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OS/2 - eComStation News - February, 2006
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2005: August September October November December
Net: OS2 World Poll: Are You using a TV-card with OS/2?
Net: FOSS for OS/2: Keeping the flame alive
SW: WarpIN 1.0.9
Net: OS2 World Bounty Update
SW: RexxMail build 20060216.094945 released.
SW: eCS-OS/2 Folder Icons Update Again
SW: Mr. Message (AIM client) update (2/19/2006)
SW:
SW: PMView Pro v3.24 is now available
SW: RexxMail build 20060220.100203 released.
Net: Week of on-board network adapters
SW: Lotus Smartsuite updates
SW: QKOS2 - personal financial program
SW: A new cool monthly calendar gadget for use with WPSWizard
SW: PDFMerge/2 Version 0.6.6
Event: BayWarp meeting February 28
Event: netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006 News
SW: NetDrive for OS/2 3.0.3
SW: VFAT plugin for NetDrive for OS/2 3.0.3
| Net: OS2 World Poll: Are You using a TV-card with OS/2? |
2006-02-16
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Kim Haverblad
Quick question this time; Are You using a TV-card with OS/2? Also if
you have suggestion on what we should follow up this poll with, please
then make suggestion using the poll script.
The poll can be found here:
http://scripts.os2world.com/stuffed/
Url:
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=2&id=1140113458
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| Net: FOSS for OS/2: Keeping the flame alive |
2006-02-16
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
FOSS for OS/2: Keeping the flame alive
Thursday February 16, 2006 (06:00 PM GMT)
By: Bruce Byfield
http://software.newsforge.com/software/06/01/30/192226.shtml?tid=150&tid=132&tid=16
"After a decade of neglect and increasingly reluctant support from
IBM, the manufacturer, the OS/2 community persists. Where users of
GNU/Linux or FreeBSD have turned to free and open source software
(FOSS) for political and philosophical freedom and software quality,
the surviving OS/2 community has been turning to FOSS as a means of
defending members' right to use the operating system of their choice.
The result is a small but surprisingly diverse collection of projects
that, to a GNU/Linux user, is a mixture of the familiar and exotic..."
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| SW: WarpIN 1.0.9 |
2006-02-16
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Ratcliffe
The WarpIN general purpose installer for OS/2 has been updated to
version 1.0.9. This fixes a few reported bugs with version 1.0.8.
You can find it in the usual places on Netlabs and Hobbes:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/warpin/warpin-1-0-9.exe
and
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/warpin-1-0-9.zip
moving to
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/archiver/warpin-1-0-9.zip
Paul
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| Net: OS2 World Bounty Update |
2006-02-17
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From: Kim Haverblad (kimhDESPAM@DESPAMos2world.com)
If simply contributing to an Open Source project is not enough, you
now have an added incentive. OS2 World.Com has organized an ongoing
Bounty hunt together with OS2 User Group Sweden. Listed below are
various tasks we would like to see completed or features which have
been requested. If you have suggestions for possible bounties, look at
the current list of enhancement requests and submit yours if it is not
already listed.
As of today we have managed to collect 870 USD, but we are still
missing sponsorship for a lot of suggested bounties and we hope of
course to get full sponsorship to all of the suggested bounties.
Following bounties have sponsorship are still open:
$150 - TrueCrypt port
$108 - GemPlus PC400 driver support
$100 - Interface InnoTek's font-engine
$100 - Maul XHTML import handler
$100 - ZGV picture viewer
$75 - Common File Open/Save Dialog
$75 - Universal Webcam drivers
$50 - PCMCIA USB 2.0 cards drivers
$42 - Mpeg2Schnitt port
$40 - Icon routines in OS/2
$15 - USB extended keyboard driver
$15 - Port of LyX 1.3
Bounties that still are missing sponsorship:
Porting AbiWord
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=57&id=1139498236
OS/2 native port of Apache Harmony
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1139938951
OS/2 native port of Java 6
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1139938653
Porting 7-zip
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1139262048
Freetype/2 based on Freetype 2
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1138216188
GNASH open source Flash 7
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1137236743
Eclipse.org Standard Windowing Toolkit (SWT) OS/2 Port
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1135507219
OpenGroupWare web based team/group software
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1135506733
BlueTooth Driver Development
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1133812234
OpenWengo port
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1133336604
OS2 & eCS kernel
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1132774347
Universal PrinTrio - Multifunctional drivers
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1132773664
Synchronising Software for PDAS
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1129533770
USB Wireless Security Lock driver
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1126360474
Universal CardBus drivers
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=58&id=1126305857
To make your own suggestion of needed bounties, please then use this form:
http://www.os2world.com/bounties/suggest.php
New suggestions can either be new software, new features to existing
applications, drivers or what ever you think that you would like to
see. For more information about the bounty system:
http://www.os2world.com/bounties/
Big thanks must also go to OS2 User Group Sweden that takes cares of
all the feed involved using PayPal. If there are any kind of problem
using PayPal as payment option or if you have enhancement suggestions
for the bounty system, please then contact Bjorn Soderstrom at bjorso
at os2world dot com.
Url: http://www.os2world.com/bounties/
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| SW: RexxMail build 20060216.094945 released. |
2006-02-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Marcus de Geus
A new build of RexxMail is available from my web site:
<http://www.rexxmail.degeus.com>
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.
New in this release:
- Minor changes to action logging behaviour.
- Minor changes to message object shadow creation behaviour.
- Removed some obsolete code.
- Added To, Cc, and Bcc folder buttons to message toolbar drawer.
Best regards,
Marcus de Geus
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| SW: eCS-OS/2 Folder Icons Update Again |
2006-02-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: David Graser (dwgrasDESPAM@DESPAMswbell.net)
I have updated my eCS-OS/2 folder package again. It now contains two
more folder colors, Blue2 and Wine, for a total of 16 different colors
or styles. The package also contains a few new miscellaneous icons
that some people might find use.
Url:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ecs_os2_folder&pushbutton=Search
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| SW: Mr. Message (AIM client) update (2/19/2006) |
2006-02-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Marty
Mr. Message for OS/2 is an instant messenger client which is capable
of communicating over AOL's Instant Messenger network using the OSCAR
protocol (used in the Win32 AIM clients, jBuddy, gAIM, Kopete, ICQ,
and a variety of other clients).
It has been updated with the following changes:
* Fixed receiving instant messages from other clients.
Damn protocol changes!
* Fixed a small memory leak when an IM is received that is not
understood.
* Added new scriptable events for pre-processing and post-processing
instant messages. This should allow anyone to write a translator for
other languages and character sets. See ReadMe.REXX for details.
* Added new functions to the REXX subcommand interface to display
messages in the chat window (without sending them to a user), and to
get a user's alias.
* Included more sample scripts in the REXX package to demonstrate new
REXX integration features.
To download, please visit the official Mr. Message web page:
http://mamodeo.dyndns.org/MrMessage
This is the final release of Mr. Message since I am now working on a
full port of Gaim (which will cover all of the functionality of Mr.
Message and a whole lot more, including multiple protocols such as
Jabber, Yahoo, and MSN to name a few).
If a fix request for Mr. Message is simple enough, I will do it. But
if it takes too much time, I'd rather devote the time to the Gaim port.
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| SW: |
2006-02-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Nielsen (peterDESPAM@DESPAMpmview.com)
PMView Pro v3.24 is now available.
List of new features and bug fixes:
http://www.pmview.com/os2new.html
IMPORTANT: To obtain the full (registered) version of the update, you
will need to follow the download instructions included in the e-mail
that was sent to you when you purchased PMView Pro. If you have lost
this information, please contact sales@blueprintsoftwareworks.com.
Trial (demo) versions of PMView can be downloaded at
http://www.pmview.com Registered users, please note that the trial
versions CANNOT be registered. If you have purchased PMView Pro,
please follow the download instructions in the e-mail sent by BMT Micro.
Thanks,
Peter
Url: http://www.pmview.com
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| SW: PMView Pro v3.24 is now available |
2006-02-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Nielsen (peterDESPAM@DESPAMpmview.com)
PMView Pro v3.24 is now available.
List of new features and bug fixes:
http://www.pmview.com/os2new.html
IMPORTANT: To obtain the full (registered) version of the update, you
will need to follow the download instructions included in the e-mail
that was sent to you when you purchased PMView Pro. If you have lost
this information, please contact sales@blueprintsoftwareworks.com.
Trial (demo) versions of PMView can be downloaded at
http://www.pmview.com Registered users, please note that the trial
versions CANNOT be registered. If you have purchased PMView Pro,
please follow the download instructions in the e-mail sent by BMT Micro.
Thanks,
Peter
Url: http://www.pmview.com
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| SW: RexxMail build 20060220.100203 released. |
2006-02-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Marcus de Geus
A new build of RexxMail is available from my web site:
<http://www.degeus.com/rexxmail/>
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.
New in this release:
- Bugfix: Missing CRLF in header of empty new messages.
- Bugfix: Double blank in message title warning string for missing
body text.
- Bugfix: WPS slow to recognise new message objects.
Best regards,
Marcus de Geus
--
marcusDESPAM@DESPAMdegeus.com
http://www.degeus.com
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| Net: Week of on-board network adapters |
2006-02-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
The eighth week of 2006 is dedicated to collection of info about
compatible/non-compatible onboard network adapters (Marvel Yukon, etc). Our
database contains 48 records only (
http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=category§ion=net ) Major
part of the models are not manufactured anymore. Post new reports using the
web-form ( http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=new )
Attention! The developers of solutions are interested to know the list of
unsupported adapters.
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| SW: Lotus Smartsuite updates |
2006-02-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: steve53DESPAM@DESPAMearthlink.net
IBM has quietly placed an update for 1.7.3 in the SmartSuite fixes FTP
directory
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/lotus/fixes/SmartSuite
The update at
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/lotus/fixes/SmartSuite/os206in1.zip
corrects a couple of Organizer crashes and updates the WordPro monthly
calendar SmartMaster for 2006 and beyond.
There are some additional updated SmartMasters and fonts that you might
find useful
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/lotus/fixes/SmartSuite/App_SchedSM.zip
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/lotus/fixes/SmartSuite/APP_Schedule_SM.zip
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/lotus/fixes/SmartSuite/SS_OS2_frutiger.zip
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/lotus/fixes/SmartSuite/WP_smasters.zip
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| SW: QKOS2 - personal financial program |
2006-02-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
"The ultimate in personal financial programs for OS/2. This will make the
rest of the financial programs will look like they were developed in the
early 1990's."
"The best native OS/2 personal financial program to date. If you are using
DB2, run the included MakeDB.cmd file. For the PostGRE version, you will
need to type at the command line
included the brackets on the command line. If you don't have either
Database's, QnEDemo.exe will demo the graphics of this program. I tried to
make the background look like my wood desk top. Instead it ended up looking
like a wooden floor. I left it like that for all you wood lovers out there."
Hobbes Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/qkos2.zip
Hobbes Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=qkos2.zip
Runs on: OS/2 Warp 4.0/eCS 1.0
Requires: REQUIRES either DB2 or Postgre. Needs a TCP/IP connection for
Tax Information
Yahoo support group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/QnE/
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| SW: A new cool monthly calendar gadget for use with WPSWizard |
2006-02-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
"A new cool monthly calendar gadget for use with WPSWizard"
Hobbes Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/nmcgadgt_20060221.zip
Hobbes Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=nmcgadgt
Runs on: OS/2 Warp 4+
Requires: WPSWizard 0.5.1+ {
http://www.os2world.com/cdwriting/wpswizard/wpswizardmain.htm }
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| SW: PDFMerge/2 Version 0.6.6 |
2006-02-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
"PDFMerge/2 Version 0.6.6 (c) 2004-2005 copyrighted FREEWARE by Herwig
Bauernfeind Utility to concatenate multiple PDF/PS files into a single PDF
file. (see changes and readme.txt)"
Hobbes Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pdfmerge066.zip
Hobbes Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pdfmerge
Runs on: A recent version of eCS (OS/2), Rexx support
Requires: VROBJ.DLL (VX-REXX runtime dll), ePDF by Frank Wochatz (
http://www.subsys.de/ePDF/ ), GhostScript 8.53 (
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/ ), XPDF 3.00
(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/convert/xpdf-3.00.zip )
Contact: Herwig Bauernfeind
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| Event: BayWarp meeting February 28 |
2006-02-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Neil Waldhauer
Date: Tuesday, February 28
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Place: Help Desk Computers (WTW Group), 1456 Pollard Road, Los Gatos, CA 95032
Come join us in our monthly meeting. We are OS/2 and eComStation users, and we
meet every month to show off our latest software and hardware. We bring
laptops, network cables and power, and we often do live troubleshooting of
systems during our meetings.
Hint: It's between the Mexican Restaurant and the Japanese Restaurant in the
corner (Safeway is on the far right). $5.00 per person to be collected for help
with the munchies.
Topics:
* WarpVision 1.0
* OpenTTD
* Visual SlickEdit now freeware
* Survey of recent Flash animation
* OS/2 Question & Answer
Web Page <http://www.baywarp.org/>
Contact Info
Paul Lazaga
Neil Waldhauer
--
Neil Waldhauer neilDESPAM@DESPAMblondeguy.com
www.blondeguy.com Expert consulting for OS/2 Warp and eComStation
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| Event: netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006 News |
2006-02-23
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Adrian Gschwend
The netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006 in Switzerland is not that far
away anymore so it's about time to open the registration! You can now
register for the workshop at Mensys, we have the following prices:
# netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, Saturday and Sunday: 45 Euro
# netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, one day: 25 Euro
# netlabs.org Developers Workshop 2006, students: Free
More information & links can be found at:
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2006
So far we plan to do the following presentations (details follow):
* Cairo
* IOProc replacement
* SOMH
* Everblue
* Voyager
* A WM based on Cairo
* Coding for WPS and Voyager
* netlabs.org Certificaton Program
* Translating Software
We are looking forward to see you there!
kind regards
Adrian Gschwend
netlabs.org
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| SW: NetDrive for OS/2 3.0.3 |
2006-02-23
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: NetDrive Development (netdriveDESPAM@DESPAMbmtmicro.net)
23 February 2006
Blueprint Software Works (netdriveDESPAM@DESPAMblueprintsoftwareworks.com)
has updated NetDrive for OS/2, a virtual file system, that allows seamless
access to FTP, NFS, VFAT and other resources.
The new version 3.0.3 includes updated FTP plugin and a new utility, that
allows one to view FTP messages and the FTP server replies.
The FTP plugin new features are:
* file name translation between local system codepage and the codepage
which is used by the remote server.
* ASCII transfer mode for specified file types (html, htm, txt).
Please download and install the new version if you are using NetDrive for
OS/2 3.x.
NetDrive for OS/2 can be downloaded from
http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive
Full announcement can be found at
http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive/news.html
Url: http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| SW: VFAT plugin for NetDrive for OS/2 3.0.3 |
2006-02-23
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: NetDrive Development (netdriveDESPAM@DESPAMbmtmicro.net)
The plugin allows full read/write access to VFAT file system that supports
long file names on FAT formatted disks and USB memory devices.
The new version includes important fixes for compatibility problems with
some external devices.
Registered customers of NetDrive VFAT plugin get the new plugin for free.
Download the version from:
http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive/plugins1.html
Url: http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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