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)

When I was writing last month's report I had the feeling that it might be difficult to find any Scandinavian OS/2 news for this month's report, but I was proved wrong - to my great relief!

Last month I stated that FixPak 38 for Warp 3 had been released in the Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish languages. That turned out to be wishful thinking on my part - it was, and is, only available in English at the moment. Sorry about this unfortunate mistake, I hope I didn't disappoint too many of you.

Back to this month's report:

Larsen Commander by Leif-Erik Larsen from Norway (leifel@online.no)

http://home.sol.no/~leilarse/lcmd/index.html

Leif-Erik Larsen, whose home page with a number of utilities I've mentioned before, has released a beta version of his Larsen Commander. The Larsen Commander acts very much like the once popular Norton Commander for DOS, yet looks much nicer thanks to its graphical user interface. The beta is free, but the release version will be shareware. Even to a command line interface geek like myself the Larsen Commander looks promising.

PMView by Peter Nielsen from Finland (peter@pmview.com)

http://www.pmview.com/

Peter Nielsen will soon release version 1.03 of his popular image viewer, PMView. It will mainly be a bug fix released, but the be followed shortly by a beta version of PMView 2.0 which will introduce a number of new features - watch this space or PMView's home page for more information.

Tunnel/2 by F/X Communications from Denmark (sales@fx.dk)

http://www.fx.dk/tunnel/

F/X Communications, the makers of the Internet dialer In-Joy, has updated Tunnel/2. It is a tool for building a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN). I don't know much about this subject so you will have to visit F/X Communications' home page to read more about what's new in Tunnel/2.

InetPowerServer v0.75Beta2 by Terje Flaarønning from Norway (terje.flaaronning@eunet.no)

http://home.eunet.no/~ill/projects/index.html

Terje Flaarønning has released a beta version of IPS. IPS is a server application for Internet based protocols like ftp, pop and smtp and lets you set up a ftp and/or mail server. Detailed information about IPS is available at Terje's home page.

FreeCode by JMA Software Technologies from Sweden (free@jmast.se)

http://www.jmast.se/free/

JMA Software Technologies has decided to release the source code for their boot time utility BootSet and the function libraries used to develop their applications as FreeCode. More on JMA Software Technologies's home page.

Blade's MP3 Encoder (BladeEnc) ported by mikkje@algonet.se from Sweden

http://home8.swipnet.se/~w-82625/encoder/DL.html

A Swede, whose name I unfortunately don't know, has ported Tord Jansson's MP3 encoder BladeEnc to OS/2. Blade's MP3 Encoder (BladeEnc) is a freeware MP3 encoder.

OS/2 FAQ for beginners (in Swedish) by Richard Röjfors (rojfors@hem2.passagen.se)

http://hem2.passagen.se/rojfors/os/2/index.html

Frequently Asked Questions with answer to why it is a good idea to install OS/2 for the first time.

Installing OS/2 on an IBM Aptiva by Per Johansson (hawklord@one.se)

http://www.one.se/~hawklord/computer.html

How to install OS/2 on a IBM Aptiva computer, with installation instructions that users of other computer brands may benefit from as well.


Thanks to Per Johansson for supplying Swedish links and updates. All links mentioned here are as usual available at my home page with links to Scandinavian OS/2 Resources on the Internet.

Please do not hesitate to send me any news related to OS/2 from around the Scandinavian area.

- 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 12 11 74, and +45-63 12 12 74.