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February 07

Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN 1.0 - now available!

Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN 1.0 is here!
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What is Open Watcom?
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Open Watcom is an effort to take the commercial Sybase Watcom compilers, and turn them into an Open Source Project. When Sybase realised that the Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers were no longer commercially viable, they searched around to find a solution for their existing customers. SciTech Software, a long time user of Watcom compiler products contacted Sybase about turning the compilers into an Open Source project, and hence the Open Watcom Project was born.

The Open Watcom products are so far the first and only proprietary compilers to be Open Sourced. With more than a million lines of source code the Watcom products represent one of the largest pools of proprietary source code ever released under an Open Source license. Sybase has released the code under an Open Source license that complies with the Open Source Definition, published by the Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org). The Sybase Public License used by the Open Watcom project can be viewed online here:

http://www.openwatcom.org/license_info/open_watcom_lic.html

Multiple Platforms In A Single Package!
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Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN supports a wide range of host and target platforms including Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000/XP, OS/2, extended DOS and Novell Netware. This impressive platform support is amplified by the powerful cross-platform capabilities of the IDE and tools, which enable building applications for a wide range of target environments from any of the host systems. For example, from Windows XP you can build and debug Windows 98, 32-bit DOS and 32-bit OS/2 applications, in addition to Windows XP applications. This extensive cross-platform support helps you to exploit the capabilities of your host platform.

Powerful remote debugging capabilities!
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The Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers support powerful remote debugging capabilities right out of the box. Support is included for remote debugging over the serial port, parallel port, TCP/IP for all supported platforms (including DOS!). There are also remote debugging layers for Novell Netware networks (IPX and NetBIOS) as well as remote debugging within virtual DOS machines and more. The best feature of the Open Watcom remote debugging support is the ability to cross compile and debug any target platform from any host platform! You can if you want develop and debug Win32 applications from OS/2 or DOS, and when the Linux port is complete you will be able to build and debug Win32 applications from Linux!

Free OS/2 and Windows SDK's included!
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One of the biggest missing links with the Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers is the lack of SDK headers and libraries for OS/2 and Windows. Thanks to the efforts of some of our Open Watcom team members, we now have fairly complete SDK headers and libraries for OS/2, Win16 and Win32! The Win32 SDK headers and libraries are actually based heavily on the w32api project developed and maintained by the MinGW compiler folks. Thanks to these efforts we now have a reasonably complete set of Open Source OS/2, Win16 and Win32 headers and libraries for use with Open Watcom! Please feel free to contribute updates and additions to these SDK projects if you find things are missing or incorrect.

Free DOS extenders included!
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Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN includes a number of royalty free and Open Source DOS extenders right out of the box. Thanks to Tenberry Software's gracious donation, the original DOS/4GW DOS extender from Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN is included royalty free with the Open Watcom compilers. Also included is the now free CauseWay DOS extender developed by Michael Devore. Both binaries are included as well as complete source code in the source archives. Finally we have also included the free PMODE/W and DOS/32A DOS extenders as part of the package.

Where can I get Open Watcom?
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The Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN compilers are freely available in both binary and source code form from the official Open Watcom web site. You can download the files directly from the web site, or if you prefer you can purchase the Open Watcom C/C++ and FORTRAN official CD-ROM and help support the Open Watcom effort! For more information on getting Open Watcom, see:

http://www.openwatcom.org/download/download_licenses.html

Want to Join the Team?
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Now that the Open Watcom source code is freely available, anyone can join the Open Watcom development team. If you would like to get started developing and contributing to the Open Watcom project, please join the Open Watcom community by visting:

http://www.openwatcom.org

Regards,

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Kendall Bennett
Chief Executive Officer
SciTech Software, Inc.
Phone: (530) 894 8400
http://www.scitechsoft.com


February 07

HTML Tidy for OS/2

HTML Tidy is a cross-platform tool for checking, correcting, and formatting HTML and XML code. It supports several codepages and is able to convert between them. Tidy is even able to extract something useful from the mess that MS Word creates when saving a file as web page.

The latest OS/2 build by Christian Hennecke is based on TidyLib and adds support for OS/2's favorite codepage IBM850. Asian codepages and UTF-16 should also be supported, but this hasn't been tested. Feedback is welcome!

Get it at:

http://tidy.sourceforge.net

Christian Hennecke


February 07

Forespace

For those of you using ForeSpace (the PovRay frontend)...

I have had the "Black Icon" disease (where most of the button graphics are blackened) for a number of years and had taken the liberty of fixing the problem.

This distribution is essentially the same as the fs042b.zip that Sean Ryan distributed except for "fs.exe" which has had it's resources changed in an attempt to fix the "black icon" problem. I have no claim to any of this software and can accept no credit or blame for it's use.

I have tried to find Sean for permission to make this fix available but was unable to so. I am now making it available to others in the hope that I would have had Sean's blessing. If anyone knows how I can contact him and get permission, I will upload this to Hobbes.

Get it here: http://www.pillarsoft.net/news.htm

Regards,
Wayne Swanson


February 03

Italian NLS for XWP1.0.1 is available

The Italian NLS for XWorkplace V1.0.1 is now available as WarpIN package at the usual address:

http://www.quasarbbs.net/xwp/download.htm

Direct link (900 Kb):
http://www.quasarbbs.net/xwp/101-xwp-it.exe


February 03

GNU units converts between different system of units

GNU units converts between different system of units. "Ported" from Unix/Linux version.

Program URL: http://www.cam.cornell.edu/~adrian/units.html

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/units-os2-181beta.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=units-os2-181beta.zip


February 03

Links-2.1pre7

Text mode browser with PM graphic support. Also SSL (for secure transactions) and Javascript Plus frames

Program URL: http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock/twibright/links

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/links-2.1pre7.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=links-2.1pre7.zip


February 03

PMMail/2 integration in Mozilla

Small program to integrate PMMail/2 in Mozilla

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=startpmm_02.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/startpmm_02.zip


February 03

openssh 3.5p1 binary build for OS/2

Includes both client and server. Requires Security/2 installed

Program URL: http://ecomstation.ru/openssh

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/openssh-3.5p1.2-bin.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=openssh-3.5p1.2-bin.zip


February 03

German NLS for XWorkplace 1.0.1 available

The German NLS package for XWorkplace 1.0.1, the most feature-rich and free enhancer for OS/2's and eComStation's Workplace Shell, is now available.

Besides the updates for version 1.0.1, issues with clipped text in dialogs have been fixed, as well as a large number of typos in the documentation and help.

Download the WarpIN package from:

http://www.os2world.com/os2files/files/xwp-1-0-1_nls-de.exe

Christian Hennecke


February 03

WarpIN and XWorkplace 1.0.1 are out

ENGLISH VERSION (GERMAN FOLLOWS)
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WarpIN 1.0.1 and XWorkplace 1.0.1 have both been released. These are both pure bugfix releases without any new features.

WarpIN is intended to become the new universal OS/2 installer. It is becoming more and more popular among OS/2 developers because of its flexibility and ease of use. It has full system configuration (CONFIG.SYS, WPS classes, WPS objects) and can fully undo all the changes to your system again.

XWorkplace is the most feature-rich freeware Workplace Shell enhancer on the planet, and even better, it is OpenSource. XWorkplace is the successor to my popular XFolder utility and has become a Netlabs project. You need WarpIN to install XWorkplace.

To get the new WarpIN and XWorkplace, please go to:

http://www.xworkplace.org

WarpIN and XWorkplace are Netlabs projects, released under the GNU General Public Licence. The source code is available on the Netlabs CVS server. See the above address for details.

Have fun!

Ulrich Moeller


February 02

RexxMail build 20030202.124344 released.

A new build of RexxMail is available from my web site:

http://www.degeus.com/rexx/rexxmail_english.html
or
http://www.degeus.com/rexx/rexxmail_nederlands.html

where you can also view the RexxMail on-line tutorial, and the readme, history, changes, and tips 'n' tricks files.

The distribution ZIP file is also available from the Hobbes repository:

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

For an explanation of the major changes in this release, see the changes file at:

http://www.degeus.com/rexx/rexxmail_changes_txt.html

RexxMail is an object-oriented WPS e-mail client, written in REXX, which uses the standard WPS user interface. It features an extensive range of functions and options with full command-line access.

RexxMail is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, see: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Best regards,

Marcus de Geus



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