High Memory usage

2003-07-07 13:35:58 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

More and more developers have to use big volumes of memory.. Evgeny Kotsuba talks how to work with High Memory (russian text) and publishes references to further information, test examples and completed modules for big software applications.

MCP2/Rus release

2003-07-05 01:45:40 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, software updates]

eCo Software is proud to announce the release of russian IBM OS/2 MCP2 (14.089_W4). MCP2/Rus is the core of eComStation/Rus 1.1 operating system.

The chief of the project Yuri Proniakin said: "Besides the translation of system messages and reference books we fulfilled labour-intensive work related to alignment of dialog windows and adjusting of hot-keys. Perhaps, russian MCP/2 transcends the original version by external view and functionality."

It is recommended to install MCP2/Rus on embedded computers with reduced RAM (below 48MB). The following are the minimum system requirements for the MCP2/Rus:

• 133 MHz Intel Pentium(R)-compatible CPU
• 32MB RAM; 64MB recommended
• 120MB for the base installation; 300MB minimum for the base installation plus default installed components; 500MB recommended

The product is available to owners of eComStation/Rus 1.1 license only and it is delivered on separate CD.

Translation of eComStation 1.1 to other languages

2003-07-04 13:48:22 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [en.os2.org, Roderick Klein]

To keep people informed what is happening with eComStation 1.1, work on the German version of eComStation 1.1 has already been started. In eComStation 1.1 a lot of work has gone into making the proces easier for us to make other languages.

Also work has started on the French eComStation 1.1. Work on the italian version of eComStation 1.1 will start this week or next week. We except(!) to get the German version final in about a month. Other languages we can not make a forecast on.

Thank you for your patience.

Linux is not more threatening then OS/2 says Bill

2003-07-04 01:02:26 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Henk Pol]

Bill Gates still talking about OS/2: "Are you kidding? I mean, let's be serious. That was IBM, a company 15 times our size. Name a bank that didn't use OS/2. OS/2 was IBM's product, and the IBM army marched behind that product. People always think today's competition is somehow different and unique in some way."

Source: www.usatoday.com

How to win WIN-printers?

2003-07-02 03:51:23 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2.spb.ru]

www.os2.spb.ru published a message with description of Samsung ML-1210 Win-printer usage (SmartGDI-compatible). It's possible that this method will suit for Xerox Phaser 3110.

dRON Pioneer offers jointly find a way to automate printing to this device.

The Final Vote for OS2 World Award has started!

2003-07-02 01:51:19 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com, kimh]

It is time to vote for your favorite OS/2-eCS software, company and person (the latter two who support OS/2-eCS).

We will also update the poll data with proper information about authors and companies and as well with url for more information about the finalists.

To find your way to the poll either click your way via the Annual Awards on the main menu or follow this url.

Also if you have any updates suggestion for the poll, regarding author names and url for more information, please post replies to following thread within the online forum.

Software for OS/2 web-server

2003-07-01 17:13:03 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

eComStation.Ru team inquires visitors of the site report about capacity for work of modern versions of Apache/2, php/2, MySql/2.

If this bundle works perfectly, tell us, what versions are used, what is the loading of your server and its reliability?

APeCS report

2003-06-30 12:08:59 -- APeCS Bot [eComStation.Ru]

Latest changes in APeCS database (11 programs updated) :

• DFSee by Jan van Wijk is updated to 5.23
  Display File Systems (DFSee) is a generic partition and filesystem browser/analyser . . .

• JCW/2 by Serg Kopalin is updated to 1.1
  This program is designed for creation and solving japanese and trditional crosswords . . .

• tavrasm by Tom Mortensen is updated to 1.18
  Macroassembler for AVR-series of microcontrollers . . .

• CooLFM by eCo Software is updated to 2.0 beta 10
  USB, PCI, ISA fm-tuners driver, events manager, transmissions recorder . . .

• CDRWSEL by DODIN is updated to V2.0.1
  GUI to attach multiple CDRW at the same time (Smaller main menu available) . . .

• SNAP by SciTech is updated to 2.2.0
  SciTech SNAP (System Neutral Access Protocol) will change the way you look at device support forever . . .

• Web/2 by dink is updated to 1.3x beta 4
  fast, small and feature-packed web-server . . .

• Shisen/2 by Juergen and Uwe aus dem Moore is updated to 1.3
  Shisen is a popular japanese board game . . .

• RSJ CD Writer by RSJ Software is updated to 5.02
  CD Writing Tool . . .

• WPS Wizard by Chris Wohlgemuth is updated to 0.4.0
  WPS-Wizard is an addon for the WPS which gives you freely configurable context menus for all filesystem objects . . .

• BubblePad by Chris Wohlgemuth is updated to 1.05
  Bubblepad is a replacement class for the Launchpad of OS/2 Warp 3 and above . . .

Testing virtual machines with Warp 4

2003-06-30 01:05:53 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, AndrO]

twoOStwo.Ru site published results of comparative testing of famous virtual machines VMware Workstation 4, twoOStwo 2.1 and Virtual PC 5.2 (russian text). The purpose of the testing was to compare performance of VMs running with guest operating system OS/2 Warp 4.

Test bench description: PC, Pentium III 730 MHz, 384 MBytes, Windows XP Professional Edition host system. Native OS/2 Warp 4 applications and special tests was used.

OS/2 CHL update at www.os2warp.be

2003-06-30 01:03:39 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Jonas Buys]

OS/2 & USB Controllers article was finalized and put online on OS/2 Compatible Hardware List. Article contains in-depth chipsets details.

APeCS database

2003-06-26 10:05:13 -- Deniska [eComStation.Ru]

There were some troubles with APeCS - software database. This troubles were due to some technical problems on our site.

As for now, database is restored from backup, but latest changes are lost. Restoring of this information highly depends on users' activity.

We hope, that together we will be able to keep actual information in this database.

OS2.org with new operators

2003-06-25 17:33:25 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Christian Langanke]

While the closure of OS2.org has been announced some month ago, this website will now be operated by Team OS/2 Deutschland e.V. (Germany) (local association Team OS/2 Ruhr e.V.). The association will provide the technical and financial basis for the website, but for further development as well as for editorial tasks OS2.org still requires help from outside.

Please help to keep OS2.org running!

Please see further details within the current OS2.org editorial!

June OS/2 eZine is Out

2003-06-17 14:26:14 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Robert Basler]

Read the June issue now on-line.

In this issue:

From The Editor -- Robert Basler - so long...

Editorial

• Last of a Dying Breed -- Kim Ludvigsen

Reviews

• Hercules Fortissimo III -- David T. Johnson looks at a sound card.

Articles

• C++ Class Lesson 1 -- Terry Norton is here to help you learn C++
• OS/2 is Boring, Number 11 -- Bas Heijermans looks at file systems.

The Art Department -- Cool desktops for you.

Forums

• Ask John & Rob -- John Bijnens and Robert Basler answer your OS/2 questions in this ongoing forum.
• June Forums -- Questions for the authors? Disagree with us? Take it to the forums.

APeCS report

2003-06-13 17:26:19 -- APeCS Bot [eComStation.Ru]

Latest changes in APeCS database (22 programs updated) :

• Weasel Pro by Peter Moylan is updated to 1.64
  POP3/SMTP server . . .

• Mozilla by Mozilla Team is updated to 1.4 RC1
  Warpzilla is an OS/2 port of most powerfull multiplatform internet suite . . .

• CDRWSEL by My self is updated to 1.4.4
  CDRWSEL is a GUI using RSJ commands It allow you to have more than one CDRW available (cdattach or cdview) with your prefered drive letter and you can access to more finalyze options (add copyright and more ...) . . .

• PMView Pro by Peter Nielsen is updated to 3.0
  Powerfull graphics viewer for OS/2, Windows . . .

• cdrdao/2 by nickk is updated to 1.1.8f1
  Enhanced Os/2 port of cd writing program in DAO mode . . .

• DFSee by Jan van Wijk is updated to 5.21
  Display File Systems (DFSee) is a generic partition and filesystem browser/analyser . . .

• OS/2 Kit for Acrobat Reader by Innotek is updated to 4.05 RC4
  The OS/2 Kit for Acrobat Reader consists of an integrated toolset to allow deploying the original Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.05 and future versions (once supported by InnoTek with the OS/2 Kit) for the Microsoft Windows platform on the OS/2 platform. . . .

• ZeroToaster::MTA by 20/1 Informationssysteme GmbH is updated to 2.14
  ZeroToaster::MTA is a very fast, responsive POP3 and SMTP mailserver with all the features an ISP, Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) or Individual user requires. . . .

• The Little Business Helper by Andreas Schoesser is updated to 0.596 beta
  Little Business Helper is a business tool to create and print invoice and order-forms . . .

• PCRE by Vadim Yegorov is updated to 4.3
  PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expression library . . .

• CDR/RW Wizard by Rocco Foti is updated to 1.0.0
  CDR/RW Wizard is a multithreading GUI Wizard interface to CDRECORD/2 to burning CDR / CDRW (data, audio, video, etc) . . .

• SANE by various people is updated to 1.0.12
  Sane (Scanner Access Now Easy) is software to access scanners with Non-Windows/Mac-Systems . . .

• XSane by Oliver Rauch is updated to 0.91
  XSane is a powerful graphic front-ends for SANE (scanner ACCESS Now Easy), which requires a functioning libsane.dll (e.g . . .

• CooLFM by eCo Software is updated to 2.0 beta 8
  fm-tuner driver, events manager, transmissions recorder . . .

• PM Downloader by Eugene Romanenko is updated to 0.8.5
  PM Downloader is the advanced interactive multithreaded network retriever for OS/2 & eCS Presentation Manager supporting HTTP and FTP protocols for downloading files . . .

• WSIEVER by - is updated to 1.1
  WSIEVER is a tool to monitor your favorite web pages and notify you if they have updated . . .

• socksd by nickk is updated to 2.2.2
  Native multithreaded socksd server with built-in TCP/UDP portmaps . . .

• DaniS506 by Daniela Engert is updated to 1.6.6
  DaniS506.ADD - replacement for IBM1S506.ADD . . .

• Java Movie Database by Juergen Ulbts & Uwe Freese is updated to 1.2
  Java Movie Database is a Java based application for searching and getting information about movies, actors and all that has to do with these . . .

• Font Engine (FT2LIB) by Innotek is updated to Technology Preview 2
  The InnoTek Font Engine for OS/2 (powered by Freetype 2) is a port of the Freetype 2 font engine to the OS/2 Warp platform which provides a tight integration with the OS/2 graphics subsystem . . .

• JPhotoBrush by Tanveer Rameez is updated to 2.2
  This is an Image Editing and Enhancement Application/Tool written in Java 1.3 making extensive use of Swings and Java2D . . .

• OS/2 Kit For Java by Innotek is updated to 1.4.1_03 RC3
  OS/2 Platform Enablement Kit for Sun Java 2 Standard Edition Version 1.4.1_01 ("OS/2 Kit for Java") is a software package designed to address the needs of enterprises still running the IBM OS/2 platform while requiring access to the latest Java technology from Sun Microsystems . . .

Introduction to Sibyl

2003-06-06 03:15:08 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

Every user must create his own application one day.. You can do this now after reading Inroduction to Sybil by stVova (russian text).

More updates of eCS components

2003-06-06 03:08:12 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.ecomstation.com]

Special updates for eCS users was published at eComStation.Com. After Logging In, click on 'download latest software'. At the bottom of the first page, enter name of component in the 'search' box.

New version of NTFS.IFS driver

There is a fixed version of NTFS.IFS driver for eComStation 1.1 users. Thanks to active testers and productive reports from customers now we have highly accelerated version with support of various versions of NTFS.

This driver was created to simplify migration to eComStation and give additional power to warped users in heterogeneous world.

Status of current version:

• NLS filename space support
• EA support
• any cluster size support
• any NTFS version support (not tested with Windows2003)
• support of large files ( >4gb)
• partial support of compression

Current performance: simple test, speed of copy operations:

in eCS -- Copy a 500MB file from NTFS to HPFS, 1.400K/sec
in W2K -- Copy a 500MB file from NTFS to FAT32, 3.000K/sec

Please test this new release and report your findings through the bugtracker.

New version of IBM Streaming LPR Port Driver

Streaming Line PRinter (SLPR) is a streaming port driver (SLPR.PDR) used to connect your computer to a printer or print server via a TCP/IP connection. The driver uses Line Printer Daemon (LPD) protocol as specified in RFC 1179. This protocol is an almost universal way to send print data to printers and servers. It is meant to be used as a alternative to the \PIPE\LPD0 (henceforth LPD0) port driver which is shipped with OS/2.

Features:

• Faster Throughput: Data can be sent to the printer almost as soon as it is generated as compared to the LPD0 driver which needs to wait until all the printer job is generated before it is sent.
• Simpler Setup: The LPD0 driver requires a separate program (LPD.EXE) be up and running before it will work. Since the LPD program is communicating with the printer directly it has the status - not the spooler.
• Better Error Handling: With LPD0 any problems are reported via LPD program and not the spooler. With SLPR there is a direct interaction with the spooler so error recovery is more intelligent.
• User Specified Time-outs: With LPD the default is to wait indefinitely so out of paper or printer jams are not noticed for a long time. With SLPR any waits longer than the user specified time-out generates an easy to see pop-up notification.
• More Ports: SLPR can have up to 64.