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eCS: Updated IBM drivers

22 Jan 2005 19:38:53

Forwarded message from "Chuck McKinnis" on Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:48:47 UT
Posted on: news://news.ecomstation.com/ecomstation.support.ecsmt

I have updated the following IBM drivers at www.ecomstation.com.

IBM IDE Dasd driver
IBM DVD/UDF support
IBM Single Mouse driver
IBM IrDA support

The eCS MT 3.1.8.0 control file has been updated to support installation
of the first 3 items.

--
Chuck McKinnis
Covenant Solutions
http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/

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INFO: Update: OS/2 Tinderbox Amazon Honor Page

22 Jan 2005 18:55:57

Just to answer some questions about why there is a request for donations
to purchase a system for Mozilla for OS/2 development.

Tinderbox is part of the Mozilla development process.
http://www.mozilla.org/tinderbox.html "Essentially, Tinderbox is a
detective tool. It allows you to see what is happening in the source tree.
It shows you who checked in what (by asking Bonsai); what platforms have
built successfully; what platforms are broken and exactly how they are
broken (the build logs); and the state of the files that made up the build
(cvsblame) so you can figure out who broke the build, so you can do the
most important thing, hold them accountable for their actions."

IBM has stopped its support of Mozilla for OS/2. Any further development
will have to be from volunteers. IBM no longer provides a machine for
Mozilla apps to be compiled so future versions would have to come from
another source. Mike Kaply was the lead developer for the IBM team. He
has offered to continue to compile official versions of Mozilla based apps
for OS/2 if he has a machine to do so, hense the request for contributions
to purchase a system.

I have no relationship to the Mozilla development team other than as a
happy user of the FireFox web browser. For OS/2 and eComStation to remain
a viable platform we will need current versions of FireFox, Thunderbird
and any other potential Mozilla based applications. For specific
questions related to Mozilla for OS/2 development I suggest you post them
on the Mozilla for OS/2 Usenet group
news://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.public.mozilla.os2


Mark


Forwarded message from Michael Kaply on Fri, 21 Jan
2005 17:03:33 UTC Posted to:
news://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.public.mozilla.os2

Here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/paypage/P1XC8LO8R1ENJX

All funds will go toward creating an OS/2 Tinderbox/nightly machine.

If I get extra funds, they will probably go toward mozilla.org if that's
OK.

Mike Kaply

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Mag: OS/2 e-zine Update

22 Jan 2005 14:40:42

From: os2editorDESPAM@yahoo.ca

We now have access back to OS/2 e-zine. The owners of OS/2 e-zine (BMT
Micro) moved to updated servers, so a lot of things got reset.
Unfortunately, the forums are still not available but we're working on it.

Until then, please enjoy the much delayed issue, and a new issue will be
out hopefully shortly after.

Url: http://www.os2ezine.com

From: Isaac (os2editorDESPAM@yahoo.ca)

IN THIS ISSUE:
From The Editor
Isaac Leung This month's issue

Reviews
Enigmail
John Bijnens looks at adding security to Mozilla mail

Articles
Keyboard Input from A to ? - Part 2 corrections
Keith Merrington fixes some codepage glitches from the last article

Case Study: Redeveloping a web site with PPWizard (Part 6): Validation AL
du Pisani concludes his series on using PPWizard to develop web sites

Forums
The Art Department
Tim Swank , is back again with some more of his creations.


Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php


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Net: OS2 World Poll: What should be the next step for eCS?

22 Jan 2005 14:23:33

From: kimhDESPAM@os2world.com

What should be the next step for eCS? That is the latest question that's
running as a poll at OS2 World.

Thanks to Carlos de Luna Saenz who suggested the poll.

To participate within this poll, follow this url:

http://scripts.os2world.com/stuffed/


Url: http://scripts.os2world.com/stuffed/

From: Kim Haverblad (kimhDESPAM@os2world.com)


Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php

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INFO: OS/2 Tinderbox Amazon Honor Page

22 Jan 2005 09:29:21

Forwarded message from Michael Kaply on Fri, 21 Jan
2005 17:03:33 UTC Posted to:
news://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.public.mozilla.os2

Here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/paypage/P1XC8LO8R1ENJX

All funds will go toward creating an OS/2 Tinderbox/nightly machine.

If I get extra funds, they will probably go toward mozilla.org if that's
OK.

Mike Kaply

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SW: New release XWLAN V1.12

21 Jan 2005 08:44:48

From: Christian Langanke


Hi,

I just released a new version, including support for 20x20 pixel bitmaps.
I think this should solve all feedback issues, as it is much better
visible.

Also for manual TPC/IP configuration now DNS configuration values can be
specified.

Please see revision history in the INF for details!

bye, Christian

-------------------------------------------------

Christian Langanke
COS2E & CWSE
Team OS/2 Ruhr e.V.

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

WLAN website: http://wlan.netlabs.org/

"Wireless LAN Monitor, providing the following features:

* monitoring the status of your Wireless LAN connection
* support of multiple connection profiles, which can be exported and
imported
* optionally configuring the TCP/IP interface of the Wireless LAN
device
* automatic connection scan on startup
* automatic generation of WEP keys
* detection of public Wireless LANs "

Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wlan/xwlan112.zip
Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=xwlan112

For comments, questions about WLAN and use of wireless cards and drivers
with OS/2 and eCS in general, please post to the OS/2 Wireless mailing
list:

To subscribe to the OS/2 Wireless list, send a message
to steward@2rosenthals.com with the command "subscribe
os2-wireless_users" in the body (omit the quotes).

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SW: Correction: Single Mouse Device Driver updated on IBM OS/2 DDPakOnline

19 Jan 2005 21:37:07


From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net

Though the OS/2 DDPakOnline site lists the smouse as updated, the version
linked to from that site is in fact an older version from 07-04-2004.

According to Achain:

New smouse.exe can be found through "IBM Support & Download".
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?q=OS%2F2+single+mouse+device+driver
It requres IBM ID (= Passport Advantage subscription) to step inside,
however.


From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net

http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/bf7e05615440e8f086256b6c005eac99/ff99c4c96e047ae8862565ef0075d674?OpenDocument

Mice and Track Balls
IBM Corporation
Scrollpoint Mouse (12J4546) (and others, see below)
Last Updated on: 01/18/2005 11:53 AM

This product is supported by IBM. For Technical Assistance, please refer
to the following sources:

1. Any README documentation contained within the driver.
2. Technical reference material shipped with your device / system,
3. The Users Guide to OS/2 Warp, and other reference material contained
within the OS/2 Warp product,
4. The IBM Software home page for technical support information in your
country.


The Single Mouse Device Driver package provides DIN connected (PS/2 style)
mouse support for a wide variety of 2-button, 3-button, wheel, stick,
TrackPoint(R), and trackpad mouse devices. This driver also supports two
(2) Logitech cordless mouse receivers, C-RD3-DUAL and C-RC3-MSE.

Download Area and/or Language Package Name
Worldwide Package Free Single Mouse Device Driver
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/SingleMouse/smouse.exe

: Marstek : E22 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : HiTrak 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : PS/2 Mini Mouse (07G0033) 01/18/2005
: Hewlett-Packard Company : C1413A 01/18/2005
: Tandy Corporation : PS/2 Mouse (25-1042) 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : MouseOne 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Trackman II (T-CC2) 01/18/2005
: CH Products : Rollermouse (400-503) 01/18/2005
: Lexmark International, Inc. : Keyboard w/Trackball (1398155)
01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : TrackPoint II 01/18/2005
: CH Products : Rollermouse (400-501) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Series 9 Combo (CE) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : 2Button Mouse (M-S28) 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Touch Screen Color Monitor - Model 15PT 01/18/2005
: Mouse Systems : White Mouse (403303/903793) 01/18/2005
: AT&T Paradyne : 320 Mouse 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Touch Screen Color Monitor - Model 21PT 01/18/2005
: Chicony : Keyboard w/Trackball 01/18/2005
: Packard Bell : MUSBJ 01/18/2005
: Logitech : MouseMan (M-MC13) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Series 9 (CC) 01/18/2005
: Mitsumi : PSM-S0301 Series 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : GM-D321 01/18/2005
: Logitech : OEM (M-SF-14) 01/18/2005
: Digital Equipment Corporation : PCXAS-AA 01/18/2005
: Chic, Inc. : Kwik 200 Mouse 01/18/2005
: Logitech : 2Button Mouse (M-MD14-2) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : 2Button Mouse (M-SF14-6MD) 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Mouse 2.0, Serial 01/18/2005
: Interlink Electronics : PortaPoint 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : CLIXes 01/18/2005
: Compaq Computer Corporation : MU-SU24J 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : PS/2 Mouse (6450350) 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Bus Mouse 01/18/2005
: GRiD : G70-4341 01/18/2005
: Digital Equipment Corporation : PC7XS-AA 01/18/2005
: NEC Corporation : 2Button Mouse (M-S28-6MD) 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Enhanced Mouse II (13H6690) 01/18/2005
: Lexmark International, Inc. : Keyboard w/Trackball (1398799)
01/18/2005
: Logitech : MouseMan (M-SF13) 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Mouse, BallPoint (11340) 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : JX Mouse 01/18/2005
: Microspeed : PC-TRAC (PD-240) 01/18/2005
: Chic, Inc. : Kwik 100 Mouse 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : 8516 Touch Display 01/18/2005
: Visi-On : Optical (M2) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Kidz Mouse (M-ME23) 01/18/2005
: Dell Computer Corporation : Dell/Logitech M-SR14 01/18/2005
: Logitech : TrackMan Portable OEM (T-SC3) 01/18/2005
: Hewlett-Packard Company : 46060A 01/18/2005
: Microspeed : MicroTRAC (PD-600) 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Enhanced Mouse II (13H6714) 01/18/2005
: QIC : X-30S 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : LC Mouse 01/18/2005
: Logitech : 2Button Mouse (M-SG14-6MD) 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : PS/2 Mouse (33G5430) 01/18/2005
: Mouse Systems : PC Mouse III (402462/903784) 01/18/2005
: Identity : IDMouse 01/18/2005
: Dell Computer Corporation : Dell PS/2 Version (0021809) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Series 9 Combo (CA) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : MouseMan (ML-38) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : 2Button Mouse (M-MD14-DB9F) 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Mouse 2.0, MousePort 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : PS/2 Mouse (33G3835) 01/18/2005
: Mitsumi : ECM-S3102 Series 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Mouse, PS/2 Compatible 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Mouse 2.0, Bus 01/18/2005
: Chic, Inc. : Chic 600 Mouse 01/18/2005
: Kensington Microware, Ltd. : Serial Mouse (62364) 01/18/2005
: Olivetti : M-SE9-6MD 01/18/2005
: Mouse Systems : Serial Mouse 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Touch Screen Color Monitor - Model 17PT 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Touch Screen Color Monitor - Model 14PT 01/18/2005
: Hewlett-Packard Company : C3751A (M-S34) 01/18/2005
: Compaq Computer Corporation : M-S34 01/18/2005
: Samsung : Sensor 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : Wireless Mouse (GM-W220) 01/18/2005
: Microspeed : PC-TRAC (PD-230) 01/18/2005
: Mouse Systems : Bus Mouse 01/18/2005
: Mitsumi : Wireless Mouse ECM Series 01/18/2005
: CH Products : Rollermouse (400-502) 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : GM-F302 01/18/2005
: Compaq Computer Corporation : M-S28 01/18/2005
: Logitech : MouseMan Combo (M-CJ13) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Series 2 01/18/2005
: Visi-On : Optical (M1) 01/18/2005
: Microspeed : PC-TRAC (PD-250) 01/18/2005
: Mouse Systems : Little Mouse/PC (402462/903546) 01/18/2005
: Mouse Systems : OmniMouse II (403470/903791) 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Mouse 2.0, Serial-MousePort 01/18/2005
: Kensington Microware, Ltd. : Expert Mouse for PS/2 & Compat.
01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : TrackPoint IV 01/18/2005
: Appoint : Mouse Pen Pro 01/18/2005
: Apricot : 41353 01/18/2005
: Appoint : Gulliver 01/18/2005
: A-Four TECH : PS/2 Mouse Model: AM-52 01/18/2005
: Appoint : Computer Crayon 01/18/2005
: A-Four TECH : Model: AM-5E 01/18/2005
: Appoint : Thumbelina 01/18/2005
: AMBRA Computer Corporation : BMF0800 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Intellimouse 01/18/2005
: Logitech : MouseMan+ 01/18/2005
: Aero : IM-PC60 01/18/2005
: ALR Express : 401 PS/2 Version 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Scrollpoint Mouse (12J4549) 01/18/2005
: ADDISON Technology : Mini Thumball 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Scrollpoint Mouse (12J4546) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Cordless Wheel Mouse 01/18/2005


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Net: Article on Extended Atributes on FAT32 volumes

19 Jan 2005 09:51:55

From: Oleg Bulavsky

Implementation of EA support in current FAT32 IFS is ugly.
But how must they be implemented right?
I saved my opinion on subject in to
http://www.geocities.com/bulavskyoleg/EA-FAT32.pdf
What do You all think about this? Please send feedback to Oleg Bulavsky




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Event: SCOUG Help Desk IRC

19 Jan 2005 09:04:03


From: greenemkDESPAM@cox.net

SCOUG Help Desk 19 January 7:00PM PST (10:00 PM EST) on Webbnet.info IRC
network.

To find the server closest to you, go to http://irc.fyrelizard.com/

Channel #SCOUG can be found on any of these servers.

Url: http://www.scoug.com/help/livehelp.html

From: Mike (greenemkDESPAM@cox.net)


Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php

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SW: postgreSQL v8.0 GA build for OS/2

18 Jan 2005 23:42:44

From: lsunleyDESPAM@mb.sympatico.ca

The release of the GA build of postgreSQL v8.0 is now available.

The release can be found at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu the file name is
postgresql-8.0-os2.zip

PostgreSQL is a full featured database engine suitable for most database
applications.

ODBC support is available through the unixODBC for OS/2 libraries also
available at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu


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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SW: Single Mouse Device Driver updated on IBM OS/2 DDPakOnline

18 Jan 2005 21:48:41


From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net

http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/bf7e05615440e8f086256b6c005eac99/ff99c4c96e047ae8862565ef0075d674?OpenDocument

Mice and Track Balls
IBM Corporation
Scrollpoint Mouse (12J4546) (and others, see below)
Last Updated on: 01/18/2005 11:53 AM

This product is supported by IBM. For Technical Assistance, please refer
to the following sources:

1. Any README documentation contained within the driver.
2. Technical reference material shipped with your device / system,
3. The Users Guide to OS/2 Warp, and other reference material contained
within the OS/2 Warp product,
4. The IBM Software home page for technical support information in your
country.


The Single Mouse Device Driver package provides DIN connected (PS/2 style)
mouse support for a wide variety of 2-button, 3-button, wheel, stick,
TrackPoint(R), and trackpad mouse devices. This driver also supports two
(2) Logitech cordless mouse receivers, C-RD3-DUAL and C-RC3-MSE.

Download Area and/or Language Package Name
Worldwide Package Free Single Mouse Device Driver
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/SingleMouse/smouse.exe

: Marstek : E22 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : HiTrak 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : PS/2 Mini Mouse (07G0033) 01/18/2005
: Hewlett-Packard Company : C1413A 01/18/2005
: Tandy Corporation : PS/2 Mouse (25-1042) 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : MouseOne 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Trackman II (T-CC2) 01/18/2005
: CH Products : Rollermouse (400-503) 01/18/2005
: Lexmark International, Inc. : Keyboard w/Trackball (1398155)
01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : TrackPoint II 01/18/2005
: CH Products : Rollermouse (400-501) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Series 9 Combo (CE) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : 2Button Mouse (M-S28) 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Touch Screen Color Monitor - Model 15PT 01/18/2005
: Mouse Systems : White Mouse (403303/903793) 01/18/2005
: AT&T Paradyne : 320 Mouse 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Touch Screen Color Monitor - Model 21PT 01/18/2005
: Chicony : Keyboard w/Trackball 01/18/2005
: Packard Bell : MUSBJ 01/18/2005
: Logitech : MouseMan (M-MC13) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Series 9 (CC) 01/18/2005
: Mitsumi : PSM-S0301 Series 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : GM-D321 01/18/2005
: Logitech : OEM (M-SF-14) 01/18/2005
: Digital Equipment Corporation : PCXAS-AA 01/18/2005
: Chic, Inc. : Kwik 200 Mouse 01/18/2005
: Logitech : 2Button Mouse (M-MD14-2) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : 2Button Mouse (M-SF14-6MD) 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Mouse 2.0, Serial 01/18/2005
: Interlink Electronics : PortaPoint 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : CLIXes 01/18/2005
: Compaq Computer Corporation : MU-SU24J 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : PS/2 Mouse (6450350) 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Bus Mouse 01/18/2005
: GRiD : G70-4341 01/18/2005
: Digital Equipment Corporation : PC7XS-AA 01/18/2005
: NEC Corporation : 2Button Mouse (M-S28-6MD) 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Enhanced Mouse II (13H6690) 01/18/2005
: Lexmark International, Inc. : Keyboard w/Trackball (1398799)
01/18/2005
: Logitech : MouseMan (M-SF13) 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Mouse, BallPoint (11340) 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : JX Mouse 01/18/2005
: Microspeed : PC-TRAC (PD-240) 01/18/2005
: Chic, Inc. : Kwik 100 Mouse 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : 8516 Touch Display 01/18/2005
: Visi-On : Optical (M2) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Kidz Mouse (M-ME23) 01/18/2005
: Dell Computer Corporation : Dell/Logitech M-SR14 01/18/2005
: Logitech : TrackMan Portable OEM (T-SC3) 01/18/2005
: Hewlett-Packard Company : 46060A 01/18/2005
: Microspeed : MicroTRAC (PD-600) 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Enhanced Mouse II (13H6714) 01/18/2005
: QIC : X-30S 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : LC Mouse 01/18/2005
: Logitech : 2Button Mouse (M-SG14-6MD) 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : PS/2 Mouse (33G5430) 01/18/2005
: Mouse Systems : PC Mouse III (402462/903784) 01/18/2005
: Identity : IDMouse 01/18/2005
: Dell Computer Corporation : Dell PS/2 Version (0021809) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Series 9 Combo (CA) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : MouseMan (ML-38) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : 2Button Mouse (M-MD14-DB9F) 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Mouse 2.0, MousePort 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : PS/2 Mouse (33G3835) 01/18/2005
: Mitsumi : ECM-S3102 Series 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Mouse, PS/2 Compatible 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Mouse 2.0, Bus 01/18/2005
: Chic, Inc. : Chic 600 Mouse 01/18/2005
: Kensington Microware, Ltd. : Serial Mouse (62364) 01/18/2005
: Olivetti : M-SE9-6MD 01/18/2005
: Mouse Systems : Serial Mouse 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Touch Screen Color Monitor - Model 17PT 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Touch Screen Color Monitor - Model 14PT 01/18/2005
: Hewlett-Packard Company : C3751A (M-S34) 01/18/2005
: Compaq Computer Corporation : M-S34 01/18/2005
: Samsung : Sensor 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : Wireless Mouse (GM-W220) 01/18/2005
: Microspeed : PC-TRAC (PD-230) 01/18/2005
: Mouse Systems : Bus Mouse 01/18/2005
: Mitsumi : Wireless Mouse ECM Series 01/18/2005
: CH Products : Rollermouse (400-502) 01/18/2005
: Genius (KYE) : GM-F302 01/18/2005
: Compaq Computer Corporation : M-S28 01/18/2005
: Logitech : MouseMan Combo (M-CJ13) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Series 2 01/18/2005
: Visi-On : Optical (M1) 01/18/2005
: Microspeed : PC-TRAC (PD-250) 01/18/2005
: Mouse Systems : Little Mouse/PC (402462/903546) 01/18/2005
: Mouse Systems : OmniMouse II (403470/903791) 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Mouse 2.0, Serial-MousePort 01/18/2005
: Kensington Microware, Ltd. : Expert Mouse for PS/2 & Compat.
01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : TrackPoint IV 01/18/2005
: Appoint : Mouse Pen Pro 01/18/2005
: Apricot : 41353 01/18/2005
: Appoint : Gulliver 01/18/2005
: A-Four TECH : PS/2 Mouse Model: AM-52 01/18/2005
: Appoint : Computer Crayon 01/18/2005
: A-Four TECH : Model: AM-5E 01/18/2005
: Appoint : Thumbelina 01/18/2005
: AMBRA Computer Corporation : BMF0800 01/18/2005
: Microsoft Corporation : Intellimouse 01/18/2005
: Logitech : MouseMan+ 01/18/2005
: Aero : IM-PC60 01/18/2005
: ALR Express : 401 PS/2 Version 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Scrollpoint Mouse (12J4549) 01/18/2005
: ADDISON Technology : Mini Thumball 01/18/2005
: IBM Corporation : Scrollpoint Mouse (12J4546) 01/18/2005
: Logitech : Cordless Wheel Mouse 01/18/2005


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SW: Enhanced IDE Support (IDEDASD) updated on OS/2 DDPakOnline

18 Jan 2005 21:40:46


From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net

http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/bf7e05615440e8f086256b6c005eac99/02678dafc1d52fcd86256c550073cd8a?OpenDocument

Enhanced IDE Support (IDEDASD)
Extended Warm Swap Support
Last Updated on: 01/18/2005 11:49 AM

Driver Information

This product is supported by IBM. For Technical Assistance, please refer
to the following sources:

1. Any README documentation contained within the driver.
2. Technical reference material shipped with your device / system,
3. The Users Guide to OS/2 Warp, and other reference material contained
within the OS/2 Warp product,
4. The IBM Software home page for technical support information in your
country.


This package contains device driver updates for Enhanced IDE DASD and
CDROM support. See the readme file in the package for specific support
information.

General Availability of IDE DASD/CDROM Support

Device Driver Version 4.98 will be available to all customers for
download.

Device driver versions newer than 4.98 will only be available to customers
with a support contract. To receive new chipset support, you or your
company must have an active contract for Passport Advantage with Software
Maintenance.

If you have purchased an active contract for Passport Advantage with
Software Maintenance, the terms and conditions of that contract will
determine the services to which you are entitled.

Download Area and/or Language Package Name
Worldwide Package Free Enhanced IDE DASD and CDROM Support Version 4.98
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/idedasd.exe

Worldwide Package Subscription by Passport Advantage Enhanced IDE DASD and
CDROM Support Version 5.00
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24007949&rs=0&cs=utf-8&context=SWG50&dc=D400&q1=os2ddpak&loc=en_US〈=en&cc=US

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SW: New Larsen Commander Beta #8

18 Jan 2005 15:18:50

From: leifelDESPAM@online.no

Today (January 18 2005) Leif Erik Larsen has released version 1.6 beta #8
of his popular GUI file manager and command shell, Larsen Commander.

Larsen Commander is a powerful GUI file manager and command shell with a
traditional look and feel inspired by the classic Norton Commander. It
combines the best of two very different worlds; - the command line and the
file management panels. Both available at the same time, even in parallel
while one or more commands are running in the background!

Larsen Commander is available at

http://home.online.no/~leifel/lcmd/index.html

New features:

- Further implementation of ZIP file support. The internal viewer can now
view files directly from ZIP files.

- Added various "Self Test" commands to the Help-menu. These are
programatic tests of various parts of the Larsen Commander code. It is
used to verify the stability of Larsen Commander on the target system.
Users don't usually need to care about this. More tests are to be
implemented in the future. These Self Test commands will probably be
available in beta versions of Larsen Commander only.

- OS/2: "Delete to Trashcan" now works. (Puh, that was a hard one.)
Requires XWorkPlace or some other trashcan extension, though. However,
this will probably not work on Warp 3. If it does, please let me know.

- Added acknowledgements to the About-box.

Bug fixes:

- Internal text editor was still unable to open e.g. log-files that are
open by other processes. Fixed.

- Ctrl+W did not always open the WPS Folder in the foreground.

- Holding Ctrl+R down sometimes causes exception "Workerthread already in
action".

- Default width of the filename column was not always correctly
calculated in FULL mode.

- GUI message GM_DISMISSDIALOG was not sent to child components of e.g.
GTabbedPanel. Causing various problems with the options-dialog for option
pages depending on that message. For instance, the file filter options was
silently ignored. Fixed.

- "Free drive space" in info-panel and statusbar cell was never updated.

- Size of "small" files miscalculated by one byte.

- Attempt to move or copy a file that was already removed by some other
application in the background was silently ignored. Now displays an error
message with "Skip" and Abort" buttons, where "Skip" is the default.

- OS/2: Every time a file was dragged from LCmd over a window where
DragText handles d&d, DragText gave a beep to indicate an error. Thanks to
Rich Walsh for pointing out this bug.

- Windows: Listbox items painted at corrupt y-position when a horizontal
scrollbar was visible.

- Unstable directory cache. E.g. Typing "cd attempt" could match while
"cd att" did not match. This is now fixed and speed optimized.

- Windows: Thin border around current selected file item was sometimes
painted with a dotted line.

Improvements:

- Dramatically improved the speed of reloading filename items when
current file panel directory contains a huge number of files and at least
some of them was tagged/marked.

- Further implementation of ZIP file support. Command "Calculate Dir
Size" now works within ZIPs.

- Polished the file delete progress dialog somewhat.

- Improved exception handling in background worker threads.


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Net: Odin Application DB at netlabs updated.

18 Jan 2005 12:10:03

From: Markus Montkowski

Hi All,

You can now search by name or parts of the name, and have a Prev/Next link
to browse to all results with 10 hits per page. Oh and currently there are
945 entries in the database.

Markus

URL: http://odin.netlabs.org/?show=appdb

Odin Users Forum: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/odinusers/


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SW: PM Downloader v0.8.9beta

18 Jan 2005 07:30:50

From: sassyos2@NOSPAMnifty.ne.jp

"PM Downloader is the advanced interactive multithreaded network retriever
for OS/2 & eCS Presentation Manager supporting HTTP and FTP protocols for
downloading files."

PM Downloader version 0.8.9test(latest beta) is out. Just bugfixes here.

List of changes:
-Changed compiler - now it OpenWatcom.
-PM Downloader now NLS-enabled. Included English, Russian and Dutch
nls-files.
-Added download bars.

Direct link:
http://os2.in.ru/download/eros2/pmd-test.zip


BTW, Japanese nls? screenshot is here.
http://www.geocities.jp/workplaceshell/frame.html



Url: http://eros2.by.ru/pmdownloader_en.shtml

From: Sassy (sassyos2@NOSPAMnifty.ne.jp)


Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php

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SW: GCC 3.3.5-beta4.

17 Jan 2005 15:19:41

From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net

A new beta level update of GCC is on Netlabs FTP site
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/GCC-3.3.5-beta4.zip

GCC is a distribution of the GNU C/C++ compiler suite and associated
utilities for the IBM OS/2 platform.

Innotek website for GCC for OS/2:
http://www.innotek.de/products/gccos2/gccos2general_e.html

"If you have any questions regarding the compiler we recommend to join the
UnixOS2 mailinglist:

http://unixos2.org/pages/MailingLists.html

There is also a web interface at gmane.org:

http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.os2.unixos2 "

The ReleaseNote.os2 for this release states:

"GCC v3.3.5 / LIBC v0.6 - Beta 4:
--------------------------------

Thanks to Lorne, Froloff and nickk for sending me patches,
debugging problems and testing fixes.

New features:

o Added st_dev and st_ino calculation for fstat and stat.

o Added most of the wide string functions.
N.B. the stream functions are still missing.

o New functions:
SafeDosStartSession(), wcscat(), wcschr(), wcscmp(),
wcscoll(), wcscpy(), wcscspn(), wcslcat(), wcslcpy(),
wcslen(), wcsncat(), wcsncmp(), wcsncpy(), wcspbrk(),
wcsrchr(), wcsspn(), wcsstr(), wcstok() and wcswidth()


Bug fixes:

o settimeofday() year problem.

o Some underflow/overflow problems tested for by many
Configure scripts was fixed by using a 64-bit time
type internally.

o fxsave/fxrstore problem in fork(). (This isn't tested
because lack of (reliable) obsolete hardware.)

o Fixed fork() and DosLoadModule problem in child.

o nl_langinfo(CODESET) now returns something useful,
adding a few ascii codeset aliases at the same time.

o Bug in socket inheritance over exec/spawn.

o Missing semphore and signal blocking when processing
external signals.

o Two rmdir errno problems, and made it fail on symlink.

o Fixed incorrect monetary locale for the "C" locale
after setlocale call.

o Fixed signal queue node leak.

o Fixed missing release of signal semaphore and signal
unblocking in a failure code path.

o Fixed a few filehandle conversion bugs in os2_select.

o Fixed libsocket to set errno to ENOSOCK when given a
filehandle instead of a socket. Previous was ENOSYS.

o Corrected NP_NBLK define in os2emx.h.

o Export __mcount stub. LIBCxx.prf export non-stub.

o Added missing libdl stub libraries (dlfcn is in libc
as of last release).

o Fixed missing WNOHANG handling in the wait functions.

o Adjusted the ECHILD and EINVAL errnos usage in
the wait functions to match the waitpid() spec.

o ???

Todos before LIBC06.DLL:

0. Fix all bugs. :-)

1. Reimplement opendir in BSD style (+fchdir).

2. Shared IPC structures for XSI msq, sem and shm.

3. Missing job pgid functions.

4. Port GLIBC intl/*. gettext is a pita! because it's
passing FILE pointers around between different LIBCs.
objdump is constantly broken between LIBC versions.

5. Figure out the EA exclusive read access trouble.

6. Calc ino_t on file creation and store it in EAs.

7. Some sysctl() required for coreutils + a bit
of tcpip additions.

8. adjtime() implementation."


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SW: PMM2TB: Conversion PMMail to Thunderbird

17 Jan 2005 14:21:39

From: Kenn Yuill

As you can see from the header, this note was posted on the PMMail-List
from Blueprint Software Works
and may be of interest to
some readers. I cannot comment on the efficiency of this utility as I
have not tried it.

-------- Original Message --------


Hi,

I wrote a small tool named PMM2TB to convert all PMMail messages and the
address book to a format Thunderbird (and Mozilla) can import.

It's free, give it a try:

http://www.dahlem.name/pmm2tb.zip

Regards,
Robert

-------- End of Original Message --------

--
Ciao,
Kenn
_________________________________________________________

Always act as if life is a joyous journey. - Kenn Yuill
Warp4 FP15 - Thunderbird 0.9 - Firefox 1.0 GA
-oOo-
_____ Quotation for Today _____

Do not judge and you will never be mistaken.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

_________________________________________________________
* TagZilla 0.057 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org
--



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SW: PMSheet German version

16 Jan 2005 20:50:25

Forwarded message from jasper on Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:04:15 UTC Posted on:
comp.os.os2.apps

FYI,

PMSheet is translated into german and can be downloaded from it's
homepage.

http://home-5.worldonline.nl/~jdekeij/pmsheet.html

Jasper

---END FORWARDED MESSAGE---

"PMSHEET is a file explorer like program, showing at the left a directory
tree and at the right the images in the selected directory. The images are
shown as thumbnails. The size of the thumbnails can be varied in three
different sizes, small, medium and large. A very important property of the
program is that almost any action can be done by the keyboard thereby
minimizing the dependancy of the mouse. Each thumbnail uses a maximum of
10 kb. The program support the standard drag & drop of OS/2 Warp, even the
tree at the right accepts dropped files. This makes it easy to maintain
your image folders. On the images simple functions can be applied like
rotating, zooming and slideshow of sellected images etc. The program comes
with online help. Last but not least, it is freeware.

Supported formats

Format Description
GIF Compuserve Interchange format
JPEG Join Photo Expert Group
TIFF Tagged Imgae File Format
BMP OS/2 & Windows
TGA True Vision Targa
PCX PintBrush"

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Net: OS/2 e-Zine down

16 Jan 2005 20:22:25

From: os2editorDESPAM@yahoo.ca

The next issue of OS/2 e-zine should have been up a long time ago already,
but our servers seem to be down. (You can still access the current issue,
but no forums and I cannot upload the new issues).

Hopefully this is temporary. In the meantime, I will upload a .ZIP copy to
hobbes whenever FTP access to _that_ comes back up! (My FTP is not broken,
I can FTP anywhere else).

If anyone wants a copy _right now_, I'd be happy to e-mail you one. :-)

Thanks for your patience.

Url: http://www.os2ezine.com

From: Isaac (os2editorDESPAM@yahoo.ca)


Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php


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SW: WarpVision - WVGUI 20050116 Has Been Released

16 Jan 2005 18:08:48


From: "Sander Nyman"

WarpVision 20050116 has been released, and is available at:

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wvgui20050116.zip

The latest Windows codecs (Odin required), dated 1/10/2005, are here:

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wincodecs/wincodecs_new.zip

Be sure to read the READ.ME file for wincodecs. DO NOT PLACE THESE FILES
IN YOUR WARPVISION DIRECTORY.

Web site: http://os2.kiev.ua/en/wv.php

"The program is representing GUI for WarpVision created by Alex Strelnikov
It is not "launcher" for WV CLI, but includes latest WV CLI features In
future, these sparated projects will be combined in one

plays video media formats: mpeg1/2, avi, asf, mov, mp3 audio, wav, real
media, ogg, ogm
audio codecs support (pcm, mp3, ac3, wma1, wma2, ms adpcm, mp4)
HWENDIVE/WarpOverlay support (color in YUV422)
autodetecting color scheme (not always works correctly)
fullscreen and windowed mode
aspect ratio on and off in windowed mode
skin support
playlist support
plays last played file (from stop place)
CDDA support
VCD support
basic DVD support (uncrypted)
DVD subtitles support
Plain text subtitles support
OSD support (On Screen Display)
reading and writing playlists in WinAmp format
drag'n'drop to playlist and control window (files and directories)
play loop for files and lists
basic (due lack of drivers which support > 2 channels except Ruediger
"Rudi" Ihle CMedia drivers) multichannel audio support
PNG support for skins (thanks to Igor Saveliev aka gorynych)
pipe interface
Remote control support (Using Remote control daemon from TVSHOW project)
Single copy running: when wv already running, second wv just exit if
second wv have file name as parameter, wv pass it to first copy, which
start play it immedeately
Video snapshots"

Changes in this release:

16.01.2005

 Added Indeo5 support (via ODIN)
 Added WMV3 (aka WMV9) support (via ODIN). Not currently supported for
DIVE mode
 Added TV Tuner settings and a lot of other things (see TV Tuner section
of this file for info)
 DVD cache reworked again
 Added setwvgui.cmd for adding location of wvgui to os2.ini


To participate in the WarpVision discussion forum:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.warpvision.general

Support Forum: http://os2.kiev.ua/en/forum.list.php?f=1

Mailing lists: http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Mailinglists
Available lists:
warpvision-dev - To subscribe, e-mail:
warpvision-dev-subscribe@netlabs.org
warpvision-user - To subscribe, e-mail:
warpvision-user-subscribe@netlabs.org



--
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Sander Nyman"
-----------------------------------------------------------
A ship in a harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

- John Shedd


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SW: eRedMan Version 0.9.beta.8

16 Jan 2005 10:21:52

From: Herwig Bauernfeind


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 in this beta? Quite a lot.

+Added: GhostScript Printer Assistent to help users when setting up a
GhostScript driven PostScript printer queue for a non-PostScript printer.
By doing so you will (probably) be able to overcome printing problems
with OpenOffice for OS/2.
+Added: Optionally detach programs (and thus run them invisibly in the
background)
+Added: Intelligence to help user when configuring eRedMan with ePDF.
+Added: /SETUP:ePDF switch to configure eRedMan automagically for ePDF.
+Added: /MAKEOBJ switch to create an eRedMan object in the startup
folder.
*Changed: Added a lot of stuff to the help file (so finally it should be
useful).

Known problems and limitations:

* Usage in conjunction with VPC is still problematic, although not as
serious as it was with previous releases. This is under investigation.
More feedback is required here.

Feedback is appreciated. Contact me by email in case of problems.

Get eRedMan from hobbes:

Hobbes Incoming: <http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/eredman09b8.zip>
Hobbes Search: <http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=eredman>

Have fun,
Herwig Bauernfeind, 15-01-2005
EMail: herwig.DESPAM.bauernfeind aon.at


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