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OS/2 - eComStation News - August, 2007

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SW: ACPI 3.01, testing suspend/resume
SW: TestDisk and PhotoRec 6.8 available for OS/2
SW: DFSee major release 9.00 available
Net: netlabs.org newsletter #41 [ACPI, FM/2, Uniaud, xATA, Lucide,
Event: Warpstock Europe, Call for topic suggestions and speakers
SW: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Official) Has Been Released
Net: RSS news feed for Warpstock Europe 2007
SW: Mr. Message (AIM client) update 8/11/2007
SW: ACPI 3.00 drivers on eComStation betazone
Event: Warpstock Europe 2007 Announcement
Admin: VOICE web and mail server is back online
SW: WGet/2 version 1.10+devel (revision 2336) available
Net: Which USB Audio adapters are supported in eComStation?
SW: The Open Watcom contributors have released version 1.7!
SW: Uniaud 1.1.4RC3
SW: enigmail-0.95.3 for OS/2
SW: z! 2.8aug08.
SW: Samba 3.0.25c Available for Download for OS/2 & eComStation
Event: Announcing the OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2008
SW: PMMail 3.0 Beta 2 is available for download
SW: UClip, enhanced OS/2 clipboard support
SW: Bogofilter 1.1.5
SW: ClamAV 0.91.2 available

SW: ACPI 3.01, testing suspend/resume

2007-08-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Eugene Gorbunoff

New generation of ACPI sub-system is available.
eComStation supports suspend/resume on multi-core notebooks and barebones now.
FAQs are published at ACPI tools homepage -- http://ecomstation.ru/acpitools

[Moderator note:
"ACPI (short for "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface") is a
standard that defines power and configuration management interfaces
between an operating system and Hardware. It is meant to supersede
the older APM standard (for power management) and provide a generic
interface for recognition and configuration of hardware devices."

Available to those with access (via Software Subscription Services) to the
eComStation BetaZone: ( via logging in at http://www.mensys.nl ) ]

How to setup sleep/resume? (APM.doc)
* Use Panorama VESA video driver
* Goto BIOS Setup, Enable "Init video after S3". If no such option then
ACPI.PSD should try to perform this operation. Add ACPI.PSD /VBE to
init video BIOS after resume. (there are no guarantees that this will work)
* Edit acpid.cfg, suspend should be: suspend=S3 * How to suspend? Open
Power object -> Suspend * How to resume after sleep? Press Power button.

How to achieve success in testing?
* update danis506.add to 1.8.1 (How to update Danis -- Software updates
-- http://ecomstation.ru/apecs.php?action=item&id=203
* disable all device drivers before testing suspend/resume (USB, audio,
network)
* You can see the list of Sleep states supported by your computer when
starting ACPI daemon (S1 - computer is stopped; S2 - computer is stopped,
part of devices are powered off; S3 - all devices are powered off, except
memory; S4 - all devices are powered off; S5 - power off)
* Post the report to the tracker -- http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/newticket

How to help to other users? Share the results of your tests.

Step 1: Post report about your computer/motherboard to --
http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php

Step 2: If you have installed eCS 2.0 RC1 or higher then
Goto http://www.ecomstation.com/support/rc1report/
Please include the \var\log\instlog.zip file, this contains all of your
configured settings, as well as a small overview of the hardware. This
makes it easier for us to identify supported (or unsupported) hardware.


Install ACPIFU WPI (Fast Upgrade) if 3.0 is working fine on your computer.

ACPI 3.01, what's new:

ACPI.PSD
* fix SpeedStep&Throttling for Uni kernel and MADT absent in acpi table
* expand LAPIC ESR handling
* fix memory heap
* add duration of HLT

APM.ADD:
* rebuild ACPI_STATE_S1
* fix going to absent state
* optimize throttling setting

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SW: TestDisk and PhotoRec 6.8 available for OS/2

2007-08-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Franz Bakan

Hi,

PhotoRec is a file data recovery software designed to recover lost pictures
from digital camera memory and all kinds of files from hard disks.

TestDisk is for partition analysis and recovery.

Both programs work on OS/2 only with imagefiles.

Project homepage: http://www.cgsecurity.org

New updated version 6.8. compiled for OS/2 available from

http://www.fbakan.de/photorec-os2.htm

http://www.fbakan.de/testdisk/testdisk-6_8-os2.zip

Best regards,
Franz

http://www.fbakan.de

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SW: DFSee major release 9.00 available

2007-08-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Jan van Wijk

DFSee version 9.00 has been released today, a new MAJOR release!

A real improvement in this release is contents based disk geometry
detection, which helps with removable media on any platform, and with new
Linux kernels (avoiding tons of warnings)

Then there are improvements in smart-imaging and cloning, supporting
support more filesystems now and many other enhancements and fixes.

Finally, the HEX editor now includes an intel x86 disassembler to analyse
bootsectors, bootmanagers or any other code you like :-)


DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning, filesystem
and disk analysis, file recovery, UNDELETE for HPFS JFS, and NTFS, resizing
and smart imaging or cloning.


More details at:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/

Direct download links from the DFSee website:

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee900.zip

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee900.msi
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee900_warpin.exe
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee900_iso.zip
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee900_dsk.zip

Note: each of these can also be downloaded using '9xx'
instead of the exact version number



Or from the HOBBES website:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee900.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee


Most important functional changes since 8.16:

- APMAP Show Apple-Partion-MAP in first track when present
- BMFIX BMGR, default to NO I13X check, allow GRUB/Win MBR
- DARWIN First port for MAC OS X 'terminal' using GCC 4.x
- DFSIMAGE CMD/BAT, added a 'raw' parameter for image creation
- DIRTY Update menu-item enable/disable after changing status
- EBR Show classic IBM Bootmanager menu name in display
- EDIT Disassembler on or '-d'; Jump, Save, set origin
- EXT2/3 Added more info to the superblock display
- EXT2/3 Add group descriptor strcuture read & display
- EXT2/3 Area aware allocation logic (disk-level smart)
- EXT2/3 Allocation bitmap logic; alloc, smart image/clone
- Edit -> BMGR items moved to 'Fdisk -> OS/2 LVM and Bootmanager'
- EDIT Limit HEXED marked-area to a single object (sector)
- FAT12 Fix wrong output on large clusters/small filesystem
- FILEFIND Dialog, add 'search from current sector' checkbox
- FIXBOOT Driveletter prompt dialog in JFS/HPFS menu selection
- FIXBOOT HPFS, default to NO I13X check, allow GRUB/Win MBR
- FIXBOOT Retain (boot) letter on JFS/HPFS when already there
- Geocalc Add LVM DLAT disksize versus OS disksize sanity check
- Geocalc Contents based geometry determination (sniffing)
- Grub Display summary or details (0 -v) on GRUB MBR sectors
- Grub Display details on GRUB bootsectors, incl boot device
- Grub Display details from stage 1.5 or stage 2 data sectors
- Grub Identify GRUB/LILO non-MBR sectors correct on display
- HPFS id Fixed false 'alloc sector' identification empty sector
- JFS Better sanity check on IAG filesystem structure data
- LVM -n Fix trap when BootDiskId is not set yet for a disk
- Linux Recognize JFS FS in 0x83 partition as well as 0x35
- Linux Recognize JFS filesystem in 0x83 Linux partition
- LinuxLVM Added type 0x87 to CR and change-type selection lists
- MENU Made 'Bootmanager menu Add' generic LVM/non-LVM
- MENU Updated bmfix menu wording, added I13X to help text
- Mode=HFS in menu, recognition in PART display, limited support
- Mode=XFS in menu, recognition in PART display, limited support
- OS-cmds Allow external cmds on DOS/OS2 only (security issue)
- PART Display GRUB summary on -v and -q, if GRUB present
- PART Fixed trap on a garbage IBM bootmanager BMP sector
- PART Improved rounding of MiB size values to be exact
- PART -b Add 'related' column for Creator info or Linux ldr
- PART -b- Added label info for EXT2/3 and Reiser filesystems
- READ Allow read outside a partition (GRUB stage2, LVM etc)
- REISER Implemented allocation map display and smart imaging
- RESIZE Enable menus for FAT/HPFS/NTFS only, not EXT2/RSR
- RESTORE (verify) updated confirmation text for readability
- RESTORE Fix spurious CHS popup after completion of restore
- SCRIPT Minor fix for script set-parameter using prompt text
- SERIAL Improved batchmode use and wording of popup text
- SWAP New mode, allows smart disk imaging skipping the SWAP
- SWAP Identify Linux swapspace type1 and type2-v0 or -v1
- Switches Interpret -x123 as a longname, not a value: -x:123
- TERM Recognize RXVT terminal string as Xterm compatible
- TRACE Set cyclic trace to create 9 files, in File menu
- VCU Fixed for empty disks, and disks with logicals only
- VIRT createdd from a .PDx, does auto restore of .IMx file
- WARNING For sda/hda devicenumber too large (libATA and SCSI)
- warnings Surpress disk-warnings too on -w- 'part' option
- warnings Toned down the 'HiddenSectors' warning text a bit
- warnings made aware of DFSee I13X patches for BMGR and MBR


Note2:
The warpin version still contains the V8 folder icons, will be refreshed
asap :-)


Note3:
The Mac OS X version that is also enclosed is experimental, it functions
correctly but has some keyboard problems and will not recognize the native
MAC disk-format and filesystems yet.


Regards, JvW


=========================================================================
DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee -
infoDESPAM@DESPAMdfsee.com

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Net: netlabs.org newsletter #41 [ACPI, FM/2, Uniaud, xATA, Lucide,

2007-08-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Netlabs News

This is the latest edition of the bi-weekly netlabs.org newsletter. The
newsletter can be read on the web at the following URL:
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter

News from netlabs.org:

6. August - 12. August
* ACPI
o Various updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline
* FM/2
o Updates and fixes
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
* UniAud
o Some more progress on HDA
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/timeline
* xATA
o Preparation for version 1.8.1
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/xata/timeline

30. July - 5. August
* ACPI
o It is a life! More correctly, the tracker is now
publicly available :-)
o Various bugs closed and some new ones raised.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline
* FM/2
o Loads of updates and fixes
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
* kLibC
o Some updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
* Lucide
o Many changes and improvements
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
o New 1.0.1 version released in eComStation Betazone, see:
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14802/2/
* NewView
o Minor update
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
* Samba
o Various updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline
o And new 3.0.25b release,
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14805/2/
* UniAud
o Some more progress on HDA, it is making sound!
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/timeline
* Voyager Documentation
o Some cleanup in progress in CUA document, still a lot to do.
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/v_doc/timeline
* xATA
o New version 1.8.0 released
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/xata/timeline
o For download http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14803/2/
o New Atapi driver as well at
http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14804/2/

Netlabs.org relies on your support as well, we hire developers to have
better progress on projects. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is
very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units:
http://www.mensys.net/NETLABS/

Thanks for your support!

We can be reached at: newsDESPAM@DESPAMnetlabs.org

Greetings,
netlabs.org team

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Event: Warpstock Europe, Call for topic suggestions and speakers

2007-08-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From:Christian Hennecke

What topics would you like to see dealt with in presentations and workshops
at this year's Warpstock Europe event? A Wiki has been set up where you can
easily enter your suggestions:

http://www.warpstock.eu/en/agenda/wish_list.html

Please take the time to add some suggestions to this wish list. This will
not only help us in looking for suitable speakers but may also convince
potential speakers that they have something interesting to say and to step
forward.

All those interested in making presentations or conducting workshops are
asked to submit their information to our Session Manager at
info@warpstock.eu as soon as possible.

If we do not receive any offers to give a presentation about a requested
topic, we will do our best to find an expert on that topic.

The eighth Warpstock Europe conference will be held at the Stayokay Hostel
in Valkenswaard close to Eindhoven, the Netherlands from November 2 to 4.
Warpstock is an annual conference for the OS/2 and eComStation operating
systems and related technology. It is dedicated to information, education,
support, and exchange and addresses users, developers, and software
vendors. To achieve these goals, the event offers seminars and workshops,
exhibition areas, and room for personal exchange.

More information is available at http://www.warpstock.eu.

Warpstock Europe is powered by warpevents.eu
Warpstock is a trademark of Warpstock, Inc.

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SW: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Official) Has Been Released

2007-08-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Sander Nyman <2sanderDESPAM@DESPAMsbcglobal.net>


Michael Kaply has released Mozilla's Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Official) for
OS/2. Thunderbird 2.x is Mozilla's next generation, state of the art,
full-featured email, RSS and newsgroup client. It is OPEN SOURCE, and
free. This release is a security update. It fixes 2 vulnerabilities, one
of which is rated critical: MFSA 2007-27 Unescaped URIs passed to external
programs.

You can download it here:

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.6/contrib/thunderbird-2.0.0.6.en-US.os2.zip

NOTE: In the unlikely event that you don't already have it, this release
requires the C runtime DLLs (libc-0.5.1) from Innotek. Version 0.5.1
includes an installer. Available here:

http://download.innotek.de/gccos2/runtime/libc-0.5.1.exe

NOTE: To have both Firefox, & Thunderbird in use at the same time (or ANY
other Mozilla app) they *MUST* be at the SAME version level, or a
mismatched DLL will still be in memory when you attempt to start a second
Mozilla based program. The easiest way to get around this limitation, and
use DIFFERENT version levels of Firefox, Thunderbird, Kompozer, etc., is
with Rich Walsh's Run! utility. It is tiny, and VERY easy to set up. To
make life even easier, I recommend that you download & use the Internet
Application Integration utility from Chuck McKinnis, which actually
contains the Run! utility, and sets it up for you, along with coordinating
your web browser with your email client for "mailto" links, etc. You can
find it here:

http://7cities.net/~mckinnis/code/iai1050.exe

Or, if you'd rather do it yourself, here is the Run! utility:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/wps/run_060.zip

Thunderbird extensions (add-ons) that add additional functionality are
available here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/browse/type:1

Thunderbird themes (skins) are available here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/browse/type:2

A utility to migrate mail from PMMail to Thunderbird is available here:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/mail/reader/pmm_tbird.zip

For more information on the Thunderbird e-mail and newsgroup client:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

For a list of what's new in this release:

http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/releases/

Tips and tricks for Thunderbird can be found here:

http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/tips

If you have questions, or just want the latest, greatest tips for Firefox,
Thunderbird, & SeaMonkey, Steve Wendt's excellent "Tips For Warpzilla" page
can be found here:

http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html

And finally, if you still have questions, or just want to participate in a
Mozilla for OS/2 discussion forum, the Warpzilla newsgroup can be found here:

news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.dev.ports.os2

Regards,
Sander Nyman






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Net: RSS news feed for Warpstock Europe 2007

2007-08-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Christian Hennecke

An RSS feed has been set up for all official news. Stay informed about what
is going to happen at Warpstock Europe 2007 and get the news as it is
announced!

To subscribe to the RSS feed, go to the Warpstock Europe home page at
http://www.warpstock.eu and click on the RSS icon in your browser's URL
location bar.

Directions for other applications with RSS support are available at
http://www.warpstock.eu/en/service/rss_feed_usage.html.

RSS feeds are a means to receive news items, or pointers to news items,
without having to visit the announcing web site.

The eighth Warpstock Europe conference will be held at the Stayokay Hostel
in Valkenswaard close to Eindhoven, the Netherlands from November 2 to 4.
Warpstock is an annual conference for the OS/2 and eComStation operating
systems and related technology. It is dedicated to information, education,
support, and exchange and addresses users, developers, and software
vendors. To achieve these goals, the event offers seminars and workshops,
exhibition areas, and room for personal exchange.

More information is available at http://www.warpstock.eu.

Warpstock Europe is powered by warpevents.eu
Warpstock is a trademark of Warpstock, Inc.

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SW: Mr. Message (AIM client) update 8/11/2007

2007-08-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Marty Amodeo

Mr. Message for OS/2 is an instant messenger client which is capable of
communicating over AOL's Instant Messenger network using the OSCAR protocol
(used in the Win32 AIM clients, jBuddy, gAIM, Kopete, ICQ, and a variety of
other clients).

It has been updated with the following changes:
* Fixed the login process again, making it more robust and tolerant
against receiving unexpected data. Should be reliable now.
* Fixed a memory leak when a session record is deleted.
* Fixed a memory leak when the Buddy List is created if an empty
buddy group is found on the server.
* Fixed the corruption of session settings when a session that used
global settings is changed to have unique settings.
* Added tolerance for handling messages with NULL characters embedded
in them, like some DBCS messages will require. I don't know if this
support is adequate to support character set translations because I
have had no testers for this. Let me know if something needs
improvement.

To download, please visit the official Mr. Message web page:
http://mamodeo.dyndns.org/MrMessage



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SW: ACPI 3.00 drivers on eComStation betazone

2007-08-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Mark Dodel

"ACPI (short for "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface") is a
standard that defines power and configuration management interfaces
between an operating system and Hardware. It is meant to supersede
the older APM standard (for power management) and provide a generic
interface for recognition and configuration of hardware devices."

ACPI Tools homepage -- http://ecomstation.ru/acpitools

Send bug-reports to: supportDESPAM@DESPAMecomstation.ru

Available to those with access (via Software Subscription Services) to the
eComStation BetaZone: ( via logging in at http://www.mensys.nl )


acpifu-20070809.wpi 212 kb 08/08/2007 10:38 pm
ACPI Fast Upgrade. If you have working and configured ACPI subsystem
and want to upgrade drivers then apply this package. Read Whatsnew. Remove
snooper from snoop.lst!! 3.00 Eugene Gorbunoff

acpi-20070809.zip 575 kb 08/08/2007 10:05 pm
ACPI for eComStation. New generation! 3.00
20070807 (3.00)
* ACPI snooper is removed from ACPI package, remove it from snoop.lst
* ACPI.PSD 3.0 requires Danis506 1.8.0 or higher
* fixed lock of embedded controllers
* implemented S3 for SMP computers
* fixed initialization of embedded controllers
* rebuild APIC support (for danis506.add)
* rebuild service of IO APIC
* New PCI scan. PCI scan is performed from PSD now
* rebuild GPE
* new switch /ALS - set APIC link on ACPI start (useful for NVidia users)

acpi-apm-20070809.zip 64 kb 08/08/2007 10:06 pm
APM.ADD (Power management for eComStation; Requries ACPI.PSD 3.00) 1.5
20070807 (1.5)
* fixed external battery call
* fixed semaphore registering
* added print name of driver to suspend with debug acpi.psd
* adding code for notification driver instead DosSysCtl
* adding to LED and PowerButton suspend




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Event: Warpstock Europe 2007 Announcement

2007-08-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Christian Hennecke

The Warpstock Europe Event Team is pleased to announce that WARPSTOCK
EUROPE 2007 will be held at the Stayokay Valkenswaard hostel, the
Netherlands on November 2-4, 2007. For more information, visit the
Warpstock Europe web site at:

http://www.warpstock.eu

Warpstock is an annual conference for the OS/2 and eComStation operating
systems and related technology. It is dedicated to information, education,
support, and exchange and addresses users, developers, and software
vendors. To achieve these goals, the event offers seminars and workshops,
exhibition areas, and room for personal exchange.

Warpstock conferences are held in different parts of the world. the
originating event is targeted at the users of the United States of America
and Canada, while the Warpstock Europe event obviously is its European
counterpart. Also, there is the Warpstock Czech Repuplic, which dedicated
to the community within the Czech Republic and countries of Eastern Europe.

OS/2 and eComStation users from Europe--and anywhere else for that
matter--are invited to come to the Netherlands this year to attend
Warpstock Europe 2007. Even though the organization of the event is still
in its early stages, the Event Team already has many ideas on what to offer
during this three day OS/2-fest.

Warpstock Europe 2007 will be an excellent opportunity to attend
high-quality presentations about a variety of OS/2- and eComStation-related
subjects, exchange ideas with other developers, meet the people behind
projects, get support from user groups, and talk to other users.

Located in the heart of Western Europe near the Belgium border,
Valkenswaard is at a convenient travelling distance for people coming from
the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and France. Attendees flying
in from other countries will arrive at Eindhoven International Airport,
which is only 18 km away from the event location. The distance to the
railway station in Eindhoven is under 11 km. Public transport to the event
location is available.

The spacious Stayokay hostel has been designed for comfort and utility, and
has a capacity of 150 beds. Four conference rooms will host sessions,
workshops, and the exhibition area, while a restaurant takes care of the
physical well-being. In the evening, visitors can mingle in the bar.
Located in a wooded area, the hostel offers all kinds of recreational
facilities from table tennis to cycling trails. Together with a range of
cultural offerings that includes several museums, this is a great
opportunity for everybody who wants to extend his visit beyond the duration
of the event itself.

Behind the organisation of Warpstock Europe 2007 is an international group
of OS/2 users, lead by Event Team Chairman Keith Merrington. This year also
marks a new beginning as this event is the first to benefit from the
support of warpevents.eu, an organisation with the goal of enabling others
to create OS/2-related events by providing information about event
organisation, a communication and coordination center, and the means for
running event web sites as well.

The Warpstock Europe 2007 Event Team

Contact us via email: info@warpstock.eu

Warpstock Europe 2007 is powered by warpevents.eu
Warpstock is a trademark of Warpstock, Inc.





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Admin: VOICE web and mail server is back online

2007-08-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Mark Dodel

Because of a major power outage at our server's co-location site the VOICE
web and mail servers were down for the past week. Both the web pages and
the mail server are now back online. If you have sent any email to an
os2voice.org or warpstock.org address during that time, please resend the
mail to make certain it gets to the intended receiver. I will now try to
catch up on several announcements that have been in the submission queue
for the past week. We apologize for the loss of service but it was beyond
our control.

Mark

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SW: WGet/2 version 1.10+devel (revision 2336) available

2007-08-18
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Andreas

Hi,

I finally uploaded my build of GNU WGet for OS/2 and eComStation.

http://Andreas-Ludwig.info/index.php?page=wget-2

"GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS
and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive
commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, other command
line tools, etc"

The port is based on the latest source from WGet subversion and was built
using Paul Smedley's GCC build environment (needs libc063.dll available
from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0_6_3-csd3.wpi )

The main new feature of 1.10+ (revision 2336) over 1.10.2 is support for
handling headers of the form 'Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="somefile.xyz" '. I use WGet daily to download files from a site
that uses this feature (Save.tv) and file names work perfectly well now
(except for the usual OS/2 codepage issues).

Have fun!
Andreas



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Net: Which USB Audio adapters are supported in eComStation?

2007-08-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Eugene Gorbunoff

The users continue to upgrade computers, since 2006 we don't have support
of HDAudio audio adapters so we should search for alternative solutions.
Help us gather information about working USB Audio adapters (USB Audio
Cards, not MP3-players/flashdisks)

IBM USB Audio driver supports old devices:
* Labtec LCS-1040 (speaker only)
* Altec ADA-70 (speaker only)
* TELEX H-531 (microphone only)

Post new reports via web-form:
http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=new&section=sound

Sites with information about compatible audio adapters
* http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php?action=category&section=sound
* www.OS2Warp.be -- http://os2warp.be/index2.php?name=usbmm
http://os2warp.be/index2.php?name=soundcardshome
* http://www.os2usr.org/os2sound.html
* http://www.os2world.com/soundcards/
* eComStation CD1 holds dosenz of drivers licensed by hardware manufacturers.


P.S. You can support our Hardware database and put banner at your site:
* Picture: http://ecomstation.ru/pic/red_001.gif
* Target URL: http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php

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SW: The Open Watcom contributors have released version 1.7!

2007-08-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Mark Dodel

http://www.openwatcom.org

"Open Watcom is a project of the open source community, with support from
Perforce Software, to maintain and enhance the Watcom C, C++, and Fortran
cross compilers and tools. An Open Source license from Sybase allows free
commercial and non-commercial use of Open Watcom."

All download servers can be found at
http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Download

Open Watcom C/C++: ftp://ftp.openwatcom.org/open-watcom-c-os2-1.7.exe
Open Watcom Fortran: ftp://ftp.openwatcom.org/open-watcom-f77-os2-1.7.exe

List of release changes:
http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/C_Compilers_Release_Changes

Report bugs: http://bugzilla.openwatcom.org/

Also support news groups can be found at:
news://news.openwatcom.org/openwatcom.users.c_cpp
news://news.openwatcom.org/openwatcom.users.fortran

Mark

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SW: Uniaud 1.1.4RC3

2007-08-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Brendan Oakley

"the Universal Audio Driver for eCS and OS/2."

Uniaud 1.1.4RC3 is now released and available for public download.

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/uniaud/uniaud114RC3.zip

[Moderator note: This is a complete package with an install.cmd file to
install the driver via minstall. Unimix.exe, the command line mixer is
included, but the UniMixPM utility is not. That is a separately developed
application available on hobbes
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=umix

"1.1.4rc3 August 19, 2007
Changes since 1.1.4rc2:
APM improvements
HDA updates (still buggy)
General fixes and stability improvements"

Information about this project as well as access to the source for the
driver can be found at http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/wiki

A full list of changes in for this project can be viewed at
http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/timeline

According to the current roadmap http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/roadmap
"Resync existing Uniaud sources with current ALSA source and develop
reusable procedures for next resync. The goal is to be able to build a
uniaud32.sys that works at least a well as the most recent test build."

A news group for users is at
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.uniaud.general
A mail list for users can be subscribed to with an email to
uniaud-user-subscribe@netlabs.org

Problem reports can be made (login required) and existing ones viewed at
http://svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/report ]

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SW: enigmail-0.95.3 for OS/2

2007-08-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Walter Meinl

Hi,
I've compiled the new version of enigmail, you can get it from the
http://enigmail.mozdev.org site. There are no new features for us that I'm
aware. However, it was a test for me, if it compiles cleanly after several
OS/2 fixes were checked in between 0.95.2. Therefore, I want to encourage
every enigmail user to download and install the new version. For Seamonkey
users, please uninstall the old version exit Seamonkey and manually delete
Seamonkey\components\enigmime.dll before you install the new version. There
is no automatic way to delete this dll as it is loaded at runtime by seamonkey.

A further thing I would be interested in is that I want to compile in the
future only with gcc-3.3.5, if (and only if) there are no errors for users
of "official" Thunderbird-2.0.x or Seamonkey-1.1.x versions. I don't see a
problem, but as the official versions are compiled with gcc-3.3.2 and use
libc-0.51, there may be problems. So, users of official builds please test
also the enigmail version compiled against libc-0.6.3 (you have to download
it from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc ) and test it if it works. Any OS/2
related problems to post here, please. For engimail related probs (not
OS/2) there is also a well frequented mailing list you can post to.

Thanks and have fun

Walter

"Enigmail is an extension to the mail client of Mozilla Thunderbird and
Mozilla Seamonkey which allows users to access the authentication and
encryption features provided by GnuPG (see screenshots).

Enigmail is open source and dually-licensed under the GNU General Public
License and the Mozilla Public License. "



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SW: z! 2.8aug08.

2007-08-21
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Mark Dodel

A new release by Dink of z1, the VIO MP3 player for OS/2. Also plays OGG
Vorbis ( requires plugin files from
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/convert/oggvorbis-1.0.1-os2.zip
) and streaming MP3. Can be used as a web browser helper app for playing
MP3s or standalone to search for streaming MP3s. See main web site:
http://dink.org/z/

Changes listed in message posted by Dink on the z! message board:
http://dink.org/z/zmsgboard.html?read=H8O1V5W6N0

Hi everyone, heres the long-awaited new version of z!

whats new:
x new: 5-star song-rating function; press + or - in the lister or while a
track is playing to rate it.
x new: play now / play next / add to end of playlist icons added for each
track via the built-in webserver
x new: auto-update current track/next/previous/connected users/etc via
the built-in webserver
x new: option to specify a password for streaming audio
x fix: wrong time (current and total) on tracks with an image embedded in
them
x fix: win32 only - crash shortly after a track with embedded image
starts playing, thanks to fusion for supplying the mp3 for testing
x fix: save the data in the streaming buffers as well as the incoming
data with 'w'rite stream to disk
x workaround: sometimes if another stream/song gets played in a separate
copy of z! while one is already playing or paused - due to a bug in MMOS2,
the f first z! will "inherit" the volume level from the newly spawned z!
x new: streaming function can be disabled completely by specifying a port
of 0
x some other minor things I forgot about..
[edit aug.21/forgot to mention]
x new: track sorting in the web interface, click the Filename/Size/Last
Modified headings

http://dink.org/files/z_aug8_2007.zip

regards,
- dink

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SW: Samba 3.0.25c Available for Download for OS/2 & eComStation

2007-08-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Paul Smedley

Hi All,

Samba 3.0.25c is now available for OS/2 & eComStation.

Binaries for both the server, and also the NetDrive plugin are available
from http://svn.netlabs.org/samba

Changelog for the server is:
3.0.25c-20070822 release:
1) Fixed Ticket #24 - Windows clients show a prepended "C:" on shares from
a Samba machine (Thanks Yuri!)

3.0.25c-20070821 release
1) Fixed Ticket #25 - crashs in UCONV.DLL (Thanks Yuri!)
2) Fixed Ticket #12 - Scripts can now be executed (Thanks Yuri!)
3) Various locking updates (Thanks Yuri!)
4) Updated source to 3.0.25c level
5) Fixed some EA bugs
6) Fixes for DBCS (Thanks KO Myung-Hun!)
7) moved to custom libc release (needed for UCONV crashes)

Changes for the Netdrive plugin are:
ndpsmb-3.0.25b-2007-08-22
- another DBCS change (Thanks KO Myung-Hun!)
- Fix some EA problems
- Fix BUFFER OVERFLOW problem with WinXP Server (Thanks Vitali!)
- Update to Samba 3.0.25c level code

Many thanks to Vitali, Yuri, KO, Herwig & Silvan for their support,
testing, patches and general encouragement!

Cheers,

Paul.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Samba 3.0.25c Available for Download
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:50:53 -0500
From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter
To: samba-announceDESPAM@DESPAMsamba.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

==============================================================
"Forty-two"
-- Deep Thought
==============================================================
Release Announcements
=====================

This is the latest production release of the Samba 3.0.25 code
base and is the version that servers should be run for for all
current bug fixes.

Major bug fixes included in Samba 3.0.25c are:

o File sharing with Widows 9x clients.
o Winbind running out of file descriptors due to stalled
child processes.
o MS-DFS interoperability issues.


================
Download Details
================

The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA). The source code can be downloaded
from:

http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/

The release notes are available online at:

http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.25c.html

Binary packages are available at

http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/

Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
(https://bugzilla.samba.org/)

--Enjoy
The Samba Team


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Event: Announcing the OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2008

2007-08-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Netlabs Team

Today, Team OS/2 Ruhr e.V. and netlabs.org are announcing the OS/2 and
eComStation Developers Workshop 2008!

Yes, you heard right, 2008! We are very happy to be able to announce the
next gathering of OS/2 and eComStation developers more than 8 months in
advance.

The OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop 2008 will be held in the city
of Duesseldorf, Germany, on the weekend of 3rd and 4th May 2008. It follows
the tradition of organizing an event for developers once every year. The
last workshop was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and in 2006 the
workshop was held in Biel, Switzerland. The first workshop was held in 2005
in Dresden, Germany.

The netlabs.org Developers Workshop once again is the hotspot and place to
be to get all the latest news from and insights into the development
community for the OS/2 and eComStation platform as well as for the Voyager
Project, intending to build a successor to the current eComStation product.

This years workshop will be held in the City Youth Hostel of the city of
Duesseldorf, Germany. This Hostel is located right to the Rhine, and
opposite of the famous old town of Duesseldorf. Be prepared for a
spectacular sight onto the Rhine from our conference room!

If you are developing software for OS/2 or eComStation and want to
participate in the workshop, please visit the workshop homepage and send an
email to the dws2008_despam_@_despam_teamruhr.de.

This event is a great gathering and is being organized for the fourth time
now by volunteers. We try to keep costs as low as possible and we would
like to ask you to register as early as possible, so that we can provide
appropriate room for all of us in the Youth Hostel. While students don't
need to pay, they are required to register, speakers do neither need to pay
nor register. Tickets can be purchased through the Mensys Online shop
starting September 2007!


References:
===========
Workshop homepage
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2008
Contact email:
dws2008_despam_@_despam_teamruhr.de
Team OS/2 Ruhr e.V.
http://www.teamruhr.de/
netlabs.org
http://netlabs.org


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SW: PMMail 3.0 Beta 2 is available for download

2007-08-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Neil Waldhauer

Hi, patient users. (and others)

I'm pleased to announce the release of PMMail 3.0 beta 2.

PMMail has been a favorite email client of many OS/2-eCS users for quite
some time. As the product appeared to be falling into a state of
"maintenance mode" several members of VOICE began to enquire as to the
possibility of purchasing the rights to the source code to renew development.

The result of this was that the members of VOICE voted to purchase the
source for development. PMMail/2 is free to all VOICE members who were
paid-up members as of December 31, 2006. The sale of PMMail/2 to others
will involve VOICE membership plus $25. At this point no outside sales are
intended. PMMail/2 sales will commence with the GA of version 3.

http://pmmail.os2voice.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

You'll need to have a valid VOICE username and password to get the beta.

Have fun, and use the bugtracker to let us know how it goes.

You can bookmark the above page -- future releases will be there, too.

Neil Waldhauer neilDESPAM@DESPAMblondeguy.com www.blondeguy.com
Expert consulting for OS/2 Warp and eComStation

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SW: UClip, enhanced OS/2 clipboard support

2007-08-23
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Yuri Dario

UClip is designed to allow OS/2 programs to exchange unicode text using the
clipboard with other native programs or with odin-ized programs.
It is compiled using Odin source code, so it shares the same clipboard
formats recognized in win32 native programs.

Note: UClip will not enable your existing OS/2 software, it will work only
for programs specifically developed with it.
The SDK package is not for end users, it is only for developers.

Softwares known to use it: OpenOffice 2.x, Lucide.

UClip 0.3.0 is available for download from Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=UClip

Additional requirements:
* libc 0.6.3 runtime

===============================================================================
Yuri Dario
http://web.os2power.com/yuri

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SW: Bogofilter 1.1.5

2007-08-23
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Yuri Dario

Bogofilter is a mail filter that classifies mail as spam or ham (non-spam)
by a statistical analysis of the message's header and content (body). The
program is able to learn from the user's classifications and corrections.

Latest BogoFilter release for OS/2 is version 1.1.5, and is available for
download from Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=bogofilter

===============================================================================
Yuri Dario
http://web.os2power.com/yuri

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SW: ClamAV 0.91.2 available

2007-08-23
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: Yuri Dario

Clam AntiVirus∞ is a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX (and OS/2). The
main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers
(attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable
multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic
updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared library
distributed with the Clam AntiVirus package, which you can use with your
own software. Most importantly, the virus database is kept up to date. A
multithread plugin for InetPowerServer is available, ask for details (not
free software).

Latest build for OS/2 is version 0.91.2, and is available for download from
Hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=clamav


Additional requirements:
* libc 0.6.3 runtime
* libc pathrewriter

===============================================================================
Yuri Dario
http://web.os2power.com/yuri

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