For your info,
The development of DrawIt has been very quiet for at least half a year. After gathering information on what could be implemented to make it easier to use. The development could be re-started.
Current work is the implementation of pre-defined figures like:

• arrow
• clouds
• flowchart
• banners

I hope this mail has some positive impact....
JDK

In Karlsruhe konnten sich OS/2-Anwender anlässlich der Warpstock Eirope 2000 ein Bild über den Stand der Entwicklungen rund um IBMs PC-Betriebssystem machen(...)

Today my IBM representative has informed me that the worldwide protests against the support stop for VACPP for Windows and OS/2 after Jan 31 2001 have made the resposible managers rethink that decision.
Support will now be continued for all platforms for a jet undefined time. However that does not mean there will or will not be new releases for any platform, it just means they are finally thinking about it at the moment.

Sincerely
Peter Koch

StarOffice 5.2 für Windows 32 läuft mittels ODIN unter OS/2! Auch das unter GPL gestellte OpenOffice macht dabei keine Ausnahme. Auch wenn Repaintprobleme noch an der Tagesordnung sind und noch nicht alles Gold ist was glänzt, so ist es sehr performant! Auch 3D-Objekte, StarOffice Basic-Makros, Feldebefehle, Präsentationen, Formeln usw. funktionieren sehr zufriedenstellend! Danke ODIN! StarOffice ist nach einem dreiviertel Jahr mit der aktuellen Version zurückgekehrt auf OS/2!

java -classpath lib\updater.jar -Dnetbeans.home=. -Xmx96m org.netbeans.updater.UpdaterFrame

eComStation for IBM Software Choice Users (eCS/SWC) is a combined offering of eCS and eCS Upgrade Protection (eCS UP), a component of which is the IBM Software Choice product. The suggested retail price of the product is $99 US and includes two main components.

1. eComStation, which is built on top of the IBM OS/2 Convenience Pack, including WiseMachine from Serenity Systems, IBM Lotus Smart Suite, IBM Desktop on Call, OS/2 Developers Toolkit, and other software required to transform the Merlin Convenience Pack software into eComStation.
2. eCS/SWC will participate in the eCS Upgrade Protection program through the remainder of the term of their Software Choice Subscription. The eCS UP subscription will terminate at the same time as the IBM Software Choice Subscription. Renewing eCS Upgrade Protection will provide the user with a new Software Choice Subscription, as SWC is a component of eCS UP, stated earlier.

For more information, send an email request to info@serenity-systems.com, or see Indelible Blue, Mensys, Jacaranda Business Systems and Orion Solutions. See eGroups message.

• Variante A: Die User-Verwaltung passiert auf OS/2 Domain, und der Logon Client zieht die User in der NT/W2K Domain nach.
• Variante B: Die User-Verwaltung passiert auf der NT/W2K Domain und der Logon Client zieht die User auf der OS/2 Domain nach.

• Introduction to OS/2 Warp
• Advanced OS/2 Presentation Manager Programming
• OS/2 Architecture & Facilities
• OS/2 Communication Manager (CM/2)
• OS/2 for Support Personnel
• OS/2 for Windows & DOS Applications
• OS/2 Installation Workshop
• OS/2 Problem Determination

• Infoseite zum video
• FTP-Download
• Forum

Team OS/2 Hungary is pleased to announce the forthcoming release of its freeware/shareware collection, Team CD 005. The CD is published on a non-profit basis, and contains fixes, enhancements and new software published since the release of Team CD 003/004 (January 2000). The index files on the CD are Hungarian (but you can help in changing that, see below). Please contact me if you want to know more.
Call for volunteers:
If you wish to (or actually do) publish a similar CD, let's join forces! We collect most of the material from Hobbes, but also download just about everything we can. If you could help us writing index files in your language, please let me know so we can make the
CD international. We can have it stamped for really low costs (1-2 dollars if we make a thousand copies or so). The already published CD's are available online.

As you know, there are a lot of applications have been ported to OS/2 from unix. Most of them requires emxrt to operate. emxrt is a set of DLLs, which contains most used in unix functions compiled under OS/2 with gcc v2.8.
gcc 2.8 is a great C compiler, but there is also another C compiler, named pgcc. It is nothing but pentium-optimized version of gcc plus some advantages, because it based on more recent version of gcc (2.9.3)...
Due to this advantages we've switched our compilers to pgcc some time ago. For most users, who areusing our ports of different software originally developed for unix, it means that they required to find and to install some additional dlls.
Note, that TNEF application as well as PXTOOLS and may be some other applications already requires these DLLs.
So, if in the future you will try to run our ports and will get message like system cannot find gcc29166 (sys1804), you need to download and to install these additional DLLs.
Thank you for your attention.
Feel free to contact us by e-mail.
Don't forget to check our site at http://teamos2.ru/ oftenly for new OS/2 ports!

I like DCITU very much and I want to register the program, but the price of 39 US$ is very high, because of the weakness of the Euro. Actually I have to pay more than 90 (!) DM. Can you offer me a lower price?
The price of DCITU is 31US$, and then BMT Micro adds 7US$ for themselves. I used to have problems with people sending me cheques from Germany, because my Canadian bank was charging me 60$ (!!!) in "fees" to process a US cheque drawn on a German bank! That is why a few years ago I decided to go with BMT Micro to handle the sale of DCITU. If you can get a US or Canadian postal money order for 30US$, I will send you a registration # for DCITU. Remember to include your e-mail address with your order! However, due to past problems with some European banks, I cannot accept their cheques.
I'm a member of the OS/2 Team Trier in Germany and perhaps I could find more users who want to register.
That sounds great. I'll tell you what:
If you have 5 orders, what about we lower the price to 25US$? For 10 orders, can we agree on 20US$? That is almost half of the 38US$ price currently listed at BMT Micro. Hope to hear from you soon,
Stephane Charette