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September 06

Have you booked your flight to Warpstock yet?

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Have you booked your flight to Warpstock yet? Well, it's time to do it - we're in the sweet spot for the airfare to San Francisco! Here are some examples of current air fare (including most fees and surcharges) from Travelocity based on traveling Friday before Warpstock and leaving Monday after Warpstock ends.

round trip Airport Airport
City price Code Name
------------------------------------------------
Chicago $231 ...... ORD (O'Hare)
(or on ATA) $198 ...... MDW (Midway)

Austin $254 ...... AUS (Bergstrom)

Phoenix $241 ...... PHX (Sky Harbor)

NY (Newark) $291 ...... EWR (Newark)

SFO (San Francisco)

You should always shop around and compare prices so check out other low-price travel reservation sites such as,

http://www.1800cheapseats.com/
http://www.airgorilla.com/
http://www.orbitz.com/

And, have you made your reservation at the hotel? The reserved rooms are going fast. We've had reports of difficulty reserving rooms after Warpstock (you can get the fantastic Warpstock rate for up to 5 days before and after Warpstock). Don't wait for all these rooms to be gone. We're at a Hilton DoubleTree hotel this year and, like most Warpstock's, the action takes place in the hotel at all the informal gatherings that happen over breakfast, lunch, and drinks in the evening. The $85-a-night price is fantastic, these rooms' rack rate is several times that amount. You'd have to be over 63 to get a better rate! http://www.bamart.com/Store.asp?m=Warpstockinc&n=14&k=286&s=Hotel+Information

FLASH FLASH FLASH!!! Early Bird Pricing for Warpstock itself has been extended to September 25th! It's $99 now for TWO DAYS! That's only $9 more than the single day pricing. After September 25th, it will be $140. So, save some money and book now. It's like getting the Social for only $10! http://www.bamart.com/Store.asp?m=Warpstockinc&n=9&k=4268&s=Registration

Once again, Warpstock will fulfill our mandate to get the latest and greatest information on OS/2 and eCS to you our guests. We haven't posted all the presentations yet (those presenters just won't get us their synopsis and bios to us in a timely manner!) but WE DO HAVE MANY UNPOSTED PRESENTATIONS at this time. Serenity has once again taken the lead as a Warpstock Patron, and Bob St.John will be manning a booth. eCS Presentations from the source. We know that Mensys' Joachim Benjamins too will be at Warpstock along with Stalker Software makers of Communigate Pro and San Francisco area-based Help Desk Computers. Networking? We will have lots of networking everything this year: Linux, OS/2-eCS, Windows, Wireless Networking, Home Networking. Warpstock Presenters will help you understand how to put that home or office network together. And, SLASHDOT is sending one of their editors to do a presentation, too!

And finally, Warpstock's Giveaway. We promise not to toss anything at the audience this year, cause we're going to give away several wired and wireless cable/DSL routers and they might hurt someone, some straight out of the box and some we used for our Warpstock network. SMC and Siemens products that are totally compatible with OS/2 and some routers have print server and dialup support. We even have a network WIFI PCMCIA card or two to give away. So, even if you have a dialup network we're going to give away routers to help you connect and share that connection with other computers. And who knows what that three letter company will bring to give away?

Warpstock 2003 is our 7th Warpstock. You never know what will happen! Be there and find out for yourself.

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 05

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2

http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/

"September 5, 2003 Thunderbird 0.2 (Zipfile) have been released. Requires the C runtime DLLs."

Thunderbird website: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

"Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. Our goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using the XUL user interface language. Our intended customer is someone who uses Mozilla Firebird (or another stand alone browser) as their primary browser and wants a mail client based on mozilla that "plays nice" with the browser. In addition, by focusing solely on stand alone mail, we believe we can make some dents in the overall footprint and performance of the mail client by removing components and chrome we don't need. On top of that, the UI becomes much cleaner as a stand alone application as opposed to being part of the mozilla suite."

Download:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/0.2/contrib/thunderbird-0.2-os2.zip
C Runtime DLLs:http://download.innotek.de/gccos2/runtime/libc02.zip


September 04

NewView 2.8.4

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/NewView2_8_4.zip
later
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/misc/NewView2_8_4.zip

[ My ISP changed their homepage server domain #^*^%!! so I've killed the web page for now. ]

The major news this time is the re-use of existing help windows, just like original View used to do. This makes it much more useful for e.g. command prompt help. It also meant the installer has got *a lot* more complicated, so I suppose there will be some problems. Read the readme.txt...

NewView is a free replacement for the original OS/2 or eComStation online help system.

Major enhancements are:

- New user interface (split window)
- Select and copy direct from window
- Easy to use global (all files) search
- Remembers size & position
- Most recently used files list
- Smooth scrolling display
- Current topic always highlighted in contents
- Can go forward as well as back in history
- Options for fonts, colors and more
- Annotate help files
- Bookmarks
- Fully resizeable

V2.8.4
- Checks for existing help windows with the same files open and uses them instead of opening new windows.
- Fixed topic display problem (DBExpert.hlp)
- Corrected spacing in character graphics, when a custom font is used (pmprintf.hlp).
- Add blank line before/after cgraphics to match view
- Dutch thanks to Kris Steenhaut
- Japanese and Korean translations
Thanks to Tomoarai
- Updated Russian translation
- Standalone install can optionally associate NewView with *.inf, *.hlp
- Text files now installed
Full install, OS/2: x:\os2\book\NewView
Full install, eCS 1.1+: x:\ecs\doc\NewView
- Standalone install uses %PROGRAMS%, if set, for base folder
- Installer checks for potential conflicts with programs and help file


September 04

Tame 0.9.8.1

I recently uploaded Tame098upd2.zip to hobbes.

TAME/2 website: http://www.os2world.com/goran/tame.htm

"Tame/2 is nothing more and nothing less than an bridge between your scanner, Sane (scanner Acess Now Easy), MMOS/2 and your preferred picture painting/drawing/publishing application.

Beyond simply controlling the scan process, Tame/2 supports printing and faxing from scans, uses an OS/2 "light table" to facilitate handling your scanned images, scanning from a queue, and scanning over a network."

Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tame098upd2.zip
Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=tame098upd2.zip

Requires: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/graphics/scan/tame098.zip

adds dutch menue/inf, HP6350C, HP6250C, HP6200C, HP7450C, Agfa Snapscan 1236S, correction for Epson 1640USB, 2600PHOTO

updated english.inf,

fixed tame.exe (0.9.8.1)

Regards

Klaus Staedtler


September 04

Sun says there are 20 million OS/2 users

http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/dd0244b99fee78e280256d8a0018cb10

DATE: 22/08/2003

Mad Hatter Plans OS/2 Tea Party

By Gavin Clarke

"Sun Microsystems Inc's planned Linux desktop Project Mad Hatter is making a play for millions of customers running OS/2 and seeking a low-cost alternative to Windows.

Curtis Sasaki, Sun vice president of engineering for desktop solutions, told ComputerWire the company "conservatively" estimates there are 20 million customers stranded on IBM Corp's legacy operating system. ..."


September 04

Updated IrDa support on eComStation and Software Choice

http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/4eddaa42e99c19e186256a700058020a/281bfc5f352b210a86256b26006d1d03?OpenDocument

This software package provides the most current support for Infrared Stack (IrDA) devices for OS/2.

The following services are supported by the Infrared Stack:

* Printing to an IR-capable printer
* Serial communication through an IR-capable cell phone (see readme)
* LAN (Ethernet and Token Ring)
* High speed transfer rate

IrDA Stack drivers are designed to work on the following IBM Thinkpad Models:

380, 380D, 380E, 380ED, 380XD, 380Z, 385D, 385ED, 385XD, 560E, 560X, 560Z, 600, 600E, 600X, 770, 770E, 770ED, 770X, T20, T21. T22, T23, T30, T40

On the eComStation Download site for registered eComStation users:
http://www.ecomstation.com/downloads.phtml

Direct IBM download link (requires Software Choice subscription):
http://service.software.ibm.com/swchoice/os2dd/irda/irda.exe


September 04

tin 1.7.0 for OS/2

For anyone who's interested, I've uploaded a port of tin, Iain Lea's menu-driven text-mode newsreader from Unix, to Hobbes. I'm really not a programmer, but the source is good enough that it was pretty easy to port. I'm not sure how well it works in all languages -- it has GNU gettext compiled in, but I couldn't get it to work with any existing OS/2 ports of libiconv.

Nevertheless, it was the first newsreader I ever used and it's still fast and easy. And best of all, no reaching for the damn mouse. ;-)

This version supports ANSI color, automatic downloading, batch downloading, binary decoding (BASE64, UUENCODE and yEnc by way of the UUDEVIEW headers), multiple sorting and threading options, easy kill filtin-1.7.0-os2.zipters (subj: *\[FUD4\]*), &c. &c. &c.

Only tested on MCP2, which is all I have installed, but presumably it will work with most recent OS/2 versions.

Uploaded to: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tin-1.7.0-os2.zip



and headed for:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu//pub/os2/apps/internet/news/reader/tin-1.7.0-os2.zip


September 04

JPhotoBrush Pro 1.2 released

Hi all,
JPhotoBrush Pro 1.2 has been released this week . It is a minor release.

For those who have not used JPhotoBrush Pro, here is a brief description:

JPhotoBrush Pro is an Award Winning Multi-Platform Image Editing/ Enhancement/ Retouch Application written various filters, effects and transformation with user friendly interface. Offering a phenomenal range of adjustment for most effects, you will find many features not found on expensive commercial editors. It has been successfully tested in many operating systems including OS/2 eCS. It is friendly enough for the casual user who wants to enhance family photographs, yet powerful enough for some professional graphics.

Check it out at :
http://www.jphotobrushpro.com


September 04

What to expect at Warpstock this year

Just a reminder that Warpstock 2003 will be at the Doubletree Airport Hotel in San Francisco, California, the weekend of October 18 and 19. You can place your reservation via the web at the Hilton's secure on-line reservation web site: https://secure.hilton.com/en/dt/res/choose_dates.jhtml?&hotel=SFOAODT&spec_plan_desc=Warpstock&spec_plan=CDTWRS

This link will give you our special rate plan of $85 a night (single or double), so make your plans to visit San Francisco, the City by the Bay. You can register for Warpstock 2003 at: http://www.bamart.com/warpstockinc.

So far, there are several great presentations scheduled on,
"Wireless Networking with OS/2"
"IBM Hardware with official IBM Support"
"OS/2 and Novell integration"
"What's new and what is planned for eComStation 1.1"
In addition Serenity is planning two significant announcements for eComStation and OS/2 users which will be previewed at Warpstock. More information on these projects will appear in the Warpstock session information in the next several weeks.

In addition there are several sessions of a multiplatform and/or crossplatform nature such as,
"XUL (aka, the Mozilla GUI Toolkit)"
"PHP Basics"
"PHP Advanced"
"XML/XPath/XSL basics"
"Tales From the Open Source Advocacy Front"
"REXX PARSE Exposed!"
and others including a planned session on networking in a multiplatform environment. So spread the word among those who might be interested in these topics as well.

Finally, we have product demonstrations scheduled including
"DFSee How-To And Demonstration"
"Stalker Software Communigate Pro"
and several from our friends at Innotek!

For a list of all the currently scheduled event presentations please see
http://www.warpstock.org/2003/presentations.html
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/2003/presentations.html

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 02

lSwitcher V2.7 beta 2

lSwitcher V2.7 beta 2 is available for download:
http://www.ece.msstate.edu/~avl1/lSwitcher/lsw270b2.zip

"This utility is a feature-rich replacement for the OS/2 PM Alt-Tab switcher and includes a task switcher that works in full screen sessions.

The program can also be used with the Ctrl-Tab hot key combination.

Beginning from version 2.6 lSwitcher incorporates a convenient task bar.

Beginning from version 2.6 lSwitcher also exists in the form of widget for XWorkplace WPS enhancer by Ulrich Möller. Functionality of both the standalone application and the widget are very similar."


September 01

Impos 2.1 updates

Compart has released updated image format filters and scanner drivers for Impos 2.1
look for cpiffos2.zip and cpscnos2.zip at: http://www.compart.net/downloads/


August 31

WordWrap 1.5

WordWrap 1.5 has been released. New in this version is user-defined character substitution (good for code page conversion, for instance). Also, WordWrap 1.5 PM, the graphical front-end for wordwrap.cmd, has been completely redesigned to be easier to use and more powerful than ever!

WordWrap is a REXX script to cleanup extraneous whitespace characters in plain text files. It also has the ability to wrap lines to a specified margin, to output with basic HTML markup for viewing in a web browser, and now the ability to substitute characters such as non-standard "high ASCII" characters from other operating systems and languages. See substitute.txt in the Zip file for an example of user-defined character substitution.

WordWrap 1.5 can be downloaded from:
http://freiheit.syntheticdimension.net/os2-myapps.html
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/wordwrap15.zip
and later
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/wp/wordwrap15.zip

WordWrap is donation-ware. You are free to download and use it, but if you like it, you are asked to make a small donation to the author.

WordWrap and WordWrap PM are copyright 2001,2003 by Don Eitner, all rights reserved.


August 31

ePDF 2b0.96

ePDF 2b0.96 has been released.

ePDF is for PostScript to PDF conversion for eComStation and OS/2.

Web site: http://www.subsys.de/ePDF

This version fixes some minor bugs of version 2b0.95.

Downloadlink:
http://www.subsys.de/ePDF/download/epdfup2b96.zip

Note: This is only an updated ePDF.exe file, the program requires an installed previous version (for new user: get a full archive from http://www.subsys.de/ePDF/ install path and overwrite the old ePDF.exe to update your application.


August 31

WordWrap 1.6 - IMPORTANT UPDATE

WordWrap 1.6 has been released to fix 2 major bugs in version 1.5:
* WordWrap PM no longer crashes on load due to DrCtrlLoadFuncs
* WordWrap.cmd now safely handles input files with .tmp extensions

There are also important new features in version 1.6:
* The user-defined character substitution no has a fully functional graphical interface in WordWrapPM
* Character substitution now supports multiple-character strings
* Added template support for HTML output

WordWrap is a REXX script to cleanup extraneous whitespace characters in plain text files. It also has the ability to wrap lines to a specified margin, to output with basic HTML markup for viewing in a web browser, and now the ability to substitute characters such as non-standard "high ASCII" characters from other operating systems and languages. See substitute.txt in the Zip file for an example of user-defined character substitution.

WordWrap 1.6 can be downloaded from:
http://freiheit.syntheticdimension.net/os2-myapps.html
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/wordwrap16.zip
and later
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/wp/wordwrap16.zip

WordWrap is donation-ware. You are free to download and use it, but if you like it, you are asked to make a small donation to the author.

WordWrap and WordWrap PM are copyright 2001,2003 by Don Eitner, all rights reserved.



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