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SW: PDFMerge/2 Version 0.5.5

09 Apr 2005 12:00:57
From: Herwig Bauernfeind
PDFMerge/2 is a freeware tool to concatenate multiple PDF or PS files into
a single PDF file and eventually insert one or more empty pages.
PDFMerge/2 requires ePDF as it reuses some of ePDF's settings. There is no
installer currently, so please read the "readme.txt" that comes with
PDFMerge/2.
A few recently discovered bugs were fixed:
- Target filename is also created automatically if files were added via
d'n'd.
- D'n'd was only enabled for PDF not for PS files.
- Filenames with multiple "." were not shown in the file selection box.
What's new?
- Support ePDF's "pdflaunch" option
- The most important functionality of every program: The "About" box.
Under the hood there is nothing new in this release.
In case of problem, suggestions you are invited to join the suboffice
mailing list at netlabs or contact me directly.
Runs on: A recent version of eCS (OS/2), Rexx support,
Requires: VROBJ.DLL (VX-REXX runtime dll),
ePDF by F. Wochatz (http://www.subsys.de/ePDF/ )
This release can be downloaded from hobbes:
Now: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pdfmerge055.zip
Later: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/pdfmerge055.zip
or: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pdfmerge
With Best Regards
Herwig Bauernfeind
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Net: We need your spare CPU cycles for Team Warped

08 Apr 2005 23:25:44
From: "Kevin McCoy"
All,
Did you know that some dedicated OS/2ers have been competeing on your
behalf for over 7 years, using our computers to solve some very difficult
cryptographic and mathematic problems?
Did you know that Team Warped is in the TOP 10 teams in the world in one
of the contests! This is out of thousands of teams, so its quite an honor
to be this high in the rankings! By our high rankings, we show the power
of OS/2 to the world - even when we are vastly outnumbered by other
operating systems.
Team Warped (OS/2) is currently working on two distributed.net contests.
The first one, called RC5-72 is attempting to crack a commonly used
cryptographic algorithm. The second is a mathematic algortithm called
OGR-25.
By "cracking", I don't mean *anything illegal*. It is simply a test of
what kind of computing power and time is required to figure out the
"password" of a sentence encrypted using RC5 encryption. Everyone knows
the text of the sentence. The hard part is trying out every possible
password. There are more possible keys than stars in the sky, so it takes
a while :-)
It is the OGR-25 contest where we are in the top 10, so we would like to
concentrate on that one.
Team Warped members donate computer time using a simple utility that runs
in the background on your Warp, eCS, windoze or Linux box. The utility
periodically downloads new blocks of possible "passwords" (keys actually)
and tries to decrypt the encrypted sentence or work on another block of
mathematic problems. Since the utility only uses your CPU when it is not
being used for other tasks, you will likely not know it is running.
To stay in the top 10, we need your help!
You can help by downloading the appropriate "client" or utility from:
http://www.distributed.net/download/clients.php
There are different clients for OS/2 (one client works on all OS/2
flavors) and other operating systems. Make sure you download the correct
one. Team Warped can use your help *even if some of your machines use
other operating systems*, but we do prefer OS/2 and its variants :-)
Next, _join Team Warped_, so that we get credit for the work your
computer(s) do. If you don't join, you aren't helping us in the rankings!
You will need to configure your client - send me an email and I will walk
you through the setup process. Its easy and only takes a few minutes.
The best computers to use are ones that stay on day and night, like
servers, firewall computers or ones you leave on all the time. I have 5
in my home that I leave on 24/7. The rest are computers I use at work. If
you shut the monitor off, computers use surprisingly little power. We'll
take any machine's work, even if it is only on for brief periods.
If you would like to monitor your computer(s) progress in the contest,
check out my automated statistics web site at:
http://www.idk.serveftp.net:81/cowboy/participant.html
Click the blue text to see graphs and other statistics - its quite
extensive. (I wrote the stats robot and HTML generator myself, BTW).
If you set up your client to send its log files to my site's robot, it
will automatically analyze them and draw graphs of your computer(s)
performance, your ranking against all other people in the world, and your
team rank. You can view your stats from anywhere in the world and keep
track of your computers health.
The robot updates the stats graphs and text every 15-20 minutes, 24/7/365,
so its always up to date.
I provide the stats web site as a free service to other Team Warped
members - there is *no* advertising and I do not collect *any* personal
information.
The best way to participate is to install the distributed.net client on as
many machines as you have access to. I have it running on ~38 computers
right now, but even your single computer can make a difference!
Team Warped wants you!... well your computers free time anyway :-)
Write me back personally or here on the list for more details. Did I
mention there is a cash prize for the person that cracks RC5? The odds of
winning are better in the Lotto, but what the heck - this is for the
higher glory of OS/2. :-)
Thanks for helping,
Kevin McCoy
(KeyRing/2 author)
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SW: New LIMEWIRE 4.8

08 Apr 2005 17:34:11
From: fsignesDESPAM@DESPAMctv.es
The new LIMEWIRE BASIC 4.8.1 is available from
http://www.limewire.com/LimeWireSoftOther
Lime wire is a JAVA Client for the Gnutella Network
Url: http://www.limewire.com
From: Francesc (fsignesDESPAM@DESPAMctv.es)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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Event: Warpstock Czech Republic 2005 - Registration

08 Apr 2005 10:38:37
From: michal.mouckaDESPAM@DESPAMvslib.cz
Participants registration of international meeting Warpstock Czech
Republic 2005 now open.
You can register on page http://www.os2.cz/index.php?lang=en&v=wsreg_e
Other information you can find on
http://felis.kky.vslib.cz/CZECH_WARPSTOCK_2005
Url: http://felis.kky.vslib.cz/CZECH_WARPSTOCK_2005
From: Michal Moucka (michal.mouckaDESPAM@DESPAMvslib.cz)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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SW: RSJ CD Writer for OS/2 5.53

07 Apr 2005 22:26:27
From: "Mark Dodel"
RSJ has released an update to their CD/DVD writer software for OS/2. In
case people weren't aware, starting with 5.0 RSJ now supports writing to
DVD media.
URL: http://www.rsj.de/stage/en/cdwriter/cd_os2.asp
Download: http://www.rsj.de/stage/en/download/downos2.asp
Changes RSJ CD Writer for OS/2
5.53
* CopyWizard: fixed DAO option not being turned off for data CDs under
certain conditions
* CD View: fixed options dialog not showing/activating field
containing invalid data (options dialog won't close if a field content is
invalid, e.g. contains an invalid path)
* fixed a bug when writing DVD+Rs with BurnProof recorders
From the order page it appears this requires an upgrade fee even from the
5.05 version <https://www.rsj.de/stage/en/order/orderos2.asp>
"Upgrade RSJ CD-Writer for OS/2 (Versions 2.50-5.05) to RSJ CD-Writer for
OS/2 5.51
Keyfile of previous version is required for installation
Internet Only Euro 33.62 approx.US$ 43.24"
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SW: ePDF - upgrade to 2b19

07 Apr 2005 17:31:22
From: "Frank Wochatz"
ePDF 2b19 has been relaised.
New in this version:
- support for text-based watermarks
The watermarks are sizable, rotatable, colour-adjustable, and all
intalled PostScript fonts are useble for the watermark text.
More informations and downloadlinks:
http://www.subsys.de/ePDF/
This is only a new 'ePDF.exe', you have to copy this file into your
existing ePDF installation directory.
Also you will find the 'ePDF reference manual' (rev. 1), at the ePDF
website. This is an example PDF file, created with ePDF, that shows some
of the ePDF features in practice (e.g. bookmarks, a watermark, doc infos,
page filled startup etc.)
kind regards
Frank Wochatz
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SW: Info-Zip's ZIP 2.31 binaries available on Hobbes

07 Apr 2005 08:17:10
Forwarded message from Heiko on Sun, 3 Apr 2005 20:04:14 UTC Posted on:
comp.os.os2.apps:
Some have asked for Info-Zip's ZIP 2.31.
For everyones benefit I uploaded the binaries to Hobbes (
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/archiver/zip231x2.zip ).
This is just a compile of the original binaries. It's untested but it
seems to work. So I don't take any responsibilities.
It's compiled with Visual Age C++ 3.08 and linked statically.
Have fun.
Heiko
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SW: RexxMail build 20050407.111036 released.

07 Apr 2005 07:51:19
From: "Marcus de Geus"
A new build of RexxMail is available from my web site:
<http://www.degeus.com/rexxmail/>
RexxMail is an object-oriented WPS e-mail client, written in REXX, which
uses the standard WPS user interface. It features an extensive range of
functions and options with full command-line access.
Changes in this release:
- Bug fix: Malformed MIME-encoded header lines in incoming messages could
cause problems.
- Bug fix: HTML content could fail to show as attachment.
- Changed UseCurrentDir setting to include redirection after viewing or
sending messages.
- (Install.CMD) Added code to copy RxMlUtil.DLL to the OS/2 DLL directory.
- (Install.CMD) Replaced high-bit screen characters for code pages other
than 437/850.
- (Classic REXX) Bug workaround: Time() bug would crash message
transmissions if current clock time preceded previous clock time.
- (Reference Guide) Added FAQ entry for bug in the Classic REXX Time()
function.
Best regards,
Marcus de Geus
--
marcusDESPAM@DESPAMdegeus.com
http://www.degeus.com
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SW: Tonigy now free

06 Apr 2005 21:17:30
From: Peter Brown (Posted on the OS/2
UK list)
Hi All
Just became aware that the Tonigy.IFS package, http://www.tonigy.com is
now free - there is a registration key at the website Register Now! link.
Those of us who have not heard of tonigy before may want to read this page
http://www.tonigy.com/index.html
[Moderator note: Registration key is for non-comercial use.
http://www.tonigy.com/register.html
"Tonigy is an Audio/Video/Data CD IFS for OS/2 that maps tracks of Audio
CD into WAV or RAW files, tracks of Video CD into MPG files and tracks of
Data CD into ISO files. Use it for accessing audio, video and data tracks
like ordinary files. Also Tonigy allows to access files of CD-I disks and
the boot image of ISO tracks."]
Regards
Pete
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SW: PMView v3.12 is now available

06 Apr 2005 20:13:00
From: pnielsenDESPAM@DESPAMtuug.fi
PMView Pro v3.12 is now available!
This version fixes a bug with reading 16-bit TIFF-files with Motorola byte
ordering. For details, please refer to http://www.pmview.com/whatsnew.html
NOTE: If you already have v3.11 installed you can safely ignore this
update. You do not need this fix unless you have TIFF files of the
aforementioned type. However, if you have a v3.10 or older, we do
recommend that you update.
IMPORTANT: To obtain the full (registered) version of the update, you will
need to follow the download instructions included in the e-mail that was
sent to you when you purchased PMView Pro. If you have lost this
information, please contact sales@blueprintsoftwareworks.com.
Trial (demo) versions of PMView can be downloaded at http://www.pmview.com
Registered users, please note that the trial versions CANNOT be
registered. If you have purchased PMView Pro, please follow the download
instructions in the e-mail sent by BMT Micro.
Thanks,
Peter
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Event: OS/2 and eComStation Developers Workshop - Registration Now Open

06 Apr 2005 16:43:32
From: os2infoDESPAM@DESPAMgmx.net
I would like to inform all developers that plan to attend the OS/2 and
eComStation Developers Workshop 2005 that you can buy tickets now!
We use the Mensys online shop for registration. This shop is secure and
offers a number of different ways to pay the registration fee. While it
will be possible to register at the checkin desk, we strongly suggest not
doing this. Why? Because we have to know how many people are attending the
workshop! (at least, roughly!) We have the possibility to rent more or
larger rooms depending on the number of participants, but we can do this
only in advance! We know that some people make a last minute decision to
participate and that is OK with us. However, if you already know that you
want to attend, please use the online shop to register!
The final prices for the event are:
40 EUR for a two day registration
25 EUR for a one day registration
The tickets include the entrance fee for the workshop as well as snacks
and a limited number of non-alcoholic beverages during the workshop. In
addition, we offer Workshop Sponsor Units. The Workshop Sponsor Units will
be used to pay travel costs for developers that come from eastern Europe.
If you want to know more about this, please visit the Workshop Homepage.
Other News:
===========
We have added a number of different logos to the workshop homepage. Among
the normal workshop logo, we now offer a banner version and a small
version of the logo.
Three presentations were added to the schedule. Two of them will provide
some details about the Development Roadmap of eComStation and translation
practices that were used to provide the different national language
versions of eComStation. The third new presentation is called "OS/2 USB
Stack Development Guidelines" and is of particular interest to people that
want to develop or enhance USB drivers!
Links:
======
Workshop Homepage:
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2005
Mensys Online Shop for Workshop Tickets:
http://www.mensys.net/DeveloperWorkshop/
I hope to see lots of OS/2 and eComStation developers in Dresden!
Robert Henschel
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Event: Warpstock Czech Republic 2005

06 Apr 2005 10:11:03
From: michal.mouckaDESPAM@DESPAMvslib.cz
Hello OS/2 users!
We are proud to announce that the 4th year of the Czech Warpstock
international meeting of OS/2 (eComstation) friends will take place in
Liberec city from 15. 7. to 17. 7. 2005.
The Liberec city is the metropolis of northern Bohemia with a population
of 100 000 people, less than an hour's journey by motorway from Prague.
City lies in the hollow between the Jested ridge and the Jizersky
mountains. This place is particularly interesting for those of you living
in Poland or Germany, but the others may appreciate summer mountain
weather as well...
Place of the meeting is campus of Technical university of Liberec -
Department of Applied Cybernetics of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
The registration is free. Accommodation will be reserved for registered
participants only, one night without breakfast in the student hostel costs
200 Kč (about 7 Euro).
Other information you can find on web pages of meeting
"http://felis.kky.vslib.cz/czech_warpstock_2005".
We hope to see you there!
This action is held by: Technical University of Liberec - Department of
Applied Cybernetics, Czech OS/2 users group, server OS/2.cz, blue.point
Solutions, s. r. o.
Url: http://felis.kky.vslib.cz/czech_warpstock_2005
From: Michal Moucka (michal.mouckaDESPAM@DESPAMvslib.cz)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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SW: DANIS506 Version 1.7.3 Has Been Released

05 Apr 2005 19:32:13
From: "Sander Nyman"
Version V1.7.3 of DANIS506, the IBM1S506 replacement from the MUCH adored
Daniela Engert has been uploaded to Hobbes. This version supports Intel,
VIA, Ali, SiS, CMD, Promise, Cyrix, HPT, AMD, Artop, SMSC, ServerWorks,
Opti, Nvidia, NatSemi, SiliconImage, ITE, ATI, and NetCell chips,
SerialATA, disk capacities up to 2TiB.
Changed in this release:
- Some fixes for bugs introduced with the last release.
- Added adapter options.
Currently at: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/danis506r173.zip
For those who will undoubtedly be late filing their taxes:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/storage/danis506r173.zip
Or use the hobbes search link:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=danis506r173
Regards,
Sander
--
-----------------------------------------------------------
"Sander Nyman"
-----------------------------------------------------------
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
- Woody Allen
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SW: IMAPD version 0.08 released

05 Apr 2005 07:55:40
From: Peter Moylan
The IMAP add-on for the Weasel mail server has just been updated to
version 0.08. You can get it from
ftp://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/Weasel/imapd008.zip
This version is looking fairly solid; all known bugs have been fixed.
If you want to use this then you MUST first upgrade to Weasel version
1.73, because the Weasel Setup notebook is now used to control the IMAP
options.
--
Peter Moylan Peter.MoylanDESPAM@DESPAMnewcastle.edu.au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au
As an economy measure, all of our e-mail accounts have been moved
to a more expensive and less reliable system. If you need to contact
me urgently, use the pho ... oh, wait, the phone is on the same system.
The phone should be OK if you don't use voicemail.
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SW: Weasel version 1.73 released

05 Apr 2005 06:54:39
From: Peter Moylan
The Weasel mail server has just been updated to version 1.73. You can get
it at
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/weasel.html
or
ftp://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/Weasel/weasel173.zip
The main features of this release are changes to support the imapd
feature, so for most Weasel users this upgrade is optional. If you want
to use the imapd add-on then this upgrade is compulsory.
--
Peter Moylan Peter.MoylanDESPAM@DESPAMnewcastle.edu.au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au
As an economy measure, all of our e-mail accounts have been moved
to a more expensive and less reliable system. If you need to contact
me urgently, use the pho ... oh, wait, the phone is on the same system.
The phone should be OK if you don't use voicemail.
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SW: PDFMerge/2 Version 0.5.4 (first public preview)

04 Apr 2005 12:58:51
From: Herwig Bauernfeind
PDFMerge/2 is a freeware tool to concatenate multiple PDF or PS files into
a single PDF file and eventually insert one or more empty pages.
PDFMerge/2 requires ePDF as it reuses some of ePDF's settings. There is no
installer currently, so please read the "readme.txt" that comes with
PDFMerge/2.
Please also note, as the version number below 1.0.0 indicates, this
program is not feature complete yet and probably not bug free.
In my humble opinion it just happens to be useful already and this build
seems to be quite stable.
In case of problem, suggestions you are invited to join the suboffice
mailing list at netlabs or contact me directly.
Runs on: A recent version of eCS (OS/2), Rexx support
Requires: VROBJ.DLL (VX-REXX runtime dll), ePDF by F. Wochatz (
http://www.subsys.de/ePDF/ )
Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/pdfmerge054.zip
With Best Regards
Herwig Bauernfeind
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SW: Mr. Message (AIM client) 4/3/2005 update

04 Apr 2005 09:02:21
Forwarded message from Marty on Mon, 4 Apr 2005
06:30:54 UTC Posted on: comp.os.os2.apps
Mr. Message for OS/2 is an instant messenger client which is capable of
communicating over AOL's Instant Messenger network using the OSCAR
protocol (used in the Win32 AIM clients, jBuddy, gAIM, Kopete, ICQ, and
a variety of other clients).
It has been updated with the following changes:
* Splash screen is now controlled by the "Logo" setting in your OS/2
System Settings object.
* Changed so that the Session Manager is made visible again when a
session which had "Auto Minimize" set has failed to start up. * Put a
16 character length limit on the password to conform to AOL
limitations.
* Fixed password encoding in INI file to prevent truncation of passwords
with an ampersand ("&") in the second position or a "9" in the fifth
position. (Eg: "b&dp9ssword")
* Fixed login sequence for better error tolerance and recognition. * Fixed
a small memory leak when another user's screen name is
reformatted with spaces.
* Fixed possible error message pop-up for automatically added duplicate
buddy.
To download, please visit the new official Mr. Message web page:
http://mamodeo.dyndns.org/MrMessage
If anyone has any new suggestions for the REXX interface or has written
some REXX scripts that they think can be generally useful, I'd love to
hear about them.
I will continue to post updates to USENET as well as updating the web
page.
--
[Reverse the parts of the e-mail address to reply.]
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SW: Virtual Pascal has died

03 Apr 2005 20:28:41
From: seanDESPAM@DESPAMoutpostbbs.net
Found this on Virtual Pascal's website:
I don't know if anyone has noticed, but I am sad to report that Virtual
Pascal has died a quiet death. It was born in 1995, and died in 2005 at
the ripe old age (for software) of 10 years.
What this means to you is that there is unlikely to be more releases of
VP, and that there certainly will be no releases with shiny new features
in them.
The lack of activity in VP development has been apparent for a long time,
and the inevitable conclusion is fairly unsurprising. The reasons for the
inactivity are many, but among the main ones are - VP's compiler codebase
has become obsolete. It's written in assembly code, and adding new
functionality to the compiler realistically requires that it's written in
a higher level language, - I don't have the time or even knowledge to
rewrite large portions of VP (Vitaly wrote the compiler and is generally
much cleverer than me), - Nobody else seems to have the time (or
knowledge) required either, - FreePascal is moving forward and is now
actually quite usable. Yes, it probably has its flaws, but it also has a
lot of people working on it - and VP does not.
So I guess that's it. If you are happy with VP and it works for you,
that's great: please feel free to continue using it. If, on the other hand
it doesn't work, there is a bug, or you really need a new feature, then
you should probably look elsewhere: FreePascal and Delphi are both fine
Pascal compilers that have moved well beyond where VP is ever going to
go...
And before you ask, VP will not be released as Open Source. I don't own
the copyright to all of the code (some of it is related to Borland's
source code) and you have to believe me when I tell you it's so
complicated you would not be able to do much with it even if it was
available. Sorry!
However, I'll keep running vpascal.com for a few more years and even reply
to the occasional forum post or email message.
It was good while it lasted: Thanks for all your support over the years!
(The message was written by Allan Mertner, one of the main VP developers
and vpascal.com webmaster.)
Url: http://www.vpascal.com
From: Sean Dennis (seanDESPAM@DESPAMoutpostbbs.net)
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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