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Greetings from Yokohama, Japan.
I successfully built Xvnc server on OS/2. I am releasing binaries, script and
patch. Combined with VNC viewer for PM, you'll get working X environment on your
PM desktop.
You can get VNC viewer for PM under my OS/2 tools page
http://www.sra.co.jp/people/akira/os2/index-e.html
or directly,
http://www.sra.co.jp/people/akira/os2/xvnc/index.html
VNC is a system to access remote desktops from a local machine. It consists of
a remote server and a local viewer (client). For more details, see the VNC site
at
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
This release is an X based VNC server, not for PM server. You cannot access the
WPS/PM desktop with it.
Could all shareware and real ISV's please contact me immediately about an important
announcement wrt Aurora.
http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?IWK19990322S0032
shows the success of OS/2 in the banking industry.
The IT Services Unit at The HENLEY College is pleased to make available a Windows
95/98/NT screensaver program based on the OS/2 WarpServer "screensaver"
bitmap available on IBM's Aurora website. The idea of the screensaver is to promote
the use of OS/2 WarpServer as the definitive server for Windows workstation environments.
Use the saver
- On your Windows 95/98/NT workstations on the LAN
- On your machine at home
- As a gift to your colleagues
If and when additional "screensaver" bitmaps become available we will
build new screensaver programs to suit.
You may download the screensaver from:
ftp://ftp.henleycol.ac.uk/warpsvr1.zip
Additionally, we will make the file available on Hobbes within the next week.
The software is supplied as freeware but no warranty is available and the software
is used at your own risk.
You may e-mail ssha@henleycol.ac.uk for feedback.
What's new!
mpg123.dll 1.06
====
31.5 Hz
63.0 Hz
125 Hz
250 Hz
500 Hz
1.00 kHz
2.00 kHz
4.00 kHz
8.00 kHz
16.0 KHz
http://www.cam.org/~guardia/pm123.html
Stellar Frontier has been updated (3/23/99) to version 0.94:
http://www.stardock.com/products/sf/sf.html
As of yesterday, Fixpak 10 for Warp 4 Brazilian Portuguese is available at:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4warp/brazilian/xrbm010/
Pavel Nikiforov has released new version of AICQ - nice textmode ICQ client.
Some bug fixed and new features added ("SwithBack", automaticaly sending
messages when away,na,dnd, PipePreffix and PipePad).
Official FTP site of AICQ:
Also, AICQ avalable on "Russian/2" WWW:
http://www.os2.ru/fa/net-cl.shtml
What used to be the HTML 2 PDF project is now a PDF file creation tool. It still
uses HTML as input but, the focus has changed. Now the main point is to create PDF
files. HTML conversion will likely be possible but at some future point.
This is the offical announcement. The program is now on hobbes (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu).
This is a beta/acceptance test so your feedback is very welcome.
It is still shareware. The current price tag is $10 and it can be registered
at the GammaTech Mall (http://www.gt-mall.com).
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dan holmes
dholmes@trellis.net
ICQ# 12618265
The M3 level of the Mozilla web-browser is available for OS/2.
This contains a high-quality HTML 4 layout and rendering engine, and early versions
of bookmarks, history and Java support.
Please note: this is an alpha release -- it's not going to replace your current
browser!
Currently in /pub/incoming at hobbes, eventually moving to /pub/os2/apps/internet/www/browser,
get mozm3ish.zip
Feedback and queries to the Warpzilla newsgroup, netscape.public.mozilla.os2,
please.
The following FixPak (Refresh) has been released : FixPak Number Product
nw212pt2.zip Netware Client for OS/2 V 2.12
Services the following 6 languages : English, Spanish, French, German, Italian,
Portugese
To access it :
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/netware/Client_OS2_V212/
Apache 1.3.6 has been released (3/23/99):
http://www.apache.org/dist/binaries/os2/
Apple has released a beta of QuickTime for Java, anyone seen this yet?
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtjava
Warp4 Fixpak 10 French-Canadian is out, at last!
See http://ps.software.ibm.com, click
Downloads & News or ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4warp/canadian-french/xrcm010
Greetings from Yokohama, Japan.
I released a new version (beta 0.06) of VNC viewer for OS/2 PM.
This is new beta version (beta 0.06) of PM VNC viewer. I appended some requested
features.
1.When minimized, stop update request to server (as Windows version). This reduces
unneccesary network and server load.
2.Now viewer saves windows position and size per host bases. Next time connect
to same server (and server's screen size is not changed), viewer shows window same
position & size.
3.Introduced option '-dialogAtCenter', which enables all dialogs at center of
the screen. Default, dialog will placed near mouse position.
4.Add frame around entryfield in password dialog.
In this version, I changed the structure of the INI file (VNCVIEW.INI). For safety,
please delete VNCVIEW.INI before invoking the new version.
You can get VNC viewer for PM under my OS/2 tools page
http://www.sra.co.jp/people/akira/os2/index-e.html
or directly,
http://www.sra.co.jp/people/akira/os2/vnc-pm/index.html
VNC is a system to access remote desktops from a local machine. It consists of
a remote server and a local viewer (client). This release is the viewer for OS/2
PM. For more details see:
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
Someone made a LodeRunner game for OS/2, the docs and help are in Russian but
the menu text is English.. The url is:
ftp://cad.ngasu.sci-nnov.ru/pub/OS2/lr.rar
DreckBak Ver.16 (DrekBak6.zip) has been uploaded to both Hobbes, and the author's
site at:
http://weismer.virtualave.net/DreckBak.html
DreckBak is the ideal solution for backing up your Hard Drive without special
hardware. Ideally suited to removable media, large Hard Drive, or any device that
can be written to by OS2 that has a drive letter.
There's no longer an excuse not to have a backup! Get it now! It works, and works
well.
Cfgmaint 0.98 has a serious bug when used in conjuction with 4OS2: Whenever saving
the config.sys, the edited config.sys is appended to the old one :-(. As workaround
you could either switch back to cmd.exe or wait till the bugfixed version is available.
I was referred to your special interest group by one of your subscribers. I am
a Technical Recruiter for TEKsystems. TEKsystems is an international IT company
specializing in LAN/WAN support and implementation. We currently are in need of
an OS/2 Administrator with Citrix WinView or WinFrame experience in the Youngstown,
OH area. This person will be responsible for the support of a multi-platform LAN.
The platforms include in priority order OS/2, Novell 3.x and Windows NT. MS Exchange
and Outlook experience is a plus but not necessary. The salary is negotiable and
there is a fairly flexible schedule totaling 40/wk.
Sincerely,
John Doan
888-818-9694 ext. 1306 (toll free)
CheckUrl 1.5 is available at http://village.flashnet.it/~rm03703/programs
or http://www.quasarbbs.com/francesco
CheckUrl is a freeware REXX program that checks urls listed in a text or html
file (such as netscape bookmark file)
Checkurl supports now multiple connection to speed up checking and better error
reporting.
StlView is Freeware OS/2 PM application for viewing of STL files. STL 3D format
is de-facto standard for Rapid Prototyping systems. (Laser Stereolithography Apparatus
is most known Rapid Prototyping technology and STL stands for STereoLithography)
StlView does not use OpenGL, so it can be used at OS/2 3,4 and 5 (Warp, Merlin,
Aurora).It can work at any number of colors, but for best performance you need 256
colors or more. Homepage for StlView:
http://www.laser.ru/rapid/stlview
Some more stuff:
Multiplatform STL filecompressor:
http://www.laser.ru/stlpack
* 3Dglobe - Freeware 3D color voxel graphics representation of Earth and Moon for
OS/2 3,4,5, (PII,64Mb RAM and graphics mode with more than 256 colors recommended)
Dear OS/2 User,
We know you have all been waiting patiently, and the second beta release of SciTech
Display Doctor for OS/2 is finally here! This version is still a little rough around
the edges for the installation process, as we have not completed the GUI configuration
programs yet. Configuring the drivers is a little cumbersome and done with command
line utilities for the moment, but we are now working on the dialog driven installation
program and control panel utilities.
Please read the readme.txt file included in the ZIP file archive thoroughly before
attempting to install SDD for OS/2.
For those who are interested we also have the MGL fully ported and running under
OS/2 fullscreen sessions. The first beta release is already available on our ftp
site, and we expect to have the next beta release ready soon with bug fixes and
updates.
Where to find the SDD for OS/2 beta
You can download the install ZIP file from SciTech's ftp site:
ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sddos2_10_b2.zip
and
ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/ibmgradd.zip
The ibmgradd.zip file contains all the IBM 0.77 GRADD files needed by the installation.
You will only need to download and unzip this archive once for all beta releases
(make sure you unzip with -d!).
Supported Hardware
This is a complete list of the various graphics cards that this version of SciTech
Display Doctor supports. Please note that this list refers to the actual chips being
used, not a board-level implementation. Thus you will not see any products from
Hercules or STB on the list, but their products are supported because they use S3,
Cirrus, Tseng, etc. chips. Also, any card with less than 512KB of memory cannot
be supported by SciTech Display Doctor.
Please note that we are in the process of moving all our existing device support
code to our new SciTech Nucleus device driver architecture. If you have a chipset
that is not listed below that you would like to see supported in SciTech Display
Doctor for OS/2, please send an email to sddos2@scitechsoft.com to let us know.
We want your feedback!!
Your feedback is important to us, to ensure that we are building a product that
works the way you want it to. We need feedback from our beta testers, both positive
and negative. All feedback for the beta program should be directed to sddos2@scitechsoft.com
for the time being (we will soon have a HTML bug reporting page in place).
** IMPORTANT NOTE **
This version of SciTech Display Doctor is a BETA release and may display irregular
behavior or fail on your particular system configuration. If possible, SciTech Software
recommends that you install this software on a non-mission critical system. Please
note that installing a beta version of ANY software program is a risk which should
be considered prior to installation.
Thank you,
SciTech Software, Inc.
I have just installed the SO Filter Update (by CD rather than downloaded) since
the download did not contain the WordPerfect filters.
There is a possibility that the update will not apply/load new FILTERS available
on the CD such as the extra WinWord and WordPerfect filters if you did a custom
install.
To correct this, go to the StarOffice Setup in the SO folder, and use the MODIFY
function. Select from the Star Office Program Modules, the "Star Writer"
sub list. Then "Text Filter" list, and check to see if the WP filters
are actually highlighted. If not, select them, and any other filters that you may
want, click the COMPLETE button.
You will need the StarOffice CD in the drive. If you don't put the disk into
the drive, you will get a message asking you to put it in the drive, when you have
done so, "YES" is not the correct answer. Complete/Continue is.
A couple new items on the OS/2 Device Driver Pak:
Updated ESS 1688 sound card drivers:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/2632ADD962A12DA3852561B2004F42F4.html
-or-
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/os21688.zip
Updated Y2K clock drivers (already included in FP39+ and FP9+):
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/973AFACFF31508C18625657000808CD7.html
-or-
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/y2kclock.exe
I released another beta of this mp3 player, it has a few new features such as
an ID3 editor, online help (f1), multi-soundcard support.. and some more fixes for
Aurora on JFS partitions. You can get a copy at http://dink.org.
Z! is freeware!
I'm sorry to report that my pcenduser.com (and the ThermoProtect homepage/mailing
list on it) is down due to the lousy network stability of the Rogers Cable's cable
modem network... I'm trying my best to *MAKE* them fix the problem ASAP... And the
next service appointment is booked for Apirl 1st... I'm hoping for the best, and
prepared to give them the worst if that didn't happen... :)
A new version of the hardware monitoring utility StHWMon is out.
StHWMon is a hardware monitoring utility that can display the temperatures, fan-speeds
and voltages of your board. It supports motherboards with the Winbond W83781 or
LM78 chip.
Some features:
- Free configureable output
- Display Temperatures in Celsius and/or in Farenheit
- Rexx-API
- Doing some actions if a value is out of range:
-- Normal repeating alarm sound
-- Message box
-- System shutdown via APM
This version of StHWMon is freeware. You can download it from:
http://home.t-online.de/home/stefan.milcke/hwmon_en.htm
The german c't magazine (http://www.heise.de/ct) has an article on their newsticker
about a possible new Notes Client for OS/2.
They write that some big OS/2 customers in germany force Lotus to provide a new
version of the client for OS/2.
It looks like the european IBM and Lotus people think that there *will* be a
new version, the US-division is not sure about this because "...OS/2 is not
anymore important in the USA". Guys, we still use it here :-)
You can read the whole story in german at:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-21.03.99-001/
Adrian Gschwend
@ OS/2 Netlabs
Beginning with unified version 222 of Matrox drivers for OS2. Matrox introduced
a modified version of SCREEN01.SYS which traps at boot for my Compaq and Matrox
PCI cards (Millenium or G200). This is also true for version 223.
So be aware if you plan to do so if you own a non AGP system (ie a PCI card).
functions are said to be OK on AGP systems.
Right now, it seems that I don't have the time to complete NICE/2. I've released
the latest version and the source code, I hope someone will pick it up and continue
the work.
The NICE/2 home page is at:
http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/6525/os2.html
DSTswitch 1.30 has just been released. DSTswitch is a utility that switches from
daylight saving time to standard time and vice versa. As DSTswitch analyses the
TZ variable you also need to have a TZ calculator like TZ-Maker.
DSTswitch 1.30 has also got some additional features:
You can download DSTswitch 1.30 from these fine servers:
ftp://os2serv.rz.fh-heilbronn.de/csw/dsts130.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/dsts130.zip
(or ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dsts130.zip)
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2372/download/dsts130.zip
Stardock released Stellar Frontier beta 0.932 on 3/19:
http://www.stardock.com/products/sf/sf.html