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OS/2 - eComStation News - January, 2007
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2006: January February March April May June July August September October November December
2005: August September October November December
SW: Lucide 1.0 RC1 available to eComStation customers
SW: Enhanced SeaMonkey 1.1 available
SW: UpdCD 2.60 has been released
SW: New ACPI drivers on eComStation betazone
Net : The Config.Sys Documentation Project
SW: Subversion 1.4.3 released.
SW: PHP v5.2.0 beta 2 now available
SW: testcase UNIAUD driver on netlabs.org
SW: netlabs.org newsletter #27 [ Uniaud, WarpVision, Config.sys,
SW: netlabs.org has a new web server!
SW: Maul Publisher for OS/2 V3.10
SW: Daniela's DANISS506 ADD - Release 1.7.8
| SW: Lucide 1.0 RC1 available to eComStation customers |
2007-01-24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Joachim Benjamins
[Moderator note: For anyone having problems getting this version of Lucide
to run, note the requirement for UCLIP to be installed. ]
Serenity Systems International and netlabs.org today released RC1 of Lucide
1.0, a document viewer for eComStation designed as a replacement for
Acrobat Reader.
One goal of Lucide is to have a fast document viewer which is well
integrated in the eComStation WPS and supports features like drag and drop
and printing and which makes as easy as possible to work with PDF and other
files on eComStation.
Important note: Lucide now requires the UniClip package
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=UClip
Lucide will not start without installed UniClip!
UniClip is designed to allow OS/2 programs to exchange unicode text using
the clipboard with other native programs or with odin-ized programs. It is
compiled using Odin source code, so it shares the same clipboard formats
recognized in win32 native programs.
Changes since the previous Lucide beta release:
- Ask for password, if document is password-protected.
- Support for Pipe commands.
- 'New window' menuitem.
- Writes into EA thumbnail of first page of document (for eSchemes
Deluxe).
- Added 'print to file' option for postscript output.
- Remember last selected printer during session (closed ticket #96).
- Copy unicode text to clipboard in OpenOffice.org compatible format.
- Optimized unicode conversion, fixes crash in uconv.dll (closed
ticket #97).
- Speedup for 'As Image' printing, fixed crash (closed ticket #94).
- Odd/Even printing for 'As Image' printing.
- Plugin API extension: extended error reporting.
- PDF plugin: freetype library updated to release 2.3.0 (closed ticket
#76).
- DJVU plugin: handle document load errors.
- Added NLS-files: Italian, Czech, Russian.
- Updated NLS-files: Spanish, German, French.
All registered eComStation customers can download Lucide 1.0 RC1 (as zip or
WarpIn file) from the the eComStation Betazone, after login at:
http://www.ecomstation.com/
If you find any bugs please report them to the Netlabs tracking system:
http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/
If you want to provide some more plugins for Lucide you will find the
sample source code on this page as well. The package also contains all
GPLed parts of the source code.
Heiko Nitzsche published 3rd party plugins for Lucide, based on GBM.
They are available from his homepage at: http://heikon.home.tlink.de/
Support for Lucide is available on the Lucide mailinglist, you will find
details at:
http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/
Best regards,
Serenity Systems International
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| SW: Enhanced SeaMonkey 1.1 available |
2007-01-24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
[Moderator note: Please send all comments and problem reports to the news
group news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.ports.os2 ]
Peter Weilbacher has released some enhanced versions of SeaMonkey, the
Mozilla based suite for web browsing, email, news and more. Primary
enhancements include WPS integration, MNG/JNG support, and high memory
usage (in the download labelled for "highmem").
From the release notes:
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=480973&group_id=183811
"This is not an official release of SeaMonkey. Although it uses code from
the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH checked out on 11Jan2007 for the largest part, I
added several enhancements:
Extra Features:
- Include MNG/JNG support
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18574>
- Activate SVG and Canvas support
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305028>
Now with correct orientation, correct color display, license correction,
and a fix for Matrox (slow!)
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351986>
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358560>
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355067>
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=362360>
- Add support for WPS objects in the browser, using Rich Walsh's RWS
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305061>
and ship RWS libraries and script to support it.
- Tag downloaded files with source URL in extended attributes, using Rich
Walsh's patch
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301367>
- Package extra DLL: ipluginw.dll (for plugin functionality, no bug)
- Fix the way keycodes are reported to JavaScript
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222509>
- Load the application into high memory
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351246>
This is only activated in a package specifically marked as "highmem""
Download page:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=183811&package_id=219277&release_id=480973
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| SW: UpdCD 2.60 has been released |
2007-01-24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Z. Kadar (infoDESPAM@DESPAMupdcd.tk)
UpdCD 2.60 has been released. This is a full release which should NOT be
installed on top of an existing UpdCD installation.
UpdCD can be used to create an updated OS/2 Warp 3/4, WSeB, CP 1/2 or eCS
1.x installation CD-ROM.
Url: http://www.updcd.tk
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| SW: New ACPI drivers on eComStation betazone |
2007-01-24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
"ACPI (short for "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface") is a
standard that defines power and configuration management interfaces
between an operating system and Hardware. It is meant to supersede
the older APM standard (for power management) and provide a generic
interface for recognition and configuration of hardware devices."
Available to those with access (via Software Subscription Services) to the
eComStation BetaZone: ( via logging in at http://www.mensys.nl )
acpi-20070123.zip 526 kb 23/01/2007 02:39 pm
ACPI for eComStation (read installation instructions again). version:
2.17 h
20070123 (2.17)
* Installation procedure changed significantly! Please read docs again.
* rebuild work with APIC
* rebuild EOI
* rebuild *Lock
* PIC mode is default now, use /APIC to activate APIC
* /NOD is default switch now
* added experimental HLT in SMP kernel's Idle
acpi-apm-20070123.zip 62 kb 23/01/2007 02:40 pm
APM.ADD (Power management for eComStation; Requries ACPI.PSD 2.17). Misc
fixes. version: 1.9
20070123 (1.9)
* Fixed C state for Uni
* added HLT/Cx for SMP
acpi-snooper-20070123.zip 14 kb 23/01/2007 02:45 pm
ACPI snooper (IRQ control, ACPI tables loading). version: 2.17
acpi-kernel-20070123.zip 1467 kb 23/01/2007 02:44 pm
eComStation kernel for ACPI. Highly experimental. version: 20070123
From the readme:
This is patched kernel. Highly experimental!
It contains additional HLT operations.
Activate it via AcpiD.cfg -> ExtraKernelHLT = Yes
* This should reduce heat of CPU => Cooler should work silently.
* May increase life of batteries is using on notebook. additional 50%
ATTENTION: We don't provide support for this feature, sorry.
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| Net : The Config.Sys Documentation Project |
2007-01-25
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Martin Iturbide (martinDESPAM@DESPAM.os2world.com)
The Config.sys Documentation Project is now available on wiki style on the
EDM2 web site.
So, if you know how to tweak some config.sys statements and you want to
share it, or if you want to help improve the documentation of anything
posted there, go ahead and change the wiki page.
http://www.edm2.com/index.php/The_Config.sys_Documentation_Project
If you don't have access to the wiki, you need to request it to Adrian
Gschwend - ktk netlabs.org -
If by any chance Adrian takes some time to give you an account (Since he is
very busy on this days), go ahead and post your config.sys command on this
OS2World.com forum thread, and I will put it on the wiki.
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/forum/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=51&TID=992
Thanks to Oliver Poggensee for allowing posting this project on the edm2 wiki.
Url: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/The_Config.sys_Documentation_Project
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| SW: Subversion 1.4.3 released. |
2007-01-26
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
"The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system
that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. The
software is released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license.
The main Subversion website is at http://subversion.tigris.org/ "
Hi All,
Per the below announcement - Subversion 1.4.3 has been released and an OS/2
binary is now available from http://smedley.info/os2ports
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Paul.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Subversion 1.4.3 released.
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:23:06 +0000
From: Max Bowsher
I'm happy to announce Subversion 1.4.3, available from:
http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.3.tar.bz2
Release notes for the 1.4.x release series may be found at:
http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.4_releasenotes.html
You can find list of changes between 1.4.3 and earlier versions at:
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.4.3/CHANGES
Questions, comments, and bug reports to
usersDESPAM@DESPAMsubversion.tigris.org.
Thanks,
- The Subversion Team
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| SW: PHP v5.2.0 beta 2 now available |
2007-01-27
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
"PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially
suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML."
PHP v5.2.0 beta 2 is now available from http://smedley.info/os2ports
This fixes some major problems with relative vs absolute paths that were
introduced in PHP 5.2.0
Thanks to those who reported the problems.
Cheers,
Paul.
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| SW: testcase UNIAUD driver on netlabs.org |
2007-01-29
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Website: http://uniaud.netlabs.org
"UNIAUD is a generic OS/2 MMPM audio driver that supports the vast majority
of audio hardware.
Based on the Linux ALSA project, it is designed to address the needs of
enterprises and SoHo/Endusers running the IBM OS/2 platform. Its
sophisticated architecture minimizes development effort for the support of
new audio hardware and ensures both high quality and current OS/2 support
without the amount of work normally involved in creating an OS/2 audio
device driver."
There is an update to the UNIAUD driver on Netlabs' FTP server:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/uniaud_28012007_testcase.zip
Note that this is labelled a "testcase" so use it with care. It does work
fine on my Thinkpad T42p.
From the changes file in this testcase archive:
"NOTE: UNIAUD API requires new LIBC from GCC get it from
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip
28.01.2007
- Latest HDA code
- Fixed DART sharing problems with UNIAUD API
- A lot of other ALSA updates"
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| SW: netlabs.org newsletter #27 [ Uniaud, WarpVision, Config.sys, |
2007-01-29
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
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. January - 28 January
* netlabs server
o The server will be moved tonight (January 29th)!
o There will be new webpages online but they will be very basic for the
moment! Adrian will work on that afterwards :-)
o TRAC & Subversion should move tomorrow Tuesday, reaction will be much
faster on the new server.
o IRC will move to its own network for reasons that will be explained
later. Right now irc.netlabs.org points to irc.aroa.ch
* The Config.sys Documentation Project
o The Config.sys documentation project is now hosted in the EDM2 Wiki
o See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/The_Config.sys_Documentation_Project
* UniAud
o Fix TRAP in Intel chips
o Latest HDA patches from ALSA
o Added missed files to SVN
o Applied latest modifications for ALSA
o Reworked sharing between DART and UNIAUD API
o R&D on sharing on single stream cards
* WarpVision
o Added support for g726 codec (Panasonic LCD TV's (among others?)
writing audio in this format.)
o R&D for DVD menu
o Working on recording
* DWS 2007
o It will be held a bit later, ***** July 7 and 8 *****.
o Still in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
o See: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2007
* kBuild
o Many additions and fixes
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
* Lucide
o RC1 released
o German, Swedish and French updates
o Various additions
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
* NewView
o Various updates and fixes
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
15. January - 21 January
* UniAud
o HDA code updated
o AC97 code updated. A couple new codecs added. Some AD 19XX codecs
features expanded
o Other hardware updates from ALSA keeps on coming
* WarpVision
o Fixed a DART issue (no sound)
o Fixed slider position when playing RM files
o Fixed (134, 135)
o Fixed DVD rip playback
o various FFMPEG updates and other small fixes
* FM/2
o Split user added commands association, toolbar entries
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
* kBuild
o Many updates again
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
* Lucide
o Freetype update to version 2.3.0
o Use UClip library from Yuri Dario for clipboard operations
o French NLS update
o Use raw data format for print queue, this avoids metafile creation
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/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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| SW: netlabs.org has a new web server! |
2007-01-29
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Adrian Gschwend
Dear community,
Today we physically replaced the old netlabs.org web server by the new,
much more powerful one! While there was much work done already, not
everything is finished yet. Please give me some time now to finish the
migration, I will try my very best to make sure all the information are
back online as soon as possible and hopefully even more soon.
Again, I would like to say a big "thank you!" to everyone that contributed
to the new server!
Changes:
- new site layout! You just get an impression right now, much more to
come :-) I *know* it is broken for now so don't report that ;) It is just
*very* basic right now.
- most links have a different structure now. While the sub domains like
warpin.netlabs.org still work I have to add some redirects for links &
downloads etc.
- new XML/XSLT based CMS (thanks a lot to Arne Blankerts for his fCMS!,
see www.fcms.de for more information, it rocks!). It's blazing fast :)
- the FTP server is case sensitive now
- all FTP users are gone, I will migrate them as soon as possible.
Anonymous user works for sure
- Subversion & TRAC is running on the new server now, it is much faster :-)
- CVS moved away already some days ago, now at cvs.netlabs.org. Snapshots
of the old projects are available at ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/snapshots
- IRC points to irc.aroa.ch for now, will change (see below)
To be moved within the next few days:
- wiki.netlabs.org
- www.edm2.com
You will notice when this is done because the pages will react much faster ;)
Server:
After years of running the web server on OS/2 I decided to move to FreeBSD
as a server OS for various reasons which I would like to explain because
some people do not seem to understand that:
- My daytime job is administrating servers, most servers I run are
FreeBSD so I know this OS pretty well
- netlabs.org provides mainly software for the desktop. I prefer to
invest time in organizing netlabs.org itself than debugging issues on the
server just because most of the software I run on the server are made for
Unix (TRAC, Subversion, Apache...) and might not work on OS/2 that easy
- I do much more on this server than just providing basic services like a
little bit of PHP & MySQL. We use quite a bunch of software on this server,
see http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/R2-d2 if you are interested in the
details
- FreeBSD works just fine on this dualcore AMD CPU and because the server
is in Hamburg (Germany) and I live in Biel (Switzerland) I didn't feel like
experimenting on new hardware
- we simply have much more important things to discuss than the OS of
netlabs.org. Talk about Voyager for example! :-)
Unfortunately the admin of the eCS Network refuses to accept any servers in
the IRC network which are not running OS/2 so I am not allowed to connect
to that network anymore. While I find that very narrow-minded I have to
accept that and move the IRC network. In the next days I will most probably
join another existing network and #netlabs will move to that network as
well. I will announce that for sure. For now irc.netlabs.org points to
irc.aroa.ch. I would have preferred to stay on eCS Network because that's
where we belong...
so far, I'm sure I forgot some things but I will inform again in a few days
or so.
Thanks again to Arne for his friendly support with fCMS, the new hardware
(thanks for the reinstall ;) and finally changing the server itself :-) I
will also bug him the next weeks till the web pages look the way I want it.
Also thanks to n@work which still provides a very fast Internet connection!
With the new server you should be able to notice it :-)
cu
Adrian
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| SW: Maul Publisher for OS/2 V3.10 |
2007-01-31
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Peter Koller"
Maul Publisher is an industrial strength desktop publisher capable of
creating virtually all of the printing seen on everyday household items.
You can use it to easily lay out newspapers, cards, books, labels, stamps,
posters, charts, forms, and even designs like building plans or furniture
arrangements.
Product page:-
http://www.manglais.com/subs/php/product.php?MAULE300
Screenshots and overview:-
http://www.manglais.com/promo/maul.html
Version V3.10 is now available:-
================================
* Api changes destined to improve missing font substitution.
* New external edit option for bitmaps
- please edit '...\maul\etc\extedit.cfg' first.
* Added 'Ctrl+/' key combination to select all frames.
* Updated gbm to V1.50 - this adds some new file types.
* Fixed image placement error in tables.
* Fixed error in spellcheck options dialog.
* Added additional error correction when importing older files.
* Improved maintenance subscription URL link object.
For those who have a Software Maintenance Subscription
======================================================
If you have registered for an annual Software Maintenance Subscription,
additional downloads will become available via the subscriptions web page,
or by using the automated 'Check for updates' option from within Maul
Publisher. Please install V3.10 first!
* Import filter for Windows Metafiles - reads both wmf and emf types.
* Import filter for Rich Text Format (*.rtf)- supports bullets and
numeric lists, article information, and images in a variety of data
formats.
To install or upgrade Maul:-
============================
Download maulebin310.zip, and either maulelen310.zip or maulelde310.zip
or both, depending on the language(s) you want.
Try
http://www.manglais.com/download.php
or later
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=maule
Unzip all the files in the .\maul\install directory where maul was
installed and run the installer. You need to install the binary executive
and library files, as well as the appropriate language packs. It is safe to
install later versions of Maul V3.xx over earlier ones.
Please take the trouble to report any bugs that you may find!
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| SW: Daniela's DANISS506 ADD - Release 1.7.8 |
2007-01-31
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Daniela Engert has released an update to her replacement IDE driver,
DaniS506.ADD. Now at release 1.7.8.
"IBM1S506 replacement, supports Intel, VIA, Ali, SiS, CMD, Promise, Cyrix,
HPT, AMD, Artop, SMSC, ServerWorks, Opti, Nvidia, NatSemi, SiliconImage,
ITE, ATI, NetCell, Broadcom, JMicron and Marvell chips, SerialATA, disk
capacities up to 2TiB, V1.7.8"
Download hobbes incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/danis506r178.zip
Hobbes search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=danis506r178
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