.
PROCEDURE:
This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this phase of
the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroups should be
raised and resolved. The discussion period will continue for a minimum of
21 days (starting from when the first RFD for this proposal is posted to
news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For Votes (CFV) may be posted
by a neutral vote taker if the discussion warrants it. Please do not
attempt to vote until this happens.
All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.
This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup creation
guidelines outlined in "How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup" and "How to
Format and Submit a New Group Proposal". Please refer to these documents
(available in news.announce.newgroups) if you have any questions about the
process.
DISTRIBUTION:
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
comp.os.os2.misc
comp.os.os2.advocacy
comp.os.os2.announce
Proponent: Jason Stefanovich
Top
22 Jun 2004 14:50:25 -0500
From: Herwig Bauernfeind
This is the third public beta release of eRedMan, a pipe redirection
manager for eComStation and OS/2. It is a general pipe redirection utility
(like printmon.exe or print2ps.cmd that comes with ePDF). Its equivalent
in the Windows world is RedMon.
eRedMan is multithreaded and capable of monitoring multiple pipes and
associate one program to a particular pipe and execute it, whenever data
was written to the pipe.
What is new is this beta?
Added: Started with the content of the help file
Changed: Reorganized pipe monitor code once more (This is the 2nd attempt
to try to prevent the loss of a 2nd job that is written to the pipe
shortly after the previous one (1/10 of a second faster this time)
Known problems and limitations:
* I am still seeing random lockups and/or SYS3175 in PMSPOOL.EXE when
printing from VPC multiple times in fast sequences of 4 or more jobs. This
is under investigation. More feedback is required here (and there was none
up to now regarding this issue).
* Temporary files are placed into the TEMP directory. eRedMan currently
has a very primitive cleanup mechanism for leftover files, so you will not
be able to run this beta for a very long time (weeks or months) without
restarting it once in a while, depending on the number of usages. On a PC
that is rebooted daily, this should not be an issue.
Feedback is appreciated (although there was almost none for beta 2).
Contact me by email in case of problems.
Download eRedMan from hobbes:
Hobbes Incoming: < http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/eredman09b5.zip >
Hobbes Search: < http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=eredman >
Have fun,
Herwig
Top
22 Jun 2004 07:21:28 -0500
From: "Sander Nyman"
MR/2 ICE has been updated to version 2.47.
It is available here:
http://mr2ice.secant.com/nick/mr2i247.zip
New, or changed in this release:
Changes in v2.47
----------------
* MIME associations - viewer specification can now make use of the new
macros: @Browser, @Editor, @Ftp instead of hardcoding executable names.
These values are replaced at viewer invocation time with the appropriate
values from the configuration setup.
* Replying to news posts with long, malformed reference headers would
crash while formatting the reply shell. Fixed.
* Pop3 user name allows for longer names; up to 90 characters. This, to
enable long "spam agent" specifications.
* HTML stripper now translates literals to Latin-1 characters. HTML Viewer
uses TEMP path for html file to display.
Changes in v2.45
----------------
* Fixed another case where using $@ (address book matching)
failed to recognize embedded address matches in complex TO lines.
Regards,
Sander
--
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Sander Nyman"
-----------------------------------------------------------
A ship in a harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Top
21 Jun 2004 21:34:47 -0500
From: "Sander Nyman"
Mozilla 1.7 has been released.
You can download it here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7/contrib/mozilla-os2-1.7.zip
Or here if you prefer Mozilla with the installer:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7/contrib/mozilla-os2-1.7-installer.exe
NOTE: This release requires updated C runtime DLLs from Innotek. The
latest version is 0.5.1, which includes an installer. Available here:
http://download.innotek.de/gccos2/runtime/libc-0.5.1.exe
NOTE: This release requires IPLUGINW.DLL to use the Java and Flash
plugins. Available here: http://www.innotek.de/products/javaos2/mozilla/
For a list of new features, follow this link:
http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7/README.html#new
The Warpzilla (Mozilla for OS/2) homepage can be found here:
http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/
And finally, Steve Wendt's great "Tips For Warpzilla" page can be found
here:
http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html
Regards,
Sander
--
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Sander Nyman"
-----------------------------------------------------------
Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have.
Top
21 Jun 2004 13:06:41 -0500
From: Randy Van Heusden
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecs-technical/
Technical discussion of issues related to eComStation and OS/2.
All categories of technical issues are to be shared here rather than in
the eComStation group.
If you can be of help in answering any question brought up here, please
do all you can to assist us all as we learn and discover issues and
problems that need to be brought to the appropriate support at
eComStation or OS/2.
Technical discussion of issues related to eComStation and OS/2.
All categories of technical issues are to be shared here rather than in
the eComStation group.
If you can be of help in answering any question brought up here, please do
all you can to assist us all as we learn and discover issues and problems
that need to be brought to the appropriate support at eComStation or OS/2.
Categories include:
Training (how to),
installation,
drivers,
internals,
video,
multimedia,
printers,
CPU's,
motherboards,
systems,
networking,
internet,
browers,
web,
dos support,
Windows support,
applications,
development,
tools,
performance,
hardware compatibility,
tips,
techniques,
FAQ,
other hardware,
other
This forum is for technical issues.
Non-Technical issues related to the development of the product and the
future and potential changes should be discussed at
http://groups/yahoo.com/group/eComStation
For applications discussions goto http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ecsapps
For more info on eComStation goto:
http://www.eComStation.com
The eCS forums are at:
http://www.ecomstation.com/forums
--
Randy Van Heusden
os2doctorDESPAM@warpmail.net
Top
21 Jun 2004 10:41:40 -0500
Forwarded message from "Daniel F Valot" on Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:30:51 UTC
Posted on comp.os.os2.games
Hello,
The code has been changed to support other languages.
Version 1.17 includes French/English.
http://dvalot.free.fr/games.htm
If you feel you can translate Shisen-Sho from English to your own
language, contact me, I'll send you the resource file (.rc), the message
file and the dialog file (.dlg). Look at them and if you think you can
translate them to your language, just translate them. Other files which
can be translated and included are the help file (*.IPF) for OS/2, the
help file for Windows (.rtf). DBCS (Japanese, Chinese, Korean ) are not
supported, sorry. My e-mail is on my home page. Near to come: Multilingual
Mahjongg.
Have fun,
--
Daniel F Valot
http://dvalot.free.fr
---END FORWARDED MESSAGE---
Top
20 Jun 2004 10:10:59 -0500
From: os2editorDESPAM@yahoo.ca
Sorry for the slight delay.
The June 2004 issue of OS/2 e-zine is now online.
Articles include:
-VFAT on OS/2
-Digital Cameras & External Storage for OS/2
-More power, eCS|OS/2 on a new Dell server
-Adding DBCS (CJK) fonts to OpenOffice
-Perspective from a 'new' user
As always, let me know if you spot any bugs. I do get around to reading
e-mail and fixing it eventually!
Url: http://www.os2ezine.com
From: Isaac Leung (os2editorDESPAM@yahoo.ca)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
Top
News Index
submit@os2voice.org
< Previous Page | Newsletter Index | Next Page >
VOICE Home Page: http://www.os2voice.org
