OS/2 eZine

16 April 2001
 
R. Bret Walker Photo R. Bret Walker is a Certified NetWare Engineer who resides with his wife and two children in the South Jersey/ Philadelphia Metro area. He first became exposed to OS/2 in 1995, when Sony in northern New Jersey was looking for "an expert in NetWare who knows anything at all about OS/2." Although he ultimately turned down the job, he has since become an OS/2 junkie. A huge fan of the cinematic arts, in his spare time he writes reviews for and maintains The People's Reviews.

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OS/2 News

IBM News

IBM releases TCP/IP updates

IBM has released (3/14/2001) updates for TCP/IP 4.21 and 4.3 to fix the Trap E's that were occurring for dialup users (especially with InJoy).

New version of Mozilla released by IBM

IBM has released (3/30/2001) their branded version of Mozilla, based on Netscape 6.01 and called "IBM Web Browser," for Software Choice subscribers. Meanwhile, the WarpZilla team has released (3/28/2001) the equivalent version (sans spell-checker and IBM branding) of Mozilla, as well as a newer version (3/30/2001, different bugs) that is based on Mozilla 0.8.1. There is also an XFree86/OS2 XFree86/OS2 version of XWarpzilla 0.8 available (3/5/2001). You can see a list of some of the known bugs in the OS/2 port.

New web server

IBM has released (3/29/2001) IBM HTTP Server for Software Choice subscribers. This is a web server based on Apache, which provides support for SSL using 128-bit encryption, and a loadable module that enables you to use it with WebSphere 3.02.

New Scitech SDD SE 7.05

IBM has released (4/5/2001) an update to Scitech Display Doctor Special Edition. This new release is only available to Software Choice subscribers. The previous 7.04 version is still available from the OS/2 Device Driver Site.

Industry News

Opera for OS/2 in closed Alpha

The long awaited OS/2 version of Opera may become a downloadable reality soon. For the first time in years, the project has moved off of the Project Magic page and onto the front page of the Opera Software site. The first Public version of Opera for OS/2 will be a Technology Preview, followed by a Public Beta version. Opera for OS/2 has been tested on Warp 4 and WSeB (OS/2 4.5). We'll be watching the Opera site carefully for updates.

Co-StandbyServer

Earlier this year, InnoTek acquired the source code and distribution rights for Legato Co-StandbyServer) for OS/2. This has advanced clustering and failover solutions, and InnoTek plans to support WSeB, including LVM and JFS with a scheduled 2Q2001 release date. In other Innotek news, release 2 of their Flash player is included with the "IBM Web Browser," but is not yet available from their web page.

Junk Spy version 2

Junk Spy version 2 will be released in a few weeks, with an introductory price of $39 through July 31st - $20 off the suggested retail price, and it includes one year of updates to Junk Spy's spam detection database (a $24 value). Registered users of version 1 get an extra $10 discount. Junk Spy monitors your email to identify and remove the junk mail you don't want.

OS2World.com offers new web based email

OS2 World.Com is now offering web based e-mail. To use it, you have to apply for a POP3 account (http://www.os2world.com/services_pop.shtml).

Phoenix Software changes name

The OS/2 ISV formerly known as "Phoenix Software" has changed its name to "Exponential Development." The final beta of Think Tool Pro is complete except for the documentation, and will be available for download soon.

Updates on the ODIN project

The ODIN (Win32-OS2) project is making great progress. IBM is modifying its ICAT OS/2 Remote Source-code Debugger to support PE executables in the OS/2 environment in order to help Project Odin development. Odin also includes a library from IBM called WGSS50, that is an Open32 subset for graphics, also used for the IBM Netscape ports to OS/2. To get a better idea of which applications work and which don't, check out the Odin application database. Additions to the database are welcome, as are additional developers for this project. You can download daily snapshots of this work in progress from os2.org. A mailing list for users of Odin exists as well.

Psion to OS/2 Connection

The Psion to OS/2 Connection website has been updated with new information and a new section. This site is dedicated to connecting Psion PDAs to computers running OS/2.

Register on OS-2.cz to win a CD of OS/2 software

If you register on OS-2.cz before the end of April, you will be entered into the drawing for a CD of OS/2 software - 650 MB of shareware/freeware/demos for OS/2, fixes and some bonus software as well.

April Back Again/2000 Special Discount Offer

For a limited time only, CDS is offering selected customers who have downloaded the evaluation edition of Back Again/2000 for OS/2 the opportunity to purchase the award winning backup and disaster recovery product at a substantial discount.

Available only until 04/22/01, you many now purchase electronically delivered versions of Back Again/2000 Workstation for only $39.00 (regularly priced $99.00) and Back Again/2000 Server for only $79.00 (regularly priced $199.00). To take advantage of this offer, go to http://www.cds-inc.com/prodinfo/ba2koffer.html

What's new on Hobbes

[Ed. Some of these may have moved by the time you read this. Search Hobbes if the link doesn't work for the files below.

Star Office 5.1, German version (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/so51a_os2_49.exe) March 15
GRADD software simulation enforcement filter r0.0.3 (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/senforce_r003.zip) March 23
Intel P6 / AMD K7 MTRRs management IOCtl PDD ver.0.06 (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/p6k7mtrr_v006.zip) March 23
Virtual Palmpad ver. 1.0 for OS/2 (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ppdos2.zip) March 23
Switch REXX for OS/2 (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/swrexx.zip) March 23
tidy. Validate, correct, and pretty-print HTML files (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tidy04aug2000.zip) March 24
Tonigy v1.1. Audio CD IFS. The smart replacement of grabbers. (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tonigy11.zip) March 24
Database for managing audio media collections such as CD,MC,LP (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/mframe04.zip) March 25
S3 Savage-series driver - V7.00.29 (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/s3_savage70029.zip) March 25
Ispell-3.1.20-2 (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/isp3120-2.zip) March 26
Lame 3.88 MP3 Encoder (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/lame-3_88.zip) March 26
Puzzle, crosswords (canadian-french) (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/mcr_8b.zip) March 27
CONFIG.SYS editor with searchable database and language support (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/cfgtool100.zip) March 28
Bootmanager (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/vpart.zip) March 28
PMView 2.20e, Image viewer, editor and convertor (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pmv220os2e.zip) March 28
PMMail, Email client supporting multiple accounts. Integrates with PGp (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pmmail22.zip) March 28
Several REXX utilities for working with directories (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dirtools.zip) March 28
mum - MySQL User Manager, freeware (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/mum02.zip) March 30
MIDI/Audio Sequencer for OS/2 Warp 4.0 (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/mseqv30b1.zip) March 30
Python 2.0 port to OS/2+EMX - binary installation package (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/python-2.0-os2emx-bin-010331.zip) March 31
Python 2.0 port to OS/2+EMX - source patches and makefiles (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/python-2.0-os2emx-src-010331.zip) March 31
Hibernation toolkit (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/hibertkt.zip) March 31
RexxAutoStart - Startup utiliy (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/rxast180.zip) March 31
RexxAutoStart - Startup utiliy sources (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/rxast180src.zip) March 31
Tiny system tools for OS/2 - ps, uptime & ttelnetd. (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ttools.zip) March 31
RexxMail build 20010401. (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/rexxmail_20010401.zip) April 1
Update OS/2 installation CD-ROM with fixpaks (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/updcd15.zip) April 1
Network I/O benchmark (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/netio113.zip) April 2
Mastermind for OS/2 Warp or higher, v1.4b (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/mmind14b.zip) April 2
Linux driver for reading and writing HPFS partitions (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/hpfs_203.txt) April 3
Convert word documents to text and postscript (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/antiword031.zip) April 3
WarpCenter replacement (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/wpsbara1.zip) April 4
Ipconfig util for OS/2 (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ipcfg13.zip) April 4
VIA AC'97 sound solution problem solver (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/viasp09.zip) April 5
Some utils for inkjet (Epson) printers. (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/inkjet_utils3.zip) April 5



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