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OS/2 - eComStation News - January, 2008
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SW: ACPI deep testing
SW: IMERJ v0.7 released
SW: FM/2 version 3.9.0 has been released
SW: RXULS released - REXX library for Unicode & I18N
SW: enigmail 0.95.6 for OS/2 available
SW: WPS-Wizard fixpack V0.6.1a1 available
SW: DFSee 9.06 released (OS/2 trap fix)
Net: What is the future of eComStation?
Net: New Bounty Suggestions at OS2World.com
SW: Scribus 1.3.3.11 ported to OS/2 & eComStation
Event: SCOUG Meeting January 19, 2008
| SW: ACPI deep testing |
2008-01-09
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
ACPI is updated, the documents, FAQs, troubleshooting are published at the
homepage of ACPI: http://ecomstation.ru/acpitools
There are troubles with 37 computers only: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/report/1
Please visit the tracker and read the replies for your tickets.
* eComStation may work well, nevertheless make additional tests --
http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=certificate
* Post bug-reports if you have troubles, econimize your time, collect more
logs in advance.
Documentation (http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/?action=faq) ->
How to post bug-report
* We are searching for advanced tester with motherboard based on AMD
chipset, AMD X2 CPU (COM-port, serial cable, second PC)
* Debugging PCI Scan. We need an advanced tester (with serial cable, debug
kernel, 5 hours per day during 2 weeks).
* Do you have troubles with apm.add placed in the middle of config.sys?
* Inform us, does eShutdown work stable for you?
* Test SMP-safe Unicode dll (uconv.dll) --
http://ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/download/uconvfix.ZIP
* Does QuadCore work for you? Post bug-reports with description of troubles
* We are waiting for reports from owners of Toshiba, Nec, Fujitsu-Siemens,
Samsung, Sony
notebooks. If eComStation users don't use such brands then we should
move this companies to black-list as untested/unknown
http://ecomstation.ru/ecspc
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| SW: IMERJ v0.7 released |
2008-01-09
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Alex Taylor
IMERJ is a very simple input utility for typing Japanese text on
non-Japanese OS/2 systems. It allows you to enter Japanese kana by typing
romanized text in the edit window. The text can then be copied into
another application as needed.
Only hiragana and katakana, and ASCII (fullwidth and halfwidth) are
supported. Kanji conversion is not available.
IMERJ is intended primarily for use on non-Japanese OS/2 systems where no
better method for typing Japanese is available. Users of native Japanese
versions of OS/2 will probably not find it very useful, as the built-in IME
is considerably more sophisticated.
IMERJ is available here:
http://www.cs-club.org/~alex/programming/os2/#imerj
and has been uploaded to Hobbes as well.
IMERJ is free software licensed under the GPL.
Alex Taylor
Fukushima, Japan
http://www.cs-club.org/~alex
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| SW: FM/2 version 3.9.0 has been released |
2008-01-10
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: David Graser
FM/2 v. 3.9.0 has been uploaded to Hobbes Incoming
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/fm2-3-9-0.wpi
and will eventually be moved to
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/browser/fm2-3-9-0.wpi
This release contains a lot of fixes and enhancements.
Fixes and enhancements can be found at
http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/report/6
File Manager/2 (FM/2) is a free OS/2(Warp)/eCS Presentation Manager 32-bit
file/directory/archive maintenance utility (a sort of super-Drives object,
something midway between the Drives objects and a more traditional file
manager) with plenty of bells, whistles and utilities, drag and drop,
context menus, toolbars, bubble help and accelerator keys. If you know how
to use OS/2, you already know how to use most of FM/2. You can easily glean
the rest from the extensive online help, including tutorials.
Enjoy,
David
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| SW: RXULS released - REXX library for Unicode & I18N |
2008-01-10
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Alex Taylor
I've just uploaded the first public release (0.5.0) of RxULS to Hobbes, as
well as to my own website.
RxULS is a REXX interface to the OS/2 Unicode (ULS) APIs. Supported
operations include:
- Converting text between codepages (including various Unicode formats).
- Querying locale information.
- Querying text attributes.
- Transforming text according to locale- and language-specific rules.
- Using Unicode clipboard text.
See my website for details:
http://www.cs-club.org/~alex/os2/toolkits/uls/#rxuls
RxULS is made available under a BSD-type license; source is included.
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| SW: enigmail 0.95.6 for OS/2 available |
2008-01-10
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Walter Meinl
"Enigmail is a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird and Seamonkey. It
integrates the renowned OpenPGP standard provided by GnuPG."
Enigmail 0.95.6 for OS/2 built against libc-0.63 for the PmW builds and
libc05 for the official builds of Thunderbird and Seamonkey is available
for installation at the http://enigmail.mozdev.org site. Seamonkey users
don't forget to close seamonkey after de-installation of an older version
of enigmail and delete seamonkey\components\enigmime.dll _before_
installing the new version. Have fun....
ChangeLog from the Enigmail Homepage
Enigmail 0.95.6
Released 2008-01-03, works with Thunderbird 2.0 and SeaMonkey 1.1
Bugs fixed:
* Enigmail 0.95.5 unusable with German Seamonkey (bugs 18269 and
18403).
* Enigmail 0.95.5 unusable with Korean Thunderbird (bug 18267).
* Incorrect quoted-printable encoding for ISO-2022-JP charset (bug
18361).
* I am using a non English Character Set and my signatures keep
failing (bug 18148).
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| SW: WPS-Wizard fixpack V0.6.1a1 available |
2008-01-12
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Chris Wohlgemuth
[Moderator note: "WPS-Wizard is a set of classes to add unique features to
the WPS. It's seamlessly integrated and offers e.g. an info area for
folders showing previews of images (eCS 1.2MR and above) and PDFs (if
Lucide is installed), a technically advanced and unique icon engine for
using PNG image files as icons, a Rexx interface to the WPS and much more."
The full install WPS Wizard 0.6.0 is required and can be found at
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/misc/cinc/wps-wizard/wpswizard-0_6_0-eng.zip or
on hobbes.]
Hi everyone,
This is a fixpack to be applied to an existing installation of V0.6.0 of
WPS-wizard. Just replace the files wpswizz.dll and wpswizz.sym with the
ones included in this package.
Get it here:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/wps-wizard-0.6.1a1-eng.zip
Note that wpswizz.dll is locked as long as the WPS is running. You have to
boot a mainainance partition or use an unlock utility for DLLs to be able
to remove the old file.
New features
------------
-Included is a script to uninstall any icon theme currently in use. Note
that no files are deleted so it's save to run even on unknown themes.
-You may set a default icon size for the system.
Create a key under the application 'IconTheme' named 'IconSize' in
os2.ini and set the size in percent, e.g. 150 (don't add a % sign). You
may use all the
sizes found in the 'View' menu. Note that this also works when no theme is
installed. No there is no graphical frontend for that.
Changes
-------
V0.6.1a1 (12.01.2008) (fixpack)
-Fixed (?) crash because of stack problems (ticket #6)
-Disabled edit button for OS/2 icons
-Fixed trap during painting of icons in freshly opened folders (missing
paint context)
-"Normal sized Symbols" was never check marked in view menu
-Fixed (?) abort of automated folder opening when using DragText thanks
to some info from the author
-Fixed ticket #8. Icon editing failed when no theme was installed
-Experimental feature: user defined icon sizes. Create a key under the
application 'IconTheme' named 'IconSize' in os2.ini and set the size in
percent, e.g. 150. You may use all the sizes found in the 'View' menu. Note
that this also works when no theme is installed.
For full history see the file 'Changes'.
Home of the package
--------------------
http://svn.netlabs.org/wps-wizard
There you may find links to icon themes.
Enjoy
Chris Wohlgemuth
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| SW: DFSee 9.06 released (OS/2 trap fix) |
2008-01-12
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Jan van Wijk
This is a bug fix release only, it fixes traps in the OS/2 version of DFSee
that became more prominent in version 9.05 due to changes in the memory
layout and usage.
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/dfsee906.zip
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee906.msi
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee906_warpin.exe
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee906_dsk.zip
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee9xx_linux.tgz
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee9xx_iso.zip
Or from the HOBBES website:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee906.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee
Most important functional changes since 9.05
- TxWin Added double-buffering to reading VIO screen (traps)
- defaults Set bad-sector retries to be -A:1 (was 5 by mistake)
- warnings Duplicate driveletters warning, extra text for WIN
Regards, JvW
=========================================================================
DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee -
infoDESPAM@DESPAMdfsee.com
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| Net: What is the future of eComStation? |
2008-01-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunoff
Evolutionary sprint 2007/11 includes the roadmap and roles description --
http://ecomstation.ru/projects/esway/?action=links
Do you have addons to the roadmap? Does your company work on new drivers
and solutions? We are interested include your prediction and suggestions to
the plan.
Frequently asked questions -- http://ecomstation.ru/projects/esway/?action=faq
We are obligated prepare the plan 2008/11 which should include the forecast
of eComStation development till 2012.
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| Net: New Bounty Suggestions at OS2World.com |
2008-01-13
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Martin Iturbide
There are new bounty suggestions available at the OS2World.com Bounty System.
Visit: http://www.os2world.com/bounties
OS/2-eCS users interested on this bounties can help "chipping in" with the
prize for this ports/developments. Developers can also get ideas of what
the community is requesting for OS/2-ecs.
The new suggested bounties are:
* VTun (Virtual Tunnel Driver) Port ($0)
* VPNC Port (Client for Cisco VPN Concentrator) ($0)
* Filezilla client Port ($0)
* wxWidgets Improved GUI ($0)
* QT 4.x framework Port ($0)
* Moonlight Port ($0)
* The Mono project Port ($0)
* VLC player Port ($0)
* cdrtfe Port ($0)
* InfraRecorder Port ($0)
* Xara Xtreme Port ($0)
* HyperEngine-AV Port ($0)
* MediaCoder port ($0)
* Firewire Driver Development ($0)
* AEFS security improvements ($0)
The currently open bounties are:
* OS/2 native port of Java 6 ($340)
* Icon routines in OS/2 ($310)
* Virtual Box port ($292)
* Extend multimedia support for OS2 & eCS ($235)
* GemPlus PC400 driver support ($215)
* TrueCrypt port ($200)
* OpenWengo port ($185)
* Common File Open/Save Dialog ($180)
* SWTSwing ($175)
* Skype for OS/2 ($130)
* Eclipse.org Standard Windowing Toolkit (SWT) OS/2 Port ($125)
* Universal Webcam drivers ($110)
* Driver for Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet NICs ($100)
* Interface InnoTek's font-engine ($100)
* Port of FreeMat ($100)
* PCMCIA USB 2.0 cards drivers ($100)
* Maul XHTML import handler ($100)
* USB extended keyboard driver ($85)
* Mpeg2Schnitt port ($84)
* OS2 & eCS kernel ($75)
* General Win32 Plugin for Mozilla/Firefox ($50)
* OS/2 device drivers for Minolta filmscanners ($50)
* Porting free gnat ADA 2005 compiler on OS/2 ($50)
* Native OS/2 Port of Lotus Notes (Hannover) ($50)
* Porting AbiWord ($25)
* libMTP Port and Implementation ($25)
* GTK+ 2.x (The GIMP Toolkit) port ($15)
To suggest a new bounty visit also.
http://www.os2world.com/bounties/suggest.php
Plus, every bounty has a forum thread when users and developers can post
comments and disscuss it.
http://www.os2world.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,63/board,31.0/
Thanks to all the Bounty Sponsors.
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| SW: Scribus 1.3.3.11 ported to OS/2 & eComStation |
2008-01-15
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
I've ported Scribus 1.3.3.11 to OS/2 & eComStation, and it is available
from the Scribus website at http://www.scribus.net
This stable release adds the following:
- Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
- New Arabic Translation.
- More translation and documentation updates.
- Many improvements to PDF Forms exporting and non-Latin script handling
in PDFs.
- Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
- Improved Color Managed Display in some cases.
- Some fixes to the Scripting plugin.
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional
page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a
combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.
Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports
professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC
color management and versatile PDF creation.
The OS/2 build has not had a whole lot of testing - if any reproduceable
crashes (ie SIGSEGV) are seen, please email me the details to
paulDESPAM@DESPAM.smedley.id.au
Enjoy!
Paul.
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| Event: SCOUG Meeting January 19, 2008 |
2008-01-15
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Tom Brown
Saturday, January, 19, 2008
9:30 AM - 1 PM
Here we go again. Another year; another fun meeting.
Greg is scheduled to tell us about GanttProject and dotProject. If you
don't know what they are you really should plan on coming.
To learn more about these projects before the meeting, see:
Gantt project: http://ganttproject.biz/
dotProject: http://www.dotproject.net/
Always Q&A. Always coffee and donuts. Always worthwhile.
For directions to the meeting, see: http://www.scoug.com/meetings.html
See you there!
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