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OS/2 - eComStation News - September, 2005Browse - September 2005: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 2005: August Net: Useful eComStation listings Net: PCI Soundcard Matrix site Updated SW: Scripts for installing network services under OS/2 and eCS Net: Week of servers on ecomstation.ru SW: djprint version 0.55 SW: DOSBox frontend 1.6 SW: CDRWSel V4 beta2 available SW: Dosbox frontend 1.7 Event: "The past, present and future of Warpzilla" at Warpstock 2005. SW: DOSBox frontend 1.9 SW: Correction: DOSBox frontend 1.9 SW: DFSee 7.12 released
2005-09-01 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Eugene Gorbunoff" eComStation.Ru site invites you to fill tables: * The table of equivalents / replacements of Windows software in eComStation -- http://ecomstation.ru/win-ecs-table.php * The companies working on eComStation market -- http://ecomstation.ru/solutions/?action=companies * Solutions based on eComStation and OS/2 -- http://ecomstation.ru/solutions/?action=solutions Please, post additions via web-form: http://ecomstation.ru/support.php All your reports will be placed to the queue and should be processed in one week. Top
2005-09-02 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: martindDESPAM@DESPAMos2world.com Finally a new update on the page, changes on the PCI Soundcard Matrix site this month: * Ensoniq AudioPCI ENS1371 + Cirrus Logic CS4297 * Intel ICH5 + Realtek ALC650F * Intel ICH6 + ALC655 * VIA VT8237 + ALC658 * SB Live! Platinum (CT4760) * CS4235 (non PCI) used in Thinkpad 600 and some old Netfinity Server Most onboard sound will work if you don't have a buggy BIOS. Thanks to all contributors for their reports ! http://www.os2usr.org/os2sound.html mike ICQ #113674746 Url: http://www.os2usr.org/os2sound.html From: Martin Iturbide (martinDESPAM@DESPAMos2world.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php from client Top
2005-09-02 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: Fritz Hodel Hi Mark First of all many thanks for Your constant an valuable support for the OS/2 community! May be I can contribute a small part in return. I try quite many communication programs under OS/2 . Since I don't like to invent the wheel twice, I wrote some rexx scripts to ease and automate the installation of several programs. The scripts may be useful for some others. The scripts are by no means beauty full, they where just written on the job to help installations. Currently supported are: - emx installation an version checking - Firewall (the OS/2 built in) with some rudimentary config file generation - Apache2 Version 2.0.53 with PHP 4.3.10 - Mozilla 1.6 with Flash plugin - SSH 4.0p1 with SSES 0.4.2 - PM VNC viewer and server - DNS-server with Bind 8.4.2 The scripts contain a reasonable amount of comments, most of them in English. The asked questions are in German, but are not so numerous and can easily be translated also in English. So I could deliver a German and English version (the latter would certainly profit from some proofreading by a natively English speaking person). So if this is of interest for You just let me know. Regards Fritz -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen F. Hodel *************************************** A-Net GmbH fhodelDESPAM@DESPAManetgmbh.ch http://www.anetgmbh.ch Member of The Virtual Company Address Dorfstrasse 68 CH 8126 Zumikon Tel. +41 44 991 86 30 Fax. +41 44 991 86 34 GPS 47°19.822'N 008°37.557'E *************************************** Top
2005-09-02 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Eugene Gorbunoff" The thirty sixths week of 2005 is dedicated to collection of info about compatible/non-compatible servers (motherboards). Our database contains 65 records only ( http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=category§ion=brand ). Major part of the models are not produced anymore. Post new reports using the web-form ( http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=new ) Top
2005-09-02 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Don Hawkinson" I think that I am satisfied with the options and features of DJPRINT, so this should be one of the last releases before version 1.0. If you have questions about the functions of DJPRINT, please let me know so that I can use your questions to improve the limited documentation. djprint version 0.55 DJPRINT was intended as a method to list source code on my HP DeskJet 632c. I decided that I would make it available to other OS/2 and eCS users. I put a work-in-progress version on my web site and asked for comments and suggestions. I got a lot of suggestions and most of them were added as options to DJPRINT. I also found out that the HP PCL 3 command set was supported by many printers - not just HP printers. The ones that I know about are shown below. HP Deskjet 932C Xerox Phaser 8550 HP LaserJet II HP DeskJet 340 Brother HD 5150D IBM 4019 laser printer HP Laserjet 4050N HP DeskJet 632C The default printing mode of DJPRINT is to assume the paper is US letter size (8.5 x 11), 6 lpi , and line numbering is turned on. The printer is also put into compressed print, but this is not optional. An important function of DJPRINT is line wrapping. Long lines are split into multiple lines. Unless the line numbering is turned off, the same line number is used for wrapped lines. If line number 10 needs to be wrapped to fit on the page, all of the wrapped portions of line 10 will be numbered 10. This is done so that the line numbers refelct the actual source line number. A plus sign is inserted before each wrapped line to make certain the user knows the line has been wrapped. The line wrap is not intelligent. The line is wrapped at a specific character count - not at the end of a word or blank space. The header and compressed print are not optional, but many other functions are under the users control. The printer may be put into portrait or landscape mode, and the supported paper sizes are A4, letter (US standard size and the default), and legal (8.5 x 14 inches). The user also has the option of 6 or 8 lines per inch, with 6 lines per inch the default. The user may set the starting source line number, the ending source line number, and start the page numbering at number other than one. Setting the starting page number does not change where the program starts printing the source lines, it is only a cosmetic change. Changes: Version .055 added an option to put the printer in 12 cpi mode instead of compressed print mode. That option is /NO. version 0.51 changed the code to look in the current directory for options.djp and if not found, in the directory where djprint.exe is located. Version 0.50 added an options file called OPTIONS.DJP which must be present in the current directory. The options are listed on separate lines in the file. The options file is proccessed before the command line, so any command line options override the file options. The options in the file must start at column 1 and must start with a forward slash. Lines that start with any other characters are ignored. Verson 0.35 added an intial page number setting. The /Ixx option sets the intial page number to xx instead of 1. This option along with the /Hxx and /Txx options will let the user replace specific pages from a printed set. For example, if page 10 was damaged and started with with line 571 and ended with 628, the options /I10 /H571 /T628 would print a replacement page 10. Verson 0.33 added manual duplex printing! The option swtich is /DU or /du The output is first sent to the file testprn and then that file is split into oddprn and evenprn. The file oddprn is sent to the printer, the user is prompted to reload the paper and then the file evenprn is printed. If the /F option is used, the final output goes to the file testprn2. Version 0.31 changed the method used to display the usage and error messages to the screen. The usage information and the file being printed message may be redirected and the error messages now go to stderr. A /D option for double spacing the source had been added. A /Wx option for selecting the destination printer had been added where x is 1,2, or 3. If you only have one printer or the OS/2 default printer is the destination, you do not need this option. This program is intended to print program listings on HP DeskJet or LazerJet printers. It should work with any printer that supports PCL 3. It sets the printer to print 16.5 characters per inch and sends a reset to the printer when it is finished. The program prints a header at the top of each page and defaults to printing line numbers for each source line. The program does line wrap of lines over 119 characters and can do multiple wraps if the source line is very long. If the source line is wrapped, the line number is not incremented. If line 10 is wrapped three times, there will be three lines labeled 0010. The program also prints a "+" symbol before each wrapped line. Options: DJPRINT (options) file1 ... file9 (options)... where file1 ... file9 may contain wild cards The /R option sends a reset to the printer before printing The /F option causes the output to be sent to the file TESTPRN The /Hxx option starts the printing with line xx The /Txx option ends the printing with line xx The /Ixx option sets the initial page number to xx The /N option stops the printing of line numbers The /NO option puts the printer in 12 cpi mode The /S option puts the printer in 8 lpi mode - 77 lines per page The /L option puts the printer in landscape mode - 155 char per line The /D option adds an extra linefeed for double space mode The /DU option prints the odd pages and then the even pages The user will need reload the odd pages after the prompt The /DUI option sets the printers duplex option The /PA option sets the paper size to A4 (210x297 mm) The /PL option sets the paper size to legal (8.5x14 in) The /Wx option sets the destination printer LPT 1,2, or 3 /W1 or /W2 or /W3 - the default is the default printer The /C option adds a name or comment to the header on page 1 for example: /C"Don Hawkinson" or /c"windows IS a virus!" The /B option issues new page after a user specified string is found for example: /b"page break" or /b"new page" version 0.55 compiled on Sep 01 2005 at 10:07:06 The /F option sends the output to a file called testprn in the current directory. This allows the user to see what would be sent to the printer without using ink or paper. The /W and /B options only require the quotes if the text includes a space. Please let me know if this program works with your printer and the model number of your printer. If you have suggestions for program options, send them too. I will be making frequent changes to the program and will not always make an announcement that a new version is available. You can check the version number by executing the program with no arguments. The pre-release version of the program may be downloaded at: http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/djprint.zip Top
2005-09-02 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Version 1.6 dosbox frontend is now on hobbes. Changes; When a DOSBox mount drive allready exist, it wil be modified instead of adding twice (or more). Run now always runs the latest modifications, instead of running a loaded/saved file. Exit now saves the rexx file when modifications were made. Added some config file settings. Removed the mess from the help files. Added a yes/no pop up dialog asking to overwrite existing files when the file exist. Compiled for PII code now, I don't think older PC's will need dosbox, they have still ISA slots? But if you want a 486 or P1 code version, just ask me. Fixed some problems/errors, I hope its bugfree now, but I could use some feedback :-) http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dosboxfront_1_6.zip Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html From: Chris (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-05 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: remy.dodinDESPAM@DESPAMlibertysurf.fr Hello ! I just put CDRWSel V4 beta 2 (updated the 2005/09/05) on Hobbes. This is a new version and has an added DVDDAO(nickk tool) GUI. CDRWSel V4 beta2a frontend for RSJ or DVDDAO(New) or both: Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/cdrwsel_v4beta2.zip Search: HTTP://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=cdrwsel_v4 * CDRWSel Main windows can have new ICON buttons (option to activate) Many new icons have changed for a better and pretty design. * A new logbook can now be opened and is auto-placed on top or bottom of main window * Many dialogs have updated design. * New added DVDDAO GUI. A few options : - Create a new data project starting from a current folder or DVD - Create a Video DVD (AUDIO_TS + VIDEO_TS) with your existing VOB files (this is not a ripper) - Do a direct DVD to DVD copy - Copy a DVD into a image file (ISO) - Save a project for futur use - Import an existing project for updates / merge etc... ... * Added support for futur Jan-Erik dll for files above 2GiB (rxtnsion) * CDRWSel started Pids display (with kill option) can now display (kill through rxu.dll) all system Pids * RSJ part has some updates/improvements and several bugs corrected And more nice changes improvements. To find out all possibilities, review the included cdrwsel4.pdf file ( suggestion : If DVDDAO bufsize option is on at install, turn it off to begin ) Kind regards, Remy DODIN Top
2005-09-05 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Dosbox frontend 1.7. The main purpose of this program is to generate a rexx (cmd) file that starts dosbox with certain settings and runs a game / program, then create a desktop icon for it. Fixed an anoying bug when importing a config file with an autoexec part that contains mount points, the autoexec got messed up. It still a good idea to look at the autoexec part before saving anything. http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dosboxfront_1_7.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dosboxfront Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html From: Chris (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-05 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: madodelDESPAM@DESPAMptd.net Do you want to know where the browser for OS/2 is heading? And where it has been? We'll take a trip down memory lane and also talk about where the browser on OS/2 is going. Come hear from Mike Kaply, the leading expert on our very own cutting edge, Mozilla based web browser for OS/2 and eComStation, give a presentation on the past, present and future of Warpzilla. Michael Kaply has been involved with OS/2 since 1989. He started working on OfficeVision/2 and eventually became a member of the core OS/2 team, working on the help system and the acclaimed OS/2 Warp Tutorial. He is the co-author of "IBM's Official OS/2 Warp FAQs" book along with Timothy F. Sipples. In 1996 he joined the Netscape Navigator for OS/2 team, and has been involved in every OS/2 browser release since Netscape Navigator 2.0.2, including leading development of about every release since Netscape Communicator 4.61. Currently he is the lead for IBM's participation in the Mozilla/Firefox project. While his job no longer deals directly with OS/2, he is still considered the OS/2 browser expert within IBM, and he continues to be the module owner for OS/2 changes within Mozilla/Firefox. For more on this year's event location, including lots of Hershey area attractions (mmm, did somebody say chocolate?), see our web site at: http://www.warpstock.org/event_info/2005/location.html To learn more about Warpstock visit the homepage at: http://warpstock.org/index.html Information about this years event can be found at: http://warpstock.org/index_2005.html Registration information is at: http://warpstock.org/event_info/2005/registration.html And scheduled presentations are listed at http://www.warpstock.org/event_info/2005/schedule.html We also offer the Warpstock eNewsletter mailing list where you can get more detailed information bulletins electronically as we announce them. If you would like to subscribe to the Warpstock eNewsletter send the following message in the body of an email to [ majormajor@os2voice.org ] subscribe wsenews my@email.address end Or by clicking on the following link [ http://www.os2voice.org/mailinglists.html ] and using the web form to subscribe/unsubscribe from the Warpstock eNews list. Have you been to Warpstock yet? * Warpstock 1997 - Diamond Bar, California * Warpstock 1998 - Chicago, Illinois * Warpstock 1999 - Atlanta, Georgia * Warpstock 2000 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Warpstock 2001 - Toronto, Canada * Warpstock 2002 - Austin, Texas * Warpstock 2003 - San Francisco, California * Warpstock 2004 - Denver, Colorado * Warpstock 2005 - Hershey, Pennsylvania 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 -- From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel, president, Warpstock Inc. Top
2005-09-06 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: roossiendDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Dosbox frontend 1.9. The main purpose of this program is to generate a rexx (cmd) file that starts dosbox with certain settings and runs a game / program, then create a desktop icon for it. Changes; 1.9 Added a communication page and a font dialog. 1.8 Fonts will now be saved and restored. request from ; dragndrop. Position on the desktop will be saved and restored. I condider it a finished project now and will stop working on it unless there are some bugs. Maybey.. I wil look one day to save the colors of individual pages so every page can have its own background color, since I don't need this myself, I will see if I get requests for this option.... http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dosboxfront_1_6.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dosboxfront Chris. Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html From: Chris (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-06 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ Note: The /incoming URL was incorrect in the first version of this post. From: roossiendDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com Dosbox frontend 1.9. The main purpose of this program is to generate a rexx (cmd) file that starts dosbox with certain settings and runs a game / program, then create a desktop icon for it. Changes; 1.9 Added a communication page and a font dialog. 1.8 Fonts will now be saved and restored. request from ; dragndrop. Position on the desktop will be saved and restored. I condider it a finished project now and will stop working on it unless there are some bugs. Maybey.. I wil look one day to save the colors of individual pages so every page can have its own background color, since I don't need this myself, I will see if I get requests for this option.... http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dosboxfront_1_9.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dosboxfront Chris. Url: http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html From: Chris (roossienDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com) Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php Top
2005-09-07 ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++ From: "Jan van Wijk" DFSee version 7.12 has been released today The first release where I consider RESIZE for NTFS to be fully reliable! DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. With FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery, FIX commands, UNDELETE for HPFS/NTFS, imaging and cloning. For people familiar with older versions of DFSee (5.xx and older :-) it will be good to know that the menu-system introduced in version 6, and greatly expanded in version 7, makes the program a whole lot easier to use! More details at: http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm Direct download links from the DFSee website: http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee712.zip http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee712.msi http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee712_warpin.exe http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee712_iso.zip http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee712_dsk.zip Note: each of these can also be downloaded using '7xx' instead of the exact version number Or from the HOBBES website: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee712.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee Most important functional changes since 7.11: - BOOTINI -2 option forces updating the file, if default is OK - CHECK Speedup freespace analysis, when cluster > 1 (NTFS) - CHECK More accurate allocation error report, smaller areas - DFSDISK Made EXT2 superblock the default 'superblock' search - DFSDISK Add search for 'NTLDR sectors' Radio button in dialog - DIRTY d command for NTFS, forces CHKDSK on next Windows boot - EXPAND Add EXPAND of NTFS $Bitmap special file for resizing - IMAGE Dialog default changed to 2047 MiB multiple files - MENU Added set FS Dirty/Normal to the Mode=NTFS menu - RESIZE Fix size in NTFS bootsector, for spare-boot location - RESIZE Update $BadClus special file for truncate and expand - RESIZE Update NTFS $Bitmap special for truncate (resize) - RESIZE NTFS filesystem resize considered reliable now ... - SCRIPT Add new pragma 'SETPARAM' allowing use as variables - SCRIPT Add prompt modus for setparam, allowing user input - SETBOOT fixed for LVM-volume names with embedded spaces - SLT -v Verbose output (path+filenames) on no-error lines too - SLT -? Help added, simplified usage and better output format - SWITCH Allow spaces in EXE switches like -l:"my logfile" Regards, JvW ========================================================================= DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee - infoDESPAM@DESPAMdfsee.com Top
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