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OS/2 - eComStation News - August, 2005Browse - August 2005: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 SW: ASPRunner Professional 3.2 - new version. SW: PHPRunner. Build great looking PHP+MySQL web sites with no programming. Admin: My appologies for the SPAM SW: DFSee 7.11 released, many updates SW: RexxMail -- new management? Mag: News from the VOICE Newsletter Event: VOICE business meeting this Saturday, 27th August 2005 SW: djprint version 0.51 is available for download SW: coolfm 2.17 Net: Help support a New Version of Papyrus Office for eComStation(OS/2) Net: Remote Control Software for OS/2-eCS Poll SW: DOSBox frontend 1.0 SW: ACPI 1.0.12 for eComStation
2005-08-24 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: supportDESPAM@DESPAMxlinesoft.com SPrunnerPro is a database management tool that provides easy access and manipulation possibilities for any database on the Web. Designed to suit all users from beginners to experienced developers, ASPRunnerPro creates Active Server Pages (ASP) enabling users to search, edit, delete and add data to the Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, or MySQL databases. What's new in this version? - Builtin FTP Client to upload ASP pages to the Web server - User self-register page, password reminder, change password pages - Multilingual templates. Ability to choose language while logging in - Use drop-down boxes, date-pickers, checkboxes on the Advanced search page - Allow direct links to Edit, Add, Search results page - Display "Please wait" message while search results page is loaded - Copy a record function - Tables menu on the list page. Allow to reorder tables in the tables menu - Multiple ORDER BY fields - Case-insensitive search - List boxes allow multiple selection - Linked dropdown boxes, filtered dropdown boxes, dropdown boxes with custom display - Upload files to the folder on the Web server. Url: http://www.xlinesoft.com/asprunnerpro From: Sergey Kornilov (supportDESPAM@DESPAMxlinesoft.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-08-24 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: supportDESPAM@DESPAMxlinesoft.com PHPRunner builds visually appealing web interface for any local or remote MySQL database. Your web site visitors will be able to easily search, add, edit, delete and export data in MySQL database. Advanced security options allow to build password-protected members only Web sites easily. PHPRunner is simple to learn so you can build your first project in just fifteen minutes. What's new in this version? - Postgre, Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL Server support - Built-in FTP Client to upload PHP pages to the Web server - User self-register page, password reminder, change password pages - Multilingual templates. Ability to choose language while logging in - Use drop-down boxes, date-pickers, checkboxes on the Advanced search page - Allow direct links to Edit, Add, Search results page - Display "Please wait" message while search results page is loaded - Copy a record function - Tables menu on the list page. Allow to reorder tables in the tables menu - Multiple ORDER BY fields - Case-insensitive search - List boxes allow multiple selection - Linked dropdown boxes, filtered dropdown boxes, dropdown boxes with custom display - Upload files to the folder on the Web server. Use Edit as type "Document upload" and View as type "Document download" or "File-based image" Url: http://www.xlinesoft.com/phprunner/ From: Sergey Kornilov (supportDESPAM@DESPAMxlinesoft.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-08-24 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: madodelDESPAM@DESPAMptdprolog.net Two posts went out on the news list today which I have just learned were for windows only products. On first read they appeared to be legitimate announcements for crossplatform technologies and came from another OS/2 site's submission form. I had only briefly checked the web site and didn't notice the products were for windows only. I appologize and will attempt to do better at weeding out this SPAM in the future. Mark Top
2005-08-24 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Jan van Wijk" DFSee version 7.11 has been released today It suppresses dummy (USB) disks in OS/2, shows NTFS dirty and journal status, has a few SETBOOT updates and several other bug fixes and enhancements. DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. With FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery, FIX commands, UNDELETE for HPFS/NTFS, imaging and cloning. For people familiar with older versions of DFSee (5.xx and older :-) it will be good to know that the menu-system introduced in version 6, and greatly expanded in version 7, makes the program a whole lot easier to use! More details at: http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm Direct download links: http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee711.zip http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee7xx.zip http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee7xx.msi http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee7xx_warpin.exe http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee711.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee Most important functional changes since 7.10: - BSFIND s finds NTLDR first sectors on disk for disk recovery - CHECK updated for large freespace areas (more that 2GiB) - CHECK reports error for FS being DIRTY or MOUNTED (in use) - CHECK RC set to the resulting number of errors, for scripting - CLEANUP reset the ACTIVE flag on all extended-containers - DFSCHECK Resultfiles now named unique per platform (dfsoHPFS) - DFSCHECK Create a DFSCxxx.Iyy imagefile from filesystem start - DFSDISK Fix behaviour when called without any parameters - DFSDISK Resultfiles now named unique per platform (dfsdisko) - DONTFS script, add Restart-Area display with logfile flags - IMAGE Fixed and improved write-error reporting 2 GiB limit - LOG Dlg Allow spaces in path or filename (Program Files\...) - MAP -m Added explicit OS2 USBMSD.ADD DUMMY disk message - MENU Edit -> Bootmanager Query config - setboot -q -list - MENU Added search for NTLDR 1st sector, for recovery - MFT n -R show/test attribute runlists for non-resident data - NTFS Display logfile flags and volume information on open - NTFS Write MFTrec, Bitmap, mkRunList for better resizing - NTFS 's' seperate sectortype for NTLDR 1st sector added - NTFS LOG show restart-area from $Logfile, incl unmounted flag - No Dummy disks included anymore in menu/dialog select-lists - No Dummy FIXEXT, GENPART, LVMREDO, NTSIGN, NEWMBR, CLEANUP - No Dummy PART, PSAVE, PRESTORE, skip any inaccessible disks - PART -g Output important lines to STDOUT, for scripting/GUI - PART -w better message when ACTIVE extended containers seen - QUERY Add EK/EM/EG as Expand size limit for resizing GUI - QUERY -g Output important lines to STDOUT, for scripting/GUI - QUERY PO return the dirty/mounted status for NTFS filesystems - RAMDISK detection on FreeDOS diskette/CDROM now MUCH faster - SETBOOT -list option shows Bootmanager menu items available - SETBOOT Options compatible to SETBOOT.EXE replacement (eCS) - SETBOOT Automatic close (trace) logfile just before booting - SETBOOT -f-, no explicit flush (allows a PM message on OS2) The Diskette and CDR-ISO imagefiles are updated as well ... Regards, JvW ========================================================================= DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee - infoDESPAM@DESPAMdfsee.com Top
2005-08-25 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Marcus de Geus" [RexxMail is an object-oriented WPS e-mail client, written in REXX, which uses the standard WPS user interface. It features an extensive range of functions and options with full command-line access.] Guys, I am sorry to have to announce that I shall be ceasing development of my OS/2-eCS programs, including RexxMail. After a dozen years of stalwart service, the time has come for my OS/2-eCS work environment to make way for a next generation operating system. Having played with an iBook for the last couple of months, I have decided that the Apple platform now offers a viable alternative to the WPS, for my purposes at least. I shall therefore be making the transition from OS/2-eCS to the Apple platform sometime in the future. However, since it will probably take me some time to migrate all my stuff, I may be using my present work platform for a while yet. So, for those of you using RexxMail or any of my other REXX apps, the message is: DON'T PANIC! Sounds familiar, eh? Seriously though, there is no reason to lose your cool. I will still be offering support for some time to come, and your questions will still be answered, or at least receive a reply. As soon as I can find the time, I intend to wrap up my RexxMail code and development environment into a ZIP archive for someone else to take over. The RexxMail code consists of (a lot of) plain text files containing the component REXX routines/procedures for the RexxMail program, the REXX code for the installation program, the plain text sources for the Reference Guide and Tutorial, and HTML web site templates. There is also a full set of icons and related graphics files as well as some external binaries. The development environment includes REXX programs for updating, checking and "compiling" the main program and installation program code into single CMD files, for updating and compiling the Reference Guide and Tutorial INF documentation files, and for creating a ZIPped distribution file as well as the HTTP code for an updated set of RexxMail web pages. All the REXX code is fully documented (line by line) and designed to be easy to read, so anyone with a modicum of REXX knowledge should be able to get things up and running in a minimum of time. Instructions will be included. If anyone would like to volunteer for the job, please apply to me at my normal @ddress, see below. If I receive no response to this call for new management, I will post the ZIP archive to Hobbes so anybody interested can download it for their own use. Before then I hope to release a final (by me, anyway) version of RexxMail with a few bug fixes that should see RexxMail users through until someone else picks up where I left off -- or not, as the case may be. The relevant announcements will be posted through this channel, as always. I would like to thank all of you who took the time to download and try my programs, and perhaps even use them on a regular basis, and in particular those of you who went to the trouble of sending me bug reports and requests for features, even words of thanks and praise. It's been great fun! Last but not least, thanks to the efforts of the OS/2 and eCS development community, I will always be able to boast that in my twenty years of working on PCs I never used a Microsoft Windows system! Best regards, Marcus de Geus -- marcusDESPAM@DESPAMdegeus.com http://www.degeus.com Top
2005-08-26 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Christian Hennecke" You may have been wondering about the erratic frequency of Newsletter releases lately. Rest assured, the VOICE Newsletter won't go the way of all flesh (and paper, for that matter) anytime soon. Actually, you may be pleasently surprised in a short while. More about that below. The reasons for the delays are of different levels, organizational, personnel-wise, and personal: First of all, we haven't exactly been overwhelmed with the number of articles pouring in. Second, the ability of our editors to work on the Newsletter has decreased. Our Editor-in-Chief's company is eating up much of his spare time these days, plus he's been working on other things. As president of Warpstock, Inc., Mark Dodel has been very busy with the upcoming Warpstock event in Hershey. Unfortunately, Jason R. Stefanovich has left the OS/2 platform completely. And Marckus Kraft is a busy man, too. Another reason is of a significantly more positive nature, namely that quite a bit has been going on in the background. Our Editor-in-Chief has been pushing the switch to XHTML/CSS. Together with Holger Manthey and a few others, he has been working on a new XHTML and CSS-based Newsletter design that should be a lot more pleasant to the eye while also making work on the Newsletter easier for both our editors and authors. As our article buffer is low at the moment, we have decided to delay the next issue until we are ready to finally switch to XHTML/CSS. The new layout is almost finished but we still have to clean up the code, adapt our build scripts, and write a tutorial for authors. Anyway, we think that you are going to like the new VOICE Newsletter and find it worth the wait. Christian Hennecke Editor in Chief, VOICE Newsletter http://www.os2voice.org Top
2005-08-26 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "John Edwards" VOICE business meeting this Saturday, 27th August 2005 *** Please note this Saturday only the VOICE meeting will start 1 hour later! There will be a VOICE business meeting this Saturday, 27th August 2005 at 4:00 PM EST (20:00 GMT) (22:00 Paris time) in the #voice chatroom. Visit http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc for timezone help. To find the server closest to you, go to http://www.webbnet.info/ . Channel #voice can be found on any of these servers. If you don't have a IRC client. You can use a web browser to get on the IRC VOICE channel. If you use the Mozilla web browser use the following link: irc://irc.fyrelizard.com/voice If you don't use Mozilla (Opera or the IBM web browser for instance) use the following link http://irc.fyrelizard.com/ (requires JAVA) "VOICE is an organization dedicated to the promotion of OS/2 Warp and eComStation to the general consumer through various activities as providing current and factual information about OS/2 Warp and OS/2 related products, conducting IRC meetings twice a month, and sponsoring OS/2 promotion related projects among providing many other services." Everyone is welcome! ------------------------------------------------- Agenda for General VOICE Meeting 27th August 2005 1. Call the meeting to order. 2. Old Business a) VOICE forum (Walter Metcalf) 3) New Business. a) Treasurer's Report (Gordon) b) New subjects/people for VOICE speakups (Roderick) c)status and way forward for the news system D)For september speakup suggestions (on meeting) E)Financial report, amount of members 4. Adjournment Other agenda points maybe added during the meeting. Roderick Klein President OS/2 VOICE =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John W. Edwards secretaryDESPAM@DESPAMos2voice.org Secretary, V.O.I.C.E, Top
2005-08-27 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Don Hawkinson" DJPRINT was intended as a method to list source code on my HP DeskJet 632c. I decided that I would make it available to other OS/2 and eCS users. I put a work-in-progress version on my web site and asked for comments and suggestions. I got a lot of suggestions and most of them were added as options to DJPRINT. I also found out that the HP PCL 3 command set was supported by many printers - not just HP printers. The ones that I know about are shown below. HP Deskjet 932C Xerox Phaser 8550 HP LaserJet II HP DeskJet 340 Brother HD 5150D IBM 4019 laser printer HP Laserjet 4050N HP DeskJet 632C The default printing mode of DJPRINT is to assume the paper is US letter size (8.5 x 11), 6 lpi , and line numbering is turned on. The printer is also put into compressed print, but this is not optional. An important function of DJPRINT is line wrapping. Long lines are split into multiple lines. Unless the line numbering is turned off, the same line number is used for wrapped lines. If line number 10 needs to be wrapped to fit on the page, all of the wrapped portions of line 10 will be numbered 10. This is done so that the line numbers refelct the actual source line number. A plus sign is inserted before each wrapped line to make certain the user knows the line has been wrapped. The header and compressed print are not optional, but many other functions are under the users control. The printer may be put into portrait or landscape mode, and the supported paper sizes are A4, letter (US standard size and the default), and legal (8.5 x 14 inches). The user also has the option of 6 or 8 lines per inch, with 6 lines per inch the default. The user may set the starting source line number, the ending source line number, and start the page numbering at number other than one. Setting the starting page number does not change where the program starts printing the source lines, it is only a cosmetic change. Version 0.50 added an options file called OPTIONS.DJP which must be present in the current directory. The options are listed on separate lines in the file. The options file is proccessed before the command line, so any command line options override the file options. Verson 0.35 added an intial page number setting. The /Ixx option sets the intial page number to xx instead of 1. This option along with the /Hxx and /Txx options will let the user replace specific pages from a printed set. For example, if page 10 was damaged and started with with line 571 and ended with 628, the options /I10 /H571 /T628 would print a replacement page 10. Verson 0.33 added manual duplex printing! The option swtich is /DU or /du The output is first sent to the file testprn and then that file is split into oddprn and evenprn. The file oddprn is sent to the printer, the user is prompted to reload the paper and then the file evenprn is printed. If the /F option is used, the final output goes to the file testprn2. Version 0.31 changed the method used to display the usage and error messages to the screen. The usage information and the file being printed message may be redirected and the error messages now go to stderr. A /D option for double spacing the source had been added. A /Wx option for selecting the destination printer had been added where x is 1,2, or 3. If you only have one printer or the OS/2 default printer is the destination, you do not need this option. This program is intended to print program listings on HP DeskJet or LazerJet printers. It should work with any printer that supports PCL 3. It sets the printer to print 16.5 characters per inch and sends a reset to the printer when it is finished. The program prints a header at the top of each page and defaults to printing line numbers for each source line. The program does line wrap of lines over 119 characters and can do multiple wraps if the source line is very long. If the source line is wrapped, the line number is not incremented. If line 10 is wrapped three times, there will be three lines labeled 0010. The program also prints a "+" symbol before each wrapped line. Options: MPRINT (options) file1 ... file9 (options)... where file1 ... file9 may contain wild cards The /R option sends a reset to the printer before printing The /F option causes the output to be sent to the file TESTPRN The /Hxx option starts the printing with line xx The /Txx option ends the printing with line xx The /Ixx option sets the initial page number to xx The /N option stops the printing of line numbers The /S option puts the printer in 8 lpi mode - 77 lines per page The /L option puts the printer in landscape mode - 155 char per line The /D option adds an extra linefeed for double space mode The /DU option prints the odd pages and then the even pages The user will need reload the odd pages after the prompt The /PA option sets the paper size to A4 (210x297 mm) The /PL option sets the paper size to legal (8.5x14 in) The /Wx option sets the destination printer LPT 1,2, or 3 /W1 or /W2 or /W3 - the default is the default printer The /C option adds a name or comment to the header on page 1 for example: /C"Don Hawkinson" or /c"windows IS a virus!" The /B option issues new page after a user specified string is found for example: /b"page break" or /b"new page" The /F option sends the output to a file called testprn in the current directory. This allows the user to see what would be sent to the printer without using ink or paper. The /W and /B options only require the quotes if the text includes a space. Please let me know if this program works with your printer and the model number of your printer. If you have suggestions for program options, send them too. I will be making frequent changes to the program and will not always make an announcement that a new version is available. You can check the version number by executing the program with no arguments. The program may be downloaded at: http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/djprint.zip Don Hawkinson , author of CCA, DH-Grep-PM, PMStripper, Pastry Box, and DH_ClipSave/2 http://www.dwhawkinson.com dwhawkDESPAM@DESPAMintcon.net Top
2005-08-27 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Eugene Gorbunoff" There are 10 cities in the world with working FM stations (according to the list of cities known to coolfm). So, if you discover FM stations in your city then inform us. What's new * Fixed memory leaks, crashes Did you know? Did you know that: * The best ISA is the GemTek ISA; * FM-tuners integrated to PCI TV-tuners are better that any ISA FM-tuner; * USB devices are mobile. D-Link USB is the best. http://ecomstation.ru/coolfm Top
2005-08-28 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: managerNOSPAM@NOSPAMos2ecs.org The OS2eCS Org. is working to support a new version of Papyrus for eComStation(OS/2). Please take a moment of your time to complete the following survey. http://www.os2ecs.org/papyrus.html We believe its important to support Native developers of software for eComStation and OS/2! Papyrus is an excellent productive Office Suite that takes advantage of OS/2. Your participation in this survey will help in this endevor! For more information on Papyrus Office visit here: http://www.romlogicware.com Again, thanks for your time and assistance. Regards, Jeramie Samphere President & Director of Operations OS2eCS Org. "Supporting the past OS/2 user and the future..eComStation User!" www.os2ecs.org Url: http://www.os2ecs.org/papyrus.html From: Jeramie Samphere (managerNOSPAM@NOSPAMos2ecs.org) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-08-28 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: martinDESPAM@DESPAMos2world.com OS2World.com has launch a new poll. Do you use remote control software to access your eComStation and OS/2 system? Which application do you use on the server side? http://scripts.os2world.com/stuffed/ Url: http://scripts.os2world.com/stuffed/ From: Martin Iturbide (martinDESPAM@DESPAMos2world.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-08-29 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com DOSBox frontend 1.0 available on hobes The main purpose of this program is to generate a rexx (cmd) file that starts dosbox with certain settings and runs a game / program, then create a desktop icon for it. It makes it easy to change DOSBox settings and test the result, before creating desktop object. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dosboxfront_1_0.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dosboxfront DOSBox for eCS / OS2 ; http://pcnwstage.phys.rug.nl/dosbox-os2/DOSBOX_SMALL.EXE (port by josch) Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html From: Chris (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-08-29 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Eugene Gorbunoff" The purpose of the ACPI driver is provide ACPI interface to applied developers. ACPI project consists of: * ACPI-CA driver * Toolkit for developers of drivers and applications Current version allows: * evaluate any method from ACPI tree * visualize ACPI tree * wake up all devices * catch Power/Sleep button click * Power Managment timer, 3.6 times per microsecond * the driver is completed almost (thirdparty developers may use it to create own control applications) * Throttling CPU Whatsnew: * Added CPU throttling * Improved memory managment * Toolkit is available * ACPI Manager is improved We thank ACPI beta-testers. Please, continue send us reports and suggestions. ACPI driver is a product of Netlabs. http://betazone.ecomstation.nl/ Top
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