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SHISEN-SHO and MAHJONGG for PM Version 1.14
Hello,
Version 1.14 of Shisen-sho for OS/2 and Mahjongg for OS/2 add:
1- 9 new tile sets
2- Important feature: Now, you can design and play with your own tile
sets,
exchange them with others ...
New tile sets are added in the application directory and the menu
"File>Manage tile sets" allows you to add them to the external tile sets
list. There is no limit to you imagination ...
Have fun.
20030306 testcase kernels available
I put up new kernels, primarily to give people a chance to give feedback
on yet another attempt to save stack space when doing program loads.
Please try the kernels with LDRSTACKOPT=TRUE and FALSE, if you're
interested. Basically, the problem is that OS/2 was designed with the
hard-to-change assumption that there would only ever be 4k of ring 0
stack for each thread. All work by kernel, device drivers, and
filesystems gets done on this stack. Fair enough However, the kernel
takes a fair chunk of this space to save local stuff (because recursion
is possible). Where we see the worst behavior is trying to demand-load an
EXE or DLL from a LAN drive where we're using TCPBEUI (instead of
netbeui). Also, SMP is worse than UNI in terms of stack usage. The net
result is a ring 0 trap 0008 under some circumstances. On the other hand,
making this go away requires some overhead in execution time. So, people
who don't have these problems may want to turn off the changes with
LDRSTACKOPT=FALSE
Well, let me know. Thanks!!
-scott
URL: ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/
[Moderator's note: As always these are not officially supported by IBM
unless they tell you to use them. 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.
From the readme.txt acompanying these kernel files, changes since the last
testcase kernels(20030213):
20030303 14.093f
- backed out the file closing change in 0213, as it seems to be
causing
problems on some systems. the underlying problem will be
investigated
later in individual drivers.
- change to fix from JR17862 in 0213 kernel due to possible
regression
that would result in a semaphore not timing out properly
PJ29066 possible fix for a rare trap in _qsSem running pstat
JR17842 various dump formatter rc:5 problems (fixed in
df_ret/df_deb)
20030306 14.093g
- w_dup fix back in
- another shot at fixing the trap 8 problems while running an ISS
or
using tcpbeui. If you're using tcpbeui (*especially *under SMP), you
should not use this. If you're using an ISS, we ignore this. For
others,
you may get some speed improvement in loading apps by adding
LDRSTACKOPT=FALSE to config.sys (the default being true).]
Pronews 1.53 now available
I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Pronews/2 1.53.
Pronews/2 is an internet newsgroup client for OS/2.
You can download the new version from one of the following locations:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pn2v153.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/news/reader/pn2v153.zip
http://www.bmtmicro.com/BMTCatalog/os2/pronews2.html
Pronews/2 can be registered from the BMT Micro site listed above. All
proceeds from the sale of Pronews/2 are donated to "Save the Children" -
http://savethechildren.org/
This release contains support for decoding yEnc encoded binaries, much
improved speed and reduced CPU usage. It includes over 100 fixes (some of
which are for things that I broke while fixing other things!). There are
too many fixes to list in a newsgroup posting but some of the major ones
are:
1) Many many speed improvements
2) Mozilla can now be started using a SET BEGINLIBPATH prior to invoking
Pronews
3) Online servers did not stay online when tasks completed
4) New %G variable in the reply and forward template messages to insert
the groupname
5) Google Groups search URL's had changed
6) New article threading code allows groups to be opened more quickly
7)
User interface lockouts eliminated (I hope)
8) Groups list was corrupted occasionally
9) Popup menu from posts window exceeded size of screen
10) Articles in Sent folder had incorrect timestamps
11) Issue warning message if replying to an article with a Followup-To
header that does not include this group
12) Pronews reply address was not in RFC format
13) Multiline References: headers were truncated after first line
14)
Status bar now contains number of posts waiting (if any)
15) Pronews.dll
had a huge shared memory requirement that caused "SYS0008" memory problems
when co-existing with other applications that also need large amounts.
Problems were reported with the Polarbar mailer and with Netscape.
16) Filter files could cause a crash if corrupted
17) Articles saved via drag'n'drop did not go through codepage translation
18) UUencoded articles could be corrupted on download if an encoded line
started with "."
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
NewView 2.2.19
http://homepages.visp.co.nz/~aaronlawrence/NewView.html
NewView now completely* replaces the OS/2 help system, including
application online help (helpmgr.dll). When you press F1 in an
application, you will now get NewView and you can as usual, select and
copy from the window.
If you have problems with the online help mode, please supply the
hlpmgr2.log from your boot drive (e.g. c:\hlpmgr2.log). There are known
problems with the OS/2 master help index and tutorial (see readme.txt).
NewView is a free replacement for the original OS/2 or eComStation online
help system.
If you find NewView helpful, please email me and/or make a donation to
support further development. It's nice to hear from you! See my web page
for donation suggestions.
Major enhancements are:
- New user interface (split window)
- Select and copy direct from window
- Easy to use global (all files) search
- Remembers size & position
- Most recently used files list
- Smooth scrolling display
- Current topic always highlighted in contents
- Can go forward as well as back in history
- Options for fonts, colors and more
- Annotate help files
- Bookmarks
- Fully resizeable
V2.2.19
- Installer
- Help Manager completed (helpmgr.dll)
- First time window is centered.
- Added a /pos command line parameter
Specifies window position and size (see help)
- Center all dialogs
- Added URL in about box
- Show topic resource IDs in topic properties
- Default button and ESC in print dialog
- Fix crash after deleting bookmark
- Fix crash with certain menu fonts
- Fixed crash clicking in index!
- Fix crash after Save As (and other?) dialog!
- New icon courtesy Alessandro
* OK, Alessandro, so it doesn't properly replace viewdoc.exe ;)
Inexpensive Ethernet Adapters
I stumbled across this bargain: free (after rebate) Linksys LNE100TX PCI
ethernet adapter. J&R Music World http://www.jandr.com has this adapter
listed, along with a rebate coupon. (Shipping is $4.95.) Rebate ends
March 30, 2003.
The January, 2002, VOICE newsletter has OS/2 Warp driver information for
this adapter.
http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL0102H/vnewsft.htm
I have no affiliation with Linksys or J&R Music World. In fact, I rather
hope your readers will purchase IBM ethernet adapters instead.
- - - - -
Timothy F. Sipples
IBM WebSphere Software (Chicago)
OS/2 Java Corner update!
http://home.hccnet.nl/rjj.troost/japp4os2.htm
Thanks to numerous contributions from visitors it now contains well over
160 entries, each with its version no., the Java version required, a short
description and its url, sorted in the categories:
- Java for OS/2 and eCS*
- FAQs, tutorials and books
- Java resources and software sites
- Communication
- Development
- Games
- Graphic and image
- Multimedia
- Scientific
- Various
*Innotek's recent OS/2 Kit for Java (containing Java 1.4.1) has been
added!
All applications have been reported to run well with IBM Java 1.1.8,
1.3.0, 1.3.1 or 1.4.x for OS/2 and eComStation. For your convenience, all
new entries are in bold and red.
Please feel free to send me your additions, corrections, wishes or other
comments!
Kind regards,
--
Roger Troost
Beta release of Labela
The long wait is over ;o)
Today I have released the first beta release of Labela.
You can download it form : http://www.os2world.com/labella.
Thanks for the overwhelming responce to this project.
--------
For those who don't know, Labela is a label and business card designer,
closely related to my C-Side CD-label designer !
Kim Foder
Clipview 2.2 is released and is on hobbes
N.B. ClipView 2.1 was a limited release for Warpstock Europe
New features bug fixes etc:
- Added create URL option
- Added option to append clips into one clip
I don't know about you, but I always seem to want to paste what I clipped
three operations back :-) So I wrote ClipView, based on the Unix program
cutview.
The Clipview suite of programs consists of:
ClipView v2.2 - Gives multiple text clipboards. Clips may be printed,
edited, saved to a buffer and locked. Optionally the entire set of clips
and their state can be saved across invocations of ClipView.
ClipPrint v1.1 - Prints the current text contents of the clipboard.
PipeClip v2.0 - Used on the command line to pipe output to the clipboard.
eg dir /w | pipeclip
ClipPipe v1.0 - Used on the command line to pipe input from the
clipboard.
eg clippipe | someprogram
CV_Client_OS2 } These are alpha code. They allow clipboards to
communicate CV_Server_OS2 } across machines. Eventually I hope to add
other OSes.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dave.saville/ClipView.html
Regards
Dave Saville
Night Vision 2.5 released (Astronomy Planetarium)
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Announcing: Night Vision 2.5
Night Vision is a "planetarium" program for OS/2, and will display the
heavens from any location on earth. Viewing options allow the user to
control which sky objects to display, which font to use, and manipulation
of various star parameters. Time may be set to run at multiple speeds,
including backwards. Star charts may be printed.
* * New with version 2.5 * *
-> Zoom scrollbar
-> 16777216 colors
-> Different fonts for different object types
-> Can continue to identify objects when ID window is up
Note: Registered users of previous versions are entitled to a free Email
upgrade to the 2.5 registered version. Just Email the author at: nightvision@bmtmicro.com
The Night Vision home page is at
http://home.att.net/~bsimpson/nvsn.html
Night Vision is available at http://home.att.net/~bsimpson/nvsn25.zip and
http://www.bmtmicro.com/BMTCatalog/os2/nightv.html
Also available at Hobbes at
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/nvsn25.zip
or later at
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/science/astro/nvsn25.zip
EMT4PM (replaces DSK4PM) version 4.31
Hello,
EMT4PM (replaces DSK4PM) has been updated to version 4.31
IMG2ARDI EMT4WARP
Fix a potential problem in the Write retry routine and format. (DOS
unpacker)
Also updated EMT4WIN, I2AWDZ, I2ADOS.
URL: http://dvalot.free.fr
Features of GUI version of EMT4PM (Available in English, French and
German):
- build diskette images
- write diskettes from diskette images
- build ARDI self restorable images
- convert existing images to ARDI self restorable images
- graphical user interface version (GUI)
- command line version (VIO)
Java 1.4 refreshed
theres a new beta of java 1.4/2 @
http://www.innotek.de/products/javaos2
- Java Web Start 1.2.0_01 included in the distribution
- full support for existing OS/2 JNI modules written
for the IBM JVM is now included
- InnoTek readme and license are now copied to the
installation directory
- Installer now creates Workplace Shell objects
- numerous bugfixes
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