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From: stefanj@gte.net                                   25-Nov-99 20:19:12
  To: All                                               27-Nov-99 16:56:11
Subj: Joystick Device Driver Contest.....New Entries!!

From: stefanj@gte.net (Jason Stefanovich)

I have received a new entry from Vesa Jskelinen,
A Joystick driver that has support for the Gravis Gamepad Pro.
Also, check out Vesa's proposal for an extended joystick
standard under OS/2.



MAMERun Joystick Device Driver Contest.

What is it?

Write your own joystick device driver for OS/2 and you could win $100
plus valuable prizes and earn the respect and gratitude of OS/2
gamers around the world! With the many new games available and the
advance of game controllers there arises a need for a better 
joystick device driver than IBM's advanced joystick device driver. 
Support for new controller features, such as 8+ buttons, will greatly
enhance the OS/2 gaming experience for gamers as well as 
developers.

For rules and other information check out:

  http://home1.gte.net/stefanj/contest.htm 

I am looking for additional sponsors for this contest. If you would
like to contribute please go to: 

  http://home1.gte.net/stefanj/sponsor.htm 

Any questions can be sent to me at Stefanj@gte.net

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From: era@usit.net                                      26-Nov-99 13:33:22
  To: All                                               27-Nov-99 16:56:11
Subj: REXX prog to print MR/2 ICE address books (pages fixed)

From: ERA <era@usit.net>

Apologies to all who tried to access our pages. BizLand apparently
lost them so I had to upload everything again. They should be there
now. If not e-mail webmaster@eracc.bizland.com or me please. TIA

Print your MR/2 ICE address books using this handy little REXX
program. I whipped it up for internal company use and decided to
share. It's freeware, of course, and use at your own risk blah blah
blah.

Ok, it's been asked for on the ICE mail list. I wanted it too, so I
made it. Consider it a 0.9 beta for now. It's on our WWW pages at -

	http://eracc.bizland.com/

- under the OS/2 area in the files section near the top. Feel free to
download it, try it and then send me some constructive (or not ;-)
suggestions. I figure you other REXX dudes out there want to pick at
it to see the guts so write me when you do! ;-)
-- 
Gene Alexander <era@usit.net>
-- 
+==========================-=>Team OS/2<=-==========================+
#   Owner and C.E.O. - ERA Computer Consulting - Jackson, TN USA    #
#Providing IBM OS/2 and SCO OpenServer  Business Computing Solutions#
#         visit our www pages at http://eracc.bizland.com/          #
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The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 
Revision 9.029 
There are 48 Processes with 170 Threads.
This machine's uptime is 1d 13h 53m 19s 216ms.

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From: C.Arnold@Transnet.de                              26-Nov-99 13:55:18
  To: All                                               27-Nov-99 16:56:11
Subj: New beta of Translator v1.3.8 wrong EXE

From: "Carsten Arnold" <C.Arnold@Transnet.de>

Helo,

sorry, yesterday I had a wrong EXE (version 1.3.7w) in the ZIP-file packed.

Now should the correct EXE in the ZIP.

URL is still 
http://home.t-online.de/home/C.Arnold/translator/trans138.zip

best regards

Gruss
        Carsten
-- 
URL:    http://home.t-online.de/home/C.Arnold
Versicherungsvertreter verkaufen Versicherungen, Volksvertreter 
verkaufen....   (Autor unbekannt)
 Dieses OS/2-System laeuft 0d 22h 5m 37s 496ms

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From: os2.guide@about.com                               26-Nov-99 16:36:13
  To: All                                               30-Nov-99 05:19:05
Subj: New Edition of Focus on OS/2 now online!

From: "Walter Metcalf" <os2.guide@about.com>

THIS WEEK'S FEATURE continues the series on PPWizard, the powerful HTML
editing tool, with a tutorial on designing an actual 
web page from the Focus on OS/2 site.

The article can be found at
http://os2.about.com/compute/os2/library/weekly/aa112499.htm.

The rest of the site, which now contains 1074 links, is at
http://os2.about.com.

.................................
Walter Metcalf
About.com Guide to OS/2
http://os2.about.com
email: os2.guide@about.com
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From: tsipple@us.ibm.com                                29-Nov-99 23:28:26
  To: All                                               30-Nov-99 05:19:05
Subj: Verisign Expiration for Certain OS/2 Warp Web Browsers

From: tsipple@us.ibm.com


SOFTWARE SERVICE ALERT

Verisign Certificate Expiration for
Netscape Navigator 2.02 and Netscape Communicator 4.04 for OS/2 Warp

Important Security Alert for Webmasters, Internet Administrators and Users
Verisign Certificate Expiration

Netscape Communicator 4.05 or earlier include a root certificate set to
expire on December 31, 1999.  Users of these browsers will experience an
additional dialog box when connecting to secure sites after January 1,
2000.  This is a user interface issue; root CA certificate expiration does
not affect SSL encryption.  A user may safely click on continue and proceed
with secure transactions.

In order to eliminate this additional dialog box, the user must upgrade
their browser or delete and obtain a new root CA certificate.

This applies to Netscape Navigator 2.02 for OS/2 and to Netscape
Communicator 4.04 for OS/2 Warp.  Netscape Communicator 4.61 for OS/2 Warp
has an updated root CA certificate and needs no action.

For more information, please see
http://www.ibm.com/software/os/warp/netscape or click on Release Notes
under Help on your browser.

Further Information (as seen on the Web page above):
Important Security Alert for Webmasters, Internet Administrators, and
Browser Users:
Verisign Certificate Expiration

Netscape Communicator 4.05 or earlier include a root certificate set to
expire on December 31, 1999.  Users of these browsers will experience an
additional dialog box when connecting to secure sites after January 1,
2000.  This is a user interface issue; root CA certificate expiration does
not affect SSL encryption.  This is not a Y2K issue.  A user may safely
click on continue and proceed with secure transactions.

In order to eliminate this additional dialog box, the user must upgrade
their browser or delete and obtain a new root CA certificate.

This applies to Netscape Navigator 2.02 for OS/2 and to Netscape
Communicator 4.04 for OS/2 Warp.  Netscape Communicator 4.61 for OS/2 Warp
has an updated root CA certificate and needs no action.

You have three choices, 1)  upgrade your browser, 2)  update your CA root
certificate, or 3)  ignore the additional dialog box:

Choice # 1:  Update Your Browser
Please go to Software Choice (
http://service.boulder.ibm.com/asd-bin/doc/en_us/catalog.htm) to select and
download Netscape Communicator 4.61 for OS/2 Warp.

Choice # 2:  Update Your Root CA Certificate

Netscape Communicator 4.04 for OS/2 Warp
To obtain step-by-step instructions specific to Netscape Communicator 4.X
for updating your root CA certificate, please go to site:

http://www.verisign.com/update-cgi/outPage.exe?ns405=../docs/html/help/ns4.05he
lp.htm&ns4=../docs/html/help/ns4help.htm&ns3=../docs/html/help/ns3.0help.htm&go
od=../docs/html/good.html&ns2=../docs/html/upgradeNSonly.html&ie2=../docs/html/
upgradeIEonly.html

For more information, please click on Release Notes under Help from your
browser or go to http://www.ibm.com/software/os/warp/netscape.

Netscape Navigator 2.02 for OS/2
For Netscape Navigator 2.02 for OS/2 users, please go to
http://www.ibm.com/software/os/warp/netscape.  You will have extra steps to
complete prior to updating your root CA certificate:
  --    go to http://ps.software.ibm.com/, click on Downloads and News to
download a fix for Netscape Navigator 2.02 for OS/2 (this fix will be
available on December 1, 1999)
  --    install the fix for Netscape Navigator 2.02
  --    ensure that you have set the -3 parameter in the Properties
notebook for the Navigator object on the Workplace Shell Desktop
  --    go to this site to obtain the step-by-step instructions specific to
Netscape Navigator 3.X:

http://www.verisign.com/update-cgi/outPage.exe?ns405=../docs/html/help/ns4.05he
lp.htm&ns4=../docs/html/help/ns4help.htm&ns3=../docs/html/help/ns3.0help.htm&go
od=../docs/html/good.html&ns2=../docs/html/upgradeNSonly.html&ie2=../docs/html/
upgradeIEonly.html

Choice # 3:  Ignore the Additional Dialog Box

Remember your other choice is to inform users about the dialog box and to
make sure they know that they can click continue to ignore the warning and
continue with full SSL encryption for their transaction.

For more information from Verisign and to see the additional dialog box
that will be seen by users after January 1, 2000 if they do not take
corrective action, please go to:
http://www.verisign.com/server/cus/rootcert/webmaster.html

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From: rommel@ars.de                                     28-Nov-99 21:15:29
  To: All                                               30-Nov-99 05:19:05
Subj: new files in LEO's OS/2 archive

From: "Kai-Uwe Rommel" <rommel@ars.de>

Please post this message:

Subject: new files in LEO's OS/2 archive

The files in the list below are new in LEO's OS/2 archive.

You can access this archive using either a WWW browser or a
traditional FTP client program via:

    http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/
    ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/

Both URL's provide access to the same file collection.

Using the WWW front end, you can easily navigate through the
archive,  view archive contents (even view README or FILEID_DIZ
etc. files from within .ZIP files directly) and download files.

Since LEO's OS/2 archive also contains a part of IBM's FixPak
distribution server (service.boulder.ibm.com), there may be new
items in this section too, but they are not listed here.

See /pub/comp/os/os2/leo/00-files for a full index of this OS/2
archive and 00-readme  for other information, such as  how to
upload to this archive.

99/10/28 19:16   428698 pmtools/clock101.zip             Configurable
WorldClock and StopWatch
99/10/28 19:16   573014 apps/tbuchos2.zip                german accounting
program for small companies
99/10/30 10:10  1868526 apps/maul111.zip                 desktop publisher for 
OS/2
99/10/30 10:14  1804077 wpstools/wpsac40gs.zip           Workplace Shell
Access Control
99/10/30 10:14  1755299 wpstools/wpsac40us.zip           Workplace Shell
Access Control
99/10/30 10:15    72015 tcpip/systools/nistime.zip       Update time/date from 
NIST Internet server
99/10/30 10:16   322911 systools/bootos2.zip             make OS/2 boot floppy
99/10/30 10:17    63933 systools/configedit12.zip        config.sys database
tool
99/10/30 10:18    20096 drivers/dasd/daniadsk.zip        alternate ATAPI
driver (for removable media drives)
99/10/30 10:18   299488 tcpip/talk/icq2b153i.zip         PM ICQ client for
OS/2
99/10/30 10:19    92290 systools/ipt113.zip              show installed
software packages
99/10/30 10:19   951194 pmtools/smw100.zip               OS/2 user interface
enhancer
99/10/30 10:19   102175 rexx/rexx_md5.zip                compute MD5 digests
from Rexx
99/10/30 10:24    10680 drivers/usb/usb_com_fix01.zip    fixed USB comm device 
driver
99/10/30 10:24    16081 drivers/usb/usb_uhci_fix01.zip   fixed USB basic
system drivers
99/10/30 10:25   173692 tcpip/systools/tacplus-f403-alpha.zip Access Control
daemon for CISCO Servers
99/10/30 10:25    93325 tcpip/systools/xtacacsd201.zip   Access Control daemon 
for CISCO Servers
99/10/30 13:56  1727474 drivers/display/atirage.zip      ATI Rage/Pro drivers
99/10/30 13:56   728284 drivers/display/s3-savage.zip    S3 Savage display
driver
99/10/30 13:56   666967 tcpip/systools/mrtg288-os2.zip   router traffic
grapher
99/10/31 18:31   170724 drivers/dasd/danis506.zip        alternate EIDE driver
99/10/31 18:31    10784 drivers/usb/usb_com_fix02.zip    fixed USB comm device 
driver
99/11/07 08:34   132472 systools/diskio117.zip           fixed disk benchmark
(with source code)
99/11/07 08:34   204874 systools/netio110.zip            network throughput
benchmark
99/11/07 08:35   173397 apps/disci086.zip                vocabulary training
utility
99/11/07 08:36   112076 pmtools/wnote187.zip             'yellow stickers'
utility for PM
99/11/07 08:36  2947997 gnu/emx+gcc/rsxnt/rsxnt150.zip   RSX/Win32 runtime
support and toolkit for emx
99/11/07 08:37   407801 gnu/emx+gcc/rsxnt/rsxrt150.zip   RSX/Win32 runtime
support for emx
99/11/07 08:37   848941 gnu/emx+gcc/rsxnt/cc1plus.zip    fix for nt09dgpp.zip
99/11/07 09:02  1136768 graphics/alchemy_os2_1.11.zip    graphical front end
for Image Alchemy
99/11/07 09:03    78901 systools/configedit14.zip        config.sys database
tool
99/11/07 09:03    19794 drivers/dasd/daniadsk.zip        alternate ATAPI
driver (for removable media drives)
99/11/07 09:03  2931126 apps/et317.zip                   bank account manager
99/11/07 09:04   535768 sound/frontend_for_bladeenc_106.zip     frontend for
Bladeenc, a MP3 encoder
99/11/07 09:04    16626 drivers/cdrom/jjscdrom_19991106.zip  modifies CD-ROM
device manager
99/11/07 09:05   673984 systools/lcmd0998.zip            Larsen Commander, a
file manager
99/11/07 09:05     7890 sound/mp3p_v991101.zip           MP3 front end for
lame and leech
99/11/07 09:05   230271 drivers/ifs/os2fat32.zip         FAT32 file system
driver
99/11/07 09:05   120619 apps/pmr140.zip                  application for
driving the Reveal RA300 FM radio card and the AIMS Labs. RadioTrack card
99/11/07 09:06   383371 apps/uae2.zip                    Amiga emulator
99/11/13 10:01   668037 systools/dsts160.zip             time changing utility
99/11/21 16:38  1295138 database/mysql2-3.22.26a.zip     94   MySQL database
server
99/11/21 16:38   161520 database/mysql-client-3.22.26a.zip MySQL database
client utilities
99/11/21 16:39   458933 apps/bochs2.zip                  x86/DOS emulator
99/11/21 16:40    19619 drivers/dasd/daniadsk.zip        alternate ATAPI
driver (for removable media drives)
99/11/21 16:43    32756 mail+news/cs2pmm_m.zip           convert GCP message
files for PMMail/2
99/11/27 11:11    32861 systools/lsw230.zip              full screen session
switcher
99/11/27 11:13   497393 tcpip/www/shttpd_0.06_os2.zip    small WWW server with 
SSL support
99/11/27 11:26   165487 database/xdbfj18j.zip            xBase file access for 
Java
99/11/27 11:27     7789 systools/wnice.zip               WatchCat add-on kill
DLL
99/11/27 11:27   549319 tcpip/mail/weasel09.zip          SMTP and POP3 server
99/11/27 11:30   784974 systools/tyra170e.zip            config.sys editor
99/11/27 11:30    78892 tcpip/systools/timekeep132.zip   internet time client
99/11/27 11:31   334833 tcpip/telnet/telnet4java.zip     Telnet Java applet
99/11/27 11:32  1080811 demos/tbos253.zip                True Basic/2 Bronze
edition demo Ver.5.3
99/11/27 11:33    99053 sound/speechlib.zip              Speech library for
programmers
99/11/27 11:35    52516 pmtools/smw1002.zip              OS/2 user interface
enhancer
99/11/27 11:37   357568 tcpip/www/sitecopy084.zip        Local->Remote website 
synchronizer
99/11/27 11:37   387318 tcpip/slip-ppp/sfp09b58.zip      SafeFire PPP
implementation
99/11/27 11:38   497595 tcpip/www/serverconfig17.zip     Apache/2 PM
configuring utility
99/11/27 11:39   124801 rexx/rxrsync.zip                 RxRsync: REXX
callable Rsync procedures
99/11/27 11:43   265177 archiver/rar250p.exe             RAR 2.5 archiver
99/11/27 11:44   260862 archiver/rarx260.exe             RAR 2.60 archiver
99/11/27 11:45    87286 systools/qf121.zip               apply OS/2 Warp
fixpaks
99/11/27 11:48   361369 devtools/utils/ppwizard.zip      generic preprocessor
99/11/27 11:48   131402 tcpip/mail/pofamu.zip            PMMail offline folder 
mgmt utility
99/11/27 11:49   290688 sound/pmconv006.zip              MP3 Grabber and
Encoder for OS/2 Warp with CDDB
99/11/27 11:50   290029 systools/pmcdrecv002.zip         PM frontend for
cdrecord and mkisofs
99/11/27 11:51    97394 graphics/outjpeg_03.zip          command line
utilities for JPEG file manipulation
99/11/27 11:52  1677953 devtools/java/osaj-os2.zip       OSA Static analyzer
for Java Version 1.38 (trial)
99/11/27 11:53  4703756 devtools/java/osasym.zip         OSA Static analyzer
for Java Version, symbol files
99/11/27 11:53    84417 systools/os2csm.zip              OS/2 Config.sys Menu
99/11/27 11:54   284912 sound/mikmod2k-318.zip           MOD player
99/11/27 11:58  3064523 x11/lyx21041.zip                 LyX/2 1.0.4.1, the
professional highlevel document processor for TeX/LaTeX
99/11/27 11:58   115585 tcpip/mail/lpopper.zip           POP3 server
99/11/27 11:59    12931 sound/lbmix001.zip               A mixer for Crystal
Semiconductor IOCTL90 mixer API
99/11/27 12:01   716400 graphics/dcitu18g_beta.zip       load images from
Kodak DCxxx digital cameras
99/11/27 12:01   181874 systools/iniser04.zip            Remote INI file
editor
99/11/27 12:03  5064935 rexx/gpfrx12c.zip                GPF Rexx Visual GUI
programming toolkit v.1.2c
99/11/27 12:04   195074 systools/gdiff.zip               Compute differences
between two files
99/11/27 12:06   173737 apps/disci087.zip                vocabulary training
utility
99/11/27 12:07   729082 apps/fmradio.zip                 FM radio card
application
99/11/28 21:08   648446 systools/dfsee310.zip            HPFS display and
analysis tool
99/11/28 21:08    59222 systools/hpfsut02.zip            HPFSUtil 0.01 -
informational utility for HPFS
99/11/28 21:09   810933 sound/lame357b.zip               MP3 encoder
99/11/28 21:09   278283 comm/sendsms425.zip              send SMS messages to
mobile phones

Kai Uwe Rommel

--
/* Kai Uwe Rommel                   ARS Computer & Consulting GmbH *
 * rommel@ars.de                                 Muenchen, Germany *
 * rommel@leo.org (http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2 maintenance) */


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From: mamodeo@stny.rr.com                               01-Dec-99 00:06:19
  To: All                                               01-Dec-99 20:38:00
Subj: MAME for OS/2 version .36 beta 10 is available

From: Marty <mamodeo@stny.rr.com>

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

It allows you to play up to 1876 classic (and some not-so-classic arcade
games)
from the 70's through the 90's from the comfort of your OS/2 desktop.

The OS/2 version has been updated to the latest version of the MAME core (.36
beta 10).  If you are upgrading from beta 6 or higher, it will automatically
update your Quick List and scan for newly supported games the first time you
start it up so you don't have to manually rescan everything from scratch and
erase your Favorites list.

I took some time to fix several bugs and annoyances this release.  The
following items have changed since version .36 beta 9.1:
* Updated to MAME core version .36 beta 10 
* PONG is available to everybody!!!!!
  ** NOTE:  You must disable the joystick to use this game.
            There is a bug in the MAME core causing the
            joystick to block out keyboard input and not
            function properly.
* Fixed a stupid, STUPID, bug causing a crash when the ROM 
  search path is changed.
* Changed the DIVE initialization code slightly to (hopefully) 
  work better with some ThinkPads and other hardware with 
  flakey DIVE support.
* Fixed a bug that caused changes in the joystick settings to 
  not immediately take effect in the middle of a game. 
* Fixed a bug causing games with looped samples (like Galaxian)
  to stop playing the samples when the game is unpaused.
* Got rid of a few ugly error messages in the Debug.Log when 
  the game is paused and sound is enabled.
* Tweaked the Quick List dialog screen to give the window focus 
  to the Favorites list by default.
* Fixed the startup sequence when using a game name as a 
  command line parameter so that the loading status screen gets
  the window focus while it is loading.

As always, you can download the latest release from
http://emuos2.vintagegaming.com.

Enjoy!

- Marty

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