Ghostscript 7.03 released

2001-10-23 20:33:16 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Klaus Staedtler]

Ghostscript 7.03 an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF has been released

URL: ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/gs703/gs703os2.zip.

This release is a maintenance release in the 7.0x branch. Numerous bug fixes and performance enhancements are included. We heartily recommend that you upgrade.

As PM Frontend you might want to use Ghostview latest version is 4.05 beta: ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/beta/gsv405os2.zip.

XSane 0.80

2001-10-23 20:30:57 -- Igor Vanin [www.os2.org, Franz Bakan]

XSane is a very powerful, graphical front end for SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy).

You need functional libsane.dll (e.g. from SANE-1.05) and a XServer (e.g. XFree86OS/2).

Highlights:

• Exportformats: jpeg, tiff, Postscript, pnm, raw, png
• Copy with mouseclick (with help from ghostscript)
• sending PNG directly as email

XSane is a BETA version what means that it's running on the desktop of the author (SANE 1.05, EPSON GT-9500) but has not been tested on other configurations. Feedback is very welcome!

URL:

Timidity 2.10.4 released

2001-10-23 20:30:13 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Klaus Staedtler]

TiMidity plays MIDI and Module (.MOD) files. It does it in software without depending on any hardware MIDI support your soundcard might have. Sound quaility can be much higher because it limited by your CPU's power and memory rather then your soundcard's power and memory.

URL: http://www.reamined.on.ca/doconnor/timidity.html.

It is a a text-mode version of TiMidity 2.10.4. This isn't a MCD version. It supports more types of module files, playing files from inside zip and other archives, playing files directly off the web, a "ncurses" text mode interface and a much cleaner port.

UPS Monitor updated

2001-10-23 20:29:30 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Amin Schwarz]

UPS Monitor has been updated with new features and more support for various UPS brands.

A new release for UPS Monitor B now supports APC Back-UPS ES series in addition to the Back-UPS and Back-UPS Offices models.

UPS Monitor C has been updated to support most contact closure models by adding UPS signal polarity selection. It even supports UPS models without a communications interface. See the help for details.

UPS Monitor for PowerCard has been posted for the Guardian On Board PowerCard, a small, internal UPS.

All UPS Monitor versions now include a manual shutdown menu with APM shutdown option and a UPS-activated external script to use XWorkplace Extended Shutdown.

UPS Monitor can be found at http://home.att.net/~ASchw/upsmonitor.html.

CC65 V2.7.0

2001-10-23 19:08:09 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Mirco]

CC65 V2.7.0 - C crosscompiler for 6502.

The libraries are fairly portable, so creating a version for other 6502s shouldn't be too much work.

URL: http://www.cc65.org/.

CC65 has C and runtime library support for many of the old 6502 machines, including:

• The Commodore C64, C128 and the C16, C116, Plus/4 machines.
• The CBM 510 (aka P500), a quite rare Commodore machine (programs run in bank 0).
• The CBM 600/700 family (programs run in bank 1).
• Newer PET machines (not 2001)
• The Apple ][ (library support by Kevin Ruland )
• The Atari 8 bit machines (thanks to the Atari team: Christian Groessler (cpg@aladdin.de), Mark Keates (markk@dendrite.co.uk), Freddy Offenga (taf_offenga@yahoo.com) and David Lloyd, (dmlloyd@atari-central.com)).
• GEOS for the C64 and C128 (GEOSLib by Maciej Witkowiak (ytm@elysium.pl))

OS/2: There are very few downloads for this version, so while it is still available, it may get removed soon.

Russian Apache for OS/2 (1.3.22 PL30.9)

2001-10-23 19:04:21 -- Igor Vanin [www.os2.ru, os2ok]

Apache is freeware, opensource HTTP server.

Brian Havard compiles russian Apache for OS/2.
Homepage: http://silk.apana.org.au/apache/
Download: http://apache.org/~bjh/apache/download/apache_1.3.22rusPL30.9-os2.zip

Michael Ijlin has released X-Commander 0.27

2001-10-22 17:09:35 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Klaus Staedtler]

X-Commander is a powerfull textmode shell, designed to facilate a number of operations with files, directories and archives under OS/2, Windows'9x/NT, Windows'2000 operation systems.
URL: ftp://ftp.projects.os2.ru/x-commander/xc20_27b.zip.

Ghostview 4.04 beta released

2001-10-22 17:08:12 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Klaus Staedtler]

GSView is a forntend viewer for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF.

Download GSView: ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/beta/.
Homepage: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.

IBM DB2 Upgrade discounts

2001-10-19 20:06:28 -- Igor Vanin [Max Mozok]

IBM offers discounts for those customers who want to upgrade IBM DB2 5.x or 6.x up to 7.2. This offer is valid during limited time.

URL: http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/ExecMacro/generic.d2w/report?pmrfnbr=287557&cntrfnbr=1&shoprfnbr=1&cntry=840&lang=en_US&scrfnbr=73.

Important FIX: DFSee version 4.07 released

2001-10-19 20:04:30 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Jan van Wijk]

An unplanned but important update. The problem (in 4.05 and 4.06) with multiple-disks showing the same information in the part and map displays has been solved!

DFSee is an FDISK-like display, analysis and recovery tool with powerfull FIX commands and UNDELETE for HPFS and NTFS.

Details can be found at http://www.fsys.demon.nl/dfsee.htm.

Hypermake 3.99b

2001-10-19 20:02:39 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Klaus Staedtler]

With Hypermake (earlier version "MakeIPF"), you can easily create HTML files or IBM IPF files, Winhelp and Microsoft HTML-Help files.

Instead of editing the HTML, IPF or RTF files directly, you enter a more simple ASCII source text. Links are created automatically; windows of different headings levels can be shown simultaneusly (frames) with only one command; at the end of a chapter, links to subchapters are created automatically and a lot of more.

URL: http://www.vr-transport.de/Martin/english/hypermake.html.

New codecs for Warpvision

2001-10-18 19:46:26 -- Igor Vanin [www.os2.org, Jason Stefanovich]

These codecs will enable the playing of the vast majority of AVIs, including Indeo, Cinepac and MP4. All codecs have been tested for compatibility with over 40 AVI files.
URL: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=wviscdc.zip.

Mozilla 0.9.5

2001-10-18 19:44:23 -- Igor Vanin [VOICENWS, Mike Kaply]

New Mozilla with many bugfixes.

• Startup has been optimized
• Plugins are working again
• Off by one problems are fixed
• At least one random hang has been fixed
• Third level menus display properly

URL: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.5/mozilla-os2-vacpp-0.9.5.zip.

NetDrive Archive PlugIn, second preview-alpha

2001-10-17 11:00:12 -- Deniska [ecomstation.ru, Deniska]

New version of NetDrive Archive PlugIn.

changes:

• perfomance changes: speed up reading file list, file header is read only if archive is changed, file is repacked only if it was changed;
• if file was read-only it wasn't deleted from TEMP directory;
• now it is built with debug log.

URL: http://ecomstation.ru/ndparch/ndparch.zip

DualMode library and MGLServer release 5 available

2001-10-17 00:36:44 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Marty Amodeo]

http://emuos2.netlabs.org

The DualMode library and MGLServer are an application interface for developers to write graphical applications which can switch between full screen and windowed operation, with advanced features such as keyboard, mouse, and joystick support, frame rate timing and frameskip regulation, and palette handling.

http://emuos2.netlabs.org/generic/dmlib_r5_srcbin.zip
http://emuos2.netlabs.org/generic/mglserver_r5_srcbin.zip

MySQL update

2001-10-17 00:33:18 -- Eugene Gorbunoff [VOICENWS, Timo Maier]

The MySQL database server is the world's most widely used open source database. If you don't have the C2T temporary file problem, you don't need this update.
http://yware.dnsalias.com/yuri/mysql2/mysql-3-23-42-upd2.zip