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Update: OS/2 Groups a live again on IBM News Server
>There are several OS/2 focused news groups reactivated on IBM's public
>news server recently:
>
>News server is news.software.ibm.com
I would like to add one more available group to this list -
ibm.networking.tcpip.os2
With best regards,
Timur Kazimirov
Multinote beta 8
A new beta of MultiNote has just been released. MultiNote is a document
manager for text and text files.
The eComStation/OS2 version is more or less the same as the previous beta
though the database drivers has been updated. A windows version is also
included.
http://www.jma.se/
Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=mnoteb08
OS/2 Groups a live again on IBM News Server
There are several OS/2 focused news groups reactivated on IBM's public
news server recently:
News server is news://news.software.ibm.com
Groups:
ibm.software.os2.lan
ibm.software.os2.misc
ibm.software.os2.rexx
ibm.software.os2.warp
So before IBM decides to shut them down for lack of use (and lack of
promotion) let's show IBM there are still some OS/2 users out there who
appreciate information forums devoted to OS/2.
Warpstock Europe is not for OS!2 users only
Warpstock Europe 2001 is for everyone with a healthy interest in
computers. Being an OS/2 or eComStation user is absolutely no requirement
for attending the event. Even if you are running Linux, Windows, MacOS or
something else, you will still be able to learn about new and exciting
things at Warpstock Europe. No matter what computing environment you are
working in, the three-day presentation schedule contains several sessions
that will surely be of interest to you.
IT professionals and System Administrators will benefit greatly from
several lectures on LAN management in a heterogeneous environment. Alain
Rykaert's presentation on LAN Server Management Tools, discusses a number
of self written REXX procedures for LAN management, based on many years of
experience in the field. Likewise, as IBM's WorkSpace On-Demand now
supports more platforms than ever, Oliver Mark's overview of this product
should certainly be of interest to you. Starfire Titan also offers
cross-platform administration for enterprise networked systems. Come to
Warpstock Europe to discover all these products.
Programmers are in for a real treat at Warpstock Europe 2001. Serenity
Systems' own Kim Cheung will be there to talk about C to REXX interface
technology and how it can be applied in all kinds of commercial packages.
Rony Flatscher will be talking about Object REXX and how it can become a
powerful development tool not only for OS/2, but in a multiplatform
environment as well, as it has been made available for AIX, Linux and
Windows. Another one of Rony's presentations, which should interest Java
programmers, discusses Java Bean scripting using REXX. Finally, Stefan
Schwarzer will introduce Python as another cross-platform high level
scripting language that is gaining popularity.
As the USB hardware interface is extremely popular nowadays, you should
come to Warpstock Europe for a general introduction about the way USB
works. In addition, programmers who want to exploit the benefits of USB
will actually learn how to develop their own USB drivers.
Users of the excellent image manipulation program "The Gimp", running on
Linux, Windows or OS/2 will definitely learn a few new tricks during
Gerrit Schoenmaker's and Onno Tabak's session about font installation and
graphic tips and tricks.
If you have been thinking about trying OS/2 or eComStation, without giving
up the ability to run your Windows applications, you should definitely
attend the "Odin - update, tips and tricks" session, where you will be
astounded by the number of Windows programs that can be run seamlessly on
the OS/2 Desktop today. Moreover, the introduction of "Virtual PC for
OS/2" by Innotek should be enough reason to attend Warpstock Europe and
discover this exciting new product that will extend your use of OS/2 and
eComStation by letting you run even more applications than you ever
thought possible.
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
New builds of Dialog Enhancer for Warp4/Aurora and eCS
New beta builds of Dialog Enhancer for both Warp4/Aurora and eCS are now
available from the Dialog Enhancer website at http://www.dialogenhancer.com/beta_dl.html
The following is from the DE website describing DE.
It's almost too good to believe.... Dialog Enhancer '99 provides the answer to the
problem of the inconsistent look of the dialogs on your OS/2 Warp, Aurora or
eComStation system. The system is overhauled during a sophisticated graphical
installation, and is active immediately after reboot. Your desktop finally will look
complete, dialogs will no longer be a mismatch of different fonts, icons have been
tweaked and much, much more.
The system uses techniques used by no other enhancer utility to create the new look
and feel. Unlike any other WPS enhancer available, there is no underlying application
hogging CPU time, no slowing of your system due to a mass of registered
replacement classes, no random system crashes due to dodgy system hooks, no
wasted memory (Dialog Enhancer actually reduces the memory required by the
operating system.), and no danger of system corruption due to an advanced
installer/uninstaller application which makes many system checks before applying the
changes to over 60 files.
contact/2 - Preview available
The Preview of the address manager "contact/2 " is now available.
Contact/2 is PM program for the administration of addresses, telephone
numbers and appropriate information. It has some interfaces to other
programs, e.g. Webbrowser and Email clients clients can be integrated.
There is further information on http://www.subsys.de/contact/contactinfo.htm
Contact/2 is Shareware. The Preview is however usable with the exception
some export and import filters are not working. For developers of free
software for OS/2 or eCS licencing is free.
[Moderator's note: Currently only the German version is available, but the
web page is in English. The site states that the English version will be
available around the end 2001.]
ThirdEye update (1.51)
ThirdEye is still under active development. We introduced support for:
Ricoh, Canon, Fuji, Casio, Kodak (25, 3200) digital cameras in October.
Use these cameras with REXX library and NetDrive plugin.
PM-version is delayed one more time.
Homepage: http://ecomstation.ru/thirdeye/
Forum: http://ecomstation.ru/thirdeye/forum.php
e-mail: thirdeye@ecomstation.ru
Cool and free printable OS/2 Calendar for 2002
Visit OS/2.cz on http://www.os2.cz, check section "Download" and you can
download and print the new, and I hope cool, OS/2 calendar for the year
2002. In ZIP archive, you will find PDF document for easy printing...
From: Filip Molcan molcanf@os2.cz
Shareware and Non Commercial Exhibits at Warpstock Europe 2001
Come to Warpstock Europe 2001 to see demonstrations of new OS/2 and
eComStation shareware software and to meet the developers of these
applications in person. Many OS/2 User Groups and other noncommercial
organizations will be exhibiting at the event to help and assist attendees
with their questions about the OS/2 and eComStation operating systems.
If you want to see and try out new shareware for OS/2 and eComStation,
Warpstock Europe is the place to be. Many shareware developers will be at
the event to show off the results of their hard work. Among the
applications that will be demonstrated are Peter Koller's Maul Publisher
for OS/2, Dimitri Michelinakis' WebMail/2 web mail interface system, the
notorious disk partitioning tool DFSee from Jan van Wijk, Vincenzo
Venuto's Postgress/SQL database port for OS/2, the ISDNPM Internet dialer
and much more.
embers of the OS/2 Netlabs (http://www.netlabs.org) will be present at
Warpstock Europe to demonstrate their popular projects such as Odin and to
give a number of lectures about interesting software programs, including
the Opera for OS/2 web browser, and Ulrich Moeller's WarpIN and
XWorkplace. At the event, you will also see The Gimp image manipulation
program at work, running seamlessly on an eComStation Desktop using
Hoblink X11.
At the VOICE booth (http://www.os2voice.org) attendees will be able to
obtain information material, join VOICE or renew their membership, chat
about OS/2 and eComStation, and see some programs demoed. VOICE will be
offering a CD with the complete archive of the Newsletter for sale at a
price of about 5 Euro or 200 BEF. Also on offer will be printed versions
of some VOICE Newsletter issues.
Of course, a fair number of user groups will also be exhibiting at
Warpstock Europe. Visit their booth to learn about their activities, find
help and assistance with your questions about OS/2 or even become a member
of such a user group and join our beloved OS/2 community.
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
1026 kernels and JFS now on IBM ftp site
Thanks to a pointer from Oliver Rick on the ecomstation.support.smp news
group.
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/update-kernels/
The following files have been added to IBM's OS/2 update FTP directory:
w41026.zip - Warp 4 FP15 latest kernel files
w41026d.zip - debug version of the Warp 4 FP15 latest kernel files
uni1026.zip - MCP/ACP/WSeB FP2/eCS uniprocessor latest kernel files
uni1026d.zip - debug version of the MCP/ACP/WSeB FP2/eCS uniprocessor
latest kernel files
smp1026.zip - WSeB FP2/ACP/eCS Pro latest kernel files
smp1026d.zip - debug version of the WSeB/ACP/eCS Pro latest kernel files
ses1026.zip - latest SES files
df1026.zip - Dump Formatter files
jfs1026.zip - Newest release of JFS
Note: These appear to be the files that were on testcase last week.
Please see the readme files included in the kernel zip files for details
on what has been fixed and what enhacements have been added. Please send
any followup to comp.os.os2.bugs on usenet. Make certain you back up any
files replaced. You have been warned.
HTMLtoPDF 1.0 released
HTMLtoPDF version 1.0 has been released. HTMLtoPDF is an OS/2
Presentation Manager (PM) front-end for the htmldoc program which
converts HTML files to Adobe PDF or PostScript format. HTMLtoPDF
simplifies the process of using htmldoc by providing a point-and-click
interface for many options as well as a direct command line for more
advanced users who already know the htmldoc parameters.
HTMLtoPDF 1.0 can be downloaded from Don Eitner's website at:
http://freiheit.syntheticdimension.net/os2-myapps.shtml
In order to use HTMLtoPDF you must have successfully installed the htmldoc
program, version 1.8.14 or later. I recommend Alexander Mai's port of
htmldoc 1.8.15 which can be downloaded from
http://homepages.tu-darmstadt.de/~st002279/os2/html/os2stuff.html#htmldoc
HTMLtoPDF was built for OS/2's Presentation Manager (PM) graphical user
interface. It is believed to operate on any PC running OS/2 version 2.x
or higher (Warp 3, Warp 4, eComStation, Warp Server for eBusiness, etc).
From: "Freiheit" freiheit@tstonramp.com
DECalc 3.3 released
DECalc, the multi-function OS/2 PM calculator, has been updated to version
3.3. This is considered to be a singificant update for anyone using the
base conversions (DEC to HEX, BIN to DEC, etc) or computing entirely in
non-decimal base systems such as BIN, HEX and OCT.
New features and fixes in DECalc 3.3 are:
* Added option to auto-save memory values on exit
* Install.cmd can now install to a directory with spaces in its name
*
Fixed conversion bug when calculating in BIN/HEX/OCT modes
* Conversion of
negative DEC to BIN/HEX/OCT now uses absolute value, fixes crash
DECalc 3.3 can be downloaded from Don Eitner's website at:
http://freiheit.syntheticdimension.net/os2-myapps.shtml
DECalc was built for OS/2's Presentation Manager (PM) graphical user
interface. It is believed to operate on any PC running OS/2 version 2.x
or higher (Warp 3, Warp 4, eComStation, Warp Server for eBusiness, etc).
From: "Freiheit" freiheit@tstonramp.com
F version 4.60 (stable) released
On October 14th, Duy Nguyen and Michel Normand have released version 4.60
of F, the "Swiss army knive" of file managers. F is a freeware text-mode
multi-platform application. Supported operating systems are OS/2, AIX,
BSD, Linux, and Win32.
F is not only a very configurable file manager, but also offers an FTP/FXP
client, an editor with syntax-highlighting, numerous tools for developers,
simple e-mail and news clients, as well as small HTTP and FTP servers. F
comes with its own FFP (F to F protocol) for file transfers and remote
file execution, providing services for remote administration. Note that
the interface is keyboard-only.
This new stable release version contains all new features that were
introduced in the previous betas, like VFS support for several new formats
without the need for external helpers, plus several bug fixes.
Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes Unofficial Patch
Another unofficial patch :)
This time for Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes.
I patched 2 bugs. First one is our beloved Soundblaster-bug, so SB-sound
works now. The other one was a nasty bug, that crashed the VDM. It was the
programmers fault. They had no idea of IRQ-processing handlers.
Now the game is 100% playable under OS/2 Warp / eCS. Have fun.
cu Kiewitz
P.S.: Page updates to OS2world are currently not possible.
http://www.os2world.com/games will be updated soon.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/holmesfix.zip
eComStation songs
You can now download two songs dedicated to eComStation from our ftp
server. They are composed by members of the two groups that will perform
during the Warpstock Europe Social Event.
ftp://warpstock:ecs@celkunststoffen.khlim.be
Gnuplot 3.8g released
Petr Mikulik has released Gnuplot 3.8 patchlevel 0
gnuplot is a command-driven interactive function plotting program. It can
be used to plot functions and data points in both two- and
three-dimensional plots in many different formats, and will accommodate
many of the needs of today's scientists for graphic data representation.
gnuplot is copyrighted, but freely distributable; you don't have to pay
for it.
http://www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/gnuplot/
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