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March 02

SETIView/2 & SVCache updated

I've just updated SETIView/2 (nto 0.9.3) and SVCache (to 0.1.7). The changes are mainly small bug fixes, but there's a new column in SETIView/2, and SVCache can now be run in Windows.

http://www.os2world.com/djfos2/

From: David Forrester davidfor@terrigal.net.au

March 02

Warpstock 2002 Public Polls

Warpstock is looking for your feedback about Warpstock 2002.

Please visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Warpstock-public/polls and vote in our polls on the nitty gritty about Warpstock 2002.

If you are not a member of Warpstock-Public the mailing list, maybe you should be.

Warpstock 2002 -- Our 5th year bringing Warpstock to OS/2 and eCS users.

Warpstock, Inc.

(We know our web page is sporadic at this time.)

March 02

Russian language files for XWorkplace 0.9.17

Russian language files for XWorkplace 0.9.17
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/xwp_ru17.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=xwp_ru17.zip

March 02

bzip2 1.0.2

http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/index.html

What is bzip2?

bzip2 is a freely available, patent free (see below), high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.

http://www.vsu.ru/~vy/prj/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.2-os2-bin.zip

March 02

Gnuplot 3.8i released

Petr Mikulik has released Gnuplot 3.8i

Gnuplot is a command-line driven interactive function plotting utility. The software is copyrighted but freely distributed (i.e., you don't have to pay for it). It was originally intended as graphical program which would allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data. Gnuplot supports many different types of terminals, plotters, and printers (including many color devices, and pseudo-devices like LaTeX) and is easily extensible to include new devices. [ The "GNU" in gnuplot is OT related to the Free Software Foundation, the naming is just a coincidence (and a long story; see the gnuplot FAQ for details). Thus gnuplot is not covered by the Gnu copyleft, but rather by its own copyright statement, included in all source code files.]

Gnuplot handles both curves (2 dimensions) and surfaces (3 dimensions). Surfaces can be plotted as a mesh fitting the specified function, floating in the 3-d coordinate space, or as a contour plot on the x-y plane. For 2-d plots, there are also many plot styles, including lines, points, lines with points, error bars, and impulses (crude bar graphs). Graphs may be labeled with arbitrary labels and arrows, axes labels, a title, date and time, and a key. The interface includes command-line editing and history on most platforms.

http://www.sci.muni.cz/~mikulik/gnuplot/

March 02

National Semiconductor DP83815 MAC driver
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tigris03.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=tigris03.zip

March 02

The Netwide Assembler v0.98.23 (binares only)

Program URL: http://nasm.2y.net
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/nasm-0.98.23-emx.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=nasm-0.98.23-emx.zip

March 01

PHP 4.1.2 Security Update

As the File Upload function of PHP contains several security leaks, it is stronly advised to update to the newest PHP 4.12 which is available for OS/2 thanks to Brian Havard

PHP is a popular scripting language most commonly used with a web server to produce dynamically generated web page. I've ported it to OS/2 and built the binaries below including the functions that require the following optional libraries:
* GDBM v1.7.3
* MySQL client v3.23.39
* PostgreSQL client v7.0.2
* ZLib v1.1.3
* GD v1.2
* FreeType v1.2
* t1lib v0.9.2
* PDFLib v4.0.1

http://silk.apana.org.au/php/

March 01

RSJ CDWriter v4.01 Update

New version-update of RSJ v4.01
English:
ftp://ftp.rsj.de:/pub/cdwos2/4.01/cdwos2us.exe
German:
ftp://ftp.rsj.de/pub/cdwos2/4.01/cdwos2d.exe
French:
ftp://ftp.rsj.de/pub/cdwos2/4.01/cdwos2fr.exe
New to version 4.01
-------------------

Version 4.01 is merely a bug fix release; check the change history on our web site for a full list. The most important fixes are:

* Fixed hard error popup when cdboot is started in PM mode (drive x: is not ready...)

* Added CD Cover and freedb commands to all of CD View's context menus

* CD View's audio parameter dialog and related commands were renamed to "CD View options"; new are two controls to optionally send track numbers and times to CD Cover Print

* CD View and CopyWizard now support writing speeds up to 40x

* CD View used to "forget" user-edited track titles when a CD was copied in DAO mode. This was fixed; however, recorders do not return a correct TOC after a DAO copy if the CD is not ejected and re-read. So after a DAO copy operation, the CD is ejected and re-read to obtain a correct TOC

March 01

Perl Regular Expression Library

The Perl Compatible Regular Expressions Library (PCRE) has been ported to OS/2, as VAC ++ dll and as REXX dll

http://www.vsu.ru/~vy/

Due to my very limited russian I'm not able to tell you more precise details

March 01

nftp 1.64 beta

NFTP features

NFTP is a text-mode ftp client for (in alphabetical order): BeOS (Intel R4 and up), Digital Unix (Alpha), FreeBSD (Intel), Linux (Intel, SPARC), OS/2, Solaris (SPARC and Intel), Windows 95/NT. Here `text-mode' means that it runs in fullscreen mode or text window -- Command-line session on OS/2, Command Prompt on Windows 95/NT, console or xterm on Unix, Terminal on BeOS. However, with version 1.50 the quasi-GUI version has appeared for OS/2. It looks much like textmode version, but utilizes native GUI menu, some dialog boxes, can be resized freely etc. This does not mean of course that textmode version will be abandoned. X11 version (using Xlib) appeared in version 1.51. One of the main design concepts of NFTP is speed and effectiveness of text-mode keyboard interface. Everything can be done without mouse!

To clarify things a little, NFTP is not based on ncftp; neither on user interface nor on source code. The code is written from scratch (I have started the project in 1994m, but NFTP was OS/2-only until Feb 1998). Some ideas might seem to be common but still such ones are floating in the air, every decent FTP client should support things like directory caching and restarting transfers. Furthermore, NFTP user interface is quite different from ncftp's. Name "NFTP" comes from somewhat ugly "New FTP client". Personally, I think NFTP is the most advanced FTP client in the Unix world (although you might disagree with my opinion, of course). Under Windows and OS/2, it stands aside as almost all FTP clients for these systems are GUI-based (unlike NFTP). While GUI offers prettiness and ease of use for novices, textmode interface gives speed without sacrificing power (including speed of use when you learn key combinations). Besides, textmode interface makes possible the same interface on a variety of systems, including Unix.

Program URL: http://www.ayukov.com/nftp/

ftp://ftp.ayukov.com/pub/nftp/beta/nftp-1.64.b1-i386-os2.zip

February 28

Long filenames with Win-OS/2 and DOS V 1.8

Start Win or DOS applications with documemts that have long filenames from the OS/2 desktop

Program URL: http://Bohn-Stralsund.de
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/lfnc18.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=lfnc18.zip

February 28

UNZIP v5.50 with unShrink support

InfoZip UNZIP v5.50 (for decompressing/extracting ZIP files), recompiled with support for "shrink" (LZW) re-enabled. Will successfully process archives with shrink-compressed files (e.g. IBM Feature Installer) where the 'standard' UNZIP binary will not. See README.OS2 for specific compilation flags used. This binary package is a simple re-make performed by the uploader (see contact email), who is not affiliated with InfoZip in any way.

Operating System/Version: 32-bit OS/2 (only tested on Warp)
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/uzs550x2.exe
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=uzs550x2.exe

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