Clipview 3.4 is released

www.deezee.org/ClipView.html

New features bug fixes etc:

Corrected bug introduced by -F that stopped -f working.
Fixed focus bug with top and bottom boundaries.
Fixed slow shutdown with -a switch
Linux versions of client & server

The Clipview suite of programs consists of:

ClipView v3.4 - Gives multiple text clipboards. Clips may be printed,
edited, saved to a buffer and locked. Optionally the entire set of clips
and their state can be saved across invocations of ClipView.

ClipPrint v1.2 - Prints the current text contents of the clipboard.

PipeClip v2.3 - Used on the command line to pipe output to the clipboard.
eg dir /w | pipeclip

ClipPipe v1.0 - Used on the command line to pipe input from the clipboard.
eg clippipe | someprogram

ClipWait v1.0 - Used in scripts to wait until something gets written to
the clipboard.

Command line Client/Server - Allow clipboards to communicate across machines

CV_Client_OS2 2.2 These are now considered stable.
CV_Server_OS2 2.2

CV_Client_WIN 2.2 These are now considered stable.
CV_Server_WIN 2.2

CV_Client_Linux 2.2 These are considered Beta. (Require xclip)
CV_Server_Linux 2.2

www.deezee.org/ClipView.html

 Kind regards

Dave Saville

New poll on ecomstation.ru site:

What is the height of RPM barrier?

ecomstation.ru/poll.php

The goal of the poll - investigate the attitude of the users to RPM installer for eComStation.

(Don't forget input anti-spam 6-digits CODE: below the list of answers on the page of voting)

Large runtimes were packed to RPM format (Odin, Qt4 runtime).

The development of this runtimes/libraries required huge financial resources.

Some users report that it's not easy to install programs packed to RPM.

(the user must download RPM stuff, learn RPM, contact the maintainers of RPM

to complete the installation, os2world.com forum -- www.os2world.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,63/topic,3701.msg21709/topicseen,1/ )

As result less users can install new

versions of the runtimes. The resources were spent,

but not all users can test the results.

Previous versions of the runtimes were packed to WarpIn

and installation was easy and fast.

Seems that RPM is a barrier for the users.

Attention! We are going publish all comments (All emails will be hidden).

What is the height of RPM barrier?

* it's not a barrier

* 1 cm, 5 cm, I can jump over

* 1 meter, 2 meters, I can use a ladder

* 5 meters, I can't overcome the barrier, please pack to WarpIn format

Paul Smedley has had a number of requests for support for HP scanners, which actually have very good support under linux using the HPLIP driver.

In order for there to be a possibility of him solving the problems, he would need to purchase suitable hardware. Something like the HP Photosmart 7510 which is recommended for use with HPLIP. If you want to help support this project please use the link below. Paul estimates the cost at $A229 (approx $US250) and has collected $50US so far. See his HPLIP page for more information. -

os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php

If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation either via Paypal using the link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Hello bootAble users,

Sorry for bothering you again this soon, but I've released another minor update to bootAble :-)
You can download it from our personal website: hrbaan.home.xs4all.nl/bootAble/

v6.8 (28/01/2012)

* Fixed |bootAble.firefox| for version >4 (Doug Bissett for the fix);
* Always checking JFS boot disk now (Doug Bissett for the tip);
* Added additional |gcc| library files (Doug Bissett for the fix);
* Added |MEDISKVOLUMELABEL| option to specify the name of the MEMDISK
image, defaults to |bootAbleMD| (Steven Levine for the tip);
* Determined |pnp.sys| as a |SNOOPFILE| (Steven Levine for the
investigating this).

Have a good time,
Hayo
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*Hayo Baan*
e-mail: hayo.baan@xs4all.nl
web: hrbaan.home.xs4all.nl

*Hayo Baan – Photography*
e-mail: info@hayobaan.nl
web: www.hayobaan.nl

*Hayo Baan*
*Head Instructor – Nikonians Academy Europe*
e-mail: hayo.baan@nikoniansacademy.com
web: www.nikoniansacademy.eu

Hello bootAble users,

I have just released a minor update to bootAble. You can download it from our personal website: hrbaan.home.xs4all.nl/bootAble/

v6.7 (26/01/2012)

* Snoop files (|*.snp|) to include now determined from the |snoop.lst|
file. Previously all known snoop files would be included (Thank you
Steven Levine for the tip);
* Corrected some internal errors.

Have a good time,
Hayo Baan
-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Hayo Baan*
e-mail: hayo.baan@xs4all.nl
web: hrbaan.home.xs4all.nl

*Hayo Baan – Photography*
e-mail: info@hayobaan.nl
web: www.hayobaan.nl

*Hayo Baan*
*Head Instructor – Nikonians Academy Europe*
e-mail: hayo.baan@nikoniansacademy.com
web: www.nikoniansacademy.eu

Samba Client Plugin for eCS (OS/2) Version 2.1.1, has been released on Netlabs FTP site for NetDrive as well as the EVFSGUI that comes with eComStation 2.0+.

us3.samba.org/samba/
"Samba is a free implementation of the CIFS/SMB protocol for Unix, which allows LAN-Server style file and printer sharing among machines running Windows, Mac OS X ,Unix or eComStation (OS/2). There is a netlabs www.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml based effort to port the Samba server and create Samba clients for file sharing and printing for eCS (OS/2) in order to replace the functionality of the outdated IBM-LAN-Requester/Peer/Server components."

ZIP: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/client/ndpsmb-2_1_1-GA-20120124.zip
WarpIn: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/samba/client/ndpsmb-2_1_1-GA-20120124.wpi

Changes:
 *2.1.1 GA:
 - update to Samba 3.3.16 client code
 - use libc064.dll instead libc064x.dll

Samba for eCS (OS/2) Homepage: svn.netlabs.org/samba
Additional Samba for eCS (OS/2) resources: members.aon.at/herwig.bauernfeind/samba/index.html
Samba Homepage: www.samba.org/

You can report bugs using the Ticket system at svn.netlabs.org/samba

If you need a logonto the netlabs wiki, then first go to www.netlabs.org/en/site/member/member.xml

Mailinglist: news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.samba.user

Netdrive for OS/2 virtual file system driver: www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com/netdrive/

This is the latest edition of the bi-weekly netlabs.org newsletter. The newsletter can be read on the web at the following URL:
wiki.netlabs.org/index.php

News from netlabs.org:
16. January - 22. January
ACPI Subsystem for eComStation
Two fixes and some updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline

AirBoot
Wiki update
See: svn.netlabs.org/air-boot/timeline

Dynamic Windows Library
Lots of fixes and updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/dwindows/timeline

Java port for eCS (OS/2)
New ticket and more sponsoring received
See: svn.netlabs.org/java/timeline

lswitcher
Wiki update
See: svn.netlabs.org/lswitcher/timeline

Lucide
Mix of fixes and updates, beta 2 as WPI now as well
See: svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline

Odin32
Various updates and fixes
See: svn.netlabs.org/odin32/timeline

Qt Applications for OS/2
Quite some updated applications and various new ones added
See: svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/timeline

RPM and YUM
Good progress with updates and quite some tickets solved
See: svn.netlabs.org/rpm/timeline

SysInfo/2
Number of wiki updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/sysinfo/timeline

UNIAUD
New ticket raised
See: svn.netlabs.org/uniaud/timeline

Virtual Floppy Disk
Also wiki updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/vfdisk/timeline

WDSibyl
Wiki updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/wdsibyl/timeline

9. January - 15. January
ACPI Subsystem for eComStation
Mix of updates: wiki, testing guide, some fixes
See: svn.netlabs.org/acpi/timeline

Dynamic Windows Library
Loads of updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/dwindows/timeline

Java port for eCS (OS/2)
Two updates, now at 80% sponsoring!
See: svn.netlabs.org/java/timeline

Lucide
Pile of updates, and Beta 1.3.4 released
See: svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline

Odin32
Nice updates and fixes
See: svn.netlabs.org/odin32/timeline

Qt Applications for OS/2
Mix of updates, additions, fixes and new tickets
See: svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/timeline

Qt Version 4 for OS/2
A few updates
See: svn.netlabs.org/qt4/timeline

RPM and YUM
Nice progress
See: svn.netlabs.org/rpm/timeline

Samba for eCS (OS/2)
New gcc4core
See: svn.netlabs.org/samba/timeline

Unix Ports and more
One update
See: svn.netlabs.org/ports/timeline

USB
Lots of updates and fixes
See: svn.netlabs.org/usb/timeline

xATA
Ticket raised about SMART
See: svn.netlabs.org/xata/timeline

Netlabs.org relies on your support as well. We hire developers to have better progress on projects, for instance. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units:
www.mensys.net/NETLABS/

Thanks for your support!

We can be reached at: news@netlabs.org
And we are on Twitter now as well! See: twitter.com

Greetings,
netlabs.org team

Here is the list of past conferences: ecomstation.ru/community/
The place and time of new Warpstock conferences for 2012 is not yet defined.

Wolfgang Reinken passed us two clips
"Raising the flag of eComStation / Warpstock Europe.
Even if the world goes backwards - eComStation strives forward."

eCoTVStation channel -- www.youtube.com/user/eCoTVstation/videos

Rémy Dodin chmrd2003@yahoo.fr
Hi!

ClamAVGUI is now at V2.3.0 level. ClamAVGUI is a graphical frontend to run the ClamAV anti-virus program. You can find the latest ClamAV at web.os2power.com/yuri/ClamAV

Download: remydodin.levillage.org/outils/ClamAVGUI-2_3_0.wpi

I included a modified ubuntu thunderbird add-on to accept TB v3.1.10 up to v9 and allow interface with ClamD
More changes are available.
remydodin.levillage.org/Clamavchg.html

Any latest clamav rpm/yum build using ClamAVGUI experience are welcome (I not able to use rpm/yum)
Cheers/2
RD

I have updated the USB host controller drivers
USBUHCD.SYS,USBOHCD.SYS,USBEHCD.SYS
I have now placed these on hobbes.
They will eventually make it into directory:
/pub/os2/system/drivers/misc

I worked heavily on suspend/resume for all: UHCI/OHCI/EHCI.

For UHCI I found some very nasty bugs where I was reading from some bogus register address (an oversight from my part). That could have about any strange effect. For all those that have hard hangs (one person reported 4 UHCI controllers would work fine but the 5th would completely hang his system) just try out this version and see if it helps. Same holds true for EHCI where I forgot to properly initialize the retry loop counter on some register polling loops. Again, that could have any strange effect.

The included USBD.SYS is experimental. Give it a try anyway, in particular if you want suspend/resume to work smoothly. As always, back up the original IBM driver in case something goes wrong. Report results.

You CAN use the HC drivers with the USBD.SYS IBM version but better not mix different versions of the HC drivers.

Please try the drivers with and without the /FS flag and report results. If the /FS flag turns out to be the better choice I might consider making it the default and therefore to render the flag superfluous.

I would like to thank all those people who have reported bugs, in particular those people who where patient enough to wait for the solution. If I don't get many bug reports in the next couple of weeks, I will consider this version stable enough for eComStation to add to their installation CD-ROM update (together with the updated ACPI.PSD). Therefore the update rate will go down ...

Lars

Links:

• hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/incoming/usbhcd179.zip

The next week is dedicated to collection of reports about supported modern notebooks Lenovo Thinkpad X300, X1, X100e ..

Our database contains 372 records only -- ecomstation.ru/hardware.php

Major part of the models are not manufactured anymore. 

Post new reports using the web-form ecomstation.ru/hardware.php

Questions to all eComStation users:

* Does new ACPI work for you? -- ACPI 2012 -- ecomstation.ru/projects/acpitools/

* How do you replace WiFi adapter? -- wifi unauthorized -- ecomstation.ru/projects/genmac/

* Does AHCI driver work for you? -- ahci fast reports -- ecomstation.ru/ahci

* How to setup Unimix for UNIAUD? -- unimix report -- ecomstation.ru/projects/uniaud/

Date: Tuesday, January 24
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Place: Fresh Choice
248 Great Mall Dr
Milpitas, CA 95035-8026
Phone: (408) 934-9090

Fresh Choice has plenty of room, it's quiet and they have WiFi. There is a
light rail station near the meeting location.

Meeting topics:
 eCS 2.1 tips and tricks
 on-line storage and OS/2

As usual, we'll have an OS/2 Q and A for any user questions.

Come join us in our monthly meeting. We are OS/2 and eComStation users, and we
meet every month to discuss ideas about our favorite operating system.

BayWarp website: www.baywarp.org/
Neil Waldhauer neil@blondeguy.com www.blondeguy.com
Expert consulting for OS/2 Warp and eComStation

Paul Smedley has updated dvdauthor to v0.7.0. os2ports.smedley.id.au

os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php

"A simple set of tools to help you author a DVD. The idea is to be able to create menus, buttons, chapters, etc, but for now you can just take an mpeg stream (as created by mplex -f 8 from mjpegtools 1.6.0) and write it to DVD."

Download: sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/dvdauthor-0.7.0-os2-20120117.zip/download

Requires: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.2-csd2.zip

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys
Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Paul Smedley has updated Mjpegtools to v2.0.0. http://os2ports.smedley.id.au

os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php

"The Mjpegtools are a suite of tools for dealing with mjpeg files. "

Download: sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/mjpegtools-2.0.0-os2-20120117.zip/download

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys
Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Paul Smedley has updated Imagemagick to v6.7.4-6. os2ports.smedley.info/

os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php

"ImageMagick®, is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats."

Download: sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/imagemagick-6.7.4-6-os2-20120115.zip/download
Requires: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.4-csd4.zip

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys
Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Paul Smedley has updated Python to version 2.7.2. os2ports.smedley.info/

os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php

"Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development."

Download: sourceforge.net/projects/ecsports/files/python-2.7.2-os2-20120108.zip/download

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys
Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Paul Smedley has updated ScummVM to v1.4.1. os2ports.smedley.info/

os2ports.smedley.id.au/index.php

"ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. "

Download: sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/files/scummvm/1.4.1/scummvm-1.4.1-os2.zip/download

Please let Paul know if you find this software useful. He needs user
feedback to continue work on these projects. He maintains a bug tracker
for many projects at mantis.smedley.info It just requires a simple
registration.

If you'd like to help support continued development of this project (and
many others) for OS/2 & eComStation, please consider making a donation
either via Paypal using the link on Paul's website, or using the Mensys
Online Store www.mensys.net/os2ports/

Les Bell has released his course material "Introduction to OS/2 Warp Programming" under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.

This course material contains the instructor guide, student guide, presentation slides and laboratory files.

Download Link:

Hobbes Incoming: hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/incoming/OS290-v2_90-OS2WProgramming-rel1.zip

Hobbes Search: hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php

Les Bell Web Site: www.lesbell.com.au

Information

-----------------

Introduction to OS/2 Warp Programming

=============================================

Course Code: OS290

Author: Les Bell and Associates Pty Ltd

Version 2.9

Content Date: 1999 April 22

Format Change: 2012 January 15

=============================================

Agenda

============================================

Day 1

Session 1 - Introduction to Tools

Session 2 - Introduction to PM

Session 3 - Lab Exercise 1

Session 4 - Window Parentage and Ownership

Day 2

Session 1 - Window Controls

Session 2 - Lab Exercise 2 - Menus and Messages

Session 3 - Memory Management

Session 3 - Lab Exercise 4 - Memory Management

Session 4 - Dynamic Link Libraries

Session 4 - Lab Exercise 5 - Dynamic Link Libraries

Day 3

Session 1 - Threads, IPC and File I/O

Session 2 - Lab Exercise 6 - Threads

Session 3 - Workshop

Session 4 - Filesystems % EA's

Session 4 - Lab Exercise 8 - Directory Listing

Day 4

Session 1 - Window Words, Subclassing, Dialogs

Session 2 - Lab Exercise 9 - Multiple Windows and Instance Data

Session 3 - Lab Exercise 9 continues

Session 4 - Standard Dialogs and INI files

Day 5

Session 1 - Graphics Programming Interfase

Session 2 - Workshop

Session 3 - SOM and WPS

Session 4 - It's Friday . . . .

Authors

=============================================

- The original author of this course was Les Bell and Associates Pty Ltd between 1987 and 1997.

- The content was released by Les Bell and Associates Pty Ltd. under CC license in January of 2012.

- Martín Itúrbide from OS2World.com transformed the content to a newer format from Lotus Freelance and Word for OS/2 on January 2012. Martín Itúrbide and Les Bell thank the people at #netlabs and Neil Waldhauer that helped to convert the older files.

Copyright Statement and License

=============================================

The original materials are copyright (C) 1987-1997, Les Bell and Associates Pty Ltd and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (see creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). You are encouraged to distribute, use, adapt, enhance, correct and extend the materials, provided that this licence is included with such enhancements and such enhancements are likewise attributed and licensed.

Contents

=============================================

The course material contains:

- Student Guide: Handout book for students

- Presentation: Presentation for the instructor and to hand out to the students

- Instructor Guide: Notes for the instructor; additional comments and points to emphasise on the slides

- Lab Files: The binary files and source code used in the laboratories of the courseroom

This package is organized in the follwing way:

- Original Files folder: Which contains a copy of the original files used in 1999 by Les Bell

- MS Office folder: The files converted and organized in OOXML format

- ODF folder: The files converted and organized in ODF format

- PDF folder: The files converted and organized in PDF format

- Laboratory Files folder: Contains a zip file with the source code used in the laboratories of the courseroom.

Version 1.11 of the eComStation Clock Synchronization Utility (TIMESET) is now available on the BetaZone for Software Subscription Services members.

Changes since version 1.10 include:
 - A bug fix in loading the language-specific timezone database.
 - The Product Information dialog shows some additional information.
 - The 'Synchronize Now' function now runs in a separate thread, and
 also uses whatever server and timezone settings are currently selected in the GUI (even if they have not been saved).
 - The program now checks TZ environment against CONFIG.SYS setting,  and warns if they are different. - The Japanese language file has been updated for the current version, with various improvements. (However, some messages remain in  English.)
 By default, TIMESET still uses Kai Uwe Rommel's DAYTIME client as a backend. The WPI on the BetaZone includes version 1.20, which contains both problem fixes and functional enhancements by Steven Levine, Robert Blair, and myself. NOTE: if you use the default backend configuration file (program.def) without modifications, you must use this version of

DAYTIME. If you have an older version of daytime.exe which you prefer

to continue using, you must edit program.def and (in the uncommented section for DAYTIME) delete the contents of the 'basic' parameter (or simply comment out the entire line).
 To enable the use of CLKMGR in place of DAYTIME, edit program.def
with your favourite text editor. Comment out (by adding a preceding
';' to each line) the entire section for using DAYTIME, and un-comment
the section for CLKMGR. The file should be readable enough for this
change to be pretty straightforward. 

Alex Taylor
Fukushima, Japan
www.socis.ca/~ataylo00

I made a blog post @ netlabs.org about the past 15 years and some hints regarding the future:

blog.netlabs.org

Adrian Gschwend