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November 29

GCC 3.0.2 Beta Version

GCC 3.0.2 (BETA!) compiler is available for extensive test and download on Netlabs server in incoming directory. (http://ftp.netlabs.org/) This is beta software and it surely may contain bugs, but I highly recommend all GCC developers to try it out.

Please pay attention to files in gcc-3.0.2 directory - you will need EMX fix, new gettext and exm fix as well as generic EMX FIX 09d4 for correct work!

Please do not upload this to Hobbes! , although feel free to encourage folks to test the new compiler.

P.P.S Users of 3.0 and 3.0.1 stuff should seriously consider switching to 3.0.2 the bug-fix list is HUGE.

P.P.P.S Bugs must be posted with testcases on UNIXOS2 list first. please be very specific.

Happy GCC'ing ;)

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming


November 29

cdrdao2 1.1.6 pre1 fix1 - enhanced os/2 port of cdrdao

Enhanced OS/2 port of cd writing program in DAO mode. Works only with Aspirout 1.1b5. Does not require EMX runtime.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/cdrdao2-1.1.6-pre1-f1.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=cdrdao2-1.1.6-pre1-f1.zip


November 29

new kernel (1128) on IBM testcase FTP site

Subject: new kernel (1128)

Text: A new kernel has been released on the IBM testcase site. Note that you can also find it on http://www.ecomstation.org/testcase/

[Moderator's note: As always these are not officially supported by IBM unless they tell you to use them. Please send any followup to comp.os.os2.bugs on usenet. Also note that files are only on IBM's testcase for 2-3 days, so if you want to try these get them now. Make certain you back up any files replaced and don't try these on a production system. You have been warned. ]

ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/


November 28

Last day to vote on the future of Visual REXX development environment

From: "Eric Lavoie" elavoie@zeryx.com

Hello everybody, just a reminder to everyone that today is the last day to cast your vote and give us input regarding a Visual REXX development environment for OS/2. Your vote will influence our decision about whether to undertake development of such a tool.

Please answer honestly, and note that duplicate votes will be discarded.

link to the survey: http://www.zeryx.com/selectpage.cgi?snp=select_en.snp&frame1=/English/survey.html

Thank you!

http://www.zeryx.com


November 28

GSView 4.1 released

GSView 4.1 was released 23 Nov 2001 at

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get41.htm

GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript under MS-Windows or OS/2. Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers. It can be used as a replacement viewer for PDF and Postscript files.


November 28

Software Screen to Screen BitBlt Acceleration GRADD filter, r0.0.6

This is a small GRADD filter driver that can accelerate simple 'Screen to Screen' BitBlt operations under unaccelerated GRADD drivers. As a GRADD filter driver, SSSBBACC.DLL is installed between GRADD video manager and GRADD video driver, and watches over simple (but definitely important) form of 'Screen to Screen' BitBlt GHI commands: - both source and destination are VRAM - source-copy raster operation, with no pattern, no transparency, no stretching and no clipping If such commands responded software emulation, SSSBBACC intercepts and processes them by own blitters faster than SOFTDRAW, and reports completion to VMAN. Assembler-coded, MMX / SSEint-ready blitters are heavy optimized for uncached memory reads and write-combined memory writes, designed in order to eliminate unnecessary, quite slower peripheral bus cycles as much as possible. Typically, such slower software BitBlts may speed up to 1.5x ~ 2.5x. Highly recommended for unaccelerated or poor-accelerated GHI (such as GENGRADD, M64GRADD in 24bpp, INTGRADD and so on) users.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/sssbbacc_r006.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=sssbbacc_r006.zip


November 28

Sibyl Mailing list Achive moved

The Mailinglist archive for the Sibyl (=Delphi clone) OS/2 Rapid Application Development application has moved. As the list seems to have gone down - losing all subscribers -, I am looking for people who are interested in starting up a new mailinglist for this app.

http://www.sibyl-archive.org/

From: Erik Huelsmann visualexplorer@sibyl-archive.org


November 28

New Board Members Announced for Warpstock, Inc.

Warpstock 2001 has come and gone, but that doesn't mean that the Warpstock organizers haven't been busy. New members have been appointed, and new officers have been elected.

The new members of the Board are:

- Mark Dodel, editor of the VOICE Newsletter
- John W. Edwards, event Chairman for Warpstock 2001 team
- Oliver Mark, Offering Manager for OS/2 related Services at IBM Global Services Central Region.

The new officers are:

Mark Dodel - President
Oliver Mark - Vice President
Timur Tabi - Secretary
Stanley Sidlov- Treasurer
Eric Erickson - Director At Large
Jason Kowalczyk - Director At Large
John W. Edwards - Director At Large
Luc Van Bogaert - Director At Large

We invite everyone interested in the future of Warpstock to join us in open and hopefully productive discourse on the Warpstock Public Discussion list - http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/warpstock-public. In addition, all the session presentation files from Warpstock 2001 have been placed in the file download section here for member download.

Warpstock, Inc., is 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 website, http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror site: http://warpstock.os2voice.org.


November 28

Web Family Tree (freeware) has been updated to version 0.4. You can find it at Web Family Tree version 0.4 released

http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/wft.html or, if you already know what it is, you can fetch it directly from ftp://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/software/wft04.zip

This is a program that lets you display your family tree via a web browser. My own family tree is online, so you can see an example at the http link above.

Peter Moylan


November 27

Mozilla 0.9.6 for OS/2

Today (2001-11-27) IBM released the latest version (0.9.6) of Mozilla for OS/2!

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.6/mozilla-os2-vacpp-0.9.6.zip


November 27

A LDAP SDK for OS/2 is ready
A LDAP SDK for OS/2 is ready. It is based on OpenLDAP 2.0.15. You can use LDAP APIs in your C programs with LDAPSDK.

It is ready at: http://www2c.airnet.ne.jp/yano/

[Moderator's note: And you ask what is LDAP? From TechEncyclopedia http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia: " (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is being implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. It is expected that LDAP will provide a common method for searching e-mail addresses on the Internet, eventually leading to a global white pages. LDAP is a sibling protocol to HTTP and FTP and uses the ldap:// prefix in its URL."]


November 27

Flash 5 player coming soon

Hello, we will release a Flash 5 player shortly. Please watch our website for announcements. It does not support Java 1.3 because there is no Plugin Interface available with Java 1.3 in neither Netscape 4.61 nor Mozilla. We are planning to release a Mozilla component which will not require Java to support scripting. No date on that so far.

Kind regards / mit freundlichen Gruessen,
Achim Hasenmueller

website is http://www.innotek.de/


November 27

Dbf2MySQL 0.72

I just releaseed and uploasded version 0.72 of Dbf2MySQL to my website http://tam.belchenstuermer.de/

Dbf2MySQL converts .DBF (dBase/Clipper) files to mysql script, supports memo fields, great for batch processes. Includes binary for OS/2 and Win32.

New: Added commandline option for table locking.

Direct d/l link, but you'll miss my great website :) http://tam.belchenstuermer.de/software/download.php4?id=8


November 27

Tonigy v1.5 has been released.

Known bugs were fixed. A WarpIN package is available now. A ZIP archive can be downloaded too.

Tonigy is an Audio/Video/Data CD IFS for OS/2 that maps tracks of Audio CD into WAV or RAW files, tracks of Video CD into MPG files and tracks of Data CD into ISO files. Use it for accessing audio, video and data tracks like ordinary files. Also Tonigy allows to access files of CD-I disks and the boot image of ISO tracks.

http://www.tonigy.com


November 26

PMRA (Poor Man's Roaming Access) Released

Hot from the Compiler - Poor Man's Roaming Access

Poor Man's Roaming Access (PMRA) is freeware that extends the roaming access feature beyond Netscape 4.x to Warpzilla, the IBM web browser, and other versions of Netscape. It allows the sharing of bookmark (or other) files from multiple computers, or from multiple operating systems on a single computer. PMRA uses ftp transfers in binary mode for more error-resistant file transfers, eliminating the gradual and subtle data corruption inherent in the original Netscape 4.x implementation. PMRA can be used under OS/2 or Win32, and requires access to an ftp server.

To download a copy of PMRA, visit the PMRA page of Mike's Notebook at http://www.catherders.com/pmra.shtml


November 26

DSKSLEEP.FLT 0.98

DSKSLEEP.FLT - a filter driver to stop your SCSI disks when they haven't been accessed for some time. Timeout selection per disk, IOCtl interface. For OS/2 2.0 and above. Now with APM support!

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dsksl098.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dsksl098.zip


November 25

New Desktop On-Call eval v5

IBM Japan has evaluation versions of Desktop On-Call (DTOC) v5 in English and Japanese now. English OS/2 version (4.1 MB):

ftp://ftp.jp.ibm.com/pub/pspj/dtoc/eval5e/DTOCV5E2.EXE


November 25

New version of Mozilla for OS/2

Hi

Came across an updated file at mozilla ....build 096 The file size and date is 14214 KB 11/24/01 10:20:00 pm

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

[Moderator's note: the past several daily builds of Mozilla have been reporting as 0.9.6. This build ABOUT: reports "Mozilla 0.9.6+ Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011124"]


November 25

GIF to PNG graphics file conversion

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/gif2png-2.4.2-os2.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=gif2png-2.4.2-os2.zip


November 25

Java/Download Machine 0.12

Download Machine 0.12 is simple non-graphical, non-interactive tool for batch file downloads with resume support. It is controlled via ASCII formated queue file. DM runs in background and periodically checks queue file for changes.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dmachine012.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dmachine012.zip


November 25

Virtual PC for OS/2 screenshots

You can download pack of 16 screenshots of Virtual PC for OS/2 and ECS in the Download section of OS/2.cz! Thanks to Jan Beitl for these images.

http://www.os2.cz/index.php3?lang=en&v=download


November 25

Pine 4.42 for OS/2

Port of the well-known Unix e-mail and news client. Supports POP3, IMAP and NNTP servers; MIME, HTML, multiple accounts, more.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pine442.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pine442.zip



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