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As most of you probably know by now, Judge Jackson has declared Microsoft a monopoly and has issued a document that, essentially, supports the Department of Justice's contentions that MS abused its power as a monopoly and engaged in anticompetitive practices.

ZD News has a special section devoted to Judge Jackson's decision in the DOJ vs MS trial. For all the related info, see:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/msdojendgame.html

Warpstock, Inc. Elects New Officers, Issues Warpstock 2000 challenge!

Warpstock, Inc. (Internet)
Contact: David Ameiss, Secretary (david@ameissnet.com)

Coming off "one of the most successful Warpstocks" ever, the Board of Directors of Warpstock, Inc., a non-profit company incorporated in North Carolina, USA, has gotten down to business and elected new officers.

Paul Hethmon of Hethmon Brothers Software, a three time vendor at Warpstock and a member of the Warpstock Team from the very beginning, was elected President. He replaces outgoing Board Member Larry Finkelstein.

Warpstock 99's Web master Extraordinare, and the first international member of the Warpstock Inc. Board of Directors, Luc Van Bogaert was elected Vice President. Luc was a key member of making Warpstock 99 the success that it was. He replaces the beloved Judy McDermott, another outgoing Board member.

David Ameiss, a university teacher of Computer Science, software developer, and two-time Warpstock presenter and volunteer, was elected to the position of Secretary, which was held last year by continuing Board member Tom Stevic.

Stan Sidlov, the Event Chair for Warpstock 98, and a midrange developer and manager, was elected to the position of Treasurer, succeeding outgoing Board member Mark Abramowitz.

In addition to the elected officers, John Ratti, Tom Stevic, and Jason Kowalczyk serve as directors-at-large.

The Board of Directors wishes to extend its thanks and gratitude to outgoing Board members Larry Finkelstein, Judy McDermott, Mark Abramowitz, and Rollin White for their selfless contributions to Warpstock, Inc. during their tenure.

The Board of Directors has set as its first order of business the completion of the Bid Form for Warpstock 2000. A challenge was issued to the Board to announce the winning bid on January 1, 2000. So, start getting those sites and support groups lined up. The formal announcement of the open bid will be made as soon as the Bid Form is finalized. Warpstock 2000 will be the best Warpstock yet!

New version Licq 0.70.1a + plugin 0.66.2

Licq is client for comunacation on lan (include internet) with protocol Mirabilis (ICQ)

Many new features.

need qt 2.00

download:

http://www.os2.spb.ru/software/internet/Licq
ftp://ftp.os2.spb.ru/pub/irc/licq
and http://hobbes.nmsu.edu (while in incoming)

I'd like to announce the release of ConfigEdit/2 v1.4.

The new version includes support for an external editor, customizable font for the internal editor, new improvements on the import facility, and lots more.

ConfigEdit/2 is a config.sys database manager which can auto-generate config.sys files from a database which can be either imported or created by hand. It can be used to hold multiple config.sys files and generate new ones. Also manages OS/2's recovery choices!

Home page:

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dm898/soft.html

Aviar, Inc. releases the "translatable" version of KidStuff for OS/2, "Edu-tainment" Software for children ages 3 to 7 AND releases the KidSTuff Plus Pak I.

Pittsburgh, PA -- Aviar, Inc. announced today that, it has released the translatable Version of its new product KidStuff for OS/2 and released a Plus Pak.

John Urbaniak of Aviar stated: "We were happy to have received so many requests from individuals in countries where English is not the native tongue and felt it was well worth the effort to add the translatable features to KidStuff for OS/2. Most of our other products are already 100% translatable."

The format of the files was already customizable in the "Preferences" section so if you have more than one child, you can have a separate folder for each child with his or her own copy of KidStuff with that individual child's name included in the programs.

The company also announced the release of Plus Pak I which is an add-on and requires that KidStuff already be installed.

The Plus Pak consists of four (4) modules:

1. "Connect the Numbers" - a variation of the classic "connect-the-dots" drawings found in many children's books;
   
2. "I'm Different" - this program displays four pictures, three of which are the same - one different in some way. The child must identify which picture is different and click on it.
   
3. "I Can Draw" - a very simple free-form drawing package and
   
4. "What Am I?" - As the computer displays a picture, the child must type in the word which describes the picture.
   

For very small children, a "cheat sheet" is supplied with the program. It contains the pictures with the proper spelling.

In speaking with the developers, they had only one comment: We're having fun!

KidStuff for OS/2 is featured on Aviar's webpage: (http://www.oops-web.com/KS/KStuff.html) website is case-sensitive

Aviar, Inc. was founded in 1983 by Dr. Urbaniak to provide top-quality PC software for commercial and industrial users. Aviar's OOPS! was first released more than 10 years ago and is still in use by companies around the world. In recent years, the company as placed most of its focus on development of speech-activated systems. KidStuff for OS/2 is the first of a new product line for Aviar.

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/msftdoj/TWB19991105S0020

also the official finding of fact is at http://usvms.gpo.gov

[News Editor's Note: OS/2 is mentioned several times in the Finding of Fact including mention of the prohibitively high cost of attractive software developers to non-Windows OSes, failure to acquire OEM preloads to any significant degree for any operating system (including Linux and BeOS) other than Windows, IBM's own marketing of Windows 95 to the exclusion of OS/2, Microsoft using IBM's early promotion of OS/2 to foreclose IBM's chances to sell Windows 95 at all, etc.]

<<< Snail Module: New for Escape GL >>>

A surreal Snail module, complimentary for Escape GL V3.0 users. Download from the Snow Storm Software Gallery:

http://www.snowstormsoftware.com/gallery.html

Snow Storm Software
(403) 547 0669
snowstm@ibm.net
http://www.snowstormsoftware.com

From a post on IBM's Hursley News server by Peter Horsenell of IBM UK (news://ncc.hursley.ibm.com/ibmpub.java.os2):

A new service refresh(That is an update for the base installed version) of Java 118 for OS/2 is now available.

The build version is o118-19991026 and can be accessed at:

ftp://ftp.hursley.ibm.com/pub/java/fixes/os2/11/118

It includes the following fixes:

• Font creation is not threadsafe
  
• Monospaced font is proportionally spaced for Korean
  
• Mouse inoperative using Swing with AWT
  
• The idlj compiler does not work for bounded strings.
  
• DBCS corrections for far eastern languages.
  
• JIT assert in rt86xstack_.c Line:500
  
• Z caron missing on cp1252
  
• MenuShortcuts for Function Keys Displayed Wrong
  
• java_g with the -prof option can hang the JVM
  
• Hang involving popup menus
  
• Unknown size of zip entry is 0 instead of -1
  
• Incorrect repids generated by idlj compiler
  
• Applet does not read Umlaut characters
  
• General focus problems with OS
  
• Custom class loader causes JNI panic in native methods
  
• rmic -classpath defect for jar and zip files
  
• Cannot obtain FVD for value type with String
  
• IDL valuetype unmarshalling fails with #pragma prefix
  
• RMI-IIOP runtime code does not work with other Java ORBs
  
• rmic with -iiop does not find actual implemented interface
  
• Stubs reused after connection broken
  
• SanFran: Slow JVM with backslash in CLASSPATH
  
• Access violation - gc during obj manipulation
  
• Inheritance error for abstract interface in generated IDL
  
• Mapping private data for custom valuetypes
  

The Ham/2 website has been updated with new links.

The most recent being some software for DXers by John Gallucci, W8JG including:

• Beacon Time, A IARU Beacon monitoring program
  
• DX All, A daily propagation and beam heading calculator
  

Both of these programs were written in REXX and are free!

Also some links to OS/2 programming sites for those who would like to tackle the job of writing programs for the Amateur Radio Community.

Ham/2 is a website for Amateur Radio Operators who use OS/2 as their operating system of choice and for OS/2 users who may have an interest in radio.

Please feel free to post a link to Ham/2 at your Amateur Radio or OS/2 website.

Ham/2 can be found at:

http://www.lks.net/~davidson

Hi,

Just a quick note to let you all know that the totally cool Warpstock 99 golf type shirts are still available from BMT Micro.

Visit the Warpstock web site (http://www.warpstock.org) and follow the link to order your shirt.

Note : the order page still needs some update, but the actual order links are functional and working.

Yesterday... I have updated my homepage with the latest version of my tools.

Please see:

http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/

Those who already downloaded OS2FAT32.ZIP must unfortunately do it again since I forgot (stupid) to actually upload that file.

Version 0.91 of FAT32.IFS has been confirmed to work with Warp Server for eBusiness.

Also, WPTOOL31.ZIP has been modified to correct a problem. Please check if you have CHECKINI version 2.45. If not, please download wptool31.zip again.

Dear OS/2 Community,

Next weekend I will update the webserver where OS/2 Netlabs is running on it. Because of this (I do a complete reinstall) the server will be not available the whole Saturday (Swiss time = Europe time, whatever this is in standart time zone blabla...). It *should* be ready again Saturday evening :-)

This is the first step for the complete redesign of OS/2 Netlabs, I will install Apache, MySQL, and PHP3 to get a great backend for dynamic websites. Next week the Odin pages will switch to a dynamic system and a few weeks later Netlabs itself should be ready too.

BTW: The first Odin binary alpha release should be ready in the next few days/weeks (more days than weeks :-)

Thanks for the great support and the nice mails I get all the time!

Adrian Gschwend
@ OS/2 Netlabs

Thomas Brez released the OS/2 port of VICE, the Versatile Commodore Emulator. You should now be able to run your favourite C64 games on OS/2 :-)

Get the program at http://www.prakt.physik.tu-muenchen.de/tbretz/vice2/

Bochs for OS/2 has been updated. As of 10/31/99 CDROM emulation has been added. I have no idea what the current source he is using since Bochs (http://www.bochs.com) has been moving pretty fast as of late in terms of progress.

http://www.guisoft-corp.com

Ada Core technologies has uploaded the latest release of GNAT (GNU Ada Translator) to the ftp site:

ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/os2/

Also, Leonid Dulman has a Visual Development Tool available at his site:

http://ada95.freeservers.com/

For more information about Ada95 see:

http://www.gnat.com/

as a starting point.

For all users of Smartsuite for Warp 4:

The latest release of FIXES for Lotus Smartsuite for Warp to bring it up to 1.1.1 level are available from the Lotus site as follows:

http://support.lotus.com/lshome.nsf

• From the Tech Support home page select Support Downloads
  
• Select Support Online Resource Library
  
• Follow Next Page Link to find Smartsuite for OS/2
  
• Click on the Triangle marker and again on the Updates marker to open sub-menus
  
• Select Smartsuite for OS/2 Warp 4 Release 1.1.1 Updated Files
  
• This opens Document #21180 which lists affected files
  
• Scroll down page #21180 for Instructions and Attached Resources (various Zip files)
  

More details of the fixes is available at Document #173173 (linked at the end of page #21180). CLick on the note icon next to the document reference. This page has further references for more detail if required.

In addition to their sound drivers, Creative Labs will apparently also release the source to their dxr2 DVD decoder drivers. It will be posted at:

http://opensource.creative.com/

Not to be left out, Aureal will be releasing source for their sound card drivers also:

http://www.ga-source.com/all/news/bits/10+01+1999/15:44:17.shtml

Looks like there will be plenty of opportunity for OS/2 device driver programmers to gain the respect and admiration of their fellow users.

Daniela Engert has updated her IBM1S506 replacement driver to v1.1.0.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/danis506.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edupub/os2/system/drivers/storage/danis506.zip

BOOTOS2 has been updated to v9.26. The BOOTOS2 program is a utility that allows you to build a BOOTable OS/2 V2, V3 or V4 system using an existing OS/2 V2, V3 or V4 system. The BOOT system can be installed on either floppy disks or a hard disk partition.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/bootos2.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/bootos2.zip

Stephane Charette has uploaded instructions on how to connect OS/2 Warp 4 up to BCTel's ADSL connection.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/telusadsl.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/info/telusadsl.zip

And there is a USB Modem driver fix #2 there as well.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/usb_com_fix02.zip
(No final placement info available)

We are happy to present a new beta of SafeFire PPP.

The main new features are:

• Callback support
  
• Advanced REXX API
  
• UPM authentication module.
  
• Improved documentation
  

SafeFire PPP is a new, powerful implementation of a PPP protocol.

The most notable SafeFire PPP features are:

• PPP implementation compatible with latest RFC
  
• Callback
  
• Dial-On-Demand
  
• Modular design
  
• Three TCP/IP packet filters
  
• NAT (Network Address Translation)
  
• CCP (Compression Control Protocol)
  
• PAP (Passowrd Autentication Protocol)
  
• CHAP (Challenge Authentication Protocol)
  
• MS-CHAP (Microsoft extension for CHAP)
  
• REXX API for connection script (compatible with standard PPP.EXE)
  
• REXX API for authentication
  
• REXX API for message processing
  
• REXX API for message log processing
  
• A set of pre-defined configuration files for most common cases
  

Visit us at:

http://www.lgs.kiev.ua/

to get your copy.

A new version of the Larsen Commander has been released. This is version 0.99.8, which is expected to be the last beta before version 1.0. You can download it and find more information at:

http://home.sol.no/~leilarse/lcmd/index.html

Larsen Commander is a fine 32-Bit GUI File Manager for OS/2 Warp that has a "look and feel" that is much like the famous Norton Commander. The most notable difference is that Larsen Commander is pure GUI and still has a built in command line and a scrollable console monitor. Powerful, nice and snappy.

Software Announcement 299-329
November 2, 1999

VisualAge for Java, Professional Edition: Use this visual programming environment to build Java applications, applets, and JavaBeans components.

New in Version 3.0:

• Support of Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1.7 and Swing 1.0.3
  
• VisualAge for Java, Early Adopters Environment for the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, V1.2 for Windows NT (English Only)
  
• VisualAge for Java for Linux (U.S. English Only)
  
• An improved Tool Integrator API supporting third-party plug-in tools
  
• Visual Composition Editor (VCE) provides complete visual programming, support for Swing beans, and full support for serialization. Also supports the importing and editing of user interfaces that were hand coded or created using other IDEs.
  
• Improved Data Access Beans
  
• And more
  

VisualAge for Java, Enterprise Edition: This is an enterprise-aware, incremental, Java application development environment. Use it to connect Java clients to existing server data, transactions, and applications.

New in Version 3.0 is support for:

• A stored procedure builder that allows you to write Java stored procedures to run stored procedures within a DB2 server.
  
• SQLJ. Developers can now take advantage of embedded SQL statements within a Java application.
  
• Enterprise Java Beans.
  
• Complete support for the EJB specification, including wizards, persistent mapping tools, dependency management, test and advanced deployment tools.
  
• Team programming for Java.
  
• XMI Toolkit for integration with the Rational Rose modelling tool.
  
• Additional and enhanced Enterprise Access Builders (Data, CICS,
  
• RMI, C++, SAP R/3, Persistence Builder, and SanFrancisco wizards (Windows only)).
  
• Interface Definition Language (IDL) Development Environment.
  
• Enterprise Toolkits for Workstations (OS/2, Windows NT, AIX), for OS/390, and for the AS/400.
  
• And more.
  

Planned Availability Date

November 26, 1999

+ November 15, 1999, for VisualAge for Java Professional Edition (Windows & OS/2) available via electronic download

For ordering, contact:

Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

A new redbook about VisualAge C++ 4.0 is available on:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

Unravelling the Mysteries of VisualAge C++ Version 4.0, SG24-5489-00

There's a new release of Audio/Data-CD-Creator avaiable:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/cdrecord/cdrecordmain.htm#audiocdcreator

Audio/Data-CD-Creator is a set of WPS-classes working as a front-end for CDRecord/2 (a free CD recording program). Create your single/multisession data CDs and audio CDs (only TAO supported) entirely via drag and drop. This front-end is of course fully WPS aware and fits seemlessly into your system. Full source code is provided.

New with this version:

• Allow spaces in audio folder names
  
• Progress bar for audio CD writing
  
• Folder backgrounds (Thanks to Arjen Meijer)
  
• Different cdrecord options for audio and data folders
  
• Fixed Bug: Audio-CD-C lost setting for tracknumbers
  
• Code cleanups and preparation for NLS
  
• Removed member function cwLoadIniValues()
  

A few weeks ago I informed you about the new URL of my OS/2 Switchboard website at:

http://shop.mensys.nl/switchboard

From that moment on, the 'old' adress at worldonline.nl was rerouted to the URL above. Since my account at worldonline ended on november 1st, this rerouting is no longer available. Please update your bookmarks if you haven't done so earlier...

The OS/2 Switchboard is updated almost weekly. It now holds 817 links to OS/2 related websites all over the world.

I'd like to announce the release of ConfigEdit/2 version v1.3.

ConfigEdit/2 is a config.sys database manager which can auto-generate config.sys files from a database which can be either imported or created by hand. It can be used to hold multiple config.sys files and generate new ones. Also manages OS/2's recovery choices!

Home page:

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dm898/soft.html

In a recent WarpCast posting (Aurora Client announcement: http://www.os2ss.com/warpcast/wc4321.html) we said, in part, that:

There IS a service offering from IBM for installation and support of an official Aurora Client to be officially announced within the next couple of days.

This may have been incorrect or misleading. Here are the real facts, straight from Steven King (the person named as the source in the original message):

The posting was not reviewed by us and is a bit misleading. We do offer customized installation services for Warp Server for e-business where we can assist the customers in installing only those components that they need. In some cases, the customers want to kernel, LVM, and JFS .... but not much more. So we assist them in the use of custom install (attended and unattended) to achieve the desired end content. But ..... the pricing for the software license is no different than the normal server. They may qualify for discounts based on Advantage points but the tables are no different than for the server solution. We do not have an Aurora client pricing model.

Sorry for the confusion!!!!!

For additional information on the services offerings see:

http://www-4.ibm.com/software/os/warp/services/

Development on v3.0 of MainActor/2 has been cancelled due to software tools problems. They do seem to still be keen on OS/2, so I'm sure any help they can get would be appreciated.

Below is the discussion at MainConcept's site (http://www.mainconcept.de/) posted 31 October 1999 11:58:

sorry to say that you are right and we have cancelled v3 due to many problems with VisualAge v4 for OS/2.

We are focusing on Qt for later MainActor versions.

Sorry, maybe there will be a way to get the Qt version running under OS/2. There are ways to get X Applications to work and we will look into this.
------------------
Markus Moenig
markusm@mainconcept.de

The Large OS/2 Customers List (LOS2CL) has been updated. The LOS2CL is a list of companies using OS/2 in large quantities. It can be found at:

http://rover.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~meile/los2cl.html

Thank you for your help to improve the LOS2CL.

I just noticed at the Enlightenment web site that the newest release has specifically had modifications to make it compile and run on Xfree86/2 and advertises such. Go get this great window manager now:

http://www.enlightenment.org/

Enlightenment is a window manager (changes the look and feel) for most common *nix systems running Xfree86, and now apparently OS/2 also.

WHAT'S NEW?

DTB now searches the chosen drive for ALL Desktops when using the "Get suggested" button to get file listings. We have also rearranged the controls in the "AutoStart" settings page and have added the ability to add files by filter. Wildcards are supported when searching by filter. Examples: C:\TextFiles\*.TXT or C:\T*.E?E /S

ABOUT DTB

DeskTop Backup is a simple tool that works with InfoZip's Zip and Unzipsfx to build a self-extracting zipfile containing your essential desktop and other configuration information. There is no magic or slight of hand concerning it's use and one can do the same work from the command line along with the InfoZip utilitities. DeskTop Backup merely makes it a bit more automated and will also help you decide what files may be important to archive.

DTB will also help find and list important files on your drive so you are able to do a more detailed backup than the standard OS/2 system desktop archive will give you.

You may add to the "suggested" file listings or do a separate setup of your own important files and directories as well. Such as? Well... maybe you want to do an archive of business correspondance or maybe back up a development directory every so often. You can do them on demand or automatically as well.

Saving several distinctive backup setups to be performed on demand or automatically is easily handled by DTB. You can also scan the chosen drive for existence of suggested files whenever you feel an update of the information is needed. (new files important to your desktop may have appeared since the last setup)

As usual, we try to stay away from cryptic scripts etc so "AutoStart" backups are simple point and click setups that update your situation automatically with just a mouse click. You can also save multiple archive setups and recall them at will as well as setting the scheduler to run automatically at startup to archive by "days between archives" or "day of the week".

DeskTop Backup is only $15 and is available online at BMT Micro:

http://www.bmtmicro.com/

More information and downloads are available at:

http://www.pillarsoft.net/

The November edition of "The Warped Perspective" has been posted at OS/2 Headquarters;

http://www.os2hq.com/

This edition covers Y2K predictions from last year and this year.

Our action "OS/2 users petition to IBM Corp." is coming to the end. Thank you for participating in our action. Please, visit our site and vote for OS/2, if you have not done so already.

http://www.os2.ru/votes/petition/

The voting will be over in a week and all statistics will be published on our www site and sent to mass media (and IBM EE/A, of course).

If you want to get the petition's data for your publication, please write to me (admin@os2.ru).

News: Today Russian/2 published Petition's German edition.

Best wishes, Konstantin Okounkov,
Coordinator of Russian/2
(http://www.os2.ru)

With the official DOS version less than 12 hours old, I've completed my port of MAME .36 beta 8.

As always, you can get it from

http://emuos2.vintagegaming.com/

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

It allows you to play your favorite classic, and some not-so-classic arcade games (from the 70's through the 90's) from the comfort of your OS/2 desktop.

The OS/2 version has been updated to the latest version of the MAME core (.36 beta 8). If you are upgrading from beta 6 or beta 7, it will automatically update your Quick List and scan for newly supported games the first time you start it up so you don't have to manually rescan everything from scratch and erase your Favorites list.

In addition to the new games supported, some bugs were fixed from the previous beta. Namco System 1 games (such as Pacmania) should now be working again, and The Simpsons now has correct graphics emulation on the DreamLand stage if you have the patience to get that far.

I have just uploaded beta 2 of MAMERun to the /pub/incoming directory of Hobbes:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/

Final expected placement is:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/emulator/

You can also find it at:

http://home1.gte.net/stefanj/mrunb2.zip

New:

• Fixed bug with the "Flip Y" button
  
• Fixed clipping and scaling problem with MAMERun bitmap
  
• Removed the need for an external bitmap
  
• Removed the maximize button from all windows
  
• Removed the minimize button from modal windows
  
• Added Norm Ross's STARTD program
  
• Customized the DOS environment to allow the running of large ROMs and enhance emulation speed
  

MAMERun should now allow any ROM to run that works with MAME.

What:

MAMERun is a FREEWARE PM front end for the DOS version of MAME (Multi. Arcade Machine Emulator). A front end is a program that makes it easier for the user to interface with his application, which usually has a command line interface. MAME is a very popular emulator that allows you to run thousands of classic arcade games on your PC (if you own the ROMs). You can find the MAME homepage at:

http://mame.retrogames.com/

The Official (and very good) OS/2 PM port of MAME was done by Marty Amodeo and is at:

http://emuos2.vintagegaming.com/

Requirements:

OS/2
MAME for DOS (I used version .36 beta 7)
DOS Support installed
RexxUtil
joystick device driver ( for joystick support, download from hobbes or DDPAK)
ROMs (DO NOT ASK ME FOR, OR WHERE TO GET ROMS!!)

Junk Spy (http://www.sundialsystems.com/junkspy/) has a new web site feature as of today that lets you send yourself test messages and watch as they're filtered out of your email.

"You now have a way to see Junk Spy in action," says Rollin White of Sundial Systems. "You can watch Junk Spy catch and divert junk mail right away. This way you'll know it's working properly and that your junk mail problems are finally on the way to being solved."

Junk Spy filters junk mail as it arrives from your mail server and before it gets to your email program.

"Users of the free prerelease version of Junk Spy can now run this instant junk mail demonstration of what Junk Spy can do," says Randell Flint of Sundial. "And if you don't yet have Junk Spy, you can download the prerelease right now."

Details are on the Junk Spy home page at

http://www.sundialsystems.com/junkspy/

"The Junk Spy prerelease has been phenomenally successful," says Flint. "Everyone wants a copy, and everyone is extremely pleased to see major new OS/2 software on the market. We already have businesses using it so their employees don't have to wade through dozens of junk messages. We have families using Junk Spy so their email isn't full of trash and their kids don't see the garbage that comes along."

Junk Spy is a hands-off answer to the junk mail problem. It uses a logic engine that's more powerful than simple mail filters to keep junk mail in check.

"We continually check new junk mail and update the database of clues that Junk Spy uses," adds Rollin White. "We'll catch the new junk mail tricks as soon as the spammers think of them."

Download the Junk Spy prerelease and make your email more productive again. It's another solution from Sundial - "Sundial Has The Answers".