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IBM has released the FixPak 13 in French, Spanis and Italian. This also means
that there will sooner or later be other languages for FixPak 13 and we don't have
to wait until FixPak 14 arrives.
ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4warp/
Helge von hagen has released precompiled Binaries of Ghostscript 6.01 with an
optimized Hewlett Packard printer driver for DJ 670/90, DJ 800 Series and DJ 932/970,
1600. These drivers are left out in the official OS/2 binaries, although they are
in the source:
http://people.freenet.de/von.hagen/hp-e.htm
Rick Papo has updated Memsize 4.0 beta (4.July 2000):
http://people.mw.mediaone.net/rpapo/beta.html
Although it is tstated as beta it works quite well on my system
I am trying to maintain the Notebook/2 site, but I have had a lot of problems
lately due to the fact that I cannot access my account at the OS/2 SuperSite [due
to the restructuring at BMT Micro, which hosts the Supersite]. My attempts to get
the problem solved with the help of Chris B. Wright weren't successful so far.
I have therefore decided to upload the Notebook/2 site to a different place.
There you'll find many new pages and info which I was unable to upload during the
last weeks. So check it out here:
http://www.drmartinus.de/notebook2/notebook.htm
Cheers!
Dr. Martinus
**Moderator's Note: comments in [] brackets above are mine. (Trevor Smith, from
WarpCast)
Unit Converter is freeware PM utility which enables "on-the-fly" unit
conversions. User can add, change or delete groups and units, conversion factors
and prefixes. Language support: English, Croatian, German, Swedish and French.
New in version 0.91:
- French lanugage support.
- Selectable size of program's window.
- New units.
To download Unit Converter 0.91, visit:
http://redrival.com/os2util/index.htm
The ZIP file of CDR/RW Wizard 0.9.91 is wrong. It refers at 0.9.9 beta16 version!
Please download the WarpIN format (*.WPI). Excuse all for this!
http://www.quasarbbs.com/rocco
Because of the frustration with scarcity of information on running Sendmail on
OS/2, I've decided to set up a mailing list dedicated to the subject. The mailing
list is run using Majordomo and IBM's Sendmail, all under OS/2.
Anyone interested can subscribe by sending an email to:-
with the first line of the msg containing:-
subscribe os2-sendmail
- --
John
Robert Marcano robmv@promca.com has begun
a movement to persuade IBM to provide enhanced versions of some of its software.
Details are as follows:
=====
I want to start to collect information about people really interested in a WebSphere
for OS/2. all we now that via Software Choice there will be a Standard version of
WebSphere, but lot of us that are trying to tranform our OS/2 applications to Java,
requires at least a WebSphere Advanced Edition 3.0 or better to be able to develop
using Enterprise Java Beans (EJB). If IBM want us to go platform neutral, we require
tools to do that on OS/2 Servers in order to not need to trash away an excelent
platform like OS/2.
So.. people can send me and email with the following information in order to
submit a formal request to IBM for and Advanced version of WebSphere and probably
new version of VisualAge for Java (3.5 will not be in OS/2): Name, Company Name,
number of installed OS/2 platform servers and workstations, application(s) to be
EJB migrated, Company URL, contact email address.
Please... be real with your request in order to have a real response from IBM
send it to robmv@promca.com
=====
On Monday, July 3rd, at 1:00PM EDT, VOICE (Virtual OS/2 International Consumer
Education) held a Live IRC Chat Session (aka Speakup) on the subject of eComStation
.. the new Managed OS/2 Warp Client from Serenity Systems.
A complete logfile of the session is now available on the VOICE web site at:
This was "Round 1" of the Live Chat Sessions with Serenity Systems.
Round 2 is next Monday, July 10th, at 8:00PM EDT (0:00 GMT Tuesday) in WEBBnet
IRC, #voice Channel.
Please join us in what promises to be a very informative and enlightening chat
session with Bob St. John of Serenity Systems. And, who knows ... you might just
be present for a Major announcement
For more information on VOICE IRC Meetings, IRC Information, and links to the
list of current WEBBnet IRC Servers, point your browser to:
http://www.os2voice.org/meetinginfo.html
Cya July 10th at 8:00PM EDT!!!
Serguei Trouchelle compiled OS/2 and EMX versions of the UnIMP unpacking utility.
It is useful to unpack .IMP files, which are made with the IMP archiver for Win32/Dos32.
http://angryxpeh.nm.ru/soft/unimpos2.zip
Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=/pub/incoming/unimpos2.zip
http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/cgi-bin/search?query=unimpos2.zip
The new version CDR/RW Wizard 0.9.91 is just released.
- NEW! Support of bootable CD (via my new version BootWizard 1.0.0) also WPS boot
(in VGA mode)
- other changes (see readme file) at my home page:
http://www.quasarbbs.com/rocco
CDR/RW Wizard is a GUI Wizard interface to CDRECORD/2 for burning CD-R / CD-RW
(data, audio, etc) discs.
It has come to my attention that many people believe PMMail/2 v2.10.1999 is the
latest version of PMMail/2. In reality, Blueprint Software Works released a newer
version of PMMail/2 some time ago, but since it was only a minor update, we did
not advertise the fact.
The latest version of PMMail/2 is v2.10.2010 and it can be found at:
http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/
No major bugs were fixed with this release so if your current copy is working
properly, there is no need to upgrade.
If you do choose to upgrade though, it is as simple as installing directly over
your current PMMail/2 (unless you are using a very old version of PMMail -- please
read the documentation before upgrading). All your settings and accounts will remain
intact. (As always, PLEASE BACK UP BEFORE UPGRADING.)
PMMail/2 v2.10.2010 is a free upgrade for any registered users of v2.x. For users
of v1.x, affordable upgrade pricing is available. For complete info see:
http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/pmmail.html
Lately, we found out that the last releases (from ver. 0.78 to ver.0.84) of FTPServ
contain a serious security bug. This bug allows any person that has a write permission
to one directory on the server to view any file from your physical disk.
http://os2.ru/materials/pub/200007/ftpserv.en.shtml
Accordingly, Peter Moylan was released FTPServ 0.85. It can be found at his WWW
site:
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/software.html#ftpserver
Lame MP3 encoder v3.84 for OS/2 is released.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=lame384.zip
Lame is one of, if not *the* best MP3 encoders available on any platform. It
is a command line program but worth the effort.
And it's freeware!
There is a new Papyrus discussion forum at http://www.comm-talk.de/rom - it is
international, mixed English and German. Every English mail will be answered in
English, of course.
It is for all who are interested in the "Papyrus" wordprocessor, database
and office package, customers, interests, people who have questions about Papyrus
and those who want to discuss the further development of Papyrus with the developers.
I will be there, frequently, for example, but it is NOT run by R.O.M. itself,
but by other people who make a forum portal at commTalk (Carsten Mueller et. al.).
Greetings
Ulli Ramps
(papyrus Support + GF)
R.O.M. logicware GmbH, Berlin
After 2 years, PM123 finally gets an update. PM123 is mainly an audio MPEG player
for OS/2, but can now be extended with the new plug-in API.
What's new:
- Fixed file with spaces in pipe commands.
- execmode -sp executed on pm123.exe so it now runs in Warp Server 4 SMP
- Patched notebook loading problem with Default display settings.
- Adjusted equalizer dialog frequencies to correspond with new mpg123 values.
- Fixed auto-play on load when another stream is playing.
- Implemented new decoder, filter and output plugins. For this beta, very little
plug-ins are fully functional.
- Playback of playlist does not close the output plug-in between playback of the
entries anymore.
- "Use this playlist" and next/previous now loads the ID3 Tag.
- "Default display" now works everywhere.
- Playlist now continues playing after selecting a song from the playlist.
- Drag and drop from the playlist to main window now works properly.
- Random button does random playback again, not sorting. Random is also much faster
than it was in beta 2. Use "Random" in the Sort submenu if you want to
do playlist shuffling.
- Repeat and Random playback state are now reloaded after launch.
- Fixed random crash when adding with recurse, I hope...
- Repeat now works in all conditions.
- Adding to a playlist before the current loaded song now updates its index.
- Deleting from a playlist before the current loaded song now also updates its index.
- Directories can now be added from the "Add to list" file dialog. This
is basically a hack in the file dialog. Unless you manually type the path, the directory
will have to be selected in the directory listbox AND it must be the current directory
listed in the file listbox AND the filename entry field must be empty, or "*"
or the default "*.*".
- HUGE playlist (~900 songs and more) are now able to load.
- pm123 doesn't crash when loading playlist from the command line for an already
opened instance. This includes .m3u since they are now loaded as playlists.
- Fixed problem when loading playlist and a song from the unloaded playlist was
already playing.
- Deleting entries from a playlist doesn't auto-use use it anymore.
- Sorting by size and time is now much faster. - Loading entries from the playlist
now actually loads the right entry, not just the one with the same exact filename.
but this basically makes it faster...
- Added support for WinAmp style .pls playlist files including SHOUTcast. Titles
for SHOUTcast servers are loaded from the .pls so you see all the neat stuff like
the load of the servers when you load the playlist.
- Fixed problem loading HTTP URLs with no path like on SHOUTcast.
- Included procedure in netscape.html to properly configure pm123 as a Netscape
Navigator helper application.
- Fixed memory leak when removing entries from the playlist.
- Streaming buffer now works properly and continues playing buffered stream even
if read operations are stalled.
- Broken HTTP connections are now properly canceled and closed on stop.
- Added workaround for timing problem in DART for setting volume right after the
device is opened.
- HTTP URL with no filename like SHOUTcast now show the complete host instead of
interpreting it as a filename. Title streaming is on its way...
mpg123.dll 1.09 in pm123 1.1 beta 1
===================================
- Fixed streaming audio by adding two in a row header checking.
- Implements new pm123 decoder plug-in interface.
Features:
Skin, Visual, Decoder, Output and Filter Plug-in support allowing for major extendibility.
Play, stop, pause, fast forward, rewind, seek to position
State-of-the-art dynamic priority system
Uses OS/2's DART
Supports 8-bit sound cards and sound device sharing
Supports mixing both channels together and downmixing 2:1
HTTP Streaming Support, including SHOUTcast and icecast
Stream Buffer Support
Graphical Sound Equalizer
A Real 32 bands 1/3 octave Graphical Equalizer
Playlist:
Supports drag'n'drop of files and directories (non-recursive and recursive)
Loads PM123 playlists (LST), WarpAMP playlists (MPL), Internet playlists (M3U) and
WinAmp (PLS) including SHOUTcast
URL (streaming HTTP) support
Sorting: size, playing time, filename, songname and random
Recall 10 last playlists
Playlist Manager for easy playlist browsing and managing
User interface:
ID3 tag support, including an editor for tags
Recall 10 last songs
2 fonts, plus a smooth scroller using system fonts
3 sizes: regular, small and tiny
Float on top
Skin support, supports PM123 and WinAmp skins
"Remote Control" support through pipes
Included Visual Plugins: Spectrum Analyzer and Oscilloscope
Plug-in Developer's Kit Available
Throughout User's
Guide
http://www.cam.org/~guardia/archives/pm123-1_1-beta1.zip
ftp://www.teamos2.sci.fi/pm123/pm123-1_1-beta1.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pm123-1_1-beta1.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/pm123-1_1-beta1.zip
More information at:
http://www.cam.org/~guardia/pm123.html
http://www.teamos2.sci.fi/pm123/
IBM announced Visual Age for JAVA 3.5 on June 28, 2000. It will be available
for various Windows operating systems and eventually for Linux but, the announcement
did not mention availability for OS/2.
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/vajava/vaj35.html
IBM has updated (on 27/5/2000) the OS/2 installation disks. They are intended
for several Thinkpads (namely the T20) but can also used with other PC's. For more
information and the download see:
http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/YAST-3MARH8.html
I will be relocating to sunny Florida on July 10, 2000. My IRC server, irc.mi.webbnet.org,
is no longer available. The following servers which reside on the WEBBnet server
are available for your convenience:
Main International Hub
irc.webbnet.org ports 6660 thru 6669
Australia irc.au.webbnet.org 6667
Germany irc.de.webbnet.org 6667
Sweden irc.se.webbnet.org 6667
Main United States Hub
irc.us.webbnet.org ports 6660 thru 6669
California
irc.ca.webbnet.org 6667
irc.ca2.webbnet.org 6667
Indiana
irc.in2.webbnet.org 6667
Maryland
irc.md2.webbnet.org 6667
North Carolina
irc.nc.webbnet.org 6667
irc.nc2.webbnet.org 6667
Pennsylvania
irc.pa2.webbnet.org 6667
Tennessee
irc.tn.webbnet.org 6667
Texas
irc.tx.webbnet.org 6667
Utah
irc.ut.webbnet.org 6667
Judy McDermott
Moon Scape Designs
www.moon-scape.com
judy@moon-scape.com
Judy's Warped World
www.gt-online.com/~bri
bri@gt-online.com
The Kellergroup has silently updated PMFax /Pro and /Lite to Ver 3.2n.
New Pmfax.exe (date:06.06.200) and FxPrint.drv (date:06.03.2000)