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SW: New JFS (20040325) on IBM Testcase FTP

25 Mar 2004 22:06:09 -0500


From: "Mark Dodel"

A new JFS driver on IBM's Testcase FTP site:
< ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/jfs20040325.zip >

From the JFS Readme:

2004/03/25 bldlevel 14.098a
PJ29609 second try
- performance work on transaction manager

[Moderator note: As always these are not officially supported by IBM
unless they tell you to use them.

**** Please send any followup to comp.os.os2.bugs on usenet. ****

Also note that files are only on IBM's testcase for 2-3 days, so if you
want to try these get them now. Make certain you back up any files
replaced and don't try these on a production system. Read any readme file
before applying any changes. If your system is working well, and you have
no problems addressed by these updates, do yourself a favour and don't
mess with this. You have been warned.]


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SW: New wvgui 20040324

25 Mar 2004 18:26:19 -0500


From: "Mark Dodel"


Download: ftp://ftp.os2.kiev.ua/wvgui/wvgui20040324.zip

Web site: http://os2.kiev.ua/en/wv.php
Support Forum: http://os2.kiev.ua/en/forum.list.php?f=1

"The program is representing GUI for WarpVision created by Alex Strelnikov
It is not "launcher" for WV CLI, but includes latest WV CLI features In
future, these sparated projects will be combined in one

plays video media formats: mpeg1/2, avi, asf, mov, mp3 audio, wav, real
media, ogg, ogm
audio codecs support (pcm, mp3, ac3, wma1, wma2, ms adpcm, mp4)
HWENDIVE/WarpOverlay support (color in YUV422)
autodetecting color scheme (not always works correctly)
fullscreen and windowed mode
aspect ratio on and off in windowed mode
skin support
playlist support
plays last played file (from stop place)
CDDA support
VCD support
basic DVD support (uncrypted)
DVD subtitles support
Plain text subtitles support
OSD support (On Screen Display)
reading and writing playlists in WinAmp format
drag'n'drop to playlist and control window (files and directories)
play loop for files and lists
basic (due lack of drivers which support > 2 channels except Ruediger
"Rudi" Ihle CMedia drivers) multichannel audio support
PNG support for skins (thanks to Igor Saveliev aka gorynych)
pipe interface
Remote control support (Using Remote control daemon from TVSHOW project)

Single copy running: when wv already running, second wv just exit if
second wv have file name as parameter, wv pass it to first copy, which
start play it immedeately
Video snapshots"

Changelog:

PLEASE! Remove VIDEO2.INI first!

24.03.2004

 Added support for OpenDML
 Added basic support for new coming UNIAUD interface
 Added framedrop algorithm to main sync method. Secondary sync method
will be removed in next drops
 Slightly reworked decoding scheme
 Fixed error starting playing from history with very long file names
 Fixed playing of very short sounds and last samples

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/02/28/BUG8T5ACGB1.DTL

 Fixed subtitles to fit them in frame
 Fixed second copy run
 Fixed wrong settings tab
 Added DVD chapters switching on the fly
 A lot of other fixes and bugs

11.02.2004

 Added MOVa playlists support
 Redesigned DVD cache
 Reworked file cache
 added MS RLE/QT RLE/QT SMC support
 added color setup for OSD and subtitles
 Add to list now handles directories too
 A lot of other fixes and bugs




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SW: Mozilla 1.7b

25 Mar 2004 13:01:17 -0500


From: Felix Miata

http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/ has been updated.

"March 24, 2004 Mozilla 1.7b < http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.7b > has
been released.

Installer:
< http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7b/contrib/mozilla-os2-1.7b-installer.exe >
,
Zipfile:
< http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7b/contrib/mozilla-os2-1.7b.zip >
,
Installation Instructions:
< http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7b/installation-ports.html#ports_os2 >
,
Requires libc-0.5.0 GCC runtime library:
< http://download.innotek.de/gccos2/runtime/libc-0.5.0.exe >)."

[Moderator's note: I have not tried this version but I have read in the
Mozilla-OS/2 support news group that it still does not have support for
the Java plugin.]

--
"Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only
a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
President Abraham Lincoln

Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/



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Event: "Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Rexx" Symposium

25 Mar 2004 11:48:33 -0500


From: Chip Davis


The Rexx Language Association < http://www.rexxla.org > is excited to
announce that the 2004 International Rexx Symposium will celebrate the
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Rexx Language in the beautiful Swabian
region of Germany during 2 - 6 May, 2004. In recognition of this
significant milestone, the fifteenth annual Rexx Symposium has been
extended to four days for the first time.

The Symposium is the only technical conference dedicated to the Rexx
family of programming languages, drawing speakers and attendees from
around the world. It is the best place to learn valuable Rexx programming
techniques, keep up with the latest developments in the Rexx community,
and confer with your colleagues, many of whom are luminaries in the field.
The Program will feature a wide variety of presentations ranging from
tutorial introductions, to real-world practical applications, to research
papers describing techniques and features you will be using in the future.


The program schedule < http://www.rexxla.org/Symposium/2004/schedule.html >
represents the best of an overwhelming number of quality presentations
offered by the best Rexx practitioners in the world. IBM Fellow and Rexx
pater Mike Cowlishaw will give the keynote address on "Twenty-five Years
of Rexx -- a Personal View". It promises to offer a unique insight into
the conception, development, and behind-the-scenes life of the Rexx
language.

As usual, the Sunday before the Symposium will feature free tutorials and
a welcome reception. The full Symposium registration, including the
banquet, gift, and RexxLA membership is $295 before April 19, and $345
afterwards. Daily registration for only the sessions is $50 and $60
respectively. You may register from the Symposium Registration webpage
< http://www.rexxla.org/Symposium/2004/registration.html > using credit
card, check, or PayPal.

The IBM Rexx Development Team has generously offered to host the Symposium
at the luxurious IBM Executive Briefing Center at their Böblingen Research
Labs on Tuesday and Wednesday. To ease travel considerations, the first
and last days of the Symposium will be held at the Symposium hotel.

An excellent room rate of 87 Euro has been negotiated with the Stuttgart
Marriott Hotel Sindelfingen. Please see the Symposium Announcement
< http://www.rexxla.org/Symposium/2004/announcement.html > for booking
information.

Come and join us in celebrating the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Rexx
programming language!

========================================================================
===

-Chip Davis- Aresti Systems, LLC Member of: Rexx Language
Association chipDESPAM@aresti.com P.O.Box 13306 ANSI Rexx Standard
Committee +1.919.303.3306 RTP NC 27709-3306 SHARE, POSSI,
TriLUG, et al. Top-flight training in Rexx, IBM Assembler, and UNIX: see
http://www.aresti.com



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SW: New REXX GUI (Rexx/DW)

25 Mar 2004 11:01:25 -0500


From: "Tom Lee Mullins"

"In case anyone wants to have a peek at the soon to be available Rexx/DW
(a cross-platform GUI toolkit), I've put up the initial website at
Sourceforge: < http://rexxdw.sf.net >

The current documentation is available via the Downloads button, but no
software has yet been released; soon!

If you really want to find out more about it, then come along to the Rexx
Symposium in Sindefingen, Germany, 2-6 May, where I'll be introducing
Rexx/DW and talking about recent Regina releases.

See < http://www.rexxla.org > for more details.

Cheers, Mark."

I copied this from a REXXLA e-mail group. It is a - supposedly - 'cross
platform' gui toolkit. I thought it might be of interest here if it could
be used with OS/2-eCS(?).

BigWarpGuy


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SW: PMMail/2 open sourced on sourceforge.net

25 Mar 2004 08:34:45 -0500


From: don.eitnerDESPAM@verizon.net

It seems that PMMail/2 is being open sourced and supported through the
famous sourceforge.net site.

< http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmmail2/ >


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SW: New JFS & Kernels at IBM Testcase FTP

24 Mar 2004 09:45:09


From: Paul Smedley

Hi All,
Updated JFS & Kernel builds dated March 23rd are now available at IBM's
Testcase FTP site ( ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2)

From the JFS Readme:
2004/03/23:
PJ29609 second try
(No information on what problem PJ29609 is)

From the Kernel Readme:
20040323 14.098a
PJ29697 add debug support for disappearing browser windows
- fix DevIOCtl passthru support
- fixed the "k" command in the dump formatter (at least it's better)

Regards,

Paul.

[Moderator note: As always these are not officially supported by IBM
unless they tell you to use them.

**** Please send any followup to comp.os.os2.bugs on usenet. ****

Also note that files are only on IBM's testcase for 2-3 days, so if you
want to try these get them now. Make certain you back up any files
replaced and don't try these on a production system. Read any readme file
before applying any changes. If your system is working well, and you have
no problems addressed by these updates, do yourself a favour and don't
mess with this. You have been warned.

The UNI and SMP files are for WSeB/ACP/eCS Pro (SMP kernel) and the W4
files are for post FP15/MCP versions, including eComStation. Only use the
SMP kernel on a machine with more then one CPU.]


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SW: FotoGet/2 Version 1.0.1

24 Mar 2004 08:40:55


From: Herwig Bauernfeind

This is the GA release of FotoGet/2 Version 1.0.1, a freeware utility to
ease the transfer of your pictures from your digital camera to your OS/2
(eComStation) PC. The camera must be accessible from OS/2 by a
driveletter.

Note: This is not a device driver.

The main effort during the last weeks went into adding some additional
small (nevertheless quite useful) features that were easy to implement
without sacrificing stability (and hopefully without introducing new
bugs).

Support is provided on YahooGroups.
Visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fotoget/ to check out!
I invite everybody who showed interest to join!

What is new in this release?
+ Added: Show percentage of transfer in titlebar, too.
+ Added: "Stop" button to savely interrupt transfer.
+ Added: "Open" button to open base folder in default view.
+ Added: Optional MMPM/2 Sound event to signal "Transfer done".
+ Added: Basefolder and subfolder can be changed via drag and drop.

What was fixed in this release?
+ Fixed: Display error message and abort transfer process if an
error occured while transferring pictures.
NOTE: Prior to this fix the transfer would have failed silently,
but your pictures would NOT have been erased on the camera! and
some more items.

Get FotoGet/2 from hobbes:

Hobbes Incoming: < http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/fotoget101.wpi >
Hobbes Search: < http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=fotoget >

A big thanks to everybody, who reported bugs and helped me!

Have fun,
Herwig Bauernfeind




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SW: LasatUtl V.1.0

22 Mar 2004 15:01:14


From: "Kim Foder"

LasatUtl V. 1.0 has been released.

LasatUtil is a configuration program for Lasat's Speed II ISDN modem,
intended to make it easier to set up and use the modem, as Lasat only has
delivered a M$ W****** utility !

PS. Lasat is now a part of Eicon, and I don't know if they still are
producing this modem !

You can find LasatUtil on
hobbes: < http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/lasatutil.zip >
Search: < http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=lasatutil.zip >

or on < http://inet.uni2.dk/~kimfoder > .

Kim Foder


Homepage :
http://www.inet.uni2.dk/~kimfoder

Family:
http://www.foder.dk

Member of Team OS/2 and IACT



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SW: First Call: Open Sourcing OS/2 Software Campaign

21 Mar 2004 21:57:20


From: martin@-DESPAM-os2world.com

There is many OS/2 software around the Internet that had been abandon by
it's authors. Many software are great products that are still used by many
OS/2 users and software that deserves to have further enhancements.

The idea will be in a polite way to ask the developers of this abandon
OS/2 software to release the source code of it. Many of they don't code
anymore under OS/2 and don't care anymore about it and will have no
problem releasing the source code. The benefits of open sourcing their
code will be that other OS/2 developers can learn from the code and
possible continue their projects.

I had a good experience asking developers to open source their software. I
started some years ago the OS/2 gaming site and I also tried to contact
the OS/2 abandoned games developers. Much of the developers don't care
anymore about the game and gave me freely the source code for their games
and let me choose to license to be distribute with them. (You can check
out the open sourced OS/2 games here
http://www.os2world.com/games/html/opensource.html)

So if you want to help me on this campaign, once you find a OS/2
abandoware program the steps will be:

1) Ask the developer their permission to turn their software Open Source.

2) Ask the developer which license does he prefer to use with his
Software. There are several license that the developer can choose. If the
developer don't care which license to use you can always suggest the GNU
GPL which is very common with Linux and will keep further development of
that software to also be open source.

3) Get for the source code

4) Bundle the Source, license text file and the binaries in a single zip
file or WarpIn file. If you don't have time you can send to me source code
and I will bundle it with the binaries.

5) Distribute the binaries and the source code. There are several ways to
distribute a file on the OS/2 community. The most common is to upload the
file to hobbes OS/2 Archive. ( http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/) Check the upload
instructions and policies ( http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/uploadpolicy.html)

6) Announce that the program is now released as Open Source. We want other
OS/2 users and developers to get interest on it. Lets post every software
we can turn open source on the main OS/2 news site. The most easy way will
be to send a news using the OS2World.com News Submition Form
( http://http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php)

Remember that if you need help distributing the files, or bundle them in a
single file you can contact me. Many OS/2 (and ex-OS/2) developers don't
have time and will send you the files for you to give them some order. I
have no problem helping on anything I can, like packaging the files,
distribuite them and making the announcements to the OS/2 community.


Wish you luck.

Martin Iturbide
Martin@-DESPAM-os2world.com
OS2World.com News Master
http://www.os2world.com

Url: http://www.os2world.com

From: Martin Iturbide (martin@-DESPAM-os2world.com)


Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php


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SW: DVDDAO 0.0.3

21 Mar 2004 21:08:32


From: "OS/2 World" < http://www.os2world.com >

DVDDAO 0.0.3 is available for download at hobbes:

< http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dvddao-0.0.3.zip >

"DVDDAO is a tool for writing DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM"

Source: OS2.jp
Posted by: martini


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Mag: March 2004 OS/2 e-Zine

21 Mar 2004 15:12:06


From: os2editorDESPAM@yahoo.ca

The March 2004 issue of OS/2 e-Zine is finally out now.
Sorry for the delay, but we didn't quite have enough articles to "publish"
this month.

In this issue:
- Fighting SPAM with Bayesian e-mail filters, BogoFilter and Weasel
- A first review of IBM Thinkpad T40p laptop with OS/2
- Case Study: Redeveloping a web site with PPWizard
- More artwork...

Url: http://www.os2ezine.com

From: Isaac Leung (os2editorDESPAM@yahoo.ca)


Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php from
client with IP address: 64.69.81.206.


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SW: GNU wget 1.9 fix1 for OS/2 with SSL.

21 Mar 2004 11:18:20


From: "OS/2 World" < http://www.os2world.com >

GNU wget 1.9 fix1 for OS/2 with SSL is available for download at hobbes.

< http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=wget19-f1-os2-bin-vac.zip >

"GNU wget 1.9 for OS/2 with SSL - a network utility to retrieve files
using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP."

Source: OS2.jp
Posted by: martini


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SW: DVDAuthor 0.6.7 b897

21 Mar 2004 11:09:09


From: "OS/2 World" < http://www.os2world.com >

dvdauthor 0.6.7 b897 is available for download at hobbes:

< http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dvdauthor-0.6.7-897.zip >

dvdauthor 0.6.7 b897 is a tool for generate DVD VIDEO structure from given
mpeg2 files

Source: OS2.jp
Posted by: martini


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SW: socksd/2 2.2.7

21 Mar 2004 11:00:00


From: "OS/2 World" < http://www.os2world.com >

socksd/2 2.2.7 is available for download at hobbes:

< http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=socksd-2.2.7-os2.zip >

"Socksd is a native multithreaded socks daemon with tcp/udp portmaps,
external plugins, http proxy support. Has builtin http and pop3 proxies."

Source: OS2.jp
Posted by: martini


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SW: Fast Editor Lite 0.2.29

21 Mar 2004 10:45:09


From: "OS/2 World" < http://www.os2world.com >

Fast Editor Lite 0.2.29 is available for download

< http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=fed0229s.zip >

Webpage:
< http://es.os2.ru/ >

"FED is VIO mode programmers editor. It's fast, small in size and
flexible.

A lot of useful macro already present in default configuration file and
you may add your own written either in simple built-in or REXX language.

FAST Editor Lite is distributed as open source project under BSD-like
license."

Source: OS2.jp
Posted by: martini

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SW: RBLcheck 1.3

21 Mar 2004 07:58:04


From: os2softwareDESPAM@besse.nl

RBLcheck 1.3 is released.

New feature built in: you can choose to stop checking as soon as the
trigger level is reached.

RBLcheck can help you filter out spam, by checking against multiple RBLs.

User requests or comments are welcome.

Url: http://os2.besse.nl/

From: Jeroen Besse (os2softwareDESPAM@besse.nl)


Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php

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