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| Date: | Fri, 11 Sep 1998 16:12:26 EST |
| From: | SBT Information Systems <sbtaus@ibm.net > |
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| To: | 32bits@sbt.net.au |
| Subject: | OS/2 News, Views and PRs 3-7-97 |
OS/2 News, Views and PRs 3-7-97
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Visual Age Java local availibilty
The new VA Java pricing is as follows
4226890 VA Java Professional $A149
4226981 VA Java Prof - Academic $A 49
We expect to have stock soon after announcement - should be late July.
Pre-orders can be placed now to ensure early delivery.
Visual Age Java includes the OS/2 version (sadly lacking from the beta)
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The URL for directly installing Warp 4 FP1 is:
http://ps.boulder.ibm.com/softupd.html
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New Hardware Support Web Sites
As a convenience for customers installing OS/2 Warp, IBM has created
several Worldwide Web sites related to hardware support. The first
site, OS/2 Device Driver Pak On-line, provides an easy-to-use
distribution method for a wide range of OS/2 device drivers. The
device manufacturers create and support the device drivers at this
site. The site includes libraries in Japanese, Korean, and
Taiwanese. Complete instructions are available at:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/index.htm.
Two additional sites provide compatibility lists for IBM PC Company
systems and IBM Options. A matrix shows which hardware products can
be used with the OS/2 Warp family of products including OS/2 Warp 3,
OS/2 Warp Connect, OS/2 Warp 4, OS/2 Warp Server, and OS/2 Warp
Server SMP. Visit
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/htm/ibmsys.htm for PC
systems or http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/ibmopt.htm for
IBM options.
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Product Advisory: OS/2 and the Year 2000
With the coming millennium, many older computer products (including PC
software) may be unable to cope with dates beyond December 31, 1999. Much of
the world's software was written to handle only two-digit years (00 through
99).
Now is the time to examine whether you're ready for the year 2000. Problems
can occur even before January 1, 2000, because computers used to handle
everything from insurance policy renewals to sales forecasting to loan payment
calculations may have problems well before the actual date.
PLEASE NOTE: IBM OS/2 Version 2.11 and earlier are NOT Year 2000 Ready. If
you are running Version 2.11 or earlier releases of OS/2, please consult your
IBM software specialist or reseller to obtain an upgrade to the latest version
of OS/2 Warp.
OS/2 Warp (Version 3 and Version 4 releases) are Year 2000 Ready. That is to
say that the base API (Application Programming Interface) calls in these
releases support dates beyond December 31, 1999. Applications running on
these releases may or may not be Year 2000 Ready, so please be sure to include
such applications (particularly mission-critical applications) in your Year
2000 review.
For more information on preparing for the millennium, please see IBM's Year
2000 web site at http://www.ibm.com/year2000. Through this web site you can
access a comprehensive list of IBM products which are Year 2000 Ready.
Timothy F. Sipples IBM Personal Software (Chicago)
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The "Unofficial Warp 5 FAQ" homepage has been significantly reorganized and
is now called Warp X
News:
- Revision 5 of "The unofficial Warp 5 FAQ is now out" with news on Warp 5 and
JFS/Warp
- Main page renamed (now Warp X) and scope extended
(Warp 4.1/Warp 5/"bluebird"/Smartsuite 97)
- English, German, Chinese, Italian translations online, more to come . . .
The address is still:
The address is: < http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-13247/warp5/warp5.htm >
"local" mirror: < http://hem1.passagen.se/jmast/warp5/warp5.htm >
Also, if you want to, don't hesitate to include a link from your page,
download the WXLINK.ZIP package.
The Warp 5 FAQ is currently being translated to many languages. If YOU want to
translate the page to your language get the W5TRANSL.ZIP package for more
info.
Martin Alfredsson
(jma@jmast.se)
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JMA Data Software Technologies
Development, Consulting, WEB design.
Martin Alfredsson, President, jma@jmast.se
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Professional member of the IBM Solutions Developers Program
Our homepage: http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-13247
Our mail address: mail@jmast.se
Or fax us at: 46-(0)31-195260
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Kermit 95 is 32-bit serial and network communications software for OS/2,
Windows 95, and Windows NT, supporting direct serial and modem connections,
TCP/IP Telnet and Rlogin, and various other networking methods, and offering
more than 25 terminal emulations, plus Kermit and XYZMODEM file transfer,
international character-set translation, and a powerful cross-platform
scripting language for easy automation of all communications tasks:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
A major new release of Kermit 95, version 1.1.12, is now available. Its
new features include:
. Support for 10-digit and other special dialing methods
. Support for 132 columns in OS/2 4.0
. File transfer pipes and filters
. Web browser interface ("URL hot spots")
. Greek character-set translation in file transfer and terminal emulation
(added to West & East European Roman, Cyrillic, Hebrew, etc, that were
already there)
. Lots more.
The full announcement appears on comp.protocols.kermit.announce, and at:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95news.html
Kermit 95 1.1.12 is available now in single quantities as well as in
inexpensive fully functional bulk right-to-copy and academic site licensed
forms. See the Kermit 95 website for details:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
Thanks to Jeff Altman for most of new features listed above, and to our
many Alpha and Beta testers for helping us with emulations, devices, and
other items we could not test ourselves.
Frank da Cruz & Christine M. Gianone
Managers, The Kermit Project
Columbia University
New York City
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This is an announcement for me new software products:
WFAX174: A program for receiving and decoding of weather-fax charts
TRX110: A tool that let you control your shortwave receiver or transmitter.
Both application are native programs for OS/2.
For more details look at my homepage at:
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/3792
Regards
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(Bitte keine Flames senden | Please send no flames)
( URL: www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/3792 )
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A new client has been released for the Solnet effort of the DES Challenge. The
new client runs about 1.5-1.8 times faster than the old client depending on
what x86 chip you have. Feel free to download it off of the main Solnet page
at http://keymaster.des.sollentuna.se/.
For those not participating, each platform is ranked in the statistics and we
are trying to make OS/2 appear as high in the rankings as possible. All you
need is a PC that is connected to the internet. If you are connected through
a dialup line, grabs blocks from keymaster4 which will let you keep them for
36 hours before expecting them back (other keymasters expect 12 hour
turnaround). This way, you can connect only when you have blocks to upload
and download, causing almost no strain on your ISP or phone bill!
Here is a little bit of information from the Solnet FAQ:
This coordinated effort is a effort to respond to RSA Data Security's DES
Challenge. RSA has announced a competition in which the goal is to find a
secret key used to encrypt some text. The encryption algorithm used in this
specific case is DES (Digital Encryption Standard). We're using a method
called "brute-force" to solve this challenge. What this means is that we're
testing all possible keys to see if they're correct. How is this possible?
Well, in this case we happen to know that the secret text (the text that's
been encrypted with DES) starts with "The unknown message is:" since this is
give in the rules of the competition. This enables us to take a candidate key
and try to decrypt the first part of the cipher-text and then compare this to
the known plaintext. If it's a match we have found the correct key, if it's no
match then we go to the next key and so forth.
The DES encryption standard uses 56 bits for the key. This gives us a total of
72057594037927936 keys to try. Theoretically the correct key should be found
when we've tested around 50% of the keys.
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InJoy
InJoy is the 32 bit, multi-threaded PPP/SLIP Internet Dialer for OS/2 Warp.
An UNBELIEVABLY fast and *easy_to_use* shareware dialer.
Not a user interface or front end for PPP or SLATTACH included in OS/2,
InJoy is an original dialer with lean, custom crafted PPP/SLIP code. This
gives InJoy its proven performance advantage while you continue to use the
IBM TCP/IP stack and your existing Internet applications.
Use InJoy alone or share a dial up connection with Mac's, WinNT/95/3.11 and
other nodes on your LAN.
Complete description at: http://www.fx.dk/injoy/glance.htm
Update
We have just released a beta upgrade for InJoy 1.1 which will solve a few
problems that were spotted - It ads a little functionality too.
This update (InJoy 1.11 - build Jun11) will only run on top of version 1.1
- so you need to get that. You can find everything you need at the InJoy
homepage at http://www.fx.dk/injoy
To install this update you only have to unzip it directly in your InJoy
directory.
Changes in v1.11
* SLIP idle timeout now works
* Now impossible to save unnamed tickers
* Registration process faster and safer.. Could take way to long for InJoy
to register.
* Changing unnamed tickers caused traps. Fixed.
* Stopping a dial attempt with ESC after script had begun caused a redial.
Now fixed.
* Ported InJoy to VisualAge - enabled a fair deal of optimization, both to
InJoy itself and the user interface.
* InJoy now uses the OS2_SHELL environment variable to know which cmd to
spawn when autostarting .cmd files.
Regards
Bjarne Jensen (bj@fx.dk)
F/X Communications
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Hi,
Do you want to be part of the Internet's premier Shareware Review
Site?
The SharewareJunkies.com is the Original Shareware Review Site, we are
the oldest and best Shareware Review site.
We are currently taking applications for the position of Shareware
Reviewers at:
http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/applicat.htm
We especially need Reviewers for OS/2
I must tell you in advance that we currently are not paying for
Reviews, but if you want the World to know your views on programs
check us out.
Thanks,
Mike
Michael Dulin CEO
A1 Shareware Evaluations
CEO@SharewareJunkies.com
The SharewareJunkies.com the Original Shareware Review Site, needs
OS/2 Shareware programs to Review.
If you are a OS/2 Shareware Author/Company please tell us about your
program(s) at:
http://www.SharewareJunkies.com/authos2.htm
Thanks,
Mike
Michael Dulin CEO
A1 Shareware Evaluations
CEO@SharewareJunkies.com
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CPU monitor 1.0 is now available at
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/cpumon10.zip with its final destination
being /pub/os2/utils/system. The filename is CPUMON10.ZIP.
This is a new CPU monitor utility that uses an API call only available in Warp
4 and Warp Server Advanced SMP and Warp 3 plus fixpack 29 or higher. It will
not run on versions of OS/2 prior to Warp 3 with fixpack 29 applied.
It does not use an IDLE time thread to soak up all unused CPU. This means it
will not interfere with other applications. Co-exists happily with the Warp
Center CPU monitor and allows both to report accurate results.
Supports up to 16 CPUs.
Configure update interval from 1 to 30 seconds and CPU graphs from a choice of
15 colours.
Trevor Hemsley, London, UK
(Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com or 75704.2477@compuserve.com)
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Announcing IPAD V0.2.3 (Beta) for OS2
Although IPAD is a COMMERCIAL product, the evaluation version is available for
download FREE of charge.
IPAD is the multiplatform front end to a special tool to be completed some
time in the future. It currently provides most of the functionality of an
interactive GUI vector drawing package, together with some bit mapped image
handling. It allows easy editing across files using multiple overlapping
windows. The graphics objects drawn and edited by IPAD have built in
intelligence. They react to the mouse and each other so as to maximise user
productivity and reduce tedious repetitive setup sequences.
With most other packages an object must first be selected and placed into one
of many modes in order for the package to provide handles through which the
object must be manipulated. With IPAD however, simple rules govern the
behaviour of an object depending on what other objects it is touching and how
it is approached and grabbed.
Any object may be picked up and moved or its shape changed without it first
having to be selected, and if its edges are touching any other object, IPAD
will intelligently manipulate those objects in order to reduce the knock on
effects of the change. With most other packages a simple change can require a
lot of rework.
A very powerful feature of IPAD is the way it is able to manipulate groups of
selected objects. A group is not just a collection of objects, it has
properties of its own. A group can be edited like any other object. Objects
can be very easily picked up or dropped from a group. Groups can also be
opened and their contents edited in their own windows.
IPAD also has a catagory system that allows the user to define the properties
of an object and to override those properties in a derived object. Complex
objects can thus be built by grouping simpler objects and assigning them
properties. This makes it a very simple matter to create a set of component
objects which can be held in a template window, copied across into the working
drawing and the properties modified to suit the working drawing.
IPAD supports printers using PCL 5 (most HP), ESC-P2 (most Epson), PostScript
and anything else via ppm or png. It has been designed from the ground up to
be fast and responsive. The base system is a 486DX 33MHz + 8MB RAM + ISA video
card.
IPAD will (in the future) provide a mechanism to drive third party backend
software (e.g. code generators, state machine generators etc.) For now you are
restricted to just drawing with it. Since IPAD is a COMMERCIAL product, its
source code will not be made available.
IPAD currently provides the same GUI interface on Linux 2.0.x, MSDOS 6.2, OS/2
Warp, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51
IPAD is available from
http://www.demon.co.uk/titan
Send feedback and questions to
sergio@titan.demon.co.uk
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File: http://www.apk.net/secant/nick/mr2i129.zip (974k)
More info: http://nick.secant.com/mr2ice.htm
Changes included in v1.29
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If you have registered MR/2 ICE and are not receiving my release
announcements, please write and report you e-mail address, name and serial
number. You may have changed email addresses. If you registered with BMT or
OS/2 Shareware BBS in the "early days", your address may have been lost or
never reported (the BBS never asked for it until recently).
If you are receiving announcements at a Compuserve address and which to switch
to another address, just write.
My email address is nick@secant.com
Registrations are taking no more than a week to turn around. If you don't get
your key within this time frame, please (you guessed it :) write. I often
have keys bounce, and the address I entered matches that provided on the
forms. I have no recourse until you write me!
Finally, the NEWSREADER addon to MR/2 ICE is progressing nicely. I plan at
least one more expansion, where I add beta testers. Maybe more When I add a
group, we are testing the setup and initial user reaction. At this time, I am
only accepting REGISTERED USERS as potential testers. If interested please
write nick@secant.com with a subject of NEWSREADER BETA EXPANSION. Use this
subject, please.
o Keyboard fixups and changes relating to the SOURCE and REPLY window
hotkeys. Was interfering with the use of ALT-4 and ALT-6 to enter hi-end
ASCII.
o Removed the case where too many charset translations were performed when
replying to messages with hi-end ASCII in subject. Previously, the reply
subject would lose the characters.
o Spacebar will now "page through" the current folder's messages, one screen
at a time, switching to the NEXT message when at the end of the current.
I'll add a configuration for "direction". Still may need an adjustment so
as to minimize wasteful end-of-message displays of a single non-text line.
Nick
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Wir möchten Ihnen unser neues Buch vorstellen:
DB2 Common Server
Geb., 14,8 x 21 cm, 531 Seiten, DM 128,--
Dieses Buch erläutert den professionellen Einsatz von DB2 im
Ausführliche Informationen finden Sie im WWW unter
http://home.t-online.de/home/puerner_ub/db2buch.htm
Aus dem Inhalt:
Mit freundlichem Gruß
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It can be found at
Enjoy!
-- Charles Hunter
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I have submitted an OS/2 version of the board game BATTLESHIP to the
This game was developed using OS/2 Visual C++ compiler and the OpenClass class
The original game is played on two separate plastic frames, each of which has
Each player's fleet consists of 5 ships: aircraft carrier, destroyer,
In this implementation, the left board is the human player's board and the
Sound is provided via the OS/2 multimedia classes. You will notice that
The game is released as shareware and I hope you will enjoy it.
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OS/2 Warp on the 'Net is a comprehensive database of Internet resources that
This database has tripled in size since it's debut in January, but has
We would like thank everyone who has visited the index to date. All
OS/2 Warp on the 'Net is located at http://www.nfwa.com/os2/ The index is
--
Software Developers:
If you are interested in presenting at Warpstock, please do the following:
If you are looking for a certain type of presentation to be given:
Sincerely,
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This new version of the popular ALiVe link maintenance package is finally
-- The ability to select any number of HTML files (or Netscape bookmark
-- The ability to save down a "Site List" so that you no longer must
-- Crawling a site starting with a particular URL. For example, to crawl
As this is an alpha release, downloaders/testers are encouraged to send in bug
Good luck, and I hope you folks enjoy the alpha.
L8r,
Jesse D. Sightler
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Please note that RXPMPAPI.DLL is not a WallyWare product so you shouldn't
The API allows the user to perform the following operations:
1. Retrieve PM Patrol's real-time statistics, including drives on line,
Darren Abbott (abbott@hiwaay.net)
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PKWARE, Inc., recently announced a new OS/2 version of
Companies who distribute software or data to outside parties can use
"Many corporate customers have been asking for an update to our
Customers who register PKZIP 2.50 for OS/2 will receive the fast,
PKZIP is available locally for about A$67.
Guide to Network Computing with Domino and
"Your Guide to Network Computing with Lotus Domino and OS/2 Warp
The Guide serves as an effective and efficient tool for developers,
This helpful documentation is now available in English at:
http://www.anchordesk.com/story/story_1055.html
The Windows 95 launch was a global media event. Now
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Microsoft Heats Up Its Own Java By Jon Swartz, San Francisco Chronicle
Angered by this move, JavaSoft's director of corporate marketing,
Microsoft will begin distributing the new software free through
Voytek Eymont
Return to [ 11 |
September |
1998 ]
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Nick Knight
Senior Software Engineer
Secant Technologies, Inc. http://www.secant.com
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PGP Public Key: finger nick.secant.com
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Our new book concerning "DB2 on workstations" has finally been
published. It is written in German. Therefore the following text is in
German.
Professioneller Einsatz von DB2 auf der Workstation
von Heinz Axel und Beate Pürner
ISBN 3-528-05534-0
Vieweg Verlag
Erscheinungstermin: Juni 97
Workstationbereich (UNIX, OS/2, Windows NT). Schwerpunkte sind
Anwendungsentwicklung und Performance.
- Produktüberblick
- Überblick über die neuen Strukturen und ihre Abbildungen auf
Betriebssystem-Strukturen
- Visualizer Flight und Visualizer Query
- Anwendungsprogrammierung mit DB2 und CICS mit Beispielen in REXX,
COBOL und C
- Objektorientierung, Multimedia und Internet
- Leistungsmessung und Durchsatz-Optimierung
- Dienstprogramme
- Berechtigungen
- verteilte Datenbanken und verteilte Verarbeitung
- Anhang: DB2 und die Standards
Beate Pürner
Beate Puerner
puerner.tech.dok@nrw-online.de
TCSH-6.07.02 has been released for OS/2. This is the latest update to TCSH ( a
popular UNIX shell ), and replaces tcsh-6.06.01.
ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/shells/tcsh6072.zip
and
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/new /tcsh6072.zip
( soon to be moved to: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/shell )
Charles R. Hunter
Purdue University School of Science crh@purdue.edu
West Lafayette, IN huntercr@cs.purdue.edu
SOFTWARE OS/2 Battleship Game v1.0 with Source code Available now
Compuserve OS/2 Developers 1 and VACPP forums. The archive is called
BATTLE.ZIP.
libraries.
a horizontal and a vertical playing surface. The horizontal surface is used
for both defensive ship placement and the marking of each of your opponents
shots with white pegs to register a "miss" and red pegs to register a "hit".
The vertical surface is used for your offensive shots against your opponent.
battleship, submarine, and a PT boat. Each player distributes their fleet
randomly around the horizontal surface. A player then takes a "shot" by
specifying a row and column location (i.e. a letter and number combination -
A1 to J10). The opponent then responds with "hit" or "miss" appropriately.
When all the targets on a given ship are hit, the ship is considered sunk.
The player that sinks his opponent's entire fleet is the winner.
right is the computer's. Each board consists of 100 individual squares in a
10-by-10 matrix.
different sounds are played when different actions occur in the game. Some
examples are firing at a ship, ships sinking, mines getting hit, and the end
of the game.
Newfoundland, Canada. June 19, 1997 - OS/2 Warp on the 'Net has recently
grown to list over 1000 active links in more than 100 categories! The index
is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.nfwa.com/os2/
relate to IBM's OS/2 Warp operating system. The index is searchable and
browseable in much the same way that Yahoo is - but we accept only OS/2
listings.
remained relevant specifically to OS/2 users. In addition to the search
feature, we've also added a change log, FAQ, and made it easier to browse from
one area to the next. Our goal is to keep the index growing, but also
up-to-date, quick loading and easy to navigate. Everything is designed to W3C
open industry standards to work with all browsers, for all users.
improvements we've made have come from user suggestions. Keep the hits and
feedback coming - we can only make further improvements with your help.
maintained by employees of NFWA as a service to the OS/2 Internet community.
An OS/2 e-Zine! Site of the Week!
OS/2 Warp on the 'Net -- http://www.nfwa.com/os2/
The index of OS/2 Internet sites.
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If you have an OS/2 or Java program and an Internet site, we've got a
place to list you! Please use the search feature to see if your company
or product is listed, as some companies may be listed in multiple
categories. For example, Sundial Systems would be under Software
Developers, Productivity, Word Processing (Clearlook), ...Productivity,
Database, Personal Information Management (Relish), etc. Corrections to
existing listings and suggestions for new categories are also appreciated.
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You've already heard the buzz about Warpstock. Now that most of the planning
smoke has cleared up, we are preparing the Presentation Schedules. We want to
know what _you_ the attendees and presenters want!
1) Check the website (http://www.warpstock.org/) and take a look at the
current presentation schedule information. If you see a seminar that you
would like to be a present, contact me at os2guy@one.net and let me know.
2) If you would like to present a seminar that is NOT listed, send a brief
title for the presentation, as well as a paragraph description for the
seminar, to me at os2guy@one.net. I will place the presentation information
on the website and cement you in place as the presenter.
1) Check the website (http://www.warpstock.org/) presentation schedule.
2) If it is NOT listed, send the suggested title for the presentation, a brief
paragraph description of what the presentation should cover (target audience
as well), and (if possible) a suggested presenter (contact info is required!).
Send this information to me at os2guy@one.net and I will contact your
potential presenter, and inquire as to their interest and availability.
3) If it is listed and there is no presenter listed, feel free to contact a
potential presenter yourself and let them know about Warpstock. Have them
contact me at os2guy@one.net if they are interested in presenting!
Kevin Royalty
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Certified OS/2 Engineer, Consultant, Author, Freelance Writer, Guest Speaker,
Webmaster, PR Director - Cincinnati PC Users Group - www.cincypcug.org
IBM Business Partner - BESTeam Professional Member
Program Chair - Warpstock '97 - http://www.warpstock.org/
Cincinnati Team OS/2 Users Group - http://www.cincyteamos2.org/
Latest OS/2 fixes: http://www.cincyteamos2.org/masterupdate.html
Personal Homepage - http://w3.one.net/~os2guy
starting to shape up into a full featured app. The latest version sports the
following new features that are sure to be useful to any webmaster:
files) for checking
import filenames a file at a time.
www.yahoo.com, you would just tell ALiVe! to crawl from
http://www.yahoo.com/ and off it would check EVERY link in a completely
automated manner. This also works with file URLs, allowing you to check
files on the local disk as well as the network.
reports as frequently as possible. Future versions of the app will include
new software tools to make this process even easier...
http://www3.pair.com/jsight/Java/
ALiVe! - Platform Independent Link Verification Software for WebMasters
RXPMPAPI.DLL is a REXX interface to PM Patrol's Data Collection Facility
(DCF). All four of the functions in the C language API set provided with PM
Patrol have a REXX equivalent. This REXX interface is completely free of
charge, but PM Patrol itself is a shareware program that requires registration
after an initial trial period. See http://homepage.interaccess.com/~wally for
specifics about PM Patrol's licensing.
contact them for support.
drives' size, drives' free space, number of printer jobs, system
uptime, swap usage, memory usage, CPU usage, PM Patrol monitored
events, and per-process resource usage. If you have OS20MEMU installed
you can even get per-process memory usage information!
2. Set the text for PM Patrol's user-defined field.
3. Verify that PM Patrol's Data Collection Facility is running.
4. Shut down PM Patrol and the Data Collection Facility.
PKWARE Ships New PKZIP(R) for OS/2 Version 4
its archiving and compression utility, PKZIP(R). The
robust and flexible command-line 2.50 version started shipping
earlier in June.
the Distribution Licensed version of PKZIP 2.50 for OS/2. This
version includes access to an external data file containing
additional self-extractor types for other operating systems and
hardware platforms.
previous OS/2 version," said Phil Katz, president of PKWARE. "OS/2 is
growing as a server based operating system. We think the added
performance and features in this new version will help IS managers
accomplish tasks, such as server backups, much faster."
file finding utility, PKZFIND, as an added bonus. PKZFIND not only
searches all directories on diskettes, local or network hard drives,
or other media, but also will search through .ZIP files created by
PKZIP. PKZFIND's flexible command-line interface will automatically
switch to the sub-directory where the desired file is located.
PKZFIND allows you to find any file, ZIPPED or not, simply and easily.
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///this is a 20MB pdf file, approx. 200 pages, quite a useful document.
Amazingly, they acually *recommend* running Notes on OS/2, and point out,
quite correctly, that MOST of the world's Notes servers DO RUN on OS/2.
there is a local copy of this pdf on Ted Romer's anonymous FTP server at
watermaid.dyndns.com. On the FTP server, there is also a WINNUKE utility for
testing reliability of Windows PCs on yout TCP/IP LAN///
OS/2 Now Available
Server" describes how companies can transform a more traditional
infrastructure to a network computing model -- at their own pace
with the combination of Domino and OS/2 Warp Server. This dynamic
digital duo creates a reliable and content-rich web site that can
leverage existing data stored and created in enterprise host systems.
system administrators, and system analysts for both new installations
and upgrades from previous versions of Domino and OS/2 Warp Server.
It covers installation, configuration, and tuning in a step-by-step
fashion with examples and illustrations.
http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/domino.
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__________Berst Alert____________________
WHY NO ONE CARES ABOUT WINDOWS 98 ANYMORE
the follow-on version is in widespread beta. And
nobody cares. Memphis (Windows 98) is no longer the
center of innovation. By missing the 97 Christmas
season, Microsoft missed its best chance to motivate
hardware makers to adopt Win98 quickly. And, worst
of all, Win98 offers no compelling reasons to switch.
Users can do all the same things on Win95 or even
Win3.1. Full analysis and links at the Web site.
Competitive Press Points
Microsoft has just created a tangible threat to the Java rallying
cry, "Write once, run anywhere" with the announcement of J/Direct.
Executives at the Redmond company explain J/Direct as a set of
technical specifications software developers can use to improve Java
capabilities on Windows-based computers -- a faster, more
sophisticated path to multimedia Java applications on Windows
platforms.
George Paolini, lashed out at Microsoft saying, "It shows the true
colors of Microsoft. This is another transparent ploy to lock in Java
developers to the Windows platform."
Internet Explorer at one of its web sites within the next six weeks.
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SBT Information Systems Pty Ltd - Distributor of OS/2 software
fax 61-2 9310-1118 ph 61-2 9310-1214
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~sbt
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