VOICE Newsletter 10/2003

Virtual OS/2 International Consumer Education

Oktober 2003

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September 25

NewView 2.9.8

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/NewView2_9_8.zip
later
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/misc/NewView2_9_8.zip

V2.9.8
- Launch program links Links to "netscape" and "explore" are translated into URLs and use the default browser.
- Automatically make URL links from http:// https:// ftp:// mailto: news: www.a.b ftp.a.b and x@y.z
- External links work
- Fixed several PM resource leaks causing NewView/PM to slow down after displaying many topics
- Adjusted margins again

NewView is a free replacement for the original OS/2 or eComStation online help system.

Major enhancements are:

- New user interface (split window)
- Select and copy direct from window
- Easy to use global (all files) search
- Remembers size & position
- Most recently used files list
- Smooth scrolling display
- Current topic always highlighted in contents
- Can go forward as well as back in history
- Options for fonts, colors and more
- Annotate help files
- Bookmarks
- Fully resizeable

September 25

Open Office on OS/2 and eCS Previews at Warpstock 2003

Warpstock 2003 in San Francisco, taking place the weekend of October 18th, will host an important presentation previewing the newly announced support for Open Office on OS/2 and eCS. Here's the background info.

Serenity Systems, NorthLAN Solutions, and Innotek Systemberatung recently concluded an agreement to, "make Open Office support available to OS/2 users". While complete details of this agreement remain confidential, we do know that Innotek will be doing the development and that Serenity will offer the product to end users through its reseller channel.

Innotek's Oliver Stein will be making a presentation at Warpstock 2003 during which he will demo the code, tell us what Open Office is, and what the OS/2 specifics are. He'll also be covering the results of their first tests (" ... the performance will be really impressive.") and how Innotek's great font engine can be used to get the best possible WSIWYG on-screen display. Oliver will also be clarifying the timings of expected beta and General Availability roll-outs of this exciting new choice for OS/2 and eCS office productivity software users!

Warpstock 2003 will be at the Doubletree Hotel San Francisco Airport the weekend of October 18th and 19th. Remember, both discounted Warpstock registration and Doubletree hotel room rates are only available through Thursday, September 25th. So, save yourself some money! Register for Warpstock and make your room reservations today!

Here's the link to the Doubletree Hotel San Francisco Airport's homepage: http://www.doubletree.com/en/dt/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=SFOAODT

The hotel's direct number is 1-650-344-5500. Their FAX number is 1-650-340-8851.

Here is Hilton's secure reservations URL for making Warpstock 2003 room reservations: https://secure.hilton.com/en/dt/res/choose_dates.jhtml?&hotel=SFOAODT&spec_plan_desc=Warpstock&spec_plan=CDTWRS

Finally, Early Bird Pricing of only $99 for both days, for Warpstock itself, also ends Thursday. Friday that rate goes up to $140! Think of it as getting the Social, a $50 cost, for nearly free! So, save yourself save some money and register before Friday at this URL: http://www.bamart.com/Store.asp?m=Warpstockinc&n=9&k=4268&s=Registration

Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina 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 web site: http://www.warpstock.org/

September 25

Computer Data Strategies to exhibit and present at Warpstock

CDS (Computer Data Strategies, Inc.) will be exhibiting their wares and giving a presentation on "Disaster Recovery and Backup" at Warpstock 2003. This presentation, to be delivered by CDS' Brent Bowlby, will focus primarily on the effective use of their flagship products Back Again/2000 Workstation and Server.

CDS is a software development and consulting organization focused on providing data management software and services to the computer industry. Their forte has always been computer backup software beginning with their original flagship product, Back Again/2, for the OS/2 platform. The latest evolution of Back Again/2 is Back Again/2000 Version 4.0.

CDS' product line greatly expanded with the launch, in 1998, of their Back Again II family of data protection products for systems running Microsoft's Windows NT operating system as well as through the acquisition of the FaxWorks Pro line of OS/2-based FAX products.

CDS' data communication products are full-featured voice and FAX products for the Windows, Linux and OS/2 platforms. The latest version of their FAX software for OS/2-eCS is PMfax Pro Version 3.2. CDS recently introduced their PrimaFax Pro line of FAX products for Windows and Linux.

For more on CDS and their OS/2-eCS products visit their web site at: http://www.cds-inc.com/

Here's the link to the Doubletree Hotel San Francisco Airport's homepage: http://www.doubletree.com/en/dt/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=SFOAODT

The hotel's direct number is 1-650-344-5500. Their FAX number is 1-650-340-8851.

Here is Hilton's secure reservations URL for making Warpstock 2003 room reservations: https://secure.hilton.com/en/dt/res/choose_dates.jhtml?&hotel=SFOAODT&spec_plan_desc=Warpstock&spec_plan=CDTWRS

September 25

Updated Printer drivers on Software Choice

According to http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/ddpakbydate?OpenView the following printer drivers have been updated in the past few days. These are free updates (No Software subscription required):

OMNI Printer Driver:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/printerpak/en/omnien.exe

LASERJET Printer Driver:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/printerpak/en/laserjeten.exe

POSTSCRIPT Printer Driver:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/printerpak/en/pscripten.exe

PLOTTERS Printer Driver:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/printerpak/en/plottersen.exe

Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-1000 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-1700 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-1200 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-1200 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : Mita FS-9500DN (KPDL-3) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : Mita FS-9100DN (KPDL-3) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : Mita FS-9100DN 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : Mita FS-6750 (KPDL-3) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : Mita FS-3800 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : Mita FS-1900 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : Mita FS-1800+ (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : Mita FS-1800 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-9000 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-800 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-7000 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-7000+ (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-680 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-6900 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-6500+ (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-6700 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-600 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-6300 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-5800C (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-5900C (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-3750 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-3700+ (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-3700 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-1750 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-1700+ (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : FS-1700 (KPDL-2) 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Brother : HL-5070N 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Brother : HL-5050 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Brother : HL-5040 09/24/2003
Printers and Plotters : Xerox : Xerox Phaser 3450 PS 09/24/2003
Print Support : Printer Drivers : PLOTTERS Printer Driver 09/23/2003
Print Support : Printer Drivers : POSTSCRIPT Printer Driver 09/23/2003
Print Support : Printer Drivers : OMNI Printer Driver 09/23/2003
Print Support : Printer Drivers : LASERJET Printer Driver 09/23/2003
Printers and Plotters : Xerox : Xerox Phaser 6250N PS 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Xerox : Xerox Phaser 6250DX PS 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Xerox : Xerox Phaser 6250DT PS 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Xerox : Xerox Phaser 6250DP PS 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Xerox : Xerox Phaser 6250B PS 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : MB : MB 4016 PS 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : Mita FS-1050 PS 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : Mita FS-1010 PS 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Kyocera : Mita Ci-1100 PS 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Canon : i950 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Hewlett-Packard Company : DeskJet 9600 series 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Hewlett-Packard Company : DeskJet 9300 series 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Hewlett-Packard Company : Business Inkjet 1100 series 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Hewlett-Packard Company : Color LaserJet 9500 PS 09/22/2003
Printers and Plotters : Hewlett-Packard Company : Color LaserJet 9500 09/22/2003

September 25

Mozilla 1.5RC1 released

http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/

"September 22, 2003 Mozilla 1.5rc1 has been released.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.5rc1

The OS/2 version is available as a Zipfile. Installation notes can be found here.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.5rc1/installation-ports.html#ports_os2

Please Note: This release was built with GCC 3.2.2 Beta 2 and requires updated C runtime DLLs from Innotek.
http://download.innotek.de/gccos2/runtime/libc03.zip"

September 24

Maul Publisher V2.26

Maison Anglais is pleased to announce V2.26 of Maul Publisher, a professional desktop publisher for OS/2 and eComStation.

This version is still a free download for registered users.

Well, the hunting season is almost upon us, but the little animals have nothing to fear from me as I have been hunting bugs!

So the result of all this, with feedback from a small number of actual users, is a much cleaner version of Maul Publisher. So you see it _does_ pay to complain if you don't like something!

Download:-

http://www.manglais.com/download/MAULE226EN.ZIP

With a post to hobbes in the near future...

Enjoy,
Peter

September 24

PM123 1.21

PM123 1.21, an MP3 player for OS/2
Description and Web sites:
http://step.polymtl.ca/~guardia/pm123.php
http://sektori.com/pm123/

Downloads
=========

http://step.polymtl.ca/~guardia/archives/pm123-1_21-src.zip: Source code of PM123 1.21 distributed under a BSD-style license
http://step.polymtl.ca/~guardia/archives/pm123-1_21.zip: A compiled version of PM123 1.21
http://step.polymtl.ca/~guardia/archives/pm123-1_21.wpi (be careful to download this file in binary, not text/plain as the server is reporting): A compiled version of PM123 1.21 in a WarpIN package

http://step.polymtl.ca/~guardia/archives/pm123-1_21 : A collection of skins

http://step.polymtl.ca/~guardia/archives/pm123-1_21-skins.zip : A collection of skins

Also available (or soon to be) at:

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pm123-1_21-src.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pm123-1_21.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pm123-1_21.wpi
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pm123-1_21.exe
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pm123-1_21-skins.zip

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/pm123-1_21-src.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/pm123-1_21.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/pm123-1_21.wpi
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/pm123-1_21.exe
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/pm123-1_21-skins.zip

http://sektori.com/pm123/pm123-1_21-src.zip
http://sektori.com/pm123/pm123-1_21.zip
http://sektori.com/pm123/pm123-1_21.wpi
http://sektori.com/pm123/pm123-1_21.exe
http://sektori.com/pm123/pm123-1_21-skins.zip

What's new
==========
- PM123 is now free software! It is released under a BSD-style license. The OS/2 market is no longer viable, but thanks to all who paid to make PM123 what it is today, and now have fun playing with the code. If however you would like us to do work on PM123 under a contract, please do contact us.
- The playlist will now open back automatically if PM123 is closed with the playlist window left opened.
- Added the "window docking" feature to the playlist window as well as to "Slider 123" (see the extras in the source code package). Can be adapted to windows from plug-ins or other processes too.
- Fixed the "New Age" problem where the "New Age" music style could not be used in ID3 tags.
- Added CDDB support to CDDAPLAY.DLL.
- A MikMod DLL was created by Kevin Langman http://go.to/langman .
- PM123 no longer crashes when receiving invalid commands through the pipe such as "echo *status > \pipe\pm123".
- Included "querysong.c", a sample on how to read information from pm123's pipe in C. Also applies to any other languages.
- Updated the ID3 tag genre list to 148 genres.
- Include a "Plug-in" entry in the main pop-up menu, allowing easy access to the plug-ins' configuration dialog. A check mark indicates that the plug-in is enabled or active.
- The entry field in "Load URL" dialog is now selected by default.
- The timer display is now updated every 100 ms instead of 500 ms, so the seconds should not "skip" anymore.
- Fixed a possible crash when an error occurs in wavout.dll.
- Fixed crashing skinutil.exe when displaying help screen.

mpg123.dll 1.20 in pm123 1.2:
- Added MMX support to use with slow energy conservative CPUs.
- Will now load some corrupted VBR files properly.

September 24

Virtual Machine Topic at Warpstock

Topic: New Virtual Machine Options for OS/2 - eComStation

Proposed Topic Abstract: For the past year, Serenity Systems has been involved in expanding the support for host and guest operating systems in the NetSys GmbH virtual machine product, twoOStwo. This topic will discuss plans for delivering this support and what this will mean to OS/2 users, as well as how the technology will be integrated into the eComStation product family.

The presentation will cover the unique host and guest support combinations being made available, including support for OS/2 - eComStation as a guest running on Linux and FreeBSD systems.

There will be a detailed demonstration of Linux host support running eComStation, and the session will include information on participating in the public beta programs and the planned OS/2 host feature.

For more on Warpstock 2003, see the web site at http://www.warpstock.org

Regards,
Bob St.John
Serenity Systems

September 23

eBayWatch/2 Ver 1.09p

Hello All,
I have uploaded ver 1.09p to - http://www.eclipse.net/~knkrchnr

"eBayWatch/2 is an auction management tool for OS/2 users. It works solely with the eBay auction site. It is meant to aid the user in searching for, monitoring and bidding on auction items. eBayWatch/2 is copyright freeware."

From the readme -

- fix: Trace/log files fail to show concurrent bid activity

- chg: "Bids" column now shows Quantity available for Dutch auctions Auctions which do not show the number of bids will show the remaining quantity in the bids field as "9A" ("A" for available). If there are more than 99, the field will show "99+".

- new: "Buy it Now" items are supported for bidding Tested for snipe and demand bidding, both regular "Buy it Now" and "Buy it Now" only items. If bidding on a regular "Buy it Now" item the program will attempt to determine if you are making a regular or "Buy it Now" bid based on the item Buy Now price and your bid. Note that if the "Buy Now" option has expired, your bid will be placed as a regular bid even if at what was the "Buy it Now" price.

- fix: End of bid cycle "(No Bids yet)" still on some auctions

- fix: Some bids fail with an immediate false "Auction has ended" message

As usual, any feedback of things strange or broken is appreciated.

Thanks,
Ken

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