DFSee version 10.7 has been released today, a minor release.

The Linux version has much better support for huge files and disks,
there are quite a few enhancements related to HEX editing and
several other smaller improvements and bug-fixes.

For FAT, HPFS, JFS and NTFS there is now a quick menu-selection to get
either the info (fnode, inode, DIR-entry etc) or the contents for a
file or directory into the HEX editor for inspection or changing.
See the various ’Mode=xxx -> File Find/Recover/HEXedit’ menu items.

DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning,
filesystem and disk analysis, some file recovery and UNDELETE
and smart imaging or cloning of partitions or complete disks.

More details at:
http://class='extlink'http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/

Direct download links from the DFSee website:

http://class='extlink'http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee107.zip
http://class='extlink'http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee107.msi
http://class='extlink'http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee107_warpin.exe
http://class='extlink'http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee107_dsk.zip

www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee10x_linux.tgz
www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee10x_iso.zip
www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee10x_stick_iso.zip

Or from the HOBBES website:
hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee107.zip
or (after processing):
hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php

Functional changes since 10.6

- alloc Notify user when aborted, reset the Used/Free info
- BMGR menu Default to current BMGR timeout on value-prompt
- DISK size Linux better size/geometry support for disks > 500Gb
- EDIT <F2> Reset ’this’ start lsn after selecting other object
- FAT16 USB Script to create a FAT16 data stick/disk; max 2Gb
- Mode=xxx File Recovery menu now named "File Find/Recover/HEXedit"
- File / DIR Binary edit Data (file/dir contents) for a path
- File / DIR Binary edit Info (fnode/inode/MFTrec) for a path
- File / DIR Find or recover ONE file, now for Mode=FAT too
- IMZINFO Support large files on Linux for info display
- OS/2 limit Warning 65535 cylinders, less frequently shown
- PART table Adjusted some column widths to allow terabyte disk sizes
- PSAVE etc Fix size display in several places for 4Kb/sector disks
- RESTORE Fixed TxFileExists for large files > 2Gb on Linux
- RESTORE Support large files on Linux on auto-detect IMZ
- Startup Add ADMIN hint if no disks are seen at all (WIN7)
- geocalc Fixed trap when LVM DLAT is in a non-std location
- hex edit Faster startup, fixed spurious trap on starting
- hex edit Add extra prev/next item buffer for large screens
- hex edit Fix buffer-contents on PgUp/PgDn if screen > item
- long tasks No abort with <Esc> in batch (-b switch or -B option)

Regards, JvW

=========================================================================
DFSee Home: www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee - info@dfsee.com

Paul Smedley has updated his port of Subversion to 1.6.16. http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"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."

Download: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/subversion-1.6.16-os2-20110422.zip
Requires: http://class='extlink'http://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Alex Taylor has released an update to his Archive Viewer on the eComStation BetaZone. This includes the full source and translator’s source files (Both a separate download on the BetaZone)  You can login at http://http://www.ecomstation.com/ ; to access the Betazone.  

[UPDATED 2011-04-15] The Archive Viewer is a very simple GUI tool for viewing and extracting archive files of various types. Version 2.1 adds support for several new archive formats, plus some new features and bug fixes.

Required: Besides VX-REXX runtime library (VROBJ.DLL) (Included in eCS since 1.1), also archiving programs which are listed in the README.TXT.

Changes:
2011-04-14 (v2.1)
* Added support for opening a file by drag-and-drop into the program
window.
* Added support for changing the current language on the fly (by
drag-and-drop from the Locale palette).
* Added support for WPI format.
* Added support for TAR.LZ (lzip-compressed tar) archives.
* Added support for 7Z format.
* Added support for LHA format.
* Added support for RPM format.
* Added support for single (non-archive) files compressed using
compress (.Z), gzip (.GZ), bzip2 (.BZ2) or lzip (.LZ).
* Recognize .TBZ2 and .TBZ as value TAR.BZ2 extensions.
* Fixed some status text which wasn’t NLV-enabled.
* Fixed problems in .TAR.Z support.
* Prompt again in the event of an incorrect password (with ARJ this is
unfortunately not very effective as ARJ takes a LONG time to return
when the password is incorrect).

Howdy,

Firefox-4.0 final is available at:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/contrib/firefox-4.0.en-US.os2.zip

The latest (and presumably last) Beta of SeaMonkey:
http://class='extlink'http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/2.1b3-real/contrib/seamonkey-2.1b3.en-US.os2.zip

Be sure to download and carefully _read_ the new Readmeshttp://class='extlink':

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/contrib/firefox-4.0.en-US.os2.README

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/2.1b3-real/contrib/seamonkey-2.1b3.en-US.os2.README

Two points from the Readme are very important to mention
1)
======================================================================
=========
-- Compatibility Warning
------------------------------------------------------
======================================================================
=========

After using Firefox v4.x (SeaMonkey-2.1b3), your History and Cookies
databases (places.sqlite
and cookies.sqlite) will NOT be compatible with Firefox v3.x
(SeaMonkey-2.0.x). However, a
REXX script is available to restore compatibility.

* To preserve compatibility:
- download ’dbrestore.zip’ from
http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/mozilla/dbrestore.zip
or
http://class='extlink'http://e-vertise.com/warpzilla/dbrestore.zip
- unzip it into your profile directory
- make backups of places.sqlite and cookies.sqlite

* To restore compatibilty BEFORE running Firefox v3.x:
- run the script from your profile directory.

* To restore compatibilty AFTER running Firefox v3.x
(i.e. you forgot to run the script before):
- look for ’places.sqlite.corrupt’ and ’cookies.sqlite.corrupt’ in
your
profile directory, If they appear to be the right size, remove
the
’.corrupt’ extension after deleting the newly-created versions.
- run the script
- if your history and cookies aren’t restored, use your backup
copies.

2)
* Exceptq - Crash Reporting
If the app crashes, Exceptq will beep and then create an exception
report containing details of the crash. You can send these
reports to the developers at <http://class='extlink'crash_at_e-vertise.com>.

The Exceptq app and dlls can be downloaded here:
hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php

Please, to be on the safe side, backup your profiles _before_ using
the new versions.

Get them as long as they’re still fresh ;-)

Walter

Paul Smedley has updated PHP v5.3.x to v5.3.6. http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML."

Download: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/php-5.3.6-os2-20110412.zip
Requires: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Paul Smedley has updated Ghostscript to v9.02. http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"Ghostscript is an interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language. A PostScript interpreter usually takes as input a set of graphics commands. The output is usually a page bitmap which is then sent to an output device such as a printer or display."

NOTE:
^ Necessary device support for CUPS is included - be sure to modify path entry in /cups/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster if upgrading CUPS

*Please, Please read the included readme.os2 for tips on getting this build to work with GSView before emailing Paul and saying it doesn’t work!

Download: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/ghostscript-9.02-os2-20110412.zip

/>Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
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Paul Smedley has updated Quassel IRC client to v0.7.2. http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"Quassel IRC is a modern, cross-platform, distributed IRC client, meaning that one (or multiple) client(s) can attach to and detach from a central core"

Download: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/quassel-0.7.2-os2-20110412.zip

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feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
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Paul Smedley has updated ISC Bind to v9.8.0. http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols and provides an openly redistributable reference implementation of the major components of the Domain Name System..."

Download: http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/bind-9.8.0-os2-20110412.zip
Requires: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'www.mensys.net/os2ports/

I have updated the Qt Creator package. Main reason is a workaround for the nasty CPU hogging, that happened when the UI designer window is closed. Some other minor fixes - mostly dealing with case-sensitive file name handling - are included as well.

"Qt Creator is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) tailored to the needs of Qt developers. It provides:

• C++ and JavaScript code editor
• Integrated UI designer
• Project and build management tools
• gdb and CDB debuggers
• Support for version control
• Simulator for mobile UIs
• Support for desktop and mobile targets"

Download via the NetLabs Wiki:

 http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/wiki/QT4 Development

It’s not easy to compose good email for the developer of favorite application,  you can spend much time to formulate and edit the letter. Not all users are able to do this, that’s why the developers don’t get enough feedback.

We integrated new features into eCo Market: "I like it" command. Every user can download updated application andsend appreciation message to the developer via eCo Market.

Sometimes the developers need such short messages (SMS), not long bug-reports.

Screenshot: Sending SMS to the developer of favorite application:

http://ecomstation.ru/pic/news/201104/eCoMarket-ENG-20110408.png

eCo Market homepage: http://ecomstation.ru/ecomarket>

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"Lighweight2 is a very small Browser. It is just for surfing the web. It will not save cookies, it is not able to use webpluging such as Flash. It supports no extension. It has almost no config options. The only configurable things will be:

* Default search engine
* Search engines
* Bookmarks"

Download: http://class='extlink'http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/incoming/lightweight218-os2.zip />Requires: QT4 http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt4/4.6.2/qt-lib-4_6_2.wpi /> Gcc 4.4.4 dll http://class='extlink'http://download.smedley.info/gcc444.zip /> klibc 0.6.3 or later http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0_6_3-csd3.wpi

* Donate to the Qt4 project: see http://class='extlink'http://qt.netlabs.org for more information
* Contribute to the project: Besides actual development, this also includes
maintaining the documentation and the project web site as well as help
for users.

Qt Creator, Nokia’s multiplatform Qt Integrated Development Environment, is now available for OS/2.

It features:

- C and JavaScript code editor

- Integrated UI designer

- Project and build management tools

- Support for version control

Debugging is currently not supported.

Download from Netlabs using the following link:

"http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/wiki/QT4 Development"

Links:

• ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/qtcreator_131_os2_setup.exeftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qtapps/qtcreator_astyle051_setup.exe
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"Lighweight2 is a very small Browser. It is just for surfing the web. It will not save cookies, it is not able to use webpluging such as Flash. It supports no extension. It has almost no config options. The only configurable things will be: 
 
 * Default search engine 
 * Search engines 
 * Bookmarks"

Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/incoming/lightweight217-os2.zip Requires: QT4 http://class='moz-txt-link-freetext'; ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt4/4.6.2/qt-lib-4_6_2.wpi    Gcc 4.4.4 dll   http://class='moz-txt-link-freetext'; http://download.smedley.info/gcc444.zip    klibc 0.6.3 or later http://class='moz-txt-link-freetext'; ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0_6_3-csd3.wpi Please send bugreports to:    Salvador Parra Camacho    sparrac at gmail dot com

Paul Smedley has updated Scribus port to v1.4.0.rc3. http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/

http://class='extlink'http://os2ports.smedley.info/index.php

"Scribus is an Open Source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, Spot Colors, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation."

2011-04-03 - Updated source to v1.4.0rc3 and GCC to v4.5.2

Download: http://class='extlink'http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.4.0.rc3/scribus-1.4.0.rc3-os2-20110403.zip

/>Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at http://class='extlink'http://mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you’d like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul’s website, or using the Mensys
Online Store http://class='extlink'http://www.mensys.net/os2ports/>

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There is a new version of ODIN on the Netlabs FTP server.

ODIN is the Open Source project to provide a win32 API for OS/2 and eComStation. Originally to allow OS/2 users to run Windows 32 bit applications. Now used to port windows applications to OS/2 and eComStation. The Odin runtime is a requirement for the newest developed versions of JAVA and Flash 10 for OS/2 and eCS.

ODIN website: http://class='extlink'http://svn.netlabs.org/odin32

Download: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/odin32bin-20110328-release.wpi />Debug version: http://class='extlink'ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/odin/odin32bin-20110328-debug.wpi

Odin mailing list archive: http://class='extlink'http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.odin.user

To support future Netlabs development consider making a donation http://class='extlink'http://www.mensys.com/shop/Netlabs/

Changelog />0.6.21606 (2011-03-28)
----------------------

Dmitriy Kuminov:
- general: Workaround the OS/2 loader bug in LIBPATHSTRICT=T mode by always
loading DLLs using the base name with no extension (e.g. "MDM" instead of
"MDM.DLL"). This fixes various problems like no sound in strict mode.
- general: A big bunch of fixes (headers and so on) for SDK mode.
- odincrt: Fixed a tiny typo in DosQueryModuleHandleStrict() that could
sometimes cause 100% CPU load at application startup eventually leading to
SYS1808 due to stack overflow.
- kernel32: VirtualQuery: Succeed with MEM_FREE for one page when querying
an unallocated address in the private arena (for which DosQueryMem fails
with ERROR_INVALID_ADDRESS). This will fix applications relying on proper
error reporting.
- kernel32: Report ERROR_MOD_NOT_FOUND from LoadLibrary() when it fails to
load a DLL due to missing import modules, to mimic Win32 behavior.
- tools/wrc: Restored generating GAS output by default. MASM output is now
generated by specifying the -M option.
- shell32: Shell_NotifyIcon(): Create a copy of the supplied icon because
the caller may DestroyIcon() on it at any time (which would cause systray
to display an empty rectangle). This matches Windows behavior.
- shell32: Implemented support for xsystray (Extended System Tray widget for
XCenter) which provides more functionality (in particular,
"TaskbarCreated" message broadcasting).

The latest version of OpenJDK 6 is 1.6.0-b22 RC2 released on 28.03.2011. This is a second release candidate version that fixes a number of bugs in the previous release candidate as well as updates OpenJDK to beta 22.

You also need the newest Odin with this OpenJDK6.

From the OpenJDK6 changelog:

- Updated OpenJDK sources to b22

- Fixed and improved system tray support

- Fixed: Sound did not work in LIBPATHSTRICT=T mode (Odin bug).

- Fixed: SIGABRT that would unexcpectedly terminate some Java applications, e.g. IzPack based installers (GCC compiler bug).

- Fixed: Crash during Drag’n’Drop operations in some Java applications, e.g. JAlbum (Odin bug).

- Fixed DLL loading code in the JVM that would print a useless message when one of the required DLLs is not found.

- A bunch of smaller fixes in Odin libraries that should improve OpenJDK behavior.

From the Odin changelog:

- general: Workaround the OS/2 loader bug in LIBPATHSTRICT=T mode

- general: A big bunch of fixes (headers and so on) for SDK mode.

- odincrt: Fixed a tiny typo in DosQueryModuleHandleStrict() that could sometimes cause 100% CPU load at application startup

- kernel32: VirtualQuery: Succeed with MEM_FREE for one page when querying an unallocated address in the private arena

- kernel32: Report ERROR_MOD_NOT_FOUND from LoadLibrary() when it fails to load a DLL due to missing import modules, to mimic Win32 behavior.

- tools/wrc: Restored generating GAS output by default. MASM output is now generated by specifying the -M option.

- shell32: Shell_NotifyIcon(): Create a copy of the supplied icon because the caller may DestroyIcon() on it at any time (which would cause systray to display an empty rectangle). This matches Windows behavior.

- shell32: Implemented support for xsystray (Extended System Tray widget for XCenter) which provides more functionality (in particular, "TaskbarCreated" message broadcasting).

Links:

• http://svn.netlabs.org/javahttp://svn.netlabs.org/odin32
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