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December 01

Direct mp3 encoding from an audio CD with CDDB access

LEECHMP3 uses Leech or Tonigy as a CD grabber, and LAME as an MP3 encoder and runs them simultaneously to reduice encoding time. With CDDB access capability to retrieve tracks titles.

LEECHMP3 also speaks to let you know operations progress. REXX Source code is provided as sample.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/leechmp3_350.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=leechmp3_350.zip

December 01

os/2 kernel updated again !
smp,uni & w4 kernels updated !
A new version (1130) is available on the IBM testcase site ( and eCStacy too as i have already reported ).
Readme includes the following change for this version:
"11/29: Trap 000d or 000e (DS will be bogus) in 11/28 kernels (only) Some peculiarities deleting files"

[Moderator's note: As always these are not officially supported by IBM unless they tell you to use them. Please send any followup to comp.os.os2.bugs on usenet. Also note that files are only on IBM's testcase for 2-3 days, so if you want to try these get them now. Make certain you back up any files replaced and don't try these on a production system. You have been warned. ]
http://www.ecomstation.org/testcase
ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/

December 01

RSJ's .TRK to .ISO format convertion utility
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/trk2iso.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=trk2iso.zip

November 30

OS/2 Servolution Logon Client 2.0 Beta1 is available!

The Servolution Logon client version 2.0 beta is available for the Download.
New functions with the version 2.0:
Windows XP Support
NetBIOS over TCP/IP support (NBDD, NBNS)

The Servolution Logon Client enables NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 Workstations to log onto OS/2 domains. It has been developed for large size environments where users, file and print services are administered on OS/2 servers while NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 are used in the front office.

http://servolution.comtarsia.com/main/en/Allgemein

November 30

Downloader for X 1.30

New version of one of the most popular X programs (except GIMP of course also this one will work better with Hobb X11. You can get application from Netlabs incoming .

X Downloader is a multy-threaded web downloader with tons of features including : fixing speed of download, splitted download, resuming, sheduling, clipboard monitoring, filtering.
Linux site is:

http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/nt-1.30_os2_emx.zip

November 30

PM Fax install problems

Somebody contacted me saying he was having trouble installing PM Fax on eComStation. I called CDS and they said they where working on a sollution...

Development of the OS/2 version is going onward BTW....

It turns out this bug is not only on eCS. For people who want to know more, visit groups.google.com and enter crszip.exe.

The install with different versions of PM Fax fails on crszip.exe. Its a self extracting file but the executable used to create the self extracting file is too old. Maybe the trouble occurs because of the new kernel in fixpak 13 and higher ?

So what is the sollution ? Take the file cgizip.exe and copy it in an empty directory and put crszip.exe also in an empty directory. Unzip the files (just from the command line type unzip.exe cgizip.exe), the files will then be uncompressed.

Now use zip.exe to create new zipfiles.

You should end up with a zipfile called CGIZIP.ZIP that contains at root level the directory LASERFAX. The other zip file should contain the directory CALERA in the root and should be called CRSZIP.ZIP Get the following tool from hobbes:

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/archiver/kazip1.zip

unzip the file kazip1.zip and unzip the .EXE files that comes out of this file. Use KAZipSFX.exe to turn the two zipfiles into self extracting files.

From the command line

Then copy the files back onto the diskette or on the hard drive in a directory where all diskettes have been copied.

Then restart the installation. Please beware that when you use the zip to exe file mentioned above you will be prompted to enter the directory where you want to unzip the files TO!. This directory will be the directory where the files are! You need to change the path that you specified PMfax is installed to!

November 30

new sblive driver

Text: A new driver for the Sb Live! is available on Hobbes. Version is 0.81 and must still be considered BETA.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/sbliveos2-081b.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=sbliveos2-081b

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