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From: Peter Koller

ipSpool - spool raw printer data to an IP address (aka port 9100 printing)

ipSpool is a spooler for printing to a networked printer. It is fast and
works well with more than one spooler port and/or IP address. The cleaning
up of postscript data is supported, which can make a lot of networked
printers suddenly work with OS/2 or eComStation.

The spooler supports printing using the 'raw' print spooling mechanism, on
port 9100 for example.

* Supports multiple ip spool ports.
* Creates and deletes printer ports using command line options or dialog.
* Inbuilt traffic monitor and popup spooler messages.
* Provides error file logging for more information when things go wrong.
* Postscript prefilter to remove header information that makes some
printers stall.
* Provided with language resources to allow translation.

Changes in V1.04
----------------
* Added port installation window to simplify initialisation.
* Replaced install.cmd with an updated version.
* Fixed a memory leak in the driver configuration classes.

ipSpool is available from Hobbes -> ipspool104.zip

Download from Hobbes
--------------------
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=ipspool&pushbutton=Search

If you can't find it, try
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming


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From: Gene Alexander

Dear Friends,

I had to make some changes to our shopping site. The redirect I tried to
put in place for the previous URL I posted here is not working. I see
several 404 errors in our logs from the previous V.O.I.C.E. news post. If
you are looking for the URL to the preloaded computer quote use this one:

http://shopping.eracc.com/catalog/32/desktop_and_server_computers

I promise that URL will not change. I apologize for the problem some of you
have had trying to view our content after I had to make the changes.

Sincerely,
Gene Alexander
Owner
ERA Computers & Consulting

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From: Mark Dodel

http://www.openwatcom.org

"Open Watcom is a project of the open source community to maintain and
enhance the Watcom C, C++, and Fortran cross compilers and tools."

"Open Watcom 1.8 RC2 (January 2009)
The second release candidate of the next version of Open Watcom is ready
for evaluation by the user community. It can be downloaded from the same
places as the official 1.7a release. See the list of release changes for
information about how 1.8 differs from the previous release."
http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/C_Compilers_Release_Changes

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From: Gregg Young

I have just uploaded FM/2 3.15 to ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/fm2
(moving to ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/fm2) and to hobbes
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?dir=/pub/incoming&sort=date moving
to http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?sh=1&dir=//pub/os2/util/browser

Changes are listed below:

o Added the option to turn write verify off on a per drive basis; it is
turned off on nonfloppy
removables by default to address reports of hangs with FAT32 usb drives
and of FAT USB
drives behaving as read only devices. Ticket 318/323 (Gregg)
o Seek and scan can now be started from the drives or directories context
menus. Doing so
will use the drive/directory as the root for the search. Ticket 167 (Gregg)
o Added "DataBar" menu item to utilities menu. Ticket 280 (Gregg)
o Eliminated the need for archiver list to have start and end list
strings; this allows it to
work with tar for example. Ticket 284 (John)
o Add setup for using latest tar including for .tar.gz and .tar.bz files
(gzip and/or bzip must
also be in your path) to archiver.tmp (John)
o Added check for protectonly systems will gray out dos/win command line
menu items and causes
Dos/Win executables to be opened in a viewer since they will fail anyway.
Ticket 325 (Gregg)
o Added the option to rescan the drive tree on media eject (see scanning
page of config notebook)
Ticket 48 (Gregg)
o Added Refresh removable media item to tree container menus Ticket 54
(Gregg)
o Grayed out partition tool menu item where the tool is not avalable in
the path; removed partition
submenu default selection. Ticket 36 (Gregg)
o Added option to recursively scan selected drives at startup Ticket 322
(Gregg)
o Moved toggle word wrap in the MLE editor to "View" menu from a "Config"
submenu Ticket 160
(Gregg)
o Added option to create extract directory from archive name Ticket 22
(Gregg)
o Added drop help to the tree container; fixed drop help to show the
correct action on DO_DEFAULT
Ticket 320, 324
o Fixed seek and scan drive selection code so nonexistant drives aren't
selected Ticket 301, 303
(Gregg)
o Several interface appearence/behavior issues were addressed Ticket 283,
305, 306, 311, 312
313, 316, 321, 328, 329, 330, 332 (Gregg)
o Fixed traps associated with deleting directories; closing a container
after its
associated drive had been ejected and trying to execute a dll. Ticket
304, 317, 331 (Gregg)
o Added exceptq and process dump functionality to simplify defect reporting
Ticket 26, 307 (Steven)

Thanks

Gregg

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From: Roderick Klein

Hello everybody,

In the past I have send out more emails about software patents,
Its simple software patents are bad. And in Europe there is a lobby from
certain large companies that want to enforce there current position in the
marketplace. In general for open source software such as Open Office,
Firefox etc software patents are something which is not welcome...

All software patents I have read so far are worthless. Yet the government
approved monopoly.
Especially when you live in Europe sign this petition:

http://stopsoftwarepatents.eu/

And if possible put a banner on your website. And yes from a legal point of
view the lobby from ffii.org and others was successful in putting a break
on software patents. The European patent office may have handed out
software patents. However with current legal framework in the European
Union they are hard if not impossible to enforce.

Thanks

Roderick Klein



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From: Neil Waldhauer

I'll bet you're wondering what Blonde Guy has been up to in the last few
months. Well, I've been preparing computers with eComStation preloaded for
sale.

The desktop computer has one Terabyte (1000 GB) of SATA-2 disk storage,
half of which is removable for efficient backups. The computer also
features USB ports on the front panel, 2 GB RAM, accelerated graphics,
sound and a SATA DVD-RW
drive.

The notebook computer is an IBM Thinkpad T43 with a high resolution screen
(1400 x 1050), wireless Internet (WiFi) and a DVD Multi-Burner.

Both computers are configured with eComStation 2.0 RC6a, OpenOffice.org
2.40, Firefox 3.0, RSJ CD-Writer and Suntan Special.

http://www.blondeguy.com/ComputersForSale.html

Happy New Year,
Neil

http://www.blondeguy.com
Expert consulting for OS/2 Warp and eComStation

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From: Yuri Dario

Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX (and OS/2). The main
purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment
scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded
daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via
Internet. The programs are based on a shared library distributed with the
Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your own software. Most
importantly, the virus database is kept up to date. A multithread plugin
for InetPowerServer is available, ask for details (not free software).

Latest build for OS/2 is version 0.94.2, and is available on Yuri Dario's
web site: http://web.os2power.com/yuri/ClamAV


If you want to contribute to OS/2 development, you can look at Google Ads
on the site, you will sponsor OS/2 development for free :-))

History:
--------
0.94.2moved to gcc 4.3.2.

System requirements:
--------------------
* libc 0.6.3 runtime ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.wpi
* libc pathrewriter ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/contrib/klibccfg.wpi

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From: Mark Dodel

Happy New Year to everyone. VOICE begins its 13th year of existence and the
VOICE News list has been around since May 7, 1997 as well. Currently there
are 577 subscribers to the VOICE News list. That is just 18 fewer then
we started the year with, so there continues to be interest in news
announcements about OS/2 and eComstation. In addition there are also 146
people subscribed to the http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/os2info which
mirrors the list. For 2008 there were 486 posts versus 556 for 2007, so
traffic is down over 10% as well. Also if you know of any new OS/2-eCS
related mailing lists or user groups, please let VOICE know at
webmasterDESPAM@DESPAMos2voice.org so the web site can be updated with this
information.

As we continue to wait for the release of eComStation 2.0, it is
interesting to note that the eComStation group on Yahoo has 1,232 members.
We've had several release candidates this past year and at least one more
before a general release of eCS 2.0. Also in 2008 there were Warpstock
events in North America (Santa Cruz, California in August) and in Europe
(Düsseldorf, Germany in November). Sadly, after 12 years it appears the
VOICE Newsletter has become moribund do to a lack of article submissions
and editorial help. Christian Hennecke (and before him myself) has put a
lot of work into the Newsletter for the entire OS/2-eCS user community but
it takes a fair amount of volunteer work from others as well to put out an
issue.

Just a reminder if you are posting to the VOICE News list, please either
use the web form on http://www.os2voice.org/SubmitNews.php or directly via
email to submitDESPAM@DESPAMos2voice.org (remove the DESPAM). Sending a
post directly to one of the moderators may result in it being delayed or
lost. Any email sent to the feedback address only goes to the moderators,
so if you have a question about a post please make sure you send a copy to
the original poster.

As always if you are submitting an announcement try to make it as brief as
possible, but with basic information like a description of the item and a
URL where more information can be found as well as a URL where it can be
downloaded if it is software. And please include your name in the text so
I know who is sending it. Also if its an update please list what has been
changed if you know it. Please also give complete identity of the sender
as well as a contact address. We will do our best to obscure that, but
readers may need to contact you. A big thanks to all those that have taken
the time to submit announcements to the list. I could never do this
without you.

If you are a developer don't just upload your work to hobbes or your own
web site and forget it. Write a short announcement and send it to VOICE so
the OS/2-eComStation community can know what you have done and what the
software is capable of doing. I can only hunt down so much information on
my own and it would be a really big help if people would send in
announcements. It would be great if more folks would send in
announcements for new and updated OS/2-eCS related developments. Otherwise
I have to hunt things down myself, and unfortunately I miss a lot and I
have learned its a bad idea for me to send out announcements on things I
don't use and don't understand. So please help by sending posts about new
and updated OS/2-eCS software, web sites and events.

Finally as always a big thanks to Paul Smedley who besides porting a ton of
applications to OS/2-eCS, fills in as list moderator on my occasional
absences.


Mark

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From: Gene Alexander

Hello Everyone,

Some of you have noticed, and commented to me in e-mail, that our shopping
site has been bare. After several weeks of not having time to work on our
shopping site I finally managed to update it a little today. Our new
shopping cart (Drupal + Ubercart) now has the option to request a new PC
quote. One can request quotes for PC systems with eComStation and/or other
operating systems preinstalled or bare drive PC systems. Use this URL to
see it:

http://shopping.eracc.com/content/preloaded-personal-computer-quote

Feel free to send us suggestions about this page or requests for items you
want to see offered from ERACC. You can use our contact form (
http://shopping.eracc.com/contact ) or e-mail direct using the e-mail
address included with this message.

Gene Alexander
ERA Computers & Consulting


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From: Eugene Gorbunoff

The debugging of ACPI continues, it's necessary improve SMP APIC mode
support (/SMP /APIC). This is the nominal mode of work for all modern
computers (2 or more cores)

The ACPI tracker contains few bug-reports related to slow/failed boot of
eComStation in SMP APIC. It's difficult to understand the causes by 1-2
"patients", it's necessary examine 20 patients with similar symptoms.

Use title for your ticket: SMP APIC, %model of notebook%

* Install ACPI 3.14,
* boot without /SMP, grab ACPI log
* boot /PIC /SMP, grab the log
* boot /APIC /SMP, if system hangs then try debug version of ACPI.PSD make
photo of screen with digital camera, what do you see on the screen?

How to post tickets to the bug-tracker --
http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=logs

(use LOGS Collector package to collect all logs)

ACPI testing is safe. If you have bootable JFS and system doesn't boot
anymore - check the volume from installation CD1





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From: netlabs.org team

This is the latest edition of the bi-weekly netlabs.org newsletter. The
newsletter can be read on the web at the following URL:
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter

News from netlabs.org:

22. December - 28. December

* ACPI
o Quite some updates and fixes again
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline
* AMPOS/2
o Various components updated
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/ampos2/timeline
* DataSeeker
o A new project!
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/dataseeker/timeline
* eCUPS
o Good progress
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/timeline
* FAT32
o Data corruption ticket raised
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fat32/timeline
* FM/2
o Load of updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
* FTE Editor
o Another new project!
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fte/timeline
* kBuild
o Big pile of updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
* kStuff
o Big/Little endian fix
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kstuff/timeline
* UniAud
o Two new tickets raised
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/timeline

15. December - 21. December

* ACPI
o A few updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline
* FAT32
o Some updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fat32/timeline
* FM/2
o A bunch of updates again.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
* kBuild
o A ticket raised
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
* kLibC
o Minor update
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
* Lucide
o Updated Poppler to 0.10.2
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
* Samba
o SIGSEGV fix implemented
o See:http://svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline

Netlabs.org relies on your support as well, we hire developers to have
better progress on projects. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is
very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units:
http://www.mensys.net/NETLABS/

Thanks for your support!

We can be reached at: newsDESPAM@DESPAMnetlabs.org

Greetings,
netlabs.org team









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From: Mark Dodel

Paul Smedley has updated his eCUPS printer driver .
http://www.smedley.info/os2ports/ This is based on the IBM postscript
driver source and fixes some problems that people have using the IBM
Postscript driver with the eCUPS port. It includes a large number of added
PPD files to what was in the IBM driver, so many newer Postscript printers
are supported without needing to be added. For download and more
information see http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/gutenprt



Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.


If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/



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From: Paul Smedley

Hi All,

FWIW - I've updated http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort with an
updated build of CUPS 1.3.9 and the addition of Gutenprint 5.2.3

From now on, I'll keep CPS, Gutenprint and Ghostscript as separate
packages to try and avoid confusion.

I've also added a port of Splix v1.1.1 for Samsung printers - works nicely
with my CLP300N :)

Cheers,

Paul.


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