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There is a new EMX fix on hobbes:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx/v0.9d/emxfix02.zip
The drivers 1.03.25 are gone frome the S3 site. I'm uploading now to hobbes.nmsu.edu.
The name is 2os10325.zip
Well I'm pleased to announce the release of PGPro Scripts v1.5 just one day after
v1.4 was released. You can download these scripts for Photo>Graphics Pro for
OS/2 at:
http://www.tstonramp.com/~freiheit/PGPro_Scripts_15.zip
New in v1.5
Unless bugs are found which need to be corrected or I find a bizarre urge to
do additional performance tuning and filesize reduction, this will be the last v1.x
release of PGPro Scripts. v2.0, if ever developed, will include new scripts to perform
additional tasks (as yet undetermined).
World Clock 0.96 Released
World Clock is a configurable clock with Daylight Savings Time, Stopwatch, Alarm
and Program launcher for 1 and 9 cities from 360+ cities in the provided City list.
Features:
To download World Clock 0.96, visit:
http://members.tripod.com/~Goran_Ivankovic/
World Clock is Freeware.
Under http://www.warpsite.de/index2.htm
you find the translated (thanks to "babelfish") documentation to use CDF
(ChannelDefinitionFormat) channels in StarOffice.
CDF-channels are a feature of the IE4, but you can use it also under StarOffice
5.x - so also under OS/2 Warp.
I will have a look for more English channels to put the links on that site, but
there is also a link to a Spanish channel...
Need a web or network computing solution which can handle proprietary document
formats, like Microsoft Office or Adobe Acrobat? Looking to publish content on the
web which isn't yet HTML standard?
There are at least two new solutions which may help.
Adobe has introduced a beta version of Acrobat Viewer for Java. Running as an
application, applet, or JavaBean, this viewer provides access to Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
documents from any Java-enabled platform. For more information, or to download the
beta version, visit:
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrviewer/main.html
Inso now publishes Outside In for Java. This Java-based software provide viewers
for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel so that any Java-enabled platform can access
Microsoft Office documents. For more information please visit:
I have started development of a simple program to configure the built-in firewall
in TCP/IP 4.1 and above for OS/2.
It has been known for some time that IBM included some firewall functionality
in their newer TCP/IP stacks, but they have never documented it. Thus, setting it
up and configuring it has been quite difficult.
This program makes the whole process a lot easier, by providing a graphical user
interface for managing the firewall rules, and the firewall itself.
Download link:
http://www.mo.himolde.no/~ltning/thewall095.rar
Please consider this program a beta, and report back to me. Comments, suggestions,
bug reports and success reports are all welcome. :)
Contact: Rollin White (Rollin@scoug.com)
Warp Expo West selects show site
Site selection has been completed for this September's "Warp Expo West -
A Warpfest Of OS/2 Excitement".
"We wanted the perfect site," said Steve Schiffman, one of the show
planners for the September show, "and I'm pleased to announce that the beautiful
Chapman Conference Facilities in Orange, California will be the site of this year's
Warp Expo West."
"We chose Chapman over a number of other bidders for several reasons,"
explained Schiffman. "First of all, Chapman offers prime facilities for the
OS/2 lectures, seminars, software demonstrations and vendor exhibits that guests
will enjoy during the show. And it's centrally located, within two miles of four
different freeways with easy access to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX),
Ontario International Airport (ONT) and a number of other airports."
"Further," continued Schiffman, "Chapman is only four miles from
Disneyland which means that guests will have a wide variety of options for lodging
and family activities. In fact, we expect that many Warp Expo West showgoers will
spend an extra day with their families enjoying Southern California's attractions,
beaches, culture and people."
A formal announcement of the exact date and other details for Warp Expo West
is expected this Saturday at the monthly meeting of the Southern California OS/2
User Group (SCOUG). (SCOUG is sponsoring Warp Expo West.)
"Since last week when we released the first information on Warp Expo West,
the response has been overwhelming" said Carla Hanzlik, a member of the Warp
Expo West planning committee and Editor of the monthly publication OS/2 For You.
"We've been contacted repeatedly by OS/2 users from everywhere wanting to know
how to exhibit, how to speak, and how to register for the event. We'll have complete
information for everyone this Saturday, now that our show site is confirmed."
Hanzlik further said that she was feverishly working on the design of Warp Expo
West web pages "which we'll put on line this Saturday."
Rollin White, head of the Warp Expo West planning committee and a veteran OS/2
showman, had this additional statement: "We started Warp Expo West with just
an idea, and already we have the site, the plan, and the team to smoothly carry
it out. OS/2 is the most robust and powerful desktop operating system in the world
today; no competitor's marketing machine or business practices can change that fact;
and we look forward to welcoming OS/2 users from all over the world to our Warpfest
Of OS/2 Excitement - Warp Expo West."
Sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User Group.
A monster listing of Microsoft's Y2K problems has been posted at OS/2 Headquarters
(http://www.os2hq.com/). This listing provides
numerous Web articles to support the conclusion that OS/2 Warp is the best recommendation
to escape Microsoft's looming Y2K fiasco.
Henk Kelder has released (6/14/99) version 0.89 of his file system drivers for
FAT32. This version fixes it to work with Aurora.
http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/
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Just updated my homepage with the latest version of FAT32.IFS.
One of the updates is that (some) users report me that this version is working
with AURORA. The previous didn't.
Please see:
http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/
How's this for cool. Adobe have written a version of their pdf viewer in Java.
So all of you downhearted souls who saw PDF viewer 4.0 for windows released and
thought "Jeez I'd love an OS/2 version" cheer up! AND the Java version
is half the size of the Win32 version 2.5 Meg vs 4.8 Meg.
Check it out at:
Follow your nose to the downloads and you will get the option to download an
installer for OS/2.
I'd like to announce the release of ServerConfig/2 version 1.2.
ServerConfig/2 is a PM configuration util for Apache webserver, the InetPowerServer/2
and the IBM TCP/IP Firewall!
It also allows you to remote configure any OS/2 and unix/linux Apache. It includes
a daemon that can be compiled under any gcc and thus allows ServerConfig/2 to receive
and save configurations remotely, all from OS/2 :)
homepage:
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~dm898/sc/
btw, in case you are wondering where i found the firewall, its included in tcpip
4.1/4.2/4.21.
According to InforWorld online, IBM will soon be anouncing Java 1.1.8 for OS/2
(and NT) that promises to match or beat the performance of Sun's JVM ver 2.0 running
Hotspot 1.0.
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?990615.hnjava.htm
On the late evening of friday 11th of June, we at Pepper Head discovered a DoS
attack that could crash any OS/2 machine running TCP/IP 4.1 or higher, that is,
MPTS 5.x or 6.x. This includes also OS/2 Warp Server for e-business. The exploit
was first discovered on Linux 2.2.x kernels on the 1st of June, and when we tried
it on one of our servers, it died instantly with a trap 000e.
We found this error to be serious enough to want to try alerting IBM as soon
as possible. Spending the next 24 hours on the phone to various IBM offices around
the globe, we were finally able to get in touch with someone that really understood
the severity of the problem. So they started working on the problem on saturday,
and today we got the fix - directly from the developers.
This fix has not yet been posted to IBM's official sites, but until it is, it
can be found on this address:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/icmpfix.zip
The Univercity of Bochum, Germany, and TeamOS/2 Deutschland eV will organize
the event "Warpstock Europe 99". The event starts Friday, October 1st
and ends Monday, October 4th.
All information can be found at http://www.warpstock.de
(English web pages available).
We invite all computer users to come and have some fun days. This is a chance
for OS/2 software/hardware developers to show off their products and to demonstrate
their know-how.
ZDnet has quite a few article about OS/2 in regards to the DOJ trial against
microsoft. Here are some shortcuts:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,1015021,00.html
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2272945,00.html
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2272624,00.html
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,1014993,00.html
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2271364,00.html
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2271030,00.html
and for the current updates of the trial they have this page
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/special/msdojtrial.html
The new, unofficial PMMail list is alive and kicking with over 200 subscribers
joining in the first 10 days. For the third time in 10 days, however, the list address
has changed. In order to join the list, please send a message to <pmmail-request@rpglink.com>
with "subscribe" in the body or send email to <listar@rpglink.com>
with "subscribe pmmail" in the body.
InetPowerServer v0.85b1 is now available from ftp://ftp.iq.to - The filename
is IPS085B1.ZIP
This version of IPS is a major upgrade as it is the first one supporting SMTP
send and therefore now can work as a fully functional mail server.
IPS is a multiprotocol server application allowing you to create your own ftp
and mail server using your OS/2 or Windows NT machine.
Please note that the version running on ftp.iq.to has been running without problems
or reboots since v0.81b2 was released.
The free RoboticsMessenger/2, needed to control the USRobotics Message Modems
(all models), is updated to ver. 0.80
NEW:
Message Pro initialization bug corrected
Better Documentation
Report for transfer progress (in %,kb and sec.)
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/romes080.zip
soon also on Leo and on http://www.buntspecht.de/romes/
I have just released a new freeware game - BOTS. You can find out about BOTS
at my home page at:
http://www.bacchus.com.au/~ben/welcome.html
(which also has info about my other project ERIC).
There are new S3 Virge drivers for OS/2 at http://www.s3.com/swlib/325drv/
Version 1.03.25 dated Jun 8, 1999
It seems S3 decided to package all drivers in one single package. Contains the
english and japanese drivres, and... see yourself:
ViRGE,ViRGE/VX,ViRGE/DX,ViRGE/GX,ViRGE/GX2
Driver Version 1.03.25
Release date: 1 Jun
1999 2:05pm
This single diskette package contains an OS/2 graphics accelerator device driver
which supports the ViRGE and ViRGE/VX/DX/GX/GX2 chip sets from S3 Incorporated.
Symantec has updated IBM AV again to protect against the WormExplore.zip Virus:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ibm/index.html
New Release is AV30DR.ZIP
Seems that V1.25 and V1.26 are affected with the command line parser problem,
where it would not correctly take in the ThermoAlarm values... if you *NEED* ThermoAlarm,
then please revert to V1.20.
you can get it at:
http://www.pcenduser.com/ThermoProtect/tp-120.zip
I'll be cutting out the entire command line processing code and replace it with
a menu driven configuration utility, and a text mode configuration file that you
can easily edit youself. But that will have to wait until my trip to Taiwan is over,
and that will be a few weeks...
Thanks for your patience and support, I'll get back to work on ThermoProtect
as soon as I get back...
Hello,
I'm continuing to plan new free- and shareware software projects for OS/2 Warp.
To meet your needs and to see what OS/2 users are interested in, I have startet
a line of polls on my web site.
The first poll question is: "What Warphouse freeware do you use?" -
I ask this because I want to know which of my freeware applications (for example:
PM-Euro, Directory Differ, ...) you are using. This information would be very helpful
for me to plan new freeware projects in the future.
Please help me to do that.
I think, we will see 4 or 5 different polls regarding OS/2 freeware and shareware.
Each poll will live 14 days, then a new one will start. Please vote in these polls
and help to make OS/2 better and better and better.
You'll find the polls on the homepage of my web site http://www.warphouse.de
- in the lower left corner (left frame).
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
Carsten Mueller
I'm uploading my SETI@HOME PM front-end to :
hobbes.nmsu.edu\pub\incoming\SETI@OS2.ZIP
Enjoy, it's free ! :) [News Editor's Note: The SETI project is a collaborative
effort to scan radio telescope data for signs of intelligent life in the universe.
You can probably ignore any signals coming out of Redmond, WA or Armonk, NY. :)
]
A recent WarpCast news item mentioned new software available on IBM's Software
Choice site, including a Y2K-compliant NetWare Requester. After some examination,
it appears that the requester now available form Software Choice is indeed the 2.12
requester with PT2 (the second patch kit) included.
If you are already using the 2.12 requester, you may download OS2PT2.EXE from
the following URL:
http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/patlstfind.cgi?2946186
In addition, there is an error in the README for this release which states that
a prerequisite for installation is OS/2 Warp Server 3.0; only OS/2 Warp 3.0 or above
is required.
I hope this saves some people some time and trouble!
RU/2 site (http://www.os2.spb.ru) starts a new survey of some delicate matter:
how old are OS/2 users. You can take part in this survey at http://www.os2.spb.ru/gbook/ru2survey.html
and view the results at http://www.os2.spb.ru/gbook/ru2v_res.phtml?lang=E.
I see there has been a ton of new packages placed on the DDPak-Online. Some items:
New Adaptec drivers
A link to SciTech
Video Capture from Hauppage
New IDEDASD.EXE
USB updates
Removable Disk Updates
URL: http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/index.htm
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There is a new idedasd.exe update available on IBM's OS/2 Device Driver Page
(filedate 07.06.1999):
ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/idedasd.exe
The following is from readme.txt:
"FixPak 35 (FP35) for Warp 3 and FixPak 6 (FP6) for Warp 4 extended support
for fixed Enhanced IDE drives to sizes up to 8.4GB and added new caching HPFS and
FAT file system support for removable media drives such as SCSI Syquest Syjet 1.5GB
portable hard drive and the Iomega jaz 1GB and 2GB personal hard drives.
This package contains updates to the support in FP35 and FP6, extending support
to fixed Enhanced IDE drives greater than 8.4GB, fixing some problems, and adding
additional documentation on removable media support. If you install or have installed
fixpaks newer than FP42 or FP12 then this package is not required.
This package also contains extensions to OS2CDROM.DMD, providing support for
multi-session CDROM media."