VOICE Newsletter 12/2002

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November 09

Maul Publisher 2.21

Maul Publisher is quite simply one of the most powerful DTP applications available today.

Program URL: http://www.manglais.com/subs/php/product.php?MAULE200

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/maule221.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=maule221.zip

November 09

Enhanced WHOIS client

This is a new whois (RFC 954) client rewritten from scratch. It is derived from and compatible with the usual BSD and RIPE whois(1) programs. It is intelligent and can automatically select the appropriate whois server for most queries.

Program URL: http://www.linux.it/~md/software/

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/whois-4.5.31-os2.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=whois-4.5.31-os2.zip

November 09

Updated single IBM Mouse driver

Just a warning that the installer in this package has a bug in it where it deletes the mouse.hlp file before copying it to the x:\os2\help directory, so the installation fails with a DosCopy error. I was able to manually copy this file. I have not been able to replace the MULTIPT.EXE program as the program is in use. But the new MULTIPT.EXE is the exact same file size as the previous one, and the mouse seems to work fine with the old version of that program.

I have only tried it with my 3button Logitech mouse so far. I had to stop using my IBM ScrollMouse with the previous version of this driver as it behaved very badly (I don't recall the exact symptoms). This Single Mouse Driver is has added the following features:

Middle button scrolling or magnifying pointer.

The readme.txt includes the following points:

* This is a required update for ThinkPad T30 owners to fix problems with TrackPoint that may stop working after suspend/resume with CP2 drivers.

* SingleMouse will not work with Warp3 or older systems. On Warp4 systems, you must install XR_M005 (revision 9.029) or later fixpak before you can proceed with SingleMouse installation.

November 09

Updated single IBM Mouse driver

Despite the mentioned older dates on the IBM device driver site, the Single Mouse Driver package has been updated. Mouse.sys is now at V.10.087

November 09

North America - Virtual PC for OS/2 bundle special

For immediate release:

Finnegan Software is pleased to announce a limited-time special on the Connectix Virtual PC bundle for Windows and OS/2, with the OS/2 additions.

Pre-orders available (we have to bundle up to reduce shipping costs) for a reduced price of C$430 (US$280.22) - compare at US$359 from Connectix.

Full details at http://www.finnsoft.com/html/virtualpc.htm

Finnegan Software, Inc. is a systems reseller and PC support company based in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.

We specialize in high-availability and high-performance PC's - workstations and servers - for a global market.

We've also updated our eComStation system pricing PDF - also available at the link above.

All custom-assembled systems come with complete operating system preloads and updates (FixPaks, etc.), and our personal attention to each and every system is evident in the finished product. Please contact us today to discuss YOUR next PC upgrade.

Thanks, and have a great weekend!

-Derek

Derek W. Keoughan,
Finnegan Software, Inc., Brampton, Ontario, Canada
http://www.finnsoft.com 416-410-4774 phone - 800-258-0033 toll free - 905-846-5516 fax

November 08

eCS MT 1.10.5.1 uploaded

I have uploaded 1.10.5.1 to http://www.ecomstation.com/. It corrects a couple of problems, primarily with downloading.

Build 1.10.5.1
Selecting a new file path no longer causes an exit.
Remove prompting when unzipping updated control files.
Corrected error in determining eligibles downloads.

If you can't find Convenience Fixpack 3 (english) on http://www.ecomstation.com/, it is because it has not made its way into the summary list. Search on "xr0c003".

November 08

pwICQ for OS/2 Preview (29-Oct-2002

pwICQ for OS/2 Preview (29-Oct-2002) This is a famous ICQ clone for OS/2. This is a Preview release.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pwicq2os2-preview.exe
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pwicq2os2-preview.exe

November 07

Warpstock Europe Picture Gallery

Tomorrow, november 8, Warpstock Europe will open it\'s doors for three days of OS/2, eCS and rock & roll!! This time the event takes place in Arnhem, the Netherlands.

For everyone who can't join us in Arnhem, the dutch OS/2 user group will maintain an on-line Photo Gallery website. This site will be updated during each day of the event. You can visit the the Gallery at URL: http://www.hobby.nl/~os2-gg/wsgallery.html

November 06

JAlbum 2.7

JAlbum 2.7 has been released

JAlbum is a tool to help you getting your photos on the web

2002-11-06 2.7
News:

* More intelligent image ordering when sorting images by name: Images containing numbers will have the numeric part compared numerically and not alphanumerically. This allows files like \"2.Hiking.jpg\" to be sorted before \"11.Hiking.jpg\"
* Image sort ordering may be reversed
* Linux users can specify other browsers to be launched than Netscape by running JAlbum like this:
java -Dbrowser.cmd=\"mozilla\" -Dbrowser.arg0=\"@url\" -jar
JAlbum.jar

Bug fix:

* Didn\'t select the correct style when loading a project (Introduced in 2.4.1)

http://www.datadosen.se/jalbum/

November 06

First version of the Netlabs EPM Distribution released

The first version of the Netlabs EPM Distribution (NEPMD), hast just been released and can be downloaded from http://nepmd.netlabs.org.

There you can also learn more about the benfits and new functionality, that this distribution provides to users of OS/2 and eComStation. All efforts target the developers as well as plain endusers - if you don\'t know, how EPM can do for you, you have missed a lot!

See also the two sessions on the Netlabs EPM Distribution at Warpstock Europe 2002! http://warpstock.os2.org/en

http://nepmd.netlabs.org

November 06

Updates at www.ecomstation.com

A major update to the eCS Maintenance Tool is contained in 1.10.5. In addition, the following packages are now available for download through http://www.ecomstation.com/ or by downloading eCS MT 1.10.5 and using its download capabilites.

eCS Maintenance Tool 1.10.5
IBM Convenience Package FixPak 3 (English)
OS/2 kernel 14.093a_W4
OS/2 kernel 14.093a_SMP
TCP/IP 4.3x fixpack UN02206 (English)
MPTS LAPS 4.3x fixpack WR08706 (English)
TCP/IP 4.3x fixpack UNG2206 (Deutsch)
MPTS LAPS 4.3x fixpack WRG8706 (Deutsch)
IBM Single Mouse driver (10.73)
IBM IDE DASD drivers (10.85)
Daniela Engert's IDE driver suite (1.5.2 & 0.3.12)

Some of the above packages require the latest level of eCS MT for installation support (for example, the install program shipped by IBM with the Single Mouse driver has never worked).

November 06

Analysis of Microsoft Decision at OS/2 HQ

The November 2002 edition of "The Warped Perspective" at OS/2 Headquarters http://www.os2hq.com/ contains a detailed analysis of what is wrong with the Court's recent Microsoft decision.

November 05

Ghostscript 7.32beta

Ghostscript the well knwon postscript interpreter has been released in 7.32beta

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/test

November 05

UpdCD 2.24 fix has been released

Changes:

new: install CD now supports joliet format (all)
new: added sound driver add-on definition (all)
new: added support for java updates (CP)
new: support for fixpak XR_F001, device driver fixpak 3, printer fixes (CP)

fix: added reparation of tcp/ip 4.1 rsp file (Warp 4)
fix: fixed peer uninstallation problem (Warp 4)
fix: aligned with java 1.3.1 (Warp 4, WSeB)
fix: aligned with fixpak 3 (CP)

Enjoy!

-> URL: http://xenia.sote.hu/~kadzsol/rexx/sajat/updcd.htm
-> Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=n/a

November 05

TAMARACK(tmi) TC9021 MAC driver 1.02

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tc902x02.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=tc902x02.zip

November 05

wvcli updated

wvision-cli 0.0.14m ( Mon Nov 4 06:34:50 2002 UTC )
-sync fixes
-new audio codecs MS ADPCM,RIFF ALAW,RIFF MULAW (ffmpeg decoding)

wvision-cli 0.0.14m ( Thu Oct 31 06:23:21 2002 UTC )
-WMA 1/2 native audio decoding (ffmpeg)
-increase A/V threads stack

wvision-cli 0.0.14m ( Tue Oct 29 06:03:37 2002 UTC )
-DVD cache buffers free
-hide/show mouse pointer when FS switched
-disable file cache if badly interleaved avi detected

wvision-cli 0.0.14m ( Mon Oct 28 07:38:04 2002 UTC )
- cache control added (commend-line option and configuration file)
- avi sync fix
- mpeg2 3DNow -> MMXEXT for motion compensation

wvision-cli 0.0.14l ( Thu Oct 24 05:07:04 2002 UTC )
-postprocess code (mplayer project) & options (see readme)
-force 16:9 aspect disabled

wvision-cli 0.0.14l ( Fri Oct 18 05:22:29 2002 UTC )

-DVD subtitles fixes -force 16:9 aspect when mpeg width = 720

wvision-cli 0.0.14k ( Thu Oct 17 17:58:09 2002 UTC )

-added pipe interface for wvcli -reworked internal player control in wvcli (this will simplify future enchancements)
-restored PgUp/PgDown behavior

wvision-cli 0.0.14k ( Mon Oct 14 05:17:51 2002 UTC )
-DVD subtitles (-sid option)

wvision-cli 0.0.14k ( Mon Oct 7 05:57:42 2002 UTC )
-MMX/MMX2/SSE optimized versions of memcpy (based on xine project memcpy)
-libavcodec (ffmpeg project) has 'Sony Digital Video' decoder now
-DVD sync fix (mpeg2 delayed frames / 3:2 pulldown)
-cache disabled (bugs)
-pause bugfix
-YUV422P blitting bugfix

Program URL: http://www.os2.kiev.ua/
http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvcli/wvcli20021105.zip

Program URL: http://www.os2.kiev.ua/
http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvcli/wvcli20021105.zip

November 05

Informer

Small utility for getting system information. Could work like screen saver or Cgi.

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

November 05

danis506 1.52

IBM1S506 replacement, supports Intel, VIA, Ali, SiS, CMD, Promise, Cyrix, HPT, AMD, Artop, SMSC, ServerWorks, Opti, Nvidia, NatSemi and SiliconImage, SerialATA, disk capacities up to 2TiB, V1.5.2

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/danis506r152.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=danis506r152.zip

November 05

OpenSSH 3.4 p1.6

OpenSSH is a FREE version of the SSH protocol suite of network connectivity tools that increasing numbers of people on the Internet are coming to rely on. OpenSSH encrypts all traffic (including passwords) to effectively eliminate eavesdropping, connection hijacking, and other network-level attacks. OpenSSH supports SSH 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 protocols.

OpenSSH/2

At this time, current devel version of OpenSSH/2 is available. To start VIO programs via SSHD use viostart.exe or tnpipe.exe (from ssh1 distributions) as the shell.

Program URL: http://en.ecomstation.ru/openssh/

November 04

Bingo/2 released as open source

Bingo/2 had not been released as open source under the GNU GPL License.

Special thanks to its author, Ric Zapanta for sharing the source code with all the OS/2 community.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/bingo2.zip

Bingo/2 ver 1.4 (1995/Oct/14) for OS/2 is a 32-bit, multi-threaded, multi-media OS/2 2.x Presentation Manager software program which allows you to play many different types of bingo games on your computer. Now released as Open Source under the GNU GPL license

-> Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=bingo2.zip

November 04

PMCRC32

Reinhard Berger has a new version of the SFV Checker for OS/2 PM "PMCRC32". There are a number of new enhancements, including the MD5 support.

-> Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pmcrc32-20.zip
-> Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=PMCRC32-20.zip

November 04

Smartsuite 1.7.1 information

There is a new release/Update available for Smartsuite 1.7. Look here for details.

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203&q=SmartSuite%2B%2522fix%2Blist%2522%2B1.7.1&uid=sim12ddba75731eb46d485256c55005ec9bf

[Moderator's note: Please note that there is still no link at the Lotus Smartsuite Site for either downloading or obtaining this update.]

November 03

TZCRON.CMD 1.0 automates changing DST

This REXX script, TZCRON.CMD, will add itself to the crontab to be scheduled at the time of the switch between standard and daylight savings time, and when called at the right minute of such a switch, will change system time including the time zone offset accordingly.

It requires a CRON daemon with CRONTAB.EXE to submit the timed execution, RxDate 2.1 REXX Library, TZset.exe by Peter Moynihan and of course a complete TZ environment variable, which has to include the date and time of the changes, not only the time zone names.

Download it from hobbes, currently
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tzcron10.zip, later
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/tzcron10.zip or from
http://www.willms-edv.de/freesoft/

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