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Opensource Mandates
Greetings,
The article below details a trend worldwide of governments passing laws
mandating preference be given to free/open source software. This could
have very interesting implications for members of the OS/2 community.
Enjoy - Janeira
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"Governments push open-source software
By Paul Festa
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 29, 2001, 4:00 a.m. PT
Governments around the world have found a new rallying cry--"Software
libre!"--and Microsoft is working overtime to quell it.
A recent global wave of legislation is compelling government agencies, and
in some cases government-owned companies, to use open-source or free
software unless proprietary software is the only feasible option."
Full story: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6996393.html?tag=tp_pr
DSK4PM 4.20 released
DSK4PM is a PM tool for extracting and generating the wellknown *dsk
images
http://dvalot.free.fr/emtcopy.htm
ZxMail updated to v1.0.10
Fixed in this release:
if resolv or resolv2 had only one line the module zxserver would crash.
thanks to Erik P. Olsen for the help on that one.
If ran into this problem after installing ZxMail we recommend you update
to this version. otherwise you can ignore it.
The error reported would be a sys3175 memory overwrite in module
ZxServer.dll if it does not ioccur in your system at startup then you can
ignore this update.
Zeryx Software
http://www.zeryx.com
info@zeryx.com
new JJSCDROM
Fixed insufficient 'multisession handling control' IOCtl
implementation. Now works correctly (I hoped :-)
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/jjscdrom_20010828.zip
STHMon
A new version of StHWMon is available at:
http://home.t-online.de/home/stefan.milcke/hwmon_en.htm
It has a new feature to cool down an AMD-CPU.
MfG Stefan Milcke
Single-day Warpstock passes available
OS/2 users looking to attend Warpstock 2001 for only one or two days can
now take advantage of the option to purchase single-day tickets. This is
great news for people who can't attend all three days of the conference.
Single-day tickets are available for any day of the conference. Each day
pass costs $40 (U.S.) and is available only at the door. Since the cost
for the entire conference is $120 (if paid at the door), you can attend
on a day-by-day basis and not waste any money. Of course, you could also
pre-register before September 15, and pay only $90 for the entire
conference.
More information on registration is available at http://www.warpstock.org/2001/registration/registration.html
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North
Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a
gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world
for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available
at the Warpstock 2001 website, http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror
site: http://warpstock.os2voice.org.
File names and attributes checker had been updated.
The file tool called "Names" had been updated. This application checks
files on HPFS drives. It is possible to change the case of names, revise
differences between file and WPS object names and change file attributes.
Current directory: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/names-v13.zip
In future: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/names-v13.zip
Warpcalc 1.9 released
The WarpCalc calculator package contains two scientific calculators, one
for the command line (CLI) and one for the OS/2
Presentation Manager (GUI). Both versions share the same core
capabilities.
A whole calculation can be entered, reviewed and edited at once.
Plenty of standard mathematical functions built-in.
Seamlessly expandable with user defined variables and functions.
Temporary variables can be created on-the-fly using the assignment
operator.
User configurable result formatting (e.g. engineering notation) and
precision (upto 15 significant digits).
http://www.visdom.nu/software/warpcalc/index.html
Astrolog 1.0 beta released
Astrolog is a classic when it comes to astrology software. Not only 100
percent freeware, but also one of the most complete and flexible
astrological calculation programs ever created!
Note that the beta download below is executable only. Please do not
download this version unless you intend to give feedback in one form or
another.
http://www.visdom.nu/software/astrolog/index.html
DN/2 beta 1 released
Another free VIO File Commander DN/2, next to XCom/2 and Connect/2, from
Russia sees the beta light whilst the well-known (shareware)FC 2.20
rests since more than one year in alpha stage
BTW. like X-Com/2, DN/2 has a Windows version too
Tonigy v1.4 has been released.
Tonigy v1.4 has been released. Tonigy allows to access tracks of Audio,
Video and Data CD as ordinary files. With Tonigy you can work with files
of CD-I disks easily. In addition, new Tonigy v1.4 represents the boot
image of an ISO track as a separate file.
From: Deffie Group tonigy@defgroup.com
JSCDROM.DMD updated
JJSCDROM.dmd is a modified version of OS/2 CD-ROM / CD-RW / DVDs device
manager driver (OS2CDROM.DMD), based on the latest OS/2 DDK on-line source
code.
Takayuki 'January June' Suwa has updated JJSCDROM.DMD so it can be used
together with UDF.IFS and CD-RW Writers. Hopefully some more writers will
work than with the original os2cdrom.dmd.
Here a small part of the readme (part History).
build JJ20010825 - August 25th,2001
1.Rebuilt. Now based on DDK_000821 source, thus CD-RW / DVD
writing and formatting, and USB connection
support are also included.
2.Added NEC-46x multisessioning method enforcing feature
3.Included GNU-diff'ed informations files from the original DDK
on-line source code.
4.Included symbol informations file for debugging. build
JJ20010827 - August 27th,2001
1.Added new 'multisession handling control' IOCtl, category
IOCTL_CDROMDISK (0x80) function
CDROMDISK_MS_CTRL (0x4a).
2.Added bit 28-29 to IOCTL_CDROMDISK - CDROMDISK_DEVICESTATUS
device status.
3.Added new bit FEATURE_MSCTRL_SUPPORT (0x00008000) to feature
IOCtl category IOCTL_CDROMDISK2 (0x82)
function CDROMDISK2_FEATURES (0x63).
4.Included lxLite'd version.
New game for OS/2 & ecomstation
I have just released the game Blocks in an early beta version.
Blocks is a strategy game, with some elements of tetris (i.e. falling
blocks).
As this is an early beta release, I would like your input on the gameplay
and functionality of the program.
You can get the latest version at :
http://inet.uni2.dk/~kimfoder/blocks/blocks.htm
Kim Foder
kimfoder@inet.uni2.dk
kim@foder.dk
kif@crosswinds.net
IBM's OS/2 Gambit
A Special Report has been posted at OS/2 Headquarters http://www.os2hq.com/ reviewing IBM's long-shot gambit to replace Wintel
with PowerPC running OS/2 -- and how the failure of the PowerPC version of
OS/2 led to IBM's current internal division over OS/2's future.
FTE
New FTE build 2001-08-19
FTE is a free (licensed under the GNU GPL) text editor for developers. It
is really powerful, yet very easy and intuitive to use.
Ports that can be compiled from the current source tree include OS/2,
Win32 console, DOS, Linux console and an X port for many UNIX'es,
including Linux, AIX, Solaris and Cygwin. An incomplete UNIX terminal port
(using s-lang) is also available.
Download: http://fte.sourceforge.net/
There are .exe only! You'll need a complete packeage from hobbes http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=fte if you don't have FTE up
and running.
WarpIN and XWorkplace have both been updated to V0.9.14.
1. WarpIN V0.9.14 has been released.
WarpIN is intended to become the new universal OS/2
installer. It is becoming more and more popular among
OS/2 developers because of its flexibility and ease of
use. It has full system configuration (CONFIG.SYS,
WPS classes, WPS objects) and can fully undo all the
changes to your system again.
V0.9.14 has more fixes and introduces self-installing
executables support to finally solve the download
problems many people have been having.
2. XWorkplace V0.9.14 is out also.
XWorkplace is the most feature-rich freeware Workplace
Shell enhancer on the planet, and even better, it is
OpenSource. XWorkplace is the successor to my popular
XFolder utility and has become a Netlabs project.
For details, please refer to the download address
below.
V0.9.14 again fixes quite a number of bugs. In addition, some new features
were added.
Note: To install XWorkplace V0.9.14, you also need WarpIN V0.9.14 or
higher, since XWorkplace now comes as a self-installing executable.
To get the new WarpIN and XWorkplace, please go to:
WarpIN and XWorkplace are Netlabs projects, released under the GNU General
Public Licence. The source code is available on the Netlabs CVS server.
See http://www.netlabs.org/nosa/ and the above address for details.
We have created four mailing lists at groups.yahoo.com:
-- warpin-user
-- warpin-dev
-- xworkplace-user
-- xworkplace-dev
for WarpIn and XWorkplace users and developers, respectively.
We are grateful for feedback on these mailing lists.
Have fun!
Ulrich Moeller
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