Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 17:17:07 -0400 From: Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: [OS2Voice dot org Feedback] The eCSoft/2 weekly newsletter for OS2Voice ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice dot org ++ From: ecsoft2 dot orgDESPAM at DESPAMgmail dot com -------- THE ECSOFT/2 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR OS2VOICE ------------------------- Find in this digest all the records created or updated in the last week on the eCSoft/2 site https://ecsoft2 dot org. If you find something wrong and you want to report it, or if you want to contribute updating or translating to your language the records, or if just you want to write us, visit our Contact page https://ecsoft2 dot org/contact or drop us an email at ecsoft2 [dot] orggmail [dot] com This is a special edition of the eCSoft/2 newsletter created for OS2 Voice. NEW: ==== * VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.7 https://ecsoft2 dot org/videolan-vlc-media-player VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, ...) from files, p * GNU gettext 0.20.1 https://ecsoft2 dot org/gnu-gettext GNU Gettext provides internationalization and translation functions for projects. Utility for developers. * phpMyAdmin 4.9.0.1 https://ecsoft2 dot org/phpmyadmin phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP php, intended to handle the administration of a remote MySQL mysql server via web. UPDATED: ======== * Tame/2 1.0.5 https://ecsoft2 dot org/tame2 Tame/2 is a bridge between your scanner, SANE sane, MMOS/2 and your preferred picture painting/drawing/publishing application. * PMPrintf 2.60 https://ecsoft2 dot org/pmprintf PMPrintf, a very helpful utility for debugging PM/WPS programs. * RAM File System 03/04/2006 https://ecsoft2 dot org/ram-file-system An IFS-based RAM Disk for OS/2. * Recursive Folder Settings 1.0.0 https://ecsoft2 dot org/recursive-folder-settings Program to allow recursive setting of workplace shell settings for all sub-folders of a given folder. * eCo Software runtime 20190214 https://ecsoft2 dot org/eco-software-runtime Runtime for the *new generation* of applications developed by eCo software. * Bochs 2.2.6 https://ecsoft2 dot org/bochs Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. * SpamFilter (The spam filter for OS/2) 1.1.1 https://ecsoft2 dot org/spamfilter-spam-filter-os2 The SpamFilter is a free and Open Source software able to detect and reject e-mail messages containing unwanted advertising. * OpenTyrian 20140725 https://ecsoft2 dot org/opentyrian OpenTyrian is an open-source port of the DOS game Tyrian. Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. Port by different authors. * IMAP4 server for the Weasel mail server 0.1.9 https://ecsoft2 dot org/imap4-server-weasel-mail-server This is an IMAPD server designed to run in conjunction with the Weasel weasel mail server. *Features*: * LB Mixer (LBMix) 0.08 https://ecsoft2 dot org/lb-mixer-lbmix A universal, full-configurable PM mixer front end. Supports IOCTL90 API implemented in Crystal Semiconductor v.2.x and v3.x, SB Live, C-Media 8738 and may be other drivers (e.g.: UniAudio). * PMUniMix 0.82 https://ecsoft2 dot org/pmunimix An audio mixer for eCS & OS/2 with UniAud uniaud-universal-audio-driver. PM mixer for uniaud which should list all available devices supported by your audio chip. * Fontconfig & Freetype 2.12.4 & 2.8.0 https://ecsoft2 dot org/fontconfig-freetype A runtime and a developer package that combines Fontconfig and FreeType into one package in such a way that it should be easy to build a cairo-based Mozilla build. * XviD core for OS/2 1.3.4 https://ecsoft2 dot org/xvid-core-os2 XviD is a high performance and high quality MPEG-4 video de-/encoding solution. * Interactive DisAssembler 3.05 https://ecsoft2 dot org/interactive-disassembler Full WYSIWYG interactively disassembler for i80x86, i8085, z80, i860, Pentium, i8051, 6502. * Quake 2 https://ecsoft2 dot org/quake-2 Quake 2 for OS/2. * DjView & DjVuLibre 4.10.6 & 3.5.27 https://ecsoft2 dot org/djview-djvulibre Standalone viewer for DjVu files. Features include navigating documents, zooming and panning page images, producing and displaying thumbnails. * Graham Utilities 2.1 https://ecsoft2 dot org/graham-utilities The Graham Utilities for OS/2 are the largest, most comprehensive suite of disk, file and general utilities specifically written for the OS/2 Operating System. * phpGUI 1.22 https://ecsoft2 dot org/phpgui phpGUI is a tool for developers who build web-sites with PHP, HTML and MySQL. * PPWizard 17.308 https://ecsoft2 dot org/ppwizard PPWizard is a free html preprocessor which is powerful and yet easy to use. * Daniela's EIDE/SATA Driver 1.8.15 https://ecsoft2 dot org/danielas-eidesata-driver * Hunspell 1.6.2 https://ecsoft2 dot org/hunspell Hunspell is the spell checker of LibreOffice, http://OpenOffice dot org openoffice, Mozilla Firefox firefox 3 & Thunderbird thunderbird * VirtualBox per OS/2 5.0.6 https://ecsoft2 dot org/virtualbox-os2 VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. * Program Commander 2.20 https://ecsoft2 dot org/program-commander A WPS enhancement or replacement. Features configurable program launcher, Virtual Desktops, etc. * Process Viewer https://ecsoft2 dot org/process-viewer A GUI process viewer and killer. Lots of info provided on each thread. Very nice! * PopBiff 1.1 https://ecsoft2 dot org/popbiff POP3 mail indicator. * PM PDF (Poor Mans PDF) 1.0.5 https://ecsoft2 dot org/pm-pdf-poor-mans-pdf An utility which brings the capabilities of Adobe Acrobat Distiller to the OS/2 platform using GhostScript to generate PDF files. * NcFTP 3.2.5 https://ecsoft2 dot org/ncftp FTP client with reget option - text mode. Port by different authors. * LSwitcher 2.9.0 https://ecsoft2 dot org/lswitcher Feature-rich replacement for the OS/2 PM Alt-Tab switcher, that includes a task switcher that works in full screen sessions. * JPEG, the Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software 9c https://ecsoft2 dot org/jpeg-independent-jpeg-groups-jpeg-software Port of jpeg library that implements JPEG image compression and decompression and that is used by some XFree86/OS2 programs. * HTMEPM 0.99 https://ecsoft2 dot org/htmepm Provides menu-driven HTML editing abilities to the OS/2 Enhanced Editor. Supports most HTML 3.2 and some HTML 4.0 tags. * HTML to Text 1.0 https://ecsoft2 dot org/html-text A REXX script which extracts HTML-tags from HTML-files used in Internet www-communication and stores the remaining text into an ASCII-file. * Generalised Bitmap Module (GBM) 1.76 https://ecsoft2 dot org/generalised-bitmap-module-gbm The GBM package consists of a number of components: * FreeType/2-IFI 2.0.0 beta 1 https://ecsoft2 dot org/freetype2-ifi FreeType/2 is an OS/2 TrueType Font Driver DLL based on the FreeType engine to enhance OS/2 standard TT font rendering (port by different authors). * Flip 1.0 https://ecsoft2 dot org/flip A PM dice and card game. * Find Duplicate Files 1.01 https://ecsoft2 dot org/find-duplicate-files Find duplicate files on your disks, allow mask/date/size compare. * eFTE/2 text editor & FTE text editor 1.0 & 0.5.01 https://ecsoft2 dot org/efte2-text-editor-fte-text-editor Enanched Text editor with syntax highlighting for c/pascal/asm/perl/java/HTML and more! * gX XML Parser 1.3.1 https://ecsoft2 dot org/gx-xml-parser The gX XML parser can be used to valid and rewrite your XML files. It provides excellent control over error reporting. It also provides quite a capable XML editor. * FM/2 Utilities https://ecsoft2 dot org/fm2-utilities Bunch of free utils (including HPFS defrag) text mode only. * FAT32 0.10b https://ecsoft2 dot org/fat32 FAT32.IFS for OS/2 will allow you to access FAT32 partitions (max 32 Gb, non removable) from OS/2. * ExCal 3.0m https://ecsoft2 dot org/excal WPS-based PIM with calendar, todo and address book (Dan Khen/IBM EWS). * Euler 1.23 & 4.12 https://ecsoft2 dot org/euler Numerical math package with 3D/2D plots and programming language. * Embellish https://ecsoft2 dot org/embellish Embellish image editor of all format. Antialiasing, effects and more. * Chinese Checkers 0.66 https://ecsoft2 dot org/chinese-checkers Chinese Checkers: The traditional Chinese checkers game. * CandyBarZ 1.40 beta 1 https://ecsoft2 dot org/candybarz CandyBarZ' primary feature is the ability to 'skin' the OS/2 public window classes. Thus far Titlebars, frames, and buttons are skinable. Note that this IS a BETA release! * Calmira 3.31 https://ecsoft2 dot org/calmira Windows 95 style shell for Windows 3.1. * Batch Editor 0.45 https://ecsoft2 dot org/batch-editor Batch Editor is a PM multithreaded application which allows to replace data of one or more rows in one or more files with various options (recur subdirectories, case insensitive, non printable char * Association Editor 2.1.2 https://ecsoft2 dot org/association-editor Association Editor allows you to inspect or modify associations set for file- and typefilters. * American Football https://ecsoft2 dot org/node/119 American Football for OS/2. Run on OS/2 1.2 and laters. * WHOIS client 5.4.1 https://ecsoft2 dot org/whois-client A new whois (RFC 954) client rewritten from scratch. It is derived from and compatible with the usual BSD and RIPE whois(1) programs. * Win95Key 3.09 https://ecsoft2 dot org/win95key The program allows to assign new actions easily and (for developers) to increase its functionality using plugin scheme. * wxWidgets 2.8.12 https://ecsoft2 dot org/wxwidgets An open source C++ GUI framework for easy cross-platform programming. * Cadh - CAD Popup menu 1.31.1 https://ecsoft2 dot org/cadh-cad-popup-menu Cadh is a program to capture the Control - Alt - Delete key combination and display a full screen text window with a menu of several options instead of the normal OS/2 action of forcing the file sy * TimeKeeper/2 1.3.3 https://ecsoft2 dot org/timekeeper2 RFC 868 Time Protocol Client that keeps your system time and date accurate. * SmartBar 3.2 https://ecsoft2 dot org/smartbar Utility for monitoring various system activities: ram, swapper file, open files, threads, running processes, TCP/Ip, fan rotation,CPU and motherboard temperatures (chipset W83781D or LM75/LM78), AP * Sysbench 0.95d https://ecsoft2 dot org/sysbench Benchmarking Utility (video, CPU, disk, and memory). * SANE 1.0.27 https://ecsoft2 dot org/sane Sane (Scanner Access Now Easy) is software to access scanners with Non-Windows/Mac-Systems. Now with USB support. * Backgammon 1.0 https://ecsoft2 dot org/node/101 Backgammon game, IBM's freeware version. * DragText 3.9 https://ecsoft2 dot org/dragtext DragText is the latest release of a distinctly different Desktop enhancement for OS/2 Warp. Presents almost everywhere yet invisible until needed, DragText lets you do what others can't: * DiskCat 1.8 https://ecsoft2 dot org/node/97 Cataloging of all disks (floppy, harddisk, cdrom, magneto optical, lan drives, audio cd): * ASPIROUT 1.1b10 https://ecsoft2 dot org/aspirout ASPI Router is a small device driver that lets you access the SCSI bus from your application. * bZip2 & pbZip2 1.0.6 https://ecsoft2 dot org/bzip2-pbzip2 Port of bzip, which is a block-sorting file compressor. Port by different authors. * SafeFire PPP/Links 1.3 alpha https://ecsoft2 dot org/node/90 Dialer with this features: ISDN (CAPI 2.0), Traffic Shaper, Identd server, Server callback support, Remote Control (including WEB control), FDK API v1.1, Fast NDIS support (for 100Mb networks), Tra * Injoy Firewall 4.2.2 https://ecsoft2 dot org/injoy-firewall InJoy Firewall for OS/2. Support for PPPoE, IPSec, PAT/NAT and other. * Bind (ISC Bind) 9.11.6 https://ecsoft2 dot org/isc-bind Bind (Berkely Internet Name Daemon) for OS/2. * Squid 3.3.11 https://ecsoft2 dot org/squid Squid is a caching HTTP proxy server. It speeds up web browsing by caching most recently visited web pages. Ported from different authors. * Device Driver Pack 2 (XR_D002) 14042 https://ecsoft2 dot org/device-driver-pack-2-xrd002 Drivers update for * *OS/2 Warp 3* * *OS/2 Warp* *4* * PMMail 3.22 https://ecsoft2 dot org/pmmail PMMail/2, email client. OS/2 and Windows versions available. From 3.0 version, the program is free to all VOICE members for 90 days. * Weasel 2.56 https://ecsoft2 dot org/weasel Weasel: a POP3 and SMTP daemon for OS/2 (also available an IMAP optional extension). * Sun StarOffice 5.1a https://ecsoft2 dot org/sun-staroffice StarOffice complete office suite. * Boot OS/2 9.26 https://ecsoft2 dot org/boot-os2 The BOOTOS2 program is a utility that allows you to build a BOOTable OS/2 V2,V3 or V4 system using an existing OS/2 V2, V3 or V4 system. * Font Gentium Plus Compact 5000 https://ecsoft2 dot org/gentium-plus-compact-font Gentium is a Unicode serif typeface. It has wide support for languages using the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic alphabets, and the International Phonetic Alphabet. * Privoxy 3.0.21 https://ecsoft2 dot org/privoxy Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other ob * Junkbuster/2 Ver. 2.0 https://ecsoft2 dot org/junkbuster2 JunkBuster/2 port updated to latest version including latest TINYGIF modification. This should be the final port of JunkBuster/2, based on the port by Gerd Flender. * XF86 support driver 1.516 https://ecsoft2 dot org/xf86-support-driver Helper driver for XFree86/2 and other application. * QElectroTech 0.4b https://ecsoft2 dot org/qelectrotech QElectroTech is a program specialised in the creation of electric diagrams. Application developed with the QT4 framework qt4-application-ui-framework. * WGet 1.18 https://ecsoft2 dot org/wget GNU Wget is a network utility to retrieve files using HTTP and FTP, with reget options and more. Now with SSL support! Port by different authors. * eCUPS 2.1.3 https://ecsoft2 dot org/ecups The eCUPS project is intended to create a seamless integration of CUPS https://www.cups dot org/ into OS/2 base Operating Systems, *to sub* * GameOfLife 0.20e https://ecsoft2 dot org/gameoflife This application is a implementation of "Game Of Life", written in C++ with Qt4 qt4-application-ui-framework. * Gpf Rexx (GUI Programming Facility for REXX) 1.2 https://ecsoft2 dot org/node/1322 Gpf, the GUI Programming Facility, is a WYSIWYG Graphical User Interface builder for creating Presentation Manager (PM) applications for OS/2. * Watcom VX-REXX 2.1d https://ecsoft2 dot org/watcom-vx-rexx VX-REXX is a Visual Programming tool from Watcom that is completely integrated with the Workplace Shell and offers multiple views, drag-drop interaction, popup menus, s * Midori Sans Fonts 0.4 https://ecsoft2 dot org/midori-sans-fonts Midori Sans is a semi-condensed sans-serif font which combines both transitional and humanist elements. * Paper 0.5.0 https://ecsoft2 dot org/paper Paper is a fast and lightweight comic book viewer. Application developed using the Qt compiler qt4-application-ui-framework. * Kee16 11 https://ecsoft2 dot org/kee16 A static thunking library to be able to use the 32-bit KEE API from a 16-bit device driver * CADEMIA 4.0rc6 https://ecsoft2 dot org/cademia CADEMIA is a modern CAD system with a full functionality to create dimensional accurate technical drawings and documents. It has a flexible structure and can be easily extended. * Megadesk (Desktop expander) 2.24 https://ecsoft2 dot org/megadesk-desktop-expander Megadesk is a virtual desktop overview which allows you to expand the area for your PM windows, creating many "rooms" in which to group running PM applications. * WallpaperFiner 0.94 https://ecsoft2 dot org/wallpaperfiner Wallpaper finer is small easy to use utility which adjust (crop) your images perfectly to fit your desktop, and immediately set as wallpaper according to your instructions. * Bot Race 0.2 https://ecsoft2 dot org/bot-race This is a clone of the famous Robo Rally board game, written in Qt4. Supports animated boards, network and solo games, an editor to create your own boards, and fully scalable SVG themes. * Data Transport Agent (DTA) https://ecsoft2 dot org/data-transport-agent-dta This is a beta release of the new Data Transport Agent (DTA) for eComStation. * Supporto per webcam USB 1.1 https://ecsoft2 dot org/usb-webcam-support-programs-and-drivers USB WebCam device drivers and control programs. * bootAble 6.10.3 https://ecsoft2 dot org/bootable bootAble is an OS/2/eCS script to create a maintenance partition or a bootable CD. * Pcx2prn 1.4.8 https://ecsoft2 dot org/pcx2prn Derive original data used in line graphs from PCX files. * QVim 7.3.762 https://ecsoft2 dot org/qvim QVim is the QT version of the versatile and flexible editor called vim. Application developed using Qt4 compiler qt4-application-ui-framework. * Banner engine 1.0.0 https://ecsoft2 dot org/node/1280 Banner mechanism for eComStation. * Thunderbird 45.8.0 https://ecsoft2 dot org/thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component, with several new features and improvements to make your mail and news experience better. * Lightning 4.0.8 https://ecsoft2 dot org/lightning Make Thunderbird thunderbird or Seamonkey seamonkey even more powerful with the fully integrated Lightning Calendar. * DVD/CD Toys 1.07.00 https://ecsoft2 dot org/dvdcd-toys CD/DVD Toys is a set of utilities to burn CD and DVD disks (Blu-Ray, HD-DVD). The utilities support creation and burning of ISO-images. * ndpdbox, Dropbox Netdrive plugin 0.6 https://ecsoft2 dot org/ndpdbox-dropbox-netdrive-plugin ndpdbox is an external plugin for Netdrive for OS/2 and it allows you to mount your Dropbox account (or multiple accounts) as a local disk. ndpdbox is under development. * HathiDownloadHelper 1.1.7 https://ecsoft2 dot org/hathidownloadhelper Hathi Download Helper is a tool for downloading books from https://www.hathitrust dot org/. * SDLMAME 0.170 https://ecsoft2 dot org/sdlmame A MAME Version based on SDL Library. MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. * X264 for OS/2 0.150.4482 https://ecsoft2 dot org/x264-os2 x264 is a free library for encoding H264/AVC video streams. -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice dot org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. 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