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July 07

Another new Memsize 4.0 beta

Rick Papo has released a new beta of Memsize 4.0

This program 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. Each figure is updated once per second, or at whatever interval from one to thirty seconds that you wish. Removable disk drives (including CDs) are not supported at this time.

Changes since 18 June 2001:
(1) Minor corrections to German translation.
(2) Accept POP parameters without validation, if so requested.
(3) Expanded time format field to 80 characters.
(4) Stop logging POP errors.

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

BTW. if you wonder about the long beta phase ? Rick Papp once told me it's because of the windows port.

July 07

DFsee 3.41 released

Jan van Wijk has released DFsee 3.41

The DFSee program has been built while studying the HPFS filesystem. It's main purpose is getting to understand file-systems as they are found on the disk itself, in the data-structures laid down in disk-sectors. Over time, additional logic was implemented to allow analysis of all sorts of disk problems on HPFS and FAT volumes. 3.41, LVM enhancements
Enhanced DISK/WALK command output, calculated values versus CHS
Display of LVM feature sectors (drive-linking, bad-block relocation)
Auto display of drive-link feature on LVM-signature sectors
Improved DFSUNFD scripts, yielding better logfile
Display of HPFS Hotfixes added to spareblock display
Fixed executable compression on DFS*DOS executables
Several small bugfixes and enhancements

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

July 07

New forum/mailing list for ISDNPM

Because of the increasing international interest in ISDNPM (Dialer for ISDN, DSL ~modem), there is now a new forum/mailing list on Yahoo! Groups under the name ISDNPM INT with the primary language ENGLISH. The past mailing list isdnpm@yahoogroups.com will of course continue as well.

July 07

XWorkplace and WarpIN 0.9.13 are out

1. WarpIN V0.9.13 has been released.

WarpIN is intended to become the new universal OS/2 installer. It is becoming more and more popular among OS/2 developers because of its flexibility and ease of use. It has full system configuration (CONFIG.SYS, WPS classes, WPS objects) and can fully undo all the changes to your system again.

V0.9.13 has some minor fixes, mostly for better Odin and Opera support.

2. XWorkplace V0.9.13 is out also.

XWorkplace is the most feature-rich freeware Workplace Shell enhancer on the planet, and even better, it is OpenSource. XWorkplace is the successor to my popular XFolder utility and has become a Netlabs project.

For details, please refer to the download address below.

V0.9.13 again fixes quite a number of bugs. In addition, some new features were added -- among them, per popular request, a tray widget for the XCenter.

To install XWorkplace, you need WarpIN V0.9.9 or higher.

To get the new WarpIN and XWorkplace, please go to:

http://www.xworkplace.org

WarpIN and XWorkplace are Netlabs projects, released under the GNU General Public Licence. The source code is available on the Netlabs CVS server. See http://www.netlabs.org/nosa/ and the above address for details.

We have created four mailing lists at groups.yahoo.com:
-- warpin-user
-- warpin-dev
-- xworkplace-user
-- xworkplace-dev

for WarpIn and XWorkplace users and developers, respectively.

We are grateful for feedback on these mailing lists.

Have fun!

Ulrich Moeller

July 06

BAOS/2 Link Updates

http://www.trss.net/mylinks.html

and Jobs have been refreshed for http://www.trss.net/jobs.html

July 06

June 2001 Netscape 4.61 Refresh

Today IBM has released the June 2001 OS/2 Netscape 4.61 Refresh. Please see URL http://ps.software.ibm.com/pbin-usa-ps/getobj.pl?/pdocs-usa/fixnews.html#jns for details.

NOTE: The problem that many are having not being able to start Netscape 4.61 15 or more times is not fixed by this refresh. That problem has been identified to be in the Operating System. XR_C001, when released, will fix this problem in the Convenience Packages.

Irv

"OS/2 Netscape 4.61 June 2001 Refresh released

On July 6th, 2001 IBM OS/2 Fix Distribution released the June 2001 Refresh of OS/2 Netscape 4.61. The Refresh will be available in English-US and 13 National Language Versions.

It is distributed as a single file that you should download to a directory and then execute. Once expanded, review the README2 file for the list of fixes (also available on the FixPak Repository under the "Netscape Communicator for OS/2 V461, XR_461A"). See the READ.ME for install details.

The Refresh is stored on a site that checks your IP address to verify that it is a valid IP address to secure a copy due to export restrictions on the code. To secure the Refresh, please either use the FixPak Repository to access the site, or you may use this link, http://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/netscape4/nc461os2w-p. Select the English-US or National Language Version required.

Versions Released

07/06/2001 - English-US, Spanish, German "

July 06

english Printer Pak 18 released

IBM has updated all printerdrivers (laserjet, omni. pscript and plotter) in the printerpak 18. At the moment they are only available in english

ftp://ftp.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/printpak/en/

July 06

nVidia's New Motherboard

After reading the article attached. I thought since this is still in the development stages why not contact someone at the company and let them know I would like OS/2 support for the board and the products included on the board.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/01q2/0106041/nforce-01.html
Derek Perez
2701 San Tomas Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95050
Tel: (408) 486-2512
Fax: (408) 486-2200
Email: dperez@nvidia.com

July 06

VOICE server being upgraded

Today ( Thursday, July 6th ) we are in the process of adding two new hard drives to the VOICE server. Besides the very minimal downtime that is necessary to install the new hardware, there will also be intermittent periods of time during the next 2-3 days, when our web sites (http://www.os2voice.org, http://de.os2voice.org and http://www.warpdoctor.org) and other services may be unavailable as we move files to the new volumes on the new drives. We will endeavour to keep downtime to a minimum.

This upgrade will allow us to provide more services to VOICE members and the OS/2 community at large in the future. We thank our members for the funds that allow us to perform this upgrade and everyone for your continued support, and appologize for any short term inconvenience this upgrade may cause anyone.

Mark

July 05

Warpstock Europe 2001 comes to Belgium!

The Warpstock Europe Event Team is pleased to announce that Europe's annual OS/2 and eComStation conference is coming back for the third time, this time crossing the border to Belgium. Warpstock Europe 2001 will be held at the 'KH Limburg' College in Diepenbeek, Belgium on November 2-4, 2001.

OS/2 and eComStation users from all over Europe -- or anywhere else for that matter, are invited to come to Belgium this year to attend Warpstock Europe 2001. Even though the organization of the event is still in it's early stages, the Event Team already has many ideas on what to offer during this three day OS/2-fest. Plan on coming if you want to attend high-quality lectures about a variety of OS/2 and eComStation related subjects. You'll talk to software developers, meet the people behind Netlabs and Odin, discover the new and exciting eComStation, learn about new products, buy them or try them out at the Exhibit Hall, and finally expect to have a smashing time at the Warpstock Europe Social Night Event. "The third edition of Warpstock Europe is an important milestone in the event's short history, and everything will be in place to make it a big success", says John Bijnens, the Event Team's coordinator.

Located in the heart of Western Europe, Belgium is at a convenient traveling distance for people coming from Holland, Germany and France. Attendees flying in from other countries will arrive at Brussels International Airport, which is only 80 km away from where the event will be held. To accommodate attendees from outside of Europe, the Event Team is planning special arrangements for transportation from the airport to the event site. Diepenbeek, Belgium and neighboring city Hasselt are perfectly suited to host the Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference. Attendees will feel comfortable and at ease in Hasselt, which is a very safe and exceptionally clean mid-sized city with excellent shopping facilities, and is conveniently located only a one hour driving away from major Belgian cities, including Brussels, Antwerp and Leuven.

Place for all the action at Warpstock Europe 2001 will be the 'KH Limburg' College. Members of the Event Team have already concluded a first inspection of the site with nothing but positive results. "This site has everything this conference needs to succeed", says Technical Coordinator Johan Driesmans, and "we would like to thank the College Board of Directors for their support and for making this site available to us." Large conference rooms will be available for presentation sessions and hands-on workshops. The spacious exhibition hall provides enough room for Warpstock Europe vendors, and it can be closed off before and after event hours. There will be an "Internet cafe" offering free Internet access to attendees, a restaurant, a separate press room, guarded parking space for hundreds of cars, etc.

Behind the organization of Warpstock Europe 2001 is an international group of OS/2-users. "It's good to see that so many people are still out there, willing to fight for an event like this", says OS2.org web master Andreas Linde. And Exhibitor Coordinator Luc Van Bogaert says : "No way we could make a successful event without the help and support from our friends at Team OS/2 Deutschland e.V.; they're the ones who've made the first two editions become reality and we're fortunate to have them around, helping out with this year's edition".

For all questions about Warpstock Europe 2001, contact the Event Team Coordinator John Bijnens at info.warpstock2001@os2ug.be Other team members are Frans Morre, Andreas Linde, Johan Driesmans, Luc Van Bogaert, Luc Coenegracht, John Roosen, Alain Rykaert, Serge Sterck, Marcel Van Baelen, Alex Wyckmans, Christian Langanke, Bart Van Leeuwen and numerous others willing to help out during the event. For more information about Warpstock Europe 2001, go to http://warpstock.os2.org.

July 05

Beta of Opera 5.12 for OS/2 released !!!

Hi to all, i just saw that Opera has released a public beta for OS/2 of their browser !

original (from Opera) :
Opera press releases Opera on IBM's OS/2: http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/20010704.html
Opera 5.12 for OS/2 Beta 1 Released Oslo, Norway -- July 5, 2001

Opera Software today went public with the Opera 5.12 for OS/2 Beta 1, pushing the number of Opera browsers on different platforms to a total of six: Opera for Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, BeOS and OS/2.

OS/2 is the name of one of IBM's platforms for large businesses and corporations. The OS/2 has been estimated to comprise as many as ten million users. Most of these customers can be found among large corporations, particularly in the banking, financial services, health care, and insurance industries that have significant investments in IBM hardware and software.

"At Opera our mission is to offer our users a fast, efficient and more hassle-free Internet experience regardless of platform or device," says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, "Today, we can show our users the result of many hard years of development work by offering our users Opera on six different platforms on the desktop and four different platforms for Internet devices." Opera 5.12 for OS/2 Beta 1 supports the following features:

Fast rendering of pages. Opera is the fastest full-featured browser on the market today.

Easy keyboard navigation. Opera's easy keyboard shortcuts save time as well as benefit people with disabilities.

Instant toggling of image and documents settings. For even faster browsing, images can be turned on/off with just the press of a key.

Multiple windows support. Inside Opera, users may browse in several windows at once, without straining system resources.

High quality zooming. Opera users can zoom in on a page up to a 1000%, be it text or images.

Resume download. In the transfer window, downloads can be resumed if interrupted.

Small size. Opera is only a 2MB download so updating to the latest version available is always fast and easy

Opera 5.12 for OS/2 Beta 1 has powerful search features where users can easily move between the most popular search engines, and search for terms, domain names, audio/Mp3s, images, video, stock quotes, books or company information. Opera continues its commitment to the standards as laid out by the W3C. Opera 5.12 for OS/2 Beta 1 supports the following technologies: 128-bit encryption, TLS 1.0, SSL 2 and 3, CSS1 and CSS2, XML, HTML 4.01, HTTP 1.1, ECMAScript, DOM and WAP/WML.

About Opera Software:

Opera Software ASA is an industry leader in the development of Web browsers for the desktop and device markets. The Opera browser has received international recognition from end-users and the industry press for being faster, smaller and more standards-compliant than other browsers. Opera Software ASA is a privately held company headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Learn more about Opera at http://www.opera.com/.

[ Moderator's note: This beta requires a working copy of Odin. More information can be found at http://www.opera.com/os2/ OS/2 version download page is http://www.opera.com/download/download.cgi?id=129]

July 04

PMCDRec 0.10
There is a new Version of PMCDRec: you can find it under http://en.os2.org/projects/indos2/Utilities/PMCDRec.php3
Description
PMCDRec is a frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord.
You need:
-mkisofs
-cdrecord (tested with 1.10a15)
-aspirout.sys
- TVFS für OS/2 (optional)
- leech (optional)
this freeware programs are available on http://www.leo.org or ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/.
Status
Beta 0.10
last details
New since 0.02:
- Including TVFS
- Show size of Images
- TWjscsi.dll bug fixed
- mkisofs parameter fixed
- including readcd
- TVFS autostart including
- pipeburning bug fixed
- priority of burn thread change to +28
- cancel button
- statusline
- burn unlimited audio files
- add blank all force
- add delete image after burn
- add audio grabbing with leech
- fbug wit os/2 warp fix14 or greater fixed
MKH

July 04

eBayWatch ver 0.10l1

Hello All,

Sorry for this, but there is a problem in ver 0.10l if you do not have a non-zero "highbids.dat" file.

I have just uploaded 0.10l1 which fixes this.

http://www.eclipse.net/~knkrchnr

July 04

eBayWatch/2 ver 0.10l

eBayWatch/2 is an auction management tool for OS/2 users. It works solely with the eBay auction site. It is meant to aid the user in searching for, monitoring and bidding on auction items.

I have uploaded ver 0.10l to - http://www.eclipse.net/~knkrchnr
Changes in this release -
ver 0.10l
- Fixed problem with German characters not translating (if you got 0.10k1 there are further improvements here)
- Added program parameter /m to minimize after startup
- Refresh now handles case of auction removed from eBay
- Added mini status information to closed items page
"o" - no info has been entered
"c" - contacted seller
"p" - paid for item
"r" - received item
"*" - item completed (feedback field completed)
- Closed item page now sorts newest items first (at top) (I like it this way, if you don't - vote for an option)
- Filter closed items for "unfinished" status (won bids)
- Closed item "my bid" editable by alt-mb1
- Fixed a "Cancel" failure in Refresh All
- Added "!" indicator to price for "Buy it now" auctions
- Added "Buy it now" price to item text file (as Price: xxx (yyy))
- Add backup of highbids.dat at program start and exit
- Added "striptlog.cmd" to zip, removes personal info from log
- Changed autodelete logic to be more failsafe
- fix for mangled "description" from some new eBay pages
Thanks,
Ken

July 03

OS/2 supported DVD-ROM drives

Look at http://www.liteonit.com.tw/Eproduct/Eproduct.htm, there you can find CD- ~DVD-ROM drives with OS/2 support!

[Moderator's note: Though these drives list OS/2 Warp as a supported platform you would still need UDFS support to read data DVDs. Otherwise they will only work as CDROM drives. UDFS is included with Warp Server eBusiness, Software Choice and eComstation.]

July 03

ZxMail updated to version 1.01

in this version:

Fixed:

The client connection count was incorrect after some thread did not flag properly their end. Error on the RCPT command under some conditions. Error when transferring a message on an unreliable connection. Corrected an invalid log entry.
Added:

Added connection type setting in notebook, with one major add on an online flag indicating when internet is up, so to allow the server to send queued mail, and fecth mail from external accounts.

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 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 Server is a POP3 and SMTP Server.

You can download a demo version of ZxMail from http://www.zeryx.com or BMT micro ZxMail may be purchased at BMT micro currently and will soon be available at mensys

July 02

PMNapster 3.6.1 Available!

PMNapster 3.6.1 Available to download! This version have any updates: New Library, Protocol Update, bug corrections, pwICQ mini-win compatible, end more...

It's an excellent Napster clone. This clone implement the principal functions of Windows version and increment other functions and facilities. The best feature: It's running in a stable operating system - OS/2 Warp!

http://www.os2world.com/pmnapster

July 02

TCP/IP for DOS interface

I never found any documentation about the interface used by IBM TCP/IP for DOS (virtual exists under OS/2 MDOS). Last week I finally discovered the basics, then more. Today I can say that I can do about 95% with the interface directly via assembly. Not using the Developer Toolkit. This has the advantage of programming the interface under assembly or other languages than MS C.

If anyone is interested or wants to write some documentation for the public, please contact me. I will explain and help you with it. A shim to make Arachne/DOS working under OS/2 would be possible, too. (!) But currently I dont have time. My current TCP/IP interface driver uses just 2k (!).
From: Martin Kiewitz martin@kiewitz.de

July 01

Warpzilla 0.9.2 has been released

From: Mike Kaply as posted on news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.os2

Warpzilla 0.9.2 is available, within hours after Mozilla.org released versions for Windows, Linux, and Mac.

This build is fully optimized, so the performance is much better than any previous build.

Notable OS/2 improvements include a fix for the image corruption problems and some font improvements.

For more general release notes that apply to this and all Mozilla 0.9.2 builds, check out:

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.2

You can download the build from here:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.2/mozilla-i386-pcos2-vacpp-0.9.2.zip

We have had some reports of SSL not working due to optimization issues. If you are unable to connect to a secure site, please post as much information as you can, including the site you are trying to connect to and hardware configuration.

Thanks for your support!
Mike Kaply
IBM

July 01

AUDIO DATABASE for OS/2

A very fast and small database program for anything that deals with music datas. many different query function and a large pre-installed database aviable with more then 3000 entrys.

The program is splited into 2 parts the BASE version (the program alone) and the ADDON witch contains the 3000 datas.
ftp://195.3.84.36
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=1&key=audio-

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