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OS/2 and USB site Updated
Hi
I have updated the OS/2 and USB site with some minors changes.
- Added a tip about the Labtec USB speakers by J ri Ivask
- USB Cameras area added
- Added a Tools area with a quick description of OS/2 USB Resource
Manager.
- Added some USB printer models at the Printers Area with
someone that are reported to work under OS/2.
plus:
- Added Scanners area, but it’s empty right now. If you found an USB
scanner that works under OS/2, let me know.
- USB Hubs area added, but
empty for the moment.
- Added text navigation bar at the botton of the page.
- Added link to www.usbman.com
http://www.os2world.com/os2usb
Don't hesitate to send me info about USB stuff you have working under
OS/2.
bye
From: Martin Iturbide martin@os2world.com
Impos/2 scanner driver updated
Impos/2 scanner driver actualized
Compart has released new scanner drivers for Impos/2
Agfa:
Studioscan II Si
Epson:
GT 5000 Flachbett SCSI
GT 5500 Flachbett SCSI
GT 6500 Flachbett SCSI
GT 8000 Flachbett SCSI
GT 8500 Flachbett SCSI
GT 9000 Flachbett SCSI
GT 9500 Flachbett SCSI
Escom
Power Scanner 3000
Power Scanner 6000
HP:
ScanJet Plus Flachbett SCSI
ScanJet IIp Flachbett SCSI
ScanJet 3p Flachbett SCSI
ScanJet IIc Flachbett SCSI
ScanJet IIcx Flachbett SCSI
ScanJet 3c Flachbett SCSI
ScanJet 4c Flachbett SCSI
ScanJet 4c/T Flachbett SCSI
ScanJet 5p Flachbett SCSI
ScanJet 6100c Flachbett SCSI
ScanJet 6200c Flachbett SCSI
ScanJet 6250c Flachbett SCSI mit ADF
ScanJet 6300c Flachbett SCSI
ScanJet 6350c Flachbett SCSI mit ADF
Fujitsu:
ScanPartner 600c
M3093GX
M3097DG
M3097DG (IPC)
Microtek:
ScanMaker II Flachbett SCSI
ScanMaker II G Flachbett SCSI
ScanMaker II XE Flachbett SCSI
ScanMaker II HR Flachbett SCSI
ScanMaker II SP Flachbett SCSI
ScanMaker II SPX Flachbett SCSI
ScanMaker III Flachbett SCSI
ScanMaker 330 Flachbett SCSI
ScanMaker 630 Flachbett SCSI
ScanMaker E2 Flachbett SCSI
ScanMaker E3 Flachbett SCSI
ScanMaker E6 Flachbett SCSI
ScanMaker 35t+ Dia-/Filmscanner SCSI
Mustek:
MFS 6000 CX Flachbett SCSI
MFS 8000 CX Flachbett SCSI
MFS 12000 CX Flachbett SCSI
Canon:
DR - 3020 Einzug SCSI
DR - 5020 Einzug SCSI
DR - 5080C Einzug SCSI
Ricoh:
IS410 Flachbett SCSI A3 mit ADF
IS420 Flachbett SCSI A3 mit ADF
IBM:
2456 Image Scanner Flachbett SCSI A3 mit ADF
Bell+Howell:
5000FS Flachbett SCSI A3 mit ADF
C.T.S.:
LS500 Belegleser SCSI
LS505 Belegleser SCSI
BTW: you need an account for download and cookies must be enabled
Warpzilla status reportv
Just to give everyone an update on why there have been no nightly
builds...
A new image library was dropped in a few weeks ago, and we just got it
finally working properly today.
Unfortunately, today, some new pref code was dropped that caused us to
change some linkage stuff, and we are not sure what the fallout is from
that yet.
A lot of code is changing in Mozilla right now which is causing us to have
to do a lot of catch up.
We hope to be in better shape in the next couple weeks.
We will be working very hard to produce a 0.9 milestone.
Mike Kaply
IBM
Moderator note: For more on Warpzilla The freeware port of the Netscape
6/Mozilla browser - http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/
ODIN Announcement: Weekly builds
Hi.
As many of you have noticed we are changing the build pattern for Odin32.
Every Thursday a weekly build is uploaded to the ftp sites. The weekly
build is only distributed as WarpIn packages. (Like it or not!) If there
are build problems the build might be delayed, but it will get there as
soon as we've solve the problems.
The users should use the weekly builds.
W e w a n t b u g r e p o r t s o n w e e k l y b u i l d s.
(Got it?)
The
weekly builds are found at:
ftp://ftp.os2.org/odin/Weekly/
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Weekly/
----
The other days we will upload .zip packages to the ftp sites. These are
only for testing bugfix(es) you _know_ have been done after the latest
weekly build. Read the ChangeLog _before_ downloading a daily .ZIP build.
The ChangeLog is found in the same directory as the daily zip files.
The daily builds are found at:
ftp://ftp.os2.org/odin/daily/
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/Daily/
ftp://ktaskmgr.sourceforge.net/pub/ktaskmgr/daily/
----
To the developers:
Be very careful testing anything you commit on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We
don't want build breakers and non-functioning 'Weeklies'.
Kind Regards,
knut
PS. Yes, bugzilla is coming sooooon! Then problem is that some of us have
just much to do right now. Please be patient.
Scigraphica 0.6.3
Scigraphica for XFree86/2 0.6.3 is now available. Thanks goes to Christain
Hennecke, who asked for the new version...
Scigraphica is extremely powerful chart building application, it it very
much usable in OS/2 too because it generates Postscript files on output
which later can be printed directly or through GhostScript.
Homepage of project is: http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net
Get it from ftp://ftp.os2.ru/incoming/scigraphica063.zip
Bye!
Airline and car rental discounts for Warpstock 2001
The Warpstock Committee has made arrangements for airline and car rental
discounts for Warpstock attendees. If you are going to fly to Warpstock
or rent a car in Toronto, these discounts from Air Canada and Avis Rent A
Car could save you money.
Discounts for flights with Air Canada are as high as 35%, depending on the
type of ticket, although most flights will qualify for discounts between
5% and 15%. Call Air Canada at 800-361-7585 or 514-393-9494 and mention
"convention number" CV674086 to the travel agent, who will then work with
you to determine the best schedule and rates for you. If you do purchase
a ticket from Air Canada, make sure the convention number appears on it.
For care rentals, Avis Rent A Car is offering rates as low as $33 CAN/day.
To obtain these rates, contact Avis and mention the Avis Worldwide
Discount (AWD) number J868909. Please note that attendees who stay at the
official Warpstock 2001 hotel (the Holiday Inn Select Toronto Airport)
will probably not need a vehicle, since the hotel provides a free shuttle
bus from the airport, and the conference will be held inside the hotel
itself.
The Warpstock Committee hopes that these discounts will make Warpstock
2001 even more affordable for all OS/2 users coming to Toronto.
Considering the favorable exchange rate and the opportunity to visit
Canada, everyone should be attending Warpstock 2001!
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North
Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a
gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for
the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at
the Warpstock 2001 web site: http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror site: http://www.ibmforum.com/warpstock/
http://www.warpstock.org/2001/location/travel_info.html
RexxMail -- the sequel.
News about RexxMail:
RexxMail has been updated with built-in POP3 and SMTP services, so users
are no longer dependent on external programs (e.g. sendmail) to handle
mail transmission. This makes installation and configuration of the
program a lot easier. Of course, RexxMail still offers capabilities for
handling mail transmission through external programs for those who prefer
to do so.
The updated RexxMail also includes a mailing list feature with the option
of sending personalized messages.
RexxMail is an object-oriented e-mail client written in REXX that makes
full use of the extensive range of facilities offered by the OS/2
Workplace Shell (WPS). The RexxMail user interface uses only standard WPS
components (folders, file and program objects, etc.). RexxMail mail
message objects are separate, plain text, files that can be used anywhere
on the WPS desktop. You can use your favourite editor to compose and read
mail messages, and since both incoming and outgoing attachments (including
HTML content) are presented as standard WPS objects, you can also use your
favourite software to process these.
The program takes up very limited system resources (the
RexxComm-stripped RexxMail code weighs in at a puny 88 kB), and only when
performing specific tasks such as sending, collecting, and processing
e-mail message files. For all other tasks, it relies on the unequalled
object-oriented data handling environment of the WPS. In addition,
RexxMail offers an easy command-line interface for all its functions.
RexxMail features a multi-user configuration as well as a wide range of
individual user options, including:
- choice of text reader for incoming messages;
- choice of text editor for outgoing messages;
- preprocessing of incoming attachments (e.g. virus scan);
- preprocessing of outgoing attachments (e.g. data compression);
- preselection of header entries to show for incoming messages;
- preconfigurable message object title content;
- send message text as quoted-printable or (word-wrapped) ASCII;
- send selected messages or all messages as ASCII text;
- intelligent 8-bit (PC850) to 7-bit (ASCII) text conversion;
- conversion to 8.3 filenames for selected filename extensions;
- full error and message traffic logging;
- RFC to ISO-sorted date conversion;
- choice of message icon stationery colours.
The updated version of RexxMail will be available after the weekend from: http://www.degeus.com/rexx
RexxMail is released under the terms of the GNU license, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Regards,
Marcus de Geus
--
marcus@degeus.com
http://www.degeus.com
PM123 1.1 beta 4 is now available for download:
zip:
http://sektori.com/pm123/pm123-1_1-beta4.zip
ftp://sektori.com/pub/pm123/pm123-1_1-beta4.zip
http://www.cam.org/~guardia/archives/pm123-1_1-beta4.zip
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/pm123-1_1-beta4.zip
WarpIN Installer:
http://sektori.com/pm123/pm123-1_1-beta4.wpi
ftp://sektori.com/pub/pm123/pm123-1_1-beta4.wpi
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/pm123-1_1-beta4.wpi
More information is available at:
http://sektori.com/pm123/
http://www.cam.org/~guardia/pm123.html
What's new!
- Fixed crash when using "add" pipe command.
- Load Plug-in file dialog showed "pm123.exe*.dll" instead of "*.dll"
- Path with no trailing backslash would not work with wavout.dll
- I hope I fixed all crash in os2audio.dll ...
- Fixed a few minor bugs in playlist playback and reduced delays
- Added "don't make PM123 wait on buffer" in os2audio settings.
Makes for less delays between songs in playlist, but synchronization
is all screwed up... use at your own risk. Might be improved in the
future if I come up with any magic ideas.
- Timing problem with "*status" return values from \\PIPE\PM123 fixed!
- "*status" would only work when a song is playing.
- Fix crash and other problems when moving entries in playlist.
- Added support for WM_CHANGEBR to update the bitrate display in
real-time
to reflect the current bitrate of VBR MP3s.
- Manual updated thanks to Filip Molcan <molcanf@seznam.cz>
- Filenames longer than 100 characters can now be loaded properly.
- Fixed a bug in playlist recursive add where PM123 would not read
some directories at all (giving errors like "can't read
x:\dir1\dir1")
- Increased stack size to prevent crash in DOSCALL1.DLL during
recursive add.
mpg123.dll
==========
- Fixed some non-MP3 files being recognized as MP3.
- Fixed more floating point crashes (any left?) due to corrupted MP3.
- Fixed a buffer overload crash that would sometimes happen.
- Added support for WM_CHANGEBR
- Enhanced MP3 detection mechanism. Once more less non-MP3 are
identified
as MP3 files..
Warpstock Committee Is Accepting Bids for Warpstock 2002
With the recent announcement of the location of Warpstock 2001 (Toronto,
Canada), the Board of Directors of Warpstock, Inc. is currently soliciting
bids for the following conference, Warpstock 2002, which will be held
sometime around October, 2002.
By accepting bids so early (14 months in advance), the Warpstock Committee
is hoping to announce the location and date of Warpstock 2002 during the
Warpstock 2001 conference. It is expected that such early announcements
will become the norm for all future Warpstock conferences and will have a
number of benefits.
The location of each Warpstock conference is chosen by the Warpstock
Committee. The selection is made from bids that are submitted by
interested parties who want to host the next conference.
Groups wishing to host Warpstock 2002 should indiciate their intent to
bid by sending an email to bids@warpstock.org by June 1, 2001. The email
should include the location (i.e. which city), the names of the
individuals involved (they would then become the Event Team), and any
other information available at that time (e.g. possible locations for the
conference).
After submitting the bid intent, the group should work on submitting a
completed bid form by August 15, 2001. The bid form, and all other
relevant information, can be found at
http://www.warpstock.org/2002/bid_form.html, in RTF, PDF, and WordPro
formats. Any questions should also be directed to bids@warpstock.org.
Attendees and conference planners will have a full year to prepare for the
next conference. For planners, this time frame could even allow them to
select otherwise unavailable sites that need significant advanced
reservation. But most importantly, announcing at each conference the
dates and location of the following conference will demonstrate that the
annual Warpstock Conferences are a well-planned, ongoing tradition, and
not haphazard events that get cobbled together six months in advance.
The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North
Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a
gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world
for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available
at the Warpstock 2001 web site: http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror
site: http://www.ibmforum.com/warpstock/
Board of Directors
Warpstock, Inc.
Shisen Sho 1.03
Daniel Valot, developerof the the well-known and must have Dsk4pm and
other quite useful utilities, has ported his Shisen Sho Game from Windows
to OS/2
The Shisen Sho software is not shareware nor freeware. You can only get it
from Daniel F. Valot. You do not have to pay anything for Shisen version
1.03
Merci Daniel :-)
http://dvalot.free.fr/games.htm
Updates at PillarSoft
The SFX Installer, KidStreet, the Enhanced E and the PillarSoft Suite have
been updated.
The SFX Installer marries the installation tool for your software and it's
own setup tools into one friendly package for point and click installation
setups that are personalized for your software. SFX allows you to build an
archive in standard or self-extracting format, with or without the
installer.
Although the installer is distributed as shareware through BMT Micro (
http://www.bmtmicro.com ), we invite freeware authors to use the installer
free of charge as a small token of appreciation for their selfless work.
Please read the license for more details.
KidStreet is an educational program for youngsters. Your kids may even
have fun while honing their typing, spelling and math skills. KidStreet is
in more of a test market phase at this time and is not for sale.
Registered users of the PillarSoft Suite may consider it to be another
component of the suite and use it indefinately.
More information and downloads are available at:
SFX Installer: http://www.pillarsoft.net/sfx.html
KidStreet: http://www.pillarsoft.net/kidstreet.html
Enhanced E: http://www.pillarsoft.net/enhanced.html
PillarSoft Suite: http://www.pillarsoft.net/suite.html
The OS/2 Files updated
Christian Hennecke has updated his site "The OS/2 Files". Additions
include an installation guide for the GIMP in both English and German
languages and the long-promised German translation of Platon Fomichevs
Enlightenment/2 User's Guide.
http://www.os2world.com/os2files/
From: Christian Hennecke christian.hennecke@os2voice.org
New SysInfo/2 ver. 0.8.7 with embeded PCI SCAN is ready!
New SysInfo/2 ver. 0.8.7 is published on
Hobbes and on SysInfo/2 project homepage.
Main changers are:
*** - Due to a kindly help from Joachim Benjamins new SyInfo/2 comes
with
new pictures!;
*** - PCI BIOS scaning algorithm is added. All information that it may
finds it will dispaly on "Device tree" page;
*** - Memry Read&Write benchmark is added to "Memory" page;
*** - CPU/FPU Benchmark on the first page is normalized using test
information from more than 15th different CPU test results. AMD Athlon
results are looking very strange! But this is documented truth. ;-))
- Video detection algorithm is rewroted again. Some new info is
added and code size is reduced;
- Some erorrs are corrected in multimedia detection algorithm.
For
now it will work more stable;
- On the first page some new info about local version
specification was added to OS/2 version detection and FixPack level and
KERNEL level detection algorithms;
- Also there - BIOS vendor detection algorithm was rewroted.
Vendor
identificators were adedd for thouse BIOS manufacters as Intel, Packard
Bell, Insyde, Dell, etc.
*** - More over, more than 65% of all SysInfo/2 code were dramatically
rewroted. I think that for now is is better to start againg beta testing
phase, couse new SysInfo/2 is a really new product. ;-))
*** - All code references to Sibyl DataBase Engine were erased from
SysInfo/2 code. Note: I do not use Sibyl DataBase Engine, but some Sibyl
base classes were referenced to it. After removing thouse references total
SysInfo/2 size and memory requirements were reduced greatly.
I am very interesting in your comments and bug reports. Thank you very
much
http://os2.ru/projects/sysinfo/index.phtml.en
Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=sysinfo087.zip
FTP-Search: http://ftpsearch.ntnu.no/cgi-bin/search?query=sysinfo087.zip
OS/2 and USB New Site
Hi
I'm proud to announce my new site.
http://www.os2world.com/os2usb/
It's about USB devices I had tried under OS/2. I'm hoping to make this a
bigger site and try to encourage device driver developer to make USB
drivers for OS/2.
Of course that there is a lot more I want to put on the site. If you want
to help me with tips, or telling me with devices are working under OS/2,
don't hesitate on contacting me !!
bye !!
PD: My site is published in memorial of the "Ramones Lead Singer" - Joey
Ramone - 1965-2001
http://www.os2world.com/os2usb/
From: Martin Iturbide martin@os2world.com
The latest build is out. The report of a hang exiting an OS/2 fullscreen
session now seems to be a pmmerge issue. The procdump issue should be
resolved. As always, Get the kernels on the internet at
ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2. DFxxx is the dump
formatter stuff for this build. xxxD.zip are the debug kernels. Don't use
them unless you know how to use the kernel debugger.
w4 kernels are for Warp 4/MCP
uni/smp kernels are for WSeB/ACP uni and smp installations
readme follows:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This contains fixes since xr_e002/xr_m015/mcp/acp. Important note: If you
use the OS/2 SES facility, you need a new sesdd32.sys dated April 2001 or
later to use this kernel. Also, a matching dump formatter (df_ret.exe),
provided separately, is required, if you want to analyze a dump from this
kernel. Finally, note that os2ldr is only required for the >64mb memory
detection mentioned below.
New function:
1) Support for >64m memory using int15 func e820. Note, this support
is
enabled ONLY for Intel Pentium Pro or later, or non-Intel
Pentium-class
machines. This is done in an effort to prevent problems on older
PCs.
2) The presence of \os2\boot\os2norev.$$$ suppresses the display of
internal revision during boot.
3) Adding "EARLYMEMINIT=TRUE" to config.sys will allow device drivers,
etc.,
access to the memory above 16mb early in boot. Previously, this was
only
available after DD and IFS init was completed. This has various
implications when enabled:
a) AHA154X.ADD may do bad things to your system. Don't even askb
b) There may be some settings of HPFS386 cache that are
incompatible.
4) Trap messages will now give the module name instead of the device
name.
For example, "Exception in module: CLOCK01" instead of "Exception
in
Device Driver: CLOCK$".
***change from 0220/0223: Traps in 32 bit code now show the
modname, too
5) Systems with a 486SX chip running FP15 will function correctly.
Note,
they will NOT work with ACP or (necessarily) on MCP.
6) SESDD32 will now work correctly (I hope) for both uni and smp
Bug Fixes:
Fixes from earlier "dated" kernels:
Fixed a trap 000d in w_OpenCreate (140:4dfd or so in uni/w4 krnls,
don't
have regs for SMP). This was a post mcp/acp regression
Fixed strange loader i/o problems specific to the 0111 kernel.
Fixed a bootup sys31xx problem specific to the 0123 kernel.
Fixed a problem that was (I think) specific to Janauary uni & W4
kernels
which resulted in odd ring 3 (maybe ring 0?) traps and hangs
Fixed some trap and other peculiar problems specific to the 0206
kernel.
Those were the result of a build problem.
Fixed some trap and other problems specific to the 0220/0223 kernels
Fixed a regression from JR15038 that caused a trap in CWBBS.IFS and
PCSFLR0.IFS (AS/400 shared folders access).
Fixed a regression in the 0330 kernel that messed up getting procdumps
Fixes to problems that exist in released code:
JR15494: Delayed response of Ctrl-C or Ctrl-S (pause) in os/2 windows
JR15405: (probably) DosQueryAsyncTimer fails on timecritical thread
after
mscount rolls over after 49.7 days of uptime
JR15030: TRAPDUMP QUERY doesn't show PD (needs a new trapdump.exe,
too)
JR13335: Some VDMs won't run, complaining of too-long command lines
JR15194: XCOPY fails with SYS1186 or SYS1192 on (at least) MO drives
JR15038: Trap 8 in h_DeviceHelpDM running an app from a tcpbeui drive
JR15229: Files left open after ERROR_TOO_MANY_OPEN_FILES returned to
app
PJ27700: SMP systems may get a trap 000e in _tkStopScan, particularly
during a procdump operation.
PJ27676: Causes hangs on some systems running UNI or W4 kernels
PJ27554: Hang or (on allstrict) trap 3 on SMP (only) during beeps
PJ27678: SMP kernels could not be RIPL-booted. As part of this, there
is
a new config.sys parameter I13PAGES= available. Adding
I13PAGES=1
to config.sys (note, no SET) reduces the memory usage of the
mini
VDM processes used by ibm1s506.add and the GRADD drivers.
This
becomes important in RIPL-boot situations. It may be helpful
for
UNI RIPL boot, as well.
PJ27677: SMP systems hang with multiple threads of same process
entering a critical section (affects ADSM client)
PJ27757: Trap 000e running Theseus/4 (note, theseus4.exe may still end
up
with a sys3175, but at least the system doesn't crash).
PJ27736: Trap in _PLD_WriteReturnCode
PJ27777: Set BEGINLIBPATH= (in config.sys ONLY) may be ignored. Also,
it would lead to a bogus copy of BEGINLIBPATH= in the
environment.
PJ27821: Trap 000e in SchedNextRet2 on some APM-enabled machines
Following are rough instructions for applying the os2krnl fix: In the
directory from which you boot (C:\ or d:\ or whatever), type these
commands. Note that os2krnl should have come with this file.
1. attrib -r -s -h os2krnl
2. attrib -r -s -h os2ldr
3. copy os2krnl os2krnl.sav
4. copy os2ldr os2ldr.sav
5. copy \os2\system\trace\*.tdf \save (or wherever)
5. unzip -o xxx.zip
If you want, you can turn the os2krnl and os2ldr attributes back on, but
it's not necessary to do so.
Trace files (*.tdf) have been included.
An os2krnl.sym file has been provided with this fix. Just save it
somewhere (root directory or anywhere). It is only needed in case OS/2
service requests a standalone dump of your system in the future.
Please visit the IACT website soon to check out our brand
new 24x7 technical report, "Solutions for e-mail: some
lessons from REXX, BeOS and OS/2."
It takes a close look at how the system capabilities and
design philosophies of OS/2 and BeOS can help netizens to
send, receive and manage e-mail with built-in options not
even available yet in other environments. As you yourself
may know, both BeOS and OS/2 have been recognized as two
of the most powerful and versatile operating systems.
They both are object-oriented and highly compliant with
open standards.
- But is it true that either of these operating
systems has any built-in capabilities for performing
important e-mail tasks?
- If yes, then how can users and programmers take
advantage of these integrated features?
- Is there any possibility that the BeOS and OS/2
engineering philosophies, if not actual code, can be
adopted elsewhere such as Windows and Linux?
- If enhanced e-mail functions are implemented in OS/2
through the REXX multiplatform programming language,
then how could such a program be instructive for other
environments?
The IACT 24x7 report searches for the answers to those
interesting questions as well as to common e-mail
problems in areas like security, privacy, compatibility
and choice. As an example of an integrated solution, the
report also introduces a new, innovative e-mail handler
called RexxMail, released as OS/2 freeware under the GNU
Public License and developed with the REXX multiplatform
programming language.
Regardless of which operating system(s) you are using now, bookmark
IACT's 24x7 Reports page at
<http://www.iact.net/features/24x7.html> and check out
the intriguing possibilities of RexxMail, BeOS and OS/2.
------------------------------------------------
International Alliance for Compatible Technology
http://www.iact.net/
more open standards, user choice and
free access to compatible technology
New home for Focus on OS/2 articles
Hello everyone,
Slightly more than two weeks have passed since I received the email from
About informing me that Focus on OS/2 had been terminated. Since I knew
it was against About's policy to forward email sent to a cancelled site or
Guide, I published a note on the web explaining what had happened with the
sole intention of preventing you my readers from drawing the wrong
conclusion from the sudden disappearance of my site. I didn't want you to
think that I had suddenly given up on you, or worse, that I had died.
I was completely unprepared for what happened next. I was flooded with
email expressing appreciation for my site over the past three years and
concern that the articles I had written would be lost; several were even
concerned that the OS/2 world might lose me as a contributor.
As you might imagine, having a project in which you have invested 3 years
of your life abrupted terminated and taken down has a powerful emotional
impact. Your kindness during this time, as well as your support and
desire to see my work continue has done a great deal to soften this blow.
I thank each of you who has taken the time to write me from the bottom of
my heart.
Now for my announcement.
Two editors contacted me within minutes of my publication of the "Farewell
to Focus on OS/2" note. I am happy to report that I have reached
mutually satisfactory arrangements with both editors and their respective
publications to begin writing for them beginning in May. These
publications are "VOICE Newsletter", published by VOICE, and "Extended
Attributes", published by POSSI, the Phoenix OS/2 Society.
Initially, at least, I'll aim for an article in every issue of EA--in
other words, every other month, and another article in every other issue
of the VOICE Newsletter. Every article I write, regardless of where it
gets published, will also go online in my personal web site, and hopefully
also on Warp Doctor. (I'll be keeping the copyright of all my articles;
in addition both Mark Dodel of the VOICE Newsletter and Esther Schindler
of EA have generously given me express permission to keep them online.)
More details on that later. These will be added to the Focus on OS/2
articles which I have already started uploading to my personal web site.
(Eventually I want to accumulate a complete library of my articles online
for the benefit of anyone who may find them useful. I've tentatively
named this library, "Walter's OS/2 Treasury". I'll publish the URL for my
personal web site copy after I've cleaned it up a bit more and created a
front page for my articles.)
Finally, I wish I could respond positively to the many generous offers
that were made. However, it quickly became clear that wasn't going to be
possible. Let me just express my thanks once again to all who wrote me,
and especially to those who found my contributions to the OS/2 community
worth preserving, and were willing to devote some of their own valuable
server resources to help make it happen. This has been a truly humbling
experience.
Walter
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Walter Metcalf
email: walter.os2@home.com
OS/2 Lives On!
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Java scripts page looking for a home
I've posted my page at http://bbs.darktech.org/essence.html
The page targets end-users, using Java applications under OS/2 or eCS. The
purpose of the page is to provide OS2/eCS specific scripts for Java
applications so they run out-of-the-box. Furthermore, it will attempt to
tackle common end-user problems.
The site is currently hosted on my home machine, which isn't always up. If
anyone with good uptime is willing to host this site, please contact me.
http://bbs.darktech.org/essence.html
Gili Tzabari : l8r@email.com
Today (April 16 2001) Leif-Erik Larsen has released version 1.5 beta #3
of his popular GUI file manager and command processor, Larsen Commander.
Larsen Commander has a look and feel like the classic Norton Commander. It
combines the very best of two very different worlds; - the command line
and the file management panels. Both are available at the same time, and
even in parallel while one or more commands are running in the
background!
Larsen Commander is available at
http://home.online.no/~leifel/lcmd/index.html
Please also be aware of the open Larsen Commander discussion
forum at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lcmd
This new beta release has a lot of fixes and improvements.
Here you have some of them:
* New and smart dynamic buffering algorithm for file copy and move
operation, making the progress dialog display more accurate
information independent of the bandwidth.
* Internal CD and PUSHD command now also accepts foreward slashes
in directory names. (Unix-style slashes.)
* Typing a drive letter in the drive selection dialog now activates
that drive directly, without waiting for you to press enter.
* The loading of filename items into file panels is much, much quicker.
* Copy with shift+F5 and rename with shift+F6 now works again.
* EA-names in EA-editor no longer shown with a corrupt prefix
character.
* Fixed some strange behaviour when copying and moving directories.
For a complete list of changes, fixes and improvements, take a look at
http://home.online.no/~leifel/lcmd/beta_history.html
http://home.online.no/~leifel/lcmd/index.html
From: Leif-Erik Larsen leifel@online.no
PMMail Update
Blueprint Software has - once again - updated PM-Mail to version
2.20.2300:
- HTML colors are now recognized by name.
- Corrected errors with the time stamp when being sent through a Qmail
server.
- Corrected character set related issues involving the codepage US 437. -
Changed memory calls to call for clear memory. This will improve stability
of PMMail on some machines and correct some of the color related issues.
http://www.pmmail2000.com/betas/pmm220.exe
Unofficial release of version 0.70 of the SBLive drivers
I've uploaded a new version to
http://www.xs4all.nl/~sandervl/sbliveos2.070.zip. It contains a fix for
conflicts with the USB driver on some systems. The driver now fails to
load if the USB driver was granted exclusive access to the interrupt the
SBLive needs.
I've also added a new wave audio interface that is currently used by the
latest Odin builds.
An official version will be released in the near future.
As always, let me know if there are any (new) problems with the release.
Sander
IDEDASD updated
IBM updated the IDEDASD package once again.
According to the README file the date is Febr 15, 2001
but the IBM1S506.ADD driver dates March 14, 2001
It can be found on the OS/2 Driver Depository under
OS/2 component updates > Installation diskette updates >
Greater than 8.4 gig hardfile support
Direct URL here:
PM123 1.1 beta 4 is now available for download:
zip:
http://sektori.com/pm123/pm123-1_1-beta4.zip
ftp://sektori.com/pub/pm123/pm123-1_1-beta4.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pm123-1_1-beta4.zip
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/pm123-1_1-beta4.zip
http://www.cam.org/~guardia/archives/pm123-1_1-beta4.zip
WarpIN Installer:
http://sektori.com/pm123/pm123-1_1-beta4.wpi
ftp://sektori.com/pub/pm123/pm123-1_1-beta4.wpi
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pm123-1_1-beta4.wpi
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/pm123-1_1-beta4.wpi
More information is available at:
http://sektori.com/pm123/
http://www.cam.org/~guardia/pm123.html
What's new!
- Fixed crash when using "add" pipe command.
- Load Plug-in file dialog showed "pm123.exe*.dll" instead of "*.dll"
- Path with no trailing backslash would not work with wavout.dll
- I hope I fixed all crash in os2audio.dll ...
- Fixed a few minor bugs in playlist playback and reduced delays
- Added "don't make PM123 wait on buffer" in os2audio settings.
Makes for less delays between songs in playlist, but synchronization
is all screwed up... use at your own risk. Might be improved in the
future if I come up with any magic ideas.
- Timing problem with "*status" return values from \\PIPE\PM123 fixed!
- "*status" would only work when a song is playing.
- Fix crash and other problems when moving entries in playlist.
- Added support for WM_CHANGEBR to update the bitrate display in
real-time
to reflect the current bitrate of VBR MP3s.
- Manual updated thanks to Filip Molcan
- Filenames longer than 100 characters can now be loaded properly.
- Fixed a bug in playlist recursive add where PM123 would not read
some directories at all (giving errors like "can't read
x:\dir1\dir1")
- Increased stack size to prevent crash in DOSCALL1.DLL during
recursive add.
mpg123.dll
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- Fixed some non-MP3 files being recognized as MP3.
- Fixed more floating point crashes (any left?) due to corrupted MP3.
- Fixed a buffer overload crash that would sometimes happen.
- Added support for WM_CHANGEBR
- Enhanced MP3 detection mechanism. Once more less non-MP3 are
identified
as MP3 files..
DTape Beta 6 released
Dtape is a OS/2 PM program which provides the facilities to record and
replay digital audio directly to/from disk - a digital tape recorder.
Features include peak level monitoring and unlimited .WAV file sizes (up
to 4GB).
Also included are DPLAY and DRECORD, which are VIO programs for playing
and recording digital audio.
http://home.clara.net/orac/os2.htm
The Enhanced E Editor has been updated to v2.2
We had a few teething pains with all the new features in the last major
upgrade but seem to have most of them straightened out and have added
quite a few more functions. This should be the end of the major changes
for now and the next version will focus on minor tweeks and changes.
New features in v2.2 are:
Added ClipText facility.
Added ClipBoard viewer.
Added file encryption.
Added ReLoad file.
Added ReName file.
Added Delete file.
Rework Ring editor layout.
Added recovery facility.
Added Text to Html conversion.
Added "Load directory\*.*" to ring editor.
Added bookmarks. (Mark a position in a file to return to)
Added new font selections to "Report" printing method.
Take a peek at our website for more information on the Enhanced E's. The
PillarSoft Suite has also been updated and can be downloaded from our
website.
The Enhanced E is $25 and is available through BMT Micro, Mensys and
others. The PillarSoft Suite contains this program plus 12 more OS/2
specific programs for only $99.
Downloads and more information:
PillarSoft:
http://www.pillarsoft.net
Enhanced E:
http://www.pillarsoft.net/enhanced.htm
PillarSoft Suite:
http://www.pillarsoft.net/suite.html
Phex: java-based gnutella client
Phex is a new cross-platform gnutella client based on the Furi code-base.
Phex is a very useful/flexible/powerful gnutella client released and
actively developed by Konrad Haenel:
http://www.konrad-haenel.de/phex/news.html
I have put together a package that includes Konrad's Phex class with a set
of install/run REXX scripts.
Readme (link might not work):
http://63.196.159.162/html/phex2.html
I just uploaded the package to hobbes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=phex
Cary
crenquis@pacbell.net