The author and the site are independent (okay, excepting the software which is used to create, maintain, and upload the files <g>) from the International Business Machines Corporation ! I am exclusively maintaining the site for my private pleasure, and because I have absolutely nothing better to do with my time. 8*)

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This site covers the following products and their components:

• OS/2 Warp operating system (client and server)
• OS/2 Warp BonusPak (including third party products)
• OS/2 Warp Software Choice features (for exceptions see below)

This site does not cover the following products and components:

• anything from the OS/2 Device Driver Pak Online CD
• third party products from the Application Sampler CD
• third party products from Lotus (e. g. Lotus Mail)
• third party products from Tivoli (e. g. Nefinity)
• WorkSpace On-Demand (WSoD) or any Software Choice features for this product

As a rule, only files stemmed from IBM are taken into account. To keep a clear arrangement and ensure a reliable maintenance, drivers, fixes, and extended functions for the operating system from third party vendors are mentioned in exceptions only.

If a correct link to a file cannot be executed, it is possible that IBM has withdrawn it.

• US reference server: service.boulder.ibm.com (most updates)
• ftp search: ftp search engines

Some updates/fixes/features require additional installation tools; these are mentioned separately. There is a link to them at the appropriate places.

Fundamentally, all FixPaks include the fixes of all previous FixPaks (cumulative FixPaks). Because of that, only the most current one is required. Nevertheless, there exist some single archives which update or fix parts of a component.

If you want to learn about FixPaks/fixes/updates in advance, you should download the first disk image first of all. It contains the appropriate documentation as ASCII or IPF files.
Some Readmes can be downloaded via ftp directly. These are listed together with the source of the FixPaks/fixes/updates in the tables.

First stop for (new) drivers should be the OS/2 Device Driver Pak On-Line .
Because that site is very extensive, I have renounced the complete registration of all drivers. This site lists drivers which I consider remarkable only, because they have been removed from a FixPak, extend the functions of the operating system, or are important for the installation of OS/2.
Since August 1999 the Device Driver FixPak is available. It includes the drivers which formerly were part of the FixPak for the base operating system (removed since FixPaks XR*W041 resp. XR*M011).

Finally a big thank you to the TeamOS/2 Cincinnati Users Group, for creating the OS/2 Warp Masterupdate-Site (maintained later by the OS/2 Super Site as the Master OS/2 Warp Update List ). It has been an invaluable foundation for the creation of the German site, which I have translated into English now.

... and of course to IBM for a great operating system, which made it possible (not just for me) to avoid the products of a certain very well known company.

As well, many thanks to the maintainer of www.blueflash.de , who offers the pictures of the various flags for free.

• WarpUpdates International (WWW location)
• os2.org: Updates/Fixes
• Prism Data Works (formerly Indelible Blue): WarpUP! CD-ROM (Nov 2001)