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March 29

New Products and Pricing from Consultation Troughton

Consultation Troughton announces new products, academic pricing!

Consultation Troughton is proud to announce that it is now possible to purchase eComStation Server Edition.

We are also proud to announce that academic pricing is also available for the eComStation line of products.

eComStation is an IBM-compatible PC operating system and application bundle from Serenity Systems, Inc. Based on tested and trusted PC system and applications technology from IBM, it offers stability, power, and flexibility for your home or office network. For more information on eComStation, visit its homepage at http://www.ecomstation.com.

eComStation Server Edition is based on trusted network system technology from IBM. It offers unparalleled ease of administration and speed on your lan. It includes IBM's PC eBusiness Server, web integration tools, and Serenity System's Wise Server network management technology. Furthermore, it also includes a year's subscription to all upcoming fixes, ehancements, and upgrades from IBM and from Serenity Systems.

Consultation Troughton can now offer academic pricing on the full line of eComStation products available! If you're a student who would like to explore all that eComStation technology has to offer you, contact us for details on how to qualify for the student discount!

Current pricing information may be found on the web at

http://ct-mtl.dhs.org/english/products/prices.html

March 29

XWP 0.9.18-2 Italian translation

XWorkplace 0.9.18-2 Italian NLS (dll and help) is available:

http://www.quasarbbs.com/xwp/0918-xwp-it.exe
--
Bye
Gabriele Gamba

March 29

New PMView for OS/2 v2.32 now available

The updated OS/2 version is now available at http://www.pmview.com/

FWIW, to distinguish the new v2.32 from the old one, look in the "Help->System Info..." dialog. The up-to-date OS/2 build is 17833 (the one that has the broken save was 17832).
Best regards,
Peter

March 29

Updates to the Notebook/2 Site

I want to inform you about recent updates to the Notebook/2 site. I have to catch up with a lot of various input I received over the past months, but it has become increasingly difficult. I'll redesign the submission form in a short while to get better and more useful info. There is an increasing number of people asking for help regarding hardware replacement or Windows. I don't understand that, since the site seems to me very clear in its content and limitations. Anyway, here is what I did:

I uploaded info on the IBM Thinkpad R30, a Pentium III 1000 MHz machine. It runs with eCS, but there is no sound support. With this page, I try a new layout, and the programming technique has changed. Check it out and let me know your feelings about it.

I uploaded info on the Dell Inspiron 4100, a Pentium III 1000 MHz machine. It has the same problems like the Thinkpad R30, but better video support.

I uploaded an extensive installation guide for the IBM Thinkpad 560X. It's available through the list of installation guides or from the IBM Thinkpad 560Z page.

I notice that we need something like SDD for audio chipsets. It seems to become increasingly difficult to get sound support on the recent machines. Earlier, i.e. before SDD, it was the opposite. Is there anyone who can create such an universal driver, which would support at least rudimentary functions? It doesn't need to be able to support games.

Cheers!
---------------------------------------------
Dr. Martinus
The Notebook/2 site at
http://www.os2world.com/DrMartinus/notebook.htm

March 28

PMView OS/2 version of v2.32 withdrawn

Hello,

File->Save does not work in the OS/2 v2.32 version of PMView 2000. It will be withdrawn until further notice.

The Windows version does not have this problem.
Best regards,
Peter

March 28

ELinks 0.4pre3 for OS/2

Cristiano Guadagnino uploaded the OS/2 port of ELinks 0.4pre3.

ELinks is a text-mode web browser that supports rendering of tables and frames.

This release features SSL and Lua scripting, and several bugfixes and enhancements over the previous (03pre3) port.

Original ELinks page is at http://pasky.ji.cz/elinks/

http://www.os2site.com/sw/incoming/elinks04pre3.zip

March 27

New Weasel, version 1.4

At long last I'm releasing a new non-beta copy of the Weasel mail server. You can find it at
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/weasel.html
or
ftp://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/software/weasel140.zip

and I'm planning to upload it to Hobbes this afternoon. The most significant new feature is that it should now work on Warp 3 or better, i.e. it solves the problem created by a new feature in version 1.3. If you're still stuck back on 1.2, you'll find this one much faster for outgoing mail.

There's a more detailed list of changes in the zip file.

Peter Moylan

March 27

ZxMail updated to v1.1.11

Hi everyone i updated zxmail to version 1.1.11 (also zxsmtp.dll for v1.0.23 has been updated to v1.0.24 for the same fix)

In this release: Fixed an intermittent bug that occur on high volume connection server, the server would connect to an incorrect target server on some occasions, this has been fixed.

ZxMail is a full SMTP and POP3 server

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
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
Mensyshttp://shop.mensys.nl/catalogue/mns_ZxMail.html

A free fully featured 2 mailbox version is available.

March 27

Future of PMView - OS/2 version will be continued!

Hi,

That's true. Development of PMView for OS/2 will continue along with the development of the Windows version and other versions. I was recently able to move OS/2 development over to WSeB thanks to ip8605 that finally fixed those nasty NETWKSTA.200 traps that prevented me from using WSeB until now. I've been using Warp Adv Server SMP with the old Warp 3.0 interface until now. What a change! ;-)

It's pretty clear that a future version of PMView will use wxWindows. The OS/2 version of wxWindows seems to have come a long way. Additionally, wxWindows will give me the opportunity to create Linux and Mac versions.

As it looks now, the next version of PMView will be v2.40 and the major new feature will be EXIF support.
Best regards,
Peter

March 27

PMView v2.32

PMView v2.32 is now available. It's already available at:

http://www.bmtmicro.com/BMTCatalog/multipleos/pmview.html

Within 24 hours it should also be available at http://www.pmview.com/
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/pmview2000v232os2.exe
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/pmview2000v232os2DE.exe (German)
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/pmview2000v232os2FR.exe (French)

The following bugs and problems are fixed in PMView 2000 v2.32:
1. Loading, BMP: Black&White 1-bit BMP files without color map load as completely black in PMView.
2. Loading, TIFF: TIFF-in-JPEG files having YCbCr photometric with only one sample per pixel cannot be loaded.
3. Edit/Paste: Pasting a color mapped selection into a color mapped image causes incorrect information on the status bar showing that the image has zero (0) color indexes.
4. Saving: Saving a file that is read-only locks up PMView.
5. File Open/Save dialogs: File names with multiple consequtive dots (e.g. "test..jpg") are not included in the file list when using "*.jpg" as file mask.
6. File Open/Save dialogs: Using multiple asterisks (e.g. "*.*.*") in a file mask does not work correctly.
7. Color conversion dialog: Typing in a larger value than 256 in the "Convert to Indexed 256-color" dialog causes PMView to crash.
8. Printing: When changing the value of the number of copies, the new setting is not effective until the print dialog is closed and reopened.

March 27

WarpIN and XWorkplace 0.9.18 released

WarpIN and XWorkplace have both been updated to V0.9.18.

1. WarpIN V0.9.18 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.

V0.9.18 has quite some internal rework, such as Unicode support, and a nicer GUI finally.

2. XWorkplace V0.9.18 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.

V0.9.18 is mainly another bugfix release to the problematic V0.9.16 and 17 versions. Before I get yelled at again for releasing buggy software, be reminded that this is not guaranteed to be stable (as the version number indicates anyway).

Note: To install XWorkplace, you also need WarpIN V0.9.14 or higher, since XWorkplace now comes as a self-installing executable. I recommend using at least WarpIN V0.9.16 to avoid the problem with your existing XCenter disappearing on install.

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. HOWEVER, please note that I am currently not able to answer a hundred messages per day. If you want to report a bug, this is appreciated, but do not be disappointed if you do not get an answer. And please do not try either to mail me privately instead, that won't change things either. Thanks for your patience.

Have fun!

Ulrich Moeller

March 27

Replacement driver: JJSCDROM_20020318

This is a modified version of OS/2 CD-ROM / CD-RW / DVDs device manager driver (OS2CDROM.DMD), based on the latest OS/2 DDK on-line source code. This driver supports:
- Per-unit-basis "feature enforcing" features.
They enforce:
= to turn on "CD-DA readable", "CD-XA readable" and "multisessioning-aware" flags
= vendor-specific SCSI CD-DA digital reading / CD-XA reading / multisessioning methods
- "WORM-devices as CD-ROM" treatment.
- Per-unit-basis "ignoring drive" feature.
- Enriched /V option output.
- "CD-Extra" (data-multisessioned audio-CD) mounting.
- SCSI-3/MMC-complient CD Capabilities / Mechanical Status Page recognition in default. Salvation for some modern SCSI drives.
- Of course functionally equivalent to official OS2CDROM.DMD, including CD-RW / DVD writing and formatting, and USB connection support.

Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=1&key=jjscdrom_20020318.zip

March 25

Updated driver: BT32.SYS / LXAPI32.SYS

I've uploaded a new version of my BT32.SYS driver. This may fix some problems with corrupted fonts or trap 0e.

BT32.SYS is a driver for BT848,BT849,BT878 and BT879 based TV cards. Currently only radio is supported.

http://www.nord-com.net/s.milcke/
MfG Stefan Milcke
42 ;-)

March 25

Mortal Kombat Unofficial Patch v3 Bugfixed

A new version of my Mortal Kombat Patch just got released. My patcher had problems on some versions of Mortal Kombat and reported failure.

This version will fix it and will let you play MK from within a VDM even on faster computers using Soundblaster sound.

Direct D/L: http://kiewitz.ath.cx/cgi-bin/download.cmd?FileID=patch_mortalfix

cu, Kiewitz

http://kiewitz.ath.cx/KiewitzSoft/

From: Martin Kiewitz kiewitz@netlabs.org

March 25

WarpGoGo 0.99c version

This the graphic interface to MP3 coder Gogo-no-coda.

What's new in this version:

Now when coding does not occur blocking PM Shell.

Area "Commentary" - added in list of automatic filler ID3 TAG for all files in directory.

It Is corrected error bringing about transmission on coder of wrong parameters.

http://www.os2.cz/ed2

March 25

eComStation: Dialog Enhancer updates

I have posted a new update to the Dialog Enhancer support (English) for eComStation. This update and/or the corresponding update to eCS Fixtool (3 of 3) should solve some of the strange behavior in some modules.

From the dlgupdten.txt:

The dlgupdten.cmd is designed to solve some of the problems that have been encountered with the Dialog Enhancer updates from Serenity Systems.

1. Some modules shipped and installed from the eCS GA CD were not the original IBM modules. This results in the dlgxr04501enb.zip file built from the installation CD by the ecsupdt.cmd being incorrect. The base modules in this zip file are used by the ecsupdt.cmd when applying the Dialog Enhancer updates.

2. Some modules had incorrect resource files shipped in ssi4501.zip. These resource files are used by the ecsupdt.cmd to apply the Dialog Enhancer updates, and the result is incorrectly updated modules when the Dialog Enhancer updates are applied.

This update addresses both issues by updating the base source modules on the applicable boot drive, updating ssi4501.zip with the updated resource definition, and updating the affected modules with the Dialog Enhancer updates.

You may also address issue 2 by downloading the latest ssi4501.zip file (eCS Fixtool 3 of 3) and re-applying the Dialog Enhancer updates.
The modules affected are:
\OS2\DLL\EHXDLMRI.DLL (Text Editor) \OS2\INSTALL\MIGRATE.EXE (Add Programs)
\OS2\DLL\PMMRGRES.DLL (multiple applications)
\OS2\DLL\PMSDMRI.DLL (multiple applications)
\OS2\APPS\DLL\PMSEEK.DLL (eComStation Seek and Scan Files)
\OS2\DLL\PMWP.DLL (multiple applications, icons only)
\OS2\DLL\SCENTER.DLL (eComCenter)
--
Chuck McKinnis
IBM Senior Systems Engineer (retired)
http://pws.prserv.net/mckinnis/

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