Hello all,

This is a very important message about the future of Win32-OS/2 (aka PE2LX). I think most of you know the program, if not check http://www.os2ss.com/win32-os2/

Since the old project team closed developement of it, we at OS/2 Netlabs hope to provide an enhanced version of this program. Some *big* (and I mean big) OS/2 customers contacted me and they asked wheter it is possible to enhance it very soon. The goal is very big, it is to get Microsoft Office running on OS/2.

I think this is definitely not easy, also because it looks like OS/2 itself is not able to provide all we need (512MB memory limit).

If we are able to provide this we can reach that the last big OS/2 customers stay on OS/2 in the future, if it is not possbible they have to switch to NT...
I know they could also use other programs than MS Office, this is not my decission so don"t say they should use StarOffice or something like this. It looks like they can"t/don"t want use it. The only thing they need is a new version of PE2LX.

Actually there are some teams working on serveral stuff, for example EverBlue and I think there will also be a port of WINE for OS/2 in the near future. To do this we need a lot of manpower and know how.

=> If you are able to support this project, please join the new mailinglist about it. We have to decide *very* soon whether this is possible or not. Please join this list if you are able to support us or if you see problems we might have. I don"t want to say we will do it if it is not possible. Please *do not* subscribe to the list if you just want to see what happens, for sure we will keep you up to date through the web. OS advocacy is also *not* welcome on this list.

This would be one of the biggest OS/2 projects ever, but maybe this could really be a milestone in the future of OS/2.

Give it a try and join the list, we need every developer we can get!!!

The mailinglist is available at http://www.egroups.com/list/win32-os2/
Win32-OS/2: http://www.os2ss.com/win32-os2/
EverBlue: http://www.netlabs.org/everblue/
WINE: http://www.winehq.com/
OS/2 Netlabs: http://www.netlabs.org

More information about the whole project is available at the mailinglist. For sure you are welcome to send this message to all OS/2 users you know, we need every support we can get to do this.

Hope to see you there!

... As a matter of fact, he (Mike) said we should be able to see a few hits on Browserwatch from Netscape 4.5 for OS/2 as it"s currently in Internal testing and development.

• April: 1.04., 15.04., 29.04.
• Mai: (13.05. kein Stammtisch, da Feiertag), 27.05.
• Juni: 10.06., 24.06.

VOICE is happy to say that it has re-scheduled our SpeakUp session with Peter Nielsen, author of the PMView graphics program for OS/2 and now Win32. The new date and time is Monday, March 29, 1999 at 7pm US Easter (00:00 GMT on Tuesday).

Everyone is welcome to join in on this SpeakUp session, so come and learn first-hand information about the forthcoming PMView 2.0 release for both OS/2 and Win32 systems.

VOICE SpeakUp sessions are held on the WEBBnet IRC network in the #voice channel. For complete details on how to attend, visit the Meeting Info page of the VOICE website at http://www.os2voice.org/. Remember, this meeting will begin at 7pm US Eastern rather than the usual 8pm.

The Star Wars trailer is encoded using the Sorenson Video codec from Sorenson Vision, Inc. Currently they have produced binary versions of their codec only for the Mac and Windows.
Practice would be eager to work with Sorenson Vision to produce an OS/2 version of their codec. If you would like to see this happen, you can write to them at support@s-vision.com, or post a message to their discussion forum.

Es erscheint im April 1999 definitiv ein Buch mit dem Titel:
"WARP Server für e-business" (Inhalt: Warp Server Administration / TCP/IP / Webservices etc.) ISBN Nummer: 3-9323-1125-6 bzw. 3-4463-1125-4 (die eine ist die C&L ISBN-Nummer, die andere die Hanser ISDN-Nummer - dies kommt, weil C&L keine eigene Verlagsauslieferung hat, sondern die Titel bei Hanser mit geführt werden).

"Vielleicht hat Stardock auch eine Absage erhalten, eben weil eine andere
Firma bereits daran arbeitet" (O-Ton)

Come to Warpstock" target="_new">http://www.warpstock.org/">Warpstock "99 - Date and Location to be Announced on Saturday, March 20, 1999.

With two excellent bids, the Warpstock, Inc. Board of Directors was faced with a very difficult decision, but after almost a week of debate, a host city for the Warpstock 99 conference has been selected.
The hotel and exhibit hall locations have been secured and we are now beginning to move forward on plans for Warpstock 99.

"VOICE has been extremely supportive of the Warpstock conference in the past, and we"re counting on their continued support," said Larry B. Finkelstein, President of Warpstock, Inc., "We decided to give them the honor of hosting an IRC Speakup session to publicly announce the Warpstock 99 host city."

The VOICE Speakup session has been scheduled for Saturday, March 20, 1999, at 1 P.M. EST. This time was selected to accommodate the interested parties in Europe and the rest of the world. The host city will be announced and members of the 1999 host team, along with members of the 1998 host team and the Warpstock, Inc. Board of Directors, will be available to announce the plans and field questions from the audience. So get your questions and suggestions ready. This continues to be an event "by and for" the OS/2 community, so your input and valuable suggestions are always welcome.

The Voice IRC sessions may be accessed on the following WEBBnet servers:

• irc.webbnet.org (ports 6660 thru 6669)
• irc.ca.webbnet.org:6667
• irc.de.webbnet.org:6667
• irc.se.webbnet.org:6667
• irc.us.webbnet.org (ports 6660 thru 6669)
• irc.calif2.webbnet.org:6667
• irc.in2.webbnet.org:6667
• irc.md2.webbnet.org:6667
• irc.mi.webbnet.org:6667
• irc.nc.webbnet.org:6667
• irc.pa2.webbnet.org:6667
• irc.tn.webbnet.org:6667
• irc.tx.webbnet.org:6667

If further assistance is needed with IRC, please contact VOICE at help@os2voice.org.help@os2voice.org">help@os2voice.org.>

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Hello everyone,
I have some good news!!
NAI (Network Associates, Inc) has announced that they will shortly be comming out with a command line version of PGP 6.0 (hopefully next month). It will be another two or three months before the source code books are published and a PGP 6.0i version is available. Once this is done I can start work on an OS/2 port of 6.0 for everyone. Hopefully this will go much faster than the last one did. According to NAI they have returned to a PGP 2.6.x compatible command line and the old 5.0 command line will no longer be supported.
I am also working on developing my own independent implementation of the OpenPGP standard (RFC 2440) along with an OpenPGP SDK for software developers to integrate PGP into their applications.
That"s all for now, when I have more information I will let you know.

Die Entwicklung der Videokonferenz Software CUSeeMe für OS/2 ist seit dem 26.02.1999 eingestellt. Bitte repektiert diese Entscheidung und schreibt mir keine EMails darüber. Ihr werdet Eure und die Zeit des Entwicklers verschwenden.

Und nein

• der Sourcecode wird nicht freigegeben (public domain)
• Es wird keine Version geben, die nicht zeitlich ausläuft.

Der Entwickler ist sich sicher, daß bestimmt bald ein OS/2 Programmierer einen Crack für das Programm schreiben wird, so daß jeder das Programm frei weiter benutzen kann.

Viel Spaß dabei
Kim Kruse Hansen (der Entwickler von CuSeeMe/2)

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