16 August 2000
Steve
Harris is the Director of Technology at JBS Jacaranda Business Systems, and
an OS/2 user since Warp 3. When he's not working or lurking around the Comp.OS.OS2
newsgroups, he likes to spend some time with his wife, and their two dogs, touring
around the big blue room, also known as the Canadian wilderness.
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OS/2 Newsbeat
It has been an amazingly slow month
in the newsgroups this week. Half of the world must be on summer holidays. In fact,
some groups went the whole month without a single post, which left precious little
to report on this time.COMP.OS.OS2.APPS
There were some lengthy discussions
surrounding the decision by IBM to end the VisualAge C++ for OS/2 and NT product
lines. The program services end date is January 31, 2000, beyond which only the
AIX version will be continued. While disappointing, the overall consensus (if indeed
such a thing exists in the newsgroups) is that there are enough freely available
development environments to continue OS/2 development, especially through the combination
of the OS/2 Developer's Toolkit and EMX. Besides, real programmers just use the
command line... don't they?
Alex Taylor has been "playing
around" with a Usenet newsreader, written in Java. "It's still just a
barely functional skeleton", his post claims, but has been released under the
GPL in hopes other will look, play, and add to it. Information, code, and screenshots
are available at http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex/program/njn.html
.
Eduardo Areitio has made an update
of the HTML extensions for the EPM Enhanced Editor. It allows for the use of most
HTML 3.2 and some of HTML 4.0. It can be downloaded from Hobbes at http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/nternet/www/editors/htmepm99.zip
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COMP.OS.OS2.NEWS
Michael Cocke, offers another piece
of freeware in his "continuing series of quick hacks". His latest offering
adds automatic encryption and decryption of e-mail using PGP 5.0 into MR/2 ICE (tested
on 2.19). They are available on his website at: http://www.catherders.com
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COMP.OS.OS2.PROGRAMMER.PORTING
Someone, unsigned, posted part of
a message from Scitech's newsgroup: "Scitech's up and coming GUI controls for
Scitech Display Doctor are currently dependent on another toolkit being ported to
OS/2. This toolkit has been ported to other platforms already, but Scitech will
have to take on the task of porting it to OS/2 themselves. This will result in LONG
delays waiting for the GUI controls which are badly needed in SDD for OS/2."
Apparently, OS/2 users with relevant talents can help speed up the project by signing
up at http://www.wxwindows.org/ and offer
their assistance in porting the library to OS/2.
Well, that's it for this month. As
always, if I missed out anything you feel should have been mentioned, or you have
a favorite newsgroup or thread I overlooked, please don't hesitate to contact me.
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