VOICE Newsletter 11/2001

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October 13

DualMode library and MGLServer release 5 available

The DualMode library and MGLServer are an application interface for developers to write graphical applications which can switch between full screen and windowed operation, with advanced features such as keyboard, mouse, and joystick support, frame rate timing and frameskip regulation, and palette handling.

What's new with release 5:

* Frame rate regulation API calls added

Can use Timer0 or DosSleep to regulate the frame rate of your application. Capable of regulating frame skip and frame rate throttling for fast systems. All frame rate options can be changed on-the-fly, including which method is used for timing.

* Color palette manipulation made easier through two new API calls

Don't need to #include "mglserver_internal.h" anymore to manipulate the color palette.

* Added shutdown routines to the DualMode API as a convenience, so that the developer no longer has to know which thread to wait on for safe shutdown.

* Added direct framebuffer DIVE blitters for all color depth combinations. When DIVE is detected to not support a source/destination blit combination (as reported by DiveQueryCaps), one of these direct framebuffer blitters will automatically be chosen instead. Currently, these blitters are SLOW, and will not clip themselves if there is a window placed on top of them. Future enhancements will hopefully address these issues. These were implemented to stop some systems from crashing in DIVE.DLL when an unsupported blitter setup is attempted to be used.

* Added a check to see if WM_SETWINSIZE message attempted to put the titlebar off of the screen. Moves the window so that the titlebar is always available on the screen.

* Bug fixed with MGLSC_reinit causing the wrong video buffer to be displayed full screen when mode is changed to the same video mode but a new backbuffer is created.

* Bug fixed causing video mode corruption when WM_TOGGLEFS is requested while a full screen video mode is being changed.

* Fixed a bug which could lead to popping up the window list instead of returning the window focus to the session that launched a DualMode app when the DualMode app is closed.

* Fixed a bug causing an occasional crash on exit after MGLServer has been shut down if there is a WM_BLITFRAME waiting in the window message queue.

You can download the latest releases from:
http://emuos2.netlabs.org/generic/dmlib_r5_srcbin.zip
http://emuos2.netlabs.org/generic/mglserver_r5_srcbin.zip

October 13

lxfix-0.0.1.zip

This tool will help those who try to use multiple programs together requiring different versions of z.dll, png.dll and so on. It replaces all imports by ordinals with imports by names, thus you will need just one DLL which exports all entries by name.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=lxfix-0.0.1.zip

October 13

Psion OS/2 utilities (v1.3)

Text mode ftp-like utilities for Psion Series 3(5). For a files transfer and files conversion, with a Rexx interface. This utilities don't use any TCP/IP stack calls.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=psiftp.zip

October 13

psiplug.zip for NetDrive

NetDrive plugin to get access to Psion PDA disks as to ordinary OS/2 drive (now with icons :-)

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=psiplug.zip

October 13

DFSee support now on Yahoo groups ...

To all DFSee users

To allow a better interface to the support using regular email, the support for DFSee will be moved from the current Yahoo club to the Yahoo group:

dfsee-support@yahoogroups.com

with related web-page:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dfsee-support

(Note the hyphen between dfsee and support !)

The DFSee club will eventually be closed down ... See the groups web-page for joining instructions.

Regards, Jan van Wijk

http://www.fsys.demon.nl/

October 13

Starfire Engineering & Technologies, Inc to exhibit at Warpstock Europe 2001

The Warpstock Europe 2001 Event Team is very pleased to announce that Starfire Engineering & Technologies, Inc. will be exhibiting at Warpstock Europe 2001. All attendees are invited to visit the Warpstock Europe Exhibit Hall to learn more about all of Starfire's products and services.

Starfire's premier partnerships with IBM and Lotus allow them to offer the "best of breed" products to tackle your most challenging business problems. Their cross-platform expertise covers the OS/2, Windows, AIX, and Linux operating systems. Starfire also provides the foundation for complex architecture, deployment, and development solutions. Starfire is recognized by IBM as one of the leading business partners in providing Server-Managed Client solutions with IBM's Network Computing software family, specifically Workspace On-Demand.

Warpstock Europe attendees will be able to attend a presentation by Richard Spurlock and Benjamin Claypool of Starfire, Inc. Their presentation is titled "Rapid and Consistent Enterprise System Administration: Starfire Titan" and discusses cross-platform administration for enterprise networked systems.

For more information about Starfire Engineering & Technologies, Inc. and to learn more about their products and services, visit their web site at http://www.starfire.net.

The Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference will be held on November 2-4, 2001 at the 'KH Limburg' College in Diepenbeek (Hasselt), Belgium. Warpstock Europe is an annual gathering of developers, vendors and users of the OS/2 and eComStation operating systems, for the purpose of education, providing information and support to everyone with an interest in these operating systems or related technology. More information is available at the Warpstock Europe web site http://warpstock.os2.org

October 13

Guiffy 3.2 compare/merge released

Guiffy 3.2 release available. Guiffy is a visual source file/folder, compare/merge, utility/component.

Guiffy 3.2 enhancements include:

* Folder Compare Verify File Match with text compare - New option to verify file matches during folder compare via text compare. Ignores EOL differences, applies file compare options(Ignore Case, Ignore Whitespace,Ignore Field) and is aware of FileEncoding selection. * Open File/Folder Combos - Optional interface view presents a multi file/folder open dialog. * GuiffyDiff - New guiffy.inside API package class for Guiffy's "diff". Supports both compare algorithms and both verify methods. Runs as a Thread with piped output. * jiff command - New "diff" command line tool.

* Additional Ctrl-Key shortcuts - About a dozen new Ctrl-Key shortcuts added.
* enabled in all dialogs.

Guiffy 3.1 enhancements include:

* New File Encodings Support - Over 100 File Encoding specifications supported. Supports Encoding specifications such as: UTF8, UTF16, Big5, Cp500(EBCDIC), JIS, and Shift-JIS. * Font support enhanced - Selections extended to include all installed fonts. Supports multi lingual Unicode fonts such as Bitstream Cyberbit and Arial Unicode MS. * Ignore SubFolders - New Folder Compare option to Ignore a list of SubFolders. * UI Translations - Spanish and German UI translations updated. * New Installer/Launcher - Upgraded Installer/Launchers fix several platform problems including relative path filenames on Windows command line and Windows ME installs. Plus, MacOS, Linux, Unix and OS/2 improvements and fixes.

Guiffy features 2-way interactive and 3-way smart, "SureMerge", interfaces. Merge interfaces support Editing during the merge and Undo. Compare/Merge views can be split vertical or horizontal with synchronized scrolling. Fonts and colors choices allow each user to create a personal style. Powerful compare options include: View only the differences, differences within N lines of context, ignore case, ignore whitespace, and ignore columns x-y. Comes with builtin UNICODE support plus, a command line interface for CM/SCM integrations. HTML-based JavaHelp includes Table of Contents, Index, and Search engine navigation. Compare results can be saved as text, as an "RCS diff", or stylized HTML. Spanish and German user interface translations are provided. Downloads are InstallAnywhere built kits making installation and setup a snap.

Guiffy is a Java application supported on all Java-enabled platforms including: Windows(9x, ME, NT, 2000), Linux, Unix(Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Tru64), MacOS, and OS/2.

Guiffy 3.0 enhancements include:
* New Minimum lines of difference compare algorithm
* New option to "Expand Attention Focus"(conflict) area for 3-way SureMerges * Folder Compare Refresh
* Options to automatically Save Settings

Guiffy 2.0 enhancements included:
* guffy.inside API package to build compare/merging into your application
* Folder Compare graphical Tree views with clickon file compare
* Folder Compare options to ignore dates and sizes and a quick byte-by-byte files match verifier

Homepage: http://www.guiffy.com

License: Fully functional 30-day evaluation.
Single User registration is $49.

Thank you for your support,
Bill_Ritcher@Guiffy.com

October 13

eComStation CD Covers

Text: You can download covers for all 3 cds of eComStation in StarOffice format from OS/2.cz Download Section!!!

http://www.os2.cz

October 13

Apache 1.3.22 for OS/2

There is a new Version 1.3.22 of the Web-server Apache avaiable for OS/2 at http://httpd.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/os2/apache_1.3.22-os2.zip

October 13

OS2World Gaming Site is Open !!!!

After some months of work we finally released the site.

This site contains a lot of OS/2 native games, a section for DOS and Win-OS2 games and a section for Odin games that we hope to improve it in the future.

We are starting with this page, so we will appreciate all feedback about games that we are missing, DOS and Win-OS/2 games and Odin Working games.

I will like to thanks everyone that help us to built this page and a special thanks to the game authors that had made their OS/2 software Open Source.

Visit

http://www.os2world.com/games

From: Martin Iturbide martin@os2world.com

October 12

AC 97 and VIA chipset

Some people have contacted me about this driver, asking what the status was. Well VIA released a driver about 1 or 1/2 half years ago. This driver worked in a few cases but was for the rest a disaster (sorry if developers read this). For eComStation I'm working on collecting drivers and getting a license to include them. The VIA driver also has my attention and I have contacted VIA and past along the bugs which where documented in the patch on hobbes. I also had a lot of cases where there was no sound. Or system sounds where played to fast. Also with playing a video file I got a trap.

I passed all this information along. Last week I was told they where working on a new version. All I can say, lets hope it has improved and keep an eye on http://www.via.com.tw When it will be released I don't know. BTW does somebody out there have a VIA motherboard with a BUILT IN nic chipset from VIA. I have drivers that need testing.

October 12

PMEquator released as Freeware - Open Source

The Author of PMEquator, Frank Nestel, had released his game as Open Source.

PMEquator 0.1 is an educational game for equations (1995-Jul-09). Now Released as Freeware and Open Source.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pmequator.zip

Soon all this files will be also available at the OS2World Gaming Site (comming soon!)

I will like to give an special thanks to Frank Nestel for making his game Open Source.

From: Martin Iturbide martin@os2world.com

October 11

PMMail Integration with Netscape Communicator 4.X

This software kit is made for integration PMMail/2 or PMMail 2000 into Netscape Communicator 4.X. After installation PMMail will be called instead Netscape Messenger when "mailto:" link is pressed. It will be called in the any other place as well.

http://www.geocities.com/glassman_ru/software/english/pmmail.html

October 11

Printerpak 19 released by IBM

IBM has released today (9.Okt.2001) the Printerpak 19. All Drivers (laserjet, plotter, omni and postscript) are updated for BR, CN, DE, EN, ES, FR, IT, JP, TW Language

ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/printpak/

October 11

wget171-pre1-os2-bin-vac

GNU wget 1.7.1-pre1 for OS/2 with SSL. Compiled by VAC 3.6.5

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=wget171-pre1-os2-bin-vac.zip

October 11

jikes.115

jikes, native Java compiler 1.15 for OS/2 with unicode.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=jikes.115.os2.uni.bin.zip

October 11

Mike's notebook additions

Changes/Additions to Mikes Notebook http://www.catherders.com/mwcexp.shtml

Added more comments on LinkSys router/firewall, including info on a really interesting bug in the LinkSys, a[nother] significant bug in Windows, and what may be a minor bug in OS/2.

Expanded the "Unusual networking problems in OS/2" page regarding multiple network adapters.

Mike-

[Note: Mikes' Notebook is a series of notes about hardware, software, products, vendors, etc. that the author has encountered from time to time, with his opinions and comments about them.]

October 10

Innotek to present Virtual PC at Warpstock Europe 2001.lwp

The Warpstock Europe Event Team is very pleased to announce that Innotek Systemberatung GmbH will be exhibiting at the Warpstock Europe 2001 conference. All attendees are invited to visit the Warpstock Europe Exhibit Hall to discover all of Innotek's products and services.

Innotek recently surprised the OS/2 and eComStation community with the announcement of "Virtual PC for OS/2", a new product based on Connectix technology which will enable people using IBM OS/2 Warp to execute additional operating systems at the same time on their OS/2 desktop. Innotek has also partnered with Serenity Systems International to bring this virtual machine technology to the eComStation platform. Innotek is also the company that brought MacroMedia Flash Player to OS/2.

Visitors of Warpstock Europe 2001 will be able to meet the people behind these exciting products and attend a number of presentation sessions by Innotek's representatives. Highlight of the event will be an amazing public demonstration of the "Virtual PC for OS/2" product. Other topics that will be presented by Innotek's people are "Odin - update and tips & tricks" and "Co-StandbyServer for e-business - High availability clustering on OS/2".

For more information about Innotek and their products and services, visit their web site at http://www.innotek.de

October 10

InformationWeek > OS/2 > OS/2 Will Run Windows Applications Again > October 9, 2001

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20011009S0010

[Moderator note: This is an article by Esther Schindler about the Virtual PC for OS/2 product from Connectix Corp and Innotek which allows running the 32 bit versions of Windows and Linux under OS/2.]

October 10

OS2 World.com Award nomination

The period for the OS2 World.com Award nomination process has been extended to October 14th, 2001.

The OS2 World.com Award honours the best in the following categories:

- Best commercial software of the year
- Best supporting OS/2 company of the year
- Best Individual software of the year
- Best OS/2 site of the year
- Honour award for an individual
- Other

Please visit the URL below and nominate your favourite candidates. After a short evaluation period, you will be able to vote who you think deserves the award the most.

http://www.os2world.com/award.shtml

October 10

ZxMail updated to v1.0.21

fixed in this version:

Proposed Fix: On bad internet connections (lots of dropped packets) would get Failure in smtp dll, changed the routine to call os2_select and changed polling time to 500ms used to be 100ms this should help.

Fixed: Memory overwrite in ZxPop3 had strange effects sometimes, most of the times had no impact.

Info: I am working on adding Rexx support (this will is a major implementation it will take time) and I am working on Alias support which should not be too major (except adding a table to the db which can always create surprises).

We recommend that you update to this level.

ZxMail Server is a full POP3 and SMTP Server.

The main features of ZxMail Server are:

- ZxMail can pull email from other POP3 accounts and redistribute it to a domain by the username or to specific users on any domain. - ZxMail can forward mail to internal or external mailboxes. -ZxMail supports multiple forwards and chaining of those forwards (meaning if a message destined for A and A has a forward to B and B has a forward to C the message for A then goes to C and A can have other forwards). -ZxMail supports multiple domains with no limits
-ZxMail can route email through another SMTP server to save on bandwidth
-ZxMail is multi threaded for maximum performance.
-ZxMail supports IP filtering to block or to allow connection based on an IP address. -ZxMail supports SMTP AUTH command with CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, LOGIN mecanism.

Zeryx Software
http://www.zeryx.com
info@zeryx.com

October 10

C&L Verlag to exhibit at Warpstock Europe 2001

The Warpstock Europe Event Team is very pleased to announce that C&L Verlag will be exhibiting at the Warpstock Europe 2001 conference. All attendees are invited to visit their booth in the Warpstock Europe Exhibit Hall to discover all of their products and services.

C&L Verlag is a well known German publisher of computer books and magazines. The books and some of their magazines such as Toolbox, mainly focus on the subjects software development, networking and Unix in general. Their freeX magazine is a technical magazine targeting users of free operating systems, including Linux, BSD and free Unix systems. Just like last year, C&L Verlag will be at Warpstock Europe to demonstrate their continuing support for the OS/2 and eComStation operating systems.

For more information about C&L Verlag and their publications, visit their web site at http://www.cul.de/

October 10

DaniDASD v1.4.2

OS2DASD.DMD replacement with FAT32, extendedX, and arbitrary partition support, mini-LVM, V1.4.2

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=danidasd

October 09

Mine/2 and Birdman, OS/2 Games released as OpenSource

The Author of Mine/2 and Birdman, Michael Bruestle, had released his game as Open Source.

Mine/2 version version 1.0 (December 23, 1997) for OS/2 and its source code is now available for download at hobbes.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=mine2

Birdman for OS/2 (1998-Jan-04) and its source code is now available for download at hobbes.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=birdman

Soon all these files will also be available at the OS2World Gaming Site (coming soon!)

I will like to give an special thanks to Michael Bruestle for making his gamea Open Source.

October 09

Asteroids Game for OS/2 released as Open Source

Ateroids version version 2.30 (1993-Jan-27) for OS/2 and its source code is now available for download at hobbes.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=asteroids230

Soon all these files and more games will be also be available at the OS2World Gaming Site (comming soon!)

I will like to give an special thanks to Tood Crowe for making his game Open Source.

Regards
Martin

October 09

Star Office 6.0 beta

Sun Microsystems has released a beta version of the upcoming StarOffice 6.0. There is not an OS/2 version but I was able to install it using Odin under warp 4.5 MCP. There seems to be much improvement over 5.2 specifically for me is the elimination of the integrated desktop and also it has support for XML file formats. FYI the beta expires March 2002. You can down load this from the link below.

Efrem Stringer
os2@ihatemicrosoft.com

http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/6.0beta/get.html

October 09

IsoFS 0.21 released

Chris Wohlgemuth has released IsoFS 0.21

ISOFS is an installable file system for OS/2 to access ISO rawfiles suitable for burning on CD. It allows transparent readonly access to the contents of the raw file. Currently only Joliet filenames are supported but this may change in the future.

New:
V0.2.1, 02.10.2001

Added support for file and directory times which was still missing. Found the solution for the missing notebook pages. You have to tell OS/2 that there's support for EAs even if that's not true.

October 09

Beta new Adaptec drivers on testcase

IBM has beta drivers for the Adaptec AIC7870.ADD, AIC78U2.ADD and AICU160.ADD on their testcase site.

From the readme.txt "These are BETA TEST ONLY drivers to resolve issues with long chkdsk and with geometry problems with Adaptec SCSI cards and ZIP drives. Use at your own risk!"

ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/newadaptec.zip

As the readme states, use these at your own risk. Also be aware that rarely does anything stay on IBM's testcase site for more then 2-3 days, so if you think you want these get them now.

I have installed the beta AIC7870.ADD driver on a system with a builtin 7870 UW-SCSI controller and have had no problems in the past 3 hours.

October 09

UpdCD 1.72

UpdCD 1.72 has been released. This is a fix release wich should be installed on top of UpdCD 1.7. Some of the changes:

Added support for Amouse 2.0 (English/German)
Added support for base file (e.g. kernel) updates
Added jjscdrom addon

download: http://xenia.sote.hu/~kadzsol/rexx/sajat/updcd/updcd172.zip
mirror: http://www.quasarbbs.net/updcd/updcd/updcd172.zip

October 08

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Take part in on-line survey: http://ecomstation.ru/poll.php?action=show&id=3

eComStation.ru provides translation of news and offers another information services to your native language. Step by step we extend and supplement multilingual opportunities of our site.

October 08

SETIView/2 and SVCache updated

I've just loaded new versions of SETIView/2 and SVCache to my web site.

SETIView/2 is now at 0.7.0. The main changes are:
- Major rewrite of container handling
- Changed order the SAH files were being read. Should solve update problems when work unit is completed and returned. Also, now all data is displayed for completed work units.
- Added "Column Width Fudge" to settings.
- When resizing columns, will ignore column heading widths if the headings are not shown.
- Column heading display stored for brief and details views
- Added Cache Details for SVCache
- Added Single Thread Update

SVCache is now at 0.1.4. This release is to fixed a bug in SETILOG2.CMD when reading the LOGGED.LOG file.

http://www.os2world.com/djfos2/

From: David Forrester davidfor@terrigal.net.au

October 08

LogView 1.01

WS IT-Service, Wolfram Schmid (w.schmid@ws-it.de) updated LogView, a text file viewer program for OS/2 and eCS.

LogView can trace files in realtime and is very quick. It can be used during program development to disply debug output or to show any other text file or logfile created by any arbitrary program.

Features of LogView 1.01:

o Traces the growing of text files
o Handles large text files with more than 65535 lines
o Scrolls automatically to the end of the file (optional)
o Shows line numbers and file positions
o Starts viewing after program start (optional):
- from the begin of the file
- from the end of the file
o Window position and size can be stored.
o Column wide can be stored.

Web Site (english): http://www.ws-it.de/en/product/logview

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