Quantity of software developers on eComStation market
The first results of collected information:
* There are more than 20 companies working on eComStation and OS/2 market
(http://ecomstation.ru/solutions/?action=companies);
* There are 8 original solutions based on eComStation
(http://ecomstation.ru/solutions/?action=solutions) (information about
russian market only; european and american companies fear to publish
advertisement information); The platform is used in 9 areas of science and
industry;
* Read about perspectives on new markets
(http://ecomstation.ru/solutions/?action=perspectives);
This is preliminary information. Wait for the next report in july.
URL: http://ecomstation.ru/solutions
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21 Jun 2005 14:59:30
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Andy Willis
The ninth edition of the annual Warpstock event will be held at the
Wyndham Harrisburg-Hershey hotel this year. The four day event will start
October 6th with half day classes scheduled Thursday and Friday October 6
and 7 and the general Warpstock presentations on Saturday and Sunday
October 8 and 9.
You can show your support for Warpstock 2005 and help spread the news
about this annual source of information by and for OS/2 and eComStation
users. Web Masters are invited to add the Warpstock logo to their web
sites with a link back to the Warpstock web site. We will then add your
site to the Online Friends of Warpstock page. [
http://www.warpstock.org/event_info/2005/online_friends.html ]
For information on the Warpstock 2005 logo and adding it to your web site
please see: [ http://www.warpstock.org/2005/logo_support.html ]
For more on this year's event location, including lots of Hershey area
attractions (mmm, did somebody say chocolate?), see our web site at:
http://www.warpstock.org/event_info/2005/location.html To learn more about
Warpstock visit the homepage at: http://warpstock.org/index.html
Information about this years event can be found at:
http://warpstock.org/index_2005.html Registration information is at:
http://warpstock.org/event_info/2005/registration.html
We also offer the Warpstock eNewsletter mailing list where you can get
more detialed information bulletins electronically as we announce them.
If you would like to subscribe to the Warpstock eNewsletter send the
following message in the body of an email to [ majormajor@os2voice.org
]
subscribe wsenews myemail.address
end
Or by clicking on the following link [
http://www.os2voice.org/mailinglists.html ] and using the web form to
subscribe/unsubscribe from the Warpstock eNews list.
Have you been to Warpstock yet?
* Warpstock 1997 - Diamond Bar, California
* Warpstock 1998 - Chicago, Illinois
* Warpstock 1999 - Atlanta, Georgia
* Warpstock 2000 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
* Warpstock 2001 - Toronto, Canada
* Warpstock 2002 - Austin, Texas
* Warpstock 2003 - San Francisco, California
* Warpstock 2004 - Denver, Colorado
* Warpstock 2005 - Hershey, Pennsylvania
Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina corporation. The Warpstock annual
conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from
around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More
information is available at the Warpstock web site:
http://www.warpstock.org
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21 Jun 2005 08:00:14
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Peter Koller"
Maul Publisher is an industrial strength desktop publisher capable of
creating virtually all of the printing seen on everyday household items.
You can use it to easily lay out newspapers, cards, books, labels, stamps,
posters, charts, forms, and even designs like building plans or furniture
arrangements.
Maul contains a huge number of sophisticated features specifically for
publishing. These include booklet printing and collation, precision bitmap
scaling, prepress reports, color management, layout guides, style sheets,
and much more. Maul is available in both German and English, and provides
true multilingual support.
Split archive:-
You will need to download at least two of the following archives, and
unzip them into the same folder
maulebin300.zip - the binaries
maulelde300.zip - the german language resources
maulelen300.zip - the english language resources
You can also unzip all of the above into the same folder and install the
lot!
Try
http://www.manglais.com/download.php
or
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=maule
for the files.
New to this version:-
* You may need to purchase an upgrade from V2.xx
* Split installation archives allow you to download additional languages
at no extra cost.
* Improved installer, with automatic installation mode.
* Averaging colour capture, and full colour drag & drop support
compatible with the operating system.
* Common stylesheets, and automatic styles. Provides the means to copy
styles between different handlers.
* Project management tools to manage more than one file. Print a whole
project in one go!
* Improved dialogs to speed up the workflow. Many with simplified
controls, or notebook features.
* Enhanced bitmap functions, including smooth scaling tools.
* Improved bitmap offlining tools work even when copying and pasting sets
of frames.
* Offset ruler bars to allow measurements from opposite sides of facing
pages, for example.
* Ruler bar scaling to help create CAD drawings.
* Additional button styles, with button overlay icons. A prettier look
and feel.
* Improvements to the handling of dropcaps, with high precision text
flow.
* Improved printing, transparency on postscript printers.
* Improved mailmerge.
* New tools menu.
* New file and text search functions.
* New Footnotes feature.
* New Article information feature.
* New prepress report feature finds potential printing problems.
* New drag & drop colour table, with support for automatic loading of
colours on startup.
* New recursive formatting allows frame clipart to be inserted into text
as an image.
* Improved inline image in text allows text to flow around an inline
image.
* New anchors allow symbolic linking within a publication. Reduces the
file size.
* Greatly improved import/export and open/save dialogs with 'All known
file types' file filter.
* Improved sample window for import shows more information.
* Frames can now be exported or copied as a bitmap image.
* Frame save to catalogue tools for fast clipart saving.
* Improved popup help tools, and other items provide an easier learning
curve for beginners.
* Full multi-lingual support, with automatic language switching on a
per-textarticle basis.
* Per-file style settings for offlining etc.
* Frame paste step & repeat, create a set of labels at the touch of a
button.
* Font embedding tool enables you to save and retrieve fonts inside the
document.
* Table spreadsheet functions.
* ...plus around another 250 minor changes and bug fixes.
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21 Jun 2005 07:48:18
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Peter Koller"
Let's try this again, now that I have uploaded the right files to hobbes!
Maul Publisher is an industrial strength desktop publisher capable of
creating virtually all of the printing seen on everyday household items.
You can use it to easily lay out newspapers, cards, books, labels, stamps,
posters, charts, forms, and even designs like building plans or furniture
arrangements.
The 'Maul Publisher for OS/2 V3.00 language translation toolkit' has been
uploaded to http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/maulettk300.zip
later
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=maulettk
The toolkit already contains both english and german language resources.
This toolkit is provided to allow others to translate Maul Publisher V3.00
resources to their own language. As this may require some concerted
effort, please contact Maul Publisher support to coordinate your effort
with other potential translators. Similarly, if you just want to fix some
spelling, please share the result by contacting Maul Publisher support
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21 Jun 2005 07:19:02
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: doodledDESPAM@DESPAMdfmk.hu
Wizard has created a new clock skin for the Pretty Clock screen saver
module.
Installation is easy: just unzip the package into your Modules\PrClock
directory in your DSSaver home, and you're done!
The skin can be downloaded from Netlabs.
You can create your own skins, too! This EDM/2 article tells how to do it:
http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Creating_modules_for_Doodle%27s_Screen_Saver_-_Part_3
Url: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/dssaver/Modules/PrClock/sclock01.zip
From: Doodle (doodle@dont.even.try.spamming.dfmk.hu)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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20 Jun 2005 21:58:24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Trevor Hemsley"
I'm pleased to announce the release of Pronews/2 v1.56
Pronews/2 is a multithreaded NNTP Newsreader program for OS/2. This
release completely reworks the character set and codepage support code
within Pronews/2 and allows support for new character sets to be added
reasonably easily.
If you are upgrading from a release prior to 1.54 then you are strongly
urged to backup your existing filter files as the files have a different
on-disk format from 1.54 onwards. Failure to backup files *.FLT in
\pronews and \pronews\headers will mean it will be impossible to use your
filters if you should need to revert to a release prior to 1.54. You
should also read the readme.txt file installed in the \pronews directory
as this covers changes and new features from prior releases as well as
tips for making Pronews/2 quicker.
You can find Pronews/2 1.56 on ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming (later
to be ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/news/reader) as
pn2v156.zip.
Pronews/2 is shareware and all profits from its sale are donated to the
charity Save the Children.
New features and important changes
==================================
Pronews/2 1.56 adds support for posting and reading articles in UTF-8.
Existing article bodies encoded in UTF-8 should appear correctly in 1.56
but existing headers containing UTF-8 within subject or composer fields
will require a group reload in order to be translated correctly.
A new file, pronews.env, can be used to set Pronews specific
environment variables rather than having to code them in config.sys. A
sample version of pronews.env is supplied as sample.env and will need to
be copied/renamed before it is used.
New environment variable, PNLOGDIR, can be used to specify a directory
where Pronews should keep its log files.
Pronews will now base64 encode any subject or composer name that contains
non-ASCII characters if base64 encoding is specified on the Codepage tab
in the group or global settings notebooks.
There are 3 new files added to the \pronews directory with this release.
All have the extension *.pn and are required for Pronews/2 1.56 to
operate. All have to do with the new charset/codepage support. Pronews/2
1.56 will refuse to start if any of these files are missing.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK
Trevor-Hemsley at dsl dot pipex dot com
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20 Jun 2005 16:40:02
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Peter Koller"
Maul Publisher is an industrial strength desktop publisher capable of
creating virtually all of the printing seen on everyday household items.
You can use it to easily lay out newspapers, cards, books, labels, stamps,
posters, charts, forms, and even designs like building plans or furniture
arrangements.
The 'Maul Publisher for OS/2 V3.00 language translation toolkit' has been
uploaded to http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/maulettk300.zip
The toolkit already contains both english and german language resources.
This toolkit is provided to allow others to translate Maul Publisher V3.00
resources to their own language. As this may require some concerted
effort, please contact Maul Publisher support to coordinate your effort
with other potential translators. Similarly, if you just want to fix some
spelling, please share the result by contacting Maul Publisher support
Further announcements about Maul Publisher V3 will follow shortly.
Yours,
Peter
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20 Jun 2005 16:35:28
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Peter Koller"
Maul Publisher is an industrial strength desktop publisher capable of
creating virtually all of the printing seen on everyday household items.
You can use it to easily lay out newspapers, cards, books, labels, stamps,
posters, charts, forms, and even designs like building plans or furniture
arrangements.
The 'Maul Publisher for OS/2 V3.00 language translation toolkit' has been
uploaded to http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/maulettk300.zip
The toolkit already contains both english and german language resources.
This toolkit is provided to allow others to translate Maul Publisher V3.00
resources to their own language. As this may require some concerted
effort, please contact Maul Publisher support to coordinate your effort
with other potential translators. Similarly, if you just want to fix some
spelling, please share the result by contacting Maul Publisher support
Further announcements about Maul Publisher V3 will follow shortly.
Yours,
Peter
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20 Jun 2005 10:46:23
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: MichalDESPAM@DESPAMskins.cz
PM123man.INF has been updated (6/19/2005) !
PM123man.INF is an English hypertext file in the native INF format,
offering the PM123 User's Manual.
PM123 User's Manual is a part of the NEPTUNE project, which contains --
5,000 skins !
New features:
+ Added chapter - "PM123 Mozilla Configuration"
+ Remove chapter - "Some useful tools"
+ Fixed some problems...
I have begun the process of open-sourcing PM123man.INF, so others can help
develop it !!
Direct download link (154 KB) -- http://www.skins.cz/prog/pm123man.zip
Url: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=/pub/new&sort=date
From: Michal Pohorelsky (MichalDESPAM@DESPAMskins.cz)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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19 Jun 2005 14:28:17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: isaaclDESPAM@DESPAMspymac.com
I'm sure many have been wondering what's up with OS/2 e-Zine.
A minor issue is that I've had to be out of town too much. But the more
pressing problem is that we no longer have access to the servers, and
haven't had it for months.
The owners of OS/2 e-Zine (same as the owners of BMT-Micro) have upgraded
the servers and to increase security have closed off FTP access. That
means we can't get issues on-line.
Now personally, I'd be just as happy channeling efforts to writing for
VOICE (or as you can see, you can submit to OS/2 World as well).
The owners of BMT Micro actually own the rights (domain name, trademarks,
etc.) to OS/2 e-Zine. If someone is really keen on having OS/2 e-Zine,
you'd have to pay for it. I am guessing you'd be asked for around
$500-$1000USD, as the owners would like to recoup a small part of their
initial cost in acquiring OS/2 e-zine. If you're seriously interested, let
me know and I'll tell you how to get in touch.
I'd like to remind the OS/2 community that the owners of BMT Micro have
been very generous to the community and have provided servers and hosting
absolutely FREE for many years.
From: Isaac (isaaclDESPAM@DESPAMspymac.com)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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