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The OS/2 Switchboard has moved to a new location. From now on you can find this
website at URL:
http://shop.mensys.nl/switchboard
The OS/2 Switchboard, a large collection of more than 700 links to OS/2 related
sites, found its new home on the server of Mensys, Holland's leading OS/2 software
vendor. Many thanks to those friendly people from Mensys for their offer to make
use of there server!
Please update your bookmarks and keep visiting the Switchboard on its new location!
Going to be at Warp Expo West in Orange and/or Warpstock '99 in Atlanta?
Be sure to have your "questions" ready when Sundial Systems hosts Warped
Jeopardy! -- an exciting live game show of "answers" with an OS/2 theme.
Featuring both "celebrity" players and audience participation, this
"warped" version of the ever popular TV show will be an event not to be
missed.
Watch for updates to the Warp Expo West (www.scoug.com/warpexpowest)
and Warpstock '99 (www.warpstock.org) event
schedules for details on exact locations and times.
Seating my be limited so be sure to pick up your admission tickets early at the
Sundial Systems exhibit at either show!
The services division of a large, blue, well known multi-national company is
looking for OS/2 client server engineers to work (long term) on projects for an
expanding Seattle area banking industry customer.
You need a background in OS/2, networking, and some programming (REXX could be
sufficient).
Interested? Give a call to Kym Nyyssela or Tony Ottaviano at CNC Global in Bellevue
@ 425-990-5588.
PR Newswire has an article on Serenity Systems.
See http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-01-1999/0001013881&EDATE=
The webserver has finally moved to a new ISP on Wednesday. One of the biggest
and fastest ISP of Germany is sponsoring this. Hopefully all problems related to
speed and reachability are solved now.
Also there is new server hardware running OS/2, Apache 1.3.9 and PHP3.0.12. This
server is dedicated to host only OS2.org!
http://en.OS2.org/variety/server/
Besides of a restructuring of the pages you will find some new features:
- Forums are no longer divided by language - but still provide a language flag
http://en.OS2.org/forum/ The overview sections
are reorganized and therefor easier and faster to read.
- Calendar! This calendar for OS/2 related dates is NEW. We hope you will enjoy
this one and you are encouraged to submit new dates to it. Make it a perfect place
to watch out for upcoming OS/2 events for you and other OS/2 users around the world.
Hopefully the recent changes will give you a more useable OS2.org infoserver.
If you want get always recent news do not hesitate to send us NEWS to news@OS2.org
Further you could (and should) support other OS/2 users with more submits to
the "Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)" and put your favorite software
package to "SoftWhere!?":
http://en.OS2.org/projects/hcl/
http://en.OS2.org/software/softwhere/
If you are in need of help, contact the HelpDesk on http://en.OS2.org/forum/helpdesk/
to get help or just GIVE help to other users.
Any suggestion, hint or problem report is welcome. Send it to webteam@OS2.org
or use the feedback page http://en.OS2.org/feedback/.
Enjoy it. And do not miss OS/2. Andreas Linde and Philipp Buehler
Webteam OS2.org
I've ported to OS/2 the latest stable version of bladeenc mpeg encoder (by Tord
Jansson, tord.jansson@swipnet.se, http://www.bladeenc.cjb.net).
It can be found on hobbes:
currently:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/bladeenc2_082.zip
and eventually:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/convert/bladeenc2_082.zip
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2326830,00.html
Sm@rt Reseller reports that the OS/2 client has sold 34% more copies than expected
over the past five quarters.
New version of mpg123 0.59r port is available.
changes:
added equalizer off/on key
added GUI equalizer file editor
compiled with -DPENTIUM_OPT
download:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/mpg123-0.59r6-os2a.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/mpg123-0.59r6-os2a.zip
XFree86.org finally announced version 3.3.5, so Holger Veit released the OS/2
version. From the What's New list:
Thousands of bugfixes
New support for Matrox G400 (SVGA server)
New support for Riva TNT2 (SVGA server)
New support for S3 Savage (SVGA server)
New support for ATI Rage (SVGA server)
Get it here:
http://borneo.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86os2.html
A new release of MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) for OS/2 is available.
MAME runs over 1200 classic and some not so classic arcade games from the comfort
of your OS/2 desktop.
The current OS/2 version is .35 beta 11 (final). This replaces the previous "prerelease"
version and fixes just about every bug I knew about (and hopefully many I didn't
know about).
For more information and to download the latest version, visit http://emuos2.davesvgc.com.
There is a Pentium optimized as well as a 486 optimized version available.
Visit http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/db2pde/db2pde-p/
to register for and download a complimentary copy of DB2 Universal Database Version
6.1 Personal Developer's Edition for OS/2 (or one of those _other_ platforms).
You'll need to be registered on the website to complete the download. (I've been
registered for about 10 months, and am happy to report that IBM hasn't used the
information to spam me).
Contact:
Robert Rosenwald
Phone: (480) 945-2001
FAX: (480) 949-1707
Email: sales@perfectniche.com
Scottsdale, Arizona, September 2, 1999 - Perfect Niche Software, Inc., developers
of labeling software for OS/2, Macintosh, DOS and Windows, announced today that
they have registered for the Warp Expo West Vendor100 opportunity which will take
place on September 18, 1999, in Southern California.
The Vendor100 exhibit provides an opportunity for those that are unable to physically
attend this years event to have their product or service demonstrated to the attendees
at Warp Expo West and as one of the Vendor100 participants, Perfect Niche's SMACK!
v. 1.01 for OS/2 Warp will be one of the products demonstrated.
SMACK! is the world's first labeling program for OS/2 Warp. With SMACK! you get
the functionality of a desktop publishing system and the power of OS/2. That means
you can design and print great looking labels at "Warp" speed.
Designed and developed by master programmer Bill Schindler and marketed by Perfect
Niche Software, SMACK! is a simple, cost-effective way for you to get the professional
looking labels you need for mailings, diskettes, name badges, business cards, inserts,
dividers, and more.
SMACK! v. 2.0 is due to be released by year end, yet new features continue to
be added to SMACK! v. 1.01. Support for the Seiko Smart Label Printer is the latest
added feature.
Visit http://www.perfectniche.com for
SMACK! v. 1.01 details and a list of new features that will appear in SMACK! v.
2.0.
Perfect Niche Software, Inc., extends a gracious "Thank you" to SCOUG,
Southern California OS/2 User Group, for providing this opportunity to reach out
to users of OS/2 through the Vendor100 plan.
TrueSpectra ceased all updates/sales of PhotoGraphics (both OS/2 and windows
versions) as of January 1, 1999 to concentrate on server side image applications.
For TrueSpectra's explanation see http://www.truespectra.com/photographics_letter.html
The good news is that there is a downloadable version of TrueSpectra's PhotoGraphics
Pro 2.02S at their support site - http://www.truespectra.com/support.html
The site states that "Photo>Graphics download available only until December
31st, 1999." which is when all support is scheduled to stop as well. It is
an unregistered 30 Day trial copy, but if you send email to support@truespectra.com
they will send you a registration key to unlock it. From what I can see it just
lacks the STI twain drivers from the commercial package. As sad as I am to lose
yet another OS/2 ISV, this is certainly a demonstration of class on TrueSpectra's
part and I have sent them a note saying so.
Six Internet Seminars At Warp Expo West
These six free Internet seminars have been carefully scheduled so none are at
the same time. If your interest, your job or your business revolves around the Internet,
you'll get the knowledge you need at Warp Expo West.
Web Server Performance and Scalability
Presented by Robert Chapman, Institute of Advanced Development Strategies and
SCOUG Member.
Mr. Chapman will lecture on intranet and internet response times, file I/O bottlenecks,
communication bottlenecks, operating system constraints, platform issues and the
use of programs, Active Server Pages and Dynamic HTML and the effect they have on
performance, and the new Application Server architectures and their current and
future ramifications. Be prepared with your own questions about your current or
planned Internet servers, because Mr. Chapman will take questions from the floor.
Quick Start for Netscape Composer
Presented by Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D., Senior Consultant for CIBER Custom Solutions
Group and SCOUG Member.
Dr. Hetrick will demonstrate how to design award-winning web pages using the
Composer portion of Netscape Communicator, including all of its tools and capabilities,
the tricks that add "the look" to your pages, how to properly organize
your page information for maximum impact, color selection, designing for the multiple
resolutions that visitors may use, layout styles, and headlining. Bring printouts
of your favorite web pages and learn how their look and impact can be further improved.
Technology Overview: Why XML Is Important
Presented by Bill Schindler, Editor In Chief of Extended Attributes, the award-winning
OS/2 magazine published by POSSI.
Mr. Schindler will present the reasons that XML is important to web businesses,
web designers and web users, the history of web languages, the relationship between
XML and the alternatives, the purpose of XML in web page design, and the business
and casual considerations that must be analyzed when deciding on its usage. All
persons who manage or design web pages should attend this seminar.
Managing Your Website
Presented by Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D., Senior Consultant for CIBER Custom Solutions
Group and SCOUG Member.
Dr. Hetrick's background in managing web sites for UCLA and other organizations
has led to a successful overall strategy for designing and running any web site,
from avoiding the "web wall" to planning your expansion, handling traffic,
tracking usage, what to look for when analyzing server logs, reorganizing the web
site, budgeting the resources, and handling each of the certain problems as they
occur. Web site administrators and future administrators need the training and insights
included in this lecture.
Internet Communication Methods
Presented by Dave Watson, SCOUG Member and Internet SIG Leader.
Mr. Watson will cover the full complement of Internet communication methods,
from traditional asynchronous protocols to live interactive sessions, email, mail
lists, newsgroups, Internet relay chat, instant messaging, CUSeeMe, sending to many
individuals simultaneously, the programs which supply these functionalities, the
current OS/2 resources, the importance these capabilities will have in our everyday
lives as bandwidth and processing power increase, and a changed future as connectivity
becomes truly universal. Most web users have heard of these capabilities but are
unaware of many of the business and personal uses, and this presentation will give
all attendees the major new insights into how these technologies are just beginning
to affect our lives and our pocketbooks.
An Introduction to XML Basics
Presented by Bill Schindler, Editor In Chief of Extended Attributes, the award-winning
OS/2 magazine published by POSSI.
Mr. Schindler will present a somewhat technical introduction to XML (eXtensible
Markup Language), including how XML is different from HTML, how to create a well-formed
XML document, parsing and validating an XML document, creating your own "tags",
using DTDs, vector graphics, data transformations, fast XML design, and design considerations.
XML is the new future language of the web and those who control web sites need this
information to stay ahead of the competition.
You'll learn a _lot_ about the Internet when you attend Warp Expo West!
- - -
Warp Expo West is free. The show will be held on September 18 near Disneyland
in sunny Southern California. All the info is at
http://www.scoug.com/warpexpowest
Sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User Group.
As a follow-up to my previous post about Netfinity 5.2 for OS/2 being available
for a free download, a similar product called SystemView Agent is also available
for download at http://www.tivoli.com/support/sva/shaos2.html.
SVA provides some DMI (desktop management interface) support, namely DMI 1.1.
The latest version is DMI 2.0, but that's also old since SMBIOS has replaced DMI
as a means of querying information about your computer from the BIOS. Supposedly,
Netfinity can use SVA as it's "DMI Service Layer", although I haven't
gotten that part to work yet.
Anyway, if you're looking for a means to manage the clients on your LAN, or just
query information about your system, and you don't have any money to spend, this
is one option.
ECHO Certifies Theta Band's WarpCharge Software
AGOURA HILLS, Calif.--Aug. 31, 1999--Electronic Clearing House Inc. (NASDAQ:ECHO
- news) announced the certification of WarpCharge software written by Theta Band
Software LLC.
WarpCharge, a new online payment program for IBM OS/2 that works exclusively
with ECHONLINE(SM) service, enables Web sites to securely process credit card transactions
directly over the Internet. ECHO is the only processor that has certified WarpCharge
to date.
WarpCharge uses SSL technology to securely transmit transactions to ECHO over
the Internet, rather than requiring the use of a modem to establish a dial-up connection
to a bank for each transaction. This yields a substantial improvement in processing
time over the traditional dial-up approach.
``Several software houses have built NT-based and UNIX-based credit card processing
interfaces for use on the Internet but WarpCharge is the first program ECHO has
seen that has addressed the needs of the largely untapped IBM OS/2 marketplace of
users,'' stated Larry Brown, vice president and chief technical officer of ECHO.
``We're pleased to be working with such technically accomplished people as we
see at Theta Band Software LLC.''
``I'm pleased that Theta Band has introduced WarpCharge to the marketplace,''
said Timothy Sipples, senior technical specialist, IBM Network Computing Software.
``WarpCharge should prove to be a popular revenue-generating tool for IBM's Web-savvy
customers, particularly those enjoying the benefits of IBM's new OS/2 Warp Server
for e-business.''
Theta Band Software, with headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., was founded in
1997 and develops Internet and multimedia software products for IBM OS/2 Warp that
are marketed and sold on the World Wide Web.
Electronic Clearing House is an electronic payment processor that serves more
than 19,000 retail merchants and U-Haul dealers nationwide and processes all major
credit cards; check conversion, truncation, verification and guarantee; inventory
tracking; and Internet-based transactions.
ECHO is also a systems integrator and designer of both software and/or hardware
systems that are presently being used as credit card processing terminals, inventory
tracking devices, automated money order dispensers and casino cash advance systems.
To take advantage of the new ``safe harbor'' provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995, readers are hereby cautioned that this release contains
forward-looking statements that are based upon current expectations and involve
a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual operations and results may differ materially
from those expressed in the forward-looking statements made by the company.
Contact:
Electronic Clearing House Inc., Agoura Hills
Donna Camras, 818/706-8999, ext. 3033
http://www.echo-inc.com
corp@echo-inc.com
or
Theta Band Software LLC, Santa Clara
Julien Pierre
http://www.thetaband.com
julien@thetaband.com
Contact: Benny Ormson
bno@gt-online.com
http://www.gt-online.com
Telephone: (405) 359-0079
Edmond, Oklahoma, August 30, 1999 - GammaTech, Inc., software developer, announced
today that "The Surprise" will be revealed at Warp Expo West on September
18, 1999.
GammaTech, Inc., has been developing OS/2 software since 1991 and although unable
to attend SCOUG's annual event, has registered as one of the Vendor100's. By doing
so, GammaTech's products will be demonstrated to the Warp Expo West attendees.
GammaTech's OS/2 product line includes GammaTech Utilities v. 4.0 and GammaTech
IRC, GTIRC.
GammaTech Utilities is a package of utilities which adds enhanced data optimization,
manipulation and recovery capabilities to your mission critical OS/2 work station
or OS/2 server.
GTIRC v. 3.0 is a multichannel chat program which allows users to engage in real
time conversations with people all over the world using the Internet.
GammaTech, Inc., has provided printed literature which will be available in the
Vendor100 area. "The Surprise" and details will be included in that literature.
For those not attending Warp Expo West, "The Surprise" will be posted
on September 18, 1999 at http://www.gt-online.com/html/news.html.
First off, I want to impress on people the significance of this announcement.
StarOffice 5.1 for OS/2 is available for free (like it always was), but now the
source code will be similarly available. This means that Star Office will never
suffer the fate of some other OS/2 products like DeScribe and Lotus SmartSuite.
With the source code available, OS/2 programmers can fix bugs and add features as
they see fit. This is a great day for OS/2.
Now for some real news. To download the Sun version of Star Office (it's probably
the same as the Star Division version), go to http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html.
You can also order a CD for $16 that contains all English or all German versions
(yes, including OS/2). The press seems to be ignoring the OS/2 version, but Sun
isn't.
The source code is apparently not yet available. I personally am very interested
to see what tools they use to compile it. It's quite possible that the OS/2 version
is built on a different OS.
One thing that some people are missing is that the source code will (most likely?)
be released under the Sun Community Source License, which is a far cry from the
GPL. For an overview of the SCSL, see http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/faq.html.
Basically, there are some severe restrictions on the distribution (even internally)
of modified source code.
Santa Clara, Calif. - Theta Band Software LLC released WarpCharge, a new product
that enables web sites to securely process credit card orders directly over the
Internet.
WarpCharge is the first credit card processing software available for the OS/2
platform. WarpCharge provides the missing piece in your OS/2 e-commerce solution
: the payment system.
"Until now, merchants running secure web sites on IBM OS/2 Warp Server for
E-business had no means to process payments online. They could accept online orders,
but had to process the payment manually." said Julien Pierre, President of
Theta Band Software. "Shoppers like to get their purchase immediately, and
by processing credit card payments automatically and in real-time, WarpCharge enables
that sort of instant gratification."
WarpCharge is not just for e-commerce - it can be used for nearly all types of
businesses : whether you are taking credit card orders by mail, over the phone or
real-time over the Internet, WarpCharge is the perfect solution.
WarpCharge comes with sample CGI scripts for use on any secure OS/2 web server,
so that you can start taking Internet orders immediately.
WarpCharge also comes with an extensive REXX interface that lets developers integrate
credit card processing facility into any REXX-enabled OS/2 application, or into
custom applications.
There are two editions of WarpCharge :
WarpCharge Business
WarpCharge Business is for any business that needs to process credit cards over
the phone, web, or in custom REXX applications.
WarpCharge for Internet Service Providers
WarpCharge for ISPs lets Internet Service Providers offer credit card processing
capability to all their customers.
AVAILABILITY
WarpCharge is available for purchase from the Theta Band Software web site at
http://www.thetaband.com. WarpCharge Business
requires a PC running IBM OS/2 Warp 4, OS/2 Warp Server or OS/2 Warp Server for
E-Business. In addition, WarpCharge for ISPs requires an OS/2 secure web server
program.
ABOUT THETA BAND SOFTWARE LLC
Theta Band Software, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, was founded in
1997 and develops Internet and multimedia software products for IBM OS/2 Warp that
are marketed and sold on the world wide web.
Vendor100 Goes "Full Enterprise" At Warp Expo West
Network Platform To Be WiseManager On OS/2
Vendor100 has grown to "Full Enterprise" size and Warp Expo West is
upgrading the entire Vendor100 exhibitor space to a new technology managed client
network.
"You'll be able to walk up to any client system on the network and run any
Vendor100 application," said Rollin White, Chairman of Warp Expo West. "No
guest will have to wait in line for a chance to use a single dedicated system running
a single vendor's software. Everything will run everywhere."
The entire Vendor100 suite of software from dozens of developers will be hosted
on the newly engineered network, and guests will have the unique experience of not
being restricted to a particular vendor's machine in order to try their software.
The network servers will use WiseManager from Serenity Systems to manage all the
clients.
"WiseManager doesn't use the hard disk in your system," explained Kim
Cheung, Executive Director for Serenity. "You install each application once
at the server, and every client system then uses that copy. And it's totally configurable
for each user. You still have your own configuration files, your own data files.
But it's all stored on the server."
"There's a big savings here. Most of an application's files never change,
so we only need one server copy. The few small files that do, such as configuration
files, are stored in the user's personal file space. WiseManager uses the personal
file if it exists, or uses the common file otherwise."
Every network administrator should carefully go over the Vendor100 network that
will run continuously during Warp Expo West. The network build team will be available
for questions.
"It's great for us because, if a client machine breaks, we just replace
it, turn on the new one, and boot from the network. We don't have to install anything,
and we're up and running again instantly," commented White.
Cheung himself supervised the installation of the dozens of different software
applications on the servers. "It went fast, not much different from a single
client install, and when one vendor sent an upgrade we only had to upgrade one machine
- the server - not every client," said Cheung. "Suppose we had 50 machines!
We'd have to install the upgrade 50 times if we didn't have a managed client network.
WiseManager handles any size network -- up to 64,000 clients."
"We're also going to show how to install this new type of network, and discuss
the cost and security benefits of using diskless workstations," Cheung said.
Managed client networks are a bold new technology for OS/2 network administrators,
and every businessman and every OS/2 user with an interest in networking should
make a point of studying and discussing the Vendor100 network - at Warp Expo West!
- - -
Warp Expo West is free. It will be held on September 18 near Disneyland in sunny
Southern California. All the info is at
http://www.scoug.com/warpexpowest
Sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User Group.
OS/2 StarOffice users should abandon all fear. In a News.com story, Marco Boerries,
founder and former owner of Star Division, speaks on the future of StarOffice.
The main announcement is that the current native code, and future thin-client
java editions of the software will be given away for free to all users, not just
the educational and home users (as has been the previous policy).
In addition to giving the software away for free, Sun will make the original
programming instructions, or "source code," available under the Sun Community
Source License.
Sun plans to make money selling services such as installation and technical support
for the software.
A new "thin" version, StarPortal, due by the end of the year, is handled
by a central server (like the current StarOffice for Java version). Coming from
Sun, and being 100% java, I think we have NO reason to fear if StarPortal will run
in OS/2 :).
Sun is expected to announce the Star Division acquisition today in New York,
where the company will demonstrate the use of StarPortal on a Java-enabled PalmPilot,
which is connected to a server.
Read the full version of the story at:
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,0-41111,00.html?st.ne.lh..ni
It seems more drivers were updated recently:
Printers section:
- OMNI printer drivers were updated on Aug 19th;
Multimedia audio section:
- There's a new driver for Ensoniq ES1371 PCI Audio Controller as of Aug 20th;
- There's a new driver for Yamaha's YMF724 (DS=AD1) as of Aug 20th;
The Device Driver Repository is located at http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/index.htm
There's a new package on the Device Driver Pack for USB Removable Media drives
(beta), dated Aug 26th.
Here's the long description:
"This USBFLPPY.EXE driver package provides you with IBM's most current support
for Universal Serial Bus (USB) Removable Media devices on the OS/2 Operating System.
This driver package supports standard removable-media I/O operations with the
following exceptions:
The USBFLPPY.EXE package supports the following removable-media USB devices and
compatibles:
Floppy Diskette Drives
LS120 Drives
External Drive
ZIP Drives
Note: The USBBASIC.EXE package is a PRE-REQUISITE for the USBAUDIO.EXE package.
USBBASIC.EXE must be installed prior to installing USBAUDIO.EXE. "
These drivers may be found at:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak
Look under "Universal Serial Bus", then select the brand (Iomega, Imation,
etc). They all point to the same package.
Just saw this on the Aurora Beta list (thanks Steve) if anyone is running the
JFS (or would like to but has been afraid up til now)here is a new (as of Aug 31)
fix for it.
Mark
==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE==================
From: "Steve Wendt" <stevew@shocking.com>
To: "aurora-beta@os2ss.com" <aurora-beta@os2ss.com>
There is an update for the JFS in Aurora that fixes some major problems. ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4.5warp/
APAR= PJ26494
FILE CORRUPTION WHEN OS/2 JFS FILESYSTEM IS USED.
APAR= PJ26538
JFS HANGS RUNNING DB/2
APAR= PJ26549
TRAP 000E IN JFS AT _JFS_FILELOCK@36 DURING FILE I/O AND POSSIBLY FILELOCK ERRORS
APAR= PJ26544 SER=
JFS DOESN'T RELEASE IO BUFFERS SOMETIMES WHEN DISK IO FAILS. THIS RESULTS IN A SYSTEM HANG OR A TRAP (INT3) DURING SHUTDOWN
APAR= PJ26557
TRAP IN JFS AT ALLOCPOOL@4+222
APAR= PJ26659
TRAP E IN JFS DURING VOLUME EXPANSION
APAR= PJ26661
SYS0627 WHEN ACCESSING JFS DRIVES, DESPITE PROPER SHUTDOWN AND AUTOCHECK DECLARING THE DRIVE TO BE CLEAN.
APAR= PJ26718
SYS3175 ON SOME DOSWRITES TO JFS
===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================
There is a job opening for someone with OS/2 experience at the European Patent
Office in The Hague, Netherlands. See:
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/ext_915.htm
for more details.
New Ideas For Your Business At Warp Expo West !!
You'll see plenty of business solutions while you're at Warp Expo West.
OS/2 running your office phones? Sure! Both Active Voice and Auto VoiceSystems
will show you automated-attendant, voicemail, and interactive voice response systems
running on OS/2, and how you can turn any office large-or-small into a business
telecommunications center. Need specialty configurations such as Order Center or
Help Desk? These two companies together offer a one-stop OS/2 solution to help you
expand your phone center quickly.
Online sales need a boost? WarpCharge from Theta Band Software runs on OS/2 and
automatically processes credit card orders over the 'net, plus handles your phone
and mail orders - the first OS/2 software to do so. Your transactions are cleared
securely over your existing internet connection. And WarpCharge comes with an extensive
REXX interface so it neatly fits into your own way of doing business.
Your office will hum smoothly with great OS/2 business applications from Sundial
Systems and Phoenix Software. Sundial has the spreadsheet Mesa 2, the database frontend
DBExpert, the word processor Clearlook, the time manager Relish, and the desktop
companion Rover. Phoenix Software's Think Tool Pro is a graphical-development (no
programming required) object database which can store structured data, compound
documents, complex data such as videos, sounds and images, and knowledge databases
-- and is a complete solution platform for sales, project management, product development,
accounting, order entry, inventory, and all other business needs.
Upgrade your servers and keep them running with Demand Systems OS/2 servers,
IBM's e-Business solutions, Serenity Systems managed OS/2 clients and Legato's Standby
Server for OS/2 Warp. Demand Systems is an IBM Software Partner and can preinstall
OS/2 servers, clients and applications so your new hardware simply plugs into the
network and runs, and they handle custom requirements such as xDSL and fax servers
too. IBM will show their entire suite of OS/2-based e-Business solutions -- the
new Warp Server For e-Business, WorkSpace On-Demand, Java Server and Domino Server
performance improvements, TCP/IP capacity enhancements, Services Offerings, and
Remote Client Connection from the Rapid Deployment Team. Serenity Systems manages
your entire network of diskless workstations with WiseManager, keeping your hardware
costs down and giving you better control of your data. And Legato will make sure
your network never goes down from server failure.
Photo-quality images from your desktop printer are the key to great presentations,
and Klassic Specialties has the special materials that create them. Sales, contract
proposals, point-of-sales, backlit displays -- all benefit from snappy images, and
Klassic can have you printing them for instant use - even on fabric, plastic, metal
or film.
These and dozens of other exhibitors, lecturers and Vendor100's are waiting for
you on September 18.
Your business runs better on OS/2, and we'll show you how - at Warp Expo West!
- - -
Warp Expo West is free and will be held on September 18 near Disneyland in sunny
Southern California. All the info is at
http://www.scoug.com/warpexpowest
Sponsored by The Southern California OS/2 User Group.
Emtec software has released version ZOC version 3.13 for the OS/2 and Windows
platforms.
ZOC is a shareware telnet client, SSH client, and terminal emulator.
V3.13 features:
...and much, much more.
The program's home page is at:
http://www.emtec.com/zoc/index.html
And you can download directly from:
http://www.emtec.com/download.html
As you probably know, I released over the years some hopefully usefull tools
and utilities for OS/2 Warp.
The URL for the above was (until now): http://www1.stuttgart.netsurf.de/~kevers/
This is no longer valid. Please update your bookmarks. From now on, you can find
on:
You can find the stuff directly by pointing to:
German version: http://www.s.netic.de/kevers/warp.html
English version: http://www.s.netic.de/kevers/warp_eng.html
BTW: I'm still working on the stuff, some beta versions are in the queue, but
because of lacks of time things will not go on very fast in the future. Please be
patient.
* WARPSTOCK Europa 99 *
01.-04. October
Bochum, Germany
Some hot news about:
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IBM Rapid Deployment Team presence at WARPSTOCK Europa 99
Dennis Sposato (IBM Network Computing Services Division's Rapid Deployment Team,
Austin/Texas) will speak on WSoD Remote Client Connection
Please have a look at our large and still expanding workshops and sessions program.
If YOU want to do a workshop/session please contact us.
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IBM Germany supports WARPSTOCK Europa 99 with several software licenses (Warp Server
for e-biz and Warp4).
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If you're interested in our experimental physics tours (DTL particle accelerator
and solid state physics applied research) please register at www.warpstock.de
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If you plan to come to WARPSTOCK Europa 99 and you are still not registered please
do this as soon as possible.
The page at http://www.os2.spb.ru/technology/xfree86/xmms/
is dedicated to upcoming port of XMMS under OS/2. XMMS is a Xwindows player of MP3,CD,MOD,STM,
etc. I think authors of PM123,WarpAmp and free programmers may consider helping
with audio part of the XMMS. Already you can download GUI test version for XFree86/2.
With upcoming EverBlue project XMMS may help OS/2 community and become a great PM
player too. I myself will not do audio part as I am too busy.
(If you do not know anything about EverBlue visit Netlabs)
Platon Fomichev
GNOME/2 Coordinator
today I have uploded a new version of CopyWave on my homepage.:
http://home.t-online.de/home/C.Arnold
The program copies parts from an existing PCM-Wave file starting from an indicated
place in an indicated length into a new Wave file. The files can be very big.
The program ist Freeware.
Direct URL is:
http://home.t-online.de/home/C.Arnold/copywave.zip
After a long beta period fPrint UK released version 2.0 of Virtual Pascal/2 some
days ago. This great Pascal development environment supports OS/2, Win32 and a number
of 32bit DOS extenders, with Linux support underway.
Have a look at:
http://www.fprint.co.uk/products/virtual_pascal/vpascal.html
I just came across this post in Warpcast, and thought I'd pass it along. It's
sad to see another OS/2 ISV dropping out, but business is business, as they say.
Personally, I applaud their decision to release these applications for free,
along with the code to unlock them. They could have just pulled them, and they would
have, eventually, disappeared. POst Road Mailer is a very nice E-Mail client for
OS/2. If anyone is still using Ultimail Lite, or Netscape to retrieve their e-mail,
I'd recommend that you give Post Road Mailer a try.
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Effective immediately, InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc. is withdrawing the following
products from marketing and support.
Post Road Mailer for OS/2
J Street Mailer for Java
Web Willy Watch for OS/2
Anyone may download free copies of these products from our online store at http://stores.yahoo.com/innoval. In addition,
anyone may freely distribute executable copies of the software through online software
repositories and websites. You are encouraged to do so because we will only be able
to keep them in our online store for a limited time. If you distribute the Post
Road Mailer you must also distribute a serial number to allow a user to activate
the product. You may use a serial number you received from us in the past (for release
3.0), or you may use serial number 31571728. You may also post serial numbers in
newsgroups and websites. Online orders, for these specific products, placed with
us during the last sixty days, have not been processed and customers' credit cards
have not been charged. These orders will be cancelled and customers are free to
keep and use the downloaded code that they received when they placed their order.
For me, personally, this is a sad day. Our company tried to hang in as long as
possible with OS/2. OS/2 is still my favorite platform and OS/2 customers are the
best customers our company ever had. I have made many good friends through my associations
with all of you. You'll still see me popping in at OS/2 users group meetings throughout
the country when my travels coincide with a meeting.
Our company continues to do very well. The consulting side of the business has
always been strong. The most exciting area of business, however, is Iceptur. Iceptur
is our new Internet filtering software for the Windows 95/98/NT platform. Despite
the fact that there are over two hundred competitors in this market niche, we are
experiencing phenomenal success. This is partly because of the unique technology
we developed and partly because there is a strong demand for high quality Internet
filtering solutions (release 2.0 will hit the streets by September 5th). We have
entered into a number of strategic alliances with several companies to market Iceptur
and license the underlying technology for use in other products.
I need, now, to focus all of InnoVal's resources on Iceptur and our consulting
business. I tried, during the past year, to juggle resources but in doing so was
not doing the right kind of job for our customers, the OS/2 community at-large,
InnoVal's employees, or InnoVal's owners. You made the Post Road Mailer into the
number one email client for OS/2. You worked with us on J Street Mailer as we tried
to negotiate a platform independent course with Java. You have my thanks and the
thanks of everyone at InnoVal.
We are moving on to bigger things, but not better. OS/2 was better and (oh, how
I wish) it could have been big.
Thanks again,
Dan Porter, President
InnoVal Systems Solutions, Inc.