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OS/2 - eComStation News - January, 2006
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2005: August September October November December
SW: Updated PHP 5.1.2 build with Apache2 module
SW: Migrating From PMMail To Thunderbird
SW: PMView Pro v3.23 is now available
Net: OS2 World: The 5th OS2 World Award Nomination
SW: Doodle's Screen Saver v1.51 has been released
SW: quePDF 1.02
Admin: If you are posting to the list.
SW: Updated PHP 5.1.2 build - beta 3
Event: BayWarp meeting January 24
SW: Open Watcom 1.4 Released
SW:
Event: SCOUG January meeting!
SW: WDSibyl (18.01.2006)
SW: XSane 0.99 for OS/2 and ecomstation available
SW: Latest USB drivers now available for eCS
SW: TextHelper 1.0
Net: mozilla-os2 support group is moving!
SW: GnuPG 1.4.2 now available for OS/2
Net: List of conferences and workshops
Net: Week of jet printers on ecomstation.ru
SW: German version of eComStation Demo CD available
| SW: Updated PHP 5.1.2 build with Apache2 module |
2006-01-16
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
I've updated my build of PHP 5.1.2 today to include modphp5.dll for use
with my build of Apache2 (Tested only with v2.2.0).
It's now available from http://smedley.info/os2ports.html
Due to build issues, support for curl and also the cgi version of php are
not included.
Cheers,
Paul.
--
Warpstock 2006 - Windsor, Ontario, Canada, October 12-15th,
http://www.warpstock.org
Warpstock Europe 2006, http://www.warpstock.net
[Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the
accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but
this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and
the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible.
If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the
poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information
about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent
it.]
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| SW: Migrating From PMMail To Thunderbird |
2006-01-16
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eComStation News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: "Sander Nyman"<2sanderDESPAM@DESPAMsbcglobal.net>
In my original Thunderbird 1.5 release announcement I included a link for
the migration utility from Peter Moylan which allows you to copy BOTH mail
and address books from PMMail to Thunderbird. Peter was kind enough to
update that utility a few days ago. That file is currently at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pmm_tbird.zip
Since my original post, I have also received a few emails (thank you)
regarding another utility by David W. Eckman, also available on Hobbes.
It appears however that it is limited to copying only mail from PMMail to
Thunderbird. For the sake of completness, here is the link:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/mail/reader/pmm2moz.zip
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| SW: PMView Pro v3.23 is now available |
2006-01-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Nielsen
PMView Pro v3.23 is now available.
List of new features and bug fixes:
http://www.pmview.com/whatsnew.html [Moderator note: Changes specific
to the OS/2 version http://www.pmview.com/os2new.html ]
IMPORTANT: To obtain the full (registered) version of the update, you
will need to follow the download instructions included in the e-mail
that was sent to you when you purchased PMView Pro. If you have lost
this information, please contact
salesDESPAM@DESPAMblueprintsoftwareworks.com.
Trial (demo) versions of PMView can be downloaded at
http://www.pmview.com Registered users, please note that the trial
versions CANNOT be registered. If you have purchased PMView Pro,
please follow the download instructions in the e-mail sent by BMT Micro.
Thanks,
Peter
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| Net: OS2 World: The 5th OS2 World Award Nomination |
2006-01-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Kim Haverblad (kimhDESPAM@DESPAMos2world.com)
It's time to kick off the 5th annual OS2 World award event! This years
categories are as following:
- Best Unix Port of the Year
- Best Commercial Software of the Year
- Best Java Application of the Year
- Best Site of the Year
- Best Supporting Company of the Year
- Best Individual Software of the Year
- Best PHP Application of the Year
- Honor Award for Individuals
New category for the 5th award event and added on request is the best
php application of the year. The nomination process will end the first
of February. So until then, please nominate as many application,
companies and individuals as possible. It's all up to you how the
final list will look like.
The nomination form can be found at following url:
http://www.os2world.com/award/nominate.php
The OS2 World.Com Award Event, was founded to advance the developent
and use of eCS and OS2; foster cooperation among creative developers
and users; recognize outstanding achievements; cooperate on technical
research and improvement of methods and equipment; provide a common
forum and meeting ground.
Url:
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=2&id=1137487618
<http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=2&id=1137487618>
From: Kim Haverblad (kimhDESPAM@DESPAMos2world.com)
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| SW: Doodle's Screen Saver v1.51 has been released |
2006-01-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Doodle (doodleDESPAM@DESPAMdfmk.hu)
Doodle's Screen Saver v1.51 has been released.
This new screen saver integrates into the WPS, replaces the old Lockup
Desktop facility, and can be extended with new screen saver modules.
The changes of this release are:
- Some small visual changes
- Added russian language support
- Fixed wrong Randomizer module configuration language when preview
is disabled
- Hopefully fixed AnTVSim module freezes
- Changed behaviour of password protection in modules, so even the
keypress
triggering the password protection window will be treated as a
password character.
- Added two new modules: Cairo Clock and Cairo Shapes.
Please note that these modules require Cairo v1.0.2 Runtime to be
installed first. It can be installed from
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/Cairo/cairo-1.0.2-os2-bin.exe
It can be downloaded from hobbes.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dssaver_v151.exe
Articles at EDM/2 about how to create modules for Doodle's Screen Saver:
http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Creating_modules_for_Doodle%27s_Screen_Saver_-_Part_1
http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Creating_modules_for_Doodle%27s_Screen_Saver_-_Part_2
Do you think you could do better skins for the Pretty Clock module?
Here is the description for the skin file then:
http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Creating_modules_for_Doodle%27s_Screen_Saver_-_Part_3
WSE'2005 presentation about creating new modules using Cairo:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/dssaver/dssaver_and_cairo.zip
Web Site:
http://dssaver.netlabs.org
Forum:
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/forum/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Headlines&BID=78
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| SW: quePDF 1.02 |
2006-01-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: mailDESPAM@DESPAMsubsys.de
quePDF 1.02 has been released.
This is a queue processor that manages the pipe between an application
and ePDF.
It has some special functions to interface with Maul DTP to provide a
highly integrated solution, but can be used with other applications as
well as the older "Printmon PS" tool.
New in this version:
- bugs fixed
More informations and download links:
http://www.subsys.de/ePDF/
kind regards
Frank Wochatz
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| Admin: If you are posting to the list. |
2006-01-19
Happy New Year to everyone. 2006 and we are still able to buy and use
our favorite computer operating system thanks to Serenity Systems, if
we choose to. :-)
Just a reminder if you are posting to the VOICE News list, please
either use the web form on http://www.os2voice.org/fSubNews.html or
directly via email to submit@os2voice.org Sending a post directly to
one of the moderators may result in it being delayed or lost. I have
just learned that for some unknown reason posts submitted using the
news submission form on OS/2 World.com are not coming through, so if
you use that form at least for now please send a separate post if you
want it to appear on VOICE as well. I will let the list know when
this is corrected.
As always if you are submitting an announcement try to make it as
brief as possible, but with basic information like a description of
the item and a URL where more information can be found as well as a
URL where it can be downloaded if it is software. Also if its an
update please list what has been changed if you know it. If you are a
developer don't just upload your work to hobbes or your own web site
and forget it. Write a short announcement and send it to VOICE so the
OS/2-eComStation community can know what you have done and what the
software is capable of doing. Posting the announcement on
comp.os.os2.announce would be helpful as well since some people still
read the OS/2 Usenet groups even if they don't post because of all the
attacks from the psycho-trolls.
As to the list itself, we start the year with 723 subscribers.
Currently there are few rejections and almost all are of a temporary
nature. One that I'd like to remove if possible is from:
andreas@aro.homeip.net
But there is no one with that address subscribed to the list. If you
recognize this address and know what address may be redirecting to it
I would appreciate hearing from you.
Thanks for reading and I hope you continue to find our announcements
of interest.
Mark
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| SW: Updated PHP 5.1.2 build - beta 3 |
2006-01-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info
Hi All,
I've just uploaded a new build of PHP 5.1.2 to
http://smedley.info/os2ports.html
This build again includes the cgi php.exe (after I resolved the
previous build issue), as well as the cli php.exe and of course the
apache2 module (modphp5.dll).
Beta 3 corrects problems with the Apache module crashing when accessed
from IE, as well as removing the dependency of php5.dll on httpd.dll
This has only been tested with my build of Apache v2.2.0 also from
http://smedley.info/os2ports.html
All feedback appreciated.
Cheers,
Paul Smedley.
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| Event: BayWarp meeting January 24 |
2006-01-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Neil Waldhauer
Date: Tuesday, January 24
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Place: Help Desk Computers (WTW Group), 1456 Pollard Road, Los Gatos,
CA 95032
Come join us in our monthly meeting. We are OS/2 and eComStation
users, and we meet every month to show off our latest software and
hardware. We bring laptops, network cables and power, and we often do
live troubleshooting of systems during our meetings.
Hint: It's between the Mexican Restaurant and the Japanese Restaurant
in the corner (Safeway is on the far right). $5.00 per person to be
collected for help with the munchies.
Topics:
* eComStation 2.0 beta
* XWLan and WiFi cards
* AJAX
* OpenOffice 2.0 native port
* Survey of recent Flash animation
* OS/2 Question & Answer
Web Page <http://www.baywarp.org/>
Contact Info
Paul Lazaga
Neil Waldhauer
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| SW: Open Watcom 1.4 Released |
2006-01-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: MichalNDESPAM@DESPAMscitechsoft.com
Open Watcom 1.4 has been released. We have also completely
redesigned the Open Watcom website, where you can find more
information about the new release and download it. Please note that
C/C++ and F77 are now separate downloads.
Home Page:
http://www.openwatcom.org/
List of changes in version 1.4:
http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/C_Compilers_Release_Changes
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| SW: |
2006-01-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Tom Brown
OK, here it is, the SCOUG meeting agenda for January, 2006!
We are going to start 2006 off with a bit of this and a bit of that.
Last month Allen Hecht described how he developed his web applications
on eCS/OS2 using Apache, PHP and MySQL. This month we are going to see
the applications in action.
Also this month, at the request of the membership, we are going to
have the first General Meeting Live Help Desk of 2006. Bring your
troubled eCS/OS2 systems and SCOUG's resident experts will do their
best to make them right. If you are going to bring a system, please
let Steven Levine know so that we can be sure to have sufficient
experts available.
There's more! Sheridan George decided he was tired of running eCS/OS2
on computers with plain old, everyday disk drives, so he built one
with only a solid state disk. As of today, this is still an experiment
in progress, but he's going to show us what he's got at the meeting.
If necessary, the General Meeting Live Help Desk will have another
patient.
Finally, along with all this fun, we are going to make time to have a
raffle. Larry Tawa has been collecting goodies and just can't wait any
longer to raffle them off.
As a teaser, we have a Coming Attraction. Jerry Rash always seems to
have absolutely no trouble finding interesting pieces of hardware to
play with. This time it's USB cameras. He'll soon be showing us the
results of some of his recent lab experiments.
But don't wait for Jerry. Come to our January meeting!
As usual, the meeting will be from 9:30 AM to 1 PM at:
Room 326 of the Eastside Christian School
at the Grace Ministries Complex
1645 W Valencia Dr. in Fullerton
See: http://www.scoug.com/meetings.html for links to a map and directions.
See you there!
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| Event: SCOUG January meeting! |
2006-01-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
[Moderator note: Sorry for sending this out without a subject]
From: thombrowndespam@despamsan.rr.com
OK, here it is, the SCOUG meeting agenda for January, 2006!
We are going to start 2006 off with a bit of this and a bit of that.
Last month Allen Hecht described how he developed his web applications
on eCS/OS2 using Apache, PHP and MySQL. This month we are going to see
the applications in action.
Also this month, at the request of the membership, we are going to
have the first General Meeting Live Help Desk of 2006. Bring your
troubled eCS/OS2 systems and SCOUG's resident experts will do their
best to make them right. If you are going to bring a system, please
let Steven Levine know so that we can be sure to have sufficient
experts available.
There's more! Sheridan George decided he was tired of running eCS/OS2
on computers with plain old, everyday disk drives, so he built one
with only a solid state disk. As of today, this is still an experiment
in progress, but he's going to show us what he's got at the meeting.
If necessary, the General Meeting Live Help Desk will have another
patient.
Finally, along with all this fun, we are going to make time to have a
raffle. Larry Tawa has been collecting goodies and just can't wait any
longer to raffle them off.
As a teaser, we have a Coming Attraction. Jerry Rash always seems to
have absolutely no trouble finding interesting pieces of hardware to
play with. This time it's USB cameras. He'll soon be showing us the
results of some of his recent lab experiments.
But don't wait for Jerry. Come to our January meeting!
As usual, the meeting will be from 9:30 AM to 1 PM at:
Room 326 of the Eastside Christian School
at the Grace Ministries Complex
1645 W Valencia Dr. in Fullerton
See: http://www.scoug.com/meetings.html for links to a map and directions.
See you there!
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| SW: WDSibyl (18.01.2006) |
2006-01-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Wolfgang
comp.os.os2.programmer.misc
Hello!
On my homepage you can download a new version of WDSibyl.
http://members.chello.at/webstar/wdsibyl.html
"This is a Pascal-Compiler which processes a language close related to
»Delphi«."
WDSibyl now supports the following languages: English, German and Dutch.
If anyone would like to translate it into an other language, please
contact me.
bye,
Wolfgang
S
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| SW: XSane 0.99 for OS/2 and ecomstation available |
2006-01-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: fbakanDESPAM@DESPAMgmx.net
XSane is a powerful frontend to access scanners which are supported by
an OS/2-Version of SANE.
[Moderator note: From the web site: "..requires an XServer (for
example XFree86 for OS/2) and a working libsane.dll."]
New in this version: enhancements for ADF and bugfixes
It works here
- standalone
- as gimp-plugin for GIMP2 (It won't work with gimp122, don't bother...)
- with XFree4.5.0 or HOB-X11
It should work with the new SANE-versions from Paul and USB-scanners,
but I couldn't try because I don't have a USB-scanner.
Project homepage:
http://www.xsane.org/
OS/2 Version:
http://www.fbakan.de/xsane-os2.htm
http://www.fbakan.de/xsane/xsane-0.99-OS2.zip
Franz Bakan
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| SW: Latest USB drivers now available for eCS |
2006-01-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Chuck McKinnis
The latest USB drivers are available for download and installation
with eCS MT 2.1.9.0 now.
[Moderator note: IBM has updated the USB basic drivers, USB Keyboard
and USB Mass Storage Device drivers dated 12-21-2005. These have been
available on IBM's Passport Advantage since last week and now are
available for download from ecomstation.com for eCS users or via Chuck
McKinnis' eCSMT utility.]
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| SW: TextHelper 1.0 |
2006-01-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Don Hawkinson
I have posted version 1.0 of TextHelper on my web site.
TextHelper is simple editor based on the MultiLineEditor class from
the IBM Open Class Library. I have added some text manipulation
functions and support for printing on HP Deskjet and Laserjet printers.
For a detailed description of TextHelper see the following URL:
http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/texthelper.html
To download the shareware version use the following URL:
http://home.tulsaconnect.com/dwhawk/th_s100.zip
Registration is only $10
A Dutch language version will be released in February.
I am looking for volunteers to translate TextHelper to other languages.
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| Net: mozilla-os2 support group is moving! |
2006-01-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
[Moderator note: The following was posted to
news://number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com/netscape.public.mozilla.os2 on
January 18th. It appears that the changeover is now completed. ]
From: Dave Miller
It should be no secret these days that the Mozilla Foundation and its
related projects are no longer a pet project of Netscape, yet the
newsgroups we are using for public discussions still bear the Netscape
name. We've been planning for years to move from
netscape.public.mozilla.* to just mozilla.*, and the time has finally
come!
In August, we announced a partnership with Giganews Newsgroups
(http://www.giganews.com/) to provide NNTP services for our
news.mozilla.org domain. It's taken a few months of planning to make
it happen, but we're now in the process of moving all of those
newsgroups over to the new hierarchy.
For general information and frequently asked questions about the move
to the new news and list servers, see
http://www.mozilla.org/community/giganews-migration.html
This group will be moving to a new newsgroup and new mailing list:
Old newsgroup: netscape.public.mozilla.os2
New newsgroup: mozilla.dev.ports.os2
Old mailing list: mozilla-os2@mozilla.org
New mailing list: dev-ports-os2@lists.mozilla.org
When is it moving?
This group will be moving sometime later this evening (Wednesday,
January 18). I apoligize for the short notice, I wound up having to
compress the schedule somewhat.
What do you need to do to maintain your subscriptions?
If you read this newsgroup via NNTP, you will need to change your
subscriptions manually after today to point at mozilla.dev.ports.os2.
Please note that at this time, these newsgroups will NOT be
propagated to Usenet in general, so you must be using news.mozilla.org
to access them (see the FAQ link near the top of this message).
If you read this list via the email list, your subscription will
automatically be moved for you to the new mailing list. You may need
to adjust your mail filters if you filter your list mail.
If you have any questions that aren't answered here, and aren't
answered in the above FAQ, please ask in the mozilla.dev.mozilla-org
newsgroup or on the dev-mozilla-org@lists.mozilla.org mailing list
(https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-mozilla-org)
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| SW: GnuPG 1.4.2 now available for OS/2 |
2006-01-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Alexander Conon
found at Tobias Hu:rlimann site :
http://www.tobiashuerlimann.de/software/GnuPG/
14. September 2005: GnuPG 1.4.2 now available for OS/2
This is a port of the GNU Privacy Guard ("GnuPG" or "gpg") version
1.4.2 to OS/2.
Quoting from the GnuPG README: "GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure
communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to
create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management
facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard
as described in RFC2440."
also available at http://www.tobiashuerlimann.de/software/
* rndos2 library
The rndos2 library is a port of the various /dev/random devices of
OpenBSD,
done as a dynamic link library (DLL). Although rndos2 has been
developed
for the GnuPG port, its use is in no way restricted to GnuPG and it
can also
be used in other projects.
* PMMPGP
pmmpgp is an GnuPG command line wrapper for use with PMMail/2. It
allows
PMMail/2 to be used in conjunction with GnuPG to sign, encrypt,
decrypt and
verify messages.
* MalSync
This is a port of MalSync, an utility to synchronize a Palm PDA
device to the
AvantGo service using a serial cradle.
* cuetools
This is a port of the Cuetools, which consist of three tools that
help dealing
with CUE and TOC sheets, which are used in combination with CD images.
Their most important feature is the ability to convert a CUE file
into a TOC file
and vice versa.
* rdate
This is a port of OpenBSD's rdate(8) utility, which allows
synchronization
of the PC's clock to an internet time server. The package also contains
a port of zic(8), the timezone compiler.
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| Net: List of conferences and workshops |
2006-01-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: eugenegorbunoffDESPAM@DESPAMmail.ru
eComStation.Ru site hosts the list of eComStation/OS/2 conferences and
workshops.
There are two events on the horizon:
* The OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2006, 8. and 9. April
2006, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland --
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2006
* Warpstock 2006, October 12 - 15, 2006, Windsor, Ontario, Canada --
http://warpstock.org
Full list of conferences: http://ecomstation.ru/conferences.php
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| Net: Week of jet printers on ecomstation.ru |
2006-01-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: eugenegorbunoffDESPAM@DESPAMmail.ru
The fourth week of 2006 is dedicated to collection of info about
compatible/non-compatible jet printers. Our database contains 96
records only (
http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=category§ion=print )
Major part of the models are not manufactured anymore. Post new
reports using the web-form (
http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=new )
Attention! The developers of solutions are interested to know the list
of unsupported devices.
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| SW: German version of eComStation Demo CD available |
2006-01-23
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Bob St.John (bstjohnDESPAM@DESPAMserenity-systems.com)
Serenity Systems International is pleased to announce the availability
of the German version of the eComStation Demo CD.
The demo version of eComStation runs completely from CD ROM and does
not modify your hard disk in any way.
Within mere minutes you will have an eComStation desktop and the
Firefox web browser. The demo CD automaticly installs network and
soundcard support. With a few keystrokes and mouse clicks you will be
on the internet!
The minimum system requirements are:
* A Pentium II CPU
* 160 MB of RAM*
* A fast CD ROM player
Other available languages are English and Dutch.
You can request the CD from http://www.ecomstation.com/democd/
Enjoy!
Url: http://www.ecomstation.com/democd/
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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