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May 30

CW-MM Classes 0.22

Chris Wohlgemuth has relased the CW Multimedia Classes 0.22

These classes are for extending the MM subsystem of OS/2. They integrate the MMIO procedures for MP3 and OGG files written by Russel O'Connor http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/ seamlessly into the WPS. A new media folder plays any audio class known to OS/2. CD player with FreeDB support.

This package contains updated versions of the CWAudio classes (now at 0.2.2) so you need only this distribution.

New with V0.2.2:
* CD player with FreeDB support.
* Some minor fixes.

And (something Chris Wohlgemuth forgot to tell everybody ;-) the WPS-Crashes introduced by the Audioeditor and the Memoryleaks have also been fixed.

http://www.os2world.com/cdwriting/

May 30

updated IBM printer drivers (PrintPak 21)

IBM's Web pages will probably be fixed by the time this gets posted, but just in case they aren't here are correct direct URLs for the updated drivers:

http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/printerpak/en/omnien.exe

http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/printerpak/en/laserjeten.exe

http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/printerpak/en/pscripten.exe

http://service.software.ibm.com/os2dd/free/printerpak/en/plottersen.exe

For other NLS versions, replace both occurrances of "en" in each URL with the appropriate two-letter NLS code. For example, the Brazilian version of the omni driver would end in .../br/omnibr.exe.

I have not been able to find these by FTP.

I have not been able to find these by FTP.

Phil Parker

May 29

Lynx 2.8.5 dev.8 with SSL and NLS support

Lynx 2-8-5 web browser with SSL and NLS support, now packaged as a self installing exe file.

Program URL: http://lynx.browser.org
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/lynx2-8-5-dev8-os2.exe
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=lynx2-8-5-dev8-os2.exe

May 29

Updated IBM Laserjet Printer driver

IBM has updated the Laserjet printer driver to V. 30.765
PRINTER DEVICES ADDED SINCE Ver 30.759
------------------------------------------
Brother HL-1850
Brother HL-1870N
HP Business Inkjet 2230/2280
HP Business Inkjet 2600
HP C Laserjet 4600
Kyocera FS-8000C
Kyocera Mita FS-9100/9500DN
Kyocera Mita KM-3530

http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/WebCat?OpenView&Start=1&Count=300&Expand=36#36

May 29

Updated IBM Postscript Printer driver

IBM has updated the postscript driver to version 30.765
PRINTER DEVICES ADDED SINCE Ver 30.759
------------------------------------------
Brother HL-1850/70N
HP Business Inkjet 2280
HP Business Inkjet 2600
HP Color Laserjet 4600
Kyocera Mita KM-3530
Minolta-QMS Magicolor 2210
Minolta-QMS Magicolor 3100
Minolta-QMS Magicolor 6110
OKI C7200
OKI C7400
OKI C9200
OKI C9400
OKI OKIPAGE 8c
OKI OKIPAGE 8c Plus
OKIPAGE 14i
Xerox Phaser 6200B
Xerox Phaser 6200DP
Xerox Phaser 6200DX
Xerox Phaser 6200N
Xerox Phaser 8200B
Xerox Phaser 8200DP
Xerox Phaser 8200DX
Xerox Phaser 8200N
PRINTER DEVICES UPDATED SINCE Ver 30.759
--------------------------------------------
Kyocera Mita FS-9100DN, PPD updated
Kyocera Mita FS-9500DN, PPD updated
Minolta-QMS Magicolor 2200, PPD updated

http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/WebCat?OpenView&Start=1&Count=300&Expand=36#36

May 29

Updated IBM Omni Printerdriver

IBM has updated the Omni Printerdriver to V.30.765
PRINTER DEVICES ADDED SINCE Ver 30.759
------------------------------------------
Canon S100
Canon S300
Canon S500
Canon S630
Canon S6300
HP DeskJet 920C
HP DeskJet 930C
HP DeskJet 935C
HP DeskJet 940C
HP DeskJet 950C
HP DeskJet 960C
HP DeskJet 980C
HP DeskJet 995C
6.0 PRINTER DEVICES UPDATED SINCE Ver 30.759
--------------------------------------------
Canon S400, added 720dpi support
Canon S450, added 720dpi support
Canon S4500, added 720dpi support

http://www7.software.ibm.com/2bcprod.nsf/WebCat?OpenView&Start=1&Count=300&Expand=36#36

May 29

OS/2.cz Newsletter delayed

Because of a lot of registered users subscribed to our monthly newsletter full of the news about OS/2 and ECS, we have some problems with sending the news. We are sorry for this and we are working hard to solve the problem. You can still subscribe to our OS/2.cz Newsletter on our site. Thanks.

http://www.os2.cz/index.php?lang=en&v=reg_e

May 29

OS/2.cz RSS Backend for News

Do you want to have news from the amazing world of OS/2 and eComStation on your site? And always fresh? You can use our backend in RDF.

http://www.os2.cz

May 29

Xitami/2 Webserver Version 2.5b5-patch 2

This are the OS/2 executables of Xitami v2.25 beta 5 patch 2 which corrects a bug in the CGI SERVER_PORT environment variable. Xitami is a "small, fast, and powerful multiplatform Open Source web server."

Program URL: http://www.xitami.com
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/bos225b5p2.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=bos225b5p2.zip

May 29

Your primary DBMS in OS/2

OS2.Ru has started new survey "Your primary DBMS for OS/2". We'll hope that this survey will help OS/2 developers in question of DBMS supporting.

Url: http://os2.ru/voice/survey.phtml.en?pollid=15

From: Konstantin Okounkov ok@os2.ru

May 29

BT32.SYS, BT8X8 driver for TV-Cards

New version of BT32.SYS available.

BT32.SYS is a port of the Linux bttv driver which supports Radio, TV and VideoText with BT848/BT878 based tv-cards. Radio is working already. I'm now working on TV support. TV Capture to clipboard is working.

Program URL: http://www.nord-com.net/s.milcke/bttv_en.htm

May 29

Free generic preprocessor (html/rexx/ipf/inf/ipfc)

Generic preprocessor with specific support for HTML and rexx. Includes external files and supplies usual #define, #include, #if, #ifdef etc as well as many others such as #import to import data from databases. Can import SQL. Text to HTML. Its syntax is very simple yet the tool is very powerful. It is extendable using rexx, for example "#if GetEnv("FRED") == substr(Var, 2)". Macros support parameters and conditional logic. Create FTP like pages from dir trees (or WPS URL objects), validate generated HTML or rexx, automatically create thumbnails, photo albums. Spell check. HTML example inclusion from file with automatic tagging. As this tool is basically a "Super SSI" there is a "SSI" add-available which simplifies migration to PPWIZARD. "OL_DOC.DH" header for creation of IPF/HTML from common source. Looks to be handy as a XML, XSL and DTD preprocessor. Also runs in Windows, DOS, Unix and Mac OS X.

Program URL: http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~dbareis/ppwizard.htm
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ppwizard.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ppwizard.zip

May 29

Correction: URL for new CDRWiz

New version of CDR/RW Wizard Creator, first Release Candidate.

Some bugs fixed!

URL: http://www.quasarbbs.net/rocco/

According to the link on that page, the URL is

http://www.quasarbbs.net/rocco/cdrwiz2.wpi

In fact, the correct URL is

http://www.quasarbbs.net/rocco/cdrwiz.wpi

Phil Parker

May 29

The Netwide Assembler v0.98.33 (binares only)

"NASM is the Netwide Assembler, a free portable assembler for the Intel 80x86 microprocessor series, which uses the traditional Intel instruction mnemonics and syntax. "

Program URL: http://nasm.2y.net
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/nasm-0.98.33-emx.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=nasm-0.98.33-emx.zip

May 29

URLCopy for OS/2 v.1.1

Create URL objects to favorite Web Addresses from any text
English:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/urlcpye.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=urlcpye.zip
German:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/urlcpyd.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=urlcpyd.zip

May 29

DFSee 4.24 released, minor updates

DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. With FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery, FIX commands, UNDELETE for HPFS/NTFS and imaging and cloning. Details at:

http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee.htm

Direct download links:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee424.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/disk/dfsee424.zip or
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee424.zip

Most important changes:
- PL Auto display of LVM/JFS fake EBR sectors
- CLONE no size-warning if no parameters given, just usage
- CR '-d' or '-d:0' will use current disk (after VMA -o)
- VMA '-o' option, making it the current disk (for CR -d)

Check DFS*.TXT files for details

Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 4.xx versions and get support plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email.

But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee!

Regards, Jan van Wijk

May 28

Announcement of the worldwide eCS IRC network

First of all I want to give a BIG thanks and a round of applause to Massimo Sangriso from Italy who came up with the idea to build up the IRC network for eCS. He has invested much time in building the network. The network has been put up so eCS/OS/2 users can have a chat. Maybe drop a question if they can't solve a problem. Or developers who want to talk about a problem and want to try and get a fast answer.....

In the last couple of months there has been worked hard on the eComStation IRC network. There are currently 14 IRC servers in the network active. The network will continue to be expanded.
ITALY irc.quasarbbs.net port 6667 (International Hub) irc.ecomstation.it 6667 irc.itisvinci.com port 6667 irc.dinosoft.it 6667 SWITZERLAND irc.aroa.ch port 6667 NETHERLANDS irc.ecomstation.nl 6667 U.S.A. irc.dacdigital.com 6667 irc.gamezero.com 6667 www.ecomstation.com 6667 RUSSIA irc.rnlease.snc.ru 6667 irc.ecomstation.ru 6667 AUSTRALIA irc.ecs-site.com 6667 BELGIUM irc.celkunststoffen.khlim.be 6667 CANADA irc.ecomstation.ca 6667

You can get an IRC client from hobbes http://hobbes.nmsu.edu. My personal favorite (maybe not the best around), is EZIRC. Which has some easy features. This and other clients can be found at Judy's Warped World IRC page:

http://www.gt-online.com/~bri/irc_clients.html

If you don't want to dive into an IRC client goto http://www.ecomstation.com/ and click on "support/FAQ for eCS". Choose for "Live eCS Chat" and click on "open chat window". Choose your nickname and connect.

The direct URL is:

http://www.ecomstation.com/support-faq_view.phtml?url=content/ecs_community_chat.html

Please note if your browser crashes it could be that you are running a wrong version of Java (1.1.8 or 1.3 should work) or something is wrong with the configuration. The Java applet has been succesfully tested with Netscape 4.61 for OS/2, Opera for OS/2, Warpzilla for OS/2 and the IBM Browser for OS/2. If you don't have an OS/2 box handy and you want to connect, it also has been tested with Netscape 6.2 and Internet Explorer 5.5 under Windows 2000.

You can however via the webinterface only connect to the default eCS channel. If you want to reach other channels on the network, download an IRC client and connect to one of the servers directly.

For the OS/2 advocates who would like to know. All servers in the network so far are OS/2 /eCS machines. Possibly some Linux boxes will join in the future.... But our intention is to keep it mainly running on OS/2 of course...

Enjoy

Roderick Klein

Mensys

May 28

NewView: Replacement OS/2 help viewer

Rewrite of OS/2 View.exe, reads INF and HLP files. Improvements include a new UI, remember size/position, select and copy from the window... etc Recent changes: printing, improved layout
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/newview1.37.7.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=newview1.37.7.zip

May 28

RealPlayer works again with newest daily Odin build!

After three long months, where the new Odin builds were incompatible with Real Player 8, the problem is now fixed:

ftp://ftp.os2.org/odin/daily/odin32bin-20020526-release.zip (there's no debug build of this version).

May 27

CDR/RW Wizard beta 7 RC1

New version of CDR/RW Wizard Creator, first Release Candidate.

Some bugs fixed!

http://www.quasarbbs.net/rocco/

May 27

MR2PGP 1.1 released.

These scripts install into mr/2 ice (version 2.19 and 2.31a tested) as inbound and outbound filters and provide for the automatic encryption and decryption of email using pgp (version 5.0 tested)

This is a bug fix release - Public key encryption was handled improperly. MR2PGP now supports encryption by any public key on your keyring.

If you're upgrading from MR2PGP 1.0;

** READ THE DOCS ** - the encrypt procedure has been changed.

http://www.catherders.com/w3f/mwc-enterprises/mr2pgp11.zip

Mike-

May 27

Mike120.INF, version 1.2

Michal Pohorelsky has released Mike120.INF

Mike120.INF is a hypertext file in the natural INF format, comprising 120 complete articles in the Czech language. All of these were published in several Czech specialized magazines.

http://www.os2ecs.net/
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=mike120.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/mike120.zip

May 27

WOL - Power on your ATX PC

With wol you can 'wake up' your pc simply by sending a 'magic packet' over the network. For this I have ported wol.c written by R. Edwards to NetWare and Win32; changed parameter parsing, added file input, so that you can wake up a group of machines from cron; added switch for delay between sending packets; added switch for broadcast address to make directed broadcasts. The NetWare NLM is tested with NW 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, the Win32 EXE with W9x, NT, W2K. The source is available as contribution part of the Etherboot package. It runs also on nearly all Unix flavours. The archive wol_gcc.zip contains a NLM and a Win32 command line version, the NLM is compiled with GCC on Linux, the Win32 version with Mingw32-GCC and uses Winsock2. The archive wol_mcw.zip also contains a NLM and a Win32 command line version which are both compiled with Metrowerks CodeWarrior. With version 1.06 now the delay parameter has changed to milliseconds. new! With version 1.10 added new broadcast parameter to make directed broadcasts to subnets. new!

Now also an OS/2 version available!

Program URL: http://www.gknw.de/wol.html

Direct download: http://www.gknw.de/cgi_bin/downlcnt.pl?wol_os2.zip

May 27

LanScan is a tool for the network administrator.

It allows to get the "instant list" for the all working devices of TCP/IP network which have an "legitimate IP address".
Latest changes:
It's possible to write the scanning results into HTML file.

Program URL: http://ru.ecomstation.ru/lanscan/

http://ru.ecomstation.ru/lanscan/LS23-Bin.zip

May 27

MMIOMP3 Codec 0.4 released

Russell O'Connor has released an updated MMIOMP3 Codec 0.4. MMIOMP3 is an MMIOProc for OS/2 that allows OS/2's multimedia system to play MP3 files. After installation, MP3s and Ogg Vorbii can be played in any OS/2 player.
* Files can play by double-clicking on the file’s icon.
* Files can play in any Rexx program by using Multimedia calls.
* Files can be played with the Rexx program PLAY.CMD.
* Files can be streamed over the Internet.
* Changes from 0.3.1 to 0.4 (2002-05-27)
o Correct time for variable bit rate files that are not remote.
o Seeking improved for files that are not remote.
o Broke context menu convert. That convert routine never worked all that well.

http://math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/MMIOMP3/

May 26

JMDB (Java Movie Database)1.00 Beta #1

English Version:

============

After one and a half after the previous release, we released on 2002-05-27 the latest JMDB version!

The Java Movie Database (JMDB) is a Java program which stores the Data from the IMDB Text files (Internet Movie Database) in several MySQL Tables. After you have imported the data, you can search for actors, movies, producers and actors. About the movies and people some details are shown. For more details look at the JMDB-Homepage!

There are a lot of changes since the last release (here are some of them):
-JRE crash: more debug infos in the logfile
-new search method WordSearch implemented, so the program searches only for the words and not the exact string entered
-expert result window re-implemented
-"Edit"-menu removed
-fixed a bug in placing a result window when "SameWindow" option was enabled
-all windows have close buttons again
-when the text field in the search window gets the focus again, the whole text is selected
-when "same window" option in search window is checked, the last result window is closed before starting the actual search
-search window bugfix: when "start"-button was default button and the user pressed enter in the text field, the search was startet two times.
-new option "search again" in File menu activates the last search window that was used
-F1 opens help, F3 opens the last search window, F7 creates new search window
-ALT-S in main window is "search window" again (was assigned to the wrong button)
-Setup - FileChooser-dialog added for selecting a directory and files
-codepage problem with german umlauts solved
-connection check at every search - the status bar is updated when JMDB looses server connection
-added latest MM.MYSQL database driver (V2.0.12)
-checked latest OS/2 release of Java 1.3.1 (IBM build co131-20020405)
-updated OS/2 installation script (instos2.cmd) to find both Java 1.3 and Java 1.3.1 versions

One note:

We still have sometimes JVM crases while importing the files, so we would like to hear some feedback from the users so we can finally find and fix it.

You should use for the first couple of times the Debug Version (JMDB-JavaDebug - startos2debug.cmd), because the console is visable, so you can see what's happening.

You should also disable "close window on exit" in the Icon properties.

If the JVM crashes while converting you can see it at the console.

You may wonder what's going on, if nothing happens.

http://www.jmdb.de

May 26

PMFORMAT.EXE replacement

PMFORMAT.EXE replacement, PM program to format volumes with options

Program URL: http://acsoft.yi.org
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pmformat.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pmformat.zip

May 26

Intel P6 / AMD K7 MTRRs management IOCtl PDD, ver.0.08

P6K7MTRR.sys is a simple interface physical device driver (PDD) that can manage Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) of Intel P6 / AMD K7 series processors. A sample executable, VFBWC.exe, sets MTRR write-combining strategy to video frame buffer aperture. It can often improve graphic performance, especially DIVE.

Program URL: http://www.sys3175.com/~jjsuwa/
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/p6k7mtrr_v008.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=p6k7mtrr_v008.zip

May 26

New software releases (sort of)

I have several mostly completed programming projects that simply won't be released this year due to scheduling and health problems, so I'm going to do something unusual. Now available on Mikes Notebook are some short descriptions of projects, along with links to the source code. If you want to hack around with them, they're yours.

I'll answer questions on a 'time available' basis via email. With the exception of W3F, these projects aren't particularly complex - I would classify them as 'quick hacks'. I'm releasing them because I suspect they could be useful to others.

1) The W3F HTML/PHP/MySQL file archive system. I had originally planned to release this project as open source freeware when I completed it, but when I posted a message in the php newsgroup, no one was interested. There's one major function (area delete) unwritten, and a few messed up links in the menu structure, but it works pretty well. (You can see it on catherders). It's not documented.

2)Thumbkin - The image catalog thumbnailer. This is mainly a rexx front end for "Montage", available from hobbes. If you take a look at the photo galleries on catherders, you'll see what it does. This needs to be documented, and it could probably stand to have a user interface...

3) Treesync is a high-speed directory tree synchronizer. I originally wrote it because I move my project files (80K+ files) from my laptop to my desktop and back again on a weekly basis. Prerequisites to using it are: Access to a MySQL server, RexxSQL, and RexxBos. This needs to be documented, and it should be more extensively tested than I have given it to date.

Mikes Notebook is located at http://www.catherders.com/mwcexp.shtml

Mike-

May 26

Worldclock 1.3.0

Goran Ivankovics has released Worldclock 1.3.0

http://www.os2world.com/goran/wclock.htm

World Clock is a highly configurable clock for OS/2.

Features:
* Display time, date, UTC difference and TZ descriptor for 1 to 30 cities from a provided list of more than 2000 cities
* Fully qualified TZ (Time Zone) environment variable and coordinates (latitude and longitude) for all cities
* Calculate and set TZ environment variable for CONFIG.SYS, using properties for selected city
* Additional information for each selected city: coordinates (latitude and longitude), DST start/end, Sunrise/sunset, ...
* Various date and time display formats (ISO 8601 and country-specific)
* Arrangement of selected cities in rows and columns, normal or compact display, 'Stay on top' option
* Alternate views of selected cities: Standard, Banner, List, Minimized and Title view
* Selectable position, size, font and fontsize
* Bubble help
* Events
* Sound schemes
* Universal date &. time (UDT), Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Internet time ("Swatch beat" @), Julian date (JD) in title bar
* World time (Standard time in all Time zones) with World map
* Calculate distance between two selected locations on the World map
* Configurable Calendar for current month/year with holidays and notes for selected date and time
* Moon phases for select month and year between 1923 and 2084
* Stopwatch
* Add new cities (e.g your own if not in the list), or change city properties

Support for other languages (Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Slovenian and Swedish) is available in wclock130lng.zip

World Clock is free software but it is not public domain.

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