Virtual OS/2 International Consumer Education
There are some updates to TCP/IP 4.1 available, all dated 12/16/98:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/tcpip/fixes/v4.1os2/stack/
Version numbers of TCP/IP protocol drivers:
SOCKETS.SYS: 5.3008
AFOS2.SYS: 5.3001
AFINET.SYS: 5.3006
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/tcpip/fixes/v4.1os2/apps/
ftplatest.exe, lprfileslatest.exe, telnetlat.exe, tftplatest.exe
Computing Devices Canada (CDC), Nepean, Ontario, a General Dynamics Company,
has been certified to Software Engineering Institute (SEI) capability and maturity
model (CMM) level 3, by a team of independent auditors. This is a significant achievement
for the company and provides assurance to its customers that software engineering
is being carried out at CDC in an organised, well-defined, repeatable and well-understood
fashion.
A major ingredient in the achievement of this success has been an Intranet-Web-based
document tailoring utility (DTU), written in Visual Prolog and running on an OS/2
Domino Go Web Server. The utility provides CDC's software engineers with instant
access to the company's process documents and policies, and allows them to tailor
and generate MIL-STD 498 style documents in a small fraction of the time previously
required. It allows them to see examples of existing document sections as well as
generic document text for each section. Users can edit the content of the sections,
plus "tailor" sections in or out, all while on-line. Once satisfied, they
can generate the complete document with keywords customised to their current project.
The CGI programs that drive the server side of the DTU are written in Visual
Prolog for OS/2 which provides the development productivity and run-time performance
the project demanded.
The Domino Go Web Server on OS/2 easily handles the processing load of the DTU,
dispatching the CGI processes rapidly enough to allow rapid interactive expansion
and collapsing of document sections by end-users. This activity is a key indicator
of response, since it can only be fully handled on the server side (the state of
the expanded or collapsed view persists between user sessions).
For more details on the DTU and CDC's SEI level 3 CMM certification, contact:
Gregory Bourassa
bourassa@magma.ca
OS/2 Programmers Wanted
ScanLine Technologies in Salt Lake City is looking for 1 or 2 full-time OS/2
programmers for development of a high end broadcast TV text and imaging system.
We will consider contract programmers with significant related experience in real-time
systems, video text and imaging systems, OS/2 video device driver creation for a
new HDTV multi-channel card, and/or experience porting OS-9 (an RTOS from Microware
in Des Moines) to OS/2, including C, C++, and assembly language code conversion,
and RBF or similar installable file systems (IFS) creation.
Individuals with significant OS/2 programming and device driver experience who
can assist in hardware development for a 4-channel HDTV-ready video card with anti-aliasing
compositing over live video, and CCIR601 digital interface, will be given the highest
consideration.
ScanLine Technologies is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. ScanLine is the owner
of the "Delta" brand of text and image generator systems used at broadcast,
cable, and high quality post production video facilities in over 40 countries around
the world.
If you are interested in one of these positions, you may reach us at:
ScanLine Technologies, Inc.
5140 West Amelia Earhart Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84020
Phone : 801-364-1007
FAX : 801-364-1916
www.scanlinetech.com
Please mark your resume to the attention of Dave Scull. You can send your resume
directly to Dave at:
dscull@scanlinetech.com
A new version of StHWMon - a hardware monitoring application for motherboards
with the Winbond W83781D chip - is out. Now with Rexx-API. See:
http://home.t-online.de/home/stefan.milcke/hwmon_en.htm
QuickFix is another of those tools for applying OS/2 fixpacks without obliging
you to make a bunch of floppy disks. It differs from other utilities of the genre
in that it uses a diskette image extractor which does a CRC verification before
applying what could otherwise be junk from a bad download to your perfectly-tuned
and functional OS/2 system.
QuickFix is not specific to any particular fixpack.
Improvements over version 1.0 include:
Author: on Saxton (triton@ibm.net)
You can download the file from http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=qf11.
NICE/2 v0.04 is out!
Have you ever started a long XCOPY command that ate too much CPU? Have you ever
wanted to make Netscape/2 more responsive? NICE/2 is here to rescue. With NICE/2
you can dynamically change priority of many processes in OS/2. As opposed to programs
such as SPE that starts a process in a given priority, NICE/2 enables you to change
the priority of processes and threads AFTER they have been started.
Highlights of this version:
NICE/2 is available at the NICE/2 homepage:
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/6525/os2.html
or at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/nice004.zip
I just called Lotus (US) and ordered it. 1-800-343-5414, but as with anything
to do with Lotus and OS/2, they at first didn't know it existed, then told me it
has been out for a while but didn't know how long. She said they only had 16 copies
in stock (15 now :-) I verified that this was the update for Lotus Smart Suite for
OS/2 Warp 4. Who knows if that is what they send me.
Price was as listed by Walter, $20 for the CD, $5 S/H and $1.20 tax for PA residents.
Source: IBM US Announcements
AFP Font Collection Delivers DBCS Fonts for AIX, OS/400 and OS/2
At A Glance
The AFP Font Collection Version 2 now includes DBCS fonts for AIX, OS/400 and
OS/2 in AFP 240 dpi raster and AFP outline font formats. Supported languages are:
Previously, DBCS AFP fonts had to be created by the user from Adobe CID keyed
outlines using the AFP Type Transformer utility. Now, you can print AFP output in
Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese using the fonts as
provided in the Font Collection.
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM North America Sales
Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).
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Go to our web site at http://www.ibm.com/isource
or send an e-mail to info@isource.ibm.com
with the word SUBSCRIBE in the body.
Overview
The IBM AFP Font Collection for AIX, OS/400 and OS/2 (5648-B45) provides a comprehensive
set of AFP fonts to give you consistent printed output on AFP printers at 240 or
300 dpi using raster fonts, or at any resolution on printers that use AFP outline
fonts. The AFP Font Collection supports printing in approximately forty-six languages,
including printing in double-byte languages such as Japanese, Korean, Simplified
Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
The optional Outline Fonts and Programs feature allows you to acquire Type 1
or CID keyed outline fonts in any typeface and create AFP fonts in raster format,
or in AFP outline format. The Type 1 and CID keyed outline fonts also allow you
to view your AFP documents on Windows 95, Windows NT or OS/2 systems, or via the
Netscape or Internet Explorer browser with WYSIWYG fidelity.
The AFP Font Collection Version 2 now includes double-byte (DBCS) AFP fonts in
240 dpi raster format and in AFP outline format for the following languages and
typefaces:
Japanese
Heisei Maru Gothic
Heisei Kaku Gothic
Heisei Mincho
Korean (includes 11,172 Hangul Characters)
Gothic
Myengjo
Simplified Chinese
Fang Song (GB)
Hei (GB)
Kai (GB)
Song (GBK)
Traditional Chinese
Kai
Sung
Refer to Software Announcement 298-314, dated September 8, 1998.
Key Prerequisites
The AFP DBCS fonts are used with PSF/400, PSF for AIX, InfoPrint Manager, PSF/2
or OS/2 Warp Server.
Planned Availability Dates
March 26, 1999, for OS/400
June 25, 1999, for AIX and OS/2
Dear Object Connection Member,
The VisualAge Object Connection team is pleased to inform you of the VisualAge
C++ Professional for OS/2 and for Windows NT Version 4.0 announcement! VisualAge
C++ Professional for OS/2 and for Windows NT Version 4.0 will be available on December
18, 1998 and will automatically be sent to active Object Connection members with
VisualAge C++ product plans.
If you are NOT currently receiving VisualAge C++ and would like to add it to
your entitlements, please send a note to objconn@us.ibm.com stating your company
name, your name, the number of licenses you wish to have loaned to you and the projects
for which you intend to use VisualAge C++. You may also contact your Object Connection
relationship manager.
Due to the holiday season, your new software package should arrive during the
first weeks of 1999.
VisualAge C++ Professional for OS/2 and for Windows NT V4.0 highlights include:
For more details about the new VisualAge C++ release, we encourage you to visit:
http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/visualage_c++
Before installing VisualAge C++ Professional for OS/2 and for Windows NT Version
4.0, please read the "Choosing the Right C++ CD", booklet which is included
in the product box.
As always, feel free to send any additional questions and/or comments to our
Object Connection team at objconn@us.ibm.com.
We thank you for your active participation in the Object Connection Program.
Your Object Connection Team
IBM Corporation
VisualAge Object Connection Program
Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
E-mail: objconn@us.ibm.com
FAX: 1-919-254-0472
URL: http://www.developer.ibm.com/pid_obj/ (for SDP Members)
or
http://www.developer.ibm.com/welcome/pid/pid_obj.html
White Bear Lake, Minnesota -- December 15, 1998
Keller Group, developer of the PMfax and FaxWorks OS/2 products, now has a special
LAN version which supports Windows, NT and OS/2 workstations for small SOHO LAN
situations. This provides LAN fax sharing at a very attractive price of just $299.
The new product allows "shared mode" use of the fax hardware by up
to five other workstations, and the workstations can be any mixture of Windows,
NT or OS/2 machines. The fax server can be any OS/2 machine on the LAN. This is
ideal for SOHO configurations where privacy, routing and other advanced features
of the regular PMfax LAN products are not needed.
"We continue to support the use of OS/2 by the home and small office user,"
says Mark Ahlstrom, President of Keller Group. "Many customers are now using
Windows and NT machines in addition to their OS/2 machines, and this new product
provides a cost-effective faxing solution for their office."
All PMfax products are now available for electronic ordering and delivery through
the Keller Group web site at http://www.kellergroup.com.
GRADD v0.079 is now available. You can download a copy from ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/videopak/graddbb/graddbb.dsk.
As the extension of the file suggests, loaddskf is used to create a floppy.
And there are upgrades to CSF (Corrective Service Facility) packages csf138 and
csf 139, and also to rsucsf in the rsu subdirectory. You can get those from ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/rsu/
also.
IBM has published a document comparing the Java performance of OS/2's latest
Java release (1.1.7) with the previous release (1.1.6).
Source: IBM OS/2 Warp Home on the web
http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/performance/jdk117_os2perf.htm
We have released a new version of the CandyBarZ utility! We have had to scale
back support for image formats other than bitmaps because of a bug in the MMPM system
in OS/2 (multimedia). We have reported the bug to IBM, but they want us to pay to
have it fixed. This isn't really feasible for a freeware project, so...
Future plans include a new themes system, that will allow people to put together
themes and share them with others! You can find the new beta at the OS/2 Netlabs
on the CandybarZ page.
http://www.netlabs.org/candybarz
It should be available at hobbes soon!
Happy Holidays!
The German publisher C.E. Fischer is looking for programmers who can program
in OS/2. They are currently on a new GUI for OS/2, which shall integrate a number
of applications. They are also looking for people who can develop drivers. If anyone
is interested, please contact CEFischer@t-online.de.
For some tasks German knowledge is probably required, but i guess for many parts
it is not essential. You can certainly contact them in English. If you want to have
a look at their web-page (in German): http://www.cefischer.de/.
NetLookout for OS/2 & Windows has been updated to version 2.10.
New in this version is the ability to watch password protected URL's, and to
handle URL's with '#' in them.
http://www.frugalsoft.com/lookout
The Larsen Commander program has reached its fourth public release, which is
version 0.94. Point your browser to:
http://home.sol.no/~leilarse/lcmd/index.html
if you are interested in taking a look or download it.
Some facts about Larsen Commander
Larsen Commander is a 32-Bit OS/2 Presentation Manager based File Manager with
built in command line and scrollable console monitor. It has a default look and
feel that is designed with inspiration from the grand old Norton Commander for DOS
and the great File Commander for OS/2.
Changes since the previous public release
Add: New section "[NoneConsoleProgs]" in LCMD.INI contains a list which
programs should always be launched in a new session. See LCMD.TXT for more info.
Add: Use SHIFT+F7 to goto the previous directory of the current file panel. This
feature makes it very snappy to jump between two "working" directories.
Imp: The standard message box of LCMD now shows the message text in a multiline
text entry field with a vertical scroll bar so that all the text can be seen (by
scrolling it) in case it is too long.
Imp: Rewrote some parts of the program launcher code. Larsen Commander is now,
at least in theory, ready to support launching and management of more than one child
process at once. I will, however, limit the number of active children to only one
until further notice. This is mostly due to the extra risks for serious unknown
bugs as a consequence of the relative complex code.
Imp: System command interpreter no longer assumed to be CMD.EXE. Is now fetched
from the COMSPEC environment variable as it should.
Imp: The "Choose Drive" dialog is now much more snappy to pop up after
the first time it has been used.
Chg: Now compiled for the 80386 processor rather than for 80486. This has no
practical effects to the speed of Larsen Commander at all, but it caused the size
of the EXE-file to be reduced by about 10 KBytes before compression.
Chg: The ALT key must now be released before 250ms after it was pressed to get
the menu bar activated by keyboard. This used to be 500ms until now.
Chg: Some cosmetic changes on the size of the three dialogs: Command History,
Directory History and Directory Cache.
Chg: Changed the icon on the MOVE button of the toolbar. I think this new one
is a bit more intuitive. The old one looked like an icon for creating a shaddow
object.
Fix: Enlarged the stack of the filename reader thread of the file panels to prevent
a "stack overflow" that sometimes did occur upon startup on some systems.
Fix: In some very rare situations the toolbar buttons did execute their respective
command when mouse button was released even if the button was initially pressed
on some other window than the Larsen Commander window.
Fix: The "Free Drive Space" item in the INFO panel was almost never
updated within a Larsen Commander session. Now updates upon every directory reread.
Fix: Did not react when user tried to adjust the height of the file panels by
dragging the bottom frame of the panels in full "screen" mode.
Fix: Sometimes crashed due to insufficient stack space when showing an error
message during a copy or move progress.
Fix: When move or copy only the current selected file or directory then the selection
annoyingly changed to the file just obove the originally selected.
Fix: Finally fixed the serious bug that Larsen Commander did not prevent the
user from trying to copy or move a parent directory into it self or any of its descendant
subdirectories.
Fix: Some of the columns in the FULL mode sometimes was calculated to be to narrow.
Fix: Some PM programs was unable to start from the command line, including the
Larsen Commander executable it self.
Fix: Could not view (F3) or edit (F4) a file while a child program was being
run from the command line, until the child program terminated.
Fix: If a program was launched by pressing enter on a program file object in
a file panel when a child program was still executing in the command line, then
the command line did not restore back to its normal color when the child program
finished.
Fix: Tab characters was not expanded in the console monitor.
Fix: Text "Flat Toolbar Buttons" in options dialog View->Style was
cut on some screens.
Fix: If the console minitor contained any selected text then the selection was
annoyingly extended whenever any new text was appended to it.
Fix: Only the first mouse click was handled by the toolbar buttons if mouse was
not moved between two or more clicks.
Fix: Removed som painting bugs from the toolbar window.
Fix: Failed to edit (F4) or view (F3) files that was contained in a directory
which name contained one or more spaces.
Fix: "Calculate Dir Size" sometimes did never say "Finished!"
if multiple file and directories was tagged.
Fix: The exception dump in the console munitor that alwas occured the first time
an external program was run from the command line, is now removed.
Fix: Sometimes crashed when selecting "Previous Command" from popup
menu of command line.
XFolder V0.83 beta is out. I did not announce the previous V0.8x versions on
WarpCast (at least I didn't announce them myself) because quite serious problems
occured on many systems. V0.82 proved to be stable though, and V0.83 beta now contains
a number of minor bugfixes to that version.
So if you'd like to get rid of V0.71 that's still running on your system or if
you were disappointed with previous versions, this one might be for you.
Please note though that people reported compatibility problems with ObjectDesktop
V2.0. You might need to deregister the Enhanced Folder feature in that software
to get XFolder to work.
This is still a beta, even though it's fairly stable. Please read "bugs.txt"
on my homepage for details.
Address: http://www2.rz.hu-berlin.de/~h0444vnd/os2.htm
The newest beta version of Moneydance is now available for free download at:
http://seanreilly.com/java/moneydance/
Moneydance is a personal finance application written completely in Java.
This version adds scheduled transactions and reminders, an overdue and upcoming
list of items on the 'home page', resizable register fields, and several bug fixes.
IBM has announced that the Lotus Domino Go Webserver will be discontinued. Here
is their offical statement:
Although the Lotus Domino Go Webserver brand will be discontinued, support for Lotus Domino Go Webserver Versions 4.6.0 and 4.6.1 will continue through May 31, 2000, and Version 4.6.2 will continue through January 31, 2001. You can receive support for Lotus Domino Go Webserver through the IBM Support Line offerings or optionally through Lotus Passport Advantage.
You can read more about it at:
http://www.software.ibm.com/webservers/dgw/
Dynamic RAM drive IFS driver for OS/2 has been released. This IFS create RAM
drives on the fly. Dynamic size allocates memory as needed, grows and shrinks with
use. If no free RAM, swaps out to disk. Allows user defined Drive letters. This
version reports 64 megs free to applications to avoid problems with apps that check
for free ram. Source code included. You can download a copy from:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ramfs64.zip
Web/2 v1.3w has been released. Web/2 v1.3w is a nice OS/2 native web server,
easy to setup! Lots of features including cgi, ssi, aliasing, virtual domains and
more! You can download a copy from:
http://ozbbs.ml.org/redirect/http%3A//208.212.122.51/~tom/web213w.zip
APT Mailing Assistant will manage your business and personal mailing lists. Using
your PC printer you can easily produce professional looking envelopes and labels
with delivery point Postnet bar codes to speed your mail. The bulk mail facility
sorts your mailing as specified by the classification reform of 7/1/96 and provides
statistics to help in bundling your mail. It is also perfect for mailing individual
letters or personal mailings such as Christmas cards, party invitations, etc. You
can download a copy from:
http://home.earthlink.net/~aptcomp/apmao212.zip
The WorkSpace On-Demand Tips and Techniques database is now available online.
IBM has indicated that it will add new items to this database in the future including
a section for WSOD 2.0.
http://www.software.ibm.com/enetwork/workspace/support
True BASIC has released a new version of its BASIC interpreter for OS/2. There're
two versions available: Silver (which costs $195) and Bronze which costs $39.95
(there's a demo of the bronze edition, available for free). For more information
see:
http://www.truebasic.com
Wolfgang Draxler released a beta version of a GUI mSQL administrator for OS/2.
You can download the beta from:
http://members.teleweb.at/wolfgang.draxler/admin.zip
The Warp X site was updated today, with some news and documents. The Address
for WarpX is:
http://www.jmast.se/warpx/index.htm
Long awaited for, the MySQL 3.21.33b binaries for OS/2 are being uploaded to
Hobbes (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/) - and next
I'll be uploading it to the MySQL guys at TCX (http://www.tcx.se/).
UDFs support is compiled in but largely untested. An install script is not yet
done... unless you have some unix-like shell installed. Otherwise read the INSTALL.OS2
provided by Rocco Caputo (thanks!). Brush it up with infomation from the mysql.inf
document.
This build of MySQL for OS/2 is a lot more stable - it is recommended that people
trying out the older build upgrade to this build.
Interesting files:
mysql2-3.21.33b-bin.zip
This file has the already compiled server and client tools. Also included are the
C headers and libraries for both multi and single threaded compiles. Plus, my own
Pascal sources for Virtual Pascal - these compile for both OS/2 and Win32 platforms
(and may work with other 32bit Pascal compilers) and include a nice Class interface
for those who are fans of OO programming.
mysql2-3.21.33b-src.zip
This is big - it's a copy of my source tree complete with makefiles. Also included
is the texi2ipf perl script to aid creating the OS/2 Info Viewer (INF) files and
all of the latest OS/2 specific fixes are in. Diff files will be available soon
(email me if you really want it).
pthreads004.zip
The latest version of my POSIX thread library for OS/2. This is required for compiling
with UDF support. Otherwise, pthreads003.zip is sufficient for compiling mysql2-3.21.33b.
If you already have an earlier version of pthreads installed, delete the pthreads.a
file from your /emx/lib directory.
This is my last word on 3.21.x (except if any major bugs are found)
I shall now be working only on 3.22.x and applying fixes to that...
Sidenote:
I shall be going on holiday next week - so any further updates are unlikely until
1999.
Have a grrreat Christmas, everyone...
Yup, yet another update for ThermoProtect :)
Now ThermoProtect V1.08 is available on http://hobbes.mnsu.edu/pub/incoming/tp-108.zip
and later it will be moved to http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/mboard/tp-108.zip
Freeware now and forever! :)
Changes inculdes:
*Added a small delay after initialization of the chipset, this should prevent
some abnormal readings in the fan's highest/lowest reading.
(below are for V1.07)
*Sometimes the program will mistaken a W83781D as a LM78, thus it was not able
to read the extra two thermal input, this problem is now fixed. Users of V1.06 are
encouraged to use their current version if ThermoProtect detects their chip properly,
since this update does not inculde much in the way of features.
*A few more optimized routines, or rather, the removal of some garbage in my
library code... :)
Error/Bug Reports:
If this program is giving you a Vendor ID but saying that it can't identify the
chip... please do the following...
*MAKE SURE you do have a environmental monitoring chip of some kind.
*Check if the output from ThermoProtect is making sense or not (ie +5V entry showing
+8V is NOT making sense... :) )
*Check your motherboard manual and record down the model and the make of the monitoring
chip.
*Record down the Vendor ID.
*E-Mail me the data... :)
The RSU installer has been updated once again, to version 1.88:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/rsu/rsuinstn.exe
Hi there,
I Just downloaded the Macromedia Shockwave Flash file format reference and the
Comm/2 SDK And realized that it can't be that difficult to port the plugin.
Now I'm looking for a few developers with some spare time to help me with the
port.
Since the SDK is VA C++ v3.0 ready this seems the platform of choice. I'm looking
for people with experience in:
-Audio/Graphic compression and decoding
-Gpi experience
I Will make a web page available as soon as this project starts.
Also if there are already people taking effort on this please let me know !!
Give me a mail if you're interested in helping not if you're interrested in the
result, that is long from here ;-)
A simple MIDI editor (LBMIDIEd) was just updated to version 0.02. Main enhancements:
tracks/bars list, RTMIDI is required only for playing.
The latest version can be downloaded at:
http://www.freebyte.ml.org/~boga/OS2Programs.html
You can get LoraBBS 2.41 rev.2 for OS/2 from:
http://www.quasarbbs.com/lorafree/indexe.html
Updated as of this past October.