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IBM have now closed APAR 27649. The fix has been rebuilt as a final fix and it's available on testcase:

ftp://testcase.software.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/tcpip/ic27649.exe

It solves the problem with the trap that occurs in afinet.sys while bringing down a ppp connection. The self-extracting includes a readme.

Two years ago the following web poll was carried out at RU/2 site (http://www.os2.spb.ru): "Which OS/2 version do you use at most?" 16% were using OS/2 Warp 3, 77% -- OS/2 Warp 4, and 7% were using beta version of Aurora. Today we started the same poll (eCS preview included) to see what has changed during past two years. You can vote at:

http://www.os2.spb.ru/gbook/ru2survey.html

and see the results at:

http://www.os2.spb.ru/gbook/ru2v_res.phtml?lang=E

Russian Team OS/2 are glad to announce OS/2 version of Analog - a freeware program which analyses logfiles from WWW servers. It works on almost any operating system (now on OS/2 Warp too!) and is designed to be fast and to produce attractive statistics.

The author of this port is Dmitry Afanasiev (dima@elcom.spb.ru).

http://os2.ru/projects/analog/

The INF file with instructions on Warp debugging is currently on Testcase:

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

Finally I managed to put my WSE2K photos online. Hopy you enjoy them :-) Once my home page has loaded, please click on 'WSE2K Pictures' in the left (navigation) frame.

http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/frank.berke/main.html

Russian Team OS/2 are glad to announce mnoGoSearch 3.0.23 (stable) and 3.1.8 (devel) for OS/2.

mnoGoSearch (former UDMSearch) - is a full-featured SQL based web search engine ported from unix. Now OS/2 version support only MySQL database.

You can see how it works on our OS/2-related world search engine:

http://search.os2.ru

If you can help us with support to other SQL servers, please contact us.

The author of mnoGoSearch/2 port is Platon Fomichev (AKA Stauff)

http://os2.ru/projects/mnoGoSearch/

Seti@home upgrades its client from 2.4 to 3.0

The Search for extraterrestial intelligence continues unabated on the OS/2 platform. Please join!

The new client can be found at this URL:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/unix.html

Have fun, and let your PC use some unused cycles!

I have updated my update_homepage rexx-script. A home page visitor asked me to add a date to my pages, so I enhanced my script to do that for me. It gets the date and time of the HTML-file and writes that information in the HTML code before uploading the files to the FTP server. The script, instructions and an example can be found at:

http://w1.246.telia.com/~u24602843/projects/update_homepage/index.html

Compart, the developer of Impos/2, has brought back information about their product Impos/2 (the well-known graphics editor).

There is no (and there will be no) new release. The latest is Version 2.1, the site informs only about Impos/2.

http://www.compart.net/

Fixing 16-bit Setup troubles in Odin

At:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/windows/win32inst.zip

there is a file which contains two program components:

1. SETUP.EXE
2. _ISDEL.EXE
 

Microsoft Windows(TM) 32-bit Installer Components

11/08/2000
[...]
 

Purpose:

Odin (the successor to the Win32-OS/2 Project) holds much promise for being able to run 32-bit Windows executables in the OS/2 PM environment. One problem which has been routinely reported is that of 16-bit Windows installers shipped with 32-bit Windows apps. Upon running such a SETUP.EXE, OS/2 either immediately launches a Win-OS/2 session or Odin reports an error message that the app is not 32-bit Windows. Replacing both SETUP.EXE and _ISDEL.EXE with the 32-bit versions in this archive should allow these applications to install normally under Odin.

Contents: These files are the 32-bit installer components. Replace any 16-bit installers with these for use under Odin.

We're glad to announce version 1.0 beta 3 of Systray/2!

In this version:
-improved (no, just FULL-REWRITED) unit painting scheme. And now you can change colors for ALL monitor units (clock,swap,disk,etc)!;
-New classes: System uptime and CPU monitor;
-Tray API for Virtual Pascal/2 included.
-New plugin - SOM Agent. Now in alpha-test version. Ask us about it!
-Fixes in plugin docs;
-Fixed bug with configuration saving;
-Fixed bug with configuration notebook on Warp 3;
-other small fixes..
 

Systray is what we deal with when we work with operating systems Windows '95/98/NT. Actually besides task switcher it is a convenient utility called system tray. Tray is a section of the screen assigned for the programs not seen in the screen at the moment but active and performing an operation which the user can control through the tray. It differs from task switcher in several aspects:

The program that has its icon on the tray manages this icon by itself. The user s manipulations over the program are sent as a message to it and operate it through the pop-up menu. The program gets the mechanism allowing to inform the user about the process of performing an operation. E.g. ReGet, ICQ, The Bat.

How can You help us?

All Systray sources and some documentation (Plugin making reference, System Tray API reference) is included - you are welcome to support YOUR SOFTWARE in system tray.

You may also create new plugins. Please let us know about your plans in this case and we'll include yours plugins into next releases.

Thanks for your interesting! Russian Team OS/2

http://os2.ru/projects/systray/

This is an OS/2 port of SOX version 12.14

SoX (also known as Sound eXchange) translates sound samples between different file formats, and optionally applies various sound effects.

SoX is intended as the Swiss Army knife of sound processing tools. It doesn't do anything very well, but sooner or later it comes in very handy.

This release understands:

o Raw files in various binary formats
o Raw textual data
o Amiga 8svx files
o Apple/SGI AIFF files
o SUN .au style files
o PCM, u-law, a-law
o G7xx ADPCM files (read only)
o mutant DEC .au files
o NeXT .snd files
o AVR files
o CD-R (music CD format)
o CVS and VMS files (continous variable slope)
o GSM files.
o Macintosh HCOM files
o Amiga MAUD files
o IRCAM SoundFile files
o NIST SPHERE files
o Turtle beach SampleVision files.
o Soundtool (DOS) files
o Yamaha TX-16W sampler files.
o Sound Blaster .VOC files
o Microsoft .WAV files
o PCM, u-law, a-law
o MS ADPCM, IMA ADPCM
o GSM
o Psion (palmtop) A-law WVE files
o Pseudo-file fomats that allow direct playing/recording from some audio devices under unix.
 

The sound effects include:

o Channel Averaging
o Band-pass filters
o Band-reject filter
o Chorus effect
o Cut out loop samples
o Add an echo
o Add a sequence of echos
o Apply a flanger effect
o Apply a high-pass filter
o Apply a low-pass filter
o Pan sound between channels
o Change the pitch of a sound file
o Display a list of loops in a file
o Add masking noise to a signal
o Apply a phaser effect
o Convert from stereo to mono
o Change sampling rates using several different algorithms.A 'resample' and 'poyphase' effect use high-grade signal rate changes using real signal theory!
o Apply a reverb effect
o Reverse the sound samples (to search for Satanic messages ;-)
o Change the speed of samples being played (like speeding up the motor on a tape recorder)
o Stretch/shorten the duration of a sound file.
o Convert from mono to stereo
o Swap stereo channels
o Display general stats on a sound sample
o Trim audio data from beginning and end of file.
o Add the world-famous Fender Vibro-Champ effect
o Adjust volume of samples
 

http://teamos2.ru/files/sox1217.zip

http://teamos2.ru/,download,sox$html

In the past, using Forte's auto-update feature under OS/2 would fail (the patches would be downloaded but would never be applied). Now, you can make use of the autoupdate feature, but when Forte quits, runs the following command before restarting it. This will cause it to apply the downloaded patchs:

java -classpath lib\updater.jar -Dnetbeans.home=. -Xmx96m org.netbeans.updater.UpdaterFrame

java -classpath lib\updater.jar -Dnetbeans.home=. -Xmx96m org.netbeans.updater.UpdaterFrame

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/antivirus_definitions/ibmav/av30ge.zip

Today a new version of the SIO drivers by Ray Gwinn has been released. Beta testers are allowed to use the driver without any limitations.

http://www.gwinn.com

The Warped Code Cellar has grown into Lone Peak Automation thanks to all who have supported its products over the last three years.

Lone Peak Automation is committed to continued support of its products like the HOUSE/2 series of X10-based Home Automation and UPS Monitor.

In appreciation to all customers, product prices have been reduced by as much as $5 and are in effect immediately at BMT Micro

http://www.bmtmicro.com/index.html

Please visit the newly redesigned Lone Peak Automation web site at:

http://home.att.net/~ASchw

Some of you may have noticed that it has again been difficult or impossible to reach the Emu-OS/2 web site http://emuos2.vintagegaming.com containing the SNES9x, Retrocade, and MAME for OS/2 projects.

Apparently they are still having problems moving from the old, reliable Solaris web server to the new and "improved" server running Win2K. That should be explanation enough for the poor performance and outage. ;-)

I'm going to have a little talk with my buddies at Vintagegaming.com to see if we can do something about this. In the meantime, I have uploaded the latest SNES9x and Retrocade releases to Hobbes tonight. There's no reason that Win2K should stand in the way of OS/2 users getting free OS/2 software. ;-)

The Retrocade update to Alpha 6 includes the following changes:

* Updated to work with SDD beta 35
* Added joystick support for Vesa J's enhanced joystick driver
* Added support for custom video modes - you won't have to add a video mode manually, it will be added on-the-fly as needed
 

The joystick driver and an up-to-date version of SDDHELP.SYS have been included in the archive for your convenience.

For the time being, until the web site fiasco is resolved, you can get the latest SNES9x and Retrocade versions from Hobbes:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/snes9x_132_os2_r5.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/retro_alpha6.zip
 

They will later be moved to:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/emulator/snes9x_132_os2_r5.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/emulator/retro_alpha6.zip

Dated Nov. 6th, there's a new updated kernel at service.boulder.ibm.com. The readme for this version is identical to the previous version. The new files are:

smp1106.zip
smp1106d.zip
uni1106.zip
uni1106d.zip
krnl1106.txt
 

ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4.5warp/english-us/xr_e001/

The Virus definitions for Norton Antivirus for OS/2 had been also updated. Date 9-Nov-2000.

Go to:

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

Choose, OS/2 and your language. Or get the file, directly to:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/download/us-files/1109o32.zip

Pretty Pop Software released The Wall 3.40 today.

The Wall changes background images and/or color at user-set intervals. You can configure each image file in such as *.BMP/*.GIF/*.JPG/*.TIF/*.TGA/*.PCX/*.DIB in the Wall. Choose TILED, SIZED or NORMAL during configuration. The Wall writes an extended attribute for each and displays the .BMP as configured.

Updated topics are:
Version 3.40 (11.Nov.2000) [New Function/Change Specifications] a.Modify and upgrade `Multiple External Command' function. b.Include WallEmer Version 1.11. [Bug Fix] a.Maintained minor inconveniences and designs.

You can get a copy from:

PrettyPop.net
http://www.prettypop.net/

Free DB/2 ver 7.1 for OS/2 Trial CD at IBM

You can get a free trial CD from IBM at:

http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/db2v7cd/db2v7cd-p

You only need to register at IBM to get the CD.

Plus a DB2 Universal Database fast path self-study CD will be shipped to you until December 15 when you order the CD.

New Article:

eCOMSTATION - USING THE LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGER This article details the use of Logical Volume Manager as encountered in the installation of eComStation version of OS/2.

News and Links:

New version of IBM Boot Manager
Even Microsoft is Vulnerable
WARPZILLA - MOZILLA ON OS/2

Walter Metcalf
About Guide to OS/2
http://os2.about.com

For those that have purchase a netvista IBM desktop PC, the OS/2 driver for the ACCTON ethernet card is available at:

http://www.accton.com/

The card present in my netvista 6269N2G is an EN1207D. The NDIS drivers are present in EN1027DV107.ZIP.

Supported OSes: WIN32, LINUX, DOS and OS/2.

I send this because when I asked for support for OS/2 from IBM I haven't received any answer.

Serenity Systems is announcing a special program for existing IBM Software Choice users. eComStation for IBM Software Choice Users (eCS/SWC) is a combined offering of eCS and eCS Upgrade Protection (eCS UP), a component of which is the IBM Software Choice product. The suggested retail price of the product is $99 US and includes two main components.

First, eComStation, which is built on top of the IBM OS/2 Convenience Pack, including WiseMachine from Serenity Systems, IBM Lotus Smart Suite, IBM Desktop on Call, OS/2 Developers Toolkit, and other software required to transform the Merlin Convenience Pack software into eComStation.

Second, eCS/SWC will participate in the eCS Upgrade Protection program through the remainder of the term of their Software Choice Subscription. The eCS UP subscription will terminate at the same time as the IBM Software Choice Subscription. Renewing eCS Upgrade Protection will provide the user with a new Software Choice Subscription, as SWC is a component of eCS UP, stated earlier.

For more information, send an email request to info@serenity-sysems.com, or see indelible Blue (http://www.indelible-blue.com), Mensys (http://www.ecomstation.nl), Jacaranda Business Systems (http://www.jbs.ca), and Orion Solutions (http://www.orion-solutions.com.au).

See eGroups message:

http://www.egroups.com/message/eComStation/7357

I'm proud to introduce a new version of the OS/2 currency calculator PM-Euro.

Version 1.6 now comes with some nice enhancements:

- Type ~Calc: PM-Euro now calculates while you type

- PM install program: PM-Euro 1.6 is easy to install with its new comfortable install program

But that's just the beginning. PM-Euro 1.6 now offers a great way to work with currencies:

- Online-Update: PM-Euro loads the actual currency exchange rates for US-Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Australian Dollars, UK Pounds, Japanese Yen and Swiss Francs within a few seconds from the Internet. This means: You don't have to update the rates manually. Just establish an internet connection and push the "Online-Update" button.

PM-Euro 1.6 is FREEWARE. You can download it from the Warphouse Software web site:

http://www.warphouse.de

After PMINews destroyed the sent ~saved folder of one of its Grouplists, I have written a small utility, which will reindex these folders, so that PMINews is able to list all articles again. You can find it at:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/news/util/pmnrdx10.zip

Or on my home page:

http://home.pages.at/pengels

On the BMT Micro Website there's a huge list of events and seminars related to OS/2 covering various topics, which are:

- Introduction to OS/2 Warp
- Advanced OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming
- OS/2 Architecture ~Facilities
- OS/2 Communication Manager (CM/2)
- OS/2 for Support Personnel
- OS/2 for Windows ~DOS Applications
- OS/2 Installation Workshop
- OS/2 Problem Determination
 

http://www.bmtmicro.com/events/os2_seminars.html

Probably the only OS/2 game under active development, "Crown of Might", has been updated to version 1.06. The home page URL has changed also.

http://www.admoore.de

IBM has released a new BIOS for their Thinkpad T20 laptop range that documents a fix for the network hang that may happen when the machine returns from suspend under OS/2 and NT4.

The link is:

http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/MIGR-4JWNJC.html

Snipped from the documentation:

<1.08 - IYET45WW>

- (Fix) A system enters full-suspend mode with some network PC-cards on Windows NT4 and OS/2. It sometimes causes network failure after resume from suspend.

Planet IT.com has published a review of Warpstock Europe 2000 by Esther Schindler, editor of Planet IT's e-business department. The article, called "OS/2's Quiet Progress", sums up some highlights and comments on the OS/2 communities' situation.

http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/enterprise_apps_systems-enterprise_apps/news/PIT20001108S0027

http://warpstock.os2.org/en/

IBM reported that some customers reported routing problems with the recent TCP/IP 4.3 fix (for InJoy). IBM has put a new test fix on testcase (APAR is IC27649). This fix is for TCP/IP 4.3 only.

The IC27649.EXE should be run in \MPTN\PROTOCOL and IBM recommends keeping backup copies of the originals.

Get the file now, as it will only stay on testcase for a few days.

ftp://testcase.software.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/tcpip/ic27649.exe

Please report test results to support@fx.dk and we (F/X Communications) will forward it to IBM.

Matrox has updated the bios for their graphic-cards:

ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/bios/2000/setup203.exe

System Utilities version 2.03.003.

This release contains updated BIOSes for G200, G400 and 450, as well as updated utilities. This release is for G200, G400 and G450 only. This utility contains the following (BIOSes that have changed are highlighted **):

**897-17a.bin - G400 AGP 1.7a.28
897-19.bin - G400 AGP 1.9.33
897-19tv.bin - G400 AGP TV-OUT 1.9.19
899-31.bin - G200 PCI 3.1.28
899-31tv.bin - G200 PCI TV-OUT 3.1.23
900-31.bin - G200 AGP 3.1.32
900-31tv.bin - G200 AGP 3.1.24
935-13.bin - G450 AGP/PCI 1.3.23
 

Utilities:
PBiosWin.exe v1.19 Progbios.exe v2.134

Changes in this release:

BIN Files

- Bug fix where some systems may not restart properly.

BTW. The setup203.exe can be executed under OS/2 by renaming it to setup203.zip, so the files can be unzipped.

>From netscape.public.mozilla.os2:

I have uploaded a new nightly to:

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/warpzilla

it is dated 11/14/00 (or 14/11/00 :)

It should mirror shortly

Plugins should work. I tested Flash.

PLEASE use this build to verify that defects you have opened still happen.

Also, if you have opened defects in the past that have been fixed, please use this build ot verify they are fixed, and then go to bugzilla and mark the bug VERIFIED.

Thanks for your support.
Mike Kaply
IBM

ModLogAn is a powerful log files analizer derived from webalizer. ModLogAn is a modular logfile analyzer that combines speed with flexibility. It parses the logfiles generated by Apache and friends (common/combined), MSIIS 5.0, Wu-FTP/ProFTP, Squid, and RealServer, and provides all the well-known statistics and some very specialized statistics like pages that were indexed by a robot, bookmarked pages, cache hit ratio, and many more. Stats for non-web logfiles (hicom116, elmeg, isdnlog) can also be created.

Please see:

http://teamos2.ru/,download,modlogan$html

for more info.

Or download it right now:

http://teamos2.ru/files/modlogan056.wpi
http://teamos2.ru/files/modlogan056.zip