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September 22

Warpstock Conference Will Still Be Held

The attack on the World Trade Center has, understandably, caused many people to re-evaluate their travel plans. The Warpstock Board of Directors and the Event Team would like to reassure everyone that Warpstock 2001 has not been cancelled.

Warpstock is proud of the OS/2 Community and that less than a handful of people have told us that they have changed their plans to travel to Toronto. The Warpstock planners encourage all OS/2 users to follow through on their travel plans this October. Thanks to new security procedures, airline travel has never been safer.

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.

ZxMail update

ZxMail has been updated to v1.0.15.

in this release:

Fixed: Adding external mailbox dialog could not add mailbox to share.
Added: Sorting of the Mailbox via a popup menu.
Added: Some file size info this will need to be improve to make it clearer

If you need the new features or you need the fixed feature we recommend you update otherwise there is no need to update.

ZxMail Server is a full POP3 and SMTP Server.

The main features of ZxMail Server are:

- ZxMail can pull email from other POP3 accounts and redistribute it to a domain by the
username or to specific users on any domain.
- ZxMail can forward mail to internal or external mailboxes. -ZxMail supports multiple forwards and chaining of those forwards (meaning if a message destined for A and A has a forward to B and B has a forward to C the message for A then goes to C and A can have other forwards).
-ZxMail supports multiple domains with no limits
-ZxMail can route email through another SMTP server to save on bandwidth
-ZxMail is multi threaded for maximum performance.
-ZxMail supports IP filtering to block or to allow connection based on an IP address.
-ZxMail supports SMTP AUTH command with CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, LOGIN mecanism.

Zeryx Software
http://www.zeryx.com
info@zeryx.com

DFSee version 4.03 released

DFSee is an FDISK-like display, analysis and recovery tool with powerfull FIX commands and UNDELETE for HPFS and NTFS. It is a command-line and text-only utility (no GUI). This allow usage from simple boot-diskettes for recovery. The package includes an OS/2, Win-NT and DOS version.

DFSee can be downloaded from my web-site, but after evaluation, and for all real use you are required to get a registration. It can be purchased from the Mensys online shop for about US $18. Details can be found at: http://www.fsys.demon.nl/dfsee.htm

Version 4.03 updates and fixes:
- Fix for 'empty' commands that caused a trap in DFSINFO.CMD
- New windowed help system as a start for the new user-interface
- Windowed messages boxes can be used for all confirmations now

Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 4.xx versions and get support plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email.

But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee!

Regards, Jan van Wijk

Downloader for X -1.2

One of the most feature rich web downloaders X-Downloader is available for OS/2. Application features: multi-threaded, multi-segment downloading with ability to limit broadband of traffic. It also features FTP search, recursive HTTP downloading and support of filters and wildcards.

This version works well with both XFree86/2 and HOBB X11. GTK+ package is requred. Fully complaint with XFree86/2 XWarpzilla drag&drop.

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/nt-1.29_os2_emx.zip

PQMagic 7.0 and no hpfs?

I just received an upgrade for my Partition Magic to 7.0. On Page 21 of the User's Guide it lists the following supported file systems:

Extended
Extended X
FAT
FAT16x
FAT32
FAT32x
Linux Ext2
Linux Swap
NTFS
Unformatted
Unallocated Space

There is nothing in the manual covering HPFS. OS/2 is briefly mentioned under FAT16, but the program must be run from the Rescue Disks created under some version of Windows.

Looks like this is one upgrade I will not be installing.

CDR/RW Wizard 1.0.0 beta 1 build 19/09/2001

Here it is a new CDR/RW build that fix a bug and change some program views.

At my home page:
http://www.quasarbbs.net/rocco
and also at:
http://web.tiscali.it/foros2

[ Moderator note: CDR/RW Wizard v.1.0.0 - Multithreading GUI Wizard interface to CDRECORD/2 for burning CDR / CDRW (data, audio, etc). ]

InCharge 1.02.73

InCharge version 1.02.73 is now available for downloading from the Spitfire Software web site. The enhancements in this release are:

1. When scheduling bills, batch transactions, and notes you can now schedule them up to 99 months in the future.

2. You can now check the balance of any account by clicking the right mouse button on a dialog and selecting account status on the popup menu.

Regards,
Bruce W. Landeck
Spitfire Software

[Moderator's note: In Charge! is a full function personal and small business financial system for OS/2 and Windows 95/98/NT."

New survey about VirtualPC

We've started on OS2.Ru new survey about Virtual PC for OS/2, a software solution to emulate Windows and Linux on your OS/2.

ALso, You can see the result of our previous survey about eCS ;-).

http://os2.ru/voice/index.phtml.en

From: Konstantin Okounkov admins@os2.ru

Virtual Machine Announcement - more information

Hello,

this is the InnoTek version of the announcement. I hope it answers some questions and reduces our email load ;-)

InnoTek has partnered with Connectix Corporation to develop, distribute and market virtual machine solutions providing Windows and OS/2 integration. InnoTek has also partnered with Serenity Systems International to bring virtual machine technology to the eComStation platform as a key feature.

Virtual PC for OS/2 is being developed by InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH and based on patent-pending Connectix technology to enable customers using IBM OS/2 Warp to execute additional operating systems at the same time on their OS/2 desktop.

Connectix Virtual PC for Windows will be amended by InnoTek OS/2 Additions for Virtual PC to provide the best platform for executing OS/2 under the Microsoft Windows platforms.

You can find a Virtual PC for OS/2 product flyer on the Virtual PC for OS/2 homepage at http://www.innotek.de/products/virtualpc.

NOTE: A press release and more information including a whitepaper, FAQ, discussion database, business partner program, distribution channels, pricing, etc. will be available soon.

For questions about the product, please contact us at virtualpc@innotek.de. Currently, we are planning a preview version at Warpstock Europe 2001 (November 2-4, Hasselt, Belgium) with limited supply and a release in early 1Q02.

Kind regards / mit freundlichen Gruessen,
Achim Hasenmueller

InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH
phon: +49 7151 9965-30
achimha@innotek.de
http://www.innotek.de

PhotoTiger 2.51

Already in late March, Michael Moegn has quietly released version 2.51 of the image manipulation program PhotoTiger. PhotoTiger supports the most important file formats (BMP, JPEG, IMG, PNG, PNM), offers a nice range of manipulation tools and can be configured to use a number of scanning packages.

The new version includes:

- better anti-aliasing for the text tool
- creating an overview picture from files in a directory and using a file mask - loading pictures via an overview image using the mouse
- in connection with PhotoTiger Animation, an additional program, animations can be created from an overview image, similar to animated GIFs
- now a stamp can be created using both image and mask data. The mask data can be used for transparancy

PhotoTiger is shareware. You can obtain a license for DEM 50,- or US$30 directly from the author or via BMT Micro.

http://www.phototiger.com

0.9.4 VACPP Updated & Daily Builds Available

Apparently SSL and a couple other things were inadvertently left out of the new Mozilla 0.9.4 build posted last night, so a newer drop has been posted at:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.4/mozilla-i386-pcos2-vacpp-0.9.4.zip

Mike Kaply also announced that the daily update process for the OS/2 VAC++ build has been automated, so two new builds of 0.9.4 will be posted every day with the latest one available at:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-os2.zip

New builds are created at 8am and 4pm. Earlier builds are also archived on the server.

Be aware that these are built differently than the regularly releases. These builds don't create their own \bin directory, so you need to create one first and then unzip it (with directories) from that directory.

Ralph Cohen

Virtual Machine Announcement

Intended to permit eCS users to run Windows and Linux on eCS and OS/2. Connectix, http://www.connectix.com, developers and publishers of Virtual PC for Windows, signed agreements with Serenity Systems and InnoTek on Friday, September 14, for the development, marketing, and sales of a virtual machine application.

The new application will be developed by InnoTek based on intellectual property from Connectix. The product will be marketed as an OS/2 application by both Serenity Systems and InnoTek, as well as an optional feature for eCS. It is anticipated that the application will include a Linux guest capability. Plans include support existing Windows licenses.

Serenity Systems anticipates reselling OS Packs from Connectix for users who require an authorized and supported distribution of Windows.

Regards,
Bob St.John
Director of Business Development
Serenity Systems International

New Norton Antivirus definition file

Virus definition file 0917o32.zip available.

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/defs.download.html

DSK4PM 4.21 released

Daniel Valot has released DSK4PM 4.21. DSK4PM is a PM Program for extracting/generating e.g. *.dsk files

BTW. DSK4 versions are available for Windows/Linux/Dos too

http://dvalot.free.fr/emtcopy.htm

New:

- fix a trap in ARDI unpacker (OS/2, Windows and DOS versions) - Add support for Windows XP in the Windows packer and the ARDI Windows Unpacker.

Warpzilla 0.9.4 avaiable

Warpzilla 0.9.4 is at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.4/mozilla-i386-pcos2-vacpp-0.9.4.zip for download avaiable

[Moderator note: "Warpzilla is an effort to port the Mozilla web browser to OS/2. The latest information about that effort is at http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/]

mum 0.33

I've updated mum to version 0.33

mum is a VIO MySQL User Manager, for easy editing your MySQL user table. Freeware, of course. Binaries for OS/2 and Win32 included.

Goto http://tam.belchenstuermer.de/ and select 'Software' from the menu.

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 - BETA 43

You can download SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.7 for OS/2 BETA 43 from our ftp site using the following URL:

ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.7-b43.exe

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

About SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2
-------------------------------------

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 brings SciTech's proven universal device driver technologies to the OS/2 operating system. SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 incorporates the SciTech Nucleus Graphics Architecture, which is a cross platform device driver technology enabling the use of the same device drivers in all versions of SciTech Display Doctor. Sharing the drivers between platforms improves the quality and performance of device drivers for all supported operating systems.

For more detailed information about SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 (including the list of supported graphics chipsets) see the complete readme at:

ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/readme.txt

eComStation Product Review at OS/2 HQ

The "Special Reports" section of OS/2 Headquarters (http://www.os2hq.com/) now contains a Product Review of eComStation 1.0.

New CDR/RW Wizard version

Hello all,

Here is my new CDR/RW Wizard version, 1.0.0 beta1.

[Moderator note: CDR/RW Wizard is a multithreading GUI Wizard interface to CDRECORD/2 for burning CDR / CDRW (data, audio, etc).]

The most notable feature is CDRDAO/2 support (first release), please send me any bug info! There is also the new CDR/RW Wizard news group. See my NEW, for now, HOMEPAGE: http://web.tiscali.it/foros2

GNAT 3.13 for OS/2

David Parsons has compiled GNAT 3.13 for OS/2. GNAT is the free GNU Ada 95 Translator and extends the gcc compiler so you can use it to compile programs written in Ada 95.

Ada 95 is an object oriented language with an easy-to-read syntax reminding of Pascal and Modula. It is known to be effective, easy to maintain and to provide good debugging facilities.

The package can be found at ftp://unixos2.org/incoming/gnat-3.13p-os2-bin-20010916.zip and will eventually be moved to ftp://unixos2.org/pub/os2/dev/emx+gcc/gnat/gnat-3.13p-os2-bin-20010916.zip

September OS/2 eZine is out

Now available at http://www.os2ezine.com

From The Editor
Robert Basler looks at news and events of the month. [more]

Editorial

Call to the OS/2 Community
Pete Grubbs [more]

Reviews

This is Not Just a Net Drive. Everything is connected.
Andrei A. Porodko talks about an amazing virtual file system. [more]

Opera 5.12 Beta for OS/2
Robert Basler spends some time with this speedy new web browser. [more]

DirDiff - Directory Comparison
John Bijnens looks at DirDiff, a tool for comparing directories. [more]

Articles

ECS Installation Tips
Walter Metcalf gives some hints on installing eComStation. [more]

ODBC on OS/2 Part 5
Douglas Clark looks at Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL on OS/2. [more]

Into Java, Part 20
Simon Gronlund makes the worlds smallest web browser. [more]

Forums

Ask Bas and John
Bas Heijermans and John Bijnens answer your OS/2 questions in this ongoing forum. [more]

September Forums
Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums. [more]

Copyright (C) 2001. All Rights Reserved.

RexxMail updated to build 20010916.130334.

Build 20010916.130334 of RexxMail is now available from: http://www.degeus.com/rexx/

This edition of RexxMail introduces the SafeHTML option to filter HTML content, preventing automatic access to external resources. Users can now safely view HTML content without fear of initializing unwanted connections to outside servers. With SafeHTML, image tag tracers are removed, and legitimate text and image tags pointing to external resources are rewritten to appear as clickable links.

In addition, RexxMail now rewrites links to MIME image content to point to the relevant graphics files in the attachments folder so images appear in line.

And of course, Microsoft Smart Tags are always blocked.

From the RexxMail readme.txt file:

RexxMail provides an extremely flexible yet easy to use e-mail processing environment with a minimum of fuss. It operates through elements provided by the standard OS/2 Workplace Shell (which is still the best graphical user interface available on any platform). Since the RexxMail user interface consists of normal WPS folders and program and file objects, getting to know the program requires only a minimum of effort.

Although the standard way of working with RexxMail is through the WPS by manipulating WPS objects, RexxMail is a straightforward Classic REXX program that runs, like any REXX program, from a command line in a (hidden) windowed or full-screen OS/2 command processor session. Since all RexxMail operations are controlled by command-line switches, the full range of RexxMail functions and settings can also be accessed from a command line.

RexxMail is written in REXX, an interpreted language, so it is also its own source code, ready for you to edit to suit your preferences.

2001-09-16 = Update: build 20010916.130334.
- HTML content of incoming attachment folders is filtered:
* <META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" CONTENT="TRUE"> tag is added to header to block Microsoft smart tags.
* <?XML:NAMESPACE ...> tags are removed.
* <.IMG ...> tags pointing to embedded images are rewritten to point to extracted image files in attachments folder.
- Added 'SafeHTML' option:
* <.IMG ...> tags that point to internal or external images less than 10 pixels wide or high are removed.
* <META ...> and <.IMG ...> tags pointing to external URLs are rewritten as clickable links.
* <META ...> tags except < ... CHARSET=...> are removed from HTML header.
* <BODY ...> tags with external background URLs are rewritten.
* <FRAMESET>, <NOFRAMES>, and </IFRAME> tags are removed, and <FRAME ...> and <IFRAME ...> tags are rewritten as clickable links.
- Added PRM2RxMl.CMD filter to convert Post Road Mailer ASCII (TAB-delimited) address book files to RexxMail address text file format.
- Added 'Converting to RexxMail from other mail clients' section to 'readme.txt' (this file).
- Added explanatory 'contents.txt' file to RexxMail program directory.
- Changed command-line help mechanism: RexxMail now uses a single help text resource file, 'showhelp.txt', and results are sent to standard output rather than piped to the 'more' command.
- (Install.CMD): A few minor changes in connection with the new command-line help mechanism.
- Added 'BeforeDispatch' option to specify a command to run before collecting and sending mail.
- Added 'AfterDispatch' option to specify a command to run after collecting and sending mail.

RexxMail is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Regards,

Marcus de Geus
--
marcus@degeus.com
http://www.degeus.com

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