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This year's Warpstock 2000 conference will offer a multitude of presentations,
guaranteed to satisfy every OS/2 user. To help make it even better, we want you
to answer a survey.
OS2.org (http://www.os2.org) is joining forces
with Warpstock by providing a survey which asks you to select your top five Warpstock
presentations. By casting your vote, you'll be able to influence the presentation
schedule.
Once the results are in, the schedule will be updated so that the most popular
presentations do not overlap. This will allow the most number of people to see the
presentations they want.
So please visit the survey at http://en.OS2.org/forum/survey/special.php3
and cast your vote for the five presentations that you definitely want to see.
A tentative presentation schedule for Warpstock 2000 is available at http://www.warpstock.org/2000/presentations.html
The 4th annual Warpstock conference will be held September 9-10, 2000, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation.
The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users and vendors from around
the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available
at the Warpstock 2000 web site:
or its mirror site:
http://www.ibmforum.com/warpstock/
lSwitcher 2.5 Spanish has been uploaded to Hobbes. You can find it at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/wps/lsw250es.zip
lSwitcher is a convenient, feature-rich Alt-Tab (Ctrl-Tab hotkey can also be
used)Presentation Manager and full screen task switcher for OS/2.
The English version of the program can be found at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/wps/lsw250en.zip
A new GRADD driver (0.83) has been released:
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/videopak/graddbb/
IBM has released a new TCP/IP 4.3 fix:
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/tcpip/fixes/v4.3os2/
This fix solves the following problem:
Sending username/password followed immediately by up to 1k of data when connecting
to FTP via Telnet, can cause a trap.
Only 3 Weeks Left Until Warpstock 2000!
Warpstock, Inc. (Internet)
Contact: David Ameiss, Secretary david@ameissnet.com
Attention all OS/2 users! The biggest OS/2 event of the year is approaching fast,
and if you don't act soon, you might miss it!
Warpstock 2000 will be the premier OS/2 conference to attend this year.
If you've never been to Warpstock before, this is definitely the year to go,
because it will be the biggest and best Warpstock ever.
OS/2 experts from around the world will be there to impart their wisdom and experiences
during the many presentations. Several vendors will also be there to demonstrate
and sell their OS/2-compatible and native OS/2 products. But the best part of Warpstock
is that you'll be able to spend an entire weekend with hundreds of other people
who share your vision of today's best computing environment.
So how much time do you have? Not much! Warpstock 2000 will be in Philadelphia
on September 9 and 10. That means you have only 3 weeks left. Special discounts
on flights and the hotel are still available. See the web site for details.
The 4th annual Warpstock conference will be held September 9-10, 2000, in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation.
The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users and vendors from around
the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available
at the Warpstock web site at http://www.ibmforum.com/warpstock/.
--
David Ameiss [VOICE] [POSSI] [SCOUG]
Secretary, Warpstock Inc. - http://www.warpstock.org/
david@ameissnet.com
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There's a TRAP in the installation procedure for the latest postfix (krnl0809.zip)
for FixPak 14. Step 12 in krnl0809.txt:
ftp.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4warp/english-us/xr_m014/krnd0809.txt
can also affect the x:\OS2 directory, causing it to disappear from your Desktop.
Either ignore this step, or set the flags for each file using separate commands.
Do NOT use the asterisk wild card.
**Moderator's Note: There does not appear to be any step 12 in the URL referenced
above; it skips from step 10 to step 14. Possibly IBM realized the error and removed
a few steps. We post this announcement just in case people saw and saved older versions
of these instructions.
Sslurp! 2.6 WWW mirroring tool retrieves Web pages from an HTTP (WWW) server.
It can be configured to follow all hyperlinks leading to other pages. Images and
Java applets can be retrieved as well. Retrieved data is stored on disk for later
viewing. Now with internal filtering proxy!
It is now at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/sslurp26.zip
It will eventually be at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu//pub/os2/apps/internet/mirror/www/sslurp26.zip
Showsess allows you to list active sessions, list number of active sessions,
make the current session foreground, switch to sessionId n (default is DOS), minimize
current session on switching, maximize the session being switched to, send WM_CLOSE
to window being switched to, dosKillProcess Process associated with session, switch
to session with "Subtitle" in the title, use a quoted string for multiple
words ~switch to session with process ID #.
Showsess is now at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/showsess.zip
It will eventually be at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/process/showsess.zip
Unpost, an advanced uudecode program used to extract binary files from multi-segment
uuencoded USENET postings or Email is now at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/unpost234_os2.zip
It will eventually be at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/archiverunpost234_os2.zip
A new file finder (with source code), rh2os2, has been released on Hobbes. It
is now at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/rh2os2.zip
It will eventually be at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/rh2os2.zip
Connect/2 7.6 beta4 was released today.
It is a Borland-style integrated environment application:
- Multi-window text editor capable of processing files;
- Multi-window HEX editor;
- Text viewer and HEX viewer;
- File Manager which looks much like the Norton Commander but is at least twice
as powerful;
- External application executor which is able to run various programming tools such
as cross-assemblers, compilers etc. with the user-defined parameters depending on
currently active window, or currently focused file name;
- Keyboard macro editor and player;
- Clipboard window. One can copy/paste data from/to any of the program windows and
input lines, including external program screens (Snipper);
- Miscellaneous tools (programmer's calculator, alarm clock, ASCII table, calendar);
- Context-sensitive help system;
- Customizable program setup (colors, work directories, keyboard, mouse, country
settings, confirmations, log file etc.);
- Local menu (pop-up) called from almost every program window by pressing Alt+F10
keys, or right mouse button click.
This project is being developed by Russian Team OS/2.
http://os2.ru/projects/connect/english.shtml
There is a new update (08/16/2000) to the Java 1.3 Preview Edition (aka the IBM
OS/2(R) Warp Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Preview Edition). This is a reserved
feature of the Software Choice program.
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/asd-bin/doc/en_us/catalog.htm
The Philadelphia Area Computer Society OS/2 SIG web site at:
has just been updated. Stop in for these new features:
AUGUST MEETING PREVIEW
Details on the next meeting, August 23, featuring David Moskowitz speaking on
Internet security.
WARPSTOCK 2000
With Warpstock set to take place next month in our own Philadelphia back yard,
we have posted information on early registration and on volunteering to help out.
UpdCD 0.6 with support for Feature Installer 1.25, Netscape Communicator 4.61,
Java 1.1.x and TCP/IP 4.x is out. With UpdCD you can integrate fixes and updates
into the original Warp CD.
http://xenia.sote.hu/~kadzsol/rexx/sajat/updcd.htm
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=updcd06.zip
Systray/2 alpha4 with English documentation was released yesterday.
Systray/2 - Team OS/2 Russian project. This is what we deal with when we work
with operating systems like Windows '95/98/NT. Actually, besides being a task switcher,
it is also a convenient utility called system tray.
http://os2.ru/projects/systray/index.shtml.en
I have created a new page (in English) on Russian/2 about SSH (with worked ssh
daemon!) for OS/2 by Andrew Zabolotny.
http://os2.ru/materials/internet/sshd.shtml.en
World Clock is freeware, configurable clock with Daylight Savings Time, Stopwatch,
Alarm, Program launcher, Calendar and World Map for 1 to 9 cities from more than
1000 cities in the provided City list.
Language support for: English, Croatian, German, Swedish, Polish, Spanish
New in version 1.20:
- SPANISH Language support
- Find city in the city list
- Reorder selected cities
- Display or not Time Zone descriptor
- Fixed bug in Country, City order
- Easy selection of year and month in Calendar
- Moon phases for selected month in Calendar
- Julian date in date display
- Julian day
- 300 new cities
Features:
- Display for each selected city, country, time, date, Universal Time difference,
Time Zone descriptor, latitude, longitude, sunrise, sunset, day length ...
- Horizontal or vertical arrangement of selected cities
- Minimized or banner view (only cities and time)
- World time (Standard time in Time Zones) and World map,
- UTC (GMT) Universal date ~time (UDT), Julian day and/or Internet time ("Swatch
beat") in Title bar
- Easy calculating the TZ environment variable
- Selectable position, size, font and fontsize
- Calendar
- Alarm and Program launcher for each city
- Stopwatch
- Add new cities (your own if not in the list)
- Install/UnInstall program
To download World Clock 1.20, visit:
http://redrival.com/os2util/index.htm
TCP/IP Tweaks Link added to the Bay Area OS/2 Page:
Check out OS/2 Hings ~Tips.
This version is necessary to align the unix version and OS/2 version. Some improvements
and updates.
lSwitcher 2.5 German has been uploaded to Hobbes. You can find it at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/wps/lsw250de.zip
lSwitcher is a convenient feature-rich Alt-Tab (Ctrl-Tab hotkey can also be used)
Presentation Manager and full screen task switcher for OS/2.
The English version of the program can be found at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/wps/lsw250en.zip
Tyra/2 1.91 has been updated. For those who have downloaded Tyra/2 1.91 there
is a patch available which replaces the Tyra2.EXE-file. Those who have not downloaded
the v1.91 can download the complete package which includes the patch already.
New:
- FixPak 14 will be detected correctly
The version 1.92 will be shown on the Warpstock Europe 2000 and will be released
in October 2000.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=tyra_191e_p1.zip
Hello everybody!
Just a quick note to readers from (South) Africa: OS/2 Express (http://www.os2.co.za/)
is considering distributing eCS and requests an e-mail message from anyone who is
interested. E-mail can be sent to: os2express@mweb.co.za
Regards,
Pieter Kruger
Information Technology Department
Technikon Free State
South Africa
... finally! ;-)
The new release of Minta is available now! Minta is a very powerful MP3 tagging,
listing and information PM-utility for OS/2 (says the author ;-) As due to my limited
time the next "big" release may still take a while, I decided to do a
small one that fixes some bugs and adds some tiny features.
Other features of Minta include:
* Displays lots of information about MP3 files
* Adding, editing and removing of ID3 (v1.x) tags
* Can output all files with selectable information to list
* Easy handling (editing, tagging, etc.) of multiple files (even in different directories)
* Easy tagging of whole albums or similar
* WPS (Drag'n'Drop) support
* Extensive online help ~documentation
* Lots of configuration options
* etc.
Minta is mailware.
For more info and download, visit either the home page:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/CIP/thielen/minta/
or get it from Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/minta245.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/util/minta245.zip
(later)
Minta 2.45 is of course also available on the "Team Trier Collection"
CDROM for OS/2 (see http://www.teamos2.ipcon.de/en-cdrom.htm
for more info)