The eCSoft/2 weekly newsletter - week 50

Find in this digest all the records created or updated in the last week on the eCSoft/2 site.

If you find something wrong and you want to report it, or if you want to contribute updating or translating to your language the records, or if just you want to write us, visit our Contact page or drop us an email at info@ecsoft2org.

UPDATED:
========

  • Compiler for the PL/I programming language, although it is currently missing some features. PL/I is a powerful programming language suitable for a wide range of problems.

  • Icon Themes is a program which allows the desktop icons used throughout the Workplace Shell to be changed, based on installable icon sets or 'themes'.  A number of them

  • WFT (Web Family Tree) is a program that permits you to display your family tree on a web browser. It is distributed as freeware.

  • GoServe is a multi-purpose server for OS/2, which supports the 'Gopher' client-server protocol (as well as the World-Wide Web protocol).  The Gopher protocol is describ

  • Agena is an easy-to-learn procedural programming language suited for everyday usage.

  • Create a log file that you can submit with your test results when reporting a problem with a driver.

  • This driver enables you to directly control usb devices.

  • QSINIT is a replacement of OS2LDR created from scratch.

  • Mpg123 is a console based decoder/player for mono/stereo mpeg audio files.

  • VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player supporting most audio and video formats (H.264, Ogg, DivX, MKV, TS, MPEG-2, mp3, MPEG-4, aac, ...) from files, p

  • XPDF converts PDF files to text or postscript, display PDF file information, extract images from PDF files.

  • A new whois (RFC 954) client rewritten from scratch. It is derived from and compatible with the usual BSD and RIPE whois(1) programs.

  • The paper library and accompanying files are intended to provide a simple way for applications to take actions based on a system- or user-specified paper size.

  • Astrolog port for OS/2 Presentation Manager. Astrolog is a free-to-use astrology calculation, charting and analysis software based on the famous Astrolog program by Walter D.

  • *nix SMPlayer port. SMPlayer is a GUI frontend for Mplayer developed using QT Toolkit.

  • Weasel: a POP3 and SMTP daemon for OS/2 (also available an IMAP optional extension).

  • Rexx front-end for K Movie Player.

  • PMPrintf, a very helpful utility for debugging PM/WPS programs.

  • A FreeRDP port for OS/2, eComStation and ArcaOS. FreeRDP is a client for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), used in a number of Microsoft Windows operation systems.

  • K Movie Player Port, a multimedia player for the Linux "KDE" Desktop. This program, based on FFplay, is made to play various media files on OS/2 systems.

  • The IBM OS/2 Developer's Toolkit Version 4.5 provides development support for new features in the OS/2 Warp Server for e-business operating system.

  • USB basic driver stack including UHCI, OHCI, EHCI (USB 2.0) support, always required and to be installed first!

  • Open Watcom is a joint effort between SciTech Software, Sybase , and a select team of developers, which will bring the Sybase Watcom C/C++ and Fortran compiler products

  • Collection of several PTR pointers for OS/2 by the OS/2 community (PTR and ANI format).

  • Wherever Change Directory, chdir for DOS and Unix and Os2.

  • cURL is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP.

  • Port of MPlayer: it is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation).

  • Creates diskettes from DSK image files & vice-cersa. OS/2 FixPak are normally released in DSK format. This programs work in both DOS and OS/2.

  • MED  is an editor for OS/2 with predefined syntax highlighting for C/C++, REXX, Modula-2, Javascript, Java, Pascal, ADA, X86 and 68K assembler, Clipper, Fortran, Lisp,

  • Convert text files with DOS or Mac line breaks to Unix line breaks and vice versa.

  • Manjary is a mail and web server supporting POP3, IMAP4, SMTP and their SSL extensions, HTTP, HTTPS.

  • iQPuzzle is a diverting I.Q. challenging pentomino puzzle developed using Qt software development framework.

  • A simple GUI front-end in Rexx language for Mplayer, KMovie Player and

  • GUI front-end in Rexx language for FFmpeg, which will allow for converting audio and video between formats.

  • A high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically.

Translate to...