Virtual OS/2 International Consumer Education
I'd just like to announce I've just ported gifsicle 1.10 to Os/2.
Gifsicle is a gif manipulation software that let you play with gif animations,
colors etc. I think that if you work with gif files it's worth the download...
You can find it on my homepage (English -> Project section) :
http://www.quasarbbs.com/Virusface/
Remember to visit http://www.quasarbbs.com
the association that hosts my site :)
Cdrecord V1.8a15 is a port of the cd-writing program from *nix. It replaces V1.8a8.
Licence: GPL.
New with this version:
With this version you can write cds on the fly even on heavy loaded system. There
is a frontend avaiable to ease the creation of audio-cds. This frontend is fully
integrated into the WPS.
Get cdrecord and the frontend from:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/
Maccasoft has released Internet Gate 1.43 for OS/2 (and other operating systems).
Internet Gate is a dial-on-demand proxy server that allows several PC's in a network
to access the Internet through a single PC (either through dial-up, LAN or cable
modem access). 1.43 fixes a problem I reported where a client machine cannot access
links off of certain pages (Netscape, Yahoo) on the Internet. The evaluation version
will only allow one PC to connect through the proxy. Different licensing fees exist
depending on how many machines you need to connect.
http://www.maccasoft.com
A new year and a new version of the DFSee program! For those of you that don't
know DFSee yet, DFSee is a display, analysis and recovery tool for disks and filesystems.
Started as an HPFS-tool for OS/2 only in 1994, it now covers:
Because of the targeted use for DFSee it is a command-line and text-only utility
(no GUI). At the moment OS/2, Win-NT and DOS (+ Win9x) versions exist, allowing
use from bootable diskettes as well.
Version 2.82 of the DFSee disk-analysis and repair utility adds several new features
and some bug-fixes like:
You can allways get the latest version from the WEB-site mentioned below. It
is usualy available from HOBBES, LEO and other sites too but with some delay ...
http://www.fsys.demon.nl
Look for DFSee ...
The Sound Blaster AWE64 Under OS/2 page previously maintained by John LeMay has
been incorporated into my OS/2 site. The page has been reorganized into one page
containing both the OS/2 and WinOS2 drivers and setups:
http://www.islandnet.com/~rharvey/os2/awe64os2.html
Andrea Penna is currently working on an Italian translation of the page and of
the drivers support documentation which will be linked from this site when it is
complete.
To contribute changes or additions to the page please contact rharvey@islandnet.com
with AWE64 in your subject line.
Fixpak 9 for English-UK is now available at:
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4warp/english-uk/
New and interesting projects for the Open Source enthusiast:
Latte (http://www.latte.org/)
Latte is a tool which makes writing HTML pages in a text editor easier by providing
LaTeX-like tags which are converted to real HTML automatically. It's released on
a variant of the GPL and it's available for a variety of platforms, but not OS/2.
Perhaps there's a C++ programmer out there who wants to make an OS/2 version?
Jabber (http://jabber.org/)
First announced on Slashdot. An open-source messaging application that's compatible
with ICQ, and uses XML. Any interested developers?
This week's edition of Focus on OS/2 is now online.
I'm taking a vacation from writing a feature this week.
In its place you'll find approximately 100 new links and 9 NEW TOPICS, from virus
software to BBS software for you to delve into.
Enjoy!
The site can be accessed at http://os2.miningco.com.
Happy New Year!
Walter Metcalf
os2.guide@miningco.com
A refreshed Novell Netware client version 2.12 is available at:
http://support.novell.com/products/os2nc212/patches.htm
Both a diskette version and full download are available. Also note in the text
"Technical support for this product will cease after the year 2000". I
am unsure what this actually means and given that the only file I can see that has
been refreshed is a text file this may well be the last Netware client for OS/2.
PM-EURO 1.1 is a Euro-capable Currency Calculator for OS/2.
It features:
PM-Euro 1.1 is freeware and available here:
Homepage: http://www.hamburg.roses.de/~carsten.mueller
Download: http://www.hamburg.roses.de/~carsten.mueller/pmeuro.zip
CompuServe: GO OS2AVEN, Section Warphouse Software
and on ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu and ftp://ftp.leo.org
I created a freeware PM-front end for the binary file compare utility GNU-Diff.
Directory Differ allows easily to compare all files of a complete directory tree
using GNU-Diff.
Homepage & Download:
http://www.hamburg.roses.de/~carsten.mueller
The Config.sys editor Tyra/2 is now available in version 1.32.
This release contains only bug corrections.
You can download the newest version of Tyra/2 from these sites:
http://www.online.de/home/os2/
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incomming
will be moved to:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/config
And in the next few days at:
http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/tyra2.html
The AWE64 site (with drivers, etc.) is now accessible either from the audio installation
guide at the Notebook/2 site:
http://www.os2ss.com/users/DrMartinus/notebook.htm
or directly at:
http://www.os2ss.com/users/DrMartinus/awe64/index.html
Please check it out, tell your friends, and send any comments to Dr. Martinus
(nb2@gmx.net).
I have just uploaded a new version of TarGzipPm 206. This version needs Object
Rexx, and can now:
Available from:
http://users.powernet.co.uk/vpub
Look in the project section or local download.
Prolog Develpment Center (PDC), the developers of Visual Prolog have just announced
availability of their full Professional product as freeware for home and educational
use. This fulfills their promise announced at Warpstock 98. The product is a fully
functional Prolog compiler which cross compiles GUI and text-mode programs for OS/2
and all flavors of Windows. Also included are SCO Unix and Linux compilers which
work for the text-mode programs. Imagine writing a GUI program under OS/2 and compiling
it for Windows without any changes! I do this all the time; you have to try it to
experience how cool it really is! You can even compile the Win32 stuff under the
OS/2 development environment, and run it on a nearby Windows machine!
The freeware product is for now being delivered on CD for a $30 media and handling
charge (shipping is included, not extra). They will be posting the product on their
Web site shortly, but it is 200+ Megs, so the disk is well worth it.
Any programs you develop while learning will remain fully functional when you
choose to purchase the commercial licence. The only functional difference will be
that the freeware version puts a freeware notice in your executable, so we all remain
honest about selling products before paying for the commercial developer's licence.
Have a look at their announcement at:
http://www.pdc.dk/vip/vipinfo/freeware_version.htm
Pretty Pop Software released PopCD! 1.00, today.
PopCD! is Pop Up CD-ROM Object Utility. When you insert a CD-ROM, PopCD! creates
a CD-ROM object on your desktop and opens the object.
You can get a copy from...
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/prettypop/
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~qw6k-knst/
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~qw6k-knst/software/
More good Lexmark news -- Lexmark has updated their OS/2 drivers for the 5000/5700
Color JetPrinters to version 2.513. You can download them at:
http://drivers.lexmark.com/drivers.nsf/SelectPrinter?Lexmark+5700+Color+Jetprinter
IBM has released version 2.536a of the PCL5 driver for IBM and Lexmark laser
printers. With any luck, this fixes the Communicator printing problems with the
Lexmarks.
"This driver is the official version of the 32-bit IBMPCL5 device driver
which contains support for the Lexmark Optra Se 3455, Lexmark Optra Color 1200,
Lexmark Optra S printers, Lexmark Optra SC 1275, Lexmark Optra E+, Lexmark Optra
N, Lexmark Optra Ep, Lexmark Optra E, Lexmark Optra C, Lexmark Optra plus printers,
Lexmark Optra printers, Lexmark 4047 5E, Lexmark 4039 10 plus, IBM 4039 plus, IBM
4039 and IBM 4029 series of printers."
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/ibmpcl5.exe
Also available as ibmpcl5br, de, es, fr, and it for other languages. They are
all dated 12/7/98, although they didn't show up until today.
I have just released version 0.47 of njPipes, my unoffical port of the CMS/TSO
Pipeline product to netrexx and java. I have added a few new stages to make using
pipes from java easier. Next on the todo list is to make pipes into java beans.
This will allow a java programmer, using almost any IDE, to leverage NetRexx and
njPipes with just pipes knowledge.
I have also enhanced the faq.txt file in the njPipes directory. Feel free to
feed me questions to add to the faq.
If you are upgrading njPipes be sure to check the changes documentation. It may
be necessary for you to recompile any stages you have created.
Please send questions, suggestions, stages you have coded, bug reports or comments
to:
tomlins@cam.org
Luck,
Ed Tomlinson (tomlins@cam.org)
http://www.cam.org/~tomlins/njpipes.html
I just noticed this win-OS/2 Year 2000 fix posted at IBM's Network Computing
Software (NCS) Support News site:
http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/fixnews.html#y2knew
It's dated December 17, 1998.
"New WINOS2 fix for Year 2000, APAR=JR12296 Applies to Warp 3 prior to FP40
and Warp 4 prior to FP10
Symptom is the day changing from February 28 to March 1 in the year 2000 in the
WINOS2 Control Panel Date/Time program. The code did not recognize that 2000 is
a Leap Year. The fix file is MAIN.CPL."
The URL at the site is missing and searching on the APAR returned 0 results.
It appears from the comment that it will be included in fixpack 10 for Warp 4 and
fixpack 40 for Warp 3.0. I have sent feedback to IBM letting them know the link
is missing and if I ever hear back from them (hopefully before February 29th, 2000
:-) I will update the news list.
Pretty Pop Software released Jasmine 2.71, today. You can get a copy from...
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~qw6k-knst/software/
Update topics are...
Version 2.71 (03.Jan.1998)
A new version of StHWMon is now available at:
http://home.t-online.de/home/stefan.milcke/homepage.htm
StHWMon is a hardware monitoring application for mainboards with the Winbond
W83781D monitoring chip (LM78 may work also).
Now with