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September 07

CW-USBMSD V1.1

Chris Wohlgemuth has released USB-Basic (Ohci and Uhci) and a USBMSD driver written from the Device Driver sources.

CWUSBMSD.ADD is a enhanced USB mass storage driver which supports more (or other) devices than the IBM version. Support for READ 10 commands and better disk geometry handling. Can force external hard disks to appear as removable devices.

Tested devices:

Archos Jukebox Recorder20

EasyDisk Memory Stick

Siemens MP3-Player USB

Iomega Zip100 USB

BTW. if you discover more devices working with this driver please contact the developer adding the output of USBRES.

Hobbes Search:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=cw-usbmsd-v1_1.zip
Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/cw-usbmsd-v1_1.zip


September 07

BootAble

BootAble is a script which can be used to create a maintenance partition or bootable CD with enough facilities to fully manage and recover your system.

It contains support for LVM, HPFS, JFS, FAT32, UDF (turned-off by default), and the CD file system. The total space occupied is less than five MB for a command-line version!

http://www.xs4all.nl/~hrbaan/


September 07

WaveCut beta 9

Frank Wochatz has relased WaveCut beta 9

WaveCut is a PM tool for playing and cutting large wav files into smaller wav file tracks. It runs under os/2 and ecomstation and requires both Rexx and MMOS/2 to be previously installed.

Features:

- small and tall PM interface

- integrated wav player

- fast cutting (integration of COPYWAVE)

- source files can be very large, up to 4 GB

- adjust the volume of several files to the same level (integration of NORMALIZE)

- fade in / fade out of tracks

- burning tracks to CDR (support for "RSJ CD WRITER")

- integration of rexx scripts

- sample scripts to encode the tracks to MP3 or OGG VORBIS formats

- sample script to create medleys

http://www.subsys.de/index2.htm


September 07

QueenCy 0.12a

QueenCy 0.12a has been released

QueenCy is a painting software wich supports layers, tablets and much more, (as my Japanese consists of two or three words I can't tell more , but the software itself is in English too)

http://www.1drop.net/os2.html


September 07

PMDisk 1.09

Daniel Valot has released PMDisk 1.09 (beta)

PMDisk is a binary File and Disk editor

http://dvalot.free.fr/tools.htm


September 07

Important note for eCS MT 1.10.3.x

If you download ecsmt.zip and ecsutil.zip, make sure that you also get the latest language dependent files, ss?45011.zip, ss?45012.zip, and ss?45013.zip (for smp users only). The easiest way to accomplish this is to download the 2 base files, unzip them into an empty directory, execute ecsmt, select a drive, and then select the download updates and download any SSI updates (dialog enhancer, etc.) that show up in the list.

I am getting quite a few messages concerning failures that are caused by using the old versions of the language dependent files.


September 07

DawiControl SCSI-driver 4.31

Dawicontrol has updated the scsi-driver for all of their SCSI- cards to version 4.31

http://www.dawicontrol.de/german/html/scsitreiber.htm


September 06

eComStation Maintenance Tool 1.10.3.2

Anyone trying to download with other than a dialup connection? It is all that I have, so I had not been able to test a direct internect connection. Please download 1.10.3.2.

Build 1.10.3.2
Correct error in determining network availability when not using dial-up.


September 06

WebMail/2 v12

I've released a new version of WebMail/2.

WebMail/2 is a web to email gateway. WebMail/2 allows you to use your web browser as a full-featured e-mail client. It does this by interfacing your web server with your e-mail server and allowing the web browser to send and receive e-mail information. You can use your existing email solution with WebMail/2, you are not required to change anything from your current configuration.

Features among other:

Authentication daemon, multiple user databases, dynamicly parsed HTML files, full REXX CGI procedures, Contacts manager, Signature support, admins can change the code to their own needs and add more functionality. Unlimited number of emails can be listed, sorted in multiple pages, Upload and Download of file attachments, themes, external authentication, high security per user and via APOP, web server authentication. New User Registration feature allows users to create their own email accounts. Extra features like multiple languages.

Latest public version can be found at: http://www.michelinakis.gr/Dimitris/soft.html

To receive beta versions please join our mailing list. To subscribe to the mailinglist, simply send a message with the word 'subscribe' in the Subject: field to the -request address of that list.

To: webmail2-request@michelinakis.gr
Subject: subscribe

To subscribe to the digest, simply send a message with the word 'subscribe' in the Subject: field to the following address.

To: webmail2-d-request@michelinakis.gr
Subject: subscribe

Thank you.


September 05

Are you interested in sharing a room at Warpstock?

Want to attend Warpstock but need a cheaper room? Before you bring a bedroll and camp out on the curb, check out http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarpstockRoomates/ a new Yahoo! group set up to help you find a roommate to share the cost of the greatest OS/2 weekend this side of the Atlantic. Staying at the convention site is not only more convenient, it helps support the Warpstock event. Sharing a room not only saves you money, it gives you an opportunity to get to know another member of our great community.

Please Note: Your use of this site is AT YOUR OWN RISK. Please read the Greeting carefully. Remember: This is the Web; bad things can happen when you're not careful. The owner of this Yahoo! group, the Warpstock Corporation, and the entire population of Tierra del Fuego are not responsible for your privacy; you are.


September 05

Updated IBM Printer Pak level 30.771

IBM has updated the English versions of the printerpak (omni, laserjet, postscript) to level 30.771

New:

HP C LaserJet 2500

OKI C7200/C7400

OKI C9200/C9400

OKIPAGE 14i/14ex

OKIPAGE Okipage 24/24DX

OKIPAGE Okipage 8p Plus

Xerox Phaser 5400

Canon S520

Canon S750

Canon S820D

Canon S900

Canon S9000

HP Business InkJet 2230/2280

OKIPOS 425 FullCut, support for OKIPOS 425S/425D printers

OKIPOS 425 NoCut, support for OKIPOS 425S/425D printers

OKIPOS 425 PartialCut, support for OKIPOS 425S/425D printers

OKIPOS 425 Slip, support for OKIPOS 425S/425D printers

OKIPOS 425 Tractor, support for OKIPOS 425S/425D printers

Canon S400, added Print Head Alignment support

Canon S450, added Print Head Alignment support

Canon S4500, added Print Head Alignment support

Canon S800, added 1200x1200 dots per inch resolution support

HP Color LaserJet 2500 PS

Xerox Phaser 4400B

Xerox Phaser 4400DT

Xerox Phaser 4400DX

Xerox Phaser 4400N

Lexmark C750, PPD update

Lexmark C910, PPD update

http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/WebCatMod?OpenView&Start=1&Count=300&ExpandView


September 05

eComStation Maintenance Tool 1.10.3.1

I have updated eCS MT to 1.10.3.1 to solve some rather pressing issues.

Build 1.10.3.1

Added work around for WGet issue with multiple executions.
Added German version of netwksta.200 (IC31990, fix for Peer).
Block downloading until all FTP information is available.
Correct error in SMP upgrade routine.
Correct error in temporary directory deletion.
Add real directory selection routine with option to set to default.


September 05

GUIFFY 4.6 compare/merge released

Guiffy is the quintessential cross-platform visual compare/merge utility. Features 2-way and 3-way smart, "SureMerge", interfaces. Compare and Merge interfaces support Editing and Undo. Guiffy's compare views include Inline diff highlighting. Guiffy includes integrated Folder Compare/Synchronization features. Comes with builtin UNICODE and MBCS support. And, a command line interface for CM/SCM integrations -- Works with CVS, Perforce, SOS, and Starbase. Plus, a complete API package is included.

Available for all Java-enabled platforms including: Windows, Linux, Unix, MacOS 9/X, and OS/2 or eCS.

Guiffy 4.6 includes:

>> CVS integration as external diff/3-way merge (( Igloo and SmartCVS ))

>> CVS integration as "conflict editor" (( TortoiseCVS ))

>> Merge checkpoint(save) / resume(open)

>> NEW Folder Compare controls

Homepage: http://www.guiffy.com

License: 30-day evaluation.

Single User registration is $79.

Thank you for your support,

Bill_Ritcher@Guiffy.com


September 05

Opera 5.12 released

Press release - http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2002/09/20020904-2.html

" Oslo, Norway - September 4, 2002 Opera Software releases Opera 5.12 for OS/2 today after extensive beta testing. Stability issues from the previous versions have been fixed, namely INI file corruption from starting a second copy of Opera, background problems with GIFs, and running Win32 plugins.

OS/2 is one of IBM's platforms for large businesses and corporations. OS/2 has been estimated to comprise of as many as ten million users. Most of these customers can be found among large corporations, particularly in the banking, financial services, health care, and insurance industries that have significant investments in IBM hardware and software.

"We are pleased to offer Opera 5.12 for OS/2 after such an eagerly anticipated wait," says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera Software. "All the bugs from previous versions have been fixed, and we look forward to moving ahead with Opera 7 for OS/2 in the near future."

Opera 5.12 for OS/2 is also the first version that can be registered so that users can remove the banner ad.

The single self-installing download file requires no other software and works with with OS/2 WPS drag and drop. Printing is supported, as well as Java 1.3 applets and native plugins. Download Opera 5.12 for OS/2 today at http://www.opera.com/download/

Main URL: http://www.opera.com/os2/


September 05

Intel Pro/100 Ethernet Drivers V4.35

Intel Pro/100 Ethernet Drivers V4.35 dated 29 April 2002 that allow T and A series ThikPads to recover from Suspend. These are the OS/2 files extracted from the TPNWALL.EXE posted to the ThinkPad repository on Aug 31st 2002.

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/e100b435a.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=e100b435a.zip


September 05

Warpstock 2002 Social

Join your fellow OS/2-eCS users for an evening of socializing, fun, entertainment and Texas Style Barbeque. We'll be having dinner in a Warpstock-only room at the The County Line BBQ. http://www.countyline.com/index.html

Set in an old lake lodge, the County Line on the Lake is right on Bull Creek just off Lake Austin, and has been well known for years as "The Place" in Austin to take out-of-town guests. Cocktails on the large redwood deck overlooking the water are a must.

We've ordered up a Texas-sized Cadillac platter for everyone - 5 different meats, all genuine Texas style Barbeque. Baked beans, cole slaw and potato salad, round out the menu. We're sorry, no subsitutions and there is no vegetarian platter available. In addition we have live musical entertainment planned.

Bus transportation, with a scenic drive from the Austin Renaissance hotel to the County Line restaurant, and return are included in the price. We require that everyone ride the bus to the event.

Seating for this event is very limited this year, so you may want to purchase your ticket as soon as possible. Once we have reached our limit no more tickets can be sold. To purchase your ticket to the Warpstock 2002 Social, please refer to the following URL: http://www.warpstock.org/2002/registration/registration.html#social

To learn the latest information about OS/2 and eComstation, come to Warpstock 2002, which this year is taking place in the home of OS/2 development. Warpstock will take place the weekend of October 5-6, 2002 in Austin, Texas at the Renaissance Austin Hotel. You can find the complete presentation schedule as well as event registration and hotel reservation information at our web site: http://www.warpstock.org.

Warpstock, Inc., is a North Carolina corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy.

More information is available at the Warpstock web site : http://www.warpstock.org


September 04

"An Octet of Operating Systems" a Byte article mentioning eCS and OS/2

Thought you guys might be interested in taking a look

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=7572/byt1030741630741/0903_nicholls.html


September 04

New WarpVision GUI

The goal of the WarpVision project is to create an OS/2 multimedia player that supports the latest formats, as well as the latest hardware features.

Status: The WarpVision Player is currently undergoing development, but in the interim you can download the beta versions. All of the work on this project is done in spare time and is distributed under GNU licencing guidelines. If you know of some new features that you'd like to see implemented, or even if you'd just like to do something nice for the authors, you can always make a financial contribution! To find out how you can help the WarpVision team, please mail us at wvision@os2.ru.

Current Features

* Playback of media in many different formats (DivX-3, DivX-4, DivX-5, XViD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, ASF [not yet complete])
* Support for various audio CODECs (AC3, PCM, MP3 [through video stream only])
* Hardware-accelerated playback of supported formats through use of the HW EnDIVE driver (YUV422 colour scheme)
* Autodetection of colour scheme
* Fullscreen and windowed playback
* Toggle for maintaining aspect ratio in windowed mode
* Skin support for the user interface
* Playlist support (currently under construction)
* Brightness control
* Resampling of audio to 44100 Hz or 48000 Hz, for support of various audio chipsets
* Optimized for enhanced instruction sets (MMX, MMX2, SSE and 3D-Now!)
* Ability to rewind and fast-forward through use of GUI slider or hotkeys
* Ability to easily change program priority

Changes:

04.09.2002
+ added drug'n'drop :) to playlist
+ added new sync algorithm as main (you must remove VIDEO2.INI)
* playlist loading moved to separate thread
* fixed seriouse memory leak when open and play AVI's and a couple of more small leaks
* fixed many small bugs. much more bugs added :)

28.08.2002
* mpeg time detection more carefully (almost perfect :) )
* fixed 3175 when doubleclick on clock. now its trap E... joke :)
* OSD didn't show OSD name when value = 100

27.08.2002
* changes in wv engine
latest libavcodec updates
* slider now didn't jump forward on mpeg's
! playlist redesign

24.08.2002
* changes in wv engine
demuxer fixes, latest libavcodec updates
* non interleaved AVI bug found

Program URL: http://os2.kiev.ua/

http://www.laemmlin.net/mirror/wvgui/wvgui20020904.zip


September 04

WinWpi v0.21

WinWpi is a program that allows to list and unpack WarpIN (WPI) archives on a DOS/Win32 system. The new version corrects a major bug of version 0.2.

Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=winwpi021

Note: The "bug" was nothing less than the fact that version 0.2 was UNABLE to extract more than one single file from an archive (plus list the content)! Since I didn't hear any complaints I conclude that the program isn't being used so very much at all... But why then did I hear for a certain while so many complaints about WPI being an "non-portable" archive format?? ;-))

Well, it is ported to Win32, and whoever would like to port it to Linux or whatever is friendly invited to take the included source code and ask me any question he/she likes to ask! I do not have a Linux system, but I have already developed for it in the past and I am ready to try fixing the one or other portability problem that might arise.

--
Cornelis Bockemuehl
CH-4059 Basel
cbockem@tiscalinet.ch


September 04

Servolution Logon Client Version 3.0 & Sync Packet 1.0

The Servolution Logon Client version 3.0 and the SyncPacket 1,0 is available now in the InterNet for the down load.

New features: Support for OpenLDAP, Netscape, RACF, coding over SSL, LDAP and automatic OS/2 Logon. Sync agent support for automatic user synchronisation with Windows (ADS), LINUX, UNIX

http://servolution.comtarsia.com


September 04

OS/2 Mention in The Economic Times (India)

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=20495551

Talks (briefly) about IBM's worldwide OS/2 support center in Bangalore, which also does some programming.


September 03

DirDiff 2.01

DirDiff 2.0 is a directory compare and analysis program for OS/2 PM and the successor of DirDiff 1.x.

This is manly a bugfix version. In addition you can easy register DirDiff via your PayPal account now.

Web Site (english):

http://www.ws-it.de/en/product/ddiff

Web Site (deutsch):

http://www.ws-it.de/product/ddiff


September 02

WarpZip update

WarpZip has been updated and is now online.

Version 3.7 addresses download queues and how they are handled. Previously, you could download files from the internet without having to "save as" to your download directory but after WarpZip loaded the file listing, it would let you close the program without saving a list of any "unviewed" archives.

As of v3.7, any "unviewed" archives are saved for the next running of WarpZip. For example: If you have downloaded and virus scanned 10 archives via the WarpZip Download Preprocessor but only had time to view 5 of the archives... WarpZip will now save the last 5 for viewing during your next session.

As always, there is no charge for this update. Registered users are invited to stop by the PillarSoft website and upgrade to the latest version. New users are welcome to download and evaluate WarpZip as well!

WarpZip is available ($29) through BMT Micro (links available from the PillarSoft website). The $99 PillarSoft Suite has also been updated to include the latest version of WarpZip and is also available via BMT.

WarpZip: http://www.pillarsoft.net/warpzip.html

PillarSoft Suite: http://www.pillarsoft.net/suite.html


September 02

Maul Publisher 2.20

"Maul Publisher version 2.20 has been released (9/1/2002). Maul Publisher is "the world's first professional desktop publisher for OS/2 Warp." It will automatically take care of page numbering in folding booklets, reversal of margins for facing pages, page numbering offsets where you don't want to start from page one, reversal of margins for top bound booklets and top folding booklets, centering margins on printers with odd margins, and multiway folding sheets and maps. In addition, you have full control of column, row, gutter, and centre gutter guides, including the automatic adjustment of page offsets when a number of sheets are bound into a folding booklet."

http://www.manglais.com/


September 02

September issue of OS/2 Connect

The September issue of OS/2 Connect is out- http://www.os2ss.com/connect/


September 02

eComStation Maintenance Tool 1.10.3

See http://www.ecomstation.com for details. This is the first release of the PM version of eCS MT. --


September 02

UpdCD 2.22 fix has been released

I have released updcd 2.22 on the updcd web site.

Here is the change list:

new: aligned with warpin/xwp 0.9.20
new: java 1.1.8 toolkit fixpak support (warp 4)
new: syslevel check ns plug-in install
new: drive path option for flash install
new: aligned with expart4 package (warp 4)
new: aligned with device driver fixpak 3 (warp 4)
new: support for single mouse

Enjoy!

http://xenia.sote.hu/~kadzsol/rexx/sajat/updcd.htm


September 01

PHP 4.2.2 & Mapserver 3.6.1

You can found a refresh release of PHP v4.2.2 with the adding of zzip, recode module and a refresh DLL.

Now mapserver connect correctly with a postgres present on the same machine. Mapserver has a refresh DLL.

http://venuto.monrif.net



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