From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 00:00:45 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1302 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Saturday 27 May 2006 Number 1302 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Lexpmark Printer Support? : Ed Durrant 2 New versions of Firefox and Thunderbird : Ed Durrant 3 OS/2 activity in Canberra area ? : Ed Durrant 4 Ekiga / Gnomemeeting : Ed Durrant 5 Re: OS/2 activity in Canberra area ? : Terry Kemp **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 06:54:06 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Lexpmark Printer Support? Ian Manners wrote: > Hi John > >> We have an opportunity to buy (if we choose to accept it) a Lexmark X215 MFP >> multi-function printer with fax scanner and copier facilities. > > Printer part should work fine as long as its Lexmark/IBM PCL or PS > but not the fax/scanner part, no OS/2 drivers for it as far as I'm aware, > so it will be an expensive OS/2 Printer, unless you want it only as a > fax machine that you can print to as well. > > Cheers > Ian Manners > http://www.os2site dot com/ > From my research, most Multi-Function centres use host or "winprinter" methods to keep the cost down. This means that much of what should be performed in the printer is actually executed in the windows "driver" code. There is a similar method created under Linux for some of these devices however the only attempt under OS/2 is / was Win32prn which unfortunately has not (IMHO) come far enough yet to be useful. Printers are an area where, sadly, we are falling behind under OS/2 and eCS, most other devices have some level of support under our OS, just printers seem to be becoming a major problem. Win32PRN looked like being a good direction using the actual windows drivers and ODIN to provide printer support, however it really never happenned except for a very few printers and no MFCs as far as I know. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 07:09:16 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: New versions of Firefox and Thunderbird Hi, I don't know if anyone has already seen this but it appears we have moved from v 1.x to 2.0 ("Bon Echo") AND 3.0 (destroyer ?) builds of Firefox and Thunderbird in the last couple of weeks. (no v 2 of TB only FF). http://www.mozilla dot org/ports/os2/ Note: both require you to download and install Libc061 (from the same page) before they will work. I can report that v 2.0 of firefox seems to work, except that most of the add-in extensions are disabled. Version 3.0 is not in such a good state as soon as I try to type a url in, the program hangs. - Well I think these are both Alpha versions, so it's not surprising, however it's good to see that the OS/2 versions are among the first with the newest versions. Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 18:32:32 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: OS/2 activity in Canberra area ? Does anyone know of any OS/2 or eCS activity in the ACT ?? Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 18:35:40 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Ekiga / Gnomemeeting Hi, Does anyone know whether an OS/2 / eCS port of this videoconferencing software would be possible ? http://www.gnomemeeting dot org Or whether it should work in a virtualised (VPC/2 or SVista/2) linux window on OS/2 ?? Cheers/2 Ed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 21:35:00 +1000 From: Terry Kemp Subject: Re: OS/2 activity in Canberra area ? Hi Ed There use to be a OS/2 Sig as part of Canberra User Group !! Terry Ed Durrant wrote: > Does anyone know of any OS/2 or eCS activity in the ACT ?? > > Cheers/2 > > Ed. > > > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.2/349 - Release Date: 5/26/2006 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------