On this page you can find and download programs and applications which I have compiled for XFree86/OS2. I am not a programmer and in most cases this was very easy. Just a xmkmf -a and so on. Anyway, some others took me some time and there were also some programs, where I had no success. I am saying this, because I want to encourage you just to try to compile the programs you need instead of looking on the ported software page and waiting for your app.
My aim was to get an environment under XFree86/os2, where I can do my work and don't have to switch back to the pm. This means especially LaTeX and internet-stuff. So if you try out some of the programs here, you will see, that they are not perfect (in fact some a very instabil). But in a way they work for me. I am reading news with knews since months and think it is one of the finest news-readers (funny word, I read the news not the news-reader) for os2. Also I prefer using Xdvi instead of dvipm, because of its ability to display postscript.
Expect the programs here to look for typical unix apps like sh.exe, rm.exe etc. You should have them in your path. From my point of view it is also a good idea, to have a unix like directory structure with all the essentials under /usr and so on. It may be, that this is still hard-coded in a lot of programs on this page. Another hint would be to have the /usr tree, the /home tree with your data, the /emx tree, the /emtex tree and the /xfree86 tree on one drive, because most xfree86 apps have never heard something about drive-letters (and I told only a view about this stupid old DOS-thing). I played some time with tvfs to ship around this problem, but got some new problems when ill-behaved programs tried to create files at the root level of the tvfs drive or when I tried to dump emacs. So now I am using ext2fs, which gives me also the ability to create links and is very stable (for me).
Of course, this page would be a good place to say thank you to all the people who wrote all the applications here, they have done the work and to Eberhard Mattes and Holger Veit for creating this great Unix-like environment for os/2.
If you encounter tons of error messages at startup, check for the file XKeysymDB in your xfree86/lib/X11 directory. This file is now also in the *.zip archiv.
If you have a unix like shell (like sh.exe from pdksh.zip on leo), you should set the environment variable COMSPEC to this shell before starting mosaic, because cmd.exe will not understand the unix like statements which mosaic uses to start other processes like helper apps.
There are also bugs in lesstif, so Mosaic will disappear from time to time, when trying to display more complicated web-pages. But it looks nice and you can browse leo and other important pages directly from your X11 desktop. I have not spent to much time into the configuration, but a lot of things are configurable, so you should look in the NCSA Documentation, which is available on the web.
This is the ghostscript homepage, where you might look for further information.
If you have set these things up correctly, you should also be able to use
Then we have:
Two other games I compiled are Xpilot, where I could not get the client talking to my local server, so it is not here. But if you need it, compile it yourself, the client is talking fine to remote servers. And Xrisk, this one compiled also fine (maybe some small changes), but drive letters were built into the source-code during compilation and so my copy will be useless for you. Compile it, if you want to play !
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