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April 27

AD1881/AD1881A/AD1885/AD1887 (SoundMax) Integrated Digital Audio Drive

Audio Driver ver.3.1.0 (04/11/2002)

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ad188xos2_310.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ad188xos2_310.zip


April 27

TCP/IP traffic counter/collector

This is a program to collect/analyze TCP/IP traffic in LAN.

Program URL: ftp://vdn.sahen.elektra.ru/pub/

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tvisor-042702.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=tvisor-042702.zip


April 27

Analog, very flexible logfile analyzer (mainly web logs)

Analog is a very versatile analyzer program for web log files. For example, it can handle compressed logfiles and does DNS lookup and supports 28 natural languages.

Program URL: http://www.analog.cx/

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/analog-5.22.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=analog-5.22.zip


April 27

phpMyAdmin 2.2.6

phpMyAdmin 2.2.6 has been released! (21apr2002)

Main changes/improvements for version 2.2.6:

Special note:
The config file is now using a dynamic variable instead of the constants 1, 2, 3... to represent the server number.

Some improvements:

* mark row improvement
* support for non-numeric key and blanks within the key, in the 'relation' feature
* new feature: check referential integrity
* get last modified date and time of the compressed file
* insert new row feature is now sticky
* Select page: dynamic size for the fields list
* Improved CSS
* add titles for images and labels for checkboxes and radiobuttons
* badword list updated and made MySQL 4 compatible
* better compatibility with older config file
* most popular column types are now first in the list
* various language updates
* new languages: latvian, indonesian, lithuanian, serbian, georgian

Some fixes:

* superusers can't change passwords
* can't change hosts in user profile
* sometimes a user can't see the db list
* bookmarks are saved on the wrong server
* js error when setting BLOB to NULL
* MSIE, PHP 4.1.1 and cookies (FAQ)
* DOCTYPE and line feeds
* Netscape and clicking in the textarea
* typo which triggered some undefined variables
* better support for MySQL 3.22.x
* checkall / uncheckall
* wrong interval was displayed at browse mode
* field properties couldn't be changed if the field name contains localized characters
* wrong default Cyrillic encoding for bulgarian
* privileges problem when db name contains a literal underscore

Program URL: http://phpmyadmin.sourceforge.net/

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/index.php?dl=12


April 27

Mr. Know-It-All May 2002 on SCOUG web site

Mr. Know-It-All is a long time feature of the SCOUG (Southern California OS/2 Users Group) web site. http://www.scoug.com/author/Mr._Know-It-All_II.html

For May, Mr. Know-It-All answers the question: "I hear there have been some new browsers released for OS/2. What's the news? "

http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2002/scoug205.mrkia.html


April 26

April 2002 Ink article on SCOUG site

Ink Is a series of articles on the SCOUG site about Printing and Scanning on the OS/2 Platform by Tony Butka http://www.scoug.com/os24u/2002/scoug204.ink.html

This month Tony looks at GSView, as well as Epson and Lexmark printers.


April 26

Warped Users back up as a Yahoo! group

It took quite a while, but Warped Users is finally back up as a 'Yahoo Group' now at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/warpedusers. For a while there, I was getting paranoid, and believed they where never going to port it over to 'groups' :)

J.P. Pasnak, CD


April 25

Thinkpad T30 IBM driver collection

IBM has a collection of drivers for the IBM Thinkpad T30 Series

Note: Except the mouse.sys driver (see my other posting), those aren't new drivers, so if you already have them, you need not download them

Url: http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/4eddaa42e99c19e186256a700058020a/8dc8006e4d79dd5286256ba60059c245?OpenDocument


April 25

Updated Mouse.sys by IBM

IBM has updated the mouse.sys to v.10.058

Mouse driver MOUSE.SYS update
April 15, 2002

Overview
==========

This software package contains updated version of mouse driver MOUSE.SYS. It incorporates some enhancements and bug fixes that were made after the official release of CP2 package.

This is a required update for ThinkPad T30 UltraNav (with TrackPoint & TouchPad) owners to fix problems with TrackPoint that may stop working after suspend/resume or system restart with original CP2 drivers. T30 UltraNav owners should also note that if an external PS/2 mouse is attached to the docking station then both TrackPoint and TouchPad are automatically disabled.

Url: http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/4eddaa42e99c19e186256a700058020a/8dc8006e4d79dd5286256ba60059c245?OpenDocument


April 25

Odin Tool 0.5.1

Odin Tool 0.5.1 (c) copyrighted FREEWARE

Tool to ease manipulation of Odin.INI plus some other Odin administration related tasks.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/odintool051.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=odintool051.zip


April 25

AGSatellite/2 1.44

Multithreaded and Multilanguage Audio Galaxy Satellite agent clone for OS/2. The Audiogalaxy Satellite is a small program you can run on your computer that allows you to share music.

Software Requirements:

- OS/2 Warp 4.0 with Fixpack 14+, or Warp Server for eBusiness(Aurora) with Fixpack 2+, or OS/2 Warp Convenience Pack(Client/Server): OS/2 Fixpack

- MPTS 8610+ in OS/2 Warp 4.0: MPTS Fixes

- HPFS, HPFS386 or JFS partition.

- VROBJ.DLL(Zip File From Hobbes)

Program URL: http://planeta.terra.com.br/informatica/os2/agos2/

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/agos2_144.exe
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=agos2_144.exe


April 25

Drift for OS/2 Game Released as Open Source

Drift, an Asteroids kind of game for OS/2, had been releases as Open Source under the GNU General Public License.

Special thanks to the author, Dirk Vandenheuvel, for making it open source.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/drift.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=drift.zip


April 24

Clipview 1.6

Clipview 1.6 is released

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/clipbrd/clipvw16.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=clipvw16.zip

New features bug fixes etc:

- Added autohide/restore
- Added F2 to save clips
- Added F3 to quit
- Added Help
- Added menu bar
- Added -f switch to Allows save filename other than .ClipSave - Added -h switch to hide after n minutes
- Added -u switch to unhide on copy to clipboard
- After editing if clip is *current* then update clipboard
- Changed format of .ClipView save file
- Changed "next clip to overwrite" to proper LRU
- Fixed menus to stay open whilst traversing
- Most startup options can be toggled once started

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 v1.6 - 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 v1.0 - Used on the command line to pipe output to the clipboard. eg dir /w | pipec

ClipPipe v1.0 - Used on the command line to pipe input from the clipboard. eg clippipe | someprogram


April 23

WarpGoGo 0.99d & WarpGoGo TEST

Available new version WarpGoGo.

"WarpGogo - is a graphic interface to MP3 coder Gogo-no-coda. Due to support for multimedia instructions of modern processors (3DNow!,SSE) this is a fast MP3 coder."

http://www.os2.cz/ed2


April 23

TCP/IP traffic counter/collector

This is a program to collect/analyze TCP/IP traffic in LAN.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tvisor.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=tvisor.zip


April 23

CallNotify v0.12 sends new log entries to clients on network.

CallNotify consists of a server which watches a log file for additions and a client which can run on a remote machine. When the server detects a change in the log file, it sends the newest entry to the client(s). Primarily developed for use with ISDN CallerID for OS/2 by Willibald Meyer, Joerg-Stefan Sell und Volker Weber and Capi Snoop by Rudolf Heep.

Program URL: http://www.dlcc.de

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/callno012.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=callno012.zip


April 23

Ager's Socket Library - Release 4

What is it:
-----------

asl is a free socket (tcp/ip) library for Virtual Pascal v2.0+ (it supports both OS/2 and Win32). It includes classes to:
- use TCP and UDP sockets
- handle the SMTP, POP3, NNTP and CVS protocols (as client)
- write servers (SMTP and POP3 already included)
- encode and decode using uu, xx or base64

Release 4 is mostly a bugfix release.

It is available on Hobbes as asl-r4.zip (currently in /pub/incoming should end up in /pub/os2/dev/pascal) or at my asl homepage:

http://home10.inet.tele.dk/sag/asl.html

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/asl-r4.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=asl-r4.zip


April 22

EWWS - issue April 2002

Enterprise Warp & WorkSpace Services IBM e-business Center Heidelberg

Dear all,
this is your latest EWWS NewsFlash.

This issue covers:
- a) Technical Training for OS/2 MPTS 6.0 enhancements: Update
- b) Warp Community Update Workshop II/2002 in Duesseldorf moved to Week 37!
- c) Virtual PC for OS/2 is GA
- d) New Epson Drivers coming around
- e) IBM Web Browser for OS/2 V1.2 released
- f) IBM OS/2 Warp Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition, Version 1.3.1 released
- g) IBM Special Edition of SciTech Display Doctor 7.09

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a) Technical Training for OS/2 MPTS 6.0 enhancements: Update

We again want to inform you about a technical class on all MPTS enhancements and changes since Warp Server 4. These are for example TCP/IP 4.x (aliasing), TCPBEUI changes, multiple adapters, big enhancements and changes in Name Resolition (DDNS, Shadow,...), Tuning Parameters and such.

The Agenda in Detail:
1> NetBIOS, NetBEUI protocol overview.
2> TCPBEUI overview based on RFC 1001 & RFC 1002.
3> Comparisons between the two protocols.
4> NetBIOS names and name types.
5> Name resolution options in TCPBEUI: B-node, H-node, P-node, DNS resolution with domainscope and their relative advantages and disadvantages.
6> Logical adapters/multiple instances of protocol binding. How it is arbitrated.
7> Windows way of interaction. Implication on TCPBEUI.
8> Tuning parameters at protocol level: RFCNAMES.LST, RFCBCST.LST, RFCCACHE.LST 64k boundary restriction calculations.
9> Troubleshooting:
General PD/PSI tools and usage.
Discussion on typical issues from the field.
11> IBMLAN.INI parameters, intended use of the same and tuning.

The class will be held in week 24 (June 10th - 14th) at IBM facilities in Munich. To enroll,
- go to http://www.ibm.com/services/learning/
- select your country
- click on "Course Booking" (or whatever it says in your language) - Enter the course code: TAMPE0DE (attention: name has changed!)

Course price is 1.880,00 Euro.

We had very positive feedback regarding this class on the last Warp Community Update Workshop in February this year. So far, there are still some seats left. If you want to attend the class, please book as soon as possible.

Thank you.


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b) Warp Community Update Workshop II/2002 in Duesseldorf moved to Week 37!

Due to a fair in week 38 we had to move the next workshop to week 37.

The next Warp Community Update Workshop is scheduled 09-09-2002 to 09-13-2002, starting Monday 1:00 pm and ending Friday 1:00 pm.

Location is IBM Duesseldorf, Room 64, Karl-Arnold-Platz 1a, D-40474 Duesseldorf.

The agenda is currently being set up. Please feel free to send any suggestions for the agenda to emeawarp@de.ibm.com.

As always, the workshop itself will be at no charge, all attendants will bear their travel expenses. To apply for the workshop, send an email to emeawarp@de.ibm.com with your Company Name and your Name. You will then get a reply with confirmation.

Accomodations: A hotel directory of Duesseldorf can be found at http://www.duesseldorf.de/touristik/hotel/index.shtm Unfortunately, the english version of the hotel directory isn't online yet.

We recommend the Renaissance Duesseldorf http://RenaissanceHotels.com/dpp/PropertyPage.asp?MarshaCode=DUSRN.

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c) Virtual PC for OS/2 is GA

Virtual PC for OS/2 is generally available since April 02, 2002. This is also true for the OS/2 Additions for Virtual PC for Windows.

The Virtual PC Software from Connectix and InnoTek provides 2 solutions: 1st, Virtual PC for OS/2 is a very flexible, though convenient way to integrate 32Bit Microsoft Windows Applications into your OS/2 environment. OS/2 now can run any PC operating system (Guest OS) within OS/2 as a "host" OS. This enables all OS/2 users to run Win32 applications as well as linux applications on their OS/2 desktop, even in an isolated environment (like mobile workers running OS/2 on their ThinkPad).

2nd, Virtual PC for Windows with OS/2 Additions enables Windows clients to run OS/2 as a guest OS, thus enabling any Windows client to run OS/2 applications as well.

For details, see http://www.innotek.de/products/virtualpc

Enterprise support for both solutions is available through IBM Enterprise Warp & Workspace Services emeawarp@de.ibm.com.

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d) New Epson Drivers coming around

We have been asked by Epson what some of the Customer requirements are to justify them supporting the Epson Photo 820 under OS/2, like:
- What kind of customer is requesting the high resolution printing?
- How many Epson Photo 820 units are involved here (current and future)?
- Why do they need 2880 DPI printing?
- Which applications are they using?

Anything you can provide as requirements will help our case.

Thanks for your help.

FYI: We are already requesting EPOMNI5 and as soon as we get it, we will publish it on DDPak Online http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/index.htm.

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e) IBM Web Browser for OS/2 V1.2 released

IBM Web Browser for OS/2 V1.2 (Web Browser) includes the following components: browser, mail/news, SpellChecker, and Macromedia Flash. Web Browser supports the IBM OS/2 Warp Developer Kit, Java 2 Technology Edition, Version 1.3 and the Macromedia Flash plug-in.

This is a SoftwareChoice feature.
URL: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/warp/swchoice/

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g) IBM Special Edition of SciTech Display Doctor 7.09

IBM has released version 7.0.9 of SDD/se on Device Driver Pak Online for Software Choice subscribers. The IBM Special Edition of SciTech Display Doctor contains a subset of the features contained in the full product: resolutions of 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1600x1200; support for all color depths; refresh rates from 60Hz to 85Hz; DDC Plug and Play monitor detection; full hardware 2D acceleration; and hardware cursor. This release is at the level of Scitech Display Doctor GA Release.

This is a SoftwareChoice feature.
URL: http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/swc/sddse709.exe

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That's it for now. Stay tuned for the next NewsFlash.
Warm regards.
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To subscribe: send mailto emeawarp@de.ibm.com - add SUBSCRIBE to Subject.
Enterprise Warp & Workspace Services - emeawarp@de.ibm.com
http://www.ibm.com/services/de/ewws


April 22

eComStation presentation in KSU, Russia

There was a presentation of eComStation operating system on 20th of April in Kazan State University. There were much to show - system itself, included software, software from third-party vendors. Shortly - main theme was the importance of such presentaions among with other actions, which should help users to know more about system, to try it. More detailed story and other photos will be later.

http://ecomstation.ru/commentnews.php?id=616


April 22

DFSee version 4.21 released

New RECOVER and WRIM/SIM/WIPE options and some real nasty bugs fixed!

DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. It has FDISK-like displays, cloning, analysis and recovery tools with powerfull FIX commands and UNDELETE for HPFS and NTFS.

Details can be found at: http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm

Most importants changes, compared to version 4.18:

- Updated evaluation period for non-registred usage
- WRIM: fixed bug with compressed data, added -test option; speedup 2x!
- EDIT: allow batch mode when all values given, fixed -h: data garbling
- CREATE: fixed dummy-CHS, -x: option and bug with multiple freespace areas
- DFSUNFD fixed "* all" parameters, actually a parser bug and possible trap
- RECOVER "-E:" ignore/quit/confirm errors and "-O:" quiet/verbose output
- FIND Set default find option to repeated search if no value specified
- Added a confirmation dialog for external (unknown/untrusted) commands
- Find dfsee.reg key in exe-dir even when it is not in the PATH
- Added JFS and NTFS Volumename to partition table displays

Check DFS*.TXT files for details

Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 4.xx versions and get support plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email.

But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee!


April 22

Intel P6 / AMD K7 MTRRs management IOCtl PDD, ver.0.07b (rev.2)

Program URL: http://www.sys3175.com/~jjsuwa/

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/p6k7mtrr_v007b2.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=p6k7mtrr_v007b2.zip


April 22

REXX Function package for REXX based CGI scripts

Provides additional REXX functions for CGI scripts. Handles form processing (GET and POST methods) with data validation, supports file uploads, sending e-mail and attachments via SMTP, checking and retrieving POP3 mail, getting documents via HTTP, building PDF documents and a range of useful date, file and string functions.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/rxweb012.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=rxweb012.zip


April 21

USB Resource Manager 0.9

Text: Netlabs has released the USB Resource Manager 0.9

The purpose of this driver is to show all connected USB devices with exception of USB-hubs connected to the system. It allows to view the USB Device Report and can thereby help a developer to see how a device registers at the system and try to find reasons why a certain device which should run with installed drivers doesn't or in the development of new drivers.

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/usb/usbres.zip


April 21

mod_Gzip 1.3.19.1a (Apache 1.3.x)

This is the patched source for mod_gzip 1.3.19.1a for Apache 1.3.X with a binaries precompiled for platform OS/2.

The binaries were compiled by Andrea Brancatelli on a K6-2/400 platform running Aurora Warp Server for e-Business using EMX gcc version 0.9d.

To use this binary you will need to have the EMX runtime installed. This can be downloaded from ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx/v0.9d/emxrt.zip

For some tips and other info on running mod_gzip under Apache see

http://www.remotecommunications.com/

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/mod_gzip_1_3_19_1a.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=mod_gzip_1_3_19_1a.zip


April 21

National Semiconductor DP83815 MAC driver

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tigris05.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=tigris05.zip


April 21

National Semiconductor DP83820 MAC driver

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dp82x03.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dp82x03.zip


April 21

dfsee 4.21

FDISK partitioning filesystem display/analysis/fixing Shows partition-tables and bootsectors, HPFS/NTFS/FAT disk structures. Fast CLONING of disks or partitions. Check and display allocation integrity of filesystems Finds data on disk, identify the file it belongs to. CHKDSK -like and UNDELETE functions for HPFS and NTFS TRUNCATION for HPFS/NTFS/FAT; Clear freespace to zero Scripting for automated analysis and recovery tasks.

Program URL: http://www.dfsee.com

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee421.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee421.zip


April 21

IBM Released SDDSE709.EXE

IBM has released SDDSE709.EXE at

http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/bf7e05615440e8f086256b6c005eac99/7978bef08284174e87256a23006fc1a3?OpenDocument

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