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A tool to delete printer drivers that won't go away
In the eComStation News newsgroup, Ray Hyder suggested the following for
users who have printer drivers and printer objects they cannot delete.
>Don, there is a utility available on
>the CDS site that I have used many
>times to delete stubborn printer
>drivers. It's called PRNDRV.EXE.
> http://www.cds-inc.com/techsprt/pmfaxodl.html
>You will find it at the very bottom of
>the above page.
It works! It's a command line tool but very easy to use. Just put the
EXE file in a directory of your PATH. You can list the printers your
system has set up and delete them based on name or driver.
Fotoget/2 Version 0.9.16
Another release of FotoGet/2, a freeware utility to ease the transfer of
your pictures from your digital camera to your OS/2 (eCS) PC. The camera
must be accessible from OS/2 by a driveletter.
Note: This is not a device driver.
The main effort during the last month went into fixing the remaining bugs
and making FotoGet/2 a neat package.
A new mailinglist for support was created on YahooGroups. Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fot
oget/ to check out! I invite everybody,
who showed interest to join in!
What is new in this release?
+ Added: NLS support, default is English, creating other language files
is very easy.
+ Added: German language file.
+ Added: English manual.
+ Added: AVI as a recognized filetype.
+ Added: Install.CMD for folder/object creation.
+ Added: Silent mode covers many more features.
What was fixed in this release?
! Fixed: Tab order was wrong
! Fixed: "No erase" option was not restored properly
! Fixed: Lighttable/folder is created with ICONVIEW=ICONS instead of
ICONVIEW=FLOWED (big thumbnails instead of small ones...)
! Fixed: Find (and create) .INI file in the same directory as
FotoGet.EXE.
! Fixed: Streamlined commandline parsing and GUI init code, removing some
odd side effects.
! Fixed: Empty base/subfolder fields disable "Go!"button, basefolder
field changed to readonly.
and some more items.
Get FotoGet/2 from hobbes:
Hobbes Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/fotoget0916.zip
Hobbes Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=fotoget
A big thanks to everybody who reported bugs!
JdeBP's 32-bit Command Interpreter version 1.1
The Command Interpreter version 1.1 is a Pure 32-bit replacement for the
16-bit CMD that is supplied with IBM OS/2, allowing one to finally replace
one of the 16-bit vestiges that remains in OS/2 Warp. It comprises the
interpreter engine proper, and a set of "front end" programs that present
various user interfaces ("glass TTY", console, and Presentation Manager)
that allow commands to be entered.
The command interpreter has the things that one would expect an OS/2
command interpreter to have:
* the ability to run scripts in the CMD language (a.k.a. "batch
files"),
* the ability to run scripts in the REXX language,
* long filename and deep directory tree support,
* the ability to have multiple commands on a single line, and
* the ability to have command pipelines.
The command interpreter supports several enhancements that are not in
IBM's 16-bit CMD, such as:
* implicit environment variables (including %_DATE% and %_TIME%),
* easily nested command scripts,
* many built in commands moved out of the command interpreter to be
external (and thus easily replaceable rather than "hard wired") commands,
* configurable path searching with PATH and PATHEXT,
* subroutines (gosub/return), and
* directory stacks.
Also bundled in the package is a suite of ancillary utilities:
ANSI, AtDown, Beep, BrightBG, BunchUp, Cls, CmdLoad, Colour, Copy,
CopyPlus, CopyStd, Date, Del, Delay, Describe, Detach, Dir, EchoDot,
Echos, Erase, Free, HelpMsg, KeyLocks, Label, Lines, MD, MkDir, More,
MoreStd, Move, Pause, PrintEnv, RD, Rem, Ren, Rename, RmDir, Start, Time,
TrueName, Type, Vol, WPSArc, and ZDir.
( Some utilities - and the "front end" to the command interpreter with the
console user interface - require the runtime libraries of JdeBP's 32-bit
Unicode Console API for OS/2. )
Version 1.1 of the command interpreter contains, amongst many other
additions and enhancements, several long-awaited improvements on version
1.0:
* Ctrl-break support, incomplete at the time of the release of version
1.0, is now complete.
* Command-line history recall now supports prefix matching.
* The libpathstrict command is now available.
* Command-line history can now be seeded from a file.
* A minor display error in how the cursor reflected insert/overwrite
mode has been rectified.
The CMD02 distribution archive (available as both cmd02.zip and cmd02.rar,
to cater to different tastes) can be File Requested from various Fidonet
nodes or obtained via FTP from two sites.
[Moderator note: They can be found on Hobbes:
Hobbes Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/cmd02.zip
Hobbes Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=cmd02.zip]
For a more detailed description of the commands, functions, and features
of the command interpreter and bundled external commands (such as
* Year 2100 support,
* ubiquitous /? on-line help,
* on-line documentation in IBM's book format,
* consistent options,
* country-specific output format support,
* ISO 8601 support,
* ISO/IEC 9445-1:1990 TZ variable support,
* no traditional stupidities (such as "." always implicitly being at
the start of PATH and the inability of copy to copy zero-length files),
* the choice of a syntax for the copy command that is consistent with
that of other commands,
* no CP/M Think with respect to file content,
* coloured output for commands that enumerate files,
* UNC name support, and
* text-mode operation support.
) see the 32-bit Command Interpreter blurb, which is also available as
cmd02.html on the Fidonet nodes.
http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/Softwares/cmd.html
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