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June 22

RexxMail build 20020622.100854 released.

A new build of RexxMail is available from my web site:
http://www.degeus.com/rexx/rexxmail_english.html
or
http://www.degeus.com/rexx/rexxmail_nederlands.html

where you can also view the RexxMail on-line tutorial, readme, history, and changes files.

The distribution ZIP file is also available from the Hobbes repository:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=rexxmail
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/rexxmail_20020622_100854.zip
Changes:
- Changed handling of "TimeServers" and "TimeZone" settings.
- Added progress counters to mail send/collect operations.
- The "Help" text function accepts a wildcard anywhere within the search string.
- Mail warning icon properties can be set by the user through the WPS. Thanks to Michael Warmuth for this suggestion!
- Changed the SMTP socket response procedure to handle multiline responses.
- Pruned out some superfluous code, including an entire duplicate procedure which somehow got left behind (thanks to Michael Warmuth for pointing this one out to me).
- Added "*LEAVE*" keyword option to mail move function.
- Added "PMM2RxMl.CMD" program to convert PMMail .CSV address files.
- Added "ZipDirs.CMD" directory tree compression program.

RexxMail is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Regards,
Marcus de Geus
--
marcus@degeus.com
http://www.degeus.com

June 21

Mozilla Replacement Icons

Tired of looking on tadpoles when expecting a saurus ? Replacement icons for Mozilla, Mozilla-Mail, Mozilla-Profile Manager and Mozilla Folder.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/delayed/DINOICON.ZIP
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dinoicon.zip

June 21

Set of PIM applications: Alarm, Calendar, Nice *Calculator*...

This archive contains a fairly complete set of PIM type applications: Alarm, Calendar, Nice *Calculator*, several schedulers, to-do list, list manager, notepad, sticky notes and a simple data-base. These are from OS/2 2.0 time frame. Still, they are functional.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/pim/pm21apps.wpi
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pm21apps.wpi

June 21

Turning OS/2-eCS Games to Open Source

I had made a little article about the Open Source OS/2-eCS Games Campagin that I started some months ago.
check it at:
http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/news/viewnews.cgi?category=33&id=1024475782

And share your ideas about this article at:

http://www.os2world.com/cgi-bin/forum/UltraBoard.cgi?action=Read&BID=15&TID=25&SID=703

See you

Url: http://www.os2world.com/

From: Martin Iturbide martin@os2world.com

June 21

PGPTools for OS/2 v1.49

OS/2 PM frontend for Pretty Good Privacy for OS/2 v5.0 (GA)

Program URL: http://home.t-online.de/home/Bernd.Giesen/index.html
German:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/encrypt/pgpt149d.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pgpt149d.zip
English:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/encrypt/pgpt149e.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pgpt149e.zip

June 21

DH_Notify 2.01

I have made DH_Notify 2.01 available for download from my web page.

http://www.cottagesoft.com/~dwhawk/other.html

DH_Notify is a simple alarm utility that can be quickly setup to notify you of important events.

The install.cmd file will create a destination directory if needed and copy the executable files and the program icon to the destination directory. It will also create a desktop object called DH_Notify. Double clicking on the object will cause a parameters dialog box to open. You then enter a short one line message in double quotes and an optional time in 24 hour format with a ':' between the hours and minutes. Any seconds specified will be ignored. If the time entered is less than the current time or if no time was specified, the DH_Notify window will popup with the message. If a time argument was entered, the DH_Notify window will not popup until the desired time.

The alarm time may also be specified as a delta to the current time in minutes. This option requires that a plus '+' sign be entered before the delta.
"Go back to work" 12:59
or
"CSI is on tv now!" 17:58
or
"You have been online 2 hours" +120

When the the window is opened there will be 5 beeps and the title bar and border will flash until the window is closed. The window is 1.3 inches high and a minimum of 5.25 inches long when the video resolution is 800 by 600. The width will be increased if the text is longer than fit in the default window. The maximum message length is 256 characters, but the message length should be limited so that all of it will be on screen. Notify uses the default font and does a query to determine the font information. Notify has an internal timer function that will cause the window to float to the top and beep twice after approximately 30 seconds, if the window is not closed after the inital window display and alarm.

The message must be entered as a command line argument and redirection is not supported. If no command line argument is entered, a default "Task Completed" message will be displayed. Since most messages contain blanks, double quotation marks should be placed around the message.

I use Notify to tell me when a task running in the background has been completed. I add the following line to a CMD file or makefile and then the message is displayed on the desktop.

detach Notify "Your message here"

The detach command is used so that the focus of the background task is not changed. Without the detach command, the focus would be changed and the DH_Notify window would need to be closed to terminate the backgound task.

Run_At.exe

Included in this release is a small command line program that allows the user to execute a program at a specific time. Run_At requires two arguments, the program to be executed and the time to run the program. The program to be executed must be in the search path or a fully qualified program name must be specified. The time must be entered in 24 hour format with a ':' between the hours and minutes. Any seconds specified will be ignored. If the time entered is less than the current time, the Run_At will assume the user wishes to run the program during the next 24 hour period.

Run_At internet.cmd 8:09

The run time may also be specified as a delta to the current time in minutes. This option requires that a plus '+' sign be entered before the delta.

Run_At internet.cmd +15

One application of Run_At would be to delay execution of a program that requires an internet or lan connection.

The install routine that installs DH_Notify also creates a program object on the desktop for Run_At. Double clicking on this program object will cause a parameters dialog box to open. You then enter the name of the program to be executed in double quotes and an optional time in 24 hour format.
Don Hawkinson
dwhawk@intcon.net
* * June Shareware Special * *
http://www.cottagesoft.com/~dwhawk/june.html

June 21

Crossfader plugin v1.5 for PM123

Crossfader plugin for PM123. Allows seamless playing of songs. Fades out the currently playing song while fading in the next song. Version 1.5.

Program URL: http://andreas.schoesser.org
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/players/fade15.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=fade15.zip

June 21

ftpserver0.95

Peter Moylan has updated his ftpserver to 0.95.

ftp://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/software/ftpser095.zip

June 21

PMMine - Windows-like minesweeper game !

The new version of famous game has been realized ! This one IS like the Windows version and has some new features.

Is it too dull to you to play as 'Expert' ? Have a try as 'Kamikaze' !

http://en.ecomstation.ru/pmmine/

June 21

Sendmail 8.12.0 (Binaries)

Program URL: http://www.sendmail.org/
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/mail/server/sendmail-8-12-3-bin.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=sendmail-8-12-3-bin.zip

June 21

Smart Cache 0.73. HTTP proxy server, anonymizer and filter.

Smart Cache 0.73. is full-featured proxy caching server with some (now 21) SPECIAL features for faster, increasing privacy and offline web browsing. Good replacement for badly designed browser's cache. Supports SSL and HTTP/1.1. Main features: URL filter (no adv. banners), download files in background for later browsing, cookies filter, caching of 'noncachable' pages, multiple logs, can fake Referer, User-Agent and Cookie headers, fast operation, very configurable garbage collection, data can be compressed for diskspace saving, regexp support, download machine support, marking pages offline for refresh or download, cached data can be shared between OS/2, Linux, MacOs and Windows. Can be also used for web forwarding or transparent proxy. Proposed directory for placement: /pub/java/apps/internet/www

Program URL: http://home.worldonline.cz/~cz210552/
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/java/apps/internet/www/scache073.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=scache073.zip

June 21

DaniS506 version 1.4.5 !

Daniela Engert has released a new build of her replacement of the IBMS506.ADD driver !

This covers virtually *any* EIDE controller built/sold in the past few years and even some just about to be released in the near future.

Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/danis506r145.zip

Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=danis506

June 21

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

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_v008a.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/p6k7mtrr_v008a.zip

June 21

Warp GoGo 1.0

Electric Dreams has released Warp GoGo 1.0

WarpGogo is a (GUI) Graphical User Interface for the MP3 encoder Gogo-no-coda. With support for ММХ,3DNow!, and SSE multimedia instructions available to modern CPU's. Gogo-no-coda offers improved encoding speed. Unfortunately, Gogo-no-codafor OS/2 is available only as a text mode aplication. WarpGoGo simplifies the use of this encoder, and adds some service functions.

June 21

Sam'n Max CD-ROM Edition Patch RELEASEd

Patch that will make Sam'n Max (CD-ROM Edition) work under OS/2 / eComStation just got released.

This patch is the first one that is only runable under an OS/2 or eComStation VDM. *NOWHERE ELSE*

The sound output quality is not best, but that's not my fault. Probably my virtual Soundblaster driver will fix it.

cu, Kiewitz

http://kiewitzsoft.ath.cx/os2-patches.html

From: Martin Kiewitz kiewitz@netlabs.org

June 21

DH-Grep-PM and c_del

Did you know that you can use DH-Grep-PM to create a list of files?

You can limit the search to look for file names that match the file mask and/or seach for files that were created before or after a specified date.

Once you have copleted a search, you can delect the 'Get file names in display' option under 'Display" on the menu bar.

This will filter out all but the fiully qualified file names and leave you with a list of files. The list of files may be saved for future refference, or used as input to another program such as c_del which is available as a free download on my web page.

C_DEL is an OS/2 command line utility for deleting files.

It expects to receive file names from a pipe or it will accept one file name entered on the command line. It will delete files that have the read-only attribute, but it will not remove directories.

Usage examples:

type saved_list | C_DEL

The line above will delete all of the files in saved_list.

dir m:\*.obj /F /S | c_del

The line above will delete all of the .obj files on the M: drive

unzip -Z -1 somefile.zip | c_del

The line above would delete all of the files that had been unziped from the zip file somefile.zip. However it will not delete any directories that were created when the file was unzipped.

This program is free, but the author retains all rights.
Don Hawkinson , author of CCA, DH-Grep-PM,
PMStripper, Pastry Box, and DH_ClipSave/2
http://www.cottagesoft.com/~dwhawk
dwhawk@intcon.net

June 21

BT32.SYS

A new version of BT32.SYS is available at

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

BT32.SYS is the ported linux bttv driver for BT8X8 based TV cards.
Current state:
Radio is working
TV is working

Included in the package is a small radio application and a small TV application.

Full source code is also available.

Requires Warp 4 with FP#13 or higher or eCS.

MfG Stefan Milcke

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

June 21

Tyra/2 1.91 Patch 2

For the config.sys editor Tyra/2 1.91 exists an update. Tyra/2 1.91 (with or without patch #1) has to be already installed on the system.The complete installation archive will be also updated in the next days. Changes:

* Bootdrive routines have been changed. The ones from the tyrautil.dll had problems with hidden drives. * Added systemlevels from MCP1, MCP2, MCP2 and eCS Fix 1, Fixpak 16. * If the systemlevel is unknown to Tyra/2, it will display thewhole string returned from the routine. * The spelling of "fixpack" has been corrected to "fixpak".

* The timezone drop down box now displays the second time you have started Tyra/2 the entry you have selected before. * On the welcome tab page the string "Tyra/2 1.91 Patch 2" is displayed so that it is easy to identify the Tyra/2 version installed on the system. * In the "About" box the Tyra/2 build is visible.

* The newly designed icon (from Joerg Skottke) for version 1.92 has been added to this patch, too.

The files are or will be available:
* at Warpsite http://www.warpsite.de
* CommTalk http://www.commtalk.de
* FidoNet: 2:241/250 and 2:241/265
* also on Hobbes

June 21

Updated ZxMail to v1.2.7 the file on the web site.

Hi everyone i updated zxmail to version 1.2.7
Release 1.2.7
Fixed: Smtp transfer errors on bad connection fixed.
Fixed: POP3 and Smtp block error when a line exceeded 50k the line was not segmented correctly.
Fixed: Smtp socket interruption, fixed error in transfer parsing.
Fixed: Smtp rcpt and mail error not trapped after last modification.
We recommend you update to this version.
Here are some of the features of ZxMail Server.
ZxMail can pull email from other POP3 accounts and redistribute it to a domain by the username or to specific users on any domain.
ZxMail supports an unlimited number of aliases.
ZxMail can forward mail to internal or external mailboxes.
ZxMail supports multiple forwards and chaining of those forwards (meaning if a message destined for A and A has a forward to B and B has a forward to C the message for A then goes to C and A can have other forwards).
ZxMail supports multiple domains with no limits
ZxMail can route email through another SMTP server to save on bandwidth.
ZxMail is multi threaded for maximum performance.
ZxMail supports IP filtering to block or to allow connection based on an IP address.
ZxMail supports SMTP AUTH command with CRAM-MD5, PLAIN, LOGIN mechanism.
Evaluation license for more mailbox than the basic 2 can had on request, just send an email to demo@zeryx.com
Rexx scripting at 4 different points of a mail transaction, smtp connect, smtp pre DATA , smtp post DATA, and POP3 external mailbox fetch.
To view the pre requisite to run ZxMail go to
http://www.zeryx.com/English/req.html
For a listing of what is new in the current version of ZxMail go to
http://www.zeryx.com/English/whatsnew.html
For screen shots of ZxMail go to
http://www.zeryx.com/English/screenshots.html
ZxMail can be purchased at:
BMTmicro http://www.bmtmicro.com/BMTCatalog/os2/zxmail.html
Mensys http://shop.mensys.nl/uk/ZxMail/

A free fully featured 2 mailbox version is available.

June 21

Changi fix for TCP/IP 4.32

I have developed a fix for the 'broken pipe' and 'connection broken' type of errors which have been occurring with Changi on TCP/IP 4.32.

It seems that IBM has now decided to return an error if an application attempts to send a zero length packet whereas on previous versions of TCP/IP it was accepted without error.

You can get this fix via my homepage: http://home.clara.net/orac/os2.htm
Paul

June 21

YADTV/2 v 2.1.001 beta Release

I have released a new version of the YADTV/2 television application that has support for the OS2ENDIVE hardware acceleration driver. This version of YADTV/2 has a new layout for the user interface and will display the TV picture full screen if you are using DIVE or the OS2ENDIVE drivers. People using VCAFILT are still restricted to a maximum displayed picture size of 640x480 pixels.
You can obtain the new version from my web site at
http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~lsunley/yadtv2.zip

From: Lorne Sunley lsunley@mb.sympatico.ca

June 21

OS/2 eZine
June 16, 2002
The monthly magazine of the OS/2 and eCS Community
IN THIS ISSUE:
- From The Editor: Robert Basler tells a tale of JFS woe.
Reviews
- ScreenSaver 2.6: Robert Basler finds a screen saver to make his co-workers jealous.
- Smartbar 3.2: John Bijnens looks at a comprehensive system monitor.
- Scheduling Solutions: Robert Basler looks at a couple of job scheduling tools.
Articles
- gnuplot: Isaac Leung shows us a powerful data visualization tool.
- Post-install Networking: James Cannon walks us through networking installation.
- Report on Writing OS/2 Plug-ins: Douglas Clark offers a tutorial on writing Netscape plugins.
The Art Department
- Cool desktops for you.
Forums
- Ask John & Rob: John Bijnens and Robert Basler answer your OS/2 questions in this ongoing forum.
June Forums
- Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums.

http://www.os2ezine.com

June 21

T&V HappyPlayer 1.13 - PCI TV tuner application

T&V HappyPlayer is an OS/2 television application which works with PCI TV tuner cards, based on Brooktree BT848A or higher chip. Now with full nVidia support!

Program URL: http://www.vrum.narod.ru/tvtuner

What's new:

1.13 15.06.2002

Fixed a bug in /IDLE parameter processing.

/TOP - working in Float-on-Top mode, i.e. T&V HappyPlayer window overrides others. This causes some speed-up of visibility area recalculation. Note that Window List ignores this flag, and when it overlays HappyPlayer, their windows displays incorrect.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/tvh_113r.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=tvh_113r.zip

June 21

(remove) clone for OS/2 (GERMAN)

a command line file and directory removal program. It will remove subdirectories and files including those that are marked as read-only and hidden. The subdirectories do not need to be empty. German Language Version.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/rm_ger.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=rm_ger.zip

June 21

new CDR/RW Wizard beta avaliable

New beta 8 RC2 version is avaliable at my home page. Many bugs fixed and many improvements.

See readme file for more.

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

June 21

Mozilla 1.1alpha

Mike Kaply has ported Mozilla 1.1 alpha to OS/2

Mozilla is an open-source web browser and toolkit, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability.
What's New In This Release
* Download Manager has been enabled (with many improvements) for the 1.1 Alph arelease.
* Mozilla now takes advantage of Quartz rendering for users of Mac OS X 10.1.5
* Viewing HTML mail messages as plain text is new.
* Quote original message has been implemented for 1.1a
* We have new layout performance enhancements targeted at DHTML.
* There have also been performance enhancements for the application startup speed.
* Viewsource for MathML and view source for selections have been implemented.
* Mozilla now has support for the display of XBM images.
* Autocomplete in the addressbar has an improved sort order.
* Browser tabs now close left to right (they used to close right to left).
* The cross-plaform File Picker now has a button for creating a new directory.
* Redundant backup of preferences files has been implemented in 1.1 Alpha.
* Mozilla's drag and drop support has been greatly improved.
* Image blocking for Mail & News has been implemented.

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/

June 20

Z 2.6 Beta
Dink has released Z 2.6 beta
Z is a VIO MP3 player for OS/2
New:
fixed clipping in the eq
fixed mute between songs
fixed crash on bad vbr time index
added an option to write single tracks from a live stream
write a text file with the track names and time indexes when saving a live stream

http://dink.org/z/

June 20

SDD 7.1RC1 with GeForce4 Support

SDD/Pro 7.1.0 RC1 is now available:

ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/

An official GA release will follow later, as well as a new beta (SNAP Graphics for OS/2) that has new features coming in the near future.
Here is the list of changes:
. Added support for the Nvidia nForce, GeForce4 MX, and GeForce4 Ti series of chipsets. In addition, the GeForce2 Ti and GeForce2 MX 100/200 are now separately detected and certified.
. Added support for the Radeon 8500DV chipset.
. Added support for S3 ProSavage PM133 and KM133 chipsets.
. Savage 2000 cards with 64MB were not working; fixed.
. Fixed the lockups with scrolling text on S3 Savage 4 and Savage/MX/IX.
. Fixed the SYS3186 crash at startup on Cyrix 6x86 CPUs.
. Integrated latest versions (D.094) of IBM GRADD components. This fixes some more problems in VSVGA.SYS for ATI chipsets, as well as the inability to use more than 32MB of video memory.
. The NLV package now has a French translation from Guillaume Gay.

ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/

June 20

VIA Tech. KT133/266A CPU cooling/power management tools

A set of tools to control CPU cooling on KT266[A] and some KT133/KX133 chipsets. Includes APM idle hook, CPU throttling, smart fan control. Responds to kernel panic events in ACPI-compliant manner. OS/2 and DOS versions.
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/8233cool.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=8233cool.zip

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