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July 25

Subject: Warpstock Europe 2001 Travel Update

The biggest OS/2 event in Europe is less than 4 months away, so it is time to start planning your journey to Warpstock Europe 2001, especially if you have a busy schedule in November and you don't want to miss one day of this exciting three-day conference.

"This year's event site is perfectly located for most visitors", says Team Coordinator John Bijnens. "With Hasselt (Diepenbeek) we have found a location that can be reached by car in less than one hour from most major cities in Belgium and in just a few hours from major cities in The Netherlands, Germany and France." Web master ~Technical Coordinator Johan Driesmans says : "We are expecting visitors from all over Europe and even people from other continents to attend Warpstock Europe this year, and we want to provide them with an overview of their traveling options to help them plan their journey."

Most international flights to Belgium arrive at Zaventem (BRU - Brussels), which is located approximately 70 km from the event site. If you are planning to rent a car and drive to the event site yourself, you will find several car rental companies at the airport terminal. Complete driving directions from Brussels to Hasselt will be made available on the Warpstock Europe web site. There are also some flights to regional airports like Gosselies (Charleroi), Deurne (Antwerp), Bierset (Liege) and Beek (Maastricht, NL). Those are often operated by low budget airlines, so it may be worthwhile to check them out too.

Traveling by train to Warpstock Europe is a convenient alternative. There's a train shuttle service between the airport terminal in Zaventem and the city center of Brussels. The Belgian railway operator NMBS offers connections to Hasselt every hour from all major cities in Belgium, including Brussels, Antwerp, Gent, Leuven, Ostend and Luik (Li ge). On weekdays, train connections are available every half hour from Brussels, Gent and Leuven.

From the city center of Hasselt - which is only a few kilometers away from the event site, several bus routes are available at very affordable rates, to take you to the KHLim Campus in Diepenbeek. Up-to-date bus schedules for connections from Hasselt to the event site are available for download at the Warpstock Europe web site.

Finally, here's a collection of web sites with useful information to help you plan a convenient and trouble-free journey to Warpstock Europe 2001 :
- Brussels Airport : http://www.brusselsairport.be/
- Flight info, call 0900 70000
- Belgian rail NMBS : http://www.b-rail.be
- NMBS Hasselt, call + 32 (0)11 221694
- General travel information : http://www.trabel.com/
- Shell Geostar Route Planner http://www.shellgeostar.com/

The Warpstock Europe 2001 Conference will be held on November 2-4, 2001 at the 'KH Limburg' College near Hasselt, Belgium. Warpstock Europe is an annual gathering of developers, vendors and users of the OS/2 and eComStation operating systems, for the purpose of education, providing information and support to everyone with an interest in these operating systems or related technology. More information is available at the Warpstock Europe web site http://warpstock.os2.org

From: Luc Van Bogaert info.warpstock2001@os2ug.be

July 25

New freeware: Web Family Tree

Put your family tree on the web!

http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/wft.html

It's a CGI approach, so you need to have access to a web server to use it.

Freeware.

Peter Moylan peter@ee.newcastle.edu.au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au

July 24

ZxMail updated to v1.04

We recommend that you update to this version.

Here what changed in this new release:

Fixed:

Memory exception in returning to an external email address. Window title not updated after entering registration info.

Known issue (Unresolved at this time)

If installed on a JFS partition the OS does not commit the change to an ini file on shutdown. so registartion info would need to be entered again, this appears to be a JFS issue, as soon as a work around is found I will post an updated message.

July 24

Windows and ATM's

There is a good article about banks switching thier ATM's to Windows on Network Computing. http://www.nwc.com/1215/1215rant.html

July 23

Lotus Plans for SmartSuite on OS/2

Lotus has posted information on their web site concerning future plans of Smart Suite for Windows and OS/2. It's good reading concerning OS/2.

The address to view it is

http://lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/smartsuite

Then click on the link in the looking ahead section:
Looking Ahead
See what's in store for upcoming releases of SmartSuite Millennium Edition.
Bob Bencivenga
OS/2 Die Hard

[ Moderator's note: Direct URL( one line ) is: http://lotus.com/products/smrtsuite.nsf/110299fb8a80831785256776006a918f/7b1dc884cc00030d85256a6f005879ba?OpenDocument

In part the page states: "In early 2002 we will also offer SmartSuite 1.7 for OS/2, which will also include numerous quality improvements. Our Development Team plans to supply further quality improvements to SmartSuite 9.7 Windows and 1.7 OS/2, while preserving the functionality and user interface as they exist in the current releases. Lotus and IBM are proud to continue to provide our award-winning Office Suite to current and new customers -- and we look forward to delivering the highest product quality possible in our slated upcoming releases and beyond." ]

July 23

Larsen Commander update

Today (July 23 2001) Leif-Erik Larsen has released version 1.5.2 of his popular GUI file manager and command processor, Larsen Commander.

For a list of changes, take a look at

http://home.online.no/~leifel/lcmd/history.html

Larsen Commander has a look and feel like the classic Norton Commander, but in a GUI environment. It combines the best of two very different worlds; - the command line and the file management panels. Both are available at the same time, and even in parallel while one or more commands are running in the background!

Larsen Commander is extremely useful espessially for advanced users such as programmers and system administrators that knows the power and the value of having the command line possibilities and the file operation panels available at the same time and in the same shell window. In fact, you can use Larsen Commander almost exactly the same way as you are using the standard system shell, but with a large number of additional and powerful features, such as the console monitor being scrollable and not limited to those "stupid" 25 lines or so of the default OS/2 shell.

But Larsen Commander is not only for the advanced users. Even the novice will find this piece of software very nice at hand. It makes the standard file operations a play, such as copying, moving and renaming files and directories. And of course the command line can be 100% disabled and hidden, for those who never uses it anyway.

Larsen Commander is available at

http://home.online.no/~leifel/lcmd/index.html

July 23

new version of NewView 1.28.3

Aaron Lawrence has released a new version of NewView. NewView is a replacement OS/2 help viewer. It is a 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, ... This release also adds bookmarks. You can download it from hobbes. Search for newview1_28_3.zip

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu

July 23

Dialer/2 2.0 alpha6 - bugfix.

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 alpha6.

you can download it from hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/d2_20a6.zip

and later it may be moved to: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/apps/d2_20a6.zip

this is a bugfix.

Please, note, that version 1.90beta6 had a error in phone-book code, so you may need to make new phone-book.

Please, note, that this is ALPHA release. In case of any errors and unwanted behavior - please contact me.
--
Best regards,
Denis Devastator@icl.kazan.ru

July 23

DFSee 4.00 released, SHAREWARE

For those of you that don't know DFSee yet, DFSee is an FDISK,display, analysis and recovery tool for disks and filesystems.

Because of the targeted use for DFSee it is a command line and text-only utility (no GUI). At the moment an OS/2, WinNT and DOS version exist.

Version 4.00 of the DFSee program was released on 18-07-2001 This is the first version of DFSee that is distributed as SHAREWARE

DFSee can still be downloaded from my web-site, but after a short evaluation, and for all real use you are required to get a registration. They can be purchased from the Mensys online shop for about US $17.

Details can be found at: http://www.fsys.demon.nl/dfsee.htm

Version 4.00 only has minor functional updates on the previous freeware version (3.42 being the last one). Several improvements are planned for upcomming 4.xx releases: - Better user-interface, adding menus and dialogs (but still text-based) - More complete LVM support, allowing creation of LVM compatible partitions - More supprt for the JFS filesystem as used in eComStation and WsEB - Copy and move of whole partitions on the same or different disk

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 the DFSee program. Without any funding like this, I cannot afford to give support and develop DFSee much further.

Depending on interest in DFSee (registrations sold) more functionality could be included in upcoming versions, like resizing of partitions.

I would very much like to hear about experiences you have with DFSee, either positive or negative.

Contact: dfsee@fsys.demon.nl

July 22

http://macarlo.com

Hello from @Macarlo, Incorporated!

Several friends reported to us a problems in our domain. Thanx, but is not a crash. We are moving from U.K. to a new server in USA. In a few hours our merchant partner Network Solutions will be finishing the propagation and we will be running just fine. At this time you can see us at this URL: http://macarlo.planethosting.com/

We have setup a site monster, where we will dramatically increase the OS/2 support.

In few hours we will running normally at: http://macarlo.com/

The Good Father Maca...

From: Macarlo macarlo@usa.net

July 22

HOBBES is finally cleaned up and faster now

http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-browse?dir=/pub/incoming

(July 19, 2001) After months of neglect, you'll be happy to know that Hobbes is back in business. We've upgraded Hobbes to a slightly faster machine with four times the memory. /pub/incoming will be maintained on a regular basis, we appreciate all the interest.

The hobbes archive is 4818 megabytes large, with 18 waiting to be processed.

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