Paul Smedley <paul@smedley.info> nos comunica que acaba de subir un paquete que consiste en CUPS 1.2.11 (www.cups.org) + ESP Ghostscript 8.15.4 (http://www.cups.org/espgs/) + Gutenprint 5.1.2 (http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/)

Esta combinación debe permitir la impresión desde OS/2 & eComStation con impresoras que no tenían controladores específicos para nuestro sistema operativo - ver más detalle en  http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/p_Supported_Printers.php3

El paquete puede descargarse desde: http://svn.netlabs.org/ecups/wiki/CupsPort

Ahí mismo hay indicaciones de como usar el paquete.

Si las indicaciones resultan un éxito debería probar el controlador ECUPS de Bart van Leeuwen Ade manera que se imprima desde las aplicaciones usando CUPS (ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/ecups)

Se agradece toda clase de comentarios a
// paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info o a l la lista de ecups atnews://news.gmane.org/gmane.org.netlabs.ecups.devel

La página de prueba de CUPS

CUPS, el libro

NOTA: intentaré explicar mejor que es eCUPS en otra entrada

From: "Peter Koller" <peterDESPAM@DESPAMmanglais.com>



Maul Publisher is an industrial strength desktop publisher capable of creating virtually all of the printing seen on everyday household items.You can use it to easily lay out newspapers, cards, books, labels, stamps, posters, charts, forms, and even designs like building plans or furniture arrangements.

Further information

For more information and screenshots see http://www.manglais.com/promo/maul.html

Product, download, purchase and other web pages can all be accessed via http://www.manglais.com/subs/php/product.php?MAULE300

New in this version (3.12)

• Installer now ignores errors in LIBPATH.
• New - Fine positioning of colour transitions when using shaded borders.
• New - Numeric tabs to make numbers or equations align, or to right align text items.
• Added - Small selection of circuit design clipart.
• Fixed - text search crash.
• Fixed - failed tab formatting in tables.

New in this version (3.11)

• ICC/ICM colour profile management for printing and scanning.
• Copy and paste the user guides set in the rulerbars.
• Improved font substitution engine learns preferences when replacing missing fonts.
• Corrected bullet sizes when using Windows codepages.
• Improved tracking of paragraph justification.
• Fixed a bug in font embedding - 32 character font names are not all null terminated!!!
• Fixed GBM image export bug.
• Fixed search option in file import dialog.

Software Maintenance Subscription

Please, please, help to support further product development with a low cost annual software subscription.

New customers and upgraders from V2.xx will get the first year for free.
Registered customers will get early access to fixes and new features.

In all cases, you will help to maintain and improve one of the most powerful native OS/2 and eCS applications remaining today.

For further information, please see
http://www.manglais.com/products/subsinfo.html

To install or upgrade Maul:-

Download maulebin311.zip, and either maulelen311.zip or maulelde311.zip or both, depending on the language(s) you want.

Try
http://www.manglais.com/download.php

or later
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=maule

Unzip all the files in the .\maul\install directory where maul was installed and run the  installer. You need to install the binary executive and library files, as well as the appropriate language packs. It is safe to install  later  versions of Maul V3.xx over earlier ones.

Bugs

Please take the trouble to report any bugs that you may find!

Maul Publisher Preview

Maul Publisher is an industrial strength desktop publisher capable of creating virtually all of the printing seen on everyday household items. You can use it to easily lay out newspapers, cards, books, labels, stamps, posters, charts, forms, and even designs like building plans or furniture arrangements.

Maul contains a huge number of sophisticated features specifically for publishing. These include booklet printing and collation, precision bitmap scaling, prepress reports, color management, layout guides, style sheets, and much more. Maul is available in both German and English, and provides true multilingual support.

This is a very complex and powerful desktop publishing system, and this preview is designed to help you get a basic overview of the many techniques available to you.

Detailed preview Discussion group FAQ's and Support

JamochaMUD version 2.0 has been released (6/3/2007). This is an open-source Java MUCK/MUD client.

Internet Application Integration version 1.0.5.0 has been released (6/1/2007). This allows you to specify the default Internet applications for web, mail, news, ftp, and irc. It can also install the Run! package and add registry entries for FT2Lib support.

The Piano Launchpad component of eSchemes Deluxe has been updated to version 1.14b (6/1/2007). The Imagination component version 3.5 alpha 4 is also available (4/15/2007). It consists of new WPS classes which simplify browsing of pictures; it offers a preview window and image viewing, with support for many common graphics formats. Piano Launchpad is a replacement for the old IBM Launchpad, with support for large icons. eSchemes will be a component of eComStation 2.0, while eSchemes Deluxe is a standalone product; it can be purchased through Mensys. Thanks to Eugene Gorbunoff for the info.

Panoply version 2.2.1 has been released (5/30/2007). This is a Java application which enables the user to plot raster images of geo-gridded data from netCDF datasets. Depending on the data, it can draw global longitude-latitude images or pole-to-pole latitude-vertical images.

The RAR archiver has been updated (5/29/2007) to version 3.70 (the "DOS" version also has OS/2 support). This is a command-line compression utility, with tight general and multimedia compression, recovery record option management of non-RAR archives, RCVT aRchive ConVersion Tool, and more. From OS2.org.

FreeType/2 version 1.2.2 has been released (5/28/2007); it is based on version 1.3.1 of the FreeType library. Also available is the "official" FreeType/2 version 1.0, also based on version 1.3.1 of the library. The FreeType/2 TrueType driver replaces the one that comes with Warp 4, or adds it to Warp 3 and lower, and provides for better looking TrueType font rendering.

Paul Smedley has released (5/27/2007) an OS/2 build of DVDAuthor version 0.6.14. This is a tool for generating DVD VIDEO structures from given mpeg2 files. From OS2.org.

K Movie Player version 0.3.0 has been released (5/27/2007). This is a movie player based on FFPlay, without SDL dependencies and support for WarpOverlay.

A test version of MPlayer has been released (5/27/2007), which has support for WarpOverlay. This is a video player that supports many codecs.

ClamAV version 0.90.2 has been ported (5/27/2007) to OS/2. This is a GPL anti-virus toolkit, which features a command line scanner, a tool for automatic updating via the Internet, and integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). From VOICE News.

Security/2 version 0.4.5 has been released (5/27/2007). This provides user-based security, allowing you to restrict users to create, read, write, delete certain files, execute certain processes, and kill only their user processes.

ACPI driver version 2.22 was released (5/26/2007) on the eComStation Betazone (for Software Subscription customers only). Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is a replacement for APM, PnP, and related hardware features. It features support for multiprocessor systems (SMP, Dual Core, and HyperThreading), and there is an APM driver available (poweroff works, but suspend causes traps if you have an Intel NIC!). There is an ACPI Tools web page as well, which includes a battery monitoring widget for XCenter. From VOICE News.

The Panorama VESA video driver was updated (5/25/2007) on the eComStation Betazone (for Software Subscription customers only). This is a generic VESA driver, which supports all VESA 2.0 compatible video adapters. There are also some "widescreen activators" available for Intel and ATI chipsets, which hack the VESA BIOS to support some widescreen modes. Users with SMP systems and/or widescreen panels may find this useful if there isn't an accelerated driver available; there is also an FAQ available. From OS2.org.

VOICE purchased the rights and source code for the popular email client, PMMail/2; version 3.0 beta 1 has been released (5/24/2007) for VOICE members. It is expected that there will be a public beta prior to general release, and VOICE membership will be required as part of the registration.

JGraphpad version 6.0.3.3 has been released (5/24/2007). This is a Java-based powerful, free diagram editor that allows you to create flow charts, maps, UML diagrams, and more.

PM123 version 1.32 beta 3 has been released (5/23/2007); separately available are version 1.40 alpha 2 and version 1.21 (9/24/2003). PM123 is an MP3, WAV, and CD Audio player, which is now open source. Some of the features include sharing of the sound card, playlist with drag/drop support, HTTP streaming, and the use of skins to change the program's look. Thanks to Wolfgang Foerster and Sander Nyman for the info.

TrafficVisor III has been updated (5/23/2007). This is a program to collect and analyze TCP/IP traffic.

A driver for the Realtek RTL8169 network chipset, version 1.12.01 has been released (5/20/2007).

Guiffy version 8.0 build 223 has been released (5/20/2007). Guiffy is a file compare / merge (diff-like) tool with a GUI implemented in Java.

Ghostscript version 8.57 has been released (5/12/2007); the latest version can be found here. Also available is GSView version 4.8 (2/25/2006). Ghostscript is a freeware postscript interpreter/converter for generating Acrobat (PDF) documents, and GSView is a graphical document viewer that uses Ghostscript as its display engine. Thanks to Phil Parker for the info.

VICE version 1.21 has been released (3/10/2007). This is a versatile Commodore emulator. It uses DIVE and DART, and supports fullscreen mode.

Nconvert version 4.79 has been released (2/10/2007). This is a multi-format image converter that supports more then 300 graphics formats. From OS2.org.

Free Pascal version 2.0.4 has been released (8/23/2006). Free Pascal is a Pascal compiler that is semantically compatible with Borland Turbo Pascal and Borland Delphi.

DBCSMAP version 1.3 has been released (5/19/2007). This is a character map program for Unicode and selected DBCS codepages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). Characters can be copied to the clipboard as codepage-specific text (UTF-8 for Unicode text), and in "text/unicode" format as supported by Mozilla.

wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) version 2.8.4 has been released (5/18/2007). This is a sophisticated cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where possible) the native controls.

FM/2 version 3.05.09 has been released (5/18/2007). This is an open source GUI file manager program, with lots of extra helper utilities. The source code is available from NetLabs. Thanks to Gregg Young and David Graser for the info.

Gotcha! version 1.76 has been released (5/17/2007). This is a small utility for OS/2 which allows you to easily capture windows, window interiors, parts of the screen or the whole desktop and save them to disk or clipboard as a picture (OS/2 bitmap format).

Pauker version 1.7.5 has been released (5/16/2007). This is a generic flashcard program written in Java. You can use it to learn all the things you never want to forget, like vocabulary, capitals, important dates, etc.

MagicDraw UML 12.1 SP2 has been released (5/15/2007). This is a Java based UML modelling tool.

PrefBar version 3.4 has been released (5/14/2007). It allows you to configure several Mozilla settings on the fly, and incorporates the features of UABar.

SDLMAME version 0.115 has been ported (5/12/2007) to OS/2. This is an SDL version of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

Paul Smedley has released (5/11/2007) an OS/2 port of MySQL 5.0.41. Also available (2/12/2005) is another build of MySQL 4.1.7. The MySQL database server is the world's most widely used open source database. The OS/2 port features named pipes, data replication, >2GB databases, and more. There is a mailing list for discussion.

An OS/2 port of Cairo version 1.4.6 has been released (5/10/2007). Cairo is a vector graphics library designed to provide high-quality display and print output. Note that Mozilla is moving towards using Cairo as its rendering engine. The latest version can be found in the Netlabs incoming directory.

MultiZilla 1.8.3.2f has been released (5/10/2007). This is an extension that adds more features to the tabbed interface in Seamonkey.

Guillaume Gay has created (5/10/2007) some pointer sets: Shadok Pointers, Don't Worry Be Happy Pointers, and eBall Pointers.

4OS2 version 3.04h has been released (5/9/2007). This is a command shell, formerly developed by JPSoft and now open source. Thanks to Michal Necasek for the info.

The latest "unstable" version (5/9/2007) of FlashBlock contains some important fixes for the OS/2 plugin; I highly recommend you use it in place of the last stable version, particularly if you have been experiencing crashes . This is a Mozilla / Firefox extension that replaces Flash animations with a "click to play" placeholder.

C.a.R. version 6.2 beta has been released. This is a Java program that simulates school geometry constructions with a pair of compasses and a straightedge (ruler).

OS2MT has been updated (5/7/2007) to version 0.69 beta. This is a maintenance tool that enables you to download and install various applications with a couple clicks of the mouse. There is also a mailing list for it on Yahoo Groups.

The USB-based monitor for APC Back-UPS CS/ES has been updated (5/7/2007) to version 0.05b1. The web site is in Russian, but there is an English readme file. From OS2.org.

Paul Smedley has released (5/6/2007) a build of PHP 5.2.2; modules supported include bz2, curl, dbase, gd, exif, filepro, gd, gettext, mbstring, mysql, mysqli, openssl, pdo_mysql, pdo_sqlite, pgsql, and sqlite. He also has a build (3/19/2006) of version 4.4.2. It now includes a module for Apache 2.2, as well as CGI and CLI versions. Also available (12/18/2004) is another port of PHP 4.3.10, which supports CURL 7.10.1, libxml2 2.5.8, libxslt 1.0.31, GDBM 1.7.3, MySQL client 3.23.49, PostgreSQL v7.2.2, ZLib v1.1.4, GD v2.0, FreeType v2.1.1, PDFLib v4.0.1, OpenSSL 0.9.7e, and Expat 1.95.6. For more info on PHP, see the PHP web site.

Borg 1.6 has been released (5/6/2007). This is a Java calendar app, with RDBMS support, a simple address book, and task categories.

General Network Utilities has been updated (5/5/2007). This is a powerful Internet diagnostic tool kit featuring several tools designed to help you quickly identify problems, locate where the problem is, and gather data which can be used to solve the problem either directly or through your Internet Service Provider. From OS2.org.

The HTML editor (X)HTML-Format and the analysis tool WebAnalysis have been combined to create OpenWebSuite, currently (4/21/2007) at version 1.0 RC. This open source web tool requires Java 1.3 or higher. Thanks to Thomas Frey for the info.

ODIN GUI version 1.9 has been released (3/18/2007). This is a GUI front end for running programs with Odin. Thanks to Chris Roossien for the news.

WPIView version 1.02 has been released (3/17/2007). This is a utility to view, install, and extract WarpIN packages.

FM/2 version 3.05 beta 8 has been released (3/17/2007). This is an open source GUI file manager program, with lots of extra helper utilities.

SmartSVN version 2.1.5 has been released. This is a Java Subversion GUI client, with features like built-in File Compare/Merge, Change Report or Tag and Branch handling, and more. It requires Java 1.4.1 or higher.

DOSBox Front End version 4.8 has been released (3/16/2007). This is a GUI front end for launching games using DOSBox. Thanks to Chris Roossien for the news.

Lots of modifications in the templates handling.

The template name is now seperated from the program name and is now under the template list.

When adding (saving) a new template it checks and don't accept the same filename.

A message pops up; file exist.

Added a template save button to save the current template again when modifications are made.

When saving a program or template and there is not a name given (the field is empty)then a message pops up to tell there is no name and the save gets aborted.

When new buton was pressed the templates and program list were reloade from disk destroying the updates from current session, is fixed now.

I noticed that since a certain ? update the Eatmem option was messed up, fixed.
(I could use some feedback, specially on options-combinations not often used)

Download ;
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dosboxfront_4_8.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dosboxfront

Url:  http://members.home.nl/cwroossien/ecs.html

OS2MT has been updated (3/16/2007) to version 0.65 beta. This is a maintenance tool that enables you to download and install various applications with a couple clicks of the mouse. There is also a mailing list for it on Yahoo Groups.

Gendatam Suite beta 3 has been released (3/16/2007). This is a Java family history application, providing support for the Gedcom format.

[ANN] Gendatam Suite Beta 3

Gendatam Suite is a fully-featured Family History application.

Beta version 3 of Gendatam Suite for OS/2 is now available for download at http://www.gendatam.com/.

The application is a Java program which has been pre-compiled for use on OS/2. Running as native code makes the application generally quicker and more responsive.

The application has its own look-and-feel. This provides a consistent interface regardless of the host system.

OS/2 users may be interested in this application for a number of reasons:
  - It is written in Java but packaged as an OS/2 native code program.
  - It is a family history program available first on OS/2, but also to be available on the Microsoft Windows series with data compatibility between operating systems.

This beta will be of particular interest to those people who like to see how well programs will read the various varieties of Gedcom files.

This current beta version expires at the end of June 2007.

Feedback is welcome at betaDESPAM@DESPAMgendatam.com.

A note to archive administrators: The version is a beta version which incorporates an expiry date. There is no point in archiving it.

Regards
Peter

DBCSMAP version 1.1 has been released. This is a character map program for Unicode and selected DBCS codepages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). Characters can be copied to the clipboard as codepage-specific text (UTF-8 for Unicode text), and in "text/unicode" format as supported by Mozilla.

TrafficVisor III beta has been updated (3/15/2007). This is a program to collect and analyze TCP/IP traffic. From OS2.org.

K Movie Player version 0.2.2 has been released (3/14/2007). This is a movie player based on FFPlay, without SDL dependencies and support for WarpOverlay.

pbook version 1.3b has been released (3/14/2007). This is a GUI tool designed to help you manage the phone numbers in your GSM cellphone, attached to the infrared or serial port. From VOICE News.

Franz Bakan  has released pbook-1_3b which is a slightly updated version of the irda-phonebook application from Oliver Stein.

"PBOOK.EXE:     A GUI based tool for OS/2 that is designed to help you manage
the phone numbers in your GSM cellphone. You can read and write the phonebook and edit it on your PC while the phone is attached to the infrared or serial port. First, go into options and either let the program detect the right settings or update them manually. It also contains a
feature that lets you send an SMS from your PC and manage     the SMS's in
your phone. This should be generic and was tested with Nokia and Ericsson phones."

ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/irapps/pbook-1_3b.zip

eSchemes Deluxe has been updated (3/13/2007). It consists of new WPS classes which simplify browsing of pictures; it offers a preview window and image viewing, with support for many common graphics formats. eSchemes will be a component of eComStation 2.0, while eSchemes Deluxe is a standalone product; it can be purchased through Mensys.

wxWidgets (formerly wxWindows) version 2.8.2 has been released (3/13/2007). This is a sophisticated cross-platform C++ framework for writing advanced GUI applications using (where possible) the native controls.

An OS/2 port of dvddao version 1.3.6 has been released (3/13/2007). This is a tool for writing DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM discs.

bootAble version 4.4 has been released (3/13/2007). This is a script which can be used to create a maintenance partition or bootable CD with enough facilities to fully manage and recover your system. It contains support for LVM, HPFS, JFS, FAT32, UDF, and the CD file system. From VOICE News.

Hayo Baan's bootAble  Updated
Latest Release: 4.4 (13/03/2007)by Hayo Baan
  >>> http://www.xs4all.nl/~hrbaan/bootAble/index.html  <<<

"bootAble is an OS/2/eCS script to create a maintenance partition or a bootable CD/DVD. This partition or CD/DVD supports enough facilities to fully manage and recover your system."

Dear bootAble users,
It has been a while since the last update to bootAble, but finally there is another one  This 4.4 release is basically a bug fix, with only minor enhancements to the functionality. The next thing I am going to work at is the integration of the Microsoft Virtual Machine additions, especially the mouse integration. For this, I may need to revamp the display driver integration (so far I have been unable to get the mouse integration to work), so this may take a while (if I can get it to work at all)...

v4.4 (13/03/2007)

Renamed CDRECORDCLEANDIR
to CDRECORDCLEANDIRBEFORE;
Now cleaning-up temp image files after creating the ISO file or burning the CD/DVD (CDRECORDCLEANDIRAFTER); You can now separately specify whether or not the Enhanced Editor
(EPM) should be added to a WPS system (WPSEPM, used to be included with WPSAPPS); Fixed bug in dirExists funtion, it now also correctly recognizes drives/root directories as valid. As a result, the SEARCHPATH can now contain root directories as well; Fixed bug with location of PEER related files when cloning a CD/DVD to a (maintenance) partition (CLONECD); The script now ignores errors when determining the cdrecorder device (cdRecorderDevice function) when only an ISO will be created (CDRECORDCREATEISOONLY='Yes'); cloneCD.cmd will not automatically add asked questions to the previously used file anymore as this could fail if the path does not exist on the booted system, and could be undesirable anyway (WRITEASKEDTOFILE and WRITEASKEDTOFILENAME); For the same reason, bootAble now removes the SIO logfile parameters in the default situation (SIOSERIALPORTOPTIONS, SIO2KSERIALPORTOPTIONS, SIO2KUARTOPTIONS).

JAlbum version 7.1 has been released (3/13/2007). This is a web photo album generator that runs on Java.

PM123 version 1.32 beta 2 has been released (3/12/2007); separately available are version 1.40 alpha 2 and version 1.21 (9/24/2003). PM123 is an MP3, WAV, and CD Audio player, which is now open source. Some of the features include sharing of the sound card, playlist with drag/drop support, HTTP streaming, and the use of skins to change the program's look.

MindTerm version 3.1.2 is now available; this is a SSH client written in Java.

C.a.R. version 6.0 has been released. This is a Java program that simulates school geometry constructions with a pair of compasses and a straightedge (ruler).

The OS/2 port of GNU Privacy Guard version 1.4.7 has been released (3/11/2007). This can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures, is a complete and free replacement for PGP, and is compliant with OpenPGP.

Paul Smedley has released an OS/2 build (3/9/2007) of Samba server version 3.0.25pre1. Unlike the older Netlabs port, it does not require Security/2. Also available - NetLabs has released (11/6/2006) SAMBA 3.0.9 alpha 10; both client and server are included. Also available is 3.0.9 beta 14 of a client plugin for the NetDrive Filesystem, which supports 64-bit file I/O with NDFS 3.0 or higher. It allows you to mount SMB or CIFS shares on OS/2 without the need of NetBIOS (IBM LAN Manager or IBM Peer). Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License; you can download the full OS/2 source code from NetLabs CVS. You can find the latest build on NetLabs FTP. From VOICE News.

An alpha 1 build of rdesktop version 1.5 has been released (3/8/2007). This is a free RDP client which you can use to connect to a Windows NT/2000/XP Terminal Server. Unlike earlier builds, it uses SDL and does not require XFree86/OS2. From OS2.org.

Maul Publisher version 3.11 has been released (3/6/2007). Maul Publisher is "the world's first professional desktop publisher for OS/2 Warp." It will automatically take care of page numbering in folding booklets, reversal of margins for facing pages, page numbering offsets where you don't want to start from page one, reversal of margins for top bound booklets and top folding booklets, centering margins on printers with odd margins, and multiway folding sheets and maps. In addition, you have full control of column, row, gutter, and centre gutter guides, including the automatic adjustment of page offsets when a number of sheets are bound into a folding booklet. There is a language translation toolkit, so that anyone interested can provide translations for their native languages. There is also a mailing list.

JamochaMUD version 1.7 has been updated (3/6/2007). This is an open-source Java MUCK/MUD client.

DFSee has been updated (3/5/2007) to version 8.12. DFSee is an FDISK, display, analysis and recovery tool for disks and filesystems. It includes the ability to resize FAT and FAT32 partitions, has some JFS and LVM support, and is now shareware. There is also a support forum available.

DFSee 8.12 has just been released.

Menu additions, display enhancements, (NTFS) resizing refinements and several small fixes and updates.

Some info on creating a bootable USB-stick with OS/2 and DFSee (with a link
to more info) is now part of the DFSee HOWTO at:
         http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/howto.htm#usbootlf

DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning, filesystem
and disk analysis, file recovery, UNDELETE for HPFS JFS, and NTFS,
resizing, imaging, cloning and sector editing.

More details at:
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/

Direct download links from the DFSee website:
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx.zip
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx.msi
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_warpin.exe
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_iso.zip
   http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_dsk.zip

   Note: Most of these can also be downloaded using '812'
         instead of the generic '8xx' version number

Or from the HOBBES website:
   http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee812.zip
   http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee

Most important functional changes since 8.11:
  - CD       Display current working directory without an error
  - CHECK    NTFS, fix alloc error messages on split-tree DIR
  - CR dlg   Fix size=1 sticking after a BMGR partition is made
  - FORMAT   Use drive locking during format (on OS2 and Windows)
  - LOCK     Support lock-by-driveletter for large floppy format
  - LVM dlg  Update of driveletters works again (bug in 8.11)
  - MAP      Fixed display of driveletter line with 'map * +'
  - MENU     Display -> Other partition views; fixed, better help
  - MENU     Mode=FDISK -> Set Partition -> Not active, clear flag
  - NTFS     Recognize Windows Vista NTLDR sectors (named BOOTMGR)
  - PART     LVM column aligned if > 98 cols, using max 114 cols
  - PART -b  Align freespace lines for Linux in its default table
  - RESIZE   Allow '*' for default/maximum size in the dialog
  - RESIZE   NTFS, avoid empty bitmap extent on expanding the FS
  - RESIZE   NTFS, avoid extra bitmap flushing after updating it
  - STORE    Better understandable store description texts
  - WIPE -V  Perform an all-sector verify by reading back

Known bug (in version 8.11 and 8.12)
When creating LVM/JFS volumes (type 35) with DFSee, do NOT check both:
      ( ) Create NEW mode, clear existing bootsector and old LVM info
and
      [x] Include LVM information

Since that currently interferes with creating the extra info. This problem
is under investigation and wil be solved in 8.13. Using either one of them
is OK, but not both at the same time.

Regards, JvW

Jan van Wijk, author of DFSee; http://www.dfsee.com

USB Dock version 2.0 has been released (3/5/2007) on the eComstation BetaZone. This will show information on attached USB devices. From VOICE News.

Guiffy version 8.0 has been released (3/5/2007). Guiffy is a file compare / merge (diff-like) tool with a GUI implemented in Java.

From: Alex Taylor <posted on: comp.os.os2.apps>

I've released (Feb. 25) version 1.0 of DBCSMAP (Double Byte Character Map for OS/2).

DBCSMAP is an OS/2 character map program for Unicode and selected DBCS codepages. Specifically, it supports the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane, as well as the common OS/2 codepages for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, and Korean. Characters from these DBCS codepages can be copied to the clipboard as codepage-specific text (or UTF-8 in the case of Unicode text), and in "text/unicode" format as supported by Mozilla. DBCSMAP is free software licensed under the GNU GPL. The latest version is available on Hobbes: Currently: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dbcsmap-1_0.zip Later: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/international/dbcsmap-1_0.zip Source code is also available in the same location. NOTE: It has not yet been uploaded to my website, due to technical difficulties. (They seem to have been doing some kind of server maintenance over reading week, and now I can't log in anymore.) The previously-uploaded screenshots on my website are, however, still applicable to this version: http://www.cs-club.org/~alex/programming/os2/dbcsmap_uni_01.gif http://www.cs-club.org/~alex/programming/os2/dbcsmap_jp_01.gif http://www.cs-club.org/~alex/programming/os2/dbcsmap_cn_01.gif