This is the next public beta release of eRedMan, a pipe redirection
manager for eComStation and OS/2. It is a general pipe redirection
utility (like printmon.exe or print2ps.cmd that comes with ePDF). Its
equivalent in the Windows world is RedMon.
eRedMan is able to monitor multiple pipes and associate one program to a
each pipe and execute that program, whenever data was written to the pipe.
What is new is this beta?
+Added: Toolbar with shortcuts to 3 existing contextmenu functions
(Stop, Restart, Settings)
+Added: Toolbar buttons to open printer folder and spooler object.
+Added: Some more help text
*Changed: Rewrote pipe monitor code once more
*Changed: After a thread has completed a new one is spawned much faster
than before (3rd attempt to fix job loss problem, and this one really
looks promissing)
Known problems and limitations:
* Printing to a pipe which is associated to GhostScript and configured to
write to LPT1, while VPC is running causes a SYS3175 crash in
PMSPOOL.EXE. Usage in conjunction with VPC is problematic anyway. This is
under investigation. More feedback is required here.
* Temporary files are placed into the TEMP directory. eRedMan currently
has a very primitive cleanup mechanism for leftover files, so you will
not be able to run this beta for a very long time (weeks or months)
without restarting it once in a while, depending on the number of usages.
On a PC that is rebooted daily, this should not be an issue.
Feedback is appreciated (although there was almost none up to now).
Contact me by email in case of problems.
Get eRedMan from hobbes:
Hobbes Incoming: <http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/eredman09b6.zip>
Hobbes Search: <http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=eredman>
Have fun,
Herwig Bauernfeind, 17-11-2004
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16 Nov 2004 15:11:57
From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net
PCCard 8.0 (Cardbus) Support for IBM ThinkPad systems
Last Updated on: 11/15/2004 10:32 AM
The PC Card 8.0 Card and Socket Device Drivers provide OS/2 support for PC
Card 8.0 (Cardbus) PCMCIA Card and Socket on IBM ThinkPad models. This
device driver is available in the following languages:
* Danish
* Dutch
* English
* Finnish
* French
* German
* Italian
* Japanese
* Norwegian
* Spanish
* Swedish
The most current version of this device driver package can be found on the
IBM Software Choice website.
To learn more about IBM Software Choice visit their home page.
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/os/warp/swchoice/
Requires subscription:
http://service.software.ibm.com/swchoice/os2dd/cardbus.exe
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15 Nov 2004 21:33:16
From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net
http://www.innotek.de/products/openofficeos2/beta/
"OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 for OS/2
A joint effort between Serenity Systems and InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH
OpenOffice.org for OS/2 is a port of the well known product [An Open
Source Office Suite] to the eComStation and OS/2 Warp platforms with
special support for InnoTek's font engine for OS/2.
To try out the beta, you have to download and install three products:
* InnoTek Font Engine for OS/2 http://www.innotek.de/products/ft2lib
* InnoTek Runtime for OS/2 http://www.innotek.de/products/innowin
* OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 for OS/2 Beta 1 (65MB)
English
http://download.innotek.de/openofficeos2/113Beta1/OOo113-Beta1-install_en.exe
Deutsch
http://download.innotek.de/openofficeos2/113Beta1/OOo113-Beta1-install_de.exe
Russian
http://download.innotek.de/openofficeos2/113Beta1/OOo113-Beta1-install_ru.exe
Note: OpenOffice.org for OS/2 Java support requires InnoTek OS/2 Kit for
Java to function.
http://www.innotek.de/products/javaos2/javaos2general_e.html
Please download and install the order given above. Refer to the
documentation of each component for installation instructions and
additional information.
For support and more information, please refer to the InnoTek Online
Support Forums. http://www.innotek.de/support/forums "
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15 Nov 2004 20:39:30
Forwarded message from Michael Kaply on Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:52:24 UTC
news://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.public.mozilla.os2
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/0.9/contrib/thunderbird-0.9-os2.zip
I believe this will coexist with Firefox 1.0.
Mike
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[Moderator note: "Thunderbird 0.9 is Mozilla's next generation e-mail
client. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever
before with the industry's best implementations of features such as
intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, and
much more."
http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/
November 15, 2004 Thunderbird 0.9 has been released.
Zipfile
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/0.9/contrib/thunderbird-0.9-os2.zip
Release Notes http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases
Requires a libc0.5 based version of the GCC runtime library.
http://www.innotek.de/products/gccos2/download/gccos2download_e.html ]
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15 Nov 2004 17:56:00
From: editorDESPAM@os2voice.org
The November issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now available online.
For online reading:
English - http://www.os2voice.org/newsletters.html
German - http://de.os2voice.org/newsletters.html
For download:
English (HTML) - http://www.os2voice.org/files/vnl1104h.zip
English (INF) - http://www.os2voice.org/files/vnl1104i.zip
German (HTML) - http://de.os2voice.org/files/vnl1104h_de.zip
German (INF) - http://de.os2voice.org/files/vnl1104i_de.zip
In the latest issue you find:
o Your turn to decide! -- by Christian Hennecke
o F - file manager and power-user's toolbox -- by Christian Hennecke
o Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 and OS/2 -- by Jason R Stefanovich
o Wireless Internet access via ISDN -- by Bela Bargel
o Warpstock in the Rockies -- by Mark Dodel
o And of course letters, addenda, tips, and the compiled news of the
previous month!
Older issues can be found at http://www.os2voice.org/newsletters.html, or
http://de.os2voice.org/newsletters.html, and the Hobbes archive as well.
As always a big thank you to our authors, editors, and translators without
whom there would be no VOICE Newsletter. Please consider helping with the
translation or writing an article for the Newsletter. Guidelines for
submissions to the VOICE Newsletter are available at
http://www.os2voice.org/newsletter_submission.html, including some
suggestions for topics.
From: Christian Hennecke (editorDESPAM@os2voice.org)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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15 Nov 2004 17:52:48
From: "Dave Yeo"
Hi I've built star, a POSIX 1003.1 compliant tar archiver and uploaded it
to Hobbes
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=1&button=Search&key=star-&stype=all&sort=date&dir=%2F
Stars homepage is
http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html
While star seems to run fine on OS/2 it is not extensively tested and it
does not support Extended Attributes at this time
Dave Yeo
dave.r.yeoDESPAM@gmail.com
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15 Nov 2004 15:22:53
From: lsunleyDESPAM@mb.sympatico.ca
unixODBC for OS/2 version 0.10 released. This is a replacement for other
ODBC driver managers and will work with the QE database drivers supplied
with DBExpert and with the drivers release with Louts Smartsuite for OS/2.
The OS/2 DB2 driver also works.
The file unixodbc010.zip is on Hobbes
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=unixodbc010.zip
The database drivers included in this release are:
- Flat text files (comma delimited ASCII)
- Flat DBF file
- postgreSQL database
- mySQL database
- FreeTDS (Sybase and MS SQL Server)
- SQLite ODBC driver and support library
Package Contents:
- driver manager (ODBC.DLL)
- installation API (ODBCCP.DLL)
- cursor library (ODBCCR.DLL)
- mySQL client library (libmysqC.dll)
- mySQL database driver and client (myODBC3.DLL libmysqC.dll)
- postgreSQL database driver (psqlODBC.dll)
- text file driver (ODBCtxt.dll ODBCtxtS.dll)
- DBF file driver (ODBCdbf.dll ODBCdbfS.dll)
- TDS database driver (ODBCtds.dll)
- SQLite file database driver (SQLLODBC.dll)
- PM ODBC Data Manager
- PM SQL Query
- RexxSQL modules for ODBC (RexxSQL and RexxODBC)
- Sample databases for text and DBF drivers
- Sample Rexx programs
- GCC 3.2.2 runtime (LIBC05.DLL)
Suggestions:
When using databases on your local network and you do not have a local DNS
(Domain Name Server) you should have
SET USE_HOSTS_FIRSTS=Y
in the config.sys file and have your HOSTS file in \mptn\etc updated with
the IP number to host names.
The myODBC3 driver and the FreeTDS driver have a very long timeout for DNS
lookups and your system will appear to lock up until the DNS lookup times
out and the local HOSTS file is checked unless you have USE_HOSTS_FIRST
specified
Fixes:
Update 010
- The DBF ODBC driver had several bugs (update 009 shipped a copy of the
driver that was half way through being updated :-(
This version will operate with Star Office 5.1 in read only mode and
PMODBCDM will correctly display the tables and columns for DBF files.
RexxSQL will also work with the driver.
- RexxSQL fixed SQLDataSources
Update 009
- The DBF ODBC driver configuration now allows 255 byte directory paths -
The text file ODBC driver configuration now allows 255 byte directory
paths - removed the "In connect" message displayed by SQLConnect
- SQLDriverConnect for the SQLite ODBC driver would not work
- SQLite ODBC driver did not report supporting SQLSetCursorName correctly
- mySQL ODBC driver was not returning correct maximum buffer size values
for
column descriptions of catalog functions
- mySQL ODBC driver was not testing for TRACE enabled correctly - when
mySQL ODBC was set to pad columns the PM ODBC DataMmanager program would
crash and the request of tables for a specific database would fail -
RexxSQL was linked with an older version (pre Update 007) of ODBC.DLL
Update 008
- The ODBC DBF file driver has been fixed so that it now works to some
extent with IBM VA Smalltalk v6.0 and Star Office 5.1. The driver will
only work in "read only" mode with Star Office. The driver will now allow
you to bind columns after SQLPrepare as well as SQLExecute.
Update 007
- the "Test connection" button was missing on the mySQL driver connection
page.
- Some functions were not exported in ODBC.DLL that caused the driver
manager to fail when used with Visualage Smalltalk versions 5.5 and 6.0 -
experimental work on allowing update cursors in mySQL ODBC (incomplete
for testing only)
Update 006
- PMODBCDM program would fail if drivermanager DLL was loaded by Star
Office - mySQL driver did not load driver defaults when no DSN was present
in connection string
Update 005
- The postgreSQL driver set SQL_DATETIME as an "unknown" data type - The
mySQL driver set SQL_DATETIME as an "unknown" data type
Update 004
- The postgreSQL driver now works with StarOffice 5.1
- The postgreSQL driver SQLTables function now works correctly
this was causing the ODBC Data Manager to fetch multiple copies
of the tables and schemas
- The mySQL driver now works with StarOffice 5.1
the field column layouts for catalog, stats, primary keys, etc did
not match the layout expected by the libmysqC routines.
Update 003
- change install layout to place drivers in \uodbc\dll
corrects problem where dialog boxes for configuration would
not display for some drivers
- correct failure when testing connection for a new mySQL DSN
Improvements:
Update 010
- SQLite ODBC driver is updated to version 0.66 of the code
- new sample \uodbc\samples\rexx\souresa.cmd shows how to
use the SQLDataSources procedure
Update 009
- The SQLite ODBC driver has been updated to the v0.65 code.
The driver also supports "memo" as a datatype for compatibility with code
written for DBF ODBC drivers.
Update 008
- the SQLite ODBC driver is now included in the package. The supporting
SQLITE28.DLL is also installed.
Update 007
- The PM Datamanager program will now allow you to connect to a database
with SQLDriverConnect when "Connect" is selected for a database Driver. If
the connection is successful the driver entry has a database tree showing
the tables present in the database.
- the mySQL driver now supports prompting for SQLDriverConnection
Update 004
- PostgreSQL ODBC driver now has a new configuration GUI and there is also
a GUI for configuring the driver defaults "Add" and "Configure" on the
drivers page of the ODBC Administration notebook. The driver has been
rebuilt to support ODBC version 3.00 (was 2.5) All trace options are built
into the driver.
- mySQL ODBC driver now has a new configuration GUI and there is also a
GUI for configuring the driver defaults "Add" and "Configure" on the
drivers page of the ODBC Administration notebook. The driver and the
libmysqc library have been built with trace support and the trace file
used can be specified on the "Trace" page. When you specify a driver
letter the colon ":" must be doubled as in "C::/odbclog/mytrace.log"
Update 003:
- RexxSQL has been added to the package. RexxSQL.dll and RexxODBC.dll are
installed to the package DLL directory and the RexxSQL.exe and
RexxODBC.exe are installed to the BIN directory. These versions of the
programs are specific to a 3.0 level of ODBC driver manager. A Sample Rexx
program has been added to the SAMPLES directory. The web site for RexxSQL
is http://rexxsql.sourceforge.net
- A fix has been made to the myODBC3 driver. The driver catalog functions
did not return the correct size for some columns in the table and column
catalogs.
- FreeTDS database driver for Sybase and MS SQL server has been added to
the package. This driver is based on the 0.62.4 FreeTDS code and will be
updated to the latest code in the near future. The current driver version
uses .conf files for some configuration information. The files are
installed to \uodbc\configure.
The web site for FreeTDS is http://www.freetds.org
This is an beta driver - it works but not for everything.
Update 002:
The PM SQL Query window now provides for:
- load and save of query text to files
- saving query results to a command delimited text file
- prompting for user name and password when not present in the DSN
The PM ODBC Data Manager now provides for:
- prompting for user name and password when not present in the DSN
The package includes a port of the version 4 mySQL client library. This
library is named libmysqC.dll and should not interfere if you have a local
mySQL database installation. This library is compiled with GCC 3.2.2.
Thanks to all those people who did the port of the mySQL database to OS/2.
Known Problems:
- RexxSQL does not work properly with the ODBCtxt driver
The problem is in the driver, it has to be enhanced to support
the functionality required by RexxSQL
Changes in the pipeline:
- make SQLDriverConnect work properly for all drivers
- improvements to the PM ODBC Data Manager to allow you create
tables in the database with "point and click" interface.
- data transfer utility that lets you move tables and data from one
DSN to another.
Feel free to e-mail me with comments or problems.
All programs are licensed under the LGPL with the exception of SQLite ODBC
which is a BSD licence and SQLite itself which is public domain
lsunleyDESPAM@mb.sympatico.ca
--
Lorne Sunley
Url: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu
From: Lorne Sunley (lsunleyDESPAM@mb.sympatico.ca)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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