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OS/2 - eComStation News - December, 2005
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December 2005: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4
2005: August September October November
Net: eComStation Demo CD reviewed on the GUI Gallery site
SW: Word Search Puzzle Generator just in time for the family gathering
SW: Corrected URL: Word Search Puzzle Generator just in time for
SW:
SW: aMule: eDonkey core and a web front-end.
SW: quePDF 1.01
SW: DOSIdle 1.4 Has Been Released
SW: UPS power manager
SW: USB "configurator" beta3 available
SW: More languages for eCalc
SW: unpaper (1.1) now on HOBBES
SW: UPS power manager driver flowchart
SW: FAT32 driver updated to 0.9.11
SW: BACK_ME
Net: The VOICE Newsletter is BACK!
SW: DFSee version 7.15 released
| Net: eComStation Demo CD reviewed on the GUI Gallery site |
2005-12-24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: David Shearer (posted on comp.os.os2.ecomstation)
The web site http://toastytech.com/guis/index.html contains a simple
review of the ecs demo disk. It also has some other interesting
history on OS/2 and other OS'es.
David
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| SW: Word Search Puzzle Generator just in time for the family gathering |
2005-12-24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Don Hawkinson
I have posted a Word Search Puzzle Generator on my web site.
The URL is:
http://home/tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/ws.zip
This is just the thing to keep the children occupied at the family
gatherings.
Here is a sample.
A, C++, COMPILER, IS, NEEDED, IN, ORDER,
TO, COMPILE, THIS, PROGRAM, BUT, IT,
SHOULD, RUN, ON, ALMOST, ANY, COMPUTER,
OR, OPERATING, SYSTEM, INCLUDING, LINUX,
MICROSOFT, WINDOWS, IRIX, AND, SOLARIS,
============================================
H N I D A G S M R P N + S E N I
+ R R C H Y S X S C H E N X E N
Q S I A N M H I H N W S + E R C
N F X N S B O M S L X N P S S L
P I Y D E O U O N Y N M A H T U
C G N T A E L T N O S H P M E D
S G R I H A D A O H T T S E D I
O C O M P I L E R U S G E I S N
O + S T E F S H D I M N P M S G
O + W E E H S N E A S I N M D S
C C O M P U T E R L X N R O A N
W S D A C H S G M U C E R O I E
M I N S R O O O N S N M + X O E
G U I O U R M I C R O S O F T A
L N W I P G L L M G + M M T U S
S N O P E R A T I N G F R P S F
This program makes wordsearch puzzles like the one above.
Unfortunately, it doesn't show you the answer!
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| SW: Corrected URL: Word Search Puzzle Generator just in time for |
2005-12-24
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Don Hawkinson
I have posted a Word Search Puzzle Generator on my web site.
The corrected URL is:
http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/ws.zip
This is just the thing to keep the children occupied at the family
gatherings.
Here is a sample.
A, C++, COMPILER, IS, NEEDED, IN, ORDER,
TO, COMPILE, THIS, PROGRAM, BUT, IT,
SHOULD, RUN, ON, ALMOST, ANY, COMPUTER,
OR, OPERATING, SYSTEM, INCLUDING, LINUX,
MICROSOFT, WINDOWS, IRIX, AND, SOLARIS,
============================================
H N I D A G S M R P N + S E N I
+ R R C H Y S X S C H E N X E N
Q S I A N M H I H N W S + E R C
N F X N S B O M S L X N P S S L
P I Y D E O U O N Y N M A H T U
C G N T A E L T N O S H P M E D
S G R I H A D A O H T T S E D I
O C O M P I L E R U S G E I S N
O + S T E F S H D I M N P M S G
O + W E E H S N E A S I N M D S
C C O M P U T E R L X N R O A N
W S D A C H S G M U C E R O I E
M I N S R O O O N S N M + X O E
G U I O U R M I C R O S O F T A
L N W I P G L L M G + M M T U S
S N O P E R A T I N G F R P S F
This program makes wordsearch puzzles like the one above.
Unfortunately, it doesn't show you the answer!
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| SW: |
2005-12-25
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Weilbacher (Posted on
news://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.public.mozilla.os2 )
Dear all,
if you go to my builds website you will now find an unofficial build
of Thunderbird for OS/2 that I called PmW-Tb (as for PmW-Fx to make it
clear that this is not an official release and to adhere to the
Mozilla trademark rules). It is based on the Thunderbird 1.5rc2 code
and hopefully works just as well and better. As MNG/JNG and SVG/Canvas
don't make that much sense in a mail client I mainly added Rich's WPS
enhancements, EA URL tagging of downloads, and the patch for OS/2 like
menus (don't even know if the latter is really required).
However, I haven't really used Thunderbird myself and so I am not a
good tester. So, if you are a Thunderbird user, please discuss
possible (OS/2 specific) problems here in the newsgroup, so that other
users can also answer if the behavior is normal or not.
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| SW: aMule: eDonkey core and a web front-end. |
2005-12-26
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: muffetta66DESPAM@DESPAMemail.it
eMule (eDonkey2000) compatible P2P client
Hobbes Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/amule203.zip
See http://www.amule.org/ for more documentation
See http://forum.amule.org/ for support
Requirements according to readme.txt file: 32-bit TCP/IP
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| SW: quePDF 1.01 |
2005-12-26
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Frank Wochatz
quePDF 1.01 has been released.
This is a queue processor that manages the pipe between an application
and ePDF.
New in this version:
- much less CPU usage (here less than 0.5%).
More informations and download links:
http://www.subsys.de/ePDF/
kind regards
Frank Wochatz
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| SW: DOSIdle 1.4 Has Been Released |
2005-12-26
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Sander Nyman"<2sanderDESPAM@DESPAMsbcglobal.net>
DOSIdle 1.4 by Dmitry Steklenev (Glassman) has been released, and is
available here:
ftp://ftp.ptv.ru/pub/glass/dosidle/dsidle14.zip
DOSIdle improves performance when using legacy CA-Clipper based
applications that tend to use 100% CPU load under OS/2.
You can read more about DOSIdle here:
http://glass.ptv.ru/software/english/dosidle.html
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| SW: UPS power manager |
2005-12-27
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Koller
Do you have a UPS (an Uninterruptible Power Supply device)?
Does it have a serial port, and would you like it to talk to your OS/2
or eCS computer?
Then try the UPS power manager, it's free!
The provided megatec driver supports the following devices:
- Fenton Technologies models:
- PowerPal L series
- PowerOn
- PowerPure
- Effekta MI/MT/MH models (2502 cable)
- PowerGuard PG-600
- PowerCom SMK-800A, ULT-1000
- Giant Power MT650
- UNITEK ALPHA 500 IC
- Unitek Alpha 1000is
- SuperPower HP360, Hope-550
....other megatec compatible devices ought to work as well.
The provided dummy driver allows you to see what it looks like when
it's working!
GPL'ed driver sources are provided for developing other devices.
See http://random.networkupstools.org
for more info on UPS devices and their protocols.
Home page
http://www.manglais.com/ups/
....or get it from hobbes
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=forups
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| SW: USB "configurator" beta3 available |
2005-12-27
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Brown
Hi All
Beta3 fixes the problem of all config.sys lines being converted to
uppercase - all non-USB lines are left in their original case.
Apologies to anyone that had problems as a result of the case
conversion in USBcfgb2.
This application is designed to help (re)configure USB drivers and
devices. It is not designed to install USB drivers, the drivers must
already be installed - it should help sort out driver parameters so
the drivers become useful though :-)
Please read the Readme.txt file included in the package before
attempting to install and use the application.
Hope it comes in handy http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/USBcfgb3.zip
Regards
Pete
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| SW: More languages for eCalc |
2005-12-28
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Frank Wochatz
Now eCalc includes some more language files:
- spanish
- swedish
Also included is a second, alternative french translation (you may
find it in the sub directory ..\lang\alter\).
The program itself has not been changed since the last version (pre 3.1).
eCalc is a calculator program for OS/2 and eCs.
You may find more informations, screenshots and download links at
http://www.subsys.de/eCalc/
kind regards
Frank Wochatz
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| SW: unpaper (1.1) now on HOBBES |
2005-12-28
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Franz Bakan
Hi,
from readme.txt:
Overview
--------
unpaper is a post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper,
especially for book pages that have been scanned from previously
created photocopies. The main purpose is to make scanned book pages
better readable on screen after conversion to PDF. Additionally,
unpaper might be useful to enhance the quality of scanned pages before
performing optical character recognition (OCR).
....
Written by Jens Gulden. Project homepage: http://unpaper.berlios.de/
I've compiled it for OS/2. It's now available on HOBBES/incoming
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?dir=/pub/incoming
and will later be moved to
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/graphics/scan/unpaper11.zip
Enjoy
Franz
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| SW: UPS power manager driver flowchart |
2005-12-29
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Koller
Do you have a UPS (an Uninterruptible Power Supply device)? Does it
have a serial port, and would you like it to talk to your OS/2 or eCS
computer?
Then try the UPS power manager, it's free!
NEW:- a driver flowchart to help open source driver development is now
available as a pdf document from http://www.manglais.com/ups/
The provided megatec driver supports the following devices:
- Fenton Technologies models:
- PowerPal L series
- PowerOn
- PowerPure
- Effekta MI/MT/MH models (2502 cable)
- PowerGuard PG-600
- PowerCom SMK-800A, ULT-1000
- Giant Power MT650
- UNITEK ALPHA 500 IC
- Unitek Alpha 1000is
- SuperPower HP360, Hope-550
....other megatec compatible devices ought to work as well.
The provided dummy driver allows you to see what it looks like when
it's working!
GPL'ed driver sources are provided for developing other devices.
See http://random.networkupstools.org
for more info on UPS devices and their protocols.
Home page
http://www.manglais.com/ups/
....or get it from hobbes
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=forups
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| SW: FAT32 driver updated to 0.9.11 |
2005-12-29
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Web site: http://fat32.netlabs.org/
"This project is based on the original FAT32 sourcecode by Henk Kelder.
He released the source to netlabs.org in January 2002 because he no
longer had the time to continue work on it.
The present release comes in both WPI and ZIP formats. If you want the
original package done by Henk, look for it at Hobbes, for example.
The present code is compiled by KO Myung-Hun. There are two support
groups for the driver:
* http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fat32user
* http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fat32dev "
Downloads: http://fat32.netlabs.org/?show=download
"This WarpIN version of the Netlab's IFS contains many fixes, and new
and detailed documentation, in INF and TXT formats. You need WarpIN to
install that on your machine.
This package is released as a part of the new WPI Distro project so
you better check it out too!
This release is intended for LVM systems or systems that already can
access FAT32 partitions but lack the IFS, so neither Dani's DASD or
PARTFILT.FLT are included. See the docs for more details.
Please make sure that you are using the most recent WarpIN version!
(1.0.8 as of 2005/04/23)
A .zip package is also available for those who prefer to install the
driver themselves."
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/fat32/f32_0911.wpi
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/fat32/f32_0911.zip
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| SW: BACK_ME |
2005-12-30
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: dwhawkDESPAM@DESPAMintcon.net
I have posted BACK_ME on my web site, the URL is at the end of this
message. This time I did try the URL to verify that it is valid.
Back_ME is a way to make a quick backup of a file that is often changed.
For example if you are making changes to a REXX script and want to
make certain that you can go back to a previous version. BACK_ME will
allow you to make multiple unique backups of a file. Each time
BACK_ME makes a backup of a file, it creates a unique name for the
backup. It does this by appending a file number to the filename, so
BACK_ME requires a file system that supports long file names.
If the original file name was CONFIG.SYS, using BACK_ME to make three
backups will result in the following files.
CONFIG.SYS.000
CONFIG.SYS.001
CONFIG.SYS.002
The timestamp and EAs of the backup file will be that of the source
file at the time of the backup.
There is a PM and a command line version of the program
The file back_me.zip may be downloaded using the following link:
http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/back_me.zip
Unzip it and execute install.cmd to install BACK_ME.
The install.cmd file does not modify any of the system files, it only
creates two program objects on the desktop.
Don Hawkinson
The December special is about over.
http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/december.html
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| Net: The VOICE Newsletter is BACK! |
2005-12-31
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From:christian.henneckeDESPAM@DESPAMos2voice.org
Finally, we are back - with new design and new functionality!
The January issue of the VOICE Newsletter is now available online.
For online reading:
English - http://www.os2voice.org/newsletters.html
German - http://de.os2voice.org/newsletters.html
For download:
English (HTML) - http://www.os2voice.org/files/vnl0106h.zip
English (INF) - http://www.os2voice.org/files/vnl0106i.zip
German (HTML) - http://de.os2voice.org/files/vnl0106h_de.zip
German (INF) - http://de.os2voice.org/files/vnl0106i_de.zip
In the latest issue you find:
o The Newsletter's new clothes -- by Christian Hennecke
o Writing articles with NVU - Adding style the easy way -- by
Christian Hennecke
o eComStation v 1.2 Refresh and the Compaq Laptop -- by Douglas Clark
o Hard Drive Disaster Recovery using DFSee - What you can do to
prepare for the catastrophic failure of a hard disk -- by Julian Thomas
o Resurrecting RSU - Remote Software Updates -- by Alex Taylor
o Lotus Approach - A first step in making a database -- by Arthur van
Egmond
o A report on Warpstock 2005 -- by Mark Dodel
o The Making of Warpstock Europe 2005 - An Interview with Robert
Henschel -- by Thomas Klein
o And of course letters, addenda, tips, and the compiled news of the
previous month!
Older issues can be found at http://www.os2voice.org/newsletters.html,
or http://de.os2voice.org/newsletters.html, and the Hobbes archive as
well.
As always a big thank you to our authors, editors, and translators
without whom there would be no VOICE Newsletter. Please consider
helping with the translation or writing an article for the Newsletter.
Guidelines for submissions to the VOICE Newsletter are available at
http://www.os2voice.org/newsletter_submission.html, including some
suggestions for topics.
Christian Hennecke
Editor in Chief, VOICE Newsletter
http://www.os2voice.org
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| SW: DFSee version 7.15 released |
2005-12-31
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: jvwDESPAM@DESPAMdfsee.com
The last one for 2005 :-)
DFSee version 7.15 has been released today
It adds and enhances many dialogs to make more of the DFSee
functionality available through the menu system and has much improved
NTFS analysis and directory display.
But, perhaps the most significant addition:
FORMAT is now supported for FAT and FAT32 filesystems!
No matter what OS you are running or how large (or small) a partition
is, with DFSee you can now fomat it as FAT32!
Select any size partition and then simply:
Actions ->
Format volume or partition ->
with a FAT/FAT32 filesystem
will present you with an extensive option dialog ...
DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with partitioning, filesystem
and disk analysis, recovery, UNDELETE for HPFS and NTFS, resizing,
imaging and cloning.
For people familiar with older versions of DFSee 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/dfsee715.zip
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee715.msi
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee715_warpin.exe
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee715_iso.zip
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee715_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/dfsee714.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee
Most important functional changes since 7.14:
- BmgrList Add driveletter to boot-menu list item text
- CHSstyle Selection dialog for FIXCHS, CLEANUP and CR cmd
- CS -v -m New checksum verification options for scripting
- DFSEE enhanced the DFSEE.BAT/CMD with usage on '-?'
- DiskOpen Allow OS2 PhysDisk handle 0 (disk 1 locked bug)
- FILELIST Dialog, add Kib/Mib/GiB size for file selection
- FORMAT FAT12/16/32 formatting including options dialog
- FS MENU Cheched text "Fixboot/LDR" in "Boot area fixes"
- JFS Fixboot bootable/standard bootcode selection
- JFS/HPFS LDR (micro-filsystem) recovery commands added
- Menu Added FORMAT in Actions menu (FAT/FAT32 only)
- Menu Added NTFS dump first MFT-records to imagefile
- Menu Added Update NT-signature in MBR dialog/menu
- Menu Added Wipe-start-of-disk as seperate selection
- NTFS Display ARSHD-attributes in directory display
- NTFS Fix allocation handling extreme fragmented MFT
- NTFS Leading \ on recover '123.DIR\fn' path/filename
- NTFS \ command implemented, gives direct access to file
- NTFS MFT INDX display shows Btree branches (directories)
- NTFS MFT handling fixed for external attribute data
- PART -e:1 to include info on 1st extended container only
- Query P0 returns MFT-fragmentation on NTFS filesystems
- RUN -P Fix filename handling for script path with spaces
- SETBOOT accept full '-query' option as alias for -q
- SLTbuild option dialog; multi-threaded on OS/2 and Win
Regards, JvW
=========================================================================
DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee -
infoDESPAM@DESPAMdfsee.com
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