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Just as a little reminder..

Lotus has updated OS/2 Domino server to version 5.0.4a. There is no version 5 client of lotus notes for OS/2, but there are reports that ODIN can make the Win32 version work.

Check it out at:

http://www.notes.net/qmrdown.nsf/f94cf4c5c1a011e885256833007439f4/83cb862231310928852569290059af16?OpenDocument

or

http://www.notes.net/qmrdown.nsf/QMRWelcome?OpenView&Start=1&Count=30&Expand=1

Lotus Domino is an enterprise solution for e-mail and workflow. It got also web server and web mail functions.

Warpstock 2000 is only five weeks away, but there is still time to make your flight reservations. You could save some money in the process, too.

The Warpstock Committee is has made arrangements with US Airways to offer discounts on flights to Philadelphia for Warpstock 2000.

Restricted Fare tickets can be purchased with a 5% discount, and Full Fare / Unrestricted tickets are available with a 10% discount if purchased at least seven days advance of the flight. Restricted tickets are those that incur a penalty for a refund or itinerary change.

To take advantage of this offer, call US Airways at 877-874-7687 and mention Gold File Number 43651496. The offer is valid only for flights from September 5th to September 14th.

Note: For the discount to be honored, at least 10 Warpstock attendees must use it. However, we don't think that will be a problem :-)

REMEMBER: Early registration, and the $20 discount that goes with it, ends on August 31. Use Mensys's secure online ordering system or mail in your registration form. More details can be found at:

http://www.warpstock.org/2000/registration/registration.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:

http://www.warpstock.org

or its mirror site:

http://www.ibmforum.com/warpstock/

IBM has updated the kernel again:

updated to fix a regression due to JR14866. Machines that hang immediately after booting and the display of OS/2 followed by the white rectangle require this update.

ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4warp/english-us/xr_m014/NEWFP14.ZIP

Here's another Russian OS/2 site readable by non-Russians (cause it's in English and has no cyrillic letters):

http://vv.os2.dhs.org/programming/myprogs/

Available programs:

qsc
quick tcp portscanner (up to 100 times faster than idsc)

vsched
a simple scheduler that can have individual thresholds for each event (no docs, unfortunately)

geturl
a set of rexx scripts for scheduled downloading using wget. same functionality as GlassMan's awget and similar programs. BUT: it's mine and it was written earlier :)

wf
wipes freespace on a volume by creating a big file (as big as freespace). filled with 0's (updated 2000/07/21)

trk2iso
utility that will remove the 40-byte header of RSJ's .trk files

Here's an article referring to the US Navy's newest survey ship which mentions its use of OS/2:

http://www.fcw.com:80/fcw/articles/2000/0731/tec-ship-07-31-00.asp

Where do you get it?

You can download SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.3 for OS/2 BETA 32 from our ftp site using the following URL:

ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.3-b32.exe

Note that we have now changed the version numbering to keep track of the equivalent release versions of the IBM SDD/se editions of the product. As new public released are made available by IBM, we will update our version numbering to suit.

What's new:

. All remaining changes are now tracked on the web. Public changes are tracked at the following URL:

http://www.scitechsoft.com/sdd2_changes.txt

What is SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2?

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 brings SciTech's proven DOS and Windows device support technologies to the OS/2 Operating System. Although one of the core features of our DOS and Windows products is the support for the VESA VBE/Core standard, the OS/2 version has nothing at all to do with VESA services. Rather SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 incorporates the new SciTech Nucleus, Graphics Architecture device driver technology to bring SciTech's device support to the OS/2 platform.

SciTech Nucleus is a binary portable, OS neutral, device driver architecture. As binary portable drivers, SciTech can fully develop and test the core device drivers in the DOS and Windows environments, while being able to target any Intel x86 based OS as the runtime environment (such as OS/2). This essentially allows the OS/2 product to utilise the same SciTech binary device drivers as the DOS and Windows versions of the product, improving the quality and performance of the drivers for all supported operating systems.

Runtime Requirements

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 requires a version of OS/2 Warp 3 or OS/2 Warp 4 in order to run. More imporantly, it requires at least Warp 3 with fixpack 35, or Warp 4 with fixpack 5 installed. If you have a version with earlier fixpacks installed, SciTech Display Doctor will refuse to install.

List of all certified chipsets:

This is a complete list of the various graphics chipsets that have been certified to work correctly with this version of SciTech Display Doctor. Please note that this list refers to the actual chips being used, not a board-level implementation. Thus you will not see any products from Hercules or STB on the list, but their products are supported because they use S3, Cirrus, Tseng, etc. chips. Also, any card with less than 512KB of memory cannot be supported by SciTech Display Doctor.

Note: Please check the separate list of supported laptop chipsets for more information if you are using this product on a laptop. All laptop chipsets are still listed here as many laptop chipset can also be used in regular PCI/AGP boards.

. 3DLabs Permedia, Permedia 2, Permedia 2V, Permedia 3
. 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, Voodoo5
. ARK 1000PV, 2000PV, 2000MT, 2000MI (Quadro64), 2000MI+ (Quadro64)
. ATI Mach64 GX, Mach64 CX, Mach64 CT, Mach64 VT, 3D Rage, Mach64 VTB
. ATI 3D Rage II, 3D Rage II+, Mach64 VT4, 3D Rage IIC, 3D Rage Pro
. ATI 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage Mobility, Rage XL, Rage 128, Rage 128 Pro
. ATI Rage Mobility 128
. Alliance ProMotion 6422, ProMotion AT24, ProMotion AT3D
. Chips ~Technologies 65548, 65550, 65554, 65555, 69000
. Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434, CL-GD5440, CL-GD5436, CL-GD5446
. Cirrus Logic CL-GD7555 LCD, Laguna 5462, Laguna 5464, Laguna 5465
. Cyrix MediaGX
. InteGraphics CyberPro 2000, CyberPro 2010
. Intel i740, i740 PCI
. Macronix 86250, 86251
. Matrox MGA Millennium, MGA Millennium II, MGA Mystique
. Matrox MGA Mystique 220, MGA-G100, MGA-G200, MGA-G400
. NVIDIA RIVA-128, RIVA-128ZX, RIVA-TNT, RIVA-TNT2, RIVA-TNT2 M64
. NVIDIA RIVA-TNT2 Vanta, RIVA-TNT2 Ultra, GeForce 256, GeForce DDR
. NVIDIA Quadro
. NeoMagic MagicGraph 128, MagicGraph 128XD, MagicGraph 256AV
. NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV+, MagicMedia 256ZX, MagicMedia 256XL+
. Number Nine Imagine 128, Imagine 128 II, Imagine 128 II VRAM
. Number Nine Imagine 128 II DRAM, Ticket 2 Ride WRAM
. Number Nine Ticket 2 Ride SGRAM, Ticket 2 Ride IV
. OAK Spitfire 64107, Spitfire 64111, Eon 64017, Eon 64217, Warp 5
. Philips 9710
. Rendition Verite V1000, Verite V2200
. S3 Trio32, Trio64, Trio64V+, Trio64UV+, Trio64V2/DX, Vision 864 . S3 Vision 964, Vision 868, Vision 968, Virge, Virge/DX/GX, Virge/VX

. S3 Virge/GX2, Virge/MX, Trio3D, Trio3D/2X, Savage3D, Savage4
. SiS 6202, 6205, 6215, 5597/5598, 6326, 5595/530, 5595/620
. Sigma Designs RealMagic 64 GX
. Trident TGUI9440, TGUI9440-R2, TGUI9680, ProVidia 9682
. Trident Cyber9385 LCD, ProVidia 9685, 3DImage 975, Cyber9397 LCD
. Trident 3DImage 985, Blade 3D, Blade 3D (Via)
. Tseng Labs ET4000/W32p, ET6000, ET6100
. Weitek P9000, P9100
. VESA VBE 1.2, VBE 2.0, VBE 3.0

List of all non-Certified chipsets:

This is a list of the various graphics chipsets that have native drivers developed for SciTech Display Doctor, but have yet to be completed and pass certification. The drivers should work relatively well, but as they have not been fully certified problems could arise if you use one of these chipsets. Please do not report problems related to uncertified drivers!

. 3dfx Voodoo4
. Alliance ProMotion AT25
. InteGraphics IGS 1680, IGS 1682, IGS 1683
. NeoMagic MagicGraph 128V, MagicGraph 128ZV, MagicGraph 128ZV+
. Philips 9712
. S3 Savage2000
. SiS 300

List of all supported laptop chips:

The following is a complete list of the various laptop graphics chipsets that we support in this version of SciTech Display Doctor. Please note that this list refers to the actual chips being used, not the laptop brand or model itself. Thus you will not see any products from Gateway or Dell on the list, but their products are supported because they use NeoMagic, ATI, Cirrus etc. chips.

. ATI 3D Rage LT Pro, Rage Mobility, Rage Mobility 128
. Chips ~Technologies 65550, 65554, 65555, 69000. Cirrus Logic CL-GD7555 LCD
. NeoMagic MagicGraph 128, MagicGraph 128XD, MagicGraph 256AV
. NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV+, MagicMedia 256ZX, MagicMedia 256XL+
. S3 Virge/MX
. Trident Cyber9385 LCD, Cyber9397 LCD
. VESA VBE 1.2, VBE 2.0, VBE 3.0

OS/2 users are generally considered to be much more computer savvy than those of other, inferior operating systems. After all, they know more about computers, so they know what the better products are.

But whether you're an OS/2 guru or a casual user, Warpstock 2000 has plenty of presentations that will interest you. Several presentations are intended for those who want to use OS/2 as their desktop operating system:

- "OS/2 Device Drivers News" by Oliver Stein of IBM Germany. Get the latest scoop on current hardware support for OS/2.

- "OS/2 Netlabs: an overview" by Adrian Gschwend of Netlabs. Netlabs is the premier source for free high-quality OS/2 applications, and Adrian will an overview of Netlabs and descriptions of the individual projects.

- "OS/2 in Embedded Systems" by Achim Hasenmuller of InnoTek. OS/2 is not just for desktops and server - it also works great in non-PC devices like set-top boxes and nuclear power plant controls.

- "Running Win32 Applications on OS/2: the Odin project" by Achim Hasenmuller of InnoTek. Let Achim amaze you once again by showing you some Windows 95/98/NT/2000 applications that you thought wouldn't run on OS/2.

- "Warpzilla: What's in it for users?" by Mike Kaply and Jeff Kobal of IBM and Henry Sobotka of Warpzilla. The next generation of web browsers is closer than you think. Mike, Jeff, and Henry will show you what happens when you combine the power of OS/2, the Internet, and open source.

- "OS/2 Warp for Road Warriors" by Tim Sipples of IBM. OS/2 Warp 4 was designed not only to be the ultimate desktop operating system, but also the ultimate notebook operating system. Tim Sipples, OS/2 user extraordinaire, shows you just how amazing OS/2 can be on a notebook, provided you know what to do.

- "MP3s - what they are and what you can do with them" by Samuel Audet, author of PM123. MP3's are the future of digital music, and OS/2 has great support for MP3 audio files. Samuel will talk about the MP3 format itself, what it really means to the world, and what MP3 software is available on OS/2.

- "OS/2 Problem Solver" by David Moskowitz of Productivity Solutions. In this sequel to last year's very popular session, David talks problems and solutions with all sorts of OS/2 setups, with plenty of time for your questions and answers. Don't miss this one!

In addition, several OS/2 vendors will be demonstrating the latest versions of their products:

- Papyrus Office by ROM Logicware. Ulli Ramps will demonstrate this new native OS/2 office suite, which offers a word processor, desktop publisher, spreadsheet, and database.

- KidStuff for OS/2 by Aviar. Gwen Veneskey will show you OS/2's only edutainment collection for children 4-7. It's perfect opportunity for introducing the young ones to the world's best computing platform.

- Zipstream Secure by Carbon Based Software. Bruce Leiwant will show you this amazing file compression/encryption software. Protect your data and your hard drive investment at the same time!

- SciTech Display Doctor by SciTech Software. Kendall Bennett proves that in at least one case, OS/2 has stellar hardware support. The SciTech video device drivers are in a class of their own.

- Netop Remote Control by Crosstec. Doug Taylor shows you how to save money by using Netop Remote Control software to manage other systems on your network, whether you have two computers or two thousand.

All these presentations can be yours for the low price of $79, but only if you act now! Go to http://www.warpstock.org and register for Warpstock 2000 today!

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:

http://www.warpstock.org

or its mirror site:

http://www.ibmforum.com/warpstock/

Peter Moylan has released Weasel 0.98 (SMPT/POP3 server for OS/2).

http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/weasel.html

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 5 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/

A new ICQ client LICQ 0.85 is available from its home page:

http://www.os2.spb.ru/software/internet/licq/index.html.en

LICQ/2 is the most advanced of all OS/2 ICQs except for its price: it uses X Windows, but it works quite well with Exceed, PMX, XFree86/2 and the best for common users: HOBB X11. LICQ supports all modern ICQ features including multi-part chart, long messages and has a modest skinnable interface.

Have you been trying to get a hotel reservation for Warpstock 2000? Perhaps you were hoping to spend a few days before or after the convention in Philadelphia. Maybe you've run into some problems?

The Warpstock 2000 Committee has made arrangements with the Holiday Inn Independence Mall to offer a discounted rate for Warpstock attendees who mention the code "WARPSTOCK". The discounted rates are supposed to be valid for 3 days prior and after the event. Unfortunately, there have been reports that some people were unable to reserve rooms for days other than the weekend.

The matter has been investigated, and the problem is resolved! The key is to call 1-800-THEBELL (1-800-843-2355). Using another number may not work. The rate is $124/night for single occupancy and $129/night for double.

The Warpstock Committee strongly recommends that attendees stay at the Holiday Inn Independence Mall, the same hotel in which the convention will be held. Warpstock is not just about presentations and vendor areas. It's about networking with other OS/2 users to get the most out of OS/2, and that can happen any hour of the day. It would be a shame if you found yourself engrossed in an enlightening conversation with a number of OS/2 experts, only to have to leave early to make it back to your hotel on the other side of town.

And remember, the early registration deadline has been extended to the end of August, so you can stil save $20! See the Warpstock 2000 web site for details on that.

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:

http://www.warpstock.org

or its mirror site:

http://www.ibmforum.com/warpstock/

IBM has released a new JFS FIX.

The following APAR's are fixed and included in this version. It can be applied to any Warp Server for e-Business system.

PJ27215 - Pointer corruption during file locking in JFS
PJ27216 - MS Excel file corruption on JFS partition from NT/warp3 clients
PJ27217 - Xcopy hangs JFS when the drive becomes full
PJ27226 - legacy handle writes past 2gb

ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4.5warp/jfs0731.zip

Bob Eager has updated sockd to version 1.1.

Sockd is a very simple SOCKS server for OS/2. It supports version 4 of the SOCKS protocol. This is the version supported directly by the OS/2 TCP/IP stack, so it is not necessary to use special 'socksified' clients.

http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/utils/sockd.zip

Yury Pronyakin stplus@clhs.kiev.ua has released a Russian edition of FixPak 14 for OS/2 Warp 4.0. This is an unofficial fix based on English-US version.

ftp://ftp.os2.ru/pub/os2/fixes/warp4/xrrm014/

Roman Stangl has relased XComp/2 1.5 a recursive file compare utility:

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7885/Download/DownloadXComp.html

Alexander Trunov the developer of Connect/2 told me today that he has created an English home page for Connect/2, so all those not able to read Russian in cyrillic letters can get information about Connect/2 and download the second beta.

http://os2.ru/projects/

click on 'english' on top of the page.

Connect/2 is a Free Norton Commander clone with some more capabilities (e.g. Hexedit)

DeleGate is a multi-purpose application level gateway, or a proxy server which runs on multiple platforms (Unix, Windows and OS/2).

DeleGate mediates communication of various protocols (HTTP, FTP, NNTP, POP, Telnet, etc.), applying cache and conversion for mediated data, controlling access from clients and routing toward servers. It translates protocols between clients and servers, merging several servers into a single server view with aliasing and filtering. Born as a tiny proxy for Gopher in March 1994, it has steadily grown into a general purpose proxy server. Besides proxy, DeleGate can be used as a simple origin server for some protocols (HTTP, FTP and NNTP).

DeleGate home page:

http://www.delegate.org

The CompuServe IBM Forum is hosting a conference... and we want you to come!

Time: 4pm EDT, 3pm CDT, 2pm MDT, 1pm PDT, 2100 GMT Date: 5 August 2000.

Stanley Sidlov, Treasurer for the annual Warpstock conference will be IBMFORUM's guest for a conference in Conference Room 1.

Please come and join this discussion of the upcoming Warpstock 2000 conference in Philadelphia, September 9-10.

Instructions: The easiest way to access the conference rooms is via the Web. http://go.compuserve.com/ibmforum will either get you to the IBMFORUM home page, or to a signup page. Now, you'll have to have cookies enabled in some fashion for this to all work. Either your classic (7xxxx,xxx), CS2000, AOL or IM (AOL or CIS) ID's and passwords will get you access if you get sent to the signup page instead.

From the IBMFORUM home page, click on the blue "Chat" box near the center top. It will download a java applet to your system (you'll probably have to approve this) that is used for the chat/conference system. Room 1 is the one that will be used this time, just click "Enter" and join on in.

lSwitcher 2.5 Czech and Italian have been uploaded to Hobbes. You can find the Czech version at:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/lsw250cz.zip

and Italian version at:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/lsw250it.zip

Eventually these files will be at:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/wps/lsw250cz.zip

and

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/wps/lsw250it.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

IBM already paid a steep price for staying above the fray. During the early 1990s, the company went through the motions of fighting a rear guard battle against Microsoft during the operating system wars between Windows and OS/2. But beyond helping foster a people's jihad (remember Team OS/2?), Big Blue was a big flop when it came to mixing it up. Had it chosen to get tough, management could have had a real field day recounting what they described as Microsoft's checkered history of double crosses.

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2609974,00.html?chkpt=zdnn080100

Oliver Rick has set up a table in which he gives an overview of the features and benefits of eComStation (eCS) and Software Choice Convenience Packs on his Warpupdates home page:

http://www.warpupdates.de

In the July 31 edition of Computerworld, an article on Delta Airlines scrapping 'legacy systems' which mentions replacing OS/2 systems with Unix boxes.

http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO47646,00.html

A new version of VICE (Commodore Emulator), now at 1.5 is available at:

http://www.prakt.physik.tu-muenchen.de/tbretz/vice2/

It uses DIVE, DART and support for joystick.

Peter Moylan has released version 0.2 of his mailing list manager, Major Major.

http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/major.html

We just installed FP14 over Warp 4.5 Client (Warp 4.0 + FP13) using Jon Saxton's QuickFix 1.2.1 and we are running just fine. Jump to our exclusive report and see the photos made by Embellish during the FP14 install. At this time we are evaluating the new Warp 4.5 performance.

Check our report at:

http://macarlo.com

From the news.scitechsoft.com:

Scitech's up and coming GUI controls for Scitech Display Doctor are currently dependent on another toolkit being ported to OS/2. This toolkit has been ported to other platforms already, but Scitech will have to take on the task of porting it to OS/2 themselves. This will result in LONG delays waiting for the GUI controls which are badly needed in SDD for OS/2.

You can help!!

Here's what Kendall Bennett said on the topic:

"We are using a cross platform GUI toolkit (wxWindows) to build the control panel utilities, and the Windows and Linux versions of this stuff will be ready long before the OS/2 ones. The reason is that the OS/2 version of wxWindows is still not ready yet.

If anyone wants to help make this happen quicker, sign up to help out with the OS/2 port of wxWindows ;-)

We will of course be helping with the wxWindows OS/2 port ourselves, once our control panel is completed for Windows."

If you wish to help them out and help expedite the arrival of these GUI controls in SDD, pop over to http://www.wxwindows.org/ and ask them if you can lend a hand porting their library to OS/2.

Yurj Pronyakin stplus@clhs.kiev.ua has released unofficial russian Peer fix IPR8413, based on English-US version.

ftp://ftp.os2.ru/pub/os2/fixes/peer/ru/ipr8413/ipr08413.zip

One of OS/2's greatest strengths is its ability to be extended in unique and fascinating ways by third-party vendors. After thirteen years, other operating systems still pale in comparison, being unable to provide the same functionality even today. This year, Warpstock 2000 is honored to be the launching point for a key upgrade to one of the most incredible OS/2 applications every created: ZipStream Secure 2.0.

ZipStream Secure (ZSS), by Carbon Based Software, provides on-the-fly disk compression and encryption. Like every well-written piece of OS/2 software, ZSS integrates itself into OS/2, allowing you to use compressed and encrypted files like any other files.

In this day, security and privacy are key issues, and ZSS will secure your data better than any other product, on any platform. But that's not all. OS/2 users are keen on protecting their investment, which is why they choose an operating system that lets them get more out of their hardware. The compression features of ZSS extend that philosophy, reducing the need for hard drive upgrades.

Join Bruce Leiwant of ZGC, Inc. http://www.zgc.com/html/carbon_based_software.html for his presentation of ZipStream Secure and the new features in version 2.0:

- Full WPS integration and full graphical utilities

- Zlib compression engine now included

- File format changes for compatibility with ZipStream suite for Windows

- Installable compression subsystem that allows third parties to extend ZipStream.

You know you want this software - be the first on your block to own a copy by coming to Warpstock 2000.

Further detailed information on the ZipStream family of products can be found at Carbon Based Software's web site:

http://www.carbonbased.com.au/

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:

http://www.warpstock.org

or its mirror site:

http://www.ibmforum.com/warpstock/

I'm pleased to announce that I have compiled an alpha version of gPhoto2 for OS/2. There is only a command line interface available, but that works fine to start with. Currently I'm looking for testers!

If your camera is mentioned in the following list:

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gphoto/camlist

please download:

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gphoto/gphoto2.zip

unpack the file, and start it with 'gphoto2'

At first start it complains about CAMLIBS environment variable. This should point to the subdirectory created while unpacking the archive.

Please let me know if it works or not!

(The Sony DSC-F1 is working properly so at least some things are okay...)

(You also need emx and pthreads installed.)

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gphoto/camlist

iHPFS an HPFS Driver for DOS is updated to v1.29.

Changes from 1.28 to 1.29 by Veit.Kannegieser@gmx.de:

* supports partition of >4 GB size
* better supports NW/DR DOS 7 (AccMode)
* supports partitions on ASPI media (like IOMEGA ZIP 100)
* supports HPFS floppy
* unmounts on changed media and removes from cache
* DiskFree no longer alters high parts of ebx and edx
* can coexist with Personal Netware
* parses extended partition type 0f
* files and volume label with spaces are now visible
* can report 0 bytes free
* can limit reported disk size to 2 GB

http://www-user.tu-cottbus.de/~kannegv/programm/ihpfs129.arj

IBM has now updated the NCSD Software Updates page:

http://ps.software.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/softupd.html

to reflect the fact that FixPak 14 for Warp 4 (English-US version) is now available via RSU or FTP.