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Sundial Systems has released Version 2.0.8 of DBExpert. This maintenance release
update is free to owners of DBExpert 2.0 and above. It includes about twenty bug
fixes plus a few new features.
Most significant among the new features is the ability to "pack" a
DBExpert application file. This can result in substantially smaller files that enable
the application to load much faster as well.
Of particular note among the bug fixes is one that is Y2K related. The problem
involves the display of two-digit dates once the PC clock rolls over to the year
2000. Thus, all current owners of DBExpert are urged to obtain and install the update
before the end of this year.
Details can be found at:
http://www.sundialsystems.com/dbexpert/dbupdate.html
The update can be downloaded from there as well.
I'd like to announce the release of ServerConfig/2 version 1.4.
ServerConfig/2 is a PM configuration util for Apache webserver, the InetPowerServer/2
and the IBM TCP/IP Firewall!
It has an easy to use PM interface and allows you to do things by simple mouse
clicks.
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 :)
Full support for the InetPowerServer, for all the services, with full GUI support
for user management.
Full support for the TCP/IP Firewall, GUI interface for all the rules, log file,
error log and Tunneling (VPN) support!
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.
At a Glance
FaxPlus/Open provides the following features:
Available as both CLIENT & SERVER for OS/2
(E)JES/2(tm) for JES2 via SDSF, a Superior Approach to JES2 Spool Management
(E)JES/2 brings the power of SDSF to your workstation!
Through the creative efforts of Phoenix Software's (E)JES/2 development team,
with development assistance from IBM, you now have the opportunity to manage the
JES2 spool directly from your workstation.
(E)JES/2 fully exploits the SDSF (System Display and Search Facility) spool management
solution and harnesses the multitasking capabilities of today's OS/390 servers and
multitasking workstations. This approach provides users the ability to execute multiple
simultaneous transactions from a single workstation.
Some important features of (E)JES/2 for JES2 via SDSF:
Users can access any number of OS/390 systems simultaneously. Users can perform
similar concurrent functions or multiple functions on S/390 computers throughout
their entire enterprise. The traditional communications requirement of TSO is removed
by means of a proprietary design that provides users the opportunity to enjoy true
full-duplex, multiple-asynchronous communications with the server.
(E)JES/2 is Workplace Shell compliant and provides heavy use of icon views, and
drag-and-drop and point-and-shoot interfaces. This implementation provides existing
workstation users a software solution requiring very little new user training and
no significant learning curve. (E)JES seamlessly integrates the functions of IBM's
ISPF Client/Server product to provide a complete workstation development environment.
All of the power of ISPF is available without the traditional need for a TSO address
space.
(E)JES/2 displays your SDSF-JES2 data via Object folders and Browser windows.
Object folders contain tabular data and may be custom-tailored by users with respect
to font and color customization, column arrangement, sorting, and filtering. Using
cascading, pop-up menus, resources represented by Object folder views are easily
accessed or modified by authorized users with the click of a mouse. The following
are supported through object folders:
Activity, Job Status, Output Queue, Download, Job Submit, Printers, Hold Queue,
Lines, Punches, Initiators, MAS, Readers, Input Queue, Nodes, Spool Offload
Browser windows are used to display line-oriented information such as SYSIN or
SYSOUT data sets, console messages, and log information. Browser windows utilize
the "Multiple Document Interface" paradigm to organize multiple related
windows under a common frame. Browser windows may be custom tailored by users with
respect to font and color customization, filtering, MDI positioning, and more. The
following are viewed through Browser windows:
Job SYSIN/SYSOUT, TSO Messages, Operations Log, User Log
(E)JES/2 may be purchased or leased. Phoenix Software offers a thirty-day free
evaluation. Please contact us by e-mail, or via the phone or fax number listed below
for details.
(E)JES/2 is presently available for OS/2 workstations. A version for Windows
98 and Windows NT will be available by the end of the year
If you run JES3, not JES2, see our web page about (E)JES/2 for JES3.
To request detailed product information or talk to a Phoenix Software representative,
call 1-800-622-9292 ext: 310 in the USA or 1-310-338-0400 Ext: internationally
E-commerce is the new buzzword, and if you believe what it says in the magazines,
every business with an an ounce of sense is creating an online store. But "enterprise
level" tools are overkill for most small businesses, and they cost an arm and
a leg. Plus, there don't seem to be as many e-commerce site builder options for
us OS/2 users.
Until now.
At the general meeting on Tuesday, September 14, a representative from iTool
will show us how easy it is to create an online store. If you've been thinking about
selling something online -- or simply curious about the procedure -- this is a meeting
you can't miss.
What is iTOOL?
iTool, which is a local Scottsdale company, hosts the e-commerce store at its
site. You build and maintain the site through a Web browser... so the OS you choose
is irrelevant. It also means that you have no extra software to purchase or install.
iTOOL combines high performance Web site hosting with its development tools,
giving you everything you need to run your organization online in a single package.
You can sign up for Web hosting alone -- they include email accounts, interactive
graphical statistics reports, multiple domain name hosting, a ColdFusion Web Application
Server, a RealMedia Server, and so on. They also include site development tools
like a site creation wizard and specialty templates for business types (such as
photographers and real estate agents).
But what's bound to attract you is its turnkey electronic commerce features.
iTool uses browser based, database driven store construction, has key word searching,
and supports secure credit card transactions with real time authorization. The cost
for the basic e-commerce site is $49.96 per month.
When and where
This meeting will be the first one held at POSSI's new meeting site, at Camelsquare.
Give yourself a few extra minutes to find the place. Camelsquare is on the northwest
corner of 44th Street and Camelback, which sounds simple enough. However, the room
itself may take you a few minutes to find. The Camelsquare offices are in lettered
buildings. Ours is in Building G, room G250.
The meeting day and time doesn't change. We're still meeting on Tuesday, September
14th, at 7:00pm. The general Q&A session will begin at 6:30. We're sure to have
an after-meeting meeting, too, where we quaff a few ales... but will that be back
at our old Coyote Springs haunts, or will we try a new site for food and drink?
You'll have to show up and find out.
Video Editing On OS/2 Lecture At Warp Expo West
You'll learn how to set up your own OS/2-based video editing system, so you can
splice together movies, tv shows and anything else, when you're a part of Warp Expo
West.
Multimedia expert Jerry Rash will have his own video editing system on-site for
you to inspect. And in an extended multi-period session of lectures and interactive
demonstrations, you will learn how to easily and inexpensively add video editing
capabilities to your own OS/2 machine.
Jerry will show movies and other video clips, and will explain the proper techniques
for video capture using OS/2's native VideoIN and the alternate program Main Actor.
You'll watch as he goes through the editing process, connecting different video
scenes together using Main Actor's splicing functions. You'll learn how to do this
on your own business and home OS/2 machines.
Jerry's lecture will cover the video cards you can use for capturing from camera
or vcr including the extensive testing he's done on many cards, the chipsets that
VideoIN supports and the one video capture chipset that seems to work best, the
tricks for avoiding dropped frames, and the methods of successfully converting between
the many various video formats including AVI, Indio, Ultimotion and the proprietary
Microsoft ASF format. You'll watch Jerry as he does video editing on-screen, connecting
scenes together in true Hollywood fashion. You'll find out which Fixpaks to apply
for best performance and which new Fixpaks to avoid.
And during the additional interactive time period you'll get a chance to actually
try Jerry's video editing system yourself.
Video editing on your own machine is now possible and it's inexpensive. You'll
learn how to do this 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.
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.
Now is the buffer size configurable.
Additional can CopyWave now copying asynchron, one thread readed, another thread
write. This is useful if copy from one physical HD to another physical HD. This
can increase the speed of copying.
The program ist Freeware. Direct URL is:
http://home.t-online.de/home/C.Arnold/copywave.zip
As you may know OS/2 Netlabs is working on the OS/2 port of the well known Opera
webbrowser (http://www.operasoftware.com).
Currently we have two people in the team but we need a third one. We will do the
port with support of Odin32, the new Win32-API implementation for OS/2 (http://www.netlabs.org/odin/).
You should have know how in:
We get a percent ammount of money per sold OS/2 license, so you will get money,
but don't expect thousands of dollars :-)
If you think you are the right person for this job, please send an email with
a short description of your know how to me (Adrian Gschwend ktk@netlabs.org).
The September "Webfoot, The Duck" OS/2 column is now online at:
http://www.scoug.com/os24u/1999/scoug909.2.webfoot.html
This month, Webfoot covers:
Each monthly "Webfoot, The Duck" column includes:
The Trials of Battle Server is Back up, There is also a Flashing Info Tag on
BAOS/2 (The Bay Area OS/2 Page) regarding the TOB Server, this will also state the
Status.
Server @24.5.29.217
[Editors note: Trials of Battle is an OS/2 action game that can be played among
multiple-players on the internet. For more on TOB - http://www.stardock.com/products/tob/tob.html]
The has been a driver update on the Realtek based 8029 (10MBit-Network)-Chip.
You can download it here.
http://www.realtek.com.tw/cn/driver/8029-driver.htm
I have just been informed by E-mail that Novastor is currently working to add
CD-R/W support to the OS/2 operating system. Novastor said the latest news of this
will be posted in their newsletter.
http://www.novastor.com/subscribe.html
Matrox are going to release their video driver 2.31.100 for OS/2. This driver
seems to fix the problems which occured with HPP (HomePage Publisher product).
Tim Bryce, editor of OS/2 Connect, is featured in a PC World article about IBM
and OS/2:
http://www.pcworld.com/current_issue/article/0,1212,12530+18+0,00.html
While this is directed towards linux users, it's useful information for people
interested in working with the source code of Sun's StarOffice.
http://perens.com/Articles/StarOffice.html
there is an update of PMCDrec. You can found it at:
http://en.os2.org/projects/indos2
Description
PMCDRec is a frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord.
You need:
this freeware programs are available on www.leo.org
or hobbes.nmsu.edu.
Status
Beta 0.02
last details
To do list:
Some of you may have experienced some strange folder behavior after applying
FP11 to your OS/2 Warp 4 system. If so, you may want to visit my home page at http://www.os2ss.com/users/mckinnis
for a little more discussion and a possible temporary fix.
The OS/2 Topics At Warp Expo West
No matter what your interests, no matter what your needs, you'll miss important
information if you miss Warp Expo West.
Take a look at some of what you'll get on show day, September 18:
MULTIMEDIA AND GRAPHICS: An entire OS/2-based home entertainment center -- video
capture and playback, audio, editing, CD audio transfers to your hard drive and
back again, format conversions -- on stage with multimedia expert Jerry Rash, and
he'll show you the utilities to use (including the free ones), the drivers you'll
need, and how to set up the OS/2-based multimedia system of your dreams! And Don
Baker, the expert on inkjet printing, will show you how to get images that look
like photographs (we've seen him do it!) from your inkjet printer.
ROUNDTABLE: The roundtable discussion titled "IBM: The New Strategy To Control
The Worldwide Desktop" with Peter Coffee of PC Week, Esther Schindler of Sm@rt
Reseller and Alan Zeichick of Camden Associates (and OS/2 Magazine's former Editor-In-Chief)
is guaranteed to give you an eye-opening insight into the good things and bad that
lie ahead for OS/2. These three careers filled with experience and insight will
fill the auditorium with crucial information you'll need for planning your OS/2
future.
NETWORKING: Networking guru Steve Schiffman will present "Designing Your
Home Network", including connecting your machines together, installing the
drivers, the available software (some of it free), and using just one internet connection
to service all of your networked machines. Then Hugh Dashbach and Michael Elliott
will showcase Linux And OS/2, a demonstration of how to make these two very different
operating systems work seamlessly together.
WEB SITES: Two XML sessions by Bill Schindler, Editor of OS/2 Extended Attributes,
will bring you quickly up to speed on this new language of the internet and get
you started on writing your own XML pages. Plus Web Site Management and Netscape
Composer Development seminars from Dr. Virginia Hetrick cover the problems that
web site administrators face, the solutions, management of growth, and the fast-track
approach to creating great looking web pages using the free Netscape Composer.
DATABASES: Relational databases from the basics to the exotic are thoroughly
covered by Randell Flint, President of Sundial Systems. Use the knowledge you gain
at this seminar to design your own relational database systems and expand the ones
you work with now.
IBM: Flying in from Austin, Texas is Steven King, IBM's Development Manager for
Network Computing, plus other IBMers including Dennis Sposato of the Rapid Deployment
Team. Steven will show IBM's new Warp Server for e-Business, TCP/IP enhancements,
Domino and Java server improvements, WorkSpace On-Demand server-managed clients
plus the Windows32 feature for WorkSpace On-Demand, and Warp Server features like
the Journaling File System, the Logical Volume Manager, WebSphere, NT Server management,
and products from IBM's Network Computing Software Division covering XML, Java,
SecureWay, Year2000 and a wide variety of other important subjects. Dennis will
present the new Pre-Execution Services features including dynamic MAC addressing,
remotely controlled boot manager, and booting to the LAN without a boot chip on
the network card.
BIG GAMES: Warped Jeopardy! Matching wits with the OS/2 elite on a stage of dreams,
this real-life show will be hosted by the talented President of a major OS/2 software
house. Reserved seating is free, and it's first-come first-served.
SERVERS: Web Server Performance and Scalability by Robert Chapman of the Institute
of Advanced Development Strategies covers what you need to know about response times,
file I/O and communication bottlenecks, the constraints of the operating system,
platform issues, the effect on performance of various programs including Active
Server Pages and Dynamic HTML, and the new Application Server architectures.
JAVA: Ron Lamb, a Software Developer for Cisco Systems, teaches two Java classes
covering the JDK, language concepts, the tools and resources you can use, the differences
between the Java versions, new Java2 features, performance, design decisions, development
of server-based Java applications, and this year's JavaOne Conference.
ADVOCACY: Come listen to Lynn Maxson, whose Warpicity project (complete with
specialized smart tools like his Developer's Assistant) replaces the current development
cycle and drives ideas straight to machine code. Kernels, drivers and application
programs all flow from his methodolgy, and you'll learn the current project status
at this most important lecture.
COMMUNICATIONS: Dave Watson covers visual internet-based communications like
CUSeeMe down through instant messaging, chat, newsgroups and mail lists, all OS/2
based and all used today in business, government, education and home office.
MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING: Researchers like Ben Archer and Michael "Rocky"
Rakijas need powerful tools when they work, and they use Octave for signal analysis,
curve fitting and the rest of their daily number crunching. Fast solutions and tricks
of the trade are covered in this vital seminar.
PROGRAMMING: Plenty of programming topics await you, including Melanie Chernoy's
REXX Programming Potpourri covering everything from REXX basics through stem variables,
parsing, and using VREXX2 to add windows, dialogs and menus to your REXX programs.
Developer Stan Shantar then shows you how to push the limit with his two sessions
on Using REXX And C Together, carefully explaining the exact methods (many undocumented)
you can use to allow each language to do what it does best. And international consultant
Steven Levine presents "How To Write a Workplace Shell Class" including
how to subclass existing desktop objects so you can leverage the Workplace Shell's
functionality into your own programs, how to build your own Workplace Shell objects,
and a full plate of development and debugging techniques.
Every one of these seminars is free, and you don't want to miss this all-inclusive
day. We have the presentations you want - at Warp Expo West!
- - -
Warp Expo West admission 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.
Dungeon of Doom has been upgraded to v1.59, which fixes a number of bugs, and
has numerous enhancements. For more information or to upgrade, visit http://members.tripod.com/~mjman/dod.html
for a complete description and a link to download. [Editor's Note: Dungeon of Doom
is a QBasic game which runs in DOS and therefore also under OS/2.]
I am working on a project for Warpstock '99 to have more vendors and shareware
authors represented, even if they can not come to the show in person.
The vendor response to my project is much better than I expected, and I need
help. I need a few good men and women who are coming to Warpstock ( and who isn't?
) and are willing to spend a couple hours each day at one of our demonstration booths
showing the products from four vendors.
In exchange for their time, the demonstrators will receive, direct from the vendors
themselves, full licenses for the applications they demonstrate. Some of the vendors
and applications we are representing and demonstrating are The Graham Utilities,
PMFax, Priority Master II, PMview (V2.0!) and a host of others.
No experience is necessary, only a willingness to meet a lot of great friends
and play with some cool software.
You need not apply in person, simply send an email to: Tom Stevic stevic@ibm.net
and indicate your desire to be part of this project.
The project is not officially connected with Warpstock, Inc., or the Warpstock
Event team. It is simply an effort by a regular guy (me) to have a lot more applications
I can drool over next October.
* * * Special Pricing for RPF Zip Control * * *
As part of the SCOUG Warp Expo West event, RPF Software is offering, for a limited
time, a special price of $30.00 for RPF Zip Control.
Zip Control(tm) is an OS/2 GUI .zip archive manager serving OS/2 users since
1993.
With Zip Control, you have 32-bit, multi-threaded "point & click"
access to .zip archive files, both for viewing and creation. Zip Control supports
password encryption, viewing and printing of embedded files, drag & drop, configurable
virus scanner support, "checkout" files for evaluation/installation, extraction
of selected or all files, and a search of one or more drives for all .zip files
(archive management).
To learn more about Zip Control, to download an evaluation copy, or to receive
the special Warp Expo West pricing, please visit http://www.rpfsoftware.com/
(secure, online ordering).
Large OS/2 Customer List has been updated. http://rover.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~meile/los2cl.html
A new issue of Focus on OS/2 is now Online!
The Topic this week is:
BACKUP: WHY AND HOW? PART 2
Part 2. Are system-wide backups really necessary? Examples of good OS/2 software
backup products plus a painfree method for regular, reliable system backups.
The feature can be accessed/read at:
http://os2.about.com/library/weekly/aa090199.htm.
Several interesting News items and Links have been added as well.
The complete material can be found at:
http://os2.about.com/library/blnews.htm