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Hi,
I enjoyed your article on RSJ CD Writer for OS/2 which I have been using for
a couple of years. One correction, however, is that effective with version 2.59,
it is no longer necessary to format a CD before using it. The following is from
the readme file:
New to Version 2.59
-------------------
- It's no longer necessary to format new CDs. When using CHKDSK,
new CDs seem to have a reserved track (to maintain compatibility),
but the track will not be physically reserved until the first file
is created on the CD.
If you really want people to come together on OS/2, how about letting the VOICE
newsletter and
Editor's response: This response was also posted to the forum Timur started on this
subject on the
What OS/2 needs is more sources of information, not less. OS/2 has tons of links
pages, and a few sites like Tom's OS2HQ site that do some reviews. What we really
need are more people willing to help with the established publications that people
turn to regularly. A lot of time it's just myself, Don Eitner and maybe one or two
other people that keep the VOICE Newsletter going.
So Timur instead of trying to reduce the number of online OS/2 publications,
why not cruise the news groups and mail lists and exhort people to write about their
OS/2 experiences? Or is everyone writing exclusively for Warpcity now? :-)
The VOICE Newsletter is an instrument of the VOICE OS/2 user organization, and
any mergers would be up to the VOICE Board of Directors and ultimately the VOICE
membership. So if you really want to have a voice in the future of VOICE, join VOICE.
:-)
In the mean time the VOICE Newsletter will continue to promote the diversity
of the OS/2 community and raise awareness of other OS/2 resources like OS/2 e-Zine,
SCOUG, POSSI and Warpstock, as well as the hard working OS/2 software developers.
This is the latest info posted on the Castlewood website concerning their EIDE
and Parallel Port ORB Drives:
Reference: http://www.castlewood.com/help/status_updates/status_updates.html
OS/2
The latest drivers for the ORB EIDE and Parallel Port drives are being beta tested.
As soon as they are ready, they will be posted on the web site.
"Just want to remind, fellow os2voice members, that RSJ for OS/2 internet
delivery is still available from me for $168. If interested please contact wwwwwh@OPENetwork.com."
Dear Friends,
It is with deep sadness that I report that Dick Goran, a long-time and faithful
supporter of Rexx, has left us. Many, if not most of you have a copy of his "Rexx
Reference Summary Handbook", the product of Dick's indefatigable tenacity in
ferreting out undocumented parameters to OS/2 Rexx system function calls. I refer
to mine regularly, and marvel at the effort required to discover and document them.
Dick was one of the more colorful members of the Rexx community, a man of infectious
good spirit and generosity who didn't know the meaning of "sotto voce".
Indeed, his distinctive vocal talents provided him with a career in radio and movies
completely orthogonal to his professional programming work. He was tagged "The
Voice of Las Vegas" and if you ever heard him speak, you know why.
Dick's last project was WebMaven, an ambitious software package that allows one
to extract and localize an entire website, or portion thereof, for offline perusal
or archival. It is quite elaborate, and my description does not begin to do it justice.
Full details are on Dick's website (http://www.cfsrexx.com)
and I encourage you to check it out. I understand that it is written in Rexx and
the OS/2 version of it is complete. Apparently, Dick was working on the Windows
port when he died, and his daughter is quite determined to have the product completed.
This should be a fairly straight-forward effort, as much if not all of the Windows
GUI is complete.
Becky (Goran) Tamburino lives in Massachusetts and has asked me to broadcast
to the Rexx community her request for help (see below). Her spam filter rejects
email addresses not in her list of correspondents, so she asked me to relay your
initial email to her. (It was either that, or have her put the entire RexxLA membership
list into her spam filter.) Alternatively, you may call her at the phone number
below.
I don't have access to a Windows platform, but I know a lot of you do. This may
be the sort of project that requires a number of us making small contributions to
the effort, or it may be that one person can complete the unfinished portion. Regardless
of the method, I believe it is something that should be done.
As Gabe found out recently, there are those whose first question will be "What's
in it for me?". My answer: I don't know. I was not so crass as to ask such
a question of a grieving daughter. At this point, the scope of the project has yet
to be determined. I doubt that she expects to get a significant amount of pro-bono
expertise, but that question should be deferred until the scope is known.
Dick Goran was one of the most interesting people I've met in this business,
and I'm going to miss him. If I can get Becky to verify my version of the story,
perhaps I'll tell you what "CFS" stands for, and how it came to be his
company name. It is quintessentially Dick, and it still makes me laugh to remember
it.
-Chip-
Forwarding note from: SCOZAC1@aol.com Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:19:08 EDT
Mr. Davis:
Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Becky Tamburino and I am
Dick Goran's daughter. Your name was given to me by Michael Cowlishaw @
IBM in the UK. He said you may be able to help me.
I am not sure if you are aware, but my father died suddenly on June 16th of this
year. In an effort to complete something he had begun, or should I say he has finished
but the release is of importance, I am trying to find the necessary staff to complete
his project.
Please forgive my lack of computer knowledge and expertise, but it is my understanding
that daddy's Webmaven is complete, was written in Rexx language in an OS2 platform
and needs to be transposed to a Windows format. ( Please forgive me if my language
may be off. )
If you are not already familiar, you can read about Webmaven on daddy's
page at CFSREXX.com.
Thank you for you attention.
Sincerely,
Becky Tamburino (Goran)