New materials on www.os2.spb.ru

2001-09-25 15:27:37 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.spb.ru]

George Shapovalov describes process of installation and russification of vTeX/2.
URL: http://www.os2.spb.ru/guru/tex/vtex.html.

OS2.Ru uses features of Mozilla

2001-09-25 15:26:37 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.ru, OS2OK]

www.os2.ru introduced support of Netscape 6/Mozilla sidebars. This will allow you to recieve OS2.Ru news more quickly.

The OS2 World Award - 2001!

2001-09-25 15:25:30 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com, kimh]

The official nomination process has started

We are happy to announce that the official nomination process has started and we will accept nomination between the 23 September until 7 October. The date for when the final voting will start has not yet been set and we will continuously post updated news about this.

URL: http://www.os2world.com/award.shtml.

DaniDASD update (V1.4.0)

2001-09-25 15:23:53 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Timo Maier]

DaniDASD is a replacement for OS2DASD.DMD with FAT32, extendedX, and arbitrary partition support, mini-LVM, V1.4.0.
URL: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=danidasd.zip.

Warpstock 2001 has not been cancelled.

2001-09-25 15:21:35 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Luc Van Bogaert]

The attack on the World Trade Center has, understandably, caused many people to re-evaluate their travel plans. The Warpstock Board of Directors and the Event Team would like to reassure everyone that Warpstock 2001 has not been cancelled.

Warpstock is proud of the OS/2 Community and that less than a handful of people have told us that they have changed their plans to travel to Toronto. The Warpstock planners encourage all OS/2 users to follow through on their travel plans this October. Thanks to new security procedures, airline travel has never been safer.

The 5th annual Warpstock conference will be held October 6-8, 2001, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is produced by Warpstock, Inc., a North Carolina non-profit corporation. The Warpstock annual conference is a gathering of OS/2 users, developers, and vendors from around the world for the purpose of education and advocacy. More information is available at the Warpstock 2001 website, http://www.warpstock.org or its mirror site: http://warpstock.os2voice.org.

Web/2 update (1.3x alpha 6)

2001-09-25 15:19:44 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [#os2russian, dink]

dink invites you to visit his homepage and download Web/2 update.
URL: http://dink.org/web2.

New project on os2.ru

2001-09-25 15:18:35 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.ru]

www.os2.ru opened new project OpenSSH/2.
URL: http://os2.ru/projects/openssh/.

New pmmerge.dll revision 14.78 on IBM

2001-09-25 15:17:38 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [#os2russian, OrgaNick]

Leak of memory in pmmerge.dll was fixed.
URL: ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/ps/fromibm/os2/pj28164.zip

DFSee 4.03

2001-09-25 15:16:02 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS]

DFSee is an FDISK-like display, analysis and recovery tool with powerfull FIX commands and UNDELETE for HPFS and NTFS.

It is a command-line and text-only utility (no GUI). This allow usage from simple boot-diskettes for recovery. The package includes an OS/2, Win-NT and DOS version.

DFSee can be purchased from the Mensys online shop for about US $18. Details can be found at http://www.fsys.demon.nl/dfsee.htm.

X-Downloader update

2001-09-25 15:14:11 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Platon Fomichev]

One of the most feature rich web downloaders X-Downloader is available for OS/2.
URL: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/nt-1.29_os2_emx.zip.

Application features: multi-threaded, multi-segment downloading with ability to limit broadband of traffic. It also features FTP search, recursive HTTP downloading and support of filters and wildcards. This version works well with both XFree86/2 and HOBB X11. GTK+ package is requred. Fully complaint with XFree86/2 XWarpzilla drag&drop.

Win95Key update (V2.20)

2001-09-25 15:11:51 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.ru, Alex Samorukov]

New version of Win95Key application and short description of its usage.

The article http://os2.ru/projects/win95key/ (Russian text only) describes how to configure Win95Key to control mp3-player using multimedia-keyboard.

GCC 3.0 (beta 3) release

2001-09-25 15:10:30 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.ecomstation.ru, Stauff]

OS/2 version of GCC compiler is available for download.
URL: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/.

Partition Magic 7.0 does not support HPFS

2001-09-25 15:09:19 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Chris Ayers]

Chris Ayers received an upgrade for Partition Magic. Documentation doesn't mention HPFS files system.

On Page 21 of the User's Guide it lists the following supported file systems:

• Extended
• Extended X
• FAT
• FAT16x
• FAT32
• FAT32x
• Linux Ext2
• Linux Swap
• NTFS
• Unformatted
• Unallocated Space

There is nothing in the manual covering HPFS. OS/2 is briefly mentioned under FAT16, but the program must be run from the Rescue Disks created under some version of Windows.

CDR/RW Wizard v.1.0.0

2001-09-25 15:07:34 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Rocco Foti]

CDR/RW Wizard is a multithreading GUI Wizard interface to CDRECORD/2 for burning CDR / CDRW (data, audio, etc). Homepage: http://www.quasarbbs.net/rocco.

InCharge version 1.02.73

2001-09-25 15:06:16 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Bruce W. Landeck]

InCharge update is now available for downloading from the Spitfire Software web site. In Charge! is a full function personal and small business financial system for OS/2 and Windows 95/98/NT.

Mozilla fix

2001-09-25 15:03:46 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Ralph Cohen]

Apparently SSL and a couple other things were inadvertently left out of the new Mozilla 0.9.4 build, so a newer drop has been posted at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.4/mozilla-i386-pcos2-vacpp-0.9.4.zip.

Mike Kaply also announced that the daily update process for the OS/2 VAC++ build has been automated, so two new builds of 0.9.4 will be posted every day with the latest one available at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/latest/mozilla-os2.zip .

New builds are created at 8am and 4pm. Earlier builds are also archived on the server.

Be aware that these are built differently than the regularly releases. These builds don't create their own \bin directory, so you need to create one first and then unzip it (with directories) from that directory.