Chris Wohlgemuth has released AudioDataCDCreator 0.52
Audio/Data-Cd-Creator is a set of WPS classes for easy creation of audio and data CDs. Burn CDs entirely via drag'n'drop by using the power of the WPS. It's released under the terms of the GPL (General Public License) so full source is available.

Masami Kitamura has released QueenCy 0.1.1i at 7/29/2002.
0.1.1i fixes a TWAIN related bug of 0.1.1h.
QueenCy is a painting program for OS/2, supports layers and TWAIN scanners.
Wacom tablet driver for easy painting is also available.

Download Program
Readme (EN)
Wacom Tablet Driver
Wacom Tablet Readme (EN)

Guiffy is the quintessential cross-platform visual compare/merge utility. Features 2-way interactive and 3-way smart, "SureMerge", interfaces. Merge interfaces support Editing during the merge and Undo. Guiffy's compare views include Inline diff highlighting. Guiffy includes integrated Folder compare/Synchronization features. Comes with builtin UNICODE and MBCS support. And, a command line interface for CM/SCM integrations -- Works with CVS, Perforce, SOS, and Starbase. Plus, a complete API package is included.
Available for all Java-enabled platforms including: Windows, Linux, Unix, MacOS 9/X, and OS/2 or eCS.
Evaluation period is 30 days, single user license costs 79 USD

The last version of the Postgres is available. In this release I have included a new PostGis module.
In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server, allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic information systems (GIS), much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension
In the download section is possible download a University of Minnesota Mapserver for OS/2. This server work with Postgres via PostGis module.
Tell me your comments or questions.

For those who don't know, C-Side is a CD label and cover designer, with a multitude of functions, and more are coming!

Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.

New in this release:

• Fixed upcasing national characters
• Fixed upcasing DBCS strings
• Fixed a small possible memory leak

The interface of the program is easy to tune in. Among various features of X-Commander are:

• Supporting different operation systems. Versions for OS/2 and Win32 are
  available!
• Operations with files (copying/deleting/moving).
• Supporting integrated modules (plugins), that can unlimitedly extend the program's features.
• The viewer keeps up all encodings available in your operation system.
• Working with system clipboard.
• Interface and colors tune is available.
• Multilanguage support.
• Clock, screensaver.
• And many other features are also accessible!

The program is developing rapidly and is being extended with new features. The author appreciates any kind of references and comments on the program.

In order for it to work, it expects your music collection to be in a certain format. Your root music directory should contain artist directories, and underneath each artist dir should be album directories. Album Grabber will attempt to locate the correct album cover and present it to you in a window along with 'yes' and 'no' options. 'yes' means to save the album jpg inside the album directory, 'no' means do nothing and proceed. The program is multi threaded, so you can let it run for awhile and then come back and make your decisions. It was compiled using Sun's 1.3 JVM. The source and JBuilder project files are all included so its easy to recompile it yourself.
License: Album Grabber is release under the GNU GPL freeware license.
Note: On my system (Java 1.3.1) the Album Grabber crashes when starting it on a second attempt. Deleting the settings.ini helps as workaround, but if some more OS/2 users send feedback to the developer this will be hopefully solved in future releases.

You can convert the ARDI file to simple image with the command: C:>Ardifile.exe /D:newfile.img /Q /T1 I am waiting for a reliable USB driver to add support for removable disks. The USB driver I have hangs the WPS a few minutes and return not ready error under WARP4. (trying to use the 8 meg DiskOnKey by IBM.)
Features of DSK4PM

• build diskette images
• write diskettes from diskette images
• build ARDI self restorable images
• convert existing images to ARDI self restorable images
• graphical user interface version (GUI)
• command line version (VIO)

PM Downloader is interactive multithreaded network retriever for OS/2 Presentation Manager which supports HTTP and FTP protocols for downloading files.

Features

• plugin architecture
• supported protocols: OpenNap, giFT (currently broken), gnutella (cvs only)
• multiple concurrent searches
• fine grained result filter
• resumable auto downloads
• bandwidth throttle support
• socks and http proxy support
• integrated file preview (pluggable) and mp3 player support
• integrated command line

OpenNap plugin

• fetch server list from Napigator
• connect to multiple servers
• auto connector
• private chat
• chat room support

Mike92E.INF version 0.16 is a hypertext file in the natural INF format, comprising 81 complete articles in Czech language and so far only 11 articles in English. I have personally published the articles in several Czech specialized magazines.

-> URL: http://www.os2ecs.net
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[22-Jul-2002] The PHP Group today announced the details of a serious vulnerability in PHP versions 4.2.0 and 4.2.1. A security update, PHP 4.2.2, fixes the issue. Everyone running affected versions of PHP is encouraged to upgrade immediately. The new 4.2.2 release doesn't include other changes, so upgrading from 4.2.1 is safe and painless.
Goto Brian Havards website and get PHP 4.2.2 for OS/2, maybe you can drop
him a mail and say "thanks" (:

The goal of the WarpVision project is to create an OS/2 multimedia player that supports the latest formats, as well as the latest hardware features.

Changelog:

wvision-cli 0.0.14h ( Tue Jul 23 23:48:00 2002 UTC )

• fixed PgUp/PgDn behavior
• added snap configuration variable
• added autosnap configuration variable
• added -gamma command line option
• added -snap command line option
• added -autosnap command line option
• -wv cli now can read configuration from wvision.cfg

Download WVCLI
Download WVGUI

Hard work is being done on the next release of eComStation, eCS 1.1. One of the things where big changes are being put in place is the bootprocess. The new system that has been developed creates a RAM drive before eComStation starts. Then 2 diskette images are unpacked to the RAM drive. You will get a preboot menu (multipage) in which you will be able to select the required drivers for your system to boot.
You can also load a driver from a diskette that is copied to the RAM drive with which you will be able to boot eCS. This will mean that if your system supports booting from CD you should in most cases have no need to create bootdiskettes anymore. This new boot system requires testing by a big group of users.
When booted from CD you will get a pmshell (blue background) with a command line. You need to have at least 32 MB of ram in your computer for this CD to work.
You can use the CD on any system since it will not write data to harddisk.
Please note only registered eComStation users will be able to download this track (its about 10 MB in size).
To get it, please login at www.ecomstation.com and login with your userid and password as usual.
Two other options that require testing are MiniLVM and a new PMFormat. Its strongly advised that you are careful with these tools since they can erase or corrupt the data on your harddrive. So booting from CD is harmless, however be careful with these tools. The tools can be found in \ecs\install on the boot CD.
Please do NOT send bug reports to us via email. We have put a web frontend where you can report any problems you have encountered. To access this, please login to www.ecomstation.com and select the BugTracker menu option. When filing a report to the BugTracker, please take note of the guidelines in the accompanying project documentation. You may want to print that information for reference.
Thank you all for your cooperation

Updated readme.txt in nicpak.zip (only change)
Add Intel Gigabit driver
Update Intel PRO PCI adapter driver

Brian Havard has released a new build of Ogg Vorbis ! Ogg Vorbis version 1.0 (encoder, player, tools, PM123 plug-in) is a general purpose audio and music encoding format, contemporary to MPEG-4's AAC and TwinVQ, the next generation beyond MPEG audio layer 3. Unlike the MPEG sponsored formats, the Vorbis CODEC specification belongs to the public domain !
>From Timo Maier: "Ogg Vorbis is an audio compression format similar to MP3 but free of patented algorithms and fully open source. This is now release quality code with good sound quality and speed. On my Athlon 1200, decode speed is 45 times real time and encoding time using oggenc is around 6.5 times real time time. This means that playback uses around 2.2% CPU and a 5 minute song takes less than a minute to compress."
Requires: EMX 09d FIX 3, sound card driver supporting DART

Sticky/2 1.31 is now released as Open Source under the GNU GPL License.
This program is a simple TCP/IP Client Server program. It allows you to send Sticky Notes across a TCP/IP network.
Special thanks to its author, Andy and AB Software, for making the source available.
The binaries and source code had been uploaded to hobbes in one single file.

REXX Tips & Tricks v3.30" is an OS/2 INF file containing useful hints and
information about OS/2 REXX.
Included are information about literature for REXX, further Software for
REXX, hints & tips for OS/2 commands, hints & tips for REXX commands &
functions, some hints for optimizations, a lot of REXX source code
(functions & complete programs) and much more.
If you have any comments, suggestions or corrections for REXX Tips &
Tricks please contact me via email (I don't read this newsgroup very
often).

Eriskirch, Germany, 2002-07-12 - InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH announces the general availability of Virtual PC for OS/2 Version 4.3.2.
Based on the award-winning Virtual PC by Connectix Corporation, Virtual PC for OS/2 enables OS/2 customers to execute additional operating systems on top of the OS/2 desktop.
Virtual PC for OS/2 Version 4.3.2 is an update to Virtual PC for OS/2 and comes with a plethora of new features and enhancements. For existing Virtual PC for OS/2 customers, the update is free of charge.
Virtual PC for OS/2 is now available for a suggested retail price of Euro 239 (+ tax) at selected software resellers.
The update from Virtual PC for OS/2 Version 4.2 to Virtual PC for OS/2 Version 4.3.2 can be downloaded from the InnoTek web site.

After 5 years (minus one month) of continuous development, FtpServer has finally reached the magic 1.00 version number. FtpServer is a shareware FTP daemon for OS/2 and eCS.
If your last upgrade was to version 0.96, the only change is a new provision for unattended shutdown. If you haven't updated since version 0.9 then lots of things have changed, including software pirate detection, templates for groups of similar users, a way to work from behind a firewall, and provision for files bigger than 2 GiB.

-> URL: http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/ftpserver.html
-> Hobbes-Search: ftpser100.zip
-> Kommentare: 0 [ Version zum Drucken ] [ Per eMail versenden ]

Chris Wohlgemuth has released the CW-MM Classes 0.23
The package is now (as of V0.2.3) a complete replacement for the multimedia classes coming with MMOS2. The included classes are more robust and have an extended feature set like displaying image information in the settings notebook and the details view. A new JPEG IO-procedure overcomes limitations of the default JPEG procedure coming with the multimedia subsystem. For more information about it go here.

I have updated my script which replaces the Mozilla mailer with a email program of your choice. This update adds support for RexxMail. Be sure to use at least build 20020622.100854 of RexxMail.

Dink has updated Z to 2.6beta5

Z is a VIO MP3 Player

• added editing capabilities to the input boxes
• new: genre list/search in the id3 editor
• display server information while buffering
• display the stream title instead of the url in most places
• fixed: sometimes the file lister wouldn't repaint correctly
• fixed: 'r'ipping out of a mp3 on a read-only drive failed
• fixed: quit/next/previous while pre-buffering mp3 streams

QueenCy is the painting software which operates on OS/2 Warp 4. In Warp 3, since it is not testing, operation is not guaranteed.

JGraphpad is a powerful, free diagram editor based on JGraph. It is currently available in English, French and German. With JGraphpad, you can create flow charts, maps, UML diagrams, and many other diagrams. JGraphpad is provided as a promotion for the JGraphpad Application Toolkit which we use to build commercial software
Export to XML and JPG; Built-in Object Library, Overview, Interactive Layout; Print Support, Page View, Automatic Zoom, Grid, Drag and Drop; Search, Minimum Spanning Tree, Shortest Path; Component Count; Background Image. Plus all the features from JGraph such as Layers, Grouping, "Step-Into" Groups, Command History, Clipboard with Multiple Transfer Formats, Grid, Anti-Alias, In-Place Editing, Pluggable Look-and-Feel, Infinite Undo/Redo, and more!
JGraphpad needs Java 1.3 or higher

I am pleased to announce that the Warp 3 Update Kit is now available. With the update kit you can build an updated Warp 3 (Connect or Server) installation CD-ROM using UpdCD. The Warp 3 update kit contains and installs all the products you need to update the installation CD-ROM.

Unfortunately, the java and add-on installation feature was partially broken in UpdCD 2.1. Because it is a serious limitation I have fixed the problem and rereleased UpdCD 2.1 as UpdCD 2.2. There are no other changes at this time.

Chris Wohlgemuth has released the JPEG io-procedure 0.1.0
This procedure is a drop in replacement for the JPEG procedure coming with MMOS/2. It supports base JPEG image files (as the IO procedure provided with MMOS/2) and also progressive ones. IO procedures are used to load and write different image files. For example the WPS uses IO procedures to load images for folder backgrounds or for display in the image viewer.
The actual loading of the image file is done using gbm.dll a free image manipulation library. See credits for more information about it. The JPEG support is based on work of the Independent JPEG Group. See credits for more information.

Version 2.01 of Junk Spy is now available, and the upgrade is free. We strongly recommend all customers using Junk Spy 2.0 download and install this free upgrade. It fixes several problems (including ones with the automatic update process). It also has new detectors and clues to increase the overall effectiveness of Junk Spy.
Since this upgrade includes changes to the program itself (not just the detection database), it is not being sent to you as an automatic update. You must visit the Junk Spy website to download it.
Simply close Junk Spy and install this new version over your existing
copy. All of your settings will be preserved and you should not need to make any changes within your email program. Be sure to restart Junk Spy after the installation is complete.

Wayne Rasband from the National Institues of Health, USA has released ImageJ 1.28 beta
ImageJ is a powerful image-editing program relying on Java 1.3 or greater. There are a lot of plugins available which extend the capabilities of ImageJ
To run ImageJ gother with Jimi (a java Class from SUN, necessary to open or save e.g. PNG, PICT. TARGA ...) execute the following command (needs to be adopted according to your system):

'C:\java131\jre\bin\java -mx80m -cp ij.jar;jimi.jar; ij.ImageJ'

where Jimi.jar is in the ImageJ directory

I just released version 4.28 last night with some nice improvements, checkout the new '-d' option on the PART command!
This is very likely the LAST 4.xx version to be released, the next one to
expect will be 5.00 in a couple of weeks :-)
DFSee is the SWISS-ARMY-KNIFE for disk and filesystem problems. With
FDISK-like displays, analysis and recovery, FIX commands, UNDELETE for
HPFS/NTFS and imaging and cloning. Details at

The Programmers Editor was specifically designed for editing source code. This means that it does the common tasks of line-oriented editing quickly and easily. It does not mean that the editor understands programming language syntax. That is left to the programmer.

Some of the features of the editor follow:

• It is a console application, not a GUI.
• Designed for Personal Computers.
• Uses the function and alt-keys effectively.
• Simultaneous editing of many files.
• Copy and paste between files.
• No limit on file size.
• Very fast search and replace.
• Not customizable, but the commands are intuitive.
• Tab and Enter keys are for movement in replace mode. In insert mode, tabs are space-filled so any tabsize can be used portably. Option to use the tab character if needed, as required in UNIX makefiles.
• Has some limited binary file editing capability.
• The editor is very small, about 100K bytes.
• Available for Win32, linux, and OS/2.
• There is no charge for the Programmers Editor.

[quick version... unzip this archive into a directory e.g. unzip
run_java__20020707.zip -d run_java Run install_os2.cmd -- this will create
a "Create Java Object" program object on your desktop. Just drop a .jar
file on the object to create a program object for the .jar file. It will
also create a "Run Jars" object -- this will allow you to start most
modern java apps by just double clicking on the jar file.]

These three programs can be used to automate the backup of critical files at boot time or before starting a task that would destroy or modify critical files. They are not intended to replace a system backup to tape or other removable media.
SEQREN gets the rename parameters from a file and applies them to file names received from a pipe, redirection, or to a single file specified on the command line. The utility will check the destination file name for a conflict with an existing file and increment the sequence number until there is not a conflict. Since the utility renames the source file, the source and destination must be on the same drive, but they may be in different directories.
The resulting actions are logged in the file RESULTS.LOG in a format that makes it easy to restore the original file.
Along with the sequential rename utility, there is also a combination rename and move utility. It is like the OS/2 REN utility in that it does not work between drives. But unlike REN , the source and destination files may be in different directories.
SEQCPY gets the rename parameters from a file and applies them to file
names received from a pipe, redirection, or to a single file specified on the command line. The utility will check the destination file name for a conflict with an existing file and increment the sequence number until there is not a conflict. The souce and destination may be on different drives.
The resulting actions are logged in the file RESULTS.LOG in a format that makes it easy to restore the original file.

Zip Control (since 1993) is an OS/2 GUI front-end to the creating, viewing, printing, etc. of .zip archives.
Version 2.6.9 adds Save Sets in the Add window, improves progress reporting when adding files, and provides a go/no-go indicator of sufficient free disk space for the zipping operation.
Shareware.

Phex is a Free multiplatform Gnutella client written in Java. Java 1.3 or higher is needed to run.
New:

• Non-destructive search filtering
• Query Hit snooping
• Improved multi-source download concepts
• Many bug fixes

and an Aqua Theme Pack for those who like the Aqua-Look

• Diskettenimages erstallen
• Diskettenimages schreiben
• ARDI Images herstellen
• Images in ARDI-Images umwandeln
• Grafische Oberfläche (GUI)
• Kommandozeilenversion (VIO)

Marcel Mueller has released MPGain 1.05 (preliminary)
MPGain is a powerful utility to modify the real loudness of MP3 files automatically to one common level. It utilizes the psychoacoustic modell of replaygain to do the loudness analysis. The modifications to the MP3 files are lossless (i.e. without any additional losses) and reversible. See the original homepages for further details.
The modification of the MP3 files is done in place and lossless.
The utility can operate on MPEG 1, MPEG 2 and MPEG 2.5 file Layer 3 only.

MPEG audio utility 0.23 has been released by Marcel Mueller
This Utility analyzes all frames of MPEG-1, MPEG-2 or MPEG-2.5 audio files compressed with Layer I, II or III.
In case of Layer III files additionaly the gain (volume) may be modified. This is lossless. It is implemented by modifying all side info blocks of the file. This restricts the step size to 1.5 dB.
Furthermore Layer III files may be stripped. This means that leading and trailing silence (empty frames) is removed.

New Version 0.23

• keep ID3 V2.x tags when stripping files
• data loss when /spositive integer without /l fixed

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

• support for new licensing scheme;
• support for Microsoft ISA 2000 proxy
• F8 presents menu to change encoding in the viewer

• under some circumstances transfer rate was limited;
• mirroring by download works more reliably;
• Chinese translation is now up-to-date;
• Italian and Swedish NLS files were corrupted;
• improved implementation for wildcard matching routines;

A selection of tools from different packages used to build Mozilla. These tools include CVS, nsinstall, GNU bash, GNU Shell utilities, GNU text utilities, GNU file utilities, GNU diff, GNU grep, GNU awk, GNU m4, GNU make (with file-handle fix), GNU sed, and GNU regex. This package was created to simplify building Mozilla as the build process requires specific versions of these tools that are found in a number of different archives. They are bundled here for convenience and to help Mozilla coders keep a consistant set of build tools.

Because of an error preventing unregistered users in passing the 'nag' screen, C-Side 5.0ß has been updated to version 5.0ß1.
I'm happy for any feedback, and _will_ answer, but there may be some delay as I'm planning a vacation.
For those who don't know, C-Side is a CD label and cover designer, with a multitude of functions, and more are coming!