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July 21

Slashdot - Scott Handy answers questions regarding Linux, IBM and OS/2.

I just recieved the IBM e-business and Software News Alert, 2001 Issue 20 and this article at slashdot may be of particular interest to OS/2 users.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/07/16/1326224

Scott Handy answers questions regarding Linux, IBM and OS/2.

Craig Benbow

July 20

Dialer/2 2.0 alpha5.

Dialer/2 is a nice OS/2 PM dialing program with several features: phone-book, autodialing, phone-tax, log file of calls.

Dialer/2 is now at version 2.0 alpha5.
you can download it from hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/d2_20a5.zip
and later it may be moved to: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/apps/comm/d2_20a5.zip

almost all planned features are now in this release, but they should be tested.

Most greatest changes since 1.xx :
! Modem code is now in separate module.
! Language resources are now in separate modules. Program will contain Russian and English modules. It will be easy to create a new one.
! Phone-book format has been changed. Now persons can have multiple phones.
! Autodial now calls all numbers of persons one by one.
! In phone-book you can now select multiple persons. They will be called one by one.
! Compiled with VisualAge C++ 4.0 with optimizations.
! New phone-tax system. Now you can configure almost any tax method.

and much more.

please, note, that this is ALPHA release. In case of any errors and unwanted behavior - please contact me.

July 20

ThirdEye 1.0.3 is released.

Summer vacation is near! Don't put aside the purchase of ThirdEye and a Digital Camera!

ThirdEye is designed to control digital cameras. It supports cameras with a COM-port interface like: Agfa, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Konica, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Polaroid, Sanyo, Sierra Imaging, Toshiba; (read details on homepage! more than 100 models supported!)

Kodak DC210,215,260,265,290,3200,..; Canon PowerShot; Fuji MX, DS, DX; Casio Wrist WQV-1 are under development. Do you want to speed the release of support for these cameras? Join the testing movement now!

Current version is equipped with default method which allows you to perform basic operations such as: get camera info, preview thumbnails, select necessary photos, download photos, delete photos;
Extra features:
* ReConnect feature for slow cameras.
* High speed (230400 bps) for modern cameras.
What's new:
* ThirdEye is now compatible with Kodak DC240/290/3400 digital cameras.
* Two hundreds of small improvements and bugfixes in the default method.
Don't be afraid to contact us!
Send us screenshots and functional description of any new methods you need.
WARRANTY: This software is supported until January, 2003.
New version is temporarily located at:

ftp://ftp.os2.ru/incoming/thirdeye_1_0_3_demo.zip

http://thirdeye.os2.ru

July 20

DFSee 4.0 released

Jan van Wijk has released DFSee 4.0

Display File Systems (DFSee) is a generic partition and filesystem browser/analyser. DFSee supports partition-tables (FDISK, LVM), (V)FAT, FAT-32, HPFS-structures, some NTFS and JFS stuff and it might support different file-systems like EXT2 in the future.

DFSee, starting with version 4.00 is SHAREWARE, requiring registration and payment for actual use and support.

http://www.fsys.demon.nl/

July 19

EveryBuddy - Port Suggestion

I had found this OpenSource project

http://www.everybuddy.com/

Everybody is an OpenSource Instant Messaging Client. It currently is available for Linux only.

"As of right now, Everybuddy has support for AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! and Jabber chat programs. It also has file transfer between other Everybuddy users, and planned support for file transfer to other users."

This will be a good project for anyone that is planning to develop/port something for OS/2.

From: Martin ITurbide martin@os2world.com

July 19

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 - BETA 41
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SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.7 for OS/2
PREVIEW RELEASE 41
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Where do you get it?
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You can download SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.7 for OS/2 BETA 41 from our ftp site using the following URL:

ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.7-b41.exe
What's new:
-----------

. All remaining changes are now tracked on the web. Public changes are tracked at the following URL:

http://www.scitechsoft.com/sdd2_changes.txt
About SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2
-------------------------------------

SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 brings SciTech's proven universal device driver technologies to the OS/2 operating system. SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 incorporates the SciTech Nucleus Graphics Architecture, which is a cross platform device driver technology enabling the use of the same device drivers in all versions of SciTech Display Doctor. Sharing the drivers between platforms improves the quality and performance of device drivers for all supported operating systems.

For more detailed information about SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 (including the list of supported graphics chipsets) see the complete readme at:

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

July 19

Tame 0.9.4 released

We are proud to announce Tame/2 0.9.4

Tame/2 is a Sane (Scanner Acess Now Easy) PM-Frontend which supports additional options, has a preview window, on-the-fly conversion to bmp, user presets ...
New:
GUI with preview window
Real preview for speeding and accepting also some settings like contrast, brightness
...
Scaling via sliders or spinbuttons
More working Sane options
Converter to BMP
Delete PNM/TIFF after conversion to BMP
New Viewer
...
To download Tame/2 0.9.4, visit:
http://www.os2world.com/goran
or:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tame094.zip

Authors: Goran Ivankovic and Klaus Staedtler.

July 19

PMMergeFix from Hobbes "Review"

Hi !

Just wanted to let you all know, that the fix on hobbes IS working, but it has some draw-backs.
- Compatibility issue with XFolder 0.85 (Error with OS2SYS.INI on shutdown)
- Font changed under Netscape (Chat -> www.liebe.de) Dont know why.

So, if you use XFolder, DO NOT INSTALL IT.

cu Kiewitz

(I know there is XWorkPlace, but I like to have a german version. I dont know if the bug persists on XWorkPlace as well)

July 17

The July OS/2 eZine is out

IN THIS ISSUE:
From The Editor
Robert Basler finds a wealth of web-browsers. [more]
News
Robert Basler looks at this month's news. [more]
Editorial
Bad Behavior
Robert Basler is tired of paying the price for the flamewars. [more]
Reviews
WEB/2
John Bijnens looks at a native web server for OS/2. [more]
SoundBlaster Live! Platinum 5.1
Robert Basler installs a new four-channel sound card. [more]
Monsoon MM-2000 Flat Panel Surround System
Robert Basler tries some spectacular computer speakers. [more]
Articles
ODBC on OS/2 Part 3
Douglas Clark looks at ODBC databases and drivers. [more]
Into Java, Part 18
Simon Gronlund is back with a gaggle of GUI components. [more]
Forums
Ask Bas and John
Bas Heijermans and John Bijnens answer your OS/2 questions in this ongoing forum.
[more]
July Forums
Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums. [more]

http://www.os2ezine.com

July 17

Shisen Sho 1.11 released

Daniel Valot has released 1.11 of his game Shisen Sho

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

July 16

Guiffy 3.0 compare/merge released

Guiffy is a visual source file/folder, compare/merge, utility/component. Guiffy features 2-way interactive and 3-way smart, "SureMerge", interfaces. Merge interfaces support Editing during the merge and Undo. Compare/Merge views can be split vertical or horizontal with synchronized scrolling. Fonts and colors choices allow each user to create a personal style. Powerful compare options include: View only the differences, differences within N lines of context, ignore case, ignore whitespace, and ignore columns x-y. Comes with builtin UNICODE support plus, a command line interface for CM/SCM integrations. HTML-based JavaHelp includes Table of Contents, Index, and Search engine navigation. Compare results can be saved as text, as an "RCS diff", or stylized HTML. Spanish and German user interface translations are provided.
Guiffy 3.0 enhancements include:
* New Minimum lines of difference compare algorithm
* New option to "Expand Attention Focus"(conflict) area for 3-way SureMerges * Folder Compare Refresh
* Options to automatically Save Settings
Guiffy 2.0 enhancements included:
* New OS/2 installer which supports Java 1.1.8/Swing 1.1 or the new 1.3.0 JRE environment
* guffy.inside API package to build compare/merging into your application
* Folder Compare graphical Tree views with clickon file compare * Folder Compare options to ignore dates and sizes and a quick byte-by-byte files match verifier

Homepage: http://www.guiffy.com

License: Fully functional 30-day evaluation. Single User registration is $49.
Thank you for your support, Bill_Ritcher@Guiffy.com

July 15

F 4.5g beta released

On June 29th, Duy Nguyen has released version 4.5g beta of F, the Swiss army knive of file managers. F is a freeware text-mode multi-platform application. Supported operating systems are OS/2, AIX, BSD, Linux, and Win32.

F is not only a very configurable file manager, but also offers an FTP/FXP client, an editor with syntax-highlighting, numerous tools for developers, simple e-mail and news clients, as well as small HTTP and FTP servers. F comes with its own FFP (F to F protocol) for file transfers and remote file execution, providing services for remote administration. Note that the interface is keyboard-only.

Besides bugfixes there are also some new features which include virtual file system (VFS) support for numerous more archiver formats without the need for external helpers, including WarpIN (!), bzip2 (also in connection with TAR), and RAR.

You can download F from the beta section of the F home page at http://filemanager.free.fr/

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