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November 17

SDDSE707.EXE released

SDDSE707.EXE has been released on

This new driver still has got a font problem which may be specific to DBCS. That is, in the Netscape Messenger, it doesn't display any Bold Fonts.

http://service5.boulder.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/186d96ebef23e6438625689c007ac1ef/7978bef08284174e87256a23006fc1a3?OpenDocument

[Moderator note: This driver requires a Software Choice subscription.]


November 17

Smart Cache 0.58 released

On November 16, 2001 Radim Kolar released a new version of Smart Cache, a Java Proxy. The Proxy runs with Java 1.1x!

[Moderator's note: Smart Cache is full featured proxy cache server. It can be also used as replacement for your browser's internal diskcache.]

http://home.worldonline.cz/~cz210552/scache.html


November 17

Aspirout 1.1 beta 5

Paul Ratcliffe has released Aspirout 1.1 beta5

This is an updated version of Daniel Dorau's Aspi Router device driver. It is designed to support simultaneous access to the driver from more than 1 process (currently limited to 4 in this Beta version). For the programmer, it simplifies and enhances the interface whilst retaining backwards compatibilty and removes the need for application semaphores to signal command completion.

http://home.clara.net/orac/os2.htm


November 17

RSJ 3.61

RSJ CD Writer has been updated to version 3.61

ftp://ftp.rsj.de/pub/cdwos2/3.61


November 17

Updated Amouse 2.0 beta

There is a new Amouse 2.0 beta

This driver will work with all standard mice as well as with mice with a wheel, e. g.:

- Logitech Pilot Mouse+ with serial or PS/2 port
- Logitech Mouse Man+
- Microsoft Intellimouse
- IBM Scrollpoint Mouse

http://home.t-online.de/home/klaus.breining/


November 17

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 - BETA 44


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SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.8 for OS/2
PREVIEW RELEASE 44
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Where do you get it?
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You can download SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.8 for OS/2 BETA 44 from our ftp site using the following URL:

tp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.8-b44.exe

What's new:
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. 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

--- END OF ANNOUNCEMENT ---


November 16

CpPal v0.30 - Codepage Switcher

CpPal uses d&d to let you query and change the codepages used by PM-based programs that are already running. Its primary purpose is to let occassional users of non-Latin-1 languages view & compose text in those languages more easily.

cppal030.zip (54kb) is currently in /pub/incoming at hobbes and is destined for /pub/os2/util/wps

With CpPal, you can change the "process" codepage to either value set in config.sys. More usefully, you can also set the PM "message queue" codepage to any of the 100+ values in country.sys. PM will use this codepage to translate keystrokes into characters and character values into the glyphs displayed in a window.

v0.30 is "Phase I" of CpPal's development. If it proves useful, "Phase II" will provide a true palette of user-defined presets and the option to change the target's font when the PM codepage changes.

Warning: changing codepages may have undesirable effects. In particular, files whose names contain non-ASCII characters may become inaccessible if the current process codepage does not match the one in effect when the file was created. To avoid system-wide problems, CpPal will not permit you to change the codepages used by the shell process (pmshell #1), the WPS, and CpPal itself.

Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/cppal030.zip

Hobbes search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=cppal030


November 16

Intel NIC driver version 5.1.1

Intel(R) PRO LAN Adapter Driver release 5.1.1, OS/2 drivers only.

Driver supports EtherExpress PRO/10+ PCI adapter, Intel PRO/100+ Dual Port Server adapter, Intel PRO/100 S Desktop & Management adapters, Intel PRO/100 S Dual Port Server adapter, Intel PRO/100 S Server adapter, Intel PRO/100 VE adapter, Intel PRO/100+ adapter, Intel PRO/100+ Management adapter, Intel PRO/100+ Server adapter, Intel PRO/100B adapter, Intel Workstation Board OR840

hobbes search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=intelnic511.zip
hobbes incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/intelnic511.zip


November 16

Xmouse 0.2 released

Martin Lafaix has released XMouse 0.2 It contains an enhanced mouse driver. It is intended to replace the mouse.sys driver as included in the scrollms.exe package.

What's new
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It adds support for the following mouse types:

- Intellimouse Explorer (five buttons + wheel)
- Logitech MouseMan (three buttons)
- Logitech M-BJ58 Optical scroll mouse (three buttons + wheel)
- Logitech M-RG45 Cordless wheel mouse (three buttons + wheel)

It also enhance the detection fallback routine, in that it attempt to fallback as an intellimouse or intellimouse explorer mouse before going down to a plain two buttons mouse, if the mouse seems to support one of those two protocols.

http://cyberia.dnsalias.com/Gfd.Sys.Drv.Htm


November 16

FAST Editor Lite 0.2.17.

Sergey Yevtuschenko has updated Fast Editor Lite to Version 0.2.17

http://www.naverex.kiev.ua/~evsi/

FED is VIO mode programmers editor. It's fast, small in size and flexible.

A lot of useful macro already present in default configuration file and you may add your own written either in simple built-in or REXX language.

FAST Editor Lite is distributed as open source project under BSD-like license.

v0.2.17
+ Pipe interface
* Fixed kbAltF8 macro
* Fixed redraw (window title) from threads other than main
* Improved handling different line delimiters (CR/LF/CRLF)
* Fixing traps when opening file on heavy loaded LAN or via slow link
* Fixed handling of '{' and '}' inside REXX macro
* A try to improve handling of bracket pairs matching


November 16

Fix for ConfigCompare

There is bug in ConfigCompare (part of ConfigTool 1.0.0) - after a session of comparing and updating, program deletes CONFIG file.

Fix is available on my site and Hobbes (incoming directory). Download this fix and unzip to ConfigTool directory (overwrite CFGcomp.exe).

http://www.os2world.com/goran/
Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/cfgtool100fix.zip Hobbes
search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=cfgtool100fix

From: Goran Ivankovic duga1@pu.hinet.hr


November 16

New Scitech Display Doctor Beta

On Scitech's FTP-Site there is a new Version of the Display Doctor (V 7.0.8 Beta) driver. See at ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.8-b44.exe


November 16

On-the-fly codepage switcher for PM apps

Use drag and drop to query and change the codepages used by open PM apps. Set the "Process" CP to either value in config.sys, and the "PM" CP to any of the 100+ CPs included in country.sys. Released under the Gnu GPL, the archive includes all source code.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=cppal030.zip


November 15

Updated adaptec SCSI drivers

IBM has updated the drivers for Adaptec AIC 7870/78U2/U160 SCSI adapters. Release version is 10.3 from 17. Okt 2001.

http://service5.boulder.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/186d96ebef23e6438625689c007ac1ef/7fc435161b9768fe8725694b0074fc19?OpenDocument

[Moderator note: These drivers are dated after the beta ones in the newadaptec drivers released on testcase, but are the exact same file size. However the readme included in this is from 5/1/2001 and makes no mention if these drivers fix the long CHKDSK on boot problem, fixed in the beta newadaptec package.]


November 15

eZine November Issue is out.

http://www.os2ezine.com

IN THIS ISSUE

From The Editor
Robert Basler

Reviews

Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical
Robert Basler gets a cool new mouse.

eComStation 1.0 - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Robert Basler gives the new OS a spin.

Visualizer Query
Douglas Clark looks at a WPS user interface for DB2.

Articles

An Interview with Achim Hasenmueller
Pete Grubbs sits down with the fellow behind the upcoming Virtual PC for OS/2

Freelance Graphics
Mike Engle looks at the forgotten component of SmartSuite.

An Interview with Douglas Hendrix
Dan Eicher talks to the man who brought us Stellar Frontier.

ODBC on OS/2 Part 7
Douglas Clark looks at the Granddaddy of databases - DB2 from IBM.

Into Java, Part 22
Simon Gronlund builds his own chat server.

Forums

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

November Forums
Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums.


November 15

SLRN 0.9.7.3

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=slrn0973.zip


November 15

Russian language files for XWorkplace 0.9.14

Russian language files for XWorkplace 0.9.14 http://www.xworkplace.org

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=xwp_ru14.zip


November 14

Maul Publisher v2.0 is now available

Maul Publisher has been updated to v2.0 and is now available for download at http://www.manglais.com/ The site also contains other freeware and shareware.

Maul is a DeskTop Publishing program that will handle posters, booklets and long documents. It also has a lot of documented interfaces, enabling developers to write their own import/export filters or extend/embed the program.

Maul Publisher started out several years ago, and went through many updates until v1.23 Then, the author started work on a Windows port, totally revising and optimising all his code, and now presented his v2.0 at Warpstock Europe. The version available for download has the same number as the one distributed there, but already contains several important fixes. Although previous updates were all free, upgrading from v1.x to v2.x comes at a cost, since the package now also includes a hyphenation dictionary licensed from another firm. Other features are described at http://www.manglais.com/


November 13

Text Converter - update

There is Spanish language support for Text Converter. To download, visit:

http://www.os2world.com/goran/

Text Converter is OS/2 PM program to convert text files between various platforms and code pages. Supported are code pages used on DOS, OS/2, Internet/Unix, Macintosh, and Windows.


November 13

Survey 'Do you need boot feature for JFS partitions?'

Pavel Shtemenko is the author of low-level utilities for JFS files system. He is going to introduce the boot feature for JFS. Your interest will make him to describe procedure and publish results.

http://ecomstation.ru/poll.php?action=show&id=6


November 13

Regarding Warpzilla + java 1.3

[Moderator note: In response to the post yesterday on the Warpzilla IBM Java13 Plugin Enabler, Andy forwards the following earlier posts from Mike Kaply of IBM concerning Java 1.3, and other plugins with the Warpzilla web browser. These posts are from the Mozilla OS/2 news group - news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.os2 and warn about potential problems with running Warpzilla (Mozilla 0.9.x for OS/2) with plugins. To summarize, this is not supported by IBM.]
From Mozilla newsgroup: If you find a hang in Warpzilla PLEASE test it WITHOUT Java.

We need to know whether the hang is a Warpzilla hang or a Java hang.

If I see bugs that are opened as hangs without explicitly saying that Java was NOT involved or the page that hangs has Java on it, I will mark the bug INVALID.

My team does not own the Java plugin and we can't fix bugs in it.

Mike Kaply
IBM

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And a little more information about plugins in general but not java in particular as it "works" but may hang the system as per above.

If you mean the IBM 4.61 MIDI plugins, none of the 4.61 plugins are supported on Warpzilla.

The architecture of these plugins makes assumptions that only 4.61 meets.

Mike Kaply
IBM

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They are supported in IBM Web Browser. They aren't supported in Warpzilla. I know that sounds weird.

We put in some incredibly ugly hacks in cross-platform code to make them work.

We can't do this in Mozilla.

Mike Kaply


November 12

LogView 1.05

ws it-service, Wolfram Schmid updated LogView, a text and log file viewer program for OS/2 and eCS. LogView can trace files in realtime and is very quick. It can be used during program development to disply debug output or to show any other text file or logfile created by any arbitrary program.

New in this version:

- Now the LogView process may be killed from extern without exception.
- Command line swich to set the config file name.
- Dialog to modify the logfile poll time.

Web Site (english): http://www.ws-it.de/en/product/logview


November 12

New version of Blocks

Version 1.00 of the game Blocks has just been released.

Blocks is an OS/2 / ecomstation version of the game Same.

You can get the latest version at :

http://www.crosswinds.net/~kif/Blocks/blocks.htm

Kim Foder


November 12

Sony Clie (Palm Pilot) Works under OS/2

-FYI-

The Sony Clie software(Sony Clie Palm Desktop) works under OS/2 with Odin (latest build) I had to purchase the Serial Sync Cradle as the USB Cradle would not work under OS/2. Yet

I have used Pilot Link for OS/2 which has worked well.

Just passing this info along....

http://ww.trss.net/os2.html/


November 12

OS/2 CONNECT - December 2001

Free monthly newsletter dedicated to OS/2.

CON1201.ZIP contains the OS/2 CONNECT Newsletter for December 2001 in HTML file format suitable for use with standard web browsers, such as the Netscape Navigator. OS/2 CONNECT is THE authoritative source for contact information in the universe of IBM's OS/2 32-bit operating system.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=CON1201.ZIP

You can view it online at ttp://www.os2ss.com/connect/


November 12

RexxMail updated to build 20011112.105405.

Build 20011112.105405 of RexxMail is now available from: http://www.degeus.com/rexx/

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.

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

2001-11-12 = Update: build 20011112.105405.
- Bugfix: a sent message file could not be moved to destination folders specified in 'mailsent.txt' if the message was to a mailing list (the SendMailSMTP procedure reported no. of sent messages instead of success/failure).
- UnPackMessage procedure now acts on copy of original message file to prevent file access problems if the message file is moved or deleted during view/reply/address operations.
- Changed behaviour of outgoing file objects during sending: they are made temporarily invisible rather than unmoveable.

Regards,

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


November 12

Warpzilla + java 1.3 features

After releasing an installer for Warpzilla 0.9.5 with Multiple Language and flah player plugin support , now you can also enable Warpzilla to see "java pages & applets" using Java 1.3 .

-> Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=WarpzillaIBMJava13PluginEnabler


November 12

gs703_x.zip on hobbes

Package for enabling Ghostscript 7.03 to work with PM and XFree86/OS2

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gs703_x.zip


November 11

NewView 1.3.3Replacement OS/2 help viewer

Rewrite of OS/2 View.exe, reads INF and HLP files. Improvements include a new UI, remember size/position, select and copy from the window... This version contains many major bug fixes! File - Open, Back button etc

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=NewView1.33.0.zip

"Having broken all sorts of crucial things in the last release, here is another.

- Navigation (back/forward):
- Fixed all windows invisible!
- Add last 9 back points in Navigate menu
- Connect Navigate - Forward
- Searching in index, have to press enter to view the topic. This Saves useless entries in history while you're typing
- Save notes & bookmarks immediately on changes (just in case NV crashes :P)
- File open:
- Works!
- keys better; more shortcuts, tabbing works, (Sibyl bugs)
- .. etc working again
- File - Save As works
- Font selection dialog rewritten to be good instead of crap
- Fixed bug shutting down leaving zombie process

Thanks for your support.

Aaron"


November 11

w3m 0.2.1-3 text based Web browser and pager

EMX port of w3m (WWW wo Miru) text pager (like 'more') for console and textmode windows. It understands HTML and can follow hyperlinks. English and Japanese versions. Can read from standard input. Displays tables and frames. http://www.vector.co.jp/authors/VA000199/os2/ (OS/2 port). Akinori Ito (original author): http://ei5nazha.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/~aito/w3m/eng/

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=w3m-0.2.1-3.zip


November 11

OS/2 - MDOS Games Site moved (temporarily?!)

Because I could not update the MDOS-part of the website on OS/2-World.com for about 2 weeks now, I decided to move the site (temporarily?!) onto my own server.

It features a list of working games under OS/2 / eCS's VDM including patches, if required. It's now also including up-to-date information about the patches, that I'm working on.

cu/2 Kiewitz

http://kiewitz.ath.cx/os2/mdos-games.html

From: Martin Kiewitz martin@kiewitz.de



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