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SW: phpSysInfo patch for OS/2 updated

05 Feb 2005 22:58:30

From: davidforDESPAM@internode.on.net

phpSysInfo is a PHP script that displays information about the host being
accessed. This is a patch to make it work with OS/2.

This update is mainly to us phpSysInfo V2.3.

phpSysInfo is at: http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/
The OS/2 patch can be downloaded from
http://www.os2world.com/djfos2/index.html

Url:

From: David Forrester (davidforDESPAM@internode.on.net)


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

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SW: postgreSQL v8.0 GA fix b for OS/2

05 Feb 2005 14:58:29

From: lsunleyDESPAM@mb.sympatico.ca

I have released fix b for the postgreSQL database for OS/2.

The update is available at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu the file name is
postgresql-8.0-os2b.zip

New things for GA fix b

- custom LIBC (libc06p1.dll) has fixes for NLS collation problems
- fix to always use "." for decimal point in numeric literals
- fix to use binary output for pg_dump to stdout



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: New homepage for the "ooRexx" project ...

04 Feb 2005 20:20:04

Forwarded message from rony on Fri, 4 Feb
2005 08:08:43 UTC posted on: comp.lang.rexx

Hi there,

please take a look at the new homepage for the "ooRexx" (Open Object Rexx)
project at:

http://www.oorexx.org/

There you will also get the latest information at the present state of the
project.

Regards,

---rony

---END FORWARDED MESSAGE---

[Moderator note: From the December status page on that site
http://oorexx.sourceforge.net/status/2004-12-31.html

"Here is the final status for items received from IBM

1. Complete source code for the Object Rexx interpreter for Windows,
Linux, AIX and Solaris. The code we were given does not contain all the
materials necessary to build an OS/2 interpreter.
2. Source code for the external function libraries rexxutil, rxsock,
oodialog, rxmath and some smaller libraries.
3. Documentation in PDF and HTML format."

Also on the FAQ page http://www.oorexx.org/faq.html

"Q: Why is there no OS/2 (eCS) port of ooRexx?
The source code provided to RexxLA was maintained by one group of IBM
developers. The source code for OS/2 is maintained by a different group of
IBM developers, and that source code base was not supplied to RexxLA. One
of the future tasks for this project is to port the Open Source code for
ooRexx to OS/2."]


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Net: If Windows 3.0 had never been created...

04 Feb 2005 17:49:21

From: outpostsysopDESPAM@earthlink.net

I was reading this on /. ( http://slashdot.org/ ) and it discusses how
OS/2 would have become the predominant OS if Windows 3.0 programs hadn't
been able to run in protected mode... here's the blurb from /. :

covertbadger writes "Larry Osterman said farewell yesterday to David
Weise, the developer he credits with getting applications to run in
protected mode on Windows 3.0, which led directly to Microsoft choosing to
push Windows instead of OS/2. Today he speculates on what the IT world
would be like if Weise had never completed this work. Windows 95 would
never have existed, OS/2 would be the de facto standard, and IBM would
never have put weight behind Linux because it had its own operating system
to push."

Url: http://weblogs.asp.net/larryosterman/archive/2005/02/03/366493.aspx

From: Sean Dennis (outpostsysopDESPAM@earthlink.net)


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

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SW: wvgui latest update 20050204

04 Feb 2005 16:15:28

From: "Mark Dodel"

A new release of WVGUI latest update files. These should be installed
over an existing installed version ( Last full version was:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wvgui20050116.zip ).

Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/wvgui_latest.zip

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

"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:

*** There is a CHANGES file in the zip which lists the following:

NOTE! Requires new libc06x.dll
get it from: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wvgui/libc06x.zip

- Fixed colors in MJPEGs, MOVs etc
- Fixed crash on MPEG in DIVE mode
- Added OSD to TVIN
- Fixed HAUPP TV tuners sound
- Added Deinterlace settings for TVIN
- Added fast scan for TVIN
- Added settings for scanning different bands for TVIN
- A lot of other bugs added and removed

Mark

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SW: Visual Paradigm for UML 4.0 Released

04 Feb 2005 07:26:29

From: stellaDESPAM@visual-paradigm.com

We are pleased to announce that the Visual Paradigm for Unified Modeling
Language (VP-UML) has been released. This release features numerous new
features and enhancements - UML 2.0 support, Modeling with Visio stencils,
Enhanced diagram layout facility, Logical View, EJB generation, Agile
report creation and much more.

VP-UML Core Features:
- Full Unified Modelling Language (UML) 2.0 diagrams and notations support
- Support of Use Case Scheduling
- Support of CRC Card Diagram
- Support of Textual Analysis
- PDF report generation
- HTML report generation
- Reverse Engineering UML Diagram from source code
- Ability to export UML diagram as images
- Support of XMI import
- Support of Rose project import

For more information, please visit:
http://www.visual-paradigm.com/vpuml.php

[Moderator note: OS/2-eComStation is not listed as a supported platform,
however:

" Visual Paradigm for UML System Requirements


Intel Pentium III Compatible Processor at 600 MHz or higher.
Minimum 128MB RAM, but 256MB is recommended.
Minimum 400MB disk space.
Microsoft Windows (98, ME, NT, 2000 or XP), Linux, Mac OS X or all other
Java-enabled platforms."]



Now you can install Visual Paradigm for UML from Visual Paradigm Suite.
Give it a try. Download an evaluation copy of Visual Paradigm Suite for
free! http://www.visual-paradigm.com/download.php?shortName=vpuml

"Visual Paradigm helps ACCELERATE the entire MODEL-CODE-DEPLOY process in
a DISCIPLINED and COLLABORATIVE way to EXCEED customers' expectations."

By Visual Paradigm International Ltd.
http://www.visual-paradigm.com


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SW: Imapd for Weasel Pro, version 0.06

04 Feb 2005 06:49:20

From: Peter Moylan

IMAPD for Weasel Pro has just been updated to version 0.06. You can get it
from

ftp://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/Weasel/imapd006.zip

This is an add-on for the Weasel Pro mail server that allows it to act as
an IMAP4 server in addition to its existing POP3 and SMTP services.
Although it is ultimately intended only for registered Weasel Pro users,
the present version is a timed demo that will work without registration
with any recent version of Weasel. It will time out at the end of April
2005.

Although this is still technically a test version, it seems to be behaving
well under load, and it implements almost all features of IMAP4. I
wouldn't yet recommend it for full-scale commercial use, because it hasn't
had enough testing, but it should be satisfactory for noncritical
applications.

--
Peter Moylan peterDESPAM@ee.newcastle.edu.au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.




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SW: InnoTek Font Engine for OS/2 Version 2.60 Beta 1

03 Feb 2005 21:06:16


From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net

http://www.innotek.de/products/ft2lib/ft2libgeneral_e.html

"The InnoTek Font Engine for OS/2 (powered by Freetype 2) is a port of the
Freetype 2 font engine to the OS/2 Warp platform which provides a tight
integration with the OS/2 graphics subsystem. It is designed to be able to
replace the OS/2 font rendering subsystem for selected (tested)
applications."

2005-02-01

InnoTek Font Engine for OS/2 Version 2.60 Beta 1 available.
Warning: This is beta software and might not be stable. Do not use on
production systems! For use on production systems, please refer to the
latest release version which can be found below.
To download, click on the following link: InnoTek_FT2LIB_260_Beta1.exe
(650KB), http://download.innotek.de/ft2lib/InnoTek_FT2LIB_260_Beta1.exe

From the install readme:

7. List of Changes
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

2005-02-01: Release 2.60 Beta 1 Build 50

- migrated to InnoTek GCC 3.3

- updated to Freetype 2.1.9 level

- added 'light' rendering mode

- fixed several small memory leaks

- numerous other fixes


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SW: Web Family Tree version 1.2 released

03 Feb 2005 07:06:10


From: Peter Moylan



Web Family Tree (freeware) has just been updated to version 1.2. This is a
CGI script that lets you display your family tree as a set of linked web
pages. By popular demand, the new version now displays a local subtree as
part of the display for each person. A few other enhancements have been
made to the display. Languages supported so far are French and English,
but adding another language is simply a matter of translating a small text
file.

You can fetch it from
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/wft.html
or from
ftp://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/software/wft120.zip
and it has also been uploaded to Hobbes. Source code is also available for
separate download.


--
Peter Moylan peterDESPAM@ee.newcastle.edu.au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au

Air conditioned environment - Do not open Windows.




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INFO: Group Purchase of Golden Code Java

02 Feb 2005 17:40:36

From: treasurerDESPAM@os2voice.org

I got the following message form Aymeric Peyret and am
sending this out to the VOICE group.
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT A VOICE SPONSORED ACTIVITY.
I am just forwarding the information. The group purchase only needs to be
ANY group of interested people. Aymeric will coordinate this.

with the French users of fr.comp.os.os2, we want to make a group purchase
for GoldenCode Java. Unfortunately, we have not reached the number of 10
which is required by Goldencode for a group purchase. I posted a message
in the German newsgroups, in case there were interested people, but
Christian Hennecke told me there had already been such a thing at the end
of 2004. He added though that people at Voice could be interested in such
a purchase

Details of the offer are available here:
https://www.goldencode.com/storefront/jsp/pub/main/index.jsp;jsessionid=87960F19B0000743DD696C666572629A


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SW: RBLcheck 2.2 and POPprxy 1.0 released

02 Feb 2005 16:17:12

From: os2softwareDESPAM@besse.nl



Today I released RBLcheck 2.2

This version features account profiles and a new set of added headers,
optimized for use with bayesian filtering.

RBLcheck scans email to see whether it was sent through hosts that are
well-known spam-sources, and tags it. It is configurable for multiple
RBL's and has a adjustable scoring system.

Today I also released POPprxy 1.0

POPprxy is a POP3 proxy daemon, which runs RBLcheck for each message that
is being fetched through it. This enables Mozilla mail and Thunderbird
users to use RBLcheck.


Url: http://rblcheck.besse.nl/

From: Jeroen Besse (os2softwareDESPAM@besse.nl)


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

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OT: Caution for yahooGroups users - "Web Beacons"

31 Jan 2005 22:34:43

From: Jerry Garren A


If you belong to any YAHOO GROUPS or use Yahoo in any other ways, you may
want to opt out of this.........

Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track Yahoo Group
users around the net and see what you're doing and where you are going -
similar to cookies.

Yahoo is recording every website and every group you visit. If you would
like to opt out of their tracking system, here's how to do it:

1 Go to http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
2 In the column on the left side, under the title of "Special Topics,"
click "cookies".
3 At the bottom of this new page you will see a link that says "Click
here." Click that.
4 On that new page click the phrase "web beacon". That will bring you to a
paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network."
5 In this section you'll see a little "click here to opt out" link. Click
it.

Then STOP. What would normally be a confirmation button on the next page
will opt you back in.



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SW: Enhanced IDE Support (IDEDASD) updated to Version 5.01 on OS/2 DDPak Online

31 Jan 2005 20:30:29


From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net

Enhanced IDE Support (IDEDASD)
EIDE Disk and CDROM Support
Last Updated on: 01/31/2005 10:21 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. http://www.ibm.com/software/


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 required) Enhanced
IDE DASD and CDROM Support Version 5.01
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: Updated Speedstep on OS/2 DDPak Online

31 Jan 2005 20:00:40


From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net

http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/bf7e05615440e8f086256b6c005eac99/02b90dda6d6c99ec872568bd005b4622?OpenDocument

OS/2 Power Management
SpeedStep and Enhanced SpeedStep Technology
Last Updated on: 01/31/2005 10:22 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. http://www.ibm.com/software/


This software package provides IBM's most current support for:

* Intel's SpeedStep technology for IBM ThinkPad T2x and T30 systems
* Intel's Enhanced SpeedStep technology for IBM ThinkPad T40 systems

The following IBM OS/2 operating system versions support the SpeedStep and
Enhanced SpeedStep technologies, when the appropriate OS/2 FixPaks and
device-driver support are applied.

* Warp 4 Convenience Pak Two Manufacturing Refresh
* Warp 4 Convenience Pak Two
* Warp 4 Convenience Pak One

For clean installs of Warp 4:

* Install your Warp 4 Convenience Pak
* Install the OS/2 Base FixPak Two (XR_C002) or newer
* Install the OS/2 Device Driver FixPak Three (XR_D003)
* Install the SpeedStep and Enhanced SpeedStep device-driver support
from the OS/2 Device Driver Pak Online

The OS/2 Loader Support package is a prerequisite for this support.

The most current version of this device driver package is available to
OS/2 Passport Advantage customers.

To learn more about OS/2 visit our home page.
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/os/warp/swchoice/

1. Create a temporary directory (for example 'xxxx') and download the
driver to the directory. In an OS/2 window enter the following commands:
2. cd xxxx
3. os2spdst -d
4. gsvinst



Download Area and/or Language Package Name
Worldwide Package Subscription by Passport Advantage Enhanced SpeedStep
Technologyhttp://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=os2ddpak&uid=swg24008490&loc=en_US&cs=iso-8859-1&cc=us〈=en

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SW: 20050129 kernels on Testcase

30 Jan 2005 21:50:42

From: madodelDESPAM@ptdprolog.net

*** Warning *** Do NOT use these kernels on Pentium Pro systems.

[Moderator note: As always these are not officially supported by IBM
unless they tell you to use them.

Download from <ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/>

**** Please send any followup to comp.os.os2.bugs on usenet. ****

Also note that files are only on IBM's testcase for 2-3 days, so if you
want to try these get them now. Make certain you back up any files
replaced and don't try these on a production system. Read any readme file
before applying any changes. If your system is working well, and you have
no problems addressed by these updates, do yourself a favour and don't
mess with this. You have been warned.

The UNI and SMP files are for WSeB/ACP/eCS Pro (SMP kernel) and the W4
files are for post FP15/MCP versions, including eComStation. Only use the
SMP kernel on a machine with more then one CPU.]

From the readme file:

20041103 14.100d
WITHDRAWN

20041105 14.100e
****** WARNING: Do NOT use this version on a Pentium Pro machine.
For the benefit of everyone else, I have temporarily removed a
workaround for a P-Pro chip bug. This will improve performance
under heavy load by a few percent for all other machines by
correctly aligning the IDT entry.

JR20486 More sys3175 during bootup on Pentium 4s (and maybe Opterons?)
with >512mb of RAM

- changedd vmco_s to be 8 bytes instead of 5. This will break tools that
depended on that length and will use an extra 184kb of resident memory.
However, it greatly speeds up some memory management operations.

20041210 14.100g
20041214 14.100h
20041215 14.100i
WITHDRAWN (kernel causes machines with older CPUs to hang on boot)
20041216 14.100j

20041216 14.100k
****** SEE WARNING UNDER 20041105
** Experimental: Changed realmode transition code again to try to make
all CPUs happy with APM and TESTCFG.

JR20486 (again): Even more P4-related changes. Athlon64 likely still not
working reliably (or supported).
- os2dump and os2ldr LBA changes in 20041105 backed out
- *Very* small timing hole caused trap 3 in SwitchNPX

20050112 14.100m
****** SEE WARNING UNDER 20041105
PJ30111 Trap 000E in _vmAliasToAlias (only during debugging?)

20050113 14.100n
****** SEE WARNING UNDER 20041105
- IPE _SelFreeGDT invalid selector when freeing a ring 3 GDT selector
that is also the highest allocated gsel.

20050129 14.100o
****** SEE WARNING UNDER 20041105
- Ring 3 NPX error could result in trap 000e


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SW: JUne in January

30 Jan 2005 18:19:12

From: Eugene Gorbunoff (eg@ecomstation.comDESPAM)
Homepage: http://ecomstation.ru/jrescuer

========================================================
New version of JRescuer (JUne) released.

JRescuer is the tool to recover data from dead JFS volumes;
JUne is the JFS unerase utility; ISJ is a chkdsk, superblock utility.

Whatsnew, Version 1.10 (20050131)
* Undelete group of files to target directory as I.RCN
* Settings are saved to OS2.INI
! Warning if user is going to save files to the source JFS volume;
! Bug: view of EA may cause a trap of application
! don't show files of null size
! Cancel of Scan is executed immediately now
* Detecting JFS partitions using JFSTools.dll

Press-release related to JUne release --
http://ecomstation.ru/ecs-rus-labs/JUne-press-release-eng.pdf

Homepage: http://en.ecomstation.ru/projects/jrescuer/

---
eCo Software, http://www.eComStation.ru
Eugene Gorbunoff, egDESPAM@eComStation.ru




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