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April 25, 1997 Announcements

Announcing VOICE.

VOICE, Virtual OS/2 International Consumer Education organization. VOICE is a non-profit virtual on-line user group that was formed by a small group of OS/2 users united with a common goal for the advancement of OS/2. Through education, promotion and marketing we want to increase the public awareness/knowledge of OS/2 and see it become more widely recognized.

The objectives of VOICE: 1. Serve as a "virtual", on-line user group for OS/2 users, without a local user group, and to any other OS/2 users interested in VOICE. 2. Promote OS/2 to the SOHO consumer and to general computer users. 3. Provide an effective communication channel between members, user groups, ISV's, and IBM. 4. To help OS/2 User Groups organize and promote their activities.

We would greatly appreciate your support and participation in our efforts as we believe that we share the same common goals.

We conduct a weekly IRC (Internet Relay Chat) session at warpedworld.dyndns.com in the channel #VOICE. If you're unfamiliar with IRC, visit: http://oeonline.com/~mandie1/irc_clients. There is a list of available native OS/2 IRC clients, with descriptions, and a link to a chart that compares features of each. If you need further assistance feel free to email: mandie1@mail.oeonline.com.

The chat session is held every Wednesday at 20:00 EDT. I have a heck of a time trying to figure out the different time zones, so I've located a site that has time conversion: http://poisson.ecse.rpi.edu/cgi-bin/tzconvert.

Just put the 20:00 in the time field, then select From Time Zone: America/Detroit , To Time Zone: Your location, it will convert the time to your local time. (Much easier than me giving you the wrong time and you not being able to join us.)

There is also the Promote OS/2 forum that is used to post suggestions, ideas, goals, OS/2 news etc. The Promote OS/2 forum can be found at: http://www.millennium-technology.com. We are also in the process of setting up a mailing list to keep interested users informed. If anyone would like to be notified when setup is complete let me know.

As you will see, our Web Page is only a *Contest* away. So enter now!

As an International org. we would like to offer our Web Page in several languages. Please contact me if you are willing to assist us with translating the html source to your native language.
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Announcing Web Page Design Contest.

Brought to you by VOICE, Virtual OS/2

International Consumer Education, the new independent OS/2 promotions organization, the Web Page Contest gives you the opportunity to showcase your Web talents to make a Home Page and related web pages for VOICE. The winning entry garners a full 1-year membership to VOICE, plus other great prizes.

Design guidelines:

1. Minimal homepage graphics (leave space for our logo). We want fast loading & browsing of the home page; push graphics down to specific points in the sub-pages.

2. Easy return mail for comments on the site, comments about IBM, comments about OS/2, and comments about a particular OS/2 application.

3. Separate fora for FAQ, new user help, technical support questions, suggestions/experiences, opportunities (job openings, consulting wanted, applications wanted to be written or ported, etc), device drivers, chat forum, Schedule of Events, meeting attendance and transcripts, ISVs-new apps-demos, OS/2-supported hardware list, Q&A, newsletter, companies that support OS/2, etc.

Points will be awarded for ease-of-use and convenient organization of this information as well as ease of expansion of the various sub-pages.

4. Compatible with Netscape 2.02 for OS/2 and preferably for IBM Web Explorer and Lynx as well.

All entries become the property of VOICE, and will not be returned. VOICE reserves the right to use and modify the entries freely. All decisions by VOICE are final.

Please prepare your entries for the contest no later than April 24, 1997. You may e-mail os2headquarters@greenheart.com when you have an entry prepared.
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Send us News!

We would like to hear of any events or projects that your user group or SIG may be working on to promote OS/2, or even if you just have an interesting meeting and would like to share this information with other users. E-mail any information to the VOICE Reporter, Mark Rudy, at tandie@usaor.net. We'll be maintaining an online newsletter and would like to let OS/2 users know what's going on in other user groups around the world.

Thank you and we hope you can make it to our VOICE IRC chat sessions.
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TinkBar Update Released.

An updated version 3.0 of TinkBar for Word Pro for OS/2 has been uploaded to ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/tink40S2ver3.zip

The old version TINK4OS2.ZIP is no longer current.

This release corrects some problems in the first release and cleans up some information in the readme file. Previous versions can be just overwritten with this update. An installed version of Word Pro 96 for OS/2 is required.

TinkBar for Lotus Word Pro for OS/2 adds an extra icon bar to Word Pro and adds the following user functions:

1. Print to FaxWorks or FaxWorks Pro FAX utility (all versions)
2. Print immediate without a printer dialog box.
3. Print only some pages you can select and don't print the rest.
4. Insert "curly" left quotes character.
5. Change document background color to an off white.
6. Change the document background color back to white.
7. Insert a "curly" right quotes character.
8. Insert a single "curly" quote.
9. Insert a (c) copyright symbol.
10. Insert a TM trademark symbol.
11. Insert (R) registered symbol.
12. Insert an unchecked checkmark box symbol.
13. Insert a checked checkmark box symbol.
14. Seek and delete the first frame.
15. Set envelope style to #1 (user defined)
16. Set envelope style to #2 (user defined)
17. Create Envelope
18. Insert an "en" dash.
19. Insert an "em" dash.
20. Insert legal "section" symbol.

All these functions come with source LScripts, the icons, and the already constructed "Tink Bar", and detailed instruction and documentation. It's all freeware from the Lotus "L-Team" volunteers found in the GO WORDPRO forum of Compuserve and also in the Word Pro User Discussion group located on the http://www.lotus.com web pages.

TinkBar is not a supported product of Lotus Development Corporation. Followup questions you may have should be directed above or to USENET group comp.os.os2.apps. Additional Freeware may also be found in the GO WORDPRO Compuserve forum library.
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Sega Master and Game Gear Emulator Available.

Marat Fayzullin's Sega Master System and Game Gear Emulator, MasterGear, is now available for use as a native OS/2 program. Stop on by the SpiceWare homepage to check it out.

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2281
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Netrek Port Released.

I have ported/compiled an OS/2 version of the Netrek game. It is now available at:

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/unix/games/netrek10.zip (eventually).
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How to request OS/2 Features.

I'm often asked, "How do I let IBM's Personal Software development labs know I need a certain feature in the next release?" Now you can let IBM know your needs through the Internet.

Visit the Requirements Home Page at http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/pspform.html. There you can submit requests for enhancements to OS/2 Warp, OS/2 Warp Server, and PC-DOS.

When you fill out this online form, bear in mind that IBM would like you to provide as much information as possible. In particular, we're very focused on network computing, and we'd like to know how your request helps foster network computing. What's the impact of *not* satisfying your request? How would you rank the importance of this request? How many systems could take advantage of this enhancement (both directly and indirectly)?

Timothy F. Sipples
IBM Personal Software (Chicago)
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GNU multi-precision Library 2.0.2 ported to OS/2.

GNU MP is a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. It has a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface.

GNU MP is designed to be as fast as possible, both for small operands and for huge operands. The speed is achieved by using fullwords as the basic arithmetic type, by using fast algorithms, by carefully optimized assembly code for the most common inner loops for a lots of CPUs, and by a general emphasis on speed (instead of simplicity or elegance).

OS/2 port

This port contains two a.out-format static libraries (i486 and Pentium optimized) and a DLL for dynamic linking.

I have provided working Makefiles, however the Configure script is not supplied.

No code changes were required, the libraries passed the accompanying tests.

Requirements

GCC > 2.7 & EMX 0.9c fix 2 (probably) HPFS

The archive gmp202a.zip is available from

ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ (finally placed in /unix)
ftp.very.priv.at/gmp/
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MR/2 ICE v1.27 Released.

MR/2 ICE v1.27 has been released and is already on some of the larger OS/2 FTP sites. It is also available from Pete Norloff's OS/2 Shareware BBS (vmodem to os2bbs.com or web browse to www.os2bbs.com). See the MR/2 ICE home page for more details:

http://nick.secant.com/mr2ice.htm

or just get the file directly:

http://www.apk.net/secant/nick/mr2i127.zip (960k)

NOTE that the banner and X-Mailer line will report version 1.27c. This is correct.
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Netpbm ported to OS/2 EMX.

Netpbm is a toolkit for conversion of images between a variety of different formats, as well as to allow a few basic image operations.

OS/2 port

Executables are dynamically linked, no code changes were required.

Requirements

EMX 0.9c fix 2
HPFS

The archive netpbma.zip is available from

ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/ (finally placed in /unix)
ftp.very.priv.at/netpbm/
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NFTP v1.02 Available.

NFTP is an interactive textmode FTP client for OS/2. It comes in English, Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Hungarian, German, Danish, Japanese, Norwegian, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, French, Bulgarian and Russian versions. If you want to help author to create version in your language, check out http://crydee.sai.msu.su/nftp/index.html#nls

I had hard drive failure 26 Feb 1997 which thrown me at pre-1.00 level; after much pain the source code was mostly restored however. Version 1.02 contains mostly small bugfixes and improvements since 1.00. I have skipped 1.01 version which was in limited distribution before hard drive failure.

Version 1.02 is shareware, so you have to pay for it to transfer files larger than 500KB. The registration fee is $20; the fastest and safest way to register for now is via BMT Micro.
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QuickFlick Netscape Plugin Released.

Practice has released QuickFlick, a new 32-bit native OS/2 plugin for Netscape Navigator.

QuickFlick is a streaming video plugin that is specially designed to let you experience the over 20,000 web sites designed for QuickTime, including sound, video, and QTMA music (QuickTime's version of MIDI).

QuickFlick is installed with QuickMotion version 1.3, which also includes bug fixes and enhancements to digital movie support.

QuickFlick is FREE but is subject to the 15-second restriction if you are running the demo version of QuickMotion.

You can now purchase QuickMotion entirely online via a secure ZipLock container for just $25, our lowest price ever. ** A full registered copy of AnPoCODEC 6 Windows-style AVI support is also included in the package. ** All these features make QuickMotion an essential multimedia upgrade for OS/2 Warp.

For more information and to download QuickMotion 1.3 and QuickFlick, visit http://www.practice.xo.com.
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