Support of HPFS partitions from Windows 2000

2001-09-19 15:22:25 -- Igor Vanin [#os2russian, RElf]

Driver for HPFS support from Windows 2000 environment.
URL: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/hpfs_w2k.zip.

Mum is updated to version 0.33

2001-09-19 15:19:10 -- Igor Vanin [Timo Maier]

Mum is a VIO MySQL User Manager, for easy editing your MySQL user table. Freeware, of course. Binaries for OS/2 and Win32 included. Goto http://tam.belchenstuermer.de/ and select 'Software' from the menu.

SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.7 for OS/2 (PREVIEW RELEASE 43)

2001-09-19 14:48:05 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Kendall Bennett]

You can download SciTech Display Doctor 7.0.7 for OS/2 BETA 43 from ftp site using the following URL: ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/sdd-os2-7.0.7-b43.exe.

All remaining changes are now tracked on the web. Public changes are tracked at the following URL: http://www.scitechsoft.com/sdd2_changes.txt.

About SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2: SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 brings SciTech's proven universal device driver technologies to the OS/2 operating system. SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 incorporates the SciTech Nucleus Graphics Architecture, which is a cross platform device driver technology enabling the use of the same device drivers in all versions of SciTech Display Doctor. Sharing the drivers between platforms improves the quality and performance of device drivers for all supported operating systems.

For more detailed information about SciTech Display Doctor for OS/2 (including the list of supported graphics chipsets) see the complete readme at: ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/sdd/beta/os2/readme.txt.

Fixed driver for Ensoniq sound cards

2001-09-19 14:44:26 -- Igor Vanin [www.os2.ru]

Alex Strelnikov published driver for Ensoniq sound cards: es1371, ct5880 и ev1938.
URL: http://ftp.os2.ru/pub/os2/drivers/audio/es1371.zip.

New projects are created on ecomstation.ru site

2001-09-18 21:04:40 -- Igor Vanin [www.ecomstation.ru]

Visit SNPDD and Netdrive Cipher Plugin projects.

SNPPD - High performance, stable, reliable SNPP server for receiving of pager messages over internet. Product of Igor Vaskov.

Netdrive Cipher Plugin - the most secure security solution for OS/2. Product of nickk.

Long-awaited Warpzilla 0.9.4 was released

2001-09-18 21:04:21 -- Igor Vanin [#os2russian, dink]

Long-awaited Warpzilla 0.9.4 was released.
URL: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.4/mozilla-i386-pcos2-vacpp-0.9.4.zip.

www.os2.ru presents collection of drivers for network cards

2001-09-18 20:56:43 -- Igor Vanin [www.os2.ru, os2ok]

www.os2.ru published some drivers here: ftp://ftp.os2.ru/pub/os2/drivers/, http://os2.ru/catalog.

Review of eComStation 1.0

2001-09-18 20:50:56 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Tom Nadeau]

The "Special Reports" section of OS/2 Headquarters (http://www.os2hq.com) now contains a Product Review of eComStation 1.0.

New application CDR/RW Wizard version, 1.0.0 beta1

2001-09-18 20:46:48 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Rocco Foti]

CDR/RW Wizard is a multithreading GUI Wizard interface to CDRECORD/2 for burning CDR / CDRW (data, audio, etc).

The most notable feature is CDRDAO/2 support (first release), please send me any bug info! There is also the new CDR/RW Wizard news group. See new, for now, homepage: http://web.tiscali.it/foros2.

September OS/2 eZine is out (16.09.2001)

2001-09-18 20:39:00 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Robert Basler]

September OS/2 eZine is available at http://www.os2ezine.com.

From The Editor

• Robert Basler looks at news and events of the month.

Editorial

• Call to the OS/2 Community. Pete Grubbs.

Reviews

• This is Not Just a Net Drive. Everything is connected. Andrei A. Porodko talks about an amazing virtual file system.
• Opera 5.12 Beta for OS/2. Robert Basler spends some time with this speedy new web browser.
• DirDiff - Directory Comparison. John Bijnens looks at DirDiff, a tool for comparing directories.

Articles

• ECS Installation Tips. Walter Metcalf gives some hints on installing eComStation.
• ODBC on OS/2 Part 5. Douglas Clark looks at Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL on OS/2.
• Into Java, Part 20. Simon Gronlund makes the worlds smallest web browser.

Forums

• Ask Bas and John. Bas Heijermans and John Bijnens answer your OS/2 questions in this ongoing forum.

September Forums

• Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums.

URL: http://www.os2ezine.com.

ZIPped version: http://www.os2ezine.com/archives/20010916.zip.

Watcom C and Fortran updates

2001-09-18 20:28:55 -- Igor Vanin [www.os2.ru]

Scitech published Watcom C++ and Fortran v.11c updates. You are able to download updates from ftp: ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/watcom/.

Build 20010916.130334 of RexxMail is now available

2001-09-18 20:25:50 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Marcus de Geus]

This edition of RexxMail introduces the SafeHTML option to filter HTML content.
URL: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

Discussion of anything off-topic

2001-09-18 20:23:41 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Maynard Riley]

To facilitate the OS/2 community discussion of anything off-topic for the regular lists, I've established the opportunity.

List-Subscribe: Conjecture-request@mentabolism.org?subject=subscribe.

URL: http://mentabolism.org/mailman/listinfo/conjecture_mentabolism.org.

Welcome to www.ecomstation.ru

2001-09-18 20:07:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.ecomstation.ru]

eComStation.ru invites you to publish articles and reviews in your native language. Contact e-mail: eg@ecomstation.ru.

GNAT 3.13 for OS/2

2001-09-18 20:03:45 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Christian Hennecke]

David Parsons has compiled GNAT 3.13 for OS/2. GNAT is the free GNU Ada 95 Translator and extends the gcc compiler so you can use it to compile programs written in Ada 95.

Ada 95 is an object oriented language with an easy-to-read syntax reminding of Pascal and Modula. It is known to be effective, easy to maintain and to provide good debugging facilities.

The package can be found at ftp://unixos2.org/incoming/gnat-3.13p-os2-bin-20010916.zip and will eventually be moved to ftp://unixos2.org/pub/os2/dev/emx+gcc/gnat/gnat-3.13p-os2-bin-20010916.zip.

Finnegan Software will be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001

2001-09-18 20:00:31 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Luc Van Bogaert]

The Warpstock Committee is pleased to announce that Finnegan Software will be exhibiting at Warpstock 2001. Be sure to visit their booth when you attend Warpstock this year.

Finnegan Software, Inc., Specialists in Home Office Automation and Small Business Networking. Finnegan Software specializes in providing fully installed computer systems, hardware components, and customer support for eComStation and ManagedClient solutions within North America.

For more information on Finnegan Software and their products, please visit their web site at http://www.finnsoft.com.

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.