PmAs v1.0 - "Astronomy for the Presentation Manager"
by Cornelis Bockemuehl
PmAs is a set of astronomically oriented programs. It calculates positions of
celestial bodies, times, risings and settings etc. and displays the results in table
and/or graphic form, all nicely integrated in the Presentation Manager. Because
of the modular architecture of the whole, more may be added easily and surely will
be in the future.
I have been developing and using the different program modules for years already,
but only now I decided to create a version for the public, with documentation, language
support (german and english) etc. However, the whole thing is still "work in
progress" and always will be probably, but those interested in astronomy are
invited to visit my homepage, download the zipped archives and use them freely for
private or scientific purposes:
You probably need a minimum background knowledge of astronomical terms and concepts
if you want to make use of the whole package, but you might be interested to just
use the graphics program which is specialized for the display of spherical data,
together with the world map data set I included as an optional extension. (This
is already provided anticipating the eclipse and occultation program(s) which are
on the to-do list...).
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We've updated our "First Look" section with a comparative article of
two new freeware Euro currency calculators for OS/2 Warp. Take a look at:
http://users.pandora.be/luc.vanbogaert/eurofl.htm
CheckUrl is a REXX program that reads a list of urls from a text file, and checks
if they exist. It can be useful to check dead urls. Works with HTTP and FTP. Requires
Rxsock and Rxftp dlls.
Version 1.0 corrects a bug of 1.0b which occurs when checking some http urls.
You can download CheckUrl from my homepage:
http://village.flashnet.it/~rm03703/programs)
or from Hobbes:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/chkurl10.zip
and later from:
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/www/util/chkurl10.zip
I uploaded PopCD! new beta version (1.19 beta 4) at this night. It supports tiny
Audio CD player. Please get a copy from my site and please test it! Thank you :)
Good day;
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Ken Kinoshita (kinop@sakura.email.ne.jp)
Pretty Pop Music and Software
URL : http://member.nifty.ne.jp/prettypop/
IBM Germany has actually two opening for OS/2-related jobs.
Skill profile is:
OS/2 Warp: Konfig,Admin,PD/PSI
OS/2 Warp Server: Konfig, Admin, CID, RIPL
WSOD knowledge would be great! Also some NT Knowledge would be great! Speaking
german and english is required.
Jobs are offered by IBM Heidelberg for immediate hiring due to current projects.
For more information contact me on phone from 10.00 - 18.00 local time: 06221-594487
Oliver Mark
Network Computing community leader
IBM PSS CSSC Heidelberg
From the Southern California OS/2 User Group:
The January "Webfoot, The Duck" OS/2 column is now online at
http://www.scoug.com/os24u/1999/scoug901.2.webfoot.html
This month, Webfoot covers:
Each monthly "Webfoot, The Duck" column includes:
Sponsored by the Southern California OS/2 User Group (http://www.scoug.com).
Smart Windows V.0.82 - is available for download:
there are 3 different files:
this archive contains all the program files (327,445 Bytes)
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/smw082.zip
the documentation is here (168,277 Bytes of html and gif files):
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/smwd082.zip
In order to make the archive of the program files smaller I put the titlebar
bitmaps in a separate file (324,168 Bytes):
ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/smwb082.zip
smw082.zip include only few titlebar bitmaps and all window controls bitmaps.
If you still have the old archive smw081.zip you can get the other titlebar bitmaps
from there so you do not need to download smwb082.zip
the files should be available also here:
ftp://ftp.ghostbbs.ml.cx/pub/os2/os2team/alcant/
and soon in:
ftp://volftp.tin.it/pub/pc/os2/os2_2x/progs/desktop/
I'm sorry, this is not yet the registrable version, in any case a few bugs in
the installer, preferences application and SMARTWIN.DLL have been corrected:
You can install it over your previous 0.81 installation.
The program archive contains the full documentation in ASCII format.
The other archive (smwd082.zip) contains the same documentation in html format plus
images.
I'm still working on the registrable version.
The time expiration will be removed and will be substituted by some kind of configuration
limitation which will not in any case prevent the full test of the program.
The application will be renamed Styler/2 but the name of the program files will
be left unchanged.
My homepage, is now at http://acsoft.ghostbbs.cx,
but there is no file in the directory... I'll upload the files during next week.
You can now download the binaries for Apache 1.3.4 from:
http://www.apache.org/dist/binaries/os2/
Apache is the most popular web server on the Internet. The source code is available
for you to build customized versions of the executables in case the generic binaries
don't suit your needs. More information can be found at http://www.apache.org/.
The Windows Refund Center (http://www.thenoodle.com/refund/)
is a new web site dedicated to information on how to obtain a refund for your purchase
of Windows. The Windows End User License Agreements (EULA) allows anyone who buys
a PC to get a refund for returning their copy of Windows.
February 15th has been declared "Windows Refund Day", when everyone
who purchased a PC with Windows pre-installed, but never used Windows (i.e. immediately
deleted it without booting it first) to demand a refund from their reseller.
This would be a great opportunity for OS/2 users to get some money back.
Magician 1.1.0 was recently released, and it as many new features and enhancements...
the url is:
http://www.arcana.co.uk/products/magician/download.html
for those of you shut in a cage Magician is an implementation of OpenGL for Java.
Using Magician, programmers can write portable Java code that seamlessly uses existing
native OpenGL libraries to provide high-performance rendering over a variety of
platforms, UNIX-, Win32-, OS/2- and Apple Mac-based.
I found USB modem drivers -- at least for IBM and US Robotic's modems(same package)
at:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/universa/ibmcorpo/index.htm
Also it looks like updated USB Mouse and Keyboard drivers were posted on Jan
12. Although file dates are from November...
Unfortuneatly I could not find the Base USB package that it says is required
in order to use any of these USB devices under OS/2...
For anyone interested in BASIC programming for OS/2, TrueBASIC have just announced
new versions of their TrueBASIC compilers. There's a new Bronze edition for $39.95
US, and a new Silver edition for $195.00 US. Both editions are available in Windows,
Mac and OS/2 flavors. For more info, see:
Warpstock Inc., is pleased to announce that the bid forms, for those interested
in hosting Warpstock 99, are now available. Proposals may be submitted for review
starting February 1, 1999. The deadline for submission is March 1, 1999. Full details
may be found at http://www.warpstock.org.
A host city announcement date has not be determined. This will be dependent upon
the number of bids received so that time will be allowed to throughly review each
proposal.
Warpstock 97 and Warpstock 98 were overwhelmingly successful and brought OS/2
users from around the world to what is now known as the OS/2 event of the year.
We look forward to selecting the new host city for Warpstock 99 and it's fun
to watch the "child" grow with each passing year.
Thank you,
Warpstock, Inc.
President, Larry Finkelstein
Vice President, Judy McDermott
Secretary, Treasurer, Mark Abramowitz
Board Member, Paul Hethmon
Board Member, Rollin White
Board Member, Tom Stevic
Board Member, John Ratti
I contacted Lotus Development at 1-800-343-5414 and ordered the update for SmartSuite
for OS/2. The cost was $19.95 plus shipping. Apparently there has been some confusion
between update (for those who own V1.0) and upgrade (for those who don't). The upgrade
price is $150.00 If you are interested in the update, be sure to specify update
and not upgrade. That should clear any confusion.
The Gammatech utilities are updated to ver 4.02 the update is available under:
I am pleased to announce that I have made a plugin available on my website, that
allows you to use your Hauppauge Win/TV card with CUSeeMe/2.
Please note that this plugin is still alpha code and some features are incomplete.
CUSeeMe/2 is a video conferencing application for Os/2, which is compatible with
CU-SeeMe for Windows.
More info at http://inet.uni2.dk/~deckkh/news.htm
Just to let you guys know that Marty from the OS/2 Netlabs released the FINAL
0.34 version of the M.A.M.E. emulator...
The link is http://www.netlabs.org/projects/mame.html
IBM has updated the IDEDASD.EXE file, as of 01-07-99.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/os2ddpak/idedasd.exe
The only thing that has been updated appears to be the readme file.
Program URL: http://www2.southwind.net/~dwhawk
Available from: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu in pub/os2/apps/internet/www/util
or pub/incoming
http://www.bmtmicro.com
Archive Filename: pms_120.zip 364871 bytes
Shareware: $9.95 (US)
This PM utility strips HTML codes from Web pages, leaving only the text and optionally
the URLs. While the layout of tables and lists is lost during stripping, data is
sorted to separate lines for legibility.
Install PMStripper as the HTML source viewer in WebX instead of the OS/2 system
editor E, and you can use the Ctrl+V keystroke combination to load the web page
source directectly into PMStripper. This will make it easier to cut and paste information
or URLs from web pages. It can also be installed as the document source viewer in
Netscape.
Registered users of PMStripper will have access to two additional executable
files that were compiled with the 486 and 586 compiler options. These versions will
offer some performance improvement for users with 468, Pentium, or equivalent CPUs.
Registration covers all 1.xx releases of PMStripper. If you have registered PMStripper
and have not received an email notice of this update it is because your email address
has changed. Send me a message with your old and new email address and I will update
my mailing list.
New in PMStripper 1.20
Added support for saving drag & drop color and font changes made to the menubar.
This should make the utility easer to use for OS/2 users with vision problems.
Fixed a bug in the naming of the profile file when the environment variable in
the config.sys file is used to specify the location of the file.
Holger Veit has released the latest update to XFree86/OS2, the freeware X-Windows
for OS/2. Get the latest news and files from:
http://borneo.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86os2.html
IBM has released a new PCMCIA driver which complies with the PCMCIA level 5.0
standard (cardbus support). This is particularly relevant for all those who have
a machine with cardbus PCMCIA socket which can not be set to PCIC mode, but it is
of course also relevant for everyone else who uses a cardbus PCMCIA chipset.
This driver replaces the earlier SS2PCIC2 driver. It can be accessed from the
driver page at the Notebook/2 Site:
http://www.os2ss.com/users/DrMartinus/notebook.htm
Please report any problems to me. I will then send a consolidated report to IBM.
File Browser Beta 6 is now available at:
http://www.datacomm.ch/~cbratschi/fbrowser/fbrowser.zip
(459KB)
What is File Browser?
File Browser is a file manager with following enhanced capabilities:
What's new in Beta 6?
The final version will be Shareware. This beta version works until 2/15/1998.
More on my home page at:
http://www.datacomm.ch/~cbratschi/
The Enhanced E's have been updated to version 1.10
Changes include:
About the Enhanced E
The Enhanced E Editor is a 32 bit, multithreaded OS/2 PM text editor built with
productivity in mind. Options once reserved for registered users are now available
to everyone for a full taste of the editors capabilities. Here are a few examples
of what the Enhanced E can do that you may not see somewhere else:
Save or print 'selected' text, save or append 'selected' text to a temporary
file, time-date-name-signature file insert, spawn new session, extensive drag and
drop (open files, save or rearrange text), configurable autoSave, large (user limited)
file history, find by keyword or line #, presentation mode, text to IPF conversion,
mime conversion, built-in code template tool (add to ours or build your own templates),
plugin support (write your own plugins to work in the editor)...
There have been a great amount of changes in this version and already one item
has been found that slipped through this mornings build. With the change in the
file saving methods to rid ourselves of the end-of-file-char we were not saving
any extended attributes on files that may have had them previously. This has been
rectified already but if you have already downloaded the editor from our website
today you should download this version again.
More information may be obtained and software downloaded from:
PillarSoft http://fm-net.com/pillarsoft
BMT Micro http://www.bmtmicro.com
The W3C, Internet standards committee, just released Amaya 1.4a. Amaya is the
name of W3C's own test-bed browser/authoring tool and is used to demonstrate and
test many of the new developments in Web protocols and data formats. It is currently
only available on Unix and Windows 95/NT.
Source code is also available... so.... maybe we could get a OS/2 version in
the future.
Regarding the fact that there are more and more games available with sourcecode
(Doom, Descent, Hexen, Heretic...) I've set up a mailinglist to support developers
in porting games to OS/2.
I think it's bether to share the experience made with ports instead of working
alone. If you want to join the list go to http://www.eGroups.com/list/game-ports
and subscribe!
If you want to use MGL for OS/2 (http://www.scitechsoft.com) this may be a good
place to share your experience about this library. Most of the games (I think) will
use it as soon as it is available.
Adrian Gschwend @ OS/2 Netlabs http://www.netlabs.org
Version 0.86 of FAT32.IFS is just released.
Beside some small bug fixes, the PARTFILT.FLT device in this version has also
been updated to handle extended partitions type F properly.
You'll find OS2FAT32.ZIP at:
http://www.os2ss.com/information/kelder/
AICQ - the best native textmode ICQ client for Mirabilis ICQ, written by Pavel
Nikiforov (Russia).
You can get it from these official sites:
Russia: ftp.intsys.ru/pub/aicq USA: ftp.blackpalace.com/