1. Information panel at the bottom of the window that displays the audioform properties and time.
2. In the multi-track mode the mute button now works so you can mute an individual track.
3. Better error-handling. If it can't find any filters it will tell you. If it can't read an audio file it will inform you.
4. The record window is viewable. Doesn't do anything yet -- but its there. Press the record button and you'll see it. :>)
5. Pop-up menu on the view window. Isn't connected to anything and will be expanded.

This is really a release to help out the 2 people who were having problems playing wave files previously. There's no new earth-shattering functionality -- that will come in a few days. But anyway please try it out and tell me what you think about it.

We proudly announce the availability of configtool 1.1.0
ConfigTool is CONFIG.SYS editor with searchable database which explains the entries, sort and checking routines, boot/recovery options and suggestions for optimization.
Language: English.
Croatian, French, German, Swedish and Russian are in seperate language pack

New:

• expanded Cfgtool.dat (1371 entries)
• expanded Cfgtool.chk
• Russian language support (INI and Inf)
• bubble help
• sizable main windows (in ConfigTool and ConfigCompare)
• removed 'width' and 'height' spin buttons in Settings
• selection of Help viewer
• new option in ConfigCompare 'Analyze' and 'Compose' windows: 'Ignore REM lines'
• usage of Rexx Utilities DLL written in C courtesy Chris Wohlgemuth
• usage of Dr.Dialog Control DLL courtesy Chris Wohlgemuth
• Switch between Child and Main Window (only for Database enabled)

Goran Ivankovics and Klaus Staedtler

UpdCD 2.0 has been released. It is impossible to list all the changes and improvements here I have made since version 1.8, so I will only list major changes here:

1. Support for eCS 1.0 + CP1 fixpak
2. Maintenance system creation under DOS/Windows to enable users to create updated Warp 4 CD-ROM's without OS/2 installed
3. Peer and LS fixpak support for Warp Connect and Warp Server
4. UpdCD is compeletly restructured, a lot of redundant code has been removed.

The main addition in the 5.5 release is support for PKWARE's new Deflate64(tm) algorithm, which appeared first in PKZIP 4.0 (published November 2000). As usual, some other bugfixes and clean-ups have been integrated:

• support for Deflate64 (Zip compression method #9)
• support for extracting VMS variable length record text files on any system
• optional "cheap autorun" feature for the SFX stub
• security fixes:
• strip leading slash from stored pathspecs,
• remove "../" parent dir path components from extracted file names - new option "-:" to allow verbatim extraction of file names containing "../" parent dir path specs
• fixed file handle leak for the DLL code
• repaired OS2 & WinNT ACL extraction which was broken in 5.42

MMIOVorbis is an MMIOProc for OS/2 that allows OS/2 s multimedia system to play Ogg Vorbis files. Changes from 0.1.1 to 0.2 (2002-02-14) are: It skips errors in OGG files instead of halting and OGG encoding code that never worked anyway has been removed.

Calmira, The Win9x look and feel shell for Win 3.1 has been updated to Version 3.25. This app works well with Win-OS/2 Full Screen sessions. Copy the downloaded files to your Win-OS/2 directory and change the shell= statement in system.ini to calmira.exe and enjoy! When used with nice35t.zip, available on hobbes. You get 3D controls as well as the close button in each window.

Splint is a tool for statically checking C programs for security vulnerabilities and coding mistakes. With minimal effort, Splint can be used as a better lint. If additional effort is invested adding annotations to programs, Splint can perform stronger checking than can be done by any standard lint. This is the OS/2 port of the program, it was originally written for Unix systems.

VICE is a Versatile Commodore Emulator, i.e. a program that runs on a Unix, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, OS/2, Acorn RISC OS or BeOS machine and executes programs intended for the old 8-bit Commodore computers. The current version emulates the C64, the C128, the VIC20, all the PET models (except the SuperPET 9000, which is out of line anyway) and the CBM-II (aka C610).

I have completely reworked the playback engine and have fixed quite a number of bugs such as:

1. Choppy playback
2. Crackling and/or popping during playback
3. Excessive load times for large wave files
4. I accidentally included an older copy of of the wave filter with the version 15 release. This has been rectified with the version 16 release.

I have cleaned up the entire interface and made it much more efficient. There is lots more to do though so please don't expect perfection. Once everyone is happy with the playback the features will come very quickly. There's a lot of code written for editing and pasting but I haven't turned it out for testing yet until the basics are covered. As before please post your finds here to the
newsgroup.
IMPORTANT - You should DEFINITELY change the audio settings to use the default buffers and buffer size. Do this in the settings notebook. Click the "Use default" checkbox, click apply, shut down AudioStation and open it up again.

The most recent of which is v3.76.1, but there are many different releases of this port and they do contain a number of bugs, some different from other releases, so it makes it particularly difficult to accurately report any problems . Now there is a new port of 3.79.1 and it would be nice to get this tested as rigorously as possible, so if you do use Make, please give this new port a test and report any problems so that they can be corrected.

Jasmine is the ftp front-end using of the OS/2 WARP genuine part for FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for the maintainances of your webpages. And Jasmine can copy local files to destination directory with same functions of FTP Mode. Jasmine will put/copy the files and directories, only which are changed or altered from the last put/copy. You can also select if you want to put/copy this time such automatically selected files and folders. You may record the logs of uploaded files by either daily or monthly, too. And you can remove remote files that uploaded/ copied and managed by Jasmine.

This OS/2 application require Watcom VX-REXX runtime module (VROBJ.DLL).

Update topics for Version 3.30 (16.Feb.2002) are:

• Add upload/update year key in `HTML Keyword Exchange' function.
• Add Latest Update Date/Time of Selected Files key in `HTML Keyword Exchange' function.
• Fixed the inconvenience of `Takeout' function when using `Change UPPER to lower' function.
• Add `Failed File List' window.
• Fixed some minor inconveniences.

CLONE update and several other fixes and improvements
DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. It has FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery tools with powerfull FIX commands and UNDELETE for HPFS and NTFS.

Version 4.15 With several fixes and improvements:

• Added '-7' switch to assure 7-bit ASCII will be used only
• Improved CLONE confirmation dialog with FROM and TO info
• Added warning dialog to CLONE when cloning non-disk to disk
• Added '-7' switch to assure 7-bit ASCII will be used only
• Fixed NTFS 'check' command and SLT-build inconsistency
• Removed external commands when working in shell mode '-S'
• Keep same maximum-PSN (end of disk) when new base is specified -Larger scroll buffer, 4000 to 9000 lines (OS/2 and NT versions) -Fixed an off-by-1 error on find result offset reported -Fixed errors calling FDISK/LVM from DFSINFO.CMD script

Check the DFSHIST.TXT and DFSCMDS.TXT documentation for details.
Registering DFSee will give you the right to use all 4.xx versions and get support plus a reasonable amount of assistance by email.
But even more important, it enables further development of DFSee!

Regards, Jan van Wijky

Zeryx Software has released v1.1.5 of ZxMail server for OS/2 This release fixes problem have encountered with hangs with eCs, MCP1/2, Wseb. Also fixes error in importing External Mailbox.
ZxMail Server is a Full POP3 and SMTP server. It supports SMTP auth command to block spammer from your system. A basic 2 mailbox version is free.

Normalize 0.7.1, a textmode program to adjust the volume of several wav or mp3 files to the same level.
Normalize is an overly complicated tool for adjusting the volume of wave files to a standard level. This is useful for things like creating mixed CD's and mp3 collections, where different recording levels on different albums can cause the volume to vary greatly from song to song. (Can now adjust mp3 files).

It's our Re-release of CADVANCE Version 6.5, a CAD software system designed for Windows 3.1 and early Windows 95, but yet also runs on Windows 95/98 and NT, and Win-OS/2. Originally released in 1995 at a suggested retail price of $1950, it is now available to anyone free of charge for the software.

• 0.0.13 release (04/02/2002) This is a version 0.0.12, rebuilt with last SmartSetup (with "Select directory" dialog;)

Text Converter is freeware OS/2 PM program to convert text files between various platforms and code pages.
Supported are code pages used on DOS, OS/2, Internet/Unix, Macintosh, and Windows.
Files to be converted may reside in a disk file or in the clipboard, and must be plain (unformatted) text.
Word processor, spreadsheet, ... file formats are NOT supported.
Language support: English, Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish.

Features:

• more than 50 supported code pages
• add new, change or delete code pages
• use file or clipboard as source and target
• conversion between dos, mac, unix file format
• transliteration
• use "dummy" character for non-translatable characters
• convert multiple files
• write Rexx script and EPM macro for conversion

GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript under MS-Windows or OS/2. Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers. For documents following the Adobe PostScript Document Structuring Conventions, GSview allows selected pages to be viewed or printed. GSview requires AFPL Ghostscript 7.03-7.99.

Features include:

• Display and print PostScript and PDF files.
• View pages in arbitrary order (Next, Previous, Goto).
• Page size and Orientation are automatically selected from DSC comments or can be selected using the menu.
• Print selected pages using Ghostscript.
• Convert pages to bitmap, PDF or PostScript.
• Selectable display resolution, depth, alpha.
• Single button zoom.
• Extract selected pages to another file.
• Copy display bitmap to clipboard.
• Save clipboard bitmap as BMP file.
• Add bitmap or user preview to EPS file (Interchange, TIFF or Windows Metafile)
• Graphically select and show bounding box for EPS file.
• Extract bitmap preview or PostScript from DOS EPS file.
• Extract text or search for text.
• Can read gzip and bzip2 compressed PostScript and PDF files.
• On-line help.
• Win32, OS/2 and Linux/X11 executables. Older versions support Win16.
• Can be run directly off a CD-ROM.
• English, Dutch (incomplete) French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish and Swedish languages.
• Per user initialisation files for Windows.
• Includes setup program.
• Free (Aladdin Free Public Licence).
• Works with AFPL Ghostscript 7.03 - 7.99 (GSview checks the Ghostscript version number). There are older versions of GSview that
• will work with Ghostscript 4.03 - 7.00

Changes in version 4.2:

• Works with GS 7.04 security update.
• Added Swedish translation.
• Fixes lockup on Mac PostScript files.
• Pstoedit is not included. You will need to download this separately.
• Several minor bug fixes.

• Added unlimited Alias.
• Added external Rexx interface.
• New registration key engine, so if you have a registered copy you will need a new key before installing this version,just contact me to get this key.
• Fixed a nasty intermittent Bug in the CRAM-MD5 module for SMTP and POP3 AUTH command, the bug cause the CPU to go to 90% usage, this occurred in some rare instance.

ZxMail is a Full POP3 and SMTP server that supports SMTP authentification to block spammers. Support unlimited domain, unlimited Alias, the only limit is the number of mailbox, the basic version gives you 2 mailbox and it is free.

Note: the standard output of Sane (Scanner Acces Now Easy which is alo ported by Franz Bakan to OS/2) is pnm.
New:

• minor and major fixes (string\0 bugs)
• memory leak fixes by Duncan Edwards
• layout analysis or zoning (-m 4) improved, now it detects pictures and columns much better
• the behavior of setting threshold (-l) is slightly changed
• wcsdup defined for non-gnu-systems (BSD), further Problems?
• better context correction for 10 (IO,lO)
• Fixes for S.Koledin examples "GlS"
• Euro-currency-sign detection added
• better pitch estimation for proportional font (needs to be improved)
make install DESTDIR= instead configure --prefix= (better?)
• use wchar_t by default, more simple code and -f works with nonLinuxOS
• line detection more robust against vertical glued chars (js)
• -f UTF8 added (usefull for xterm -u8), should be default?
• handle vertical glued boxes (ex: g over T)

Franz Bakan has ported Scanner Access Now Easy (Sane) 1.07 to OS/2 SANE is a universal scanner interface. The value of such a universal interface is that it allows writing just one driver per image acquisition device rather than one driver for each device and application.

Olek Zhukov has released Lanscan 1.5
LanScan is a tool for the network administrator. It allows to get the "instant list" for the all working devices of Ethernet network which have an IP-address with issuing ARP-requests.
LanScan can be used in any class TCP/IP networks/subnetworks and allows to set scanning interval.
Additionally LanScan can:

• save results of scanning,
• discover TCP/IP and NetBIOS node names,
• discover network cards manufacturers,
• execute user's procedure after scanning.

• Jetzt koennen Sie TAB separierten Text in bis zu 255 Spalten anzeigen lassen.
  Die Breite jeder Spalte kann eingestellt und gespeichert werden.
• Dialog zum Wechsel zwischen der einspaltigen Ansicht und der mehrspaltigen Ansicht.
• Jetzt koennen Sie die Spalte 'Line number' oder 'File position' verstecken.

1. WarpIN V0.9.16 ist nun freigegeben.
   
   WarpIN soll der neue OS/2-Standard-Installer werden. WarpIN ist inzwischen unter OS/2-Programmierern recht populär geworden, weil er flexibel und gleichzeitig leicht zu bedienen ist. WarpIN bietet volle Systemkonfiguration (CONFIG.SYS, WPS-Klassen, WPS-Objekte) und kann alle Änderungen am System beim Deinstallieren rückgängig machen.
   
   V0.9.16 behebt hoffentlich eine Reihe von Problemen, die einige Benutzer mit V0.9.14 hatten.
2. XWorkplace V0.9.16 ist ebenfalls freigegeben.
   
   XWorkplace ist die umfangreichste OpenSource-WPS-Erweiterung, die derzeit verfügbar ist. XWorkplace ist der Nachfolger meines beliebten XFolder-Pakets und ist inzwischen ein Netlabs-Projekt.
   
   Eine detaillierte Beschreibung gibt es auf der unten genannten Webseite.
   
   V0.9.16 behebt eine große Anzahl von Fehlern, die mir für frühere Versionen berichtet wurden. Zudem gibt es eine ganze Reihe neuer Funktionen -- z. B. "turbo folders", die das Öffnen von Ordnern dramatisch beschleunigen.
   
   Hinweis:

   Achtung: Da XWorkplace 0.9.14 nunmehr ein selbstentpackendes Archiv ist, ist WarpIN 0.9.14 zum Installieren ebenfalls erforderlich. Ulrich Moeller empfiehlt, WarpIN V0.9.16 zu benutzen, um die Probleme mit dem Verschwinden bestehender XWorkplace-Objekte beim Installieren zu vermeiden.

• warpin-user
• warpin-dev
• xworkplace-user
• xworkplace-dev

New:

• Caching of information to speed up folder opening

The media folder is a new wPS-class which plays any audio class known to OS/2. Drop shadows in the folder to build a playlist and play it using the usual play controls. By using shadows you may move your MP3 files without breaking the playlist contents. Try this with your favorite audio player.
Features

• Integrates into the WPS, full drag and drop
• Plays any audio file class
• New shadow class showing audio details in folder details view.
• Playlists (the folder contents is the playlist)
• Control playing using setup strings
• Audio device sharing