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Are you still running OS/2? The Tribune would like hear from you!
http://cgi.chicago.tribune.com:80/tech/frontpage/0,1714,5,00.html
I have released a new version of the PopUp WPS extention.
PopUp makes possible cut and paste actions for all entry fields controls via
mouse (like Windows). Simply run PopUp.exe and enjoy... click mouse button 2 on
any entryfield.
New in this release:
- command line options for hide or minimize PopUp window
- option to call PopUp menu by mouse button 3 click.
You can download this programm from my home page at:
Symantec has on 30.April 1999 updated IBM Antivirus to Version AV30DL more information
and download at:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ibm/index.html
If you are looking for a Quicken like Pure JAVA application, look no further
than MoneyDance version 2.0.
It has just been released as Gold Release, and can be found at:
Yes it works well under OS/2 (although the author is slightly biased twards LINUX)
:)
Time is dear these days as there is so much going on at once but it seems we
have finally gotten everything together and our move should be complete. You can
now find PillarSoft at:
We will be changing our email addresses also but until they are set up and tested
we can still be reached at psoft@tech-center.com
I need people who have the following motherboard to test ThermoProtect V1.21
for me...
Abit BX6 Rev 2
Gigabyte 6BXE, BX2000.
MicroStar MS-6163
or other motherboard with Winbond W83782D monitoring chip installed. And you
need to make sure that your motherboard does have the chip installed, as you can
find out in the BIOS page. Where if they didn't have any temperature/fan/voltage
sensing information, that would mean that you don't have the chip installed. (Turn
off Spread Spectrum, as it can sometimes disable the chip somehow).
To test the experimental "internal CPU thermal diode" code, and to
see if it is feasible to auto-detect the presence of the CPU thermal diode connection...
IBM Germany asks their customers, which new drivers are needed for OS/2 now and
within the next 18 months. Deadline is May 6th 1999! Team OS/2 Deutschland e.V.
collects the driver-suggestions and passes it to IBM Germany.
Please send your suggestions to:
TeamOS/2 Deutschland e.V.
eMail: treiber@teamdv.de
fax: +49-441-9849254
The information should be as detailed as possible e.g. PC models (e.g. Siemens Nixdorf
510-AGP) as well as individual devices, for example:
- - processor
- - Video/chipsets
- - communication / network adapter
- - printer
- - USB devices
- - modem - - Smartcard
- - DVD
Every Monday and Thursday, I'll be reporting on OS/2-related items for sale on
http://www.ebay.com and the comp.os.os2.marketplace newsgroup. Even if you're not
thinking about buying anything OS/2 related, you might find something that catches
your interested.
As always, there are plenty of copies of OS/2 2.x, Warp 3, and Warp 4 available
for sale. These items make great gifts for your Windows-using friends!
We also have a couple books, such as "OS/2 Warp Uncensored" and "The
Warp Book" for sale. Among the more interesting items are "Dr Solomon's
Anti-Virus Toolkit" (there's an excellent review in OS/2 e-Zine on it) and
OS/2 Warp Server 4. Someone's also selling the Microsoft Macro Assembler 6.0.
If you can read German, there are also 17 issues of the great print magazine,
"OS/2 Inside". And that copy of DeScribe mentioned last time is apparently
very popular - with 23 bids it's now at $61.
On comp.os.os2.marketplace, there are some very unique items for sale: Global
Link Power Translator, Sams Protect, Microlearn Game Pack, and Visual Age Java 1.0.
On comp.os.os2.programmer.misc, someone is also selling VAJava 1.0 and Borland C/C++
1.0.
Those of you looking to sell your OS/2 related stuff, I strongly recommend you
put it on eBay and post an announcement on comp.os.os2.marketplace.
If you include the word "OS/2" in the title of your description, I'll
see it and include it in the next report.
TiMidity++ 2.0.1 (a software MIDI synth) was ported to OS/2. For more info and
download please visit:
http://www.freebyte.ml.org/~boga/OS2Programs.html
Due to a change in ISP, the web page for my Warpstock 98 presentation "Setting
Up a SOHO Network" has been moved. You may now find it at:
http://www.ameissnet.com/OS2Networking/SOHO.html
SPECIAL PRE-ANNOUNCEMENT FOR OS/2 FANS!
Now that I have you attention... :)
On Saturday, May 1st I'm planning to start doing an advertising blitz to announce
my latest Java-based product, "The Java-PalmPilot Project". However, as
a long-time OS/2 user, supporter and advocate I thought I would make sure that my
friends in the OS/2 community got ahold of this news (and the ability to download
a pre-release version) before everyone else does this weekend :).
The Java-PalmPilot Project, under development for the last 8 months, is a set
of developers tools and GUI based end-user applications for synchronizing your Palm
Computing Platform device (Palm 1000 - 5000, PalmPilot Personal and Pro, and Palm
III) with your personal computer. It runs on any personal computer capable of running
Java 1.1 and either the Sun Java Communications API or the JSerial Handler API (which,
of course, includes OS/2).
The entire project has been developed 100% under OS/2 WARP v4, using IBM's VisualAge
for Java 2.0 Professional for OS/2, and has been verified as 100% Pure Java Certifiable
by Sun's JavaPureCheck program.
The program features full Palm Computing Platform synchronization with third-party
Personal Information Managers via third party jConduit plug-ins, installation of
PRC and PDB files, full compressed Palm Computing Platform device backup and restore,
and date and time synchronization. It also features third-party jConduit plug-in
support, third-party national language plug-in support (support currently available
for English and Esperanto), and a fully open, documented API for developers to use
individual components (such as the jHotSync Protocol Stack) in their own projects.
A free pre-release version is currently avalable for SOHO and personal use from
the project homepage at:
http://yaztromo.idirect.com/java-pilot.html
The project homepage is currently under reconstruction in anticipation of the
product's official launch on May 1st, however it does have the download link and
basic setup instructions available, along with an E-Mail address to contact for
help and support.
Additionally, we're looking for Java Developers interested in writing jConduits
for synchronizing with popular personal information packages, and developers interested
in porting the language plug-in module to other national languages. A developers
page has been setup at:
http://yaztromo.idirect.com/java-pilot-dev.html
Interested developers are encouraged to visit and peruse this site, and to contact
us at yaztromo@idirect.com for additional
information and support.
Any and all questions, comments and inquiries are welcome!
Brad BARCLAY,
Lead Developer,
The Java-PalmPilot Project.
I am moving back after 12 years from India to Germany in 3 weeks with my 6-members
family. Due to the work involved in doing that move, I won't be able to do the regular
updates to the Notebook/2 Site at:
http://www.os2ss.com/users/DrMartinus/notebook.htm
or to respond to the questions I get as quickly as you might expect. I apologize
for any inconveniences caused. Sent information will get posted, but it may be with
a considerable delay. In the meantime, to those seeking help I would recommend to
have a thorough look at the webpage. Some info may be not as easy to find as you
expect, but most of the questions I receive could have been answered by a more thorough
look at the web page.
Thanks for your support and Cheers!
Dr. Martinus
This week's edition of Focus on OS/2 is now online.
Topic: This week I am continuing the Primer on Installation and Setup of OS/2
for New Users.
Many long-time OS/2 users have written to tell me they are learning too, in spite
of the "New User" tag. This is probably because one of my goals has been
to gather bits and pieces of information that are scattered all over the Net into
one place in a logical format. So don't let the term "New" frighten you
off. Even if your not "New" you still might learn something. :-)
The feature can be accessed at:
http://os2.miningco.com/library/weekly/mcurrent.htm.
Besides the feature, a huge number of links (47) dealing with using the Internet,
connecting to the Internet from OS/2, and Internet servers. These new links can
be accessed at:
http://os2.miningco.com/library/blnews.htm
Focus on OS/2 now contains 50 categories and 907 links.
Aquila Systems has ported a javax.comm API. With this API your java program can
access communications ports. The page where you can find more info and the API:
http://www.aquilasys.com/javacomm.html
There's a new issue of Just WARP! the e-zine of Team OS/2 Italia. Just WARP!
is the first Italian language e-zine about OS/2.
In Just WARP! 1/99 you will find:
You can find all these here:
http://www.mclink.it/mclink/teamos2it/ita
http://volftp.tin.it/TEAMOS2 or http://www.volftp.it/TEAMOS2
You can find other mirrors here:
http://volftp.tin.it/TEAMOS2/teamlink.html
Squid offers high performance proxy caching for Web clients, It supports FTP,
Gopher, and HTTP requests. The cache software, available only in source, is more
than an order of magnitude faster than the CERN httpd and other popular Internet
caches, because it never needs to fork (except for FTP), is implemented with non-blocking
I/O, keeps meta data and hot objects in VM, caches DNS lookups. Squid caches can
be arranged hierarchically for an improvement in response times and a reduction
in bandwith usage. Squid runs on all popular Unix platforms.
I'm glad to present you new version of Squid - 2.2 STABLE 2 it is Beta 1, but
I consider it to be more stable than any others. New Squid features many core bug-corrections
and also has improved speed. Beta 1 has all OS/2 features and bug corrections and
support all Squid 2.1 external modules like authenticator or Redirector. It can
be found on http://www.os2.spb.ru/technology/squid.
After little testing I will also release version with DELAY_POOLS and SNMP. Currenly
Squid has HTTP_VIOLATIONS, HTCP, CACHE_DIGEST and others.
As many of you may well know, Edwin Black, the former editor of "OS/2 Professional"
has written his first novel, "Format C:"
It's techno-thriller that has many similarities to the IBM vs. Microsoft OS wars
of a few years ago.
There will be many book signings, speaking engagements, and other events throughout
the United States.
To check for the event in your area, visit the official web site:
Main Page: http://www.featuregroup.com/formatc
Events Page: http://www.featuregroup.com/formatc/html/events.htm
Today, in the Announcement Letter No. ZP99-0174, IBM says OS/2 Warp Server for
e-business will be available in May 1999. The complete product description including
the part number is also published.
You can read this announce at:
Inet.Mail has been updated to properly display the configuration notebook on
Warp Server/Warp 3 systems.
You may download the updated executables at:
ftp://ftp.hethmon.com/hethmon/pub/testcase/inetmail-1.3.4.zip
ftp://ftp.hethmon.com/hethmon/pub/testcase/inetmail-1.3.4.pro.zip
The zip files contain both 16bit and 32bit tcp/ip stack versions in 16bit and
32bit directories respectively.
You must be running 1.3.0 (or later) to apply this service.
If I'm reading this correctly there will be a Notes R5 client, not just a Domino
Server. (Yeah!)
Souce: http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/newsviews
- Then click on "More Notes & Domino R5 versions available" (Top Story)
The quote of interest is "(Macintosh and OS/2 users: your versions of the
Notes client are coming soon.)"
[Moderator's Note: The Lotus page referenced in this announcement was later changed
to read, "A Macintosh Notes client and an OS/2 Domino server are coming soon."]
Program Commander/2 by Roman Stangl has been updated to version 2.09i. This is
another shell enhancer program that ranks up there with XFolder. Personally I use
them both on my system. It can be downloaded from Roman's home page:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/7885/
SecureEntry/2 is an IBM GS corporate branch security and personalization solution
for OS/2 workstations. We have just published a new web about it with information,
online references, evaluation code,... at:
http://www.es.ibm.com/globalserv/ps/secure/index.html
Every Monday and Thursday, I'll be reporting on OS/2-related items for sale on
www.ebay.com website and the comp.os.os2.marketplace newsgroup. Even if you're not
thinking about buying anything OS/2 related, you might find something that catches
your interested.
On eBay this week, we have the usual mix of standard and unusual OS/2 products.
If you're interested in buying a copy of OS/2, either 2.x, Warp 3, or Warp 4, there
are plenty available for sale. Warp 4 is currently going for under $50 (it usually
costs twice that), older version can be had for only a few dollars. To find these
OS/2 items, go to www.ebay.com and search on "OS/2".
Some of the more interesting things for sale:
Colorworks 2.0 including that incredible manual;
All 10 issue of the classic "OS/2 Monthly" print magazine;
17 issues of the German "OS/2 Inside";
SOMobjects Workgroup Enabler;
Various Lotus products including Ami Pro, Notes, 1-2-3, and Freelance Graphics;
DeScribe for OS/2!!!!!;
Four OS/2 t-shirts;
And the best deal of all: OS/2 Warp Server For $212 (10 copies available).
On comp.os.os2.marketplace (you can use http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml
to search this newsgroup and find the messages), we have:
Corel Draw for OS/2 $50;
10 copies of Warp 3 Connect for $31 each.
Those of you looking to sell your OS/2 related stuff, I strongly recommend you
put it on eBay and post an announcement on comp.os.os2.marketplace. If you include
the word "OS/2" in the title of your description, I'll see and include
it in the next report.
Hopefully, with enough OS/2 products being bought and sold on eBay, we might
even get our own category.
Although they don't mention OS/2 specifically, and instead say it allows the
customer to install any version of Linux that they like, IBM has said that they
plan on selling laptops without any operating system installed:
http://www.crn.com/sections/news/news.asp?ArticleID=4086
"'We plan to ship a base machine without any operating system on it so you
could load any form of Linux you want,' [Phil Hester, chief technology officer for
IBM's Personal Systems Group] said."
Laptops that are Linux compatible are very likely to be OS/2 compatible as well.
BMT Micro is proud to announce the release of our 2nd OS/2 Supersite CD, the
world's largest and most up to date collection of OS/2 software on CD-Rom media.
Scheduled to begin shipping on May 1st, this CD is the largest and most recent
collection of OS/2 freeware, shareware, commercial demos available. This is not
your regular shareware collection - The new OS/2 Supersite CD is a 4 CD set containing
over 2 gigabytes of programs (more than 5000 files) and was recently mastered on
March 22nd. As always, each disc can be navigated with a web browser allowing you
to easily navigate through the various categories. We're satisfied that there is
no better value OS/2 CD software collection available anywhere at any price.
For pricing and other commercial information please visit:
PPWIZARD has gone through a "few" more revisions since my last update
apart from some bug fixes and better validation in some cases, the main changes
are:
For more information on the changes, have a look at:
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~dbareis/ppwizard/changehistory.htm
NOTE - HOLIDAYS
I will be on holidays around June/July so if you have any questions lined up now
is the time to ask them!!!!
WHAT IS PPWIZARD?
For those that don't as yet know PPWIZARD is a generic preprocessor, although most
people use it only for HTML. It is also great for rexx code, you can now create
header files contain code which you can if you wish conditionally generate (maybe
you require different error handling for a particular common routine). It is generic
in that it can be used to process any "text" files in any languages, if
PPWIZARD's default processing gets in the way then there are many #Option's to change
it.
For more information (and to see online examples) on PPWIZARD have a look at:
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~dbareis/ppwizard.htm
PmAs Version 1.02
Astronomy for the Presentation Manager
Cornelis Bockemuehl, 24.4.99
PmAs is a set of astronomy programs for the presentation manager which may be
freely used by anybody for private or scientific purposes.
The new version mainly updates the handling and data basis for Comets and Minor
Planets (the first thanks to Andreas Kammerer from the Comets section of the "VdS",
a german hobby astronomer society).
More information and download at:
Audio-CD-Creator V0.31b is avaiable. Get it from:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/
Audio-CD-Creator is a frontend for CDRecord/2. Since it is a new folderclass
it is WPS-aware.
New with this release:
Audio-CD-Creator is released under the GPL.