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OS/2 News, Views and PRs 8-7-97
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The June edition of OS/2 Computing! magazine contains a comparative review
of ColorWorks, Embellish and Photo>Graphics.
OS/2 Computing ! is at :
http://www.os2computing.com/magazine/?356,170
IBM Will Just Say No to Carrying Communicator
http://techweb.cmp.com/crn/sections/news/742pg3b.htm
IBM Pins Cautious Hopes on Updated OS/2
http://techweb.cmp.com/crn/sections/news/743pg43b.htm
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Warp in UK:
Fm: Charles Stirling 100010,1433
To: All
I was making a point about lack of push on OS/2 to IBM UK marketing with the
following response (most of it) receaved back. It gives Nick Davis's email
and if others feal they could constructivly make comments to him that OS/2
needs marketing to a wider audiance or ...
Charles
> From: Nick Davis
Charles,
Thanks for your letter ref.bd3789. Sorry for not getting back to you sooner
I sense the general theme to your letter is the lack of broadbased, highly
To this end you have seen a major re-vamp of the OS/2 home pages
Scalability Day. Correct we did not have a huge IBM day to counter the M/S
Bluebird has been in all the major UK PC mags. I have the clippings to prove
Educational offerings on Warp are in place. We intend to announce one for
Regards, Nick Davis
IBM UK Limited, Alencon House, Alencon Link, Basingstoke,
TEAMOS/2 WEB WWW ONLINE
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After a long road, the TEAMOS2.ORG domain has once again got an online
One of the first things I would like to do is find a mirror of the old content
Over the course of the next week, we will be creating a new web site on the
We are also looking for new content that could be added to the TeamOS2 tree
assist@teamos2.org
and
assist@teamos2.com
We look forward to serving the OS/2 community and providing a reliable and
Michael McLagan
P.S. Please don't email me, I'm already buried under a massive wave of the
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Java 1.1 for OS/2 Warp
The JDK 1.1 for OS/2 Warp includes substantial improvements over the currently
- JavaBeans platform-independent component architecture lets developers write
- JDBC provides an open interface specification to SQL databases, allowing
- Signed Java-based applets -- such as bank loan applications -- can be
- Many Java-based applications will perform close to 30 percent faster, as
- Language internationalization implements UniCODE 2.0 and classes, so that
- For programmers, this release of Java for OS/2 Warp includes a new debugger.
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Reply-to: timur@io.com (Timur Tabi)
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The URL is:
Some of the links and biographical information is missing, but I'm working on
I look forward to seeing you on #os2prog!
--
... In Windows 95, no one can hear you scream
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A year ago, I made a fictional announcement for the OS/2 Warp 4 beta and
Please remember that the contents of this web page are a parody, and no harm
--
.. In Windows 95, no one can hear you scream
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at http://www.fis.cinvestav.mx/~titov/os2soft/mp3/ you'll find a lot of info
this page dedicated to mpeg-I layer-3 (mp3 file extension) audio compression
The advantage of mp3 is a lossless audio compression with 1:12 ratio (3 min
Ciao,
Oleg Titov
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Companies Cooperate to Enable New Levels of Response, Reliability
CARY, N.C., June 11, 1997 . . . Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. and IBM today
Under the terms of the agreement, Red Storm will use IBM Java**-based software
The first Red Storm game to use this technology, Tom Clancy's POLITIKA, will
InVerse fosters collaboration over the Internet by providing a versatile
Doug Littlejohns, president and chief executive officer of Red Storm
Richard Redpath, Red Storm project manager and senior architect for IBM, said,"
About Red Storm Entertainment
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The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), a set of UNIX tools designed for high-quality
All graphical output is in the form of postscript files. Therefore, in order to
as well a an e-mail listserver for user support.
The OS/2 port of GMT has been uploaded to the HOBBES OS/2 archive
In /pub/os2/apps/graphics,
gmt4os2b.zip [executables]
Note that this port of GMT requires the EMX run-time library,
/pub/os2/dev/emx/v0.9c/emxrt.zip at the HOBBES site.
GMT is licensed software, but there is no charge for its use.
Allen Cogbill
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Panacea Software (http://www.program.com/panacea) is proud to announce the
ProNews/2 is a full featured USENET News client for OS/2 which contains many
Process manager - The user is given complete control over tasks that are
Powerful Filtering - Full Boolean filtering (both global and on a group by
Watching - Never miss another important post again! Watching is a flexible as
Smart Decoding - ProNews/2 features truly intelligent decoding of multimessage
ROT13 Support - Very useful for rec.humor and movie newsgroups.
MIME and UUDecoding - ProNews/2 has built in, on the fly, decoders for those
Manual Subscribing - It is possible to manually subscribe to groups for those
True Message Threading - Through the use of a custom tree control you are able
Retrive entire threads with one keystroke - This comes in very handy when you
Single Key message reading - The space bar acts as the PageDown key in the
Fully customizable toolbars - The toolbar for each newsgroup may be customized
Posting - Standard posting via SMTP or USENET. Easy attachment of multiple
Configurability - Nearly every setting for the program can also be applied on a
ProNews/2 is now entering a public beta. We'd appreciate it if you gave it a
William Young
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Anyone who hasn't received my e-mail about InJoy 1.1, but wants to receive such
URL:
http://www.fx.dk/injoy/download.htm (Download place)
SUBJECT:
DESCRIPTION:
This update (InJoy 1.12 - build Jun13) will run on top of any version
To install this update you have to unzip it directly in your InJoy
IMPORTANT:
CHANGES:
In beta version 1.12
* Removed Visual Age optimization as that caused all
In beta version 1.11
* SLIP idle timeout bug fixed
FEEDBACK:
If you find any errors in InJoy 1.12 then let us know and we'll nail them.
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OBERON SOFTWARE RELEASES JAVA PROGRAMERS TOOLKIT
July 7, 1997, Mankato, MN
Oberon Software today released its first Java based toolkit. "This builds
Building on its strength as a supplier of terminal emulation and telecom
The library contains an extensive collection of classes for scientific function
Also included in the toolkit are OS/2 native classes for accessing the serial
Oberon Software allows the toolkit runtime package to be freely distributed
Oberon Software has been developing OS/2 software and providing OS/2
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Oberon Software Releases TE/2 1.34
July 4, 1997
Oberon Software is pleased to announce that the TE/2 Classic Version
The TEST DRIVE is a FULL FEATURED copy of TE/2 Version 1.34. Other
It is also being placed on the following sites and will be available
OS/2 Shareware BBS
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu
The TEST DRIVE will also be available on the BBSes and Web Pages of
Since this is a public TEST DRIVE, you are encouraged to redistribute
----- Registered User Updates -----------------------------------
A no-charge update package is available from the Oberon Software BBS
----- Program information ---------------------------------------
The Oberon Terminal Emulator/2, or TE/2, is Oberon Software's full
* One of the most complete script languages to be found in any
TE/2 includes these file transfer protocols:
Supported terminal emulations include:
----- Pricing and Availability ----------------------------------
TE/2 Classic Version 1.34 is available now for $45.00 (US Dollars).
You may order, manufacturer direct from Oberon Software or from one
The following phone numbers and addresses are for ORDERS ONLY. Any
----- Oberon Software, Inc. -------------------------------------
Oberon Software has been developing OS/2 software and providing OS/2
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MIDIWAV is a freeware Netscape plugin that converts MIDI data directly into
For those of you that don't know I have finished the changes required for
Anyway to check it out stop by:
http://avenger.mri.psu.edu/os2page.html
Look under the column to the right in the plugins section.
Alger acp107@psu.edu
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http://www.pps.com.au/pps_rubik.html
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¸ White SW Computer Law 1997
back soon,
Voytek Eymont
Return to [ 11 |
September |
1998 ]
> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 14:02:12 +0000
but for a company that is not doing any OS/2 Warp marketing I am being kept
incredibly busy.
visible advertisements for OS/2 Warp, not just here in the UK but across
Europe. On this I would say true, we have not spent thousands of pounds on
advertising Warp/Warp Server in the PC Press. Instead we have been
concentrating our efforts of getting the right information to the right
people.
http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp giving details on not just the prodcusts
themselves but IBM Software Choice and Bluebird. Alot of our time has been
used in explaining these concepts to press, analysts, consultants and
customers. There has been alot of media coverage on both.
products. We didn't have to our products work and have been working, running
businesses for decades. Alot of PR work was done by us which got coverage in
the UK press showing how scalable, robust etc. IBM's products are.
it. Although Bluebird may not be in the title of the headlines the articles
are there. It is positioned as a transition product to move people towards
Network Computing. It is not a replacement for the PC or the Network
Computer. RIPL is a relevent technology for educational establishment
(Henley College use it for over 100 PC's running DOS and DOS/Windows) but
there is currently no support for Windows 95. Thus there is a known gap.
Once that has been sorted then I would agree. schools and colleges have a
responsibility to provide the applications used by industry. That facility
is lacking in the current set up.
Warp Server very soon, thus I am confused about your statement. Once again I
refer to Henley College who have fully exploited the attractive prices both
on hardware and software.
RG21 1EJ Tele: 01256-344689 Fax: 01256-817307 Email
Nick_Davis@UK.IBM.COM
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Hello,
presence. Sometime earlier today the InterNIC completed a new registration
for the domain, and assigned it to Innovative Logic Corp, and specifically to
myself. I have set up preliminary web service and email forwarding on a
system here.
from the previous site. In the past 6 1/2 hours since the DNS records
propagated, there have been over 400 hits looking for URLs in the old site,
despite it being offline for close to 6 months. I think it's important to
find a mirror of that old content, and put it in place immediately.
other domain we acquired, TEAMOS2.COM. This web site will contain important
information defining where we plan to take the two domains, and offer everyone
an opportunity to participate in the process! Please come look the site over,
around July 1st.
from the previous incarnation. If you have an idea, a web page, or would like
to participate in the resurrection of the Team, please send your suggestions,
thoughts and comments as well as your web page ideas or pointers to mirrors of
old content to a special email address we have set up just for this purpose:
productive presence to everyone's benefits.
General Manager
Innovative Logic Corp.
stuff and there are others helping with the above addresses! Thanks!!
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The Java Development Kit 1.1 pre-release (beta) is now available from the
following web address:
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/jdk/s-feat.htm.
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The JDK 1.1 for OS/2 Warp beta is a fully compliant implementation of Sun
Microsystems,* Inc.'s JDK 1.1 (Version 1.1.1), which includes support for
JavaBeans*, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC*), and improved security
features, as well as many other improvements.
available JDK 1.02 with many new capabilities. Some of the more significant
improvements include:
re-usable components once and run them anywhere. Customers can be assured
that components developed with the JDK 1.1 for OS/2 Warp will be
interoperable with other JavaBeans components, regardless of the operating
system platform, reducing development and deployment costs.
customers using a Java-based application to transparently access information
from legacy databases, such as IBM's DB2.
downloaded from an intranet or Internet site and saved to the user's hard
disk for added security.
measured by the CaffeineMark 2.5 performance benchmark, over the currently
available Java 1.02 for OS/2 Warp.
global applications can run in any language and include the correct
character set, time, date and currency for that locale.
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I have created a web page for the IRC #os2prog channel. IRC, in case you
don't know, is a real-time chat forum where thousands of people can discuss
any of hundreds of different topics. The #os2prog channel is for OS/2
programming, and many of the best OS/2 programmers hang out on #os2prog on a
regular basis. If you want to talk about OS/2 programming, then you should
check out #os2prog.
http://www.io.com/~timur/os2prog.html
it as fast as I can.
Timur "too sexy for my code" Tabi, timur@io.com.
http://www.io.com/~timur/index.html
THE OS/2 Programming Page: http://www.edm2.com/common/links.html
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emailed it to several people within PSP. Since I've long left IBM and this
Wednesday will be the one-year anniversary of the note, I've decided to put it
up on a web page for all to enjoy. The URL is:
http://www.io.com/~timur/merlinbeta.html
is intended. All of the individuals mentioned in the text did not, to the
best of my knowledge, say or write any of the quotations in the text. In
other words, it's a big joke, and no one should take it seriously.
Timur "too sexy for my code" Tabi, timur@io.com.
http://www.io.com/~timur/index.html
THE OS/2 Programming Page: http://www.edm2.com/common/links.html
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Hi,
related with mp3 on OS/2.
related programs for OS/2. There you will find links to players,
encoders/decoders, front-end (text mode and PM), and other mp3 sites to start
from.
song with CD quality takes about 3.5M).
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RED STORM ENTERTAINMENT AND IBM TEAM ON JAVA-BASED COLLABORATIVE GAMES
FOR THE INTERNET
announced a technology development agreement that the companies expect will
enable significant breakthroughs in the performance of online gaming
applications over the Internet.
technology, code named InVerse, in the development of future collaborative
games for the Internet. Red Storm will help IBM evolve the InVerse technology
for use in Web applications that require large-scale, real-time collaboration.
preview at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Atlanta June 19 -21 and is
planned to ship this fall. The InVerse technology is ideally suited to gaming
applications as it can host a variety of interactive, multi-user Web sites --
from simple chat rooms to elaborate virtual communities.
communications interface that can adapt to many styles of applications while
dynamically coping with the complexities of the Internet.
Entertainment,said, "Red Storm's strategy is to develop products that raise
game-playing to a level never possible before, where literally thousands of
people anywhere can game-play together and build their own stories and
outcomes. We made a thorough search for the technology that would help Red
Storm achieve our ambitious goal of breaking the mold in online game-playing.
As a proven technology leader, IBM is an ideal partner to help us address
critical issues of Internet response time and reliability."
Red Storm is on the cutting-edge of developing products that enable fully
dependable, real-time, massive collaboration on the Internet. While this joint
project focuses on delivering a highly reliable, interactive solution for
online game-playing, the technology it uses is also well suited to support the
needs of banks, insurance companies, universities and other customers seeking
to deploy multi-user interactive applications on the Web."
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Red Storm Entertainment, based in Cary, North Carolina, was founded by
best-selling author Tom Clancy and Virtus Corporation, the leader in 3D
multimedia authoring tools, to create and market a new generation of
interactive computer games focused on the exploding online and CD-ROM-based,
multi-player gaming market. Red Storm will release its first games, Tom
Clancy's POLITIKA and Planet Texas, in Fall 1997 and early 1998, respectively.
The company will market and distribute its products through a combination of
partnerships, distributor relationships and via the Internet. For more
information, call Red Storm at (919) 460-1776 or visit the company's Web site,
http://www.redstorm.com.
display and manipulation of spatial information, has been ported to OS/2 Warp.
More than 50 utilities are provided for data analysis and display. Good
documentation for all routines, as well as a Tutorial and Cookbook, are
provided as postscript files. Installation must be on an machine using HPFS.
effectively use the routines, one must have a postscript printer or use
software such as Ghostscript/Ghostview, which can print postscript files on
non-postscript printers. The GMT routines are especially designed for mapping
scientific data. GMT has its own web site,
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gmt.html
(ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu), and can be accessed as
gmt4os2d.zip [documentation]
gmt4os2s.zip [sources]
netcdf_2.zip [netCDF library, NOT required by executables].
available as
acogbill@ibm.net
latest addition to it's product lineup, ProNews/2!
powerful features not found on ANY platform.
queued. They may be removed or reprioritized. Queued items may even be
saved and restored from program run to program run. The user may also kill
all tasks associated with a particular group.
group basis) makes getting rid of unwanted SPAM a breeze.
the filtering and is available on a group by group and global basis.
Watched messages can be highlighted and/or automatically downloaded.
binaries. It will automatically scan for all pieces, and when found,
Pronews will order and download them for you. If pieces are missing, the
articles will be flagged as such to stop you from wasting valuable time
retrieving them.
alt.binaries groups.
who do not wish to keep the entire list of newsgroups on their hard drives.
to view the USENET postings as they were intended.
find a subject you are interested in.
article window, then when the end of the article is reached it
automatically places you in the unread next article.
to tailor to the groups specific content! Never have to wish that the
programmers had added an option to the toolbar. Add them yourself quickly
and easily!
files for posting. Post and mail at the same time. Customizable reply and
forward messages.
group by group basis allowing each individual group to be customized to
your needs.
try. The download is free from our website. Please report all bugs to
panacea@program.com
Panacea Software
IMPORTANT
announcements in the future, should send an e-mail to injoy@fx.dk
http://www.fx.dk/injoy (The InJoy homepage)
http://www.fx.dk (Homepage of F/X Communications)
InJoy beta upgrade v1.12
This beta-update is the second step on the way to an InJoy stability
release.
*bigger* than 1.0
directory.
Anyone who wishes to receive announcements via e-mail and didn't receive
the InJoy 1.1 announcement should just e-mail should write injoy@fx.dk
the "disconnect actions" to be greyed out, even when
InJoy was registered at the right level.
* Now impossible to save unnamed tickers
* Registration process faster and safer. Could take way to long for InJoy to
get registered.
* Changing unnamed tickers caused traps. Another fix.
* Stopping a dial attempt with ESC after script had begun caused a redial.
* 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
on everything we have learned over the years about multi-threaded programming
under OS/2." said Oberon founder and President Brady Flowers. "We know
that developers will find many good uses for this toolkit and we ourselves
will be using it extensively in the months to come as we begin to release a
range of new Java based applications and applets."
software, Oberon has included in the new toolkit Java implementations for
ANSI, VT100, and Telnet terminal emulations and ZModem file transfers as well
as a number of Java AWT extensions and utility classes such as circular
spin buttons, Regular Expression matching, CRC calculations, and Internet
e-mail (SMTP) utility classes.
plotting which, in addition to being attractive to scientists, engineers,
educators and students, can also be used by anyone needing to display, size,
and rotate three dimensional images.
port, HLLAPI programming, and a REXX interface which allows a developer to add
REXX scripting support to Java applications. Oberon Software plans to
release cross platform versions of these native classes in a forthcoming
release of the toolkit later this year.
without royalty and has announced an introductory price for the programmer's
portion of the toolkit or $39.95. All interested parties are invited to
contact Oberon Software for more information. Oberon Software can be reached
by phone at 507-388-7001, their web page at http://www.OberonSoftware.com,
or by mail at Oberon Software, Inc., 1405 E. Main St., Mankato, MN 56001,
USA.
related services since 1988. More than just a specialty, OS/2 related
products and services are Oberon Software's only business. Oberon OS/2
products include TE/2 and TE/2 Pro!, FSHL - Oberon Software's Alternative
Command Line Executive, The Oberon Personal VoiceMail Assistant, DiskStat,
LstPM, and the Commpak/2 Programmer's Toolkit for creating telecommunications
routines under OS/2. In addition, Oberon Software has developed unique, OS/2
based solutions for a number of major corporations in the banking and communication
industries.
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Brady Flowers Oberon Software, Inc.
oberon@prairie.lakes.com Voice: 507-388-7001
Fax: 507-388-7568
http://www.OberonSoftware.com
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Oberon Software, Inc.
1.34 TEST DRIVE is now available to the public. The test drive is
available for download today from Oberon Software's BBS at
507-388-1154 (Fidonet 1:292/60, ibmNET 40:4377/60) and from Oberon
Software World Wide Web page at http://www.OberonSoftware.com.
The file name is TE2_134T.ZIP.
than the absence of some of the example scripts and add-on programs
and the inclusion of some extra informational screens, this test drive
is identical the the full, release version of TE/2 1.34.
there as well:
703-385-4325
telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com
http://www.os2bbs.com
/pub/incoming directory initially
/pub/os2/apps/comm/term directory thereafter
most of the vendors listed below under "Pricing and Availability".
the file, in its unmodified form, to any BBS, online service, or FTP
site where you think there may be interest in great OS/2
telecommunications software.
and Web Page. Access to this file requires access validation. Registered
users who have, in the past, downloaded updates from either of these
sites are still validated. All others should contact Oberon Software
for more information.
featured, easy to use, general purpose telecommunications program for
OS/2. Developed originally for OS/2 1.1, it was one the very first such
programs written specifically to take advantage of the power and
capabilities of OS/2.
telecom program anywhere
* REXX as a fully supported, optional script language
* Extensive facility for running external programs and protocols
* Multiple, 200 entry dialing directories
* Call logging
* Split screen chat mode
* 48 Assignable function keys
* Free technical support via the Oberon BBS! and the Internet
* XModem and XModem-1K
* YModem and YModem-G
* ZModem with automatic start-up and resume
* CompuServe(tm) B-Plus protocol
* Ascii file upload and capture
* Standard TTY (teletype) mode
* ANSI-BBS and enhanced ANSI
* VT102 (with VT220 extensions)
* IBM 3101
* Avatar
* TeleVideo 950
This price includes software and online documentation only. Updates
for registered users are no charge other than shipping and handling.
The TE/2 Full Package, complete with manual, is available for
$70.00 (US Dollars).
of the following vendors. This is only a partial list of approved
vendors. Resellers who are interested in handling Oberon Software
products are invited to contact us.
questions about version upgrades, the registration options, product
details, technical support, volume discounts, dealer pricing, site
licenses, etc, should be directed to Oberon Software.
related services since 1988. More than just a specialty, OS/2 related
products and services are Oberon Software's only business. Other Oberon
products include TE/2's "Big Sister" program: TE/2 Pro!, FSHL - Oberon
Software's Alternative Command Line Executive, DiskStat, LstPM, and the
Commpak/2 Programmer's Toolkit for creating telecommunications routines
under OS/2. In addition, Oberon Software has developed unique, OS/2
based solutions for a number of major corporations in the banking and
communication industries.
Brady Flowers Oberon Software, Inc.
oberon@prairie.lakes.com Voice: 507-388-7001
Fax: 507-388-7568
http://www.OberonSoftware.com
WAV data. The result is that your processor acts as a wavetable and the sound
quality is only limited by your patches. The midi engine used in the package
is timidity written by Tuukka Toivonen
MIDWAV to get it to be compatible with DMSI and babmba. I have also improved
the install instructions and I think more people are getting it to work
(evidenced by me getting much less e-mail on the subject)
http;//avenger.mri.psu.edu
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check out Kevin's Rubik cube:
USE OF OTHER'S WEB SITE CONTENT
The dangers of using content from another party s web site without their
permission is under examination in the US case of Ticketmaster Corporation v
Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft linked one of its web sites
(http://seattle.sidewalk.com) to the Ticketmaster web site
(http://www.ticketmaster.com). Ticketmaster claims that this linking
enhanced the value of Microsoft s web site while diminishing the value of
Ticket master s web site by, amongst other things: depriving Ticketmaster of
advertising opportunities; publishing erroneous information; and diluting
the value of Ticketmaster s relationship with MasterCard, a major
advertiser. Ticketmaster is pressing claims for, amongst others, trade mark
infringement and misleading and deceptive conduct. This decision will be
interesting to watch. Even if your intentions are to bring more business to
the linked site, you should obtain permission before establishing a link to
the site to avoid possible legal ramifications.
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fax 61-2 9310-1118 ph 61-2 9310-1214
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~sbt
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