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November 12, 1996 Announcements

YACL version 1.6 now available.

About YACL:

This is YACL (Yet Another Class Library). It is a general-purpose programming library designed with the idea of identifying and implementing useful object abstractions that frequently occur in application development, so that development effort can be cut down significantly. The abstractions are designed to be application-domain-specific rather than platform-specific. This yields two major benefits:

YACL is part of an ongoing project to create a completely portable program development environment.

CURRENT STATUS (As of November 11th, 1996):

The YACL base classes provide equivalent functionality under DOS, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, OS/2 versions 2.1 and Warp and several flavors of Unix. The GUI classes provide equivalent functionality under four platforms: MS Windows, Windows NT, OS/2 PM and Unix with X/Motif. Here is a summary of the platforms and compilers it has been tested under. (The YACL package includes makefiles for all the platforms and compilers listed below.)

PlatformCompiler
MS WindowsBorland C++ 4.0 and later
Watcom C++ 10.0a
MS Windows NTBorland C++ 4.0 and later
Watcom C++ 10.0a
Microsoft Visual C++ 2.1
OS/2 2.1Borland C++ 1.5
OS/2 WarpEMX (GNU) C++ 2.6.3 and later
Borland C++ 1.5
Watcom C++ 10.0a
IBM Visual Age C++ 3.0
LinuxGNU C++ 2.6.3 and later
SunOS 4.1GNU C++ 2.6.3 and later
Solaris 2.3Centerline C++ version 4.0
GNU C++ 2.6.3 and later
SGI Irix 5.3SGI Delta C++
GNU C++ 2.6.3 and later
DEC UltrixGNU C++ 2.6.3
NCR SysVGNU C++ 2.6.3

AVAILABILITY:

YACL is available via:

World-wide web

Anonymous ftp

There is also a YACL mailing list. To be included in it, please send e-mail to yacl-list@cs.sc.edu with the message "subscribe yacl-list address" where address is your e-mail address.

For more information, contact the author, M. A. Sridhar.
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Thanks from Indelible Blue.

Hi everyone,

A few weeks ago, we asked the academic community to help us show IBM the importance of offering an academic version of OS/2 Warp Version 4. Thanks to your generous responses, IBM has now made the decision to release an academic version of OS/2.

This decision is a direct result of the time and effort that everyone took to provide feedback to IBM. Officials at IBM took the time to read your opinions and act accordingly. This shows how important it is to be involved and that people can make a difference.

As a direct result of your efforts, the full license version of OS/2 Warp 4 (aka Merlin) will be available to the academic community for well under the US$100 price point. The academic version does not include a microphone, but a variety of excellent microphones are available for reasonable prices. The product will be available around the 19th of November. Indelible Blue will be allowed to take pre-orders for the academic version beginning Friday, November 8, 1996.

Again, thanks for all of the feedback from the academic community that made this possible! I know that it is difficult to take time away from your busy schedules, but many of you were extensive in your comments and suggestions. Almost everyone provided thoughtful and constructive feedback that helped tremendously toward providing credibility for the academic community to IBM.

Sincerely,

Buck Bohac
President
Indelible Blue, Inc.
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Indelible Blue Announces Academic Pricing on Warp v4.

It's here! Indelible Blue has announced the availability of academic pricing on OS/2 Warp v4. The academic version will be available on November 19, but Indelible Blue is currently taking pre-orders.

WARP4ACD -- OS/2 Warp v4 (Academic) -- US$85.00
(microphone not included)

AEC10 -- Microphone -- US$29.95

The academic offering of OS/2 Warp v4 represents a savings of US$100 so, if you're a student, take advantage of this great price! Academic pricing is also now available for IBM Antivirus, VisualAge for Basic, and Visual Age for C++. For information on academic pricing on additional software, check out our web site.
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PMWeather 1.5 beta Released.

Added PROXY server support for Corporate users. Canadian forecasts, some Australian forecasts, and other design changes.

PMWeather is a shareware program that allows you to view weather reports and forecasts. Using your (direct, not firewall) Internet connection, you will be able to read the latest weather reports and view the current Radar and Satellite images. Schedule the download to happen automatically and have PMWeather make your weather image of choice become the Desktop background. Now you won't have to remember all those unusual Internet addresses. Just point and click.

This version is beta and is not yet available to be registered.

Get it from our WWW page

For questions, email the author.
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Solar Systems WWW Site Comes Online.

We are proud to announce that our WWW site at http://www.solarsystems.com/ is finally online. The site will help us in the upcoming introduction of our first commercial OS/2 software title Frontier.

About Frontier:

Frontier (recently renamed to Stellar Frontier) is a real-time multimedia networked game where you compete against other players around the world via the internet. The game play is similar to the X-Trek or Net-Trek games which have been played on X-Window systems for years. Please visit our web site for screen shots and more details.

Call For Beta Testers:

The game is in the final stages of completion now. Expect a free demo to be available soon. We are looking forward to some good feedback on how we can maximize the fun factor.

Under the link Surveys and Feedback, you will find an application for being a beta tester. The beta version will cost around $25 and will entitle the owner to a free copy of the final commercial release. We are accepting applications now, but beta testing probably won't begin until sometime in November.
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Clone Cleaner v2 Released.

Clone Cleaner finds duplicate files that take up precious space on your hard disk. Is you hard disk filling up with hard to manage directories of similar files and data? Give Clone Cleaner a try! Clone Cleaner locates duplicate files across multiple drives, local and network drives. It can group the files together by name or by contents. Clone Cleaner is the only disk utility that can find duplicate files by content! Of course you can find duplicate files by file name also. You have options to filter certain size of files and certain ranges of dates. Write outputs to Rexx files and more.

FTP Sites:
ftp://hobbes.NMSU.Edu/incoming/CLONE200.ZIP
ftp://ftp.bmtmicro.com/bmtmicro/clone200.zip

-or-

http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/clone.html

Clone Cleaner is shareware. Registration is US$17.95.
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Announcing Night Vision 1.0.

Night Vision is a "planetarium" program for OS/2, and will display the heavens from any location on earth. Viewing options allow the user to control which sky objects to display, which font to use, and manipulation of various star parameters. Time may be set to run at multiple speeds, including backwards.

Night Vision has been uploaded to ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming/nvsn.zip. It will likely be placed at ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/wpsutil/nvsn.zip.
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Connexion Collection 1.3 Available.

Connexion Collection 1.3 can be found with a filename of either CONNEX13.EXE (self-extract version) or CONNEX13.ZIP in the incoming directories of:

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/incoming/ (to move to /os2/network/tcpip/)

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming/ (to move to /pub/os2/internet/)

*** Program description: CONNEXION COLLECTION for OS/2 ***

Anyone who surfs the Web soon has more "favorite" sites than they know what to do with.

Connexion Collection lets you organize your collection of sites:

Connexion Collection creates a web page, full of organized links, which you can use as your home page for either WebExplorer, or Netscape, or both! For more info, email the author.
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Announcing XFree86/OS2 - 3.2.

The first unlimited and public version of XFree86 for OS/2, Release 3.2 is now generally available.

What is XFree86/OS2?

XFree86/OS2 is a full and unrestricted client and server version of the X11 Window System running natively under OS/2 Warp and Merlin. It is available in a binary version and also, with the issue of version 3.2, the full source code can now be obtained from public archives.

This code is copyrighted software, but may be used without any constraints or payment of royalties by *anyone* including companies. If you find it useful, though, you might consider making a donation toThe XFree86 Project[tm] in order to help them continuing their work (see http://www.xfree86.org/ for details).

XFree86-3.2 contains the latest available code from the X Consortium, and is based on X11R6.1.

For further information on XFree86, see the XFree86 web page. For information on the OS/2 implementation, see Holger Veit's page.

What is new compared to older beta versions?

Where to obtain?

Primary archive is ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.2/binaries/OS2, but this is now, since XFree86-3.2 is publicly available, usually overloaded. Many XFree86 mirrors also carry the OS/2 distribution.

See http://borneo.gmd.de/~veit/os2/xf86os2.html for a list of available archives. This list will be updated in the next few days. It is expectable that in a few days, the prominent OS/2 FTP servers hobbes.nmsu.edu and ftp.leo.org will carry the files.
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MR/2 ICE v1.2 Released.

Internet Email Client for OS/2 PM

For more information: http://nick.secant.com/mr2ice.htm

MR/2 ICE is a feature-packed Internet EMail client. Both POP3 and SMTP are fully supported, as are Custom Mail Drivers which give the users the ability to add additional support. Configurability is taken to an extreme. MR/2 ICE lets the user select from many options, including optional pieces of the user interface. You'll find things like toolbars and status bars configurable, even to the point of hiding them.

Full 32-bit PM application, multithreaded, multi-windowed and includes support for 47 code pages and honors OS/2 Country settings. Unregistered version is fully functional with no funny signatures added. Use of the Right Mouse Button (RMB) abounds in index lists and inside the editor and viewer. Hot links to embedded URL's for Webbing and FTP'ing (configurable). Uses existing IAK settings, when found.

Comprehensive support for MIME character set specifications including support for translations to and from ISO-8859-1 through 10 and Russian KOI8-R. Message text conversions are automatically supported, as are Quoted-Printable header fields. Configurable to send outgoing hi-end ASCII data in 8bit or Quoted-Printable modes.

Other features include support for MIME attachments, "auto backup" and recovery system, filter system that allows full boolean algebra in match criteria when needed. REXX hooks in critical places, a powerful message viewer and editor, grep-like text search functions, multiple accounts. Spell checker and thesaurus. Much, much more.

The MR/2 ICE Home Page has been further enhanced to better accommodate users wanting information FAST. The new layout includes a concise table of contents right up front with links to screen shots, a FAQ, user comments, a list of ftp sites, a major feature list and more.

Changes included in version 1.2 (since v1.1)

Please note that many of these features have been publicly available for quite some time via "minor" maintenance release, they are listed here for the benefit of those preferring to upgrade only for major releases.

For a more detailed discussion of changes, see the file "history.txt" in the distribution zip, and also available online via the MR/2 ICE home page.

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