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SecureDesktop a system-logon facility has reached after solving several technical
problems beta3. If your are interested please send an email.
Attention: Currently the German version is ready for testing - the English one
a week later.
SecureDesktop is part of a security system. With SD every user has his own desktop
with his own folders, fonts, colors etc.
The next step will be file-access control...
VyperHelp is a visual outliner and editor for creating online help for OS/2-based
systems. It generates IPF files, which can be compiled into OS/2-based HLP and INF
files. It also generates WinHelp project source, including HPJ, CNT, RTF and HH
files. VyperHelp has the following features:
Version 1.03 adds WinHelp export (HPJ, CNT, RTF, HH), as well as document-style
RTF export.
This pre-release of VyperHelp is provided for free use and distribution until
6/1/99. For more information and download links, see:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mek/vyper.htm
http://www.tabi.org/timur/os2pdd.html
The OS/2 PDD Mailing List is a mailing list for OS/2 device driver programmers.
Many of the great OS/2 driver programmers are on the list. This web page provides
information on the mailing list itself, as well as resources for OS/2 driver programmers.
There's also a list of driver programmers available for contract work.
In this latest update, there are new hotlinks to web pages with OS/2 driver programming
information.
JP Software's 4OS2 and TakeCommand/2 have been updated to version 3.02. See http://www.jpsoft.com/upgrade.htm for
more information.
4OS2 is a complete, unique replacement for the default OS/2 command processor,
CMD.EXE - the program that handles your commands in OS/2 character mode sessions.
TakeCommand/2 is a GUI version of 4OS2.
Both products are also available for DOS and Windows.
Solution Technology, Inc.
1101 South Rogers Circle, Suite 14 | Boca Raton, FL 33487
Voice: 561-241-3210 | Fax: 561-997-6518
E-mail: solution@stiscan.com | WWW: http://www.stiscan.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: April 2, 1999
Contact: Leon D. Zetekoff, N.C.E. (solution@stiscan.com)
561-241-3210, Fax: 561-997-6518
Last Call for Solution Technology Low Cost OS/2 Scanning Bundle
Boca Raton, Florida--Solution Technology developer of TWAIN for OS/2, has been
offering a high performance EPSON color scanner and software bundle for OS/2 users.
The STi package contains an EPSON SCSI ES-1000C color scanner AND STi's TWAIN enabled
Applause Image Utility for OS/2. This bundle allows the OS/2 user to scan black
and white, gray scale or 24 bit color images with photographic quality. Applause
for OS/2 allows the scans to be prepared for printing, inserting into documents
or for use on the web.
"EPSON is excited about Solution Technology's software support of our scanners
and peripherals within the OS/2 environment. We are excited our products will be
available to the OS/2 user community.", said Dwight Nichols, VAR Territory
Manager of EPSON America.
"We are pleased that we were able to work with EPSON to bring this special
scanner bundle to the OS/2 user community. The high quality of EPSON scanners gives
the OS/2 user very high flexibility at a very attractive price.", said Leon
Zetekoff, Product Manager of Solution Technology.
STi is supplying EPSON ES-1000C scanners from EPSON's "B" stock inventory.
EPSON "B" stock scanners are the result of newer scanners coming to market.
These scanners are either new or are EPSON refurbished units. All scanners have
undergone complete EPSON quality assurance and come with a one year parts and labor
depot limited warranty from EPSON America.
This Applause/ES-1000C OS/2 bundle is being offered for the astoundingly low
price of $169.95 (USD) prepaid plus shipping and sales tax where required. Due to
the limited quantities, orders are processed on a first-come, first-served basis.
STi has placed their last order of scanners since these are the last EPSON ES-1000C
scanners that will be available. Act now to take advantage of this special offer.
Shipping costs are additional and depend on the shipping method the purchaser desires.
Florida purchasers will be charged 6% sales tax. At this time, deliveries can only
be shipped to addresses in North America. Please call for additional information.
STi is a major manufacturer of production level OS/2 and NT based image, barcode,
and forms processing products including BarCode Anywhere(TM), Genie(TM) Forms Express,(TM)
and Image Edition(R) for OS/2. In addition, the company is a principal supplier
of accessory imaging support subsystems for IBM's ImagePlus(R) and VisualInfo(R)
product line.
The new release of Minta is available now! Minta is a very powerful MP3 tagging,
listing and information PM-utility for OS/2.
New features in 2.25:
Other features of Minta include:
Support for other languages (apart from English, German and Dutch) is currently
in work and a new version of Minta including this other language modules should
be released soon. Minta is mailware. You can find out more about Minta at the Minta
homepage: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/CIP/thielen/minta/ You can get your
copy of the program on the above homepage or from Hobbes. Minta 2.25 is of course
also available on the "Team Trier Collection" CDROM for OS/2 (see http://www.teamos2.ipcon.de/cdrom.htm
for more info).
IBM has updated the Laserjet and PCL5 printer drivers on DDPak:
LaserJet version 30.682 (4/1/99):
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/laserjet.exe
PCL5 version 2.544 (3/23/99):
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/ibmpcl5.exe
The PCL5 driver is also available in French, German, BR (Portuguese?), Italian,
and Spanish.
Java 1.1.7A has been updated once again (4/1/99). I hope this isn't the "April
Fool's release" :)
ftp://ftp.hursley.ibm.com/pub/java/fixes/os2/11/117/
Hello there, I'm happy to report that the PCEndUser.COM and ThermoProtect site
and mailing lists are now back online again... Please come back and visit, I should
have a cooling article up soon... all the photos are ready now... :)
http://www.pcenduser.com and http://www.pcenduser.com/ThermoProtect
This week's edition of Focus on OS/2 is now online.
The topic this week is Using UniMaint to automatically backup your Desktop.
Your Desktop represents a large investment of time; learn how to back it up easily
and automatically at:
http://os2.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa033199.htm
In addition to the main article, 8 News items and 9 Links have been added to
the "What's New" Page.
Focus on OS/2 now contains 47 Categories and 871 Links.
The site as a whole can be accessed at http://os2.miningco.com.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Gordon Roland
(212-979-8228)
(groland@ibm.net)
March 30, 1999
Atlanta Targeted for Third Annual OS/2 Conference and Exhibition
The Board of Directors of Warpstock, Inc. (http://www.warpstock.org)
has set the date for its third annual OS/2TM conference and exhibition, Warpstock
'99. The event is set for October 16 and 17, 1999, and will be held at the Georgia
International Convention Center (http://www.gicc.com),
located one mile south of Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport. The event was officially
announced on an Internet Relay Chat channel hosted by OS/2 Voice (http://www.os2voice.org)
and attended by OS/2TM users from around the globe.
With the recent release Work Space on DemandTM 2.0 and anticipated release of
an entirely new version of OS/2 Server, Warp Server for e-BusinessTM there is renewed
interest in this powerful operating system. Recent cross- platform application upgrades
available for OS/2 include StarOfficeTM 5.0; Netscape CommunicatorTM 4.04; and Symantec
AntiVirusTM 5.0. According to event organizers paid attendance was greater last
year than the previous year, and is expected to nearly double this year.
The previous two events presented workshops and presentations designed to provide
the kind of community support that is usually associated with the Linux phenomenon.
Warpstock has also provided independent OS/2 software developers a forum to exhibit
and sell directly to users. Social events are slated to be held at the Atlanta Sheraton
Gateway, which adjoins the convention center. Registration costs and early registration
discount information will be released in early April.
OS/2TM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines, Inc. Warpstock,
Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the OS/2 community together
every year.
Abbottsbury Software updated their WinCast OS/2 driver for Hauppage WinTV and
Wincast PCI cards to version 1.040T. However, they only updated the zip file, not
the html (the web page and even the readme file inside the zip still shows 1.040M
as the latest version). If you re-download the file and re-install you will see
the WCAST.SYS driver inside is now at version 1.040T).
The download URL is
http://www.wdi.co.uk/os2tv/download.htm
I've coded an addon DLL for WatchCat 2.1, which gives a convenient interface
between WatchCat and the nice-package by Sharon Dagan.
The DLL enables priority-changing of running processes from within WatchCat.
Appearently there are some rough edges left: You'd better _NOT_ start WatchCat
from config.sys or startup.cmd when using this DLL. I'm working on the problem ;)
Right now you can find it here:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/wnice.zip
Later it should be here:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/system/wnice.zip
TechWeek has an article on OS/2 web sites:
http://www.techweek.com/articles/3-22-99/cookiej.htm
Wayne Swanson of Pillarsoft has updated the Enhanced E editor which is a replacement
for e.exe. The new (3/31/99) version can be downloaded from:
http://www.fm-net.com/pillarsoft/
Tyra/2 the Config.sys analyzer and editor is now available in version 1.40.
New in this version:
Bug corrections.
Tyra/2 is shareware and you will have 31 days to test it. If you are an author
of a piece of OS/2 Freeware you can get a key for free.
You can download the newest version of Tyra/2 from this sites:
http://www.online.de/home/os2/ (Here
can you find also The Config.sys Documentation Project)
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incomming
will be moved in the next time to ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/config
And in the next days at:
http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/tyra2.html
In the past, I had always hoped that "someone" would establish a site
that catered to the users of Rexx and VisPro/Rexx in particular. Personally, I had
a lot of unanswered questions while learning Rexx and VisPro/Rexx and would like
to see that rectified for new users as well as showing some of the old dogs (me?)
learning a few tricks. Bernd Schemmer's terrific rexx "Tips and Tricks"
covers a wealth of information on Rexx but the VisPro/Rexx user has nothing of the
sort.
Having been involved in quite a few ventures I knew that "someone"
would never get it done if "I" (read "you too") would not get
out of my easy chair and do something about it. I am a proponent of the <paraphrase>Ask
not what OS/2 can do for you, but what you can do for OS/2</paraphrase> line
of thinking. In the OS/2 world, we can only expect our support systems to be as
good as we are willing to make them.
This goes beyond a Rexx page and should be part of our overall thinking toward
OS/2 advocacy and support (VOICE, ng's, mailing lists etc.) but that is a subject
for another day. (btw: I use the term "advocacy" here in the nicest possible
connotation <bg>)
The site is there to help anyone that needs help or hints using Rexx or VisPro/Rexx
but it will only be as helpful as we are able to make it "collectively".
</preach mode>
I will be putting snippets on the site as time allows but what I hope for is
for "you" to share your expertise with others too. None of us in particular
always know the best solution to a given problem but working together we can mold
top shelf snippets by "committee" that will be available to everyone.
There are also many things that we can help each other with that may not have been
set forth very clearly in the documentation for Rexx or VisPro/Rexx.
If it grows, I will try to organize the information as best I can. I have given
very little thought as to it's organization so far as I had just decided it was
time to do something like this and forged ahead.
The site will be limited to OS/2 and VisPro based Rexx solutions for now as I
am not familiar with some of the other platform idiosyncrasies and have a finite
amount of time and space to host the information. RexxLA is planning a repository
and I am happy to place this in their hands as a small segment of their site if
it does develop.
Prospective contributors, please read the link "about this site" to
see how we can make it easy on me getting your snippets posted. (there I go thinking
about myself again) :-)
The site is at:
http://www.fm-net.com/pillarsoft/rexx/rexx.html
The GameCode multimedia development library has gone open source. While it supports
Win32 and Mac anyone can port it to their prefered platform.
The URL is http://www.sodan.dk/gamecode/
We are trying to make a group in order to port a new version of cuseeme for OS/2.
Any kind of help is welcome, the project is going to be completely free and the
suggested name so far is WarpSeeme/2.
If you believe you can help in someway please write to:
official support page being built at:
Many Thanks to going to Merlin, Streak, Infinity 7, David Wei and many others...
Symantec has updated the IBM Antivirus with new virus signatures av30dd.zip.
URL is:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ibm/index.html
Hello;
I uploaded PopCD! ver.2.10, today. Please get a copy and try!
Update topics are... Version 2.10 (01.Apr.1999)
You can get a copy from...
http://member.nifty.ne.jp/prettypop/
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~qw6k-knst/
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~qw6k-knst/software/
Good day;
---
Ken Kinoshita (prettypop@the-music-site.com)
Pretty Pop Music and Software
URL : http://member.nifty.ne.jp/prettypop/
* Get down to the music stop nobody knows.
Dear StarOffice Customer,
At StarDivision we take pride in continually improving our product for you. We
think you will find that our latest release, StarOffice 5.0 FilterUpdate, is a significant
improvement over earlier versions. With StarOffice 5.0 FilterUpdate you will notice
dramatic improvements concerning Microsoft interoperability. The StarOffice 5.0
FilterUpdate includes refined Microsoft Word® and Excel® 97 import and export
filters. It also has an improved Microsoft PowerPoint® 97 import filter and
a new Microsoft PowerPoint export feature.
In addition to improved Microsoft Office filter capabilities, other innovations
with StarOffice 5.0 FilterUpdate include:
Individual non-commercial users:
Individual non-commercial users may download the StarOffice 5.0 Personal Edition
FilterUpdate (60~80 MB) for free via our web site for their home use. Platforms
available include Microsoft Windows NT/95/98, Linux, Sun Solaris SPARC/x86 and OS/2.
Languages available include English, German, Italian, and French. Additional download
information can be found at:
http://www.stardivision.com/freeoffice/
Registered StarOffice users may also purchase the StarOffice 5.0 FilterUpdate
ServicePack on CD for US$ 14.95. For a limited time only Star Division offers the
StarOffice 5.0 FilterUpdate ServicePack including additional filters, clipart and
fonts. Further ServicePack online ordering information can be found at:
http://www.stardivision.com/shop/servicepack
If you wish to receive a manual, installation guide, 30-day technical support
and additional clipart and fonts along with the CD you may purchase StarOffice Personal
Edition Deluxe 5.0 with FilterUpdate for US$ 39.95. Additional Personal Edition
Deluxe online ordering information can be found at:
http://www.stardivision.com/shop/deluxe
Professional and Commercial users:
Professional and commercial users may purchase the StarOffice 5.0 Professional
Edition with FilterUpdate, StarOffice 5.0 Small Business Edition with FilterUpdate
and/or the StarOffice Business License on-line at:
http://www.stardivision.com/shop
Additionally, you can contact us direct at:
Star Division Corporation
6515 Dumbarton Circle
Fremont, CA 94555 - USA
Phone (510) 505-1470
Fax (510) 505-1475
Thank you for continuing to use Star Division Products,
Oliver Petry
Product Manager
Star Division Corporation
Fremont, CA 94555
News in from "The Screen Savers", a computer help show on the ZDTV
cable network. States that IBM does not want the show to promote OS/2 and has no
future plans for OS/2 foranother year.
Check out the article yourself at:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/screensavers/answerstips/story/0,3656,2231067,00.html
I've just uploaded more recent ports of tcpdump 3.4 (a Unix network monitoring
a packet capturing tool) and the underlying libpcap 0.4 library to hobbes (ftp-os2.nmsu.edu);
the files will go to /pub/os2/apps/internet/misc/tcpd34a.zip and /pub/os2/dev/unix/libpcap04a.zip
There is also a port of Craft 3.5, a Warcraft-like multiplayer game for X! look
for craft35a.zip
WarpUP! is the newest and easiest way to update any flavor of OS/2 Warp - OS/2
Warp 3.0 and up, Warp Connect and OS/2 Warp Server.
Indelible Blue has put together the latest fixpacks and tools from IBM, along
with popular applications and utilities in an easy-to-use browser-like interface.
Not just a "dump" of files, WarpUP! analyzes your system, presents you
with current system status and update options, automatically installs the options
you choose, and maintains your update history for quick reference.
For more information, go to:
http://www.indelible-blue.com/ibapps/products.nsf/by+partnumber/ibi20
Hello gamers!
I just released the latest version of Mastermind/2, v1.4. This is the implementation
of the classic logic-game for OS/2. New functions are:
If you are interested in the game, please visit the Mastermind/2 homepage at:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Port/4718/
You may download the game, learn more about it or view some screenshots. I also
included some links related to software development and gaming.
For all programmers and all who want to become a programmer the source code is
available for free, too. I hope it helps someone.
NetLookout, the internet notifier for OS/2 & Windows, has been updated to
version 2.23b. This update fixes several bugs, including false notifications from
E*Trade's IPO Center and Wit Capital's IPO page.
The new version can be found at:
http://www.frugalsoft.com/lookout/download.html
The updates to Stellar Frontier are coming fast. 0.941 is now out (3/26/99):
http://www.stardock.com/update/update_sf.html
Carrie R. Lust is a highly configurable free phone-cost and online time tracking
utility for OS/2 in the tradition of Richard Papo's "MemSize" systemresources
monitor.
The following features have been added in 1.10:
Other features include:
Carrie R. Lust is mailware. You can find out more about the program at:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/CIP/thielen/clust/
You can get your copy of the program on the above homepage or from Hobbes. Carrie
R. Lust 1.10 is of course also available on the "Team Trier Collection"
CDROM for OS/2 (see for more info).
The Addon and Utilities for ICE web site has been updated. Nick Knight's email
client for OS/2 has garnered a large after market group of programmers that have
created a host of addon's and utilities that they wish to share with the rest of
us at no charge.
So if you use ICE, or if you don't (you can find the latest release of ICE there),
come to my web site and find these gems, as well as other support for this fine
product.
[Warpcast Moderator's note: This item has been edited quite a bit.]
I found the following message on the webpage of the german magazine ct'. I haven't
noticed anyting on warpcast, and I guess it should also be of interest for american
readers.
Translation (not word by word, but accurate in general):
A new notes-client for OS/2?
"Some large customers from the german financial sector have been putting
pressure on IBM since the last Lotusphere in Berlin to get a notes version for their
OS/2 clients.
"The European Lotus management seems to be convinced. Pierre van Beneden,
general manager of Lotus Development EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), confirmed
that the discussion on the R5-client wasn't finished yet. He said that the opinion
was different in the USA, however, because OS/2 had no importance there anymore."
Source (in German):
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-21.03.99-001/
Hello all,
This is a very important message about the future of Win32-OS/2 (aka PE2LX).
I think most of you know the program, if not check http://www.os2ss.com/win32-os2/
Since the old project team closed developement of it, we at OS/2 Netlabs hope
to provide an enhanced version of this program. Some *big* (and I mean big) OS/2
customers contacted me and they asked wheter it is possible to enhance it very soon.
The goal is very big, it is to get Microsoft Office running on OS/2.
I think this is definitely not easy, also because it looks like OS/2 itself is
not able to provide all we need (512MB memory limit).
If we are able to provide this we can reach that the last big OS/2 customers
stay on OS/2 in the future, if it is not possbible they have to switch to NT...
I know they could also use other programs than MS Office, this is not my decission
so don't say they should use StarOffice or something like this. It looks like they
can't/don't want use it. The only thing they need is a new version of PE2LX.
Actually there are some teams working on serveral stuff, for example EverBlue
and I think there will also be a port of WINE for OS/2 in the near future. To do
this we need a lot of manpower and know how.
=> If you are able to support this project, please join the new mailinglist
about it. We have to decide *very* soon whether this is possible or not. Please
join this list if you are able to support us or if you see problems we might have.
I don't want to say we will do it if it is not possible. Please *do not* subscribe
to the list if you just want to see what happens, for sure we will keep you up to
date through the web. OS advocacy is also *not* welcome on this list.
This would be one of the biggest OS/2 projects ever, but maybe this could really
be a milestone in the future of OS/2.
Give it a try and join the list, we need every developer we can get!!!
The mailinglist is available at http://www.egroups.com/list/win32-os2/
Win32-OS/2: http://www.os2ss.com/win32-os2/
EverBlue: http://www.netlabs.org/everblue/
WINE: http://www.winehq.com/
OS/2 Netlabs: http://www.netlabs.org
More information about the whole project is available at the mailinglist. For
sure you are welcome to send this message to all OS/2 users you know, we need every
support we can get to do this.
Hope to see you there!
Adrian Gschwend
@ OS/2 Netlabs
http://www.privat.toplink.de/homepages/thunder/snee086.rar
Snee v0.86 - Soup news & eMail editor - small, fast, solid as a rock and
powerful and FREE. VIO/Textmode.
Requires:
OS/2 Warp
HPFS
VSoup - http://privat.swol.de/ReinhardGriech,
Freeware
any VIO Editor - I recommend FTE: http://www.fido.de/~kama/fte.html,
Freeware
Latest News from The mSQL PC Home Page
======================================
http://www.blnet.com/msqlpc
by Fernando Lozano (lozano@blnet.com
Sections of The mSQL PC Home Page have been updated: the downloads section, with
now includes links to the latest ports of mSQL, the new GUI tools for Windows and
OS/2, and the new Perl modules. Unfortunatelly there's still a big backlog of updates
to the Windows Info and the OS/2 Info sections, which I'll clear as time allows.
I found this message on Hobbes, I think we really have to find a good solution
for Hobbes, the OS/2 community really needs this server!
---snip---
Regarding the future of Hobbes: After I graduate, Hobbes will have to go somewhere
else. For now my boss (Dave Rocks) and I have a few ideas, but definitely nothing
concrete. If you could drop us both a line with any suggestions you may have (i.e.
sites you know of who would be happy to take over the maintenance of Hobbes, other
ideas on how to keep Hobbes alive in some form, etc.), it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks! And hopefully Hobbes won't die when I leave. I've put too much work and
time into it to want that to happen. :/
Joshua Shagam (archiver@hobbes.nmsu.edu)
---
Adrian Gschwend
@ OS/2 Netlabs
ICQ: 22419590
ktk@netlabs.org
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The OS/2 OpenSource Project:
http://www.netlabs.org