Updated popular software

2003-11-28 21:48:37 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, software updates]

eCo Software updates three popular applications: JRescuer, PMDownloader, coolfm.

	JRescuer v.1.9 - allows recover damaged JFS volumes and undelete files survived on JFS. (/O key determines new fullpath for data restoration; Saving true date and attributes).
	PMDownloader v.0.8.8 - interactive multithreaded network retriever supporting HTTP and FTP protocols for downloading files (Fixed trap caused by forward to reference with unsupported protocol; Correct drawing of icons for compatibility with low-quality video drivers).
	coolfm v.2.11 - utility to control FM-tuners (Updated USBRESMG.SYS driver for owners of USB-tuners, thx Markus Montkowski; New bonus packs for USA users, thx Tom Brown; Support of dutch language, thx Bart van Leeuwen).

Update on WarpWeekend 2003, reserve your lunch!

2003-10-13 17:23:11 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Roderick Klein]

You have 1 week left to reserve your lunch for WarpWeekend. You can also take your own lunch with you. You can reserve your lunch *until* the 19th of October!

Please, reserve your access to WarpWeekend in advance! We also need to know how many people will be coming!

Some things you can expect at WarpWeekend. The latest news on eComStation, capturing MPEG II video under OS/2 and see the latest Maul Publisher version (only at WarpWeekend with a 10% discount).

Visit homepage of WarpWeekend.

Open Office for eComStation (OS/2) Users

2003-09-23 01:29:44 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.ecomstation.com, Bob St.John]

NorthLAN Solutions, St. Paul, MN, Serenity Systems, Lewisville, TX, and InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, Weinstadt, Germany, reached agreement to make Open Office support available to OS/2 users. The development will be done by InnoTek, which has demonstrated its expertise in this area with various projects including updated Adobe Acrobat and updated Java support for OS/2 users. The product plan includes a session to be given by InnoTek at Warpstock. During this session, plans for the beta and general availability will be discussed.

NorthLAN Solutions is a technical fee services organization which has been providing OS/2 and Warp Server support to enterprise accounts since the late 1980s. Beyond the OS/2 oriented skills, NorthLAN is certified on IBM hardware, including the IBM eServer xSeries product line, and software products including firewalls, Linux, and strategic IBM products, such as WebSphere.

According to Bob St.John, of Serenity Systems, "This represents the growing relationship between NorthLAN and Serenity. NorthLAN has been a Premium Channel Partner for years, but now we are moving beyond offering products through NorthLAN. NorthLAN will participate in developing and maintaining products. We are working to develop service and support offerings with NorthLAN to meet the needs of users, commercial accounts, fee service providers, and enterprise accounts; taking advantage of NorthLAN`s experience for over a decade in these environments."

When available, the Open Office for OS/2 package will be available to OS/2 and eComStation users through the Serenity Systems reseller channel. The product will also be offered in special packages with products and services, including offerings by NorthLAN Solutions.

eComStation 1.1 German shipping

2003-09-22 03:55:09 -- kamuzon [en.os2.org, Roderick Klein (Mensys)]

Mensys is pleased to announce that from today it has started shipping eComStation 1.1 German. Will take some days until all orders are processed.

Work on Dutch, Italian and French Versions of eComStation 1.1. is progressing. No release date has been set for those versions.

September issue of OS/2 eZine

2003-09-22 03:50:35 -- kamuzon [ecomstation.ru, GPV&KGB]

September 2003 issue of OS/2 e-Zine is now on-line.

In this issue:

From The Editor -- Isaac Leung Who`s on OS/2?

Reviews

• Smalltalk -- Isaac Leung looks at some Smalltalk tools
• Euler 1.23 -- Isaac Leung discovers Euler
• CAD Part III -- Isaac Leung finally gets a peek at Microstation and has a CADVANCE tip
• eComStation 1.1 from a user`s view -- Mike Engle takes a look at some new things in eComStation 1.1

Articles

• OS/2 Meets 64-bit Opteron -- David T. Johnson builds a 64-bit Opteron machine for OS/2
• C++ Lesson 4: Functions -- Terry Norton continues C++ class with functions

Forums

• Ask John -- John Bijnens answer your OS/2 questions in this ongoing forum.
• September Forums

Native OpenOffice for 50K$

2003-08-21 15:37:35 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [Eugene Gorbunoff, CommTalk.de]

Users discussed the problem of native OpenOffice and cost of its implementation.

"Jonas Buys has contacted Ukranian programmers and it seems they would prepared ton compose A native OO for 500 x 100 USD". Is it a speculation or real project? - let's wait for additional news.

Danware is looking for feedback from the community

2003-08-14 23:06:03 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Enterprise Warp & Workspace Services]

NetOp /Danware has approached EMEA, stating that they consider to create/release a new version of their NetOp RemoteControl product on OS/2. Currently they are looking for feedback from the community. If you use their product and miss a feature or functionality OR if you not yet use it and consider a product, review their product and ask for things missing.

Please provide feedback and send any additional questions to Wolfgang Falz

OS/2 Java 1.4.1 story on TheInquirer.net

2003-08-10 04:03:05 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Fernando Cassia]

theInquirer mentions OS/2 more often in the last time..

Sun Java2 1.4.1 ported to OS/2 shock. Aliens not involved, apparently!

JFS recovery

2003-08-04 09:54:41 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [eCo Software, software updates]

The topic of JFS service is very urgent because this file system becomes main for the operating system.

Pavel Shtemenko published JFS recovering methodology. He suggested to use special utility JRescuer (even if you can't recover volume, you will save major part of files and directories structure)

JRescuer - is a product of eCo Software, (c) Pavel Shtemenko; The product will be distributed through Mensys e-shop.

Golden Code(R) J2SE(TM) 1.4.1 Generally Available

2003-07-25 09:23:33 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [www.os2world.com, Eric Faulhaber]

Golden Code Development today announced the general availability of its native port to OS/2 of Sun Microsystems' J2SE(TM) 1.4.1_03 platform. Licenses are free for personal and commercial use. Fee-based support contracts are available through Golden Code Development and IBM Global Services.

Please visit the Golden Code Development website for additional information.

New version of alternative shell PDE

2003-07-07 17:49:43 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru, stVova]

The second public version of PDE project (Polumux Desktop Environment) was released. Current version of the shell is 0.04.. Nevertheless it is equipped with multifunctional Desktop, file manager (similar to PMFolder class) and P-bar (exdended launchpad).

PDE includes some applications (for example, PDE eD2 editor may be useful for edit of texts typed in win1251, KOI-8 and IBM866 codepages). The second feature of the editor is syntax highlighting (Pascal, C/C++, Java, PHP, HTML, REXX).

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?

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.

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.

Updated Java 1.3.1 Available for Download

2003-05-17 01:06:53 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.com, Bob St.John]

IBM updated the JAVAINTK and JAVAINRT files. These files are available to registered eComStation users from the www.ecomstation.com site by logging on and selecting the files from the Fixes - Features section of the Download New Software.

Russian version of Lotus Smart Suite

2003-05-05 01:23:39 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [ecomstation.ru]

We are reseaching demand for russian version of Lotus Smart Suite.

Lotus SmartSuite consists of four components:

• Lotus 1-2-3 - the original PC spreadsheet
• Lotus WordPro - powerful word processing
• Lotus Freelance Graphics - create compelling presentations
• Lotus Approach - database access made easy

Lotus Smart Suite surpasses competitors in functionality and friendliness of user interface. English version of LSS is available as component of eComStation Application pack.

Contact eCo Software if your company/state body is interested in creation of Lotus Smart Suite/Rus.