Documented fixes are:
For information, see http://www.cds-inc.com/techsprt/ba2ktech.html#wks_latest
Products include PartitionMagic v5 ($30), DriveImage v2 ($30), DataKeeper v3 ($25), SecondChance v2 ($30), Lost&Found ($30), and OpenLinux 2.3 ($25).
Deeper quantity discounts are also available for mixes of any 3, any 4, any 5 or any 6 products.
I was particularly impressed with PartitionMagic v5 and all its features, for use with OS/2, ably demonstrated by Jim Nuytens at our March 22nd Philadelphia OS/2 SIG meeting.
Subsequently placed an order for PM-v5 at this User Group price, since my good old PM-v3 may not be capable of dealing with hard drives larger than 8.3GB. I plan to install a new 20.5GB drive in the very near future.
PowerQuest Corporation can be reached at http://www.powerquest.com/.
Flash is the standard for creating high-impact, vector-based web sites that deliver motion, sound, interactivity, and graphics.
Jointly developed by Macromedia and InnoTek and based on the very latest Flash technology, this brings the leading internet multimedia technology by Macromedia to the OS/2 Warp platform. Operating as a plugin inside Netscape Communicator for OS/2, it now makes it possible for every OS/2 desktop to view websites based on the exciting Flash technology. After several months of development and passing the Macromedia Flash Compatibility Suite, the plugin is now available for download.
Flash for OS/2 Warp utilizes OS/2 Warp's advanced DIVE and DART technnologies and directly accesses your video and audio hardware to deliver outstanding performance.
For more information, please visit our web site at: http://www.innotek.de/flash
InnoTek Systemberatung
flash@innotek.de
http://www.innotek.de/
Tel: +49 7151 9965-30
InnoTek is a registered trademark of InnoTek Systemberatung
Flash, Macromedia and Macromedia Flash are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Macromedia Inc.
IBM, OS/2 and OS/2 Warp are trademarks or registered trademark
of International Business Machines Corp.
Netscape, Netscape Communicator are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Netscape Communications, Inc.
Some features:
Author/Maintainer: Christian Langanke, Team OS/2 Germany
What is the Workplace Shell Toolkit?
This toolkit is a collection of APIs being designed to greatly reduce the amount of efforts required to build common Workplace Shell Classes. These APIs are divided into several minor and major categories. Most of the APIs are helper functions, being gathered in minor categories as:
Of course, much more are still to be implemented.
Larger function categories deal with a whole set of tasks being required to provide certain WPS class functionality, making the implementation much more easy compared to the formerly required coding of large amount of code, needing a lot of testing and having also much nealry redundant code. Two major categories are already implemented:
The detailed on-line help povides a syntax explanation as well as a programming guide for the major categories, both in the well known INF book layout style, that programmers are used to from the IBM Toolkit for OS/2 WARP. More, for each category a sample program is provided, enabling to easily test all APIs with your compiler and toolkit configuration.
Supported compilers/Requirements
The following compilers are supported:
Also required:
Where can I obtain the Workplace Shell Toolkit?
The Workplace Shell Toolkit is free software and open source, as such it can be used, modified and redistributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING.LIB" file of the WPS Toolkit source distribution.
In short, this license allows everyone to use the unmodified toolkit library in both free or commercial software products without any other limitation or any fee. Only if a modified version of the toolkit library is being used, the modified toolkit and also the complete using program is required to be made publicly available, thus open source.
OS/2 Netlabs provides an Open Source Archive on the Netlabs CVS Server, from where you can download the current developer version either with the "Netlabs Open Source Archive Client" or plain CVS.
If you have good ideas for extending the library, or if you are interested in participating the Workplace Shell Toolkit project team, then contact us vial e-mail at wpstk@netlabs.org
See the following web pages:
The OS/2 Netlabs homepage - http://www.netlabs.org/
The home page of the "Netlabs Open Source Archive Client" - http://www.netlabs.org/nosa
If you use plain CVS, point your CVSROOT to www.netlabs.org:d:/netlabs.src/wpstk and login as "guest" with password "readonly". The recommended way for CVS beginners is to use the Netlabs Open Source Archive Client though.
Send comments and suggestions to: wpstk@netlabs.org
What's next?
As soon as the forthcoming home page of the Workplace Shell Toolkit is up, a binary distribution will be made available on Internet FTP servers (like hobbes etc). This distribution will already contain the library compiled for all supported compilers and the compiled online help and thus be ready to use.
More, we of course search for programmers wanting to share their special WPS code with us, that could be of use for other WPS prgrammers as well. Do you have a particular useful function or a good idea of how to encapsulate a complex task in a really simple set of APIs? Then don't hesitate to contact us at wpstk@netlabs.org
The toolkit is for you programmers, and you can help us most to make it the way that you and all of the OS/2 Workplace Shell developers can get the most benefit out of it.
Download it free from http://www.ringsys.co.uk/webmonitor/try/InstData/Other/install.zip (1.5M, requires Java)
We appreciate your feedback: http://www.websitewatchers.co.uk/
DTSaver uses Zip.exe (Info-Zip). Otherwise, it is a plain REXX script that will run on any OS/2 with REXX support installed.
DTSaver saves all back-up files in discrete archives with a number appended. If you use it at boot, it will effectively show how many times you booted on day n.
You can set the number of back-ups to accumulate before purging. You can set the number of files to purge as well.
DTSaver also creates a cumulative report file that shows the file attributes for the OS2*.ini and Config.sys. You can use this report to track the sizes of these files. Your investments may be shrinking... Watch your Os2.ini grow!
I've uploaded DTSaver to Hobbes. You can also pluck it from http://www.cyberus.ca/~muses9
Are you tired of writing your passwords on yellow sticky notes or using the same password for everything so you don't forget? Would you like a secure place to keep all your passwords and secrets? Look no further!
KeyRing/2 acts like an impregnable safe filled with all your passwords. Only you can open that safe with a master password.
KeyRing/2 is a secure database for all your passwords, product registration codes, lock combinations, bank PINs, you name it. By entering a single password you can instantly retrieve all your passwords and secrets.
The USA/Canada version of the program uses Blowfish (448 bit) encryption. This military-grade encryption technology is generally much stronger than the password security algorithms used in the web pages and applications you access.
The export version of KeyRing/2 uses DES (48 bit) to encrypt your secrets and is user upgradable to 448 bit encryption, if the US encryption export laws allow.
KeyRing/2 can interact with your clipboard, allowing you to cut/paste your passwords into any program running on your desktop. It can automatically launch Netscape and open your favorite web sites that require passwords.
KeyRing/2 allows you to break your secrets up into several categories, allowing you to find them quickly. With KeyRing/2, you can sort your secret databases in many different ways.
KeyRing/2 can optionally assign an icon to each of your secrets to allow you to find them quickly. KeyRing/2 has over 130 icons built in and you may use any external ICO files you might have on hand. IDK, Inc. has a library of thousands of icons available for free download.
We are applying for a crypto export license to allow the shipment of the Blowfish version out of North America.. Stay tuned for further developments.
KeyRing/2 has the following features:
http://www.idk-inc.com/kr2index.htm
The grand unveiling will occur at the February 19th meeting of the Southern California OS/2 Users Group. For meeting info see:
You can obtain this update from the following links :
Back Again/2000 Workstation
http://www.cds-inc.com/techsprt/ba2ktech.html#wks_latest
Back Again/2000 Server
http://www.cds-inc.com/techsprt/ba2ktech.html#svr_latest
We thank all those who helped test this update and to the many, many more who cheerfully volunteered!
For those of you who don't know what MIDI Station Sequencer is - its the most advanced MIDI/Audio MIDI sequencer available for the OS/2 platform!!
You can download the latest version at: http://www.dinosoft.it/~midistation/index.html
The website will be updated with correct screenshots of the sequencer over the next few days. Look for the final edition in two weeks!!
I look forward to hearing your feedback and comments.