Just a quick note to let everyone know that the Java-PalmPilot Project homepage
at:
http://yaztromo.idirect.com/java-pilot.html
...has been updated. Now available: compiled test code for the physical transport
and serial-line protocol layers!
The Java-PalmPilot Project is an attempt to create a full, pure Java based, open
API PalmPilot communications solution built from the ground-up. The design attempts
to utilize object-orientation to it's maximum potential, and as an open API freeware
(for individual use) project, the Java PalmPilot Project is perfect for third-party
developers who wish to add PalmPilot access to their applications at any level of
integration.
More details on the project and what it entails are available from the above
homepage. For E-Mail announcements, please send a request to be added to the annoucenment
list to Brad BARCLAY (yaztromo@idirect.com).
BETA: SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2!!
Dear OS/2 Aficionado,
SciTech is readying the first release of SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 Warp!!
SciTech Display Doctor is the universal display driver utility that supports
over 250 different graphics chips -- just about every one ever made. SciTech Display
Doctor for OS/2 will bring SciTech's proven device driver technology to the OS/2
Warp platform. SciTech Display Doctor requires OS/2 Warp 3 (Fixpack 35+) or OS/2
Warp 4 (Fixpack 4+) and is built using the new IBM GRADD display driver technology.
Included in the product is support for resolutions from 320x200 up to 2048x1536
(including 16:9 aspect ratio HDTV modes!) in color depths from 4bpp up to 32bpp
with full refresh rate control. SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 drivers are fully
accelerated and will support DIVE/EnDIVE for enhanced video playback and games.
SciTech is looking for all types of OS/2 users to help us stress test the utility
before its final release. If you would like to participate in a beta, please fill
out the form below and reply to this email (KendallB@scitechsoft.com).
For more information about SciTech or current versions of SciTech Display Doctor,
please see http://www.scitechsoft.com.
Regards,
The SciTech Display Doctor Beta Team
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Name: ____________________________________________________________
Company: _________________________________________________________
Phone: ___________________________________________________________
Email: ___________________________________________________________
OS/2 Version: ____________________________________________________
CPU TYPE: ________________________________________________________
Graphics controller type(s);
Board vendor/model Chip vendor chip type
Applications used:
Why are you interested in testing this utility?
Other useful information:
[ ] I am not affiliated with a company that develops display drivers
I hereby certify that the information I provided above is true and
correct and I agree to be bound by the terms of SciTech's beta license
agreement.
Signed,
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Please return this form to KendallB@scitechsoft.com. Thank you for your
interest in SciTech products!
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IBM has "recalled" Fixpak 9 for Warp 4 due to problems with the WPS
and some applications.
A Usenet post attributed to Mike Persell explains it:
In <crefryyubzrpbz.f21c1c0.pminews@news>, on 11/07/98 at 05:47 AM, "Mike
Persell" <persell@home.com> said:
The word from IBM is "It hangs the system if you use Back Again/2 or UniMaint
or some of the Stardock products (Object Desktop?). We will work on this Monday."
If you've already downloaded FP9, don't install it, yet.
If you've already installed it, it is probably a good idea to "Back Out"
to the previous level, and wait until it's re-released.
If you need assistance with Backing Out the Fixpak, there are instructions on
my website:
http://www.ameritech.net/users/dcasey/index.html
I'm going to check with BMT and make sure that they don't send out any of the
new Fixpak CDs with the bad FP9 on them.
Denmark - November 1, 1998 -- F/X Communications announced today releasing an
updated Tunnel/2. Field testing has proved the update an excellent, mission critical
tool for building a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN). This release is even more
perfectly suited for geographically dispersed and mobile business users.
If you are not yet up to speed on Virtual Private Networks (and how one can save
your business big money in communications costs) drop by our Web site for a quick
look:
http://www.fx.dk/tunnel
Tunnel/2 v1.40 IMPROVEMENTS:
Tunnel/2 FEATURES:
FUTURE PLANS:
Just a short note to let you know that the OS/2 Switchboard website has been
updated. By now it holds 699 links to OS/2 related sites all over the world. Please
visit the Switchboard at URL:
http://home.worldonline.nl/~jhockx
I just installed the new PilotLink tools for OS/2. PilotLink allows you to connect
the PalmPilot to your PC without the need of any Windows application. You can synchronise
Emails with PMMail, you can send mail with SENDMAIL, you can backup and restore
your Pilot and for sure you can also install programs to the PalmPilot.
I really recommend the PilotTools to any OS/2 user with a PalmPilot or a IBM
Workpad!
You can get the new version (0.8.13) at Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu,
the filename is PLK0813.ZIP
Stardock has released the "Look and Feel Creation Kit" for Object Desktop
2.0. It requires VisualAge C++.
http://www.stardock.com/products/od20/
CLOCK01.SYS in Warp 3 Fixpaks 37 and 38 and Warp 4 Fixpaks 7, 8, and 9 can cause
the System clock on some systems to jump from the 29th of one month to the 1st of
the next month. Systems currently known to experience this problem are:
To see if your system has this problem after applying one of the Fixpaks mentioned
above, do the following:
Watch the date as the time crosses midnight. If it jumps to the 1st of the month
then you have the problem, follow the instructions below. If not, you do not have
the problem and do not need to apply the fix below.
In either case, reset the clock to the correct date and time after the test.
To resolve this problem, replace CLOCK01.SYS in the OS2\BOOT directory of your
boot drive with the one from CLOCK01.ZIP in this directory. Below are more detialed
instructions:
IBM has updated MPTS (WR08424). You can download a copy from:
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/mpts/fixes/english-us/wr08424_conv/
This update is to be applied on top of WR08421 or WR08423 ONLY, not the new WR08610
FixPak. Also, it must be applied using the CSF FixTool v1.39b, not by running MPTS.EXE
as was done previously.
Applying WR08610 to MPTS on a Warp 4.0 system with TCP/IP 4.0x leaves a mess.
It would appear the WR08610 is intended to be applied to systems with TCP/IP 4.1+
(but I have no confirmation on this). I recovered by applying MPTS WR08423 back
over the top of WR08610. I wound up having to do it twice to get everything to take.
I suspect this had something to do with locked file processing, and you may want
to verify that the IFS statement for HPFS is ahead of any DEVICE statement in your
CONFIG.SYS file (APAR IC20181 in WR08424). INETVER reports 4.02r. I then applied
the latest TCP/IP stack updates, and INETVER reported 4.02t. I then ran the WR08424
apply, and INETVER reported 4.02w. It appears that both MPTS and TCP/IP fixes can
change the INETVER output. All seems well at this point.
One more OS/2 native release from IBM...
Net.Data v2.0.5 for OS/2 (see http://www.software.ibm.com/data/net.data/)
Will be of interest for ISPs or anyone who runs a web server in os/2.
IBM has quietly released a major update to its industrial-strenght database,
DB2.
Of course, the new 5.2 version is also available for OS/2.
Get a 60-day trial (warning: big download, and this is not a database for storing
your phone/address book ;-) ) at:
http://www.software.ibm.com/data/db2/udb/downloads.html
And read a review of it at:
http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/reviews/981019db2.htm
(They mention availability on every platform, but somehow "forgot"
to mention the os/2 version... strange right? If some writer has to forget to mention
something, it sure has to be OS/2 ;-) <ironic mode off>
The OS/2 Supersite is pleased to announce that the OS/2 Master Updates Page created
by Kevin Royalty and sponsored by the Team OS/2 Cincinnati Users Group has been
moved to the OS/2 Supersite and will be maintained by the Supersite Staff. This
valuable OS/2 site has been around for nearly three years but had not been actively
maintained recently.
"As the original author of the OS/2 Warp Masterupdate pages, I am extremely
happy that the OS/2 Supersite has agreed to take them over for me," said Royalty.
"As most people that frequent our site know, I got married in late 1997, and
starting in early 1998, turned over responsibility for our users group website to
several different webmasters who failed miserably at the job of keeping our site
current. At this point, the most important pages are being turned over to sites
that we feel will keep up the reputation of the pages. My apologies to the OS/2
community for not keeping them up to date due to my new "life". I feel
better knowing that excellent sites like the OS/2 Supersite will keep the pages
alive for a long time to come."
The site has been given a new look but will carry the same valuable content.
The Master Updates Page is located at http://www.os2ss.com/masterupdate/
and users are encouraged to send us information on fixes that they find that might
be useful to others by using the feedback form on the web site.
Stardock has released Entrepeneur 1.5:
http://www.stardock.com/update/update_ent.html
Changes in 1.5 over 1.31
There are also two new maps available:
http://www.stardock.com/products/ent/goodies.html
CFM Twain has been recently updated to version 5.10 with some new features and
scanners supported.
http://www.cfm.de/f_products_start.htm
FixPack 9 for OS/2 Warp 4.0 can be found at:
http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/softupd.html#warp34.
The APAR's can be found at:
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v4warp/english-us/xr_m009/readme2
HIDEWIND.DLL V1.00 is avaiable from my homepage at:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/index.html
This addon DLL for watchcat 2.1 gives you an additional item in the addon menu
to hide windows of crashed processes. This works even if a process hangs in the
exitlist and the window blocks your screen (in most cases). The crashed program
is removed from the window list so it cannot be brought back onto the screen accidentally.
This utility is released under the GPL and comes with full source.
UPDATED: November 4, 1998
Today I realised that the wcat-hidewindowaddon_v100.zip contains a wrong version
of hidewindow.exe which does not remove the program from the window list when invoked.
However it hides the window. Get the corrected package V1.01 from my homepage at:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/5785/index.html
I appologize for all the inconvenience this may cause!
For those of you who have had trouble accessing the Phoenix Software web site
over the past couple days, here is an explanation:
Our "upstream" ISP has been cut off from the main backbone of the internet,
so the Phoenix Software web site is currently offline. We have changed upstream
providers, and we are currently waiting for Internic/IANA to move the phxsoft domain
to the new name servers in the root server. We expect to have the Phoenix Software
web site back up tommorow.
We apologize for any concern or confusion this may have caused. Please note that
this DOES NOT mean that Phoenix Software is having any other problems. We continue
to develop the Think Tool Pro and other products successfully.
Also, you may be interested to know that we are currently in the process of revamping,
revising and adding new info to our web site, so you may want to check it out once
the server is back online. The URL is http://www.phxsoft.com.
We appreciate any feedback you have on the changes.
Once again, our web server should be back up tommorrow.
The beta of Theta Band Software's MMPack for OS/2 is now available.
More information is available at http://www.thetaband.com/mmpack
and online ordering is at http://www.thetaband.com/ordering.
The initial version of the MMPack has 3 components :
MMCHECK - This is a utility that checks your MMPM/2 installation (i.e. MMPM2.INI)
for errors or suspicious settings. If it finds any, it will tell you what they are,
so that you can fix them.
MPU-401 Driver - This is a replacement for IBM's MPU-401 driver, which is used
to MIDI support for a number of sound cards, including sound cards that use the
Crystal Semiconductor drivers. Enhancements over IBM's driver include:
NPDSMI 2.0 - An enhancement over the free DSMI Netscape plug-in, this new version
supports compressed (zip) module files.
I've put some tools and "icon" kits in my anonymous files...they are:
1) Netscape Communicator Icons, with 40x40 and 20x20 forms (high res). Included
in this zip is a REXX program to apply the new icons.
http://duanec.indelible-blue.com/anonymous/os2/wps/nscicons.zip
2) An updated ICQJava installation program. REXX again, the program has the icon
file imbedded in it. Download it to your ICQJava directory and run it.
http://duanec.indelible-blue.com/anonymous/os2/wps/icqwps.cmd
3) The REXX program (used above) to imbed icons into REXX programs. Everything
is plain text embedded and it will append a subroutine to create the icon to your
existing REXX programs.
http://duanec.indelible-blue.com/anonymous/os2/wps/bin2rexx.cmd
4) other various stuff.
http://duanec.indelible-blue.com/anonymous/os2
I would encourage OS/2 users to modify the my scripts for their favorite Java
(or not) programs and send them to the vendor. There really no reason applications
can't come with an install for the OS/2 Desktop. It's just so EASY!
TarGzip has been updated to 1.5
The update includes:
Available from:
http://users.powernet.co.uk/vpub
Look in the project or local download.
This is email ware.
For those whoe do not know TarGzipPm is a rexx PM front end to Tar.exe and Gzip.exe
which must be on the path to run it.
As of today the 1st of November, InetPowerServer v0.75Beta2 is released.
This new release includes a lot of bug fixes and some major changes as well as
new features. (See ips\doc\history.html in the distribution archive).
IPS is a server application for Internet based protocols like ftp, pop and smtp.
It lets you setup a ftp and/or mail server.
The new version is uploaded to hobbes (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu)
with the name ips075b2.zip as well as on the home IPS site: ftp.iq.to.