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2006: January February
2005: August September October November December
SW: PTPro v1.00
Event: SCOUG March meeting: Dual AMD, SMP, *AND* JEdit
Jobs: Need Systems Administrator with experience in OS/2 Warp Server
Net: eCo Software newsletter, week 11
Book: wxWidgets book
SW: Apache 2.2.0 & PHP 4.4.2 updated
SW: WDSibyl updated
SW: phpGUI, 'The Website Builder's Workbench'
SW: PDFMerge/2 Version 0.7.3
SW: USB "configurator" beta6 available
SW: Compiled version of GNU Ocrad 0.14 for OS/2 available
SW: eComStation 1.2R German available
SW: eComStation promotional pricing
OT: Help needed with Usenet provider and reader listings.
SW: Subversion 1.3.0 ported to OS/2 & eComStation
SW: Mozilla/2 updated with link to new libc-0.6.1
| SW: PTPro v1.00 |
2006-03-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: richDESPAM@DESPAMe-vertise.com
PTPro is a command-line program for retrieving pictures & information from
your PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol) based digital camera.
With PTPro, you can rename & renumber your photos and thumbnails as you
save them, view extended info about your pictures (e.g. size in pixels),
and of course, erase them. PTPro can also show you info about your camera:
the formats it uses, its storage capacity, etc.
PTPro uses only generic PTP commands & should support any late-model
camera. While not as feature-rich as Gphoto2, PTPro has the distinct
advantage of actually working with my Canon Powershot A610. PTPro requires
the usbresmg.sys device driver (included in the package) and libc06
(available from NetLabs).
You can get PTPro from hobbes
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ptpro100.zip
or from my site
http://e-vertise.com/misc/ptpro100.zip
PTPro is based on ptpcam and is released under the GPL. The zipfile
contains the complete source for ptpro, libptp, libusb, & usbcalls.
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| Event: SCOUG March meeting: Dual AMD, SMP, *AND* JEdit |
2006-03-17
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Tom Brown (thombrownDESPAM@DESPAMsan.rr.com)
Tony Butka has this shiny, new AMD dual processor setup. He's going to show
us how to install eCS1.2 MR on it and get the SMP add-on up and running.
It has been mentioned often that JEdit is a wonderful editor. It is said to
be both easy to use and highly configurable. We've seen a few glimpses of
what JEdit can do as part of various past presentations. This month,
Sheridan is going to give us an in depth review of how to set it up and
what it can do.
The Programming SIG has been working on the design requirements of their
development system of the future. They have progressed to the point where
they are almost ready to do some code prototyping. The current plan is to
implement the GUI part of the system using the OS/2 Presentation Manager.
This is a new programming API for some of the SIG members so Bob Blair is
going to present an "Introduction to PM Programming." This will cover basic
concepts and programming paradigms.
There will be a general Q&A session too, so bring your questions.
See you on Saturday and, as always, bring some room for donuts and coffee.
Url: http://www.scoug.com/meetings.html
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| Jobs: Need Systems Administrator with experience in OS/2 Warp Server |
2006-03-18
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: inigopaulDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com
Hi,
We at Fiserv India are in need of 2 System Administrators with experience
on OS2 Warp Servers. Interested candidates to contact
inigo.paulDESPAM@DESPAMfiserv.com
To the moderator and Group member, if you do not solicit Job Opportunity
mails in this group, kindly excuse me.
Regards
Inigo
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| Net: eCo Software newsletter, week 11 |
2006-03-18
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Eugene Gorbunof
The last week was dedicated to maintenance of drivers and preparation for
spring marathon.
* 1. Updated drivers:
JFS.IFS -- Available for owners of eComStation Software Subscription
Services via eComStation beta-zone (http://betazone.ecomstation.nl)
- Fixes for DBCS eComStation
(http://www.os2.jp/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=144&forum=2)
- Fixes to increase reliability on stress load
* 2. Updated software:
- T&V HappyPlayer application (http://ecomstation.ru/happyplayer)
supports fullscreen now (via WarpOverlay!, view screenshot:
http://ecomstation.ru/projects/happyplayer/pic/ecomstation-t&vhp-fullscreen.jpg);
Welcome to the forum of lucky T&V HappyPlayer users
(http://forum.ecomstation.ru/viewforum.php?f=20)
- Internal beta of Firewall ports setup
- Several internal betas of Personal Cards manager
- JUne (JFS/NTFS unerase and recover tool), experimental build
(http://ecomstation.ru/june)
* 3. eCo Software support service -- The database of supported hardware
contains almost 800 reports (http://ecomstation.ru/hardware.php)
* 4. Toolkits -- Lange multilanguage library internal release
* 5. eCo Software student program -- The strategy of eCo Software states
that to survive, eComStation should attract students and sci-tech-lab
engineers.
- gDiagramm 0.06 - utility for fast graphs plotting to png or jpg files
(gDlib is ported to VAC; gDiagramm is an original tool based on gDlib)
(http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?sh=1&button=Search&key=gDiagramm&stype=all&sort=date&dir=%2F)
* 6. Collaboration with other developers
- Updated WarpOverlay!
(http://ecomstation.ru/projects/happyplayer/?action=down -- by LightElf).
The video-overlay stretches T&V HappyPlayer picture to fullscreen
- Release of russian PMView 3.24 (advanced image viewer and converter
-- http://pmview.com)
- The sNOa Matrix module is distributed as part of Doodle screensaver
now (Doodle significantly improved it; http://dssaver.netlabs.org)
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| Book: wxWidgets book |
2006-03-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: John Refl (johnreflDESPAM@DESPAMgmail.com)
The wxWidgets book is now available as a PDF at the Bruce Perens' Open
Source Series page.
----
wxWidgets gives you a single, easy-to-use API for writing GUI applications
on multiple platforms. Link with the appropriate library for your platform
(Windows/Unix/Mac, others coming shortly) and compiler (almost any popular
C++ compiler), and your application will adopt the look and feel
appropriate to that platform. On top of great GUI functionality, wxWidgets
gives you: online help, network programming, streams, clipboard and drag
and drop, multithreading, image loading and saving in a variety of popular
formats, database support, HTML viewing and printing, and much much more.
Url:
http://www.phptr.com/content/images/0131473816/downloads/0131473816_book.pdf
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| SW: Apache 2.2.0 & PHP 4.4.2 updated |
2006-03-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
I've just updated Apache 2.2.0 & PHP 4.4.2 and they're available from
http://smedley.info/os2ports.html
Major changes are that they are built with Innotek GCC 3.3.5 CSD1 and
require libc061.dll
Details are in the respective readme.os2 files
One thing that is definitely fixed in Apache2 is that UserDir now works -
however see readme.os2 for details on this as the behaviour is different
than the EMX builds of Apache2.
mysql is lightly tested with PHP 4.4.2 - phpmyadmin at least seems to work
for me.
Feedback appreciated to paul@smedley.info
Cheers,
Paul
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| SW: WDSibyl updated |
2006-03-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
I don't use WDSibyl but I noticed it has been updated on Netlabs ftp site
as of 2006-03-18. There are both OS/2 and Win32 sources and binaries.
Help appears to be in both German and English though the history.txt is in
German. ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wdsibyl/wdsibyl/History.txt I am not
sure what has changed but there area number of updated files in the
different zip archives.
The Web site for WDSibyl http://members.chello.at/webstar/wdsibyl.html
doesn't appear to have been updated as of yet. "This is a Pascal-Compiler
which processes a language closely related to »Delphi«."
Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/wdsibyl
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| SW: phpGUI, 'The Website Builder's Workbench' |
2006-03-19
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Lutz Wagner (Lutz.WagnerDESPAM@DESPAMzworks.de)
There is a new version of phpGUI, 'The Website Builder's Workbench'. I
dared to call it version 1.0 (after 1 year of 0.9..)
Besides some improvements concerning the 'normal' editing of html- or
php-code there is a major enhancement in phpGUI, called 'IMaGen', which
stands for 'Internet Magazine Generator'.
IMaGen is sort of a CMS, but not as universal (and complex) as those,
instead it is specially taylored for publishing online magazines, which
means: once defining the structure of the magazine, then periodically
writing articles by merely typing in the text into the specified rubric in
which the article is to be published and pressing the 'Uplpoad'-button,
whithout having to care much about html or css.
Unfortunately at the moment there is no documentation at all, you may just
invoke the IMaGen-modules from the phpGUI-menubar, and - in case you run
into trouble (which is most probable :-) ) - give me a call at
http://os2.zworks.de/phpGUI/eng/index.html#Kontakt
What you DO NEED for IMaGen: A webspace with php4 (or higher) and a running
MySQL-database.
For the basic phpGUI alone you need nothing more than a simple webspace,
not neccessarily including php-support.
Url: http://os2.zworks.de/phpGUI
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| SW: PDFMerge/2 Version 0.7.3 |
2006-03-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Herwig Bauernfeind
PDFMerge/2 is a freeware tool to manipulate PDF or PS files in the
following ways:
- Concatenate multiple PDF files into a single one.
- Split PDF files into single pages.
- Rearrange these pages.
- Compose a new PDF file from single (or multiple) pages or PDF documents.
- Save sets of PDF files to disk and reload these sets into PDFMerge
later for further processing.
- Preview pages while manipulating.
- Print multiple PDF files to a PS or PCL printer at once (experimental).
Please note, as the version number below 1.0.0 indicates, this program is
neither feature complete nor completely tested, so be aware of the fact
that there are still quite a number of bugs (and/or omissions) to be
discovered yet.
In my humble opinion it just happens to be quite useful already.
Hobbes Incoming: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pdfmerge073.zip
Hobbes Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=pdfmerge
Alternatively: http://members.aon.at/herwig.bauernfeind/os2.html
Runs on: Any recent version of eCS (OS/2), Rexx support
Requires:
VROBJ.DLL (VX-REXX runtime dll),
ePDF by Frank Wochatz ( http://www.subsys.de/ePDF/ ),
GhostScript 8.53 ( http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/ ),
XPDF 3.01 (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/convert/xpdf_301_pl1_os2.zip)
Regards,
Herwig Bauernfeind
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| SW: USB "configurator" beta6 available |
2006-03-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Peter Brown
Hi All
This application is designed to help (re)configure USB drivers and devices.
It is not designed to install USB drivers, the drivers must already be
installed - it should help sort out driver parameters so the drivers become
useful though :-)
Please read the Readme.txt file included in the package before attempting
to install and use the application as this details any changes in
installation and behaviour.
Search: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=USBcfgb6
Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/new/USBcfgb6.zip
Regards
Pete
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| SW: Compiled version of GNU Ocrad 0.14 for OS/2 available |
2006-03-20
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From:
Hi,
A compiled version of GNU Ocrad 0.14 for OS/2 is available from
http://www.fbakan.de/ocrad-os2.htm
Franz
"GNU Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program based on a
feature extraction method.
It reads images in pbm (bitmap), pgm (greyscale) or ppm (color) formats and
produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats.
The pbm, pgm and ppm formats are collectively known as pnm.
Ocrad includes a layout analyser able to separate the columns or blocks of
text normally found on printed pages."
Download: http://www.fbakan.de/ocrad/ocrad-0.14.zip
Additional needed to run the program: gcc-3.3.5-csd1-runtime (libc061.dll)
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip
Mailing list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OS2-OCR/
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| SW: eComStation 1.2R German available |
2006-03-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Joachim Benjamins
eComStation 1.2 German Media Refreshed (eComStation 1.2R)
Serenity Systems International is announcing the immediate availability of
eComStation 1.2R German. The refresh brings the german version up to date
to the level of the current English version of eComStation 1.2R. A detailed
list of changes can be found at the eComStation website:
http://www.ecomstation.com/edp/mod.php?mod=ecsfile&get=39
Available are both CD and ESD (download) versions, in normal and SMP flavour.
For details and more product information, please visit
http://www.ecomstation.com/products
For availability and online ordering, please visit
http://www.ecomstation.com/buy
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| SW: eComStation promotional pricing |
2006-03-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Joachim Benjamins
To promote the availability of eComStation 1.2R German (media refresh),
promotional pricing applies to all eComStation 1.2 products in all
languages. This promotion is valid from March 21st until April 21st, 2006.
Discounts of $10 - $30 apply. Software Subscription Services is discounted
as well, from $89 to $49, a savings of up to $40! This will entitle the
user to all new features and upgrades released over the 12 month period.
Software Subscription Services customers will be eligible to participate in
the eComStation Version 2.0 beta program. At the conclusion of the beta
program, these users will be entitled to the eComStation 2.0 GA product at
no additional charge.
A PDF overview of the offer can be found at:
http://www.ecomstation.com/edp/mod.php?mod=ecsfile&get=40
For details and more product information, please visit
http://www.ecomstation.com/products
For availability and online ordering, please visit
http://www.ecomstation.com/buy
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| OT: Help needed with Usenet provider and reader listings. |
2006-03-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
Sorry for the off-topic post (and it has been a long time since we have
broken this rule, so hopefully you will forgive me this one.). I need some
help with gathering some initial information and this list has a very
knowledgeable and diverse geographical membership. And by getting involved
this will mean that our platform will be included in a hopefully widely
viewed general resource, so its not entirely off-topic.
The new Big-8 Usenet management board is trying to put together a web site.
They have asked me to help with a couple of pages.
First is a listing of Usenet news service providers. So far they only have
a very small listing.
http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faqs:news_providers If you know
of any others please reply to this email at
usenet1DESPAM@DESPAMos2voice.org with the name, URL and geographic area of
coverage if any. We are not looking for general ISPs that also provide
news feeds to their subscribers, but only independent Usenet news only
service providers.
The second page is a listing of news readers. No page currently exists, so
please email me at usenet1DESPAM@DESPAMos2voice.org with the name, URL
where it can be obtained and platform(s) supported for the News reader you
are using. If you know of a support forum (news group, mailing list or web
forum) please include that as well. This request is open to any platform
where Usenet news can be read as we want the resource to be as
comprehensive as possible.
Thanks for any help.
Mark
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| SW: Subversion 1.3.0 ported to OS/2 & eComStation |
2006-03-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Paul Smedley
Now available from http://smedley.info/os2ports.html
The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system
that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. The
software is released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license.
As this uses the Apache Portable Runtime library that is also used for the
Apache httpd server, this was relatively easy to port.
This hasn't been tested extensively, but I've used it to retrieve code from
the Netlabs subversion server.
Note that whilst the svnserver is included - it has not been tested at all.
All feedback appreciated to paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info
Cheers,
Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
23rd March, 2006
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| SW: Mozilla/2 updated with link to new libc-0.6.1 |
2006-03-22
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
http://www.mozilla.org/ports/os2/
March 22, 2006 The required GCC runtime library for trunk and 1.8 branch
builds has been updated to version 0.6.1, which supercedes 0.6 and can be
used with all builds requiring version 0.6.
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip
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