SCANDINAVIAN REPORT


Serving Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
by Kaare Thor Olsen
Odense, Denmark
kaare@nightcall.dk
http://www.nightcall.dk/
http://www.nightcall.dk/english.htm (English version)

Starting this month the Denmark Report changes to the Scandinavian Report, in order for you to have more to read about (and me to have more to write about). :-)

For starters I will be covering Denmark, Norway and Sweden initially, whereas, mainly due to language problems, Finland and Iceland will hopefully be covered later.

If you have Scandinavian (including Finland or Iceland) news or comments about this column, please get in touch with me.

NEWSGROUPS

With the votes 134 for and 8 against, the unmoderated newsgroup dk.edb.os2 has been created. The newsgroup's purpose is discussions, questions and answers, and information about OS/2. Read the announcement (only in Danish) at:

http://sunsite.auc.dk/usenet/dk.edb.os2/ota

For more than a year the Norwegians have been using no.it.os.os2. There doesn't seem to be a Swedish OS/2 newsgroup, but I'm sure the Swedes are welcome in the Danish and/or Norwegian newsgroups.

OS/2 SITES

I've been looking at the brand new Yahoo!s in Denmark, Norway and Sweden for any new OS/2 sites, but it was the Norwegian Kvasir which gave me the pointers to most of the sites mentioned here below.

First off, the Swedish OS/2 newsletter "Nebula" at:

http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-29767/nebula/

Here is a quote from the site:

"Nebula is a non-religious, non-political newsletter about the OS/2 operating system and it's future. Our primary goal with nebula is to in a non-evangelistic way study how IBM and other companies promote and use OS/2, and why they do it. In other words - if Windows NT or Linux does something better than OS/2, we're not ashamed to say it. Nebula also writes about new software, bugs, upgrades and other stuff that the OS/2 user can make use of."

People who understand Swedish can subscribe to the newsletter from this page:

http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-29767/nebula/nordic/

If you prefer the English language Nebula is incidentially also available in English at:

http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-29767/nebula/international/

It seems this site is just starting up as I was unable to find any newsletters in the archive (actually, the archive link didn't work, but matters may have improved when you read this).

The Swedish OS/2 User Group have an English language web page at:

http://www.os2ug.se/

The Norwegian OS/2 user group (OS/2 Brukerforum Norge) - in Norwegian:

http://www.os2bfn.no/

This is a very impressive site with news, rumours, software, articles, tips and tricks.

Team OS/2 Midt-Norge (Team OS/2 Central Norway) offers an extensive web site with membership information and links at:

http://www.teamos2.no/~teamos2/

- and some of the information in English:

http://www.teamos2.no/~teamos2/intteam.html

The probably northernmost Team OS/2 representation in Europe is POLAR TeamOS/2 at Bardufoss in Norway, it is located about 500 km north of the polar circle. POLAR TeamOS/2's page is in English and is located at:

http://home.sol.no/kolbjorn/os2/

And finally, software.

I hadn't noticed that DirMaster was a Norwegian product, but it turned out to be so upon visiting:

http://www.cs.uit.no/~wilkens/ilogic/dirmaster-os2-intro.html

Many of you probably know DirMaster already, but here is a quote from the home page:

"DirMaster is a full featured file and directory manager for OS/2 PM. It is based on the highly successful Directory Opus on Amiga. It features two very fast directory lists (dirwindows), two statuslines and a button bar with up to 96 functions only one mouse click away. DirMaster includes more than 30 internal functions".

Please do not hesitate to send me any Scandinavian specific news and information you would like mentioned in this column.

- Kaare Thor Olsen

Kaare Thor Olsen is a programmer in Odense, Denmark. He has been using OS/2 since version 2.0 and is a member of Team OS/2. He is also the SysOp for the NightCall BBS at +45-63 12 10 74, +45-63 11 10 74, and +45-66 19 30 74.