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June 23

Lotus Domino Server for OS/2 Release 5.0.8

The site were you can get this is:

http://www.notes.net

You can donwload the update at:

http://www.notes.net/qmrdown.nsf/QMRWelcome?OpenView&Start=1&Count=30&Expand=1.6#1.6

Lotus Domino is the server of the famouse Lotus Notes e-mail tool (workflow, and Notes application server). There is no OS/2 version of Notes Client, only the server is available.

June 23

New Memsize 4.0 beta

Rick Papo has released a new beta of memsize 4.0

Memsize provides a digital clock (with date), the elapsed time since your system's last restart, the amount of free virtual memory, the current swap-file size, the maximum amount the swap-file can still grow, the current CPU load (%), the number of active tasks and the amount of disk space free on each of your hard disks.

http://people.mw.mediaone.net/rpapo/beta.html

Changes since 01 June 2001:
(1) Log file size limit now 100K, down from 1M.
(2) Initial setting for "Use Theseus" now disabled.
(3) Allow entry of up to 250 characters in e-mail reader name and e-mail alert name.

June 23

TCopy 0.992 beta released

Andreas Schoesser has released TurboCopy 0.992beta

TurboCopy is a free PM Diskette Copy Tool with many options. BTW. Currently it is only available in german

http://andreas.schoesser.org/

June 22

New JFS fix available on IBM's testcase

The JFS developer forwarded to me the "latest and greatest" JFS-related fixes. This will substantially reduce JFS fragmentation and increase stability under load (among other fixes). Get ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/jfs0622.zip This will expire in a few days. I think there are those who keep an archive of the stuff that appears on testcase.

From: Scott E. Garfinkle

June 22

Hello.

Today Link Guard Solutions announced next two new packages:

SafeFire PPP/Links v 1.1 technology preview
Main new functions of 1.1 are:
- ISDN support (CAPI 2.0)
- Traffic Shaper
- Identd server
- Server callback support
- Remote Control (including WEB control)
- FDK API v1.1
- Fast NDIS support (for 100Mb networks)
- Transparent Proxy

SafeFire CGI 1.1 beta 1

This package will provide you with SafeFire PPP/Links 1.1 Web Remote Control feature.

Both are available from Link Guard Solutions Web Site http://www.lgs.kiev.ua
Regards.
---------------------------------------------
Head of PPP Development Group
Link Guard Solutions Ltd.
http://www.lgs.kiev.ua

June 21

New Skins Collection

You can download new version of PM123 Skins Collection 3.5 from download section on OS/2.cz! It contains 10 new skins for your PM123 player!

http://www.os2.cz

June 19

New Mah Jongg with tile sets

Daniel Valot did us the favour to port his Mah Jongg 1.07 with 9 tile sets to OS/2 too (like he did already with Shisen Sho)

http://dvalot.free.fr/games.htm

June 19

Task switcher/process killer for xCenter - beta 1

wxTaska task switcher/process killer for xCenter is out in beta 1. Much

Can be downloaded @ hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu:/pub/incoming/wxTaskB1.zip

June 19

Quesa Project - Porting Suggestion

Richard Turner has sent me some information about a project that can be ported to OS/2.

The Project is called "Quesa" and its an OpenSource 3D Graphics library.

http://www.quesa.org/

From the Site:

"Quesa is a high level 3D graphics library, released as Open Source under the LGPL, which offers binary and source level compatibility with Apple's QuickDrawÖ 3D API. Quesa does not contain any Apple source code, and was developed without access to Apple's QD3D implementation.

QD3D supports both retained and immediate mode rendering, an extensible file format, plug-in renderers, a wide range of high level geometries, hierarchical models, and a consistent and object-orientated API.

Quesa can sit on top other lower-level APIs (such as OpenGL or Direct3D), and provide the 'scene graph' level of organisation that these APIs typically lack. "

Source :Richard J. Turner. Richard.Turner@esa.int

From: Martin Iturbide martin@os2world.com

June 19

Pretty Pop Software released Jasmine 3.20, today.

Jasmine is the ftp front-end using of the OS/2 WARP genuine part for FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for the maintainances of your webpages. And Jasmine can copy local files to destination directory with same functions of FTP Mode. Jasmine will put/copy the files and directories, only which are changed or altered from the last put/copy. You can also select if you want to put/copy this time such automatically selected files and folders. You may record the logs of uploaded files by either daily or monthly, too. And you can remove remote files that uploaded/ copied and managed by Jasmine.

This OS/2 application require Watcom VX-REXX runtime module (VROBJ.DLL).

Update topics are...
Version 3.20 (19.Jun.2001)
a.Add `Set Excluded Files' Function.
b.Add `Always Upload Files' Function
c.Upgrade `HTML Keyword Exchange' Function - Date Separator, Month Indication
d.Add `Enhanced HTML Keyword Exchange' Function.

You can get a copy from...

http://www.prettypop.net/

June 19

ThinkTool Pro Beta news

Fo those still interested in a very interesting product, if somewhat late, heres some news.

Latest Think Tool Pro Beta Update (2001-06-16)

Completing the documentation for the Think Tool Pro is taking longer than we wanted. In the mean time, we had many requests to release the final beta as soon as possible, even if it meant not including the user documentation. So we have decided that we will make the final beta available for download without the documentation. We will make the documentation available as soon as it is complete. This way, you will be able to begin using and testing the Think Tool Pro final beta as soon as possible. We have completed the installation revision, and are currently making some non-technical preparations for the final beta. The final beta (without documentation) will be available for download here within the next few days.

ThinkTool Pro is an "Advanced Database and Knowledge Manager" produced by Exponential Developement (previously phxsoft).

Take yourself to: http://www.exponentialdevelopment.com

For more information, screenshots and good oil.

Craig Benbow

benbowc@attglobal.net

June 19

FtpServer 0.91 released

I wasn't going to release anything new until I'd sorted out the new Weasel re-design, but the latest build of FtpServer might as well go out, so here it is. You can get it at
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2
or ftp://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/software/ftpser091.zip
or ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming/ftpser091.zip

(I'm not sure what's happening to Hobbes, the incoming directory seems to be overflowing.)
LIST OF CHANGES
Version 0.91
Changed the response to the MDTM command to give GMT rather than local time.
Speed estimate added to Monitor program.
Monitor now remembers its size.
Added the %a and %A (client IP address ~hostname) and %v (version) macros.

Peter
Peter Moylan peter@ee.newcastle.edu.au

http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au

June 18

dbf2mysql

I've updated dbf2mysql to version 0.71 which fixes 2 small 'bugs'.

Converts .DBF (dBase/Clipper) files to mysql script, supports memo fields, great for batch processes. Includes binary for OS/2 and Win32.

Goto http://tam.belchenstuermer.de/ and select 'Software' from the menu.

June 18

SafeFire Firewall 1.1 beta 87 is out

Hello

Link Guard Solutions is proud to announce new public version of SafeFire Firewall - 1.1 beta 87

New features list includes:
- Support for "BIDI" rules
- Support for "MYIP" in rules (complete support for DHCP)
- new "auto_pipe" mode for simplified DHCP startup.
- new "clear_arp" function which clears ARP table when DHCP changes assigned IP address.
- new "run" function which allows to run external program when IP address is changed.
- automated detection of stacks with broken ARP
Regards.
---------------------------------------------
Head of PPP Development Group
Link Guard Solutions Ltd.
http://www.lgs.kiev.ua/

June 18

New release of Pronews/2

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pn2151ib104.zip

Not much fixed in this version over ib102. ib104 was an increment of build number while I reintegrated the changes from ib099 to ib103 into a restored copy of the source.
1) Add checking in SaveHeaderData for malloc success. May stop crashes when saving newsgroups.
2) Change max filehandles to current + 255 on startup. Hopefully this will stop file open errors.
3) Release newsgroup semaphore occasionally to stop lockouts
4) Backout locking changes in nntp.c to try to fix corruption
5) Backout headers.idx file rewrites to see if this helps the mysterious wandering server problems
6) Fixed ugly dashes in 640x480 for selected article

From: Trevor Hemsley

June 18

ZxMail Server build 0.9.11

Just to inform everyone v0.9.10 had a bug that gave an error when running the server after a new install, so it would not start. fixed this with v0.9.11.

Also fixed an ugly bug that would see the server fail when connection would drop under some circumstance (took a while to trace this one)

http://www.zeryx.com

June 17

SmartCache 0.5.4

Smart Cache is full featured proxy cache server. It can be also used as replacement for your browser's internal diskcache. If you do it, you will have faster, more anonymous and offline browsing available. Program is written using Java language, it can run under Windows, Linux, OS/2 and probably other operation systems.

http://home.worldonline.cz/~cz210552/scache.html

June 17

snee 0.98

I've uploaded snee 0.98 to my homepage.
Freeware VIO Soup News ~eMail Editor. This is a complete package for reading, writing, sending and fetching email and news. Inculdes VSoup.

Goto http://tam.belchenstuermer.de/ and select 'Software' from the menu.

From: tam@gmx.de (Timo Maier)

June 17

DrawIt 3.4 Screen shots!

The DrawIt homepage got a link to a page with some good screen shots of the product. BTW at 12 june version 3.4 has been posted to Mensys and BMT.

http://home-5.worldonline.nl/~jdkeij

June 17

New build of Sane for OS/2 v1.0.5

[Sane = Scanner Access Now Easy - a package from Linux to access Scanners - best used with a frontend such as Tame - http://www.os2world.com/goran/tame.htm]]

Another new build of v1.0.5 - resynchronised my source tree as of 20:00 16th June South Australian time :)

I had to backlevel dc25.c as I got an error on linking otherwise.

One quirk with this build, is that running scanimage.exe with no parameters displays no output for about 10-15 seconds before coming up with the umax_pp warnings. I may just disable the umax_pp backend on the next build to to these warnings/errors.

Umax backend has been updated to support threading on OS/2 and should now work.

HP and Snapscan and a few of the lesser used backends (I don't have my list handy) still won't work either.

Latest build can be downloaded from ftp://psmedley.dyndns.org:21029/incoming/sane-1.0.5-latest.zip

or from my new, superduper web page (big grin) at http://users.bigpond.net.au/psmedley/sane/

For instructions on using Sane for OS/2 please read the information at the webpages I've pointed out on my Sane webpage.

Regards,

Paul Smedley.

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