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** Type Archive
03/04/89 Compress/expand files with the extension, ARC.
Documentation available in DOS version.
01/14/91 A ZIP file manager for the OS/2 Presentation Manager.
SAA/CUA with extensive online help.
09/19/93 PKZIP compatible ZIP ported to various platforms. This is
the OS/2 version with PKZIP 2.04g support. 32 bit
version. (NOT FOR EXPORT)
09/19/93 PKZIP compatible ZIP ported to various platforms. This is
the OS/2 version with PKZIP 2.04g support. 16 bit
version. (NOT FOR EXPORT)
05/25/91 An OS/2 Presentation Manager program to access to files
compressed using the PKZIP utilities developed by Phil
Katz.
08/29/94 This is a 32 bit port of UNZIP from Unix to OS/2.
Supports PKWARE through 2.04g.
03/14/90 Will use PKUNZIP2 to view files inside of ZIPS.
12/20/90 ZSHELL is a 'front end' for use in conjunction with
PKWARE's PKZIP2 and PKUNZIP2 products and TJDSo ftware's
FB (file browse) program. It allows you to manipulate
entries in a ZIP file by a list of the ontents of the
archive.
09/18/93 AV is a 32-bit PM archive viewing, application launching,
and file/directory maintenance utility for OS/2 2.x. AV
is a controller program that collects data from and
interchanges it between you, our files, and your
archivers.
03/03/93 An OS/2 clone of the MSDOS program LHARC. Based on the
source code released as "LH-ANSIC.LZH", the ANSI-C
version of a simplified LHARC compatible
compressor/decompressor. Now includes SE to produce Self
Extracting archives.
10/03/92 RAFL is a REXX script which will allow you to pick
archive files from a file list box and then see what
files are in them. It determines archive type by
signature and supports .ZIP, .ARJ & ,LZH iles. NOTE: You
must have VREXX installed.
05/18/94 TrueDate is a OS/2 2.x utility that will reset the dates
for archive files to a more appropriate "true" date. The
compression support is updatable to cover new archive
programs.
11/29/92 This is a very preliminary effort at providing a
Workplace Shell class to aid in the manipulation of .ZIP
files. Its current functionality is quite limited.
02/09/93 Converts any archive to another type.
03/16/93 ArcAnal will create a database of the file areas you
select. The database contains information on all your
archives in the file areas. This information includes how
many files are within the archives, and the information
for these files.
12/28/94 Archive Front End, an OS/2 2.1x program which provides a
visual front end for the handling of ZIP, LZH, ZOO and
ARJ files. Supports running of internal archive
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executables. Certified by IBM as "Ready for OS/2".
06/13/94 KL-ZIP is a GUI interface for the shareware/public domain
programs ZIP.EXE and UNZIP.EXE for OS/2. It fully
exploits OS/2 with Drag and Drop capabilities. (not for
PKZIP or PKUNZIP.)
09/13/93 Source code for the ZIP encryption program used in
INFO-ZIP.
09/19/93 Zip 2.0.1 is a compression and file packaging utility.
It is compatible with PKZIP 2.04g (Phil Katz ZIP) for
MSDOS systems. 32 bit Export version.
02/23/94 Zip Control is an OS/2 program which uses a PM interface
to access the freeware program UNZIP.EXE. UnZIP is a
command line program which is compatible with version 2
of the DOS PkZIP program.
09/22/93 Zip 2.0.1 is a compression and file packaging utility.
It is compatible with PKZIP 2.04g (Phil Katz ZIP) for
MSDOS systems. There is a companion to zip called unzip.
This is the source code.
09/19/93 Zip 2.0.1 is a compression and file packaging utility.
It is compatible with PKZIP 2.04g (Phil Katz ZIP) for
MSDOS systems. 16 bit export version.
06/16/94 Actually, it does more than just unzip. It can also
handle ARC, ARJ, LZH, TAR, Z and ZOO files. You need to
have unpackers for each format but then WPS Unzip will
handle the rest.
01/06/95 ARJ file compression decompressor.
03/18/94 Multi threaded PM front end for PKZIP, InfoZIP 5.x, and
LH. Drag and drop to create and maintain archive files.
09/30/94 Archive front end. OS/2 2.1x PM archive utilities that
provide a visual front end for the creation, updating,
unarchiving, virus scanning, and viewing of ZIP, LZH, ZOO
and ARJ files. Supports running of internal archive
executables.
08/21/93 gzip (GNU zip) is a compression utility designed to be a
replacement for 'compress'. Its main advantages over
compress are much better compression and freedom from
patented algorithms.
08/21/94 32 bit Presentation Manager application designed to
interface "arj", "lzh", "zip", and "zoo" archive files in
a native OS/2 PM environment. Will also allow you to view
and extract files stored in OS/2's packed format.
11/07/94 PM interface for the Zip/Unzip utilities. Utilizes Drag
'n' Drop to process files compressed with InfoZip file
compression utilities for OS/2.
11/17/94 OS/2 Rexx routine for BBS sysops. Automates the branding
of archive files with bbs specific comments. Will also
change the archive date to the newest date within the
archive. Works with .zip files only.
** Type Backup
07/24/92 Helps you backup an OS/2 HPFS partition to another drive
with a FAT partition, a tape streamer without OS/2
support, etc.
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05/31/93 This is a little REXX file to automate use of the OS/2
BACKUP program. It can be used directly or you can use it
as a template for other purposes.
03/25/94 Demo of BackMaster backup software for OS/2 includes
QIC-40/80 tape support for CMS, Conner, Mountain
FileSafe, Iomega and generic. New for version 1.1: high
speed adapters and parallel port device support.
10/01/93 Full featured backup system that will do automated
backups at whatever interval or time you set, without
interruption to your work. Useing "rulebooks" (which can
be shared across a LAN) you can tailor PSnS to back up
only the files you need.
02/19/94 Provides a very simple way of backing up and restoring
your OS/2 Desktop and WPS settings. The executables can
be run either with command line parameters (each of them
only takes 2 parameters) or in an interactive mode.
01/18/94 The program was written to synchronize two MS LAN Manager
servers every night. No long file name support, but
source is included.
12/04/94 SCSI Tape software based on the UNIX TAR. This package is
NOT a port of the UNIX TAR, though.
01/20/94 What this package does is to provide a very simple way of
backing up and restoring your OS/2 Desktop and WPS
settings.
01/13/94 Makes it easier to use the GNUTAR (Tape Archive) port to
OS/2 by Andreas Kaiser, called GTAK. TARSHELL does not
require Presentation Manager, so it can be executed from
a floppy disk.
06/04/94 Updates Deskman/2 1.2 to 1.5. Too large for diskettes.
Only found on CD-ROM.
08/11/94 A floppy disk back up program. 32 bit Presentation
Manager program that requires either PKZIP/PKUNZIP (for
DOS or OS/2) or ZIP/UNZIP (for OS/2). It was made made to
quickly back up WHOLE DIRECTORIES and/or directory trees
to floppy disks.
06/26/94 PM based front end for OS/2's Backup and Restore
utilities. Will create profiles for the backup/restore
that will simplify the running of these utilities.
12/04/94 Port of the UNIX TAR to OS/2 2.x. Will read/write UNIX
created TAR formatted tapes on SCSI DAT tapes.
** Type BBS Programs
09/25/93 ALGEN is an available files list or all files generator
for file.bbs systems. ALGEN is an OS/2 2.x application
and will not run under DOS.
05/26/93 Tiny Mail allows you to read and write mail from your PC
without needing LAMAIL. LAMAIL tends to be resource
consuming and sluggish. Used for Internet mail handling.
09/01/93 Commercial BBS system with built in off-line mail
capability, multi-nodes, message encryption and many more
features. Demo, full featured, but limited to 128 files,
users & messages.
11/01/94 Great Char based BBS system for OS/2. Supports multi-line
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& has built in mail door. Now supports more internal
protocals and message area query.
09/23/93 C source code for an OS/2 BBS program.
01/21/94 V2.12 of off-line mail reader for most OS/2 FIDO BBSs.
Many features.
12/21/94 Flexible and powerful OS/2 2.x PM message reader for
Squish & *.MSG areas. It is multithreaded, 32 bit,
CUA'91, drag'n'drop, highly configurable, available in
English & German versions, and requires SquishP 1.01 or
1.10. US Registration in DOCS.
06/22/94 Max Caller ID is a useful utility which will allow a BBS
to use the caller identification information for a faster
and less time consuming login. There are many options
which will be added to the program in time.
09/05/94 A text based FILES.BBS manager for OS/2. Written
specifically with the OS/2 sysop in mind. FILE_ID.DIZ
import, archiver and viewer functions, all files list,
nightly maintinance, and much more.
05/23/94 This archive contains the source and object code for the
Squish/Maximus message API, in addition to a
specification for the Squish file format and information
on designing feature .DLLs for the OS/2 version of Squish.
11/17/94 A REXX callable dynamic link library for OS/2's REXX
Procedures Language/2. With MaxUserREXX and REXX you can
write REXX command scripts that will allow you to
manipulate your Maximus v2.xx USER.BBS and LASTUSER.BBS
files.
** Type CD-ROM Utility
02/14/94 Measures the access speed of your CD-ROM. Must be run
from an OS/2 full screen session.
** Type Commandline
12/06/92 O2D issues a DosStartSession call to start a foreground
fullscreen DOS session and passes an ENVIRONMENT
constructed from a user-specified ASCII text file
containing a list of variables to ET.
08/22/94 Multi-threaded, 32 bit, OS/2 2.1+ application to compress
and backup data from hard disks to floppies or other
random access media. This demo version will not backup
files dated after May 1995.
01/05/93 Allows a DOS session to execute the OS/2 command
<command> by invoking CMD.EXE. All environment variables
with the exception of COMSPEC, PROMPT and PATH are passed
to the OS/2 session.
06/06/93 Starts DOS or OS/2 sessions from the OS/2 command line.
You can specify type, memory and location of new window.
Includes enhancements for LAN Manager.
01/05/93 Command line event scheduler. Does not need PMSHELL to
execute.
01/10/94 Switches video mode (25 line-50 line) in OS/2 full screen
or window.
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** Type Communications
07/18/92 Elite-IMS is state of the art information service
software that can be used for any number of business or
personal communications needs. Bulletin Board services
such as file transfer and mail management are provided.
09/17/88 Simple communications program for OS/2 1.x. Includes
source code.
04/28/94 TE/2 is a communications program for OS/2 protected mode.
It is a full screen application (not a Presentation
Manager application) and will run in either a full screen
session or a VIO windowed. Scripts now work in this TD
version. Hang patch inc.
07/15/91 Documentation for Simplex. See also Simplex BBS Part B
for executables.
06/21/91 OS/2 BBS system with file transfer, mail and FIDO
support. Modeled after QuickBBS. Part A. Executables and
menus. Part B. DOCS & Support Programs.
08/15/94 PM based comm program for OS/2. Zmodem & scripting
disabled.
02/16/93 Simple COMM program from IBM with VT100 & EBCDIC
capability. Includes FTTERMC Host Directed Print.
07/26/92 'C' source for writing a utility for modifying the TE/2
dialing directory.
07/21/92 Many sample scripts for TE/2 Communications program.
Note: Scripts work only in registered version, but these
are supplied so you can see the structure.
08/28/93 Converts TE/2 dialing directory to and from an ASCII text
file.
09/09/89 A DEC VT220/102/52 terminal emulation and communications
program which has been created to run under OS/2 as a
true Presentation Manager application. Supports Kermit,
XMODEM, and ZMODEM, as well s ASCII.
11/24/92 Monitor COMM ports for troubleshooting COMM applications.
Source available for $15.
09/01/93 MAGCOM is a companion communications program to Magnum
BBS software for OS/2 from Gilmore Systems. MAGCOM
provides EVERYONE with an OS/2 communications program at
no charge.
01/11/90 Terminal communications program written specifically for
IBM's Operating System 2 (OS/2).
11/04/92 Set system date and time from Automatic Computer Time
Service (ACTS) maintained by the National Institute of
Standards. Developed for OS/2 2.x and is written entirely
in REXX. Requires a Hayes compatible modem.
08/24/92 AT2 is a simple OS/2 program with a limited but useful
function: it sends characters from the OS/2 commandline
as an AT-command to a Hayes compatible modem (with blanks
suppressed).
09/24/94 A text based OS/2 QWK offline mail reader. Allows you to
download mail packets from BBSs (separate comm program
needed) and read/reply/save messages off line.
Multithreaded, Internet/Netmail/Rime support, virtual
conferences, highly configurable.
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03/10/94 Listing of BBSs around the world supporting OS/2.
Includes TE/2 dialing directories.
05/05/93 Working demonstration terminal program for OS/2
Presentation Manager.
10/03/94 Allow remote CHAR based access to an OS/2 system. You can
run OS/2 & DOS char based APPS, remotely. When combined
with M2Z, you can do file transfers. Also supports PM
applications remotely with included terminal program for
remote access.
01/13/95 Replacements for OS/2's COM.SYS and VCOM.SYS. Optionally
create virtual 16550A for DOS sessions. Faster, and
provide FOSSIL support for DOS comm programs, allowing
FOSSIL aware DOS programs to execute as well as native
OS/2 comm programs.
07/14/93 Simple answering machine program for OS/2 2.x PM and
ZyXEL. Still in development.
04/15/93 Text on the need for the proper UART when using high
speed modems. Although the article is aimed at DOS/WIN
users, based on the message traffic on FIDO, OS/2 users
need to understand buffered UARTs also.
12/17/94 A 32 bit QWK mail reader for OS/2 PM. Features advanced
multi threaded searching, taglines, many archivers, fast
access toolbar, colored "message syntax" text, Adobe
fonts, an internal editor, PM, OS/2, DOS or Win3.X
external editor.
08/06/93 PMQWK is a Beta 32-bit, Presentation Manager based
program for use with OS/2 version 2.0 or later. It reads
and processes replies for messages downloaded from
bulletin boards which employ the "QWK" ormat.
02/06/93 This is an external file transfer protocol driver,
designed to supply other programs with file transfer
capabilities. Xmodem/ChSum, Xmodem/CRC, Xmodem-1K, Ymodem
(batch), Ymodem-G batch), Zmodem, Kermit (*)
04/22/94 LiveWire is a 32-bit, multi-threaded, text-based comm
program for OS/2 2.x. LiveWire's text-based interface is
designed to be easy to use andconfigure, especially for
users familiar with other comm software.
10/04/93 Multi-threaded 32 bit PM application that maintain a
database of names and telephone numbers. Lets user dial
a selected phone number via modem. Other features include
list printout. 1.0b version is available from the author.
08/30/93 UUDOALL can decode UUENCODED files that have been sent
via email in multiple parts - provided that the files are
all copied into one file before running UUDOALL.
08/30/93 uuENCODE converts binary files into printable characters
(this is useful for transmission by E-mail, etc.).
uuDECODE converts them back to binary.
12/24/93 Great fast FAX image processing utility. Will convert
from-to most image formats.
07/01/94 UUGate gates Mail <-> Netmail and News <-> Echomail
between Internet and Fidonet.
09/26/93 TIMESET is an OS/2 REXX Command File that will dial the
Naval Observatory and set the system clock to the Naval
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Observatory time.
04/18/94 Demo. Golden CommPass allows you to optimize your time
and efficiency in accessing many of the services provided
on the CompuServe Information Service. Make your choices
BEFORE you connect and trim billable connect time.
12/28/93 OS2TERM is pretty simple and straightforward. It arose
out of my need for decent 32-bit source code for dealing
with modems. This should provide the OS/2 serial
programmer with a decent head start.
01/05/95 PM Terminal application. VT100, ZModem, fast screen
output, scroll back buffer, external CompuServe-B
protocol, external online GIF viewer, powerful script
language, phone book, ANSI, chat mode, clipboard support,
and more.
03/27/94 For Maximus/2 v3.01. This version of the mail door is
compatible with Maximus v2.00 and 2.01wb for OS/2. You
must be running OS/2 v2.0 or higher, as this is a 32-bit
program.
03/28/94 Used to change the flavor of mail put on hold so that
when a FLO'file contains greater than x bytes (as
configured in CloMail.CFG)' a HLO file will be renamed to
CLO'. Handy in reducing the number of outbound calls.
04/04/94 A 32-bit Gopher client for IBM OS/2 2.11 (2.1 with CSD)
and TCP/IP version 1.2.1 or later.
11/30/93 Magnum Fossil is a very simple implementation of a fossil
allowing installation of Dos Doors under Magnum OS-2 BBS
(or for that matter any OS-2 program that uses file
handles for I/O) on any OS/2 2.X machine.
04/20/94 Text mode mail reader for IBM's TCP/IP.
01/08/94 Phone dialing program for those who don't have a modem.
It requires OS/2, REXX, and MMPM with the REXX interface.
The program plays dialing tones through whatever sound
equipment the computer has.
02/18/94 Provide a file transfer protocol module specifically
designed for use with OS/2 v2.0 and higher. This
application is written for OS/2 text mode, and does not
use the Presentation Manager.
01/03/95 This is a beta version of Yarn, a suite of programs used
to store and read USENET news and mail offline. The user
manual still needs work. All the executables are 32-bit
OS/2 2.x character mode applications.
05/07/94 ZOC phone book utility. Convert Telix/Telemate/ASCII/FIDO
NodeList phone book entries to ZOC. Get info about your
ZOC phone book file. Change/delete ZOC phone book
entries. Runs under DOS.
01/25/94 ZSX is a general purpose protocol driver for Bulletin
Board Systems. It features SEAlink (with overdrive),
Xmodem, Ymodem, Ymodem-Batch, Ymodem-G and Zmodem (with
RLE) protocols and requires only 55KB free RAM to run.
04/26/94 This Rexx script translates WinCIM address books to GCP
USERID.CIS Just run it from an OS/2 command line or a
desktop program object.
04/10/94 Powerful, full-function communications program for your
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OS/2 system. Supports serial communications, automatic
dialing, TCP/IP networking, DECnet/L networking, VT52,
VT100, ANSI and much more.
03/30/94 Gopher is an OS/2 Presentation Manager client for the
Internet Gopher protocol, as originally developed at the
University of Minnesota. You must have OS/2 TCP/IP
(Version 1.2.1 or later) to use Gopher.
09/04/94 P is a freeware 32-bit file transfer protocol package
providing fast and multitasking friendly Zmodem,
Ymodem-g, Ymodem and Xmodem for Asynchronous, named pipe
and TCP/IP stream connections. Contains a DLL that can be
used with your own applications.
03/14/94 PM$tock will use Prodigy (DOS) to call and get stock
quotes. After obtaining the stock information, it will
compile statistical data for you to use in your buy-sell
decisions.
03/13/94 This isis the word database for MR/2's (and soon-to-be
MR/2 PM's) spelling checker. Works with MR/2's internal
editor.
08/27/93 PM program that acts as an OS/2 TCP/IP server for the
system clipboard. A remote client can request the text
(CF_TEXT) contents of the clipboard from the system
ClipServ.exe runs on.
08/15/94 OS2HTTPD is a native OS/2 Web Server. It is an OS/2 port
of the NCSA httpd 1.3. It requires IBM TCP/IP for OS/2
Base Kit 2.0 or later. It is compatible with most
HTTP/0.9 and HTTP/1.0 browsers.
08/18/94 FTP/IP log file utility. There is too much logged in
TCP/IP logs and it's not very readable. FTL will take one
of these trace files, read though it, and provide a much
more readable log of server usage, along with overall
statistics.
10/03/94 Simple set of programs to monitor a com port running os/2
tcp/ip and slip. If carrier is lost, the programs will
kill slip.exe if running, and restart slip.exe. The
program assumes running slip.exe will re-start your slip
connection.
11/06/94 OS/2 Answering machine that works with most modems that
have the Rockwell chipset. SIO is recommended for the
comm driver.
08/04/94 Offline Newsnet Mail reader for OS/2. Will use TCPIP to
get new mail. Ported from UNIX and file naming
conventions will work on FAT drives.
11/08/94 Gopher is an OS/2 Presentation Manager client for the
Internet Gopher protocol, as originally developed at the
University of Minnesota. You must have OS/2 TCP/IP
(Version 1.2.1 or later) to use Gopher.
12/22/94 Upgrade for the COMM program supplied with WARP. Will
work with OS/2 2.x, also and supplied as a demo. Order
information in the HELP file.
10/02/93 TIN is a newsreader for Usenet news. It can read articles
either from a local article data base (newsspool) or via
TCP/IP from a news server using the Network News
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Transport Protocol (NNTP).
** Type Configuration
07/19/92 No longer supported. A PM application (32 bit code) which
gives the user easy access to the OS/2 configuration file
CONFIG.SYS. 1.0 Alpha version with request for comments.
08/28/93 OS/2 REXX procedures to set (or restore) default mouse
pointers to the contents of user supplied pointer files,
produced (usually) by the Icon Editor.
11/26/93 This is a demonstration edition of a commercial product
(CS-Edit/2, the intelligent CONFIG.SYS editor for OS/2
2.x)
11/14/93 VIDEODRV will optionally install your display driver
directly from your driver/distribution disk, unpacking
and decompressing them (if necessary) in the process. In
this respect, it simulates the SETUP program that comes
with Windows 3.1.
01/21/94 Disk image loader for certain OS/2 updates from IBM.
** Type Database Utils
05/24/92 A set of basic functions for manipulating dBase III or
III+ files. No index functions are included. The code is
released to the public as is.
12/01/92 Demo of a 4GL database package that supports Informix in
OS/2. No pricing.
12/14/92 BTrieve requesters to UPGRADE existing Btrieve server
systems for OS/2.
12/02/92 Demo of a 4GL database package that supports Informix in
OS/2. No pricing.
06/10/93 BIGSORT uses the fastest known sorting algorithm to sort
files as large as your swapping area (not RAM) allows. A
wide range of options along with multiple key fields
enable you to pinpoint the desired sorting method.
10/18/93 OS/2 2.x Presentation Manager program for calculating
probabilities using the Binomial probability functions.
The program functions like a specialized calculator, but
without normal calculator capabilities.
11/04/93 AM was designed for SQL access to relational databases.
Many different SQL options are supported: DB2/2, Oracle &
Sybase, Informix, Ingres, SQL/400, SQL/DS as well as DB2.
NOTE: This demo runs in a DOS screen, though the actual
program is OS/2 32bit.
10/06/93 Source code for A Clipper function to allow a Clipper
program running under OS/2 2.1 to be able to start
another OS/2 session (OS/2, Windows, or DOS).
09/08/94 dBase access for Rexx. Rexx external DLL allows Rexx
read, write, and update of dBase files. Also supports
creating, sorting, modifying and more. Complete
standalone database for Rexx with DBF, DBT and NDX
compatibility. Will also access file info.
08/21/93 PMPHONE is a simple dedicated telephone dialer/database.
This version is a 32 bit app compiled with C++ for OS/2
by Borland. This freeware version is limited to 50
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records.
01/30/94 Produces scattergrams or histograms with the possibility
to choose between point styles, line styles, etc.
06/10/94 A simple XY graphing program. It will read in just about
any sort of columnar text file (no matter what the
delimiters are), as long as it contains only numbers.
11/19/94 Home inventory tracking program. It can help you track
your possessions by name, serial number, date purchased,
price, manufacturer, warranty, description, etc.
12/31/94 Powerful tool to do data and function plots. For the
scientific use one additionally often needs a nonlinear
least squares fitting procedure to combine a model
function to measured data. This is introduced by GNUFIT.
** Type Directory
01/29/90 Gives the user a specific directory on the screen. The
nice thing is that it's in four columns.
03/18/91 An alternative to the DOS-OS/2 DIR command. Provides you
with a directory display in a colorful, sorted, and easy
to read format.
02/28/91 LCD allows one to easily change to another directory by
specifying only part of it. LCD is provided in a bound
version that works in DOS or OS/2 and in a protected mode
version. Supports long file names in OS/2 1.2 or later.
07/20/90 No longer sold by Hilbert Computing. Keeps directories
current. It does this by copying the file with the most
recent date to either the first or second path.
05/03/94 File manger and editor. Directory shell for OS/2 (DOS
support optional). Supports long file names and even has
the capability to split files for floppies. Features
include: syntax coloring, function key assignment, file
viewer, auto view and more.
11/30/92 A greatly enhanced version of FLIST providing a powerful
platform for executing commands, hard disk management and
launching applications. OS/2 & DOS version supplied.
02/05/93 GREP was designed to search from the current path on
downwards. The program starts searching for files in the
current path and any subdirectories that exist. 32 bit
command line application. Will skip files with common
binary extensions, speeding sea
09/25/92 NUKE2 - deletes the directory path and all subdirectories
and files. FF - Fast file finder.
08/10/88 This example illustrates the use of DosFindFirst and
DosFindNext. Will display a directory as two columns. -h
to show hidden files.
05/03/93 CDIR2 v1.00 for OS/2 2.x. This program works the same as
the OS/2 and DOS DIR command except that it displays the
files in the colors you choose. A copy of the OS/2 and
DOS versions are included.
10/21/94 Norton File Commander Clone. The program is now a beta,
but looks pretty good. Supports two directory lists as
well as a CMD prompt. Built in internal editor.
05/10/93 UNIX 'D' file listing for OS/2 with a neat text bar graph
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of disk usage. Written in REXX.
12/11/94 FM/2 can be considered something of a "super Drives
object" to replace or use with your WPS Drives objects
and directory folders (although FM/2 is a 32-bit PM
program, not a WPS object or folder).
07/06/93 This program was written as an exercise to learn about
IFS's (Installable File Systems). It provides the same
function as the old DOS command: SUBST.
12/12/94 "ZTreeBold" is a text-mode file/directory manager for
OS/2. Based on the DOS product, XTreeGold, it provides
additional OS/2 features such as support for unlimited
file logging and HPFS longnames.
01/01/94 Two Unix disk utilities Disk Use & Disk Free for OS/2.
Supports long file names. Includes C source.
11/15/94 Directory Manager/2 is a fast, flexible WorkPlace Shell
integrated graphical file and disk manager. Features
custom toolbar
extensive file and directory manipulation operations.
12/07/93 Graphic tree display of all drives on a system
simultaneously, including LAN drives. Copy, move, delete
files or directory trees. Search for files and search and
replace text within files across multiple directories.
Fully customizable.
11/01/93 MCD (Marc's Change Directory) allows an OS/2 user to
change their current working directory without having to
enter the entire path to that directory.
01/19/94 Command-line directory changer written in REXX for OS/2
V2.x. It will locate directories based on partial names,
optionally containing wildcards, search multiple drives
and includes a lookup table option.
11/27/93 Welcome to TreeSize, a powerful directory space lister.
TreeSize ist able to calculate all the directories on
your drive with size and percentage. DOS & OS/2 version
included.
01/09/94 32 bit, multi-threaded program to compare and manipulate
file contents of two directories. File listing denotes
latest files. Files may be selected manually or by
date/time comparisons for copy, move, edit, etc.
03/12/94 PM application that shows you disk space usage of your
hard drive by directory.
11/28/94 Powerful DOpus inspired file manager for OS/2 PM. Fully
HPFS aware, with two dir windows, 25 internal functions,
user-configurable functions, and archiver support.
06/09/94 Simple file/dir manager. Will move or delete files.
10/20/94 PM directory utility that will compare two directories
and allow you to perform taskes based on the differences
of those directories. Includes limited file management
and the ability to use an external editor on selected
files.
01/07/95 Displays file directories in 1 to 6 columns. Filenames,
extensions, sizes (or the <DIR> designator), and/or file
attributes will be shown depending on the column mode for
ND you are in. Files are color-coded by extension.
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** Type Diskette Utility
12/22/92 DiskStat provides a continually updated display of
statistics for a specified disk drive. This information
includes: drive letter, type file system, size, bytes
available, % usage, & size of SWAPPER.DAT, if applicable.
11/25/92 Will modify a floppy so that it will bypass during boot
and not get the: OS/2 !! SYS01475 OS/2 !! SYS02027 during
the boot cycle.
07/13/94 The BOOTOS2 program is a utility that allows you to build
a BOOTable OS/2 V2 system using an existing OS/2 V2
system. The BOOT system can be installed on any valid
medium including floppies and ard disk Partition.
03/23/92 Copies files from OS/2 directory to multiple floppies
with 'best fit'.
12/12/92 Copies files from the current directory to a target
drive, presumably a diskette, and allows user to switch
volumes when there is no more room on the target.
04/19/92 PM application to automate formatting diskettes.
12/12/92 PMSLICE is a Presentation Manager utility that cuts large
files down to size. PMSLICE will split any big file on
your hard drive and copy to as many disks as needed, up
to 999 disks.
05/04/93 BSPLIT and BCOMB split and combine any ASCII or binary.
Great for putting a large file on several diskettes.
06/22/93 SCOPY is a full featured diskette archiver. Will create a
file containing the necessary data to create an exact
duplicate of the original diskette. SCOPY can compress
this file and include a user pecified remark for
reference.
10/12/94 PM Diskcopy is a 32-bit utility to copy disks under OS/2
version 2.0 or higher. You can use this program to copy
multiple disks, compare disks, or store copies of a disk,
store a disk in an image ile, compare disks, check a disk
& more.
04/09/94 Presentation Manager replacement for the command line
based DISKCOPY command supplied with OS/2. Can save
disks as images for copying. Can also copy disks with
non-DOS or OS/2 format (e.g. UNIX).
06/27/93 REXX program generates 2-floppy OS/2 2.1 boot for your
configuration. Uses 1.2MB on A:, 1.1 MB on B: which
includes support for CHKDSK, FORMAT, FDISK, BACKUP,
RESTORE, HPFS & SCSI support, and the IBM tiny editor.
Room remains for other drivers.
11/21/93 OS/2 WPS quick diskette re-formatter.
11/06/94 FILL is an utility to put files on floppy disks
minimizing slack. Note: This version of FILL creates on
floppy disks DESCRIPT.ION files, used by 4DOS or 4OS2, if
those kind of files exist in the original directory.
05/24/94 Will catalog floppy diskettes. Char based and still rough
around the edges, but it is a ß and should improve with
time.
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** Type DOS Maintenance
10/08/92 A simple REXX cmd file that allows a user to find all
duplicate named files on one or multiple drives. It uses
VREXX PM extensions to ask the user which file to delete.
06/08/92 Little COM program that will exit a DOS VMB from a DOS
prompt.
08/28/93 FF is a FileFind program & FS is a FileSize program
modeled after the Norton Utility programs. Now supports
HPFS and has additional switches.
08/19/94 Unix DF command for OS/2. Will display drive information
for all drives including aliased & attached network
drives.
03/13/94 This program will create a bootable 3.5" High Density
floppy for OS/2 2.11.
05/16/94 Allows programs that are Desqview-aware run smoothly and
consume less of the system's time when running under OS/2.
** Type Drivers
05/26/94 Video drivers for ATI Mach 8/32 video cards. Supports
less than 1024x768 in 8514 mode. Supports the video
coprocessor on these cards. Supports up to 16.7m colors
on certain Mach 32 card configurations.
07/13/93 RODENT.SYS is a mouse driver which supports most bus and
serial mice and digitizers. Provides three button
support. Detects low battery on the Logitech Radio Mouse.
Version 1.010 is available to registrants.
11/23/93 The SBCD2.ADD can be applied to OS/2 systems which
support layered CD-ROM device managment structure. This
structure is supported in OS/2 2.1. Users of OS/2 2.0
could use the OS2CDR package which ontains the
OS2CDROM.DMD for OS/2 2.0.
10/13/93 Updated COM.SYS & VCOM.SYS for PCMCIA portable computers.
02/25/94 The device driver supports the new FX series of Mitsumi
drives: the single speed CRMC-FX001 and the double-speed
CRMC-FX001D. The device driver also supports the older
Mitsumi CRMC-LU005. It does not support the older
Mitsumi CRMC-LU002.
11/13/93 MMPM patches supplied by IBM for MMPM/2
01/19/94 IBM OS/2 2.x disk driver for the PROMISE IDE Disk
Accelerator
09/30/93 Pro Audio Spectrum drivers for OS/2.
12/21/93 This README describes an OS/2 device driver (LMS206.ADD)
for the Philips LMS CD-ROM drives. The device driver
supports the CM205MS (multisession version of CM205) and
the new CM206 double-speed drive.
12/21/93 This README describes an OS/2 device driver (LMS205.ADD)
for the Philips LMS CD-ROM drives. The device driver
supports the CM205 (single session version of CM205).
02/25/94 Reads data from CD-ROM discs conforming to the High
Sierra/ISO-9660 file formats. Plays audio from standard
audio CDs or mixed mode CD-ROM discs containing both data
and audio. Reads data from Mode 2 Form 1 or Mode 2 Form 2
sector formats.
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04/21/94 Virtual ASPI driver for OS/2 2.x supports ASPI devices in
OS/2 & DOS sessions.
06/03/94 Latest release driver for Adaptec 6260/1510/1520/1522
host adapters and OS/2 2.X.
06/03/94 May'94 driver for the Adaptec 174x family of SCSI Host
adapters.
06/05/94 January'94 Adaptec AIC-7770 driver. Includes AHA-274X &
284X.
06/29/94 iHPFS makes it possible for OS/2 users to reach files and
directories on their HPFS partitions when they boot with
plain DOS. The HPFS partition is assigned a drive
letter, and can be accessed like any DOS drive. Read only.
03/10/94 Orchid's Kelvin 64 OS/2 drivers install using IBM's
display installer program (DSPINSTL.EXE).
08/12/93 Hi Res drivers for OAK video cards.
05/31/94 Pen Extensions for OS/2. Drivers are machine specific:
IBM710t, IBM750P, APT Gliffic Plus, Calcomp digitizers,
Compaq Concerto, Dauphin DTR-1 and GRiD convertibles. The
last four are ßeta.
02/18/94 Fix for OS/2 2.1 & certain Pentium computers that have
timing problems with DOS sessions.
03/07/94 Improved PostScript drivers for OS/2 2.11 Many new
printers supported.
08/18/93 Modified version of OS/2 2.1's VDISK.SYS
it uses swappable memory.
10/18/93 Viper Video card drivers for OS/2.
06/06/94 Video drivers for Gateway and other computers using the
Hercules Dynamite(tm) video card.
03/18/94 The TVFS provides a virtual OS/2 file system that
combines symbolic links, search paths, and permissions.
Through the TVFS, local and remote file systems may be
combined into a single, virtual file system.
08/25/94 ZipStream is an OS/2 2.x installable File System that
mirrirs access to existing OS/2 file systems and
simultaneously provides automatic transparent file
compression and decompression.
09/19/94 Trantor SCSI driver with modified OS2CDROM.DMD with
improved capabilities for Optical drives and
Multi-session photo CDs.
10/28/94 SVDisk provides a swappable/lockable/removable virtual
disk or virtual floppy using OS/2's advanced memory
management facility. Virtual disk can be anything from
16KB to 16MB, and virtual floppy support 360KB to 2.88MB.
12/12/94 Drivers for IDE CD-ROM drives. Works with drives that
conform to the ATAPI specification.
11/21/94 Various updated CD-ROM drivers for WARP. Use if you have
installation problems with the WARP supplied drivers.
12/20/94 This is a BETA driver that users having problems loading
the AIC7870.ADD included with OS/2 Warp may find useful,
if their system has a non-compliant system BIOS. This
driver has a new switch, /PCIHW.
01/05/95 These are BETA revision drivers for OS/2 Warp for a
selected series of Canon BubbleJet printers. These
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drivers are effective as of 12/23/94. All are 32 bit and
support most models.
11/03/93 Improved mouse drivers for Dell/Logitech mouse. Direct
replacement for MOUSE.SYS.
01/12/95 Improved ST506 driver for Western Digital/Conner IDE hard
drives.
** Type Editors
05/29/93 Editor written on a HP UNIX workstation and ported to
OS/2 2.0. Documentation is in German.
02/26/94 KEd is a text editor. You won't find a GUI or fancy font
support, but you will find a lot of speed. Uses such OS/2
features as multiple threads and HPFS support. Handles
multiple files.
10/27/93 AEDIT v1.0 - Small, menu-driven, line-oriented text
editor that can be run from DOS, OS/2, Windows NT, or a
Windows DOS box. Many features in addition to providing
basic file, editing, & search-and-replace operations.
02/14/94 Demo of RimStar Programmer's Editor Version 2.0. (Write
crippled.) Professional programmer's editor for OS/2,
Windows and Windows NT. Demo is a PM application. A
2-15-94 version exists.
02/04/94 Already a favorite of DOS users, BOXER is now available
for OS/2. This 32 bit character mode program supports
HPFS file names and runs full screen or in a Window on
the desktop. Color syntax highlighting, Undo and Redo,
mouse support and much more.
11/26/93 This is a small rexx script that blows some intelligence
into the system editor of OS/2. I always hated E for
asking me to associate a file type. This script takes
care of the file type and prevents E from asking anymore.
02/01/94 `Ispell' is a program that helps you to correct typos in
a file, and to find the correct spelling of words. When
presented with a word that is not in the dictionary,
`ispell' attempts to find "near misses" that might
include the word you meant.
11/10/93 UNIX editor ported to OS/2. Has the standard (WS)
keyboard commands. 32bit text mode.
01/23/94 a full-screen OS/2 2.x Norton Editor compatible text
editor. 32 bit OS/2 2.x application, long filename
support, edits files up to 50M, unlimited line length,
unlimited number of lines, allows editing of binary
files, and supports LF only text file
** Type Educational
08/31/94 Educational Flash Card math program for children. Keeps
track of answers for scoring.
** Type File Utilities
12/24/93 This batch file implements screen-pause and output-file
features for Alexandre Polozoff's GREP utility for OS/2.
07/30/93 Starting in late June, OS/2 2.1 began shipping a reduced
diskette package to take advantage of better diskette
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compression techniques. These files are to be used to
alter the user's system to accommodate the other OS/2
package.
11/03/93 Program to convert Unix files (each logical record
terminated by LF)to DOS and OS/2 files (each logical
record terminated by CR/LF).
01/05/94 32bit OS/2 2.x fixed-length record sort with sort work
capability. Sorts up to 64 character, signed integer, or
floating point fields. Sorts up to 999,999 records.
Limits the record length to 256 characters.
01/17/94 Compares two files and displays the lines or HEX with
differances.
01/07/94 PM based file undelete for OS/2.
04/18/94 Comprehensive data security and protection by performing
the following functions: File encryption, Window locker,
File locker, System locker, File wiper, Keyboard monitor
and Intruder detection with alarm and a flexible password
scheme.
10/16/92 SLICE2/SPLICE2 is a set of command line utilities that
were written to cut large files down to size. Will slpit
a file across 999 diskettes.
06/04/94 This utility allows the user to select multiple
noncontiguous lines from a file and paste them to the
clipboard. It uses a listbox to contain the source file,
so the file size is limited about 40K.
03/31/94 Several OS/2 utilities: Find Files, Remove Files, File
Size, Which program, Display strings from binaries, PM
Disk Usage, Environment displayer, and Text Mode Banner
Generator.
09/08/94 OS/2 File Maintenance Utility. Drag&Drop and Point&Click
interfaces to file, directory and disk operations. Start
programs, browse files. Button bar, settings notebook.
Highly functional, attractive displays.
08/25/94 Two utilities that will split and later join files. Great
for breaking up large files so that they can be copied to
floppies. Includes source code.
08/21/94 OS/2 32bit Fixed length data file sort. Commandline
driven. Can use parameter file. Very fast! File size is
limited by dislk space available.
12/19/94 The µNeil Mangler2 utilities comprise a host of tools for
encrypting and decrypting data. Although the MANGLER
algorithm has many more uses for security than simply
securing files, it is certainly good at that as well.
12/01/94 Norton Commander clone for OS/2. It offers an integrated
archive-handling, better HPFS-support, a user-definable
menu, a Tree-function, the most powerful FIND-function
you've ever seen and much more!
** Type File Viewer
09/07/89 A quick & dirty listing program for protected mode OS/2.
It uses multiple threads for reading ahead in the file.
No long filename support. Character based.
11/10/89 Will view files and search for text within the file.
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09/23/89 Browse/2 is a Presentation Manager program for viewing
files in ASCII or hexadecimal dump format. It enables you
to scroll forward and backward in a file and to pan long
lines horizontally.
05/31/93 LOOK2 is a text-based OS/2 directory and file viewing and
manipulation program. Includes DIR hist, 25/43/50 line
display, multisort, hex view, and many others. KEYRATE to
adjust typematic ate included.
06/05/91 View files on screen. Has built in DIR support, but no
long file names. Character based.
02/15/93 LstPm can be used for viewing just about any text or data
file on your system, either as ASCII, EBCDIC, or HEX. Can
be run from command line or ICON.
06/25/93 REXX program to display ZIP files in a WPS folder.
12/19/93 Unix CAT utility for OS/2. Views files with options.
01/15/94 Enhanced more for OS/2.
10/27/94 OS/2, DOS & Win32 32bit text file viewer. Supports long
file names, hex mode, syntax highlighting, and basic file
manager.
07/23/94 HyperView 1.02: an OS/2 file viewer with special
capabilities for isolating and extracting information
from word processing and text files. Automatically reads
and recognizes Ami Pro, DeScribe, WordPerfect (vers 5.x
and 6.0), & WinWord (vers 1 - 6).
10/09/94 Displays text files which have Japanese characters (Kana
and Kanji) in them. Please note that this is the first
release of JList. It doesn't offer many functions right
now - all you can do is display the files.
10/01/94 Very easy to use PM file viewer. Configurable and will
use long file names. Will print files through OS/2's
printer select. Can be run from commandline.
** Type Finance
10/08/94 A 32bit PM checkbook and charge card account manager.
Supports multiple accounts, multiple opened ledgers and
automatic fixed date-of-month/weekday transactions. Will
import Quicken QIF export files!
08/14/93 Checkbook register driven home finance manager. 32bit PM
interface. Very simple as it does not have catagories or
extensive reports. Will reconcile.
12/12/93 Complete 1993 tax package. OS/2 32bit. Will have followon
for 1994 taxes. Program will fill out 1040 series forms
and can be used for tax forecasting. Makes
recommendations to decrease your tax payment.
** Type Font Utilities
06/24/94 OS/2 Fonts Folder. Great utility to manage ATM fonts.
Allows you to view the fonts prior to installing them
into OS/2. Helps in preventing bad ATM fonts from
crashing the desktop.
** Type Games
06/04/93 PM application that will display the globe in a window.
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Many options, such as distance measurement & day/night.
08/01/92 Keep the ball from dropping into the pitts. Includes
source. 32 bit PM application. A few bugs exist.
Includes C source code.
01/27/93 Dice game of Yatzee for OS/2. Supports stand-alone or
play over a network.
04/17/93 Reads phrases from stdin and attempts to find anagrams
for the phrase using `words' in the specified dictionary.
Includes 'C' Source.
04/07/93 OS/2 bingo game for one or two players.
08/11/93 No longer supported. Ultimate OS/2 BM game. Source code
included.
08/16/93 PM based numbers quiz. Very addicting.
** Type Graphics Utility
03/22/91 Takes a screen snapshot of an OS/2 character mode screen.
The snapshot can be recalled via a hotkey, and it can be
stored in a disk file. FOTO is not for PM or WPS. Full
screen CLI only.
11/14/91 Print screen utility with source code. Epson printers
only.
02/28/90 PM graphics editor for OS/2. Handles BMP & PCX.
05/04/92 Super Trekkie BMP for OS/2 Wallpaper.
04/10/90 Lets you view GIF files under OS/2 Presentation Manager.
Requires a VGA or super VGA card and works best with a
256 color PM driver.
05/17/91 Demo program. OS/2 PM program used to play Autodesk
Animator files. $50.00 for full version, $150.00 with
source code.
02/01/90 Converts GIF formatted graphics files to BMP.
11/05/92 Display pictures in these formats: BMP (OS/2 1.1, Windows
3 and OS/2 2.0 formats), GIF (only plain, error-free,
non-il GIF87), im (an image file format developed U.
urich)
07/18/92 Port of DBKTrace for DOS to OS/2. Does raytracing.
Supports math coprocessor. Includes source code. CUI
interface.
08/30/92 PKBTrace for DOS ported to OS/2 PM. Raytracing program.
Handles many graphics formats.
04/04/93 32bit GIF viewer for OS/2 2.x. The user interface is a
Presentation Manager program, but the viewer itself is a
full-screen program. It supports all SVGA adapters
correctly detected by the OS/2 SVGA.EXE program.
08/13/94 Galleria is a fast and easy to use PM utility for the
display, edit and conversion of bitmapped images.
Supports all major formats including Photo CD. Also
includes screen capture utility Galleria/CM. File save
enabled in demo version.
05/08/92 Will save or print screens. Needs IMAGEKIT2 to save or
print.
09/08/93 Captures all or part of the WPS or an active window and
saves it to either the OS/2 clipboard or to several
different file formats.
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07/04/92 This is the Rayshade ray-tracer, ported to 386 machines
running OS/2 2.0 using the WatCom C/386 Ver.9 compiler.
It is compiled with all optimizations (including the new
486 options).
02/25/93 'The Shrink' is a Desktop Screen Saver Extension for John
Ridges' DeskPic. The amount by which the screen is shrunk
each time can be configured from the Configure dialog
box. Shrink can also flip the creen, if desired.
08/17/93 No longer supported. This fast OS/2 PM program enables
you to grab an active PM window by simply pressing the
PrintScreen key. It shows the grabbed picture in its own
window and writes it to a BMP file. Has view apabilites.
02/23/94 Intelligent graphics viewer for OS/2. Still in Beta. STD
graphics formats supported, including PS 2.0, PIC, and
Kodak Photo-CD. Note: US registration in ORDER.DOC.
10/25/94 OS/2 Graphics viewer. Will view BMPs, PTRs or ICOs.
Clipboard support. Screen capture. $20 for source.
12/21/92 Demo of commercial graphics viewer for OS/2. Will handle
many different graphics types including the AVI movie
files and sound.
04/22/94 Plot is an OS/2 Presentation Manager application, with
which you can display and print graphs that consist of
numerical data.
08/17/93 No longer supported. Fast DOS full screen to BMP file
picture grabber, by Wim Brul. Handles VGA only, but
supports all its graphic AND text modes. OS/2 2.0 and
higher. Expected to run under DOS as well.
02/14/94 Views/converts/prints BMP, GIF, PCX, PM, TGA files
06/27/93 DOS or OS/2 device driver to set the number of rows for
all text based screens.
08/03/93 ViewFITS, in the current version, can display images of
any format, 8 to 32 bits per pixel, integers or floating
points. The colour palette can be easily modified to help
the user to get the maximum from the image. Beta release.
11/01/93 Animated Pallete graphics programming demo. C source
included.
03/17/94 Image viewer and manipulator for OS/2. Needs palette
manager (256 colors) for full functionality. Many formats
supported. Extensive functions, excellent for creating
wallpaper and lockup screens.
09/02/92 See IRIT40E1
02/12/94 This application is a simple plotter for quick and easy
generation of X/Y plots from files of numerical data.
01/05/94 See IRIT40E1.ZIP
01/05/94 IRIT is a solid modeler developed for educational
purposes. Although small, it is now powerful enough to
create quite complex scenes.
09/25/94 POVFrame is an OS/2 PM shell for the raytracing program
POV-Ray. Provides WPS DeskTop, point & click, rendering
ability using either the INCLUDED (text mode) OS/2
compile of POV-Ray or the "official" POV Team's DOS
compile of POV-Ray.
04/03/94 PMJPEG is a shareware image viewer with image processing
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and conversion capabilities for OS/2 2.x. PMJPEG is a
port of WinJPEG to OS/2 2.x. It is a native 32-bit PM
application.
04/22/94 The Apple set is a fractal in the complex plane generated
by an iteration.
10/08/93 Magnifies an area of the screen around the mouse cursor.
You can always get a popup menu using mouse button 2.
You can drag the window around using mouse button 1.
06/04/93 This driver basically gives you the resources used by the
640x480 display driver at 1024x768 resolution, thus
effectively giving you more screen real estate.
01/19/94 Fractal drawing program for the OS/2 Presentation
Manager. Includes source code.
09/01/94 OS/2 24bit color scanner program. Supports all major
image formats. Still in development. Now supports more
scanners.
11/10/92 The fonts contained in SMALL.FON were created using the
Font Editor that was included in the OS/2 PM Softset
(Version 1.2). There are two versions of the font: one
for EGA (8 pt) and another for VGA (6 pt).
09/11/92 OS/2 Presentation Manager program that continually
reports the color value and English name of the pel
(pixel) that happens to be under your OS/2 PM mouse
pointer. The color value can be displayed in several
different color models.
11/03/94 This is is quick and dirty program to view multiple
bitmaps.When you press the File button, a dialog box
appears that will allow you to select multiple bitmaps
for viewing. Listbox will also use SOM's Drag & Drop for
selection.
05/27/94 Quickly and interactively computs with real and complex
numbers with matrices. Draws your functions in two and
three dimensions. Source included with registration.
07/06/94 GLE is a hi quality graphics package for scientists. GLE
combines a user friendly interface with a full range of
facilities for producing publication quality graphs,
diagrams, posters and slides. GLE runs on PC's, VAXes
and Unix. w/source
04/22/94 Complete 32bit PM image editor. Supports BMPs & PCX.
System palette, cut, paste, resize, free draw, line draw,
fill, capture and many others.
10/06/94 BMP viewer for OS/2 2.x. Limited abilities, but author
will customize to suit needs.
01/13/95 A graphics editor written in CA-Realizer. Works with
WIN-BMPs only.
** Type Hard Disk Utility
07/21/93 Iostone is meant for benchmarking file I/O and cache
efficiencies. Includes source.
01/06/94 A virtual device driver that will allow DOS applications
to issue SCSI commands that will be handled by
OS2ASPI.DMD. A 2/8/94 version exists.
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** Type HPFS Utility
10/11/93 Not needed with new Linux. Very basic file system mounts
OS/2 HPFS partitions *read only*. Does not write. You
can, however, run du and df, find, ls and grep and
strings and tex and emacs and pbm and lpr and anything
else that does not do output.
11/19/93 Makes it possible to view HPFS partitions, with long file
names, and to copy files from HPFS to FAT partitions
while running native DOS.
** Type Icons
06/15/92 Many icons for most programs that are used on PCs. Use
them to spruce up your DOS applications window.
03/18/90 Many usefull ICONS for OS/2.
01/26/92 Icons that can be used/modified for many different
programs.
06/11/92 An environmentally green ICON.
01/26/92 Replace the Shredder Icon with one of these.
11/08/92 17 cartoon oriented icons for OS/2.
03/02/93 IconEase is a much easier way of changing default icons
that appear when you install programs and other objects
on your desktop.
09/14/91 DOS program (Run in DOS Session) that will convert icons
to/from Windows-OS/2 PM. Includes C source.
05/05/91 OS/2 icon for dual boot.
07/28/92 OS/2 animation using icons. Displays a small icon-sized
picture of a little elephant standing on a red carpet and
dancing in front of a breaking window.
11/05/92 SETICON.CMD - set the icon for all files on a disk drive
that has the designated file specification. Example:
SETICON E:\*.ZIP C:\ICON\ZIP.ICO.
09/16/92 Sample program with source that demonstrates an animated
Icon.
01/22/94 This file contains over 80 40x40 icons specifically for
folders. 1024x768 compatible only.
10/25/94 Workplace Shell enhancement that simplifies the task of
keeping icon libraries on your disk and assigning icons
to objects. One advantage of this tool is that icons are
compressed into libraries.
** Type Information
08/06/92 Fully commented CONFIG.SYS for OS/2 2.0 with the
following setup: IBM PS/2 Model 80 - 120 Meg HD - on E
partition Novell Requester 2.0 Dual Boot.
07/20/92 This text file contains information from Clarion users
who have successfully set up Clarion to run under OS2.
06/02/92 Info file on an enhanced command shell for OS/2.
07/28/92 Many people are interested in finding out more about
using or programming OS/2. In addition to the manuals
written by IBM and Microsoft, there are a number of books
written by others that are vailable through libraries,
bookstores, etc.
05/27/92 Using these settings will enable you to run your DOS
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programs more efficiently under OS/2 2.0.
07/08/92 Text file describing how to run popular DOS games under
OS/2.
06/02/92 Much useful information on OS/2 for the beginner &
programmer.
03/30/92 Text file with settings for various DOS programs.
04/22/91 Beginner's introduction to the PostScript language.
PostScript features and advantages as a language, fonts,
speed and costs, getting started, and buying a printer
are discussed.
04/03/94 Great wealth of information on OS/2.
08/27/93 INF listing of OS/2 publications available.
06/23/93 Comprehensive information on setting up various comm
programs with OS/2.
08/30/94 Text file and INF containing a wealth of information &
sources for os/2 programming information.
06/23/93 Hints & techniques for pointing devices under OS/2.
05/09/93 DOS slideshow application to demonstrate OS/2 2.1
improvements.
03/28/93 Here's a technical description of the High Performance
Files System that was posted on the net recently.
08/14/93 Updates to the OS/2 2.1 Manual.
07/09/93 White Paper on performance tuning OS/2.
11/16/94 List of IBM's Employee Written Software for OS/2. These
programs are available from IBM's BBS, CompuServe, many
OS/2 oriented BBSs & some are even on this CD-ROM.
05/03/94 List of problems & fixes with OS/2 2.1 MMPM
10/31/93 Several funny stories about operating systems.
10/24/93 OSW/2 tips & Techniques in both ASCII & WP 5.2 format.
11/02/93 The International Phoenix Alliance (IPA) has grown out of
a group that met with a number of IBM personnel prior to
the Technical Interchange in Phoenix in Feb.-Mar. 1993.
10/29/93 Text comparing the different video cards support with
OS/2.
06/13/94 List of OS/2 2.1 APARs through 13 June 94. Pt 1.
06/13/94 List of OS/2 2.1 APARs through 13 June 94. Pt 2.
11/03/93 This demonstration disk has been carefully designed to
provide maximum compatibility under OS/2*, DOS and
Windows**. The program should operate on any 286, 386 or
486 with a standard VGA display, DOS version 3.1 or
higher.
10/07/93 Fix for OS/2 2.1 hangs or traps after LOGO on DISK 1 when
installing from a 3.5"/1.44MB floppy drive.
08/01/93 For those of you who have a CD-ROM which is unsupported
by 2.1, but would like to install the CD-ROM version of
the 2.1 Upgrade (because it's cheaper) without resorting
to diskettes then here is the method I used.
01/10/94 Information on installing and using Serial Communications
(ASYNC) devices with IBM's OS/2. This is an OS/2
Information/Help file. Use the OS/2 VIEW command.
01/10/94 Information on installing and using MICE with IBM's OS/2.
12/22/94 The following table depicts those PCM's systems that have
passed compatibility testing with the IBM OS/2 2.x
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product. IBM compatibility testing verifies (18) key
functions of the OS/2 2.x operating system.
10/16/93 The alleged OS/2 "limit" of 1000 interrupts per second
for a VDM COMM program. Good discussion as to why this
limit doesn't really exist.
06/13/94 List of OS/2 2.1 APARs through 13 June 94. Pt 3.
04/10/94 A biweekly OS/2 electronic information magazine. Only
this issue will be posted, as it tells you how to obtain
future issues.
03/14/94 Information on what to do if your copy of OS/2 will not
install. Includes many work-arounds for hardware that
doesn't quite meet the Intel specs.
05/04/94 Information on how WPS launches programs and how SOM
works.
09/13/94 Comprehensive list of all KNOWN commercial applications
available for OS/2.
03/25/94 USA Customers should use this form to report a suspected
OS/2 DEFECT to IBM support.
05/03/94 APAR listing in INF format on TCP/IP APARs.
06/13/94 List of OS/2 2.1 APARs through 13 June 94. Pt 4.
08/05/93 Orients someone who has heard a bit about networking on
OS/2. Helps a new networker install the IBM TCP/IP
networking package and some of its more popular
additional modules.
10/31/94 List of bugs found in the release of WARP and their fixes.
10/31/94 List of OS/2 2.1 APARs through 31 October 94. Pt 5.
10/31/94 List of OS/2 2.1 APARs through 31 October 94. Pt 6.
12/28/94 Many useful hints for using OS/2 Warp. Some information
applies to OS/2 v2.x, also. Note that there are two
versions of the TIPs INF and they need to be installed in
different directories as they have the smae filenames.
12/21/94 Interfacing and enhancing Novell Netware with IBM Lan
products. A Whitepaper from IBM.
** Type Install
08/21/94 Will create a Boot Manager Partition on a hard drive
without using FDISK. Existing data on the drive will not
be disturbed.
12/19/94 Ports WINOS2 for OS/2 2.11 to OS/2 Warp v3. Though
supplied by IBM, this is NOT SUPPORTED.
** Type Internet
01/08/95 Souper is a network mail and news client program for OS/2
Warp's Internet Access Kit and IBM TCP/IP. It creates a
SOUP packet from mail and news fetched from a POP3 server
and NNTP server respectively. It can also send messages
in SOUP rep. packets.
** Type MMPM/2 Utilities
09/14/92 Drivers & Utilities to use a SoundBlaster PRO card with
OS/2's Multi-Media package, MMPM/2.
11/24/92 The VDD will allow you to run most SoundBlaster and
MPU-401/MT32 or LAPC applications within an OS/2 2.0 DOS
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session. Do NOT run the SVAUDIO.EXE. The VDD will attempt
to map the sounds requested by he application to the
nearest M-ACPA sound.
11/05/94 MidiLab/2 is a MIDI sequencer, editor and data manager
application for OS/2 Version 2. Its primary functions -
Record, Overdub, Playback, and Track Edit, and the other
supporting functions are controlled by CUA compliant
interface.
07/23/93 Drivers for the Media Vision sound cards. Includes SCSI
CD ROM support on the card.
07/15/93 This is the 1.0 release of PM Jukebox, a PM based WAV
player for OS/2 2.X only. PM Jukebox allows you play a
queue of WAVs.
10/23/93 Docs are in German. Includes source code. Will play music
CDs.
12/09/93 The Speaker audio device driver provide support for
playing digital audio waveform files on the standard PC
speaker by using the MMPM/2 audio system.
09/29/93 The function of Repeat.CMD is to play a given multimedia
file a number of times in a row, or to keep playing it
continuously.
01/03/94 This program includes everything that you need to create
your own music on your computer. It has a text-based
editor which allows you to enter notes. Will print sheet
music.
12/14/93 A Compact Disc Audio Player Application The programs only
requirements, besides a CD-ROM drive capable of audio
playback of music discs, is OS/2 2.x and PM.
03/02/94 A MOD format music module player. DMPlayer is also a
multimedia player. You can mix .WAV, .MID, and even .AVI
files in with your .MOD files for an all-in-one player.
05/24/94 Tired of trying to access and play lots of .WAV files
with MultiMedia's Player? Want to be able to quickly and
easily locate and play all the .WAV files on a drive?
EASYPLAY is an easy way to PLAY wave files.
02/16/94 This directory contains the freely distributed Berkeley
MPEG-1 VideoEncoder. The encoder implements the standard
described in the ISO/IEC International Standard 11172-2.
01/25/94 This is a simple wavemaker for OS/2 2.1 and DOS. It
generates sine, pulse and triangle waves and writes it in
a file: c:\mmos2\sounds\aaa.wav
08/21/94 OS/2 PM based program to convert sounds between different
formats and provide tools for special effects, editing,
and playing of samples stored in memory.
03/16/94 This program requires OS/2 2.1 GA with the MMPM/2 digital
video extensions installed. For good performance, you
will need a system which has SVGA or XGA display
capabilities running in 256 or 64K color mode.
11/14/94 PMPoze is a notational composer/player of digital music
files known as MOD files. 32bit PM application for OS/2
2.x and higher.
** Type Multi-Media
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04/20/93 ST translates sound samples between different file
formats, and performs various sound effects.
05/11/93 CDTRACK is a command-line utility program that allows the
caller to play a specific track (or range of tracks) on
the CD-ROM Drive. Read the source code for additional
details.
11/12/92 This utility will play 'tunes' on your PC speaker that
have been created with the 'Tune Editor' mini-application
in the OS/2 'Productivity Tools' folder. Includes C
source code.
06/29/94 OS/2 Multimedia Presentation Composer. Lets you
synchronize graphic images to sound with precision.
Currently supports Bitmap graphic images, Wave and MIDI
sound files, and compact disc sound from an OS/2
supported CD-ROM. Needs OS/2 2.1 & MMPM/2.
08/24/93 The MPU Piano program allows you to play an 85 key video
"keyboard" to your MPU-401 compatible interface, as well
as play Standard MIDI Format files.
05/09/94 An OS/2 PM 32bit application that turns your computer
into a MIDI controller. Docs have source for a MPU-401
driver for OS/2.
11/15/94 Compact Disk Player which will allow you to play your
Compact Audio Disks. Repeat Track, Repeat Disk, Random
Play, Intro Play ( play each track for a couple of Sec ),
Program Play ( fully programmable ), Remembers the
program for each CD.
** Type Network Utilities
06/05/94 CNFGLS30 is an EXCEL (tm) (V2.2) or LOTUS (tm) (123 V3.0,
123/G) spreadsheet which will generate, for a LAN Server
configuration, an IBMLAN.INI file and NTS/2 NetBIOS,
802.2 PROTOCOL.INI and netbeui.nif parameters.
08/19/93 LanStart is similar to the StartUp folder found on your
OS/2 system. The only difference is that it will only
start the objects in its folder when the IBMLAN requester
has been started ok and somebody has logged on.
09/28/93 List of APARs from IBM relating to networks.
12/08/93 In this package you will find two files, RXLAN20.DLL and
RXLAN30.DLL, that implement more than 80 API calls to use
in REXX with Lan Requester 2.0 or 3.0.
09/28/93 TuneUp is a tool to assist administrators of IBM LAN
Server version 2.0 and 3.0 in performance and tuning of
their LAN Server environments. This offers an easy
interface where users are prompted for questions and
recommendations are calculated.
12/10/93 This revision of NetBIOS resolves problems that could
result in trap 000E's at the workstation. It also
provides support 254 sessions, and correctly closes
commands, names, and sessions that an application has
open when it terminates.
04/14/94 Retrieves time from host and resets the local clock using
the RFC time or daytime protocols.
12/15/94 Full function LAN Server management tool. A wide varity
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of LAN Server capabilities can both be monitored and
configured using NetPM. Works with LanServer 3.0, 3.01
and 4.0.
09/29/93 A collection of programs to monitor LAN Server 3.0
performance. Data is collected for analysis to provide
the information necessary to maintain performance and
capacity.
** Type OS/2 Application
09/20/94 A PM recipe manager for OS/2. Search for recipes based on
word(s) in title, Group, or ingredient. Advance search
logic available for complex searches. Multiple recipe
databases can be maintained. Imports Meal-Master recipe
format. Metric/USA conv.
09/04/94 A simple mortgage calculator that uses the PM notebook
for its layout.
** Type OS/2 BMPs
11/07/93 "The Wall" is made of Dragon Hide and is for a LOCKUP
screen. "Barnes.BMP" is for the desktop.
11/15/93 Great OS/2 BMP for your desktop. Be sure to set the icon
text to white for readability.
** Type OS/2 Maintenance
04/13/92 Performs OS/2 system shutdown from the command line. It
simply prompts the operator to confirm that a shutdown
should be performed and then executes a system shutdown.
08/20/92 Reports SWAPPER.DAT & Swap drive free space to WPS.
04/24/91 Displays free RAM and disk space in small PM window.
04/15/92 PM application to patch files.
11/04/94 Utility programs designed to backup and restore extended
attributes associated with OS/2 files. The programs are
run from the command line in an OS/2 session.
07/08/94 Disk eXPress (DXP) allows a diskette image to be created
for electronic transmission. Disk eXPress recognizes all
standard DOS formatted diskettes, including 160K, 180K,
320K, 360K, 720K, .2M, and the latest 2.88M diskettes.
Includes DOS & OS/2 EXE.
04/28/92 DOS program to check ACTUAL memory for OS/2 availablility
prior to install. Includes C source code.
09/29/94 Phoenix will recover most or all of the data from files
erased in OS/2. Current version will support both Fat and
HPFS drive formats, including extended partitions (but
not LAN drives).
03/24/93 ShiftRun is a utility that enables you to optionally run
any OS/2 full screen program while OS/2 is booting.
11/16/94 WPSbkup is a 32 bit utility that will backup status and
configuration data for the OS/2 2.x WorkPlace Shell
(WPS). Now includes support for OS/2 WARP v3 as well as
OS/2 2.x.
11/10/94 OS20MEMU is an OS/2 protect-mode program which displays a
"snapshot" of the current memory usage in an OS/2 2.X
system. Total free storage is also shown.
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06/18/93 Fixes install problems over an earlier version of OS/2
without formating, problems with the Shutdown message, &
mass duplications of templates.
01/21/93 Put this SYS file in your CONFIG.SYS and during boot you
will get this message: Press ESC for command prompt... If
you press the ESC key, you will get a command prompt that
should allow you to modify our system. Includes ASM/C
source. Update exists.
04/06/93 The Desktop Install Procedure Writer allows a power user
or software developer to quickly and easily develop a
custom install procedure for an OS/2, DOS or windows
application onto the OS/2 desktop (Work Place Shell).
12/13/92 Device driver for OS/2 to activate the Cyrix 486 internal
cache. ASM source code included.
01/08/93 OS/2 char based utility that will display much
information about your system.
08/21/93 Contains several utilities: Directory tree drawer,
Changes HPFS names to FAT format and vice versa, Extract
files from / List contents of archives, File Finder and
Process Status simplifier utility.
11/28/94 AMOS is a DOS-program for OS/2 users! It gives easy
access to HPFS-formatted drives from native DOS. It will
read, write, copy, edit, del, md, rd, type, and much,
much more... No need for an OS/2 Service installation
anymore!! Now a TSR!
10/08/93 OS2DUMP is new for OS/2 2.1. Under OS/2 2.0, the
functions of OS2DUMP were encorporated in the file
OS2LDR. They have been split out so they can be modified
without having to send out a new OS2LDR file.
03/08/94 Pegasus for OS/2 2.x is a kernal level, real-time,
Presentation Manager monitoring tool for system and
application resource usage. A click of a mouse causes a
fountain of performance statistics to spring forth from
Mount OS/2 2.x!
01/11/95 Will scan your system & memory for viruses. Will remove
viruses found. Other utilities for virus control are
available from McAfee. This product is frequently
updated. Call BBS for latest version. Note: v1.x is being
phased out.
08/01/93 Displays the largest block of virtual memory available to
the user in the smallest window possible... a titlebar.
It can then be left running along the top or bottom of
the screen with virtually no loss of screen space.
01/28/94 Two OS/2 REXX CMD files that will either GET ALL the info
from OS2.INI or get a SET of the settings. Used for
listing DOS and Windows Sessions notebook settings to an
ASCII file, for sharing with other users.
01/23/94 Terminator/2 is a program that terminates running
processes by theirProcess ID numbers. This will also
kill child processes.
11/01/94 Benchmark tool that fully tests, supports and exploits
OS/2's multitasking capabilities. Tests CPU, memory, disk
and video individually or concurrently.
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12/22/94 HPFSTool is a *real* Undelete for OS/2 HPFS-Drives. That
means that you don't have to use the DELDIR statement
like in many other "Undels". You are able to recover
almost any file that has been deleted on any HPFS-Drive
in your system.
12/26/94 OS/2 PM program to display and manage *.INI files and all
Extended Attributes, and provide for both a snapshot and
portable backup of the Desktop. Also allows for global
display and/or modification of all WPS object gettings.
10/25/93 Will display extended attributes for a directory and its
files in either binary mode or text mode.
11/01/94 Extract Icons,Dialogs, Menus and other resources from
.EXEs or .DLLs to reuse them in other applications. Add,
modify or replace Dialogs, Icons, Menus etc. in existing
.EXEs or .DLLs. Remove arbitrary resources from .EXEs or
.DLLs.
10/12/94 Profiler is an utility to manipulate OS/2 INI files.
Profiler supports many functions to manipulate these
files (+ export, import or dump an INI file or parts of
an INI file). Profiler is able to explain the entries of
OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI.
11/27/94 This is a pretty accurate copy of the DELTREE command
from DOS 6.x. It works the same way as DELTREE for DOS.
10/25/94 This program will produce an ASCII file (LISTDLL.TXT)
containing a list of all of the DLLs that are
"addressable" via the LIBPATH statement.
** Type Patches
09/09/93 This ZIP file contains a patch which allows the command
line tools of Microsoft Visual C++ 1.0 for Windows to run
in a DOS box of OS/2 2.1. The Visual C++ compiler is a
16-bit compiler that targets DOS and Windows.
04/22/94 Service Update for High-Resolution/Color Display Drivers
06/16/94 OS/2 2.11 Service pack. Fixes problems with Kernal.
06/16/94 OS/2 2.11 Service pack. Fixes problems with Kernal.
06/16/94 OS/2 2.11 Service pack. Fixes problems with Kernal.
02/28/94 Replacement DLL for OS/2 Memory Utility so that it can
run with the 2.11 upgrade.
06/16/94 OS/2 2.11 Service Pack. Fixes problems with Work Place
Shell.
06/16/94 OS/2 2.11 Service Pack. Fixes problems with Work Place
Shell.
06/16/94 OS/2 2.11 Service Pack. Fixes problems with Work Place
Shell.
12/01/94 Replacement CW.EXE so that Clarion for Windows will run
properly under OS/2 Warp v3.0.
** Type PIM
10/25/94 DEMO of an OS/2 Workplace Shell Personal Information
Manager. Many features and the ability to import DBase,
Packrat and Lotus files. Clock/calendar, appointment
book, to-do list, telephone/address book, contact list,
and notepad.
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01/07/93 ChronoLog v1.02 - Personal Info Manager (PIM) with
emphasis on resource management. Provides: event tracking
and reminding, resource categorization, conflict
warnings, keyword and string searching, printing of appt
schedules and block calendars.
01/08/94 32-bit, OS/2 2.1 multithreaded address book with dialing
and printing capabilities. Prints Day-Timers format
address books and envelopes, and supports data
import/export to ease conversion from other products.
07/17/93 Demo, will not run after clock date 4/30/94. PrOffice
Personal Addressbook/2 (PAB/2) is a network-compatible
address management software with mailing and holdfile
components.
08/03/93 Relish is a personal time and information organizer that
is ideal for coordinating tasks and/or managing time. It
is organized around a database of notes about a variety
of commitments.
01/25/94 OS/2 PM address manager with the ability to copy the
information into the clipboard for pasting onto another
document. Can be used to address an envelope.
11/19/94 Track day-to-day activities. The calendar allows you to
view months at a glance and to schedule events for one or
more days. Execellent example of SOM programming.
06/10/94 Reads a text file with your important dates and displays
everything that lies within a user selectable range in a
window. By default REMINDER will show your dates for the
next 10 days. The power of this program is its
simplicity.
02/27/94 Store information about people, companies, etc. Prints
reports, labels, and envelopes. Will use modem to dial
and can integrate with FAX software.
** Type Printer
10/24/94 REXX command files to print 2UP in landscape mode or 1UP
in portrait mode on laser printers using PPDS or HPLJ
commands. Will number or support ANSI control characters.
Suppresses multiple lank lines and page ejects.
10/14/91 Converts Windows ATM fonts that don't have an AFM (Font
Metrics) file by producing the AFM so that OS/2 can use
the font.
10/04/92 These utilities allow you to convert between PFA (ASCII)
and PFB (binary) formats, disassemble PFA or PFB files
into human-readable form, reassemble them into PFA or PFB
format. Includes C source.
08/20/93 FlexText is a Shareware program that prints files or
clipboard data in a variety of fonts and page
configurations. This program must be run on OS/2 2.0 with
access to an OS/2 supported graphics printer. ow supports
DUPLEX printing!
05/25/93 Improved Epson printer drivers for OS/2.
06/16/93 PCPRINT is program which helps you print documents on
your workstation printer, formatted with running headings
and footings, margins and page numbers, etc.
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10/24/93 This is an OS/2 2.x port of the GNU Ghostscript 2.6.1
with a Presentation Manager driver. Ghostscript is a
PostScript interpreter/viewer.
10/26/93 This application is a simple plotter for quick and easy
generation of X/Y plots from files of numerical data. It
runs only on an OS/2 machine and operates from a
graphical user interface. Commercial version with many
more features available for $20
12/19/93 PC2ps reads text from file(s) (or standard input if
specified) and produces postscript output on stdout,
suitable for piping to any postscript device (such as an
Apple Laserwriter) or for using with any program that
expects postscript input.
04/06/94 GiftoPS2 converts a GIF image file to a PostScript file.
Includes C source code.
03/07/94 Improved OS/2 NULL printer driver.
** Type Productivity Tools
06/07/89 Not supported. Helps you manage your personal finances
through the use of OS/2 Presentation Manager. Contains
several selections including deposits, withdrawals,
corrections, void checks, learing, ETC.
12/27/93 OS/2 PM, 32-bit, multi-threaded, multi-media aware
address book. Features auto dialer, prints mailing
labels, cardfiles, and address books. Can display photos
and voice memos with help of other programs. Very
flexible.
01/01/93 Measures HD cache performance in OS/2. Configurable reads
and can bypass disk cache. PM application.
01/23/94 Man is a front-end to a *roff-style program and a pager,
and displays Unix-style manual pages.
09/10/94 "Scratch pad" to jot notes in and organize small files
into. It has several features to help make managing
notes a lot easier - such as cut, clear, copy, paste,
search, save to ASCII and import ASCII file.
05/19/93 SourceCalc is an on-screen calculator for OS/2. This
versatile calculator allows you to perform arithmetic and
boolean operations n intermixed bases of Decimal,
Hexadecimal, Octal and Binary.
** Type Program Examples
09/11/92 This OS/2 2.0 Presentation Manager program generates
mazes and displays them in three dimensions. Be patient
this program demonstrates the use of separate threads for
CPU intensive tasks. IBM C Set/2 source is included.
04/06/91 The files ASYNCH.H and ASYNCH.CPP are the actual source
code to the asynchronous object class. The file
SPDTERM.CPP is merely a sample test program to test the
interrupt and some of the functions of the class.
01/26/94 Uniquely designed open COMM engine. Allows users and
third party developers to fully and easily exploit OS/2's
potential. This is done by splitting the program into two
parts, terminal (client) and Common Central (server).
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03/16/94 What GIO is intended to do is take some of the tedious
programming out of the equation. Using GIO you don't have
to deal with file handles, or terminally confusing calls
to DosDevIOCtl. You just tell GIO what you need it to do.
01/26/94 The accompanying file, CHILDX.GUI is a simple example of
a way to construct multiple modeless child windows within
a frame, giving a similar appearance to an MDI
application. It is compatible with Guidelines V2.0G and
later.
04/25/94 This dynamic link library completely hides the print
subsystem from the programmer and provides 13 extremely
easy to use functions and 4 data structures to create
printed output from your applications.
09/07/93 Programming examples and discussion on multi-threading PM
apps.
04/24/94 This is a text to ipf file converter. Includes the C and
Rexx source code.
** Type Program Languages
08/09/93 This is GNU Emacs 19.17 for emx on OS/2 2.0 or 2.1. The
port was done by Eberhard Mattes based on ideas of the
port of GNU Emacs for OS/2 done by Joerg Viola. Version
19.22 exists.
08/04/93 This is GNU Emacs 19.17 for emx on OS/2 2.0 or 2.1. The
port was done by Eberhard Mattes based on ideas of the
port of GNU Emacs for OS/2 done by Joerg Viola. Version
19.22 exists.
07/19/93 This is GNU Emacs 19.17 for emx on OS/2 2.0 or 2.1. The
port was done by Eberhard Mattes based on ideas of the
port of GNU Emacs for OS/2 done by Joerg Viola.
07/27/93 This is GNU Emacs 19.17 for emx on OS/2 2.0 or 2.1. The
port was done by Eberhard Mattes based on ideas of the
port of GNU Emacs for OS/2 done by Joerg Viola.
07/27/93 This is GNU Emacs 19.17 for emx on OS/2 2.0 or 2.1. The
port was done by Eberhard Mattes based on ideas of the
port of GNU Emacs for OS/2 done by Joerg Viola.
07/18/93 This is GNU Emacs 19.17 for emx on OS/2 2.0 or 2.1. The
port was done by Eberhard Mattes based on ideas of the
port of GNU Emacs for OS/2 done by Joerg Viola.
07/24/93 This is GNU Emacs 19.17 for emx on OS/2 2.0 or 2.1. The
port was done by Eberhard Mattes based on ideas of the
port of GNU Emacs for OS/2 done by Joerg Viola.
07/27/93 This is GNU Emacs 19.17 for emx on OS/2 2.0 or 2.1. The
port was done by Eberhard Mattes based on ideas of the
port of GNU Emacs for OS/2 done by Joerg Viola.
07/27/93 This is GNU Emacs 19.17 for emx on OS/2 2.0 or 2.1. The
port was done by Eberhard Mattes based on ideas of the
port of GNU Emacs for OS/2 done by Joerg Viola.
07/25/93 This is GNU Emacs 19.17 for emx on OS/2 2.0 or 2.1. The
port was done by Eberhard Mattes based on ideas of the
port of GNU Emacs for OS/2 done by Joerg Viola.
09/27/93 Patches for Borland C++ for OS/2. Downloaded from
Borland's own BBS. This patch increases the namesCache
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block to eliminate the error message: "Out of memory in
namesCache"
11/30/93 Get all compilers to agree on use of manifest
preprocessor constants.
11/20/93 DFlat++ V3 for OS/2 Source code samples that were
discussed in Dr. Dobb's Journal from Nov 92 to Feb 94.
02/03/88 Information on how to build Dynamic Link Libraries and
howe to use them in OS/2. Though it's a bit dated and
applies to OS/2 1.x, it still applies to OS/2 2.x.
05/22/94 Forth/2 was created specifically for OS/2 using MASM 6.0
Currently it is a text-mode application which can be run
either in a full screen or window. It presently does not
conform to any single Forth standard.
02/08/94 Database management library for C++ programmers. It is a
full B+Tree/ISAM system, which is extremely fast and
provides a very straightforward interface to the
developer. Supports Borland C++ for OS/2.
08/14/94 Interactively program OS/2 PM in BASIC, powerful, easy
and fun to learn and use, create dialogs w/out a resource
editor, supports graphics, and easy to use debugger.
** Type Programmer's Utils
12/22/91 DevShell is an enhanced command environment geared
towards the developer. It is completely (even the on-line
help) written in REXX so it can be modified to suit the
user's own ideas and needs.
08/05/92 A binary data display and conversion utility, Hexdump
supports both bin2hex and hex2bin functionality.
08/14/92 Patches for Object Vision so REXX will work properly.
08/18/92 Allows PRINTF to work in a PM application for debugging
purposes.
09/21/90 Elevates priority of program started with PRI.
06/04/92 PM Application. Show % free memory.
07/06/92 Lists all processes running in OS/2 2.0. It works with
OS/2 2.0 and is a 32-bit app, so it won't run on 1.x.
01/28/93 CLI & PM program that shows basic system setup, free
memory, and system maximums.
10/03/92 Will view/edit any binary file. Includes C source code.
11/24/92 OS/2 utility that helps a programmer using the IBM C
compiler to make better use of the informational,
warning, and error messages printed out by the compiler.
03/30/94 Provides basic browse functions for all files with a
record size <=256 as well as highlighting specified
keywords and allowing user defined Marker references and
flow lines, and for language files such as C or Pascal.
07/08/92 Will pop up a small PM window with parameter displayed.
Good for command files. For example, "PMPOPUP Change
floppy diskette." will display "Change floppy diskette.".
01/09/93 A REXX procedure to determine if an OS/2 binary file is
compiled as 16-bits "NE" or 32-bits "LX".
11/12/92 This is a simple program to keep track of time spent on
different projects. Useful to anyone who is in a similar
position of spending the day working on multiple projects.
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01/07/95 HOOK_KBS is an OS/2 equivalent of a DOS TSR program. Hot
keys are defined in a user created data file that assigns
to a hot key a command to execute.
11/29/92 Alters application type so that if a full screen OS/2
application is run from a window, it will remain windowed.
03/25/93 The Image Toolkit is a System DLL used to provide a
variety of support options for several Presentation
Manager applications, such as: PMDRAW, OS2MAGNIFY, SCRAP,
& IBROW.
12/19/92 IBM employee written software. This program searches the
specified segments from executable files. The key word
for this search is the length of a segment.
02/02/93 OS/2 16-32 bit COMM API includes libraries for C & C++.
Documentation is in Word for Windows format.
12/30/92 This library provides basic picture mask support for OS/2
entry fields. The header file wcpicmsk.h contains a
detailed description for the libraries and their usage.
01/05/93 No longer supported. RC-DO-C, is a VREXX command program
that reads .RC and .DLG files to create a .C file.
09/28/92 ASCII - Dumps ASCII strings found in file. DDIR - Prints
current dir in double width. NEW - Lists in DDIR format
all files written in the last 'n' days. Days are
calculated from 6 A.M.
02/02/93 RxD is a Presentation Manager source level debugger for
REXX programs. Many features.
01/14/93 Tracker is design to monitor large software development
projects. Lets you quickly see who is working on what
piece, when they were assigned the task, when it is due,
and when it is actually ompleted.
03/09/93 Compact Disc Digital Audio Explorer for OS/2 2.x.
Features: eject, stop, play, disc repeat, track repeat,
disc shuffle, mute, random track selection, random
position in track entry, remaining countdown and much
more.
04/16/93 C source to demonstrate Container programming.
03/05/93 Device driver allows a mono monitor as a 2nd monitor for
those programs that can address dual monitors.
06/17/93 This device driver provides a call mechanism for C
programs (at Ring 3) to access specific physical memory
addresses. Although this violates OS/2 protected memory
concepts, it is useful when programming/accessing
laboratory acquisition boards.
02/02/93 Demonstrates how to create a custom control. Written in
conjunction with an article in the Winter '93 edition of
the OS/2 Developer. All of the files required to run
and/or build the demo are ncluded.
06/25/93 BN2SCR will take a binary file and produce an equivalent
data structure that you can include directly into your
source file.
08/23/93 An example of C code to find out if the file object has
Extended Attributes associated with it. If so, then the
size of all of the Extended Attributes that are attached
is found.
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10/07/92 This is the Companion Disk for the book, "Writing OS/2
2.0 Device Drivers in C" by Steven J. Mastrianni.
07/11/93 Assembly language library and example code providing
inp() and outp() port I/O routines under IBM CSET/2. Port
access at ring 2 is handles by an assembly language
interlude. Code can be extended to provide high speed
block mode I/O access.
09/06/93 Z-Forms is a powerful tool that assists programmers in
producing applications with a fast, text-mode, windowed
user interface. Features built-in windowing, menuing,
dialog boxes, mouse handling, nd data input support.
11/03/93 AniButtn contains the LIB, DLL, and H needed to add
Animated two-state graphical push-buttons in a program,
plus a complete example of how to use it. AniButtn
provides programmers with an easy, straightforward way to
create and use these buttons.
08/26/93 This utility maps OS/2 V2, V1, Windows and PC-DOS EXE
Headers. This version includes extensive
cross-referencing and decoding of module ordinal numbers
into a readable format.
07/06/93 Keeps track of the time spent on various tasks.
11/10/93 cMent(*) is a REXX program which eliminates the need for
complex development environments like IBM's Workframe and
Nmake. It is designed to allow you to use your favorite
editor, your favorite compilers and your favorite
debugger, with WPS.
04/26/94 Guidelines is a 32 bit Visual Application Development
tool for OS/2 2.1 that provides developers with a
powerful graphical way to interactively design and
implement OS/2 Presentation Manager GUI applications.
05/05/94 See GBASE1.ZIP
05/05/94 See GBASE1.ZIP
07/30/93 Norton Guides Vierer for OS/2. Will allow exporting parts
of the guide.
04/08/94 Use LOADDSKF to unpack onto a 1.44m floppy for install.
These kernal files will allow a dump to floppy if a trap
occurs that causes the system to shut down. This file is
too large for a diskette and is only on CD-ROM.
06/06/94 A universally applicable optimization program,
cooperating with almost any batch simulator program (DOS
or OS/2, black box inclusion approach). Based on an
evolutionary algorithm. Also available for UNIX systems.
07/27/90 Hex editor that will work in both DOS & OS/2. It's a
bound program.
08/01/93 Cross-platform hypertext/help development kit with 2 help
engines and a help compiler with X-ref tool. Generate
help files for DOS, Windows (WinHelp), OS/2 (IPF), WWW
HTML and more from one source. Write once, help many.
07/29/94 The fastest .NG viewer for Presentation Manager.
Includes color, underline, bold, searching, copy to
clipboard, toolbar, printing, easy setup, and more.
Context sensitive help.
02/09/94 Progref is a PM utility to quickly generate Program
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reference objects from executables. The program program
accepts as input 0 or more fully defined program names
(ie the path is included) separated by blanks.
04/24/94 This packet contains information neccessary to develop
for ZOC.
06/12/93 BugAlert offers the programmer a unique capability to
debug an application. Lets you view information from
windows and applications open on the desktop with or
without a debugger.
04/21/93 Demo of a Programmer's Business Graphics Toolkit. Demo is
very good except that the vendor's info is clipped.
04/13/94 This is a more or less complete emulation of the CP/M80
"operating system" under OS/2 and DOS. C source code
included.
02/13/94 cPost is a program which will take a number of c and h
files as input and create a PostScript file. The
PostScript file will contain the contents of the input
files that have been marked up so that various parts are
highlighted.
11/27/93 Shows you a list of processes and lets you switch to them
or kill them. A list of threads, semaphores and the
shared memory map can also be shown. Runs from command
line.
03/01/93 High resolution timer implemented as a device driver. The
source code for this device driver was obtained from the
Fall 1991 issue of IBM Personal Systems Developer
magazine.
10/26/94 Subroutines for keyed file support (OS/2). A set of
powerful, easy to use, subroutines to allow the OS/2
programmer to create and use files having alphabetic or
numeric keys. These routines provide the major functions
for keyed files.
05/10/94 Presentation Manager based hexadecimal editor. A 32-bit
Application for OS/2 2.x designed to view and edit binary
files.
01/15/94 Programmer's database of printer codes for hundreds of
printers. It's designed to help eliminate a nightmare
many programmers face - formatting text on the dozens or
hundreds of different printers our users have.
04/16/94 This is a version of Daniel Hildebrand's Tracer utility,
updated to work with OS/2 2.X and compiled using emx
0.8g. You will require the emx dlls to use this
executable version of Tracer.
08/24/90 Assists the PM applications developer by providing a
means for displaying debugging information within the PM
environment.
10/20/94 With HexEdit/2, you can view and edit files in single or
multibyte octal, decimal, or hexadecimal binary
representation. You can resize an existing file or
allocate a new file from scratch, and perform search and
replace functions.
10/02/94 MSDOS + OS/2 (both supported in the same executable just
type getdate under one of the two). This program will
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allow you to know the 1-365 days date as well as other
info pertaining to dates and time.
01/01/95 Performs hexidecimal calculations or conversions. It also
functions as a standard decimal calculator and supports
floating point and fixed point modes. HexCalculator can
be sized to fit conveniently on your desktop.
07/15/94 Program to track shareware registrations. Requires
RexxBase packageFreeware. Source program, written
inVisPro/Rexx can be purchased.
** Type Rexx Language
10/13/92 REXX utility to create a library of REXX routines to be
used in other REXX programs.
04/11/93 Makes ASCII encoded binary files for transfer over mail
systems. Unique ability to include REXX decoder within
transfered file.
05/26/93 REXX utilities to enhance the use of CMD.EXE in OS/2.
Includes expanded history functions, file name
completion, associations, file searches across system,
aliases & much more.
05/22/93 Demo of Commercial REXX application developer.
10/28/93 Create a distinctive BEEP sound every hour to remind
workstation users to take a short break from their work.
11/09/93 RxExtras is a set of functions to enhance OS/2's REXX
programming language, and is accompanied by additional
functions to be used by other PM Rexx-based based
software. V1.9 (2/1/94) exists.
06/16/93 REXX procedures called as 1-2-3 macro commands can freely
modify the values of cells in ranges that are passed as
arguments. In fact, they can modify the value of any cell
that is below, to the right of, or the top left hand
front of the range.
11/18/93 RXAPPCFD allows Rexx programs to use the APPC programming
interface provided by CM/2 which includes full duplex
operations.
02/04/94 RxMulch is a simple REXX-program which counts the
occurrences of a string in a file and replaces strings in
a file. Allows definition of hexadecimal or decimal value
of single characters.
11/17/93 Set default ANSI screen colors and allow REXX-programs to
query them. (used e.g. by SHOWINI, CRONRGF, ATRGF)
04/14/94 VPIButtn is an image button. VPFile is a programmers
productivity object. VPBevel is a bevelled box for the
VisPro/REXX toolbar. VPMText is a mnemonic text object
for the VisPro/REXX toolbar. VPEvent is an event sphore
for the VisPro/REXX toolbar
08/21/93 BTRVREXX is a "dumb" interface to BTRCALLS. All
parameters used by BTRCALLS must be allocated by the REXX
caller and are passed through as-is in both directions by
BTRVREXX.
04/15/94 RCOPY is an extension of the OS/2 2.x COPY command. With
the available options, a single RCOPY usage can perform
tasks that would require several OS/2 commands.
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08/25/94 Use FindDir program to search drives for directories. It
does parallel processing to search drives simultaneously,
using RxQueue named queues to communicate data. Use
FindFile program to find files.
08/18/94 The Rexx Compiler will compile a valid Rexx command file
into an OS/2 executable file. The executable file will
load and run immediately. RexxPack will read infile.ext
and create outfile.ext as an optimized Rexx program. The
program will run faster.
09/08/94 A collection of over 150 functions designed to extend the
capabilities of REXX in OS/2. It covers five principal
areas: compound variable handling, interprocess
communication, mathematical functions, OS/2 system
services, and text-mode interfacing.
10/09/94 RexxDate is a REXX function package for manipulating
calendar dates.
09/08/94 Designed to help knowledgeable programmers further
enhance the power of VisPro/REXX Gold and Bronze 2.0. Add
your own icons to the VisPro/REXX tool bar, define
events, define styles, specify link methods, and much
more.
** Type Security
07/11/93 CIPHER is fairly simple to use yet provides excellent
file security. It encrypts a file, making it unreadable
junk until you decipher the file using the correct key.
07/09/93 Pretty Good(tm) Privacy (PGP), from Phil's Pretty Good
Software, is a high security cryptographic software
application for OS/2, MSDOS, Unix, VAX/VMS, and other
computers. PGP allows people to exchange files or
messages across systems, securely.
** Type Shell Editor
07/31/89 Easy to use editor. Contains several additional useful
programs and files.
02/07/90 PM editor built with minimum keystrokes for commands.
05/16/92 Port of PCMag's Tiny Editor for DOS.
** Type Shell Enhancer
04/14/92 A utility for managing file and directories on your PC.
It also allows you to manage files across PCs using
NetBios.
12/03/92 Lets you copy, move, rename, delete, find, view, and edit
files in a multi-window file list. This list shows two
directories, through which you can navigate using the
cursor, page up & down, home and nd keys. Now includes
HPFS support.
05/30/88 Displays directories and files. Allows viewing of files
with SEE.exe.
11/11/90 This program executes a command in multiple directories.
To use it, enter: GLOBALLY [/C] command [arguments].
11/28/89 This is an enhanced version of the original OS/2 FIND
filter. With this version, you may search any number of
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files for a given string pattern specified on the command
line.
05/20/90 Allows execution of commands from a file selection list.
07/18/92 Start a DOS image VDM (VMB) from an OS/2 command prompt.
Good for your Startup.CMD.
10/12/94 4OS2, like its cousin 4DOS, is a command interpreter or
"shell." We have designed 4OS2 to be compatible with both
4DOS and with OS/2's normal shell program, which is
called CMD.EXE. Note: this is the 32bit EXEs.
12/06/93 Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter
that executes commands read from the standard input or
from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from
then Korn and C shells (ksh and sh). Port of FSF's Bash.
06/01/92 Deletes an entire path including all subdirectories.
System, hidden, and read-only attributes are removed and
then deleted. This is a very powerful, but very
dangerous, tool. BE CAREFUL that you don't delete the
wrong path.
04/08/93 FF was designed to search from the current path on
downwards. The program starts searching for files in the
current path and any subdirectories that exist. Supports
COUNTRY.SYS setting for file dates. 32 bit command line
application. HPFS or FAT part
06/01/94 This utility will REPLACE the WPS and free up
considerable memory. Includes source code. Provides fully
user configurable pop-up menu for launching multi-tasking
programs. 32bit PM program. Version 1.60 is available
from the author.
10/12/94 We developed 4OS2 to bring the power and convenience of
our popular 4DOS program to users of the OS/2 operating
system. Whether you are a computer novice or an
experienced user, 4OS2 will help you get the most out of
your OS/2 system.
10/12/94 The enhanced command processor for OS/2. Replaces
CMD.EXE. Command enhancements such as maintaining file
descriptions, easy Change Directory, better command
history editing and more. Over 50 new commands in this
release.
04/20/93 Execute a series of commands on a set of specified files.
Each file and each command may be queried whether it is
to be processed or not. The filespec may contain wild
cards and files in subdirectories.
12/19/93 HSTART.EXE is an alternative program for the START
command embedded in OS/2. HSTART will however only work
on OS/2 2.1. HSTART can be used from DOS sessions.
11/27/94 Menubar for your desktop. It is intended to ease the
operation of launching frequently used applications and
from jumping from task to task within OS/2. Can also be
used as a WPS replacement. See FILBAR.TXT for address
change.
11/17/93 StartDos is an OS/2 program to start virtual DOS mode
sessions under OS/2. The nature of DOS sessions under
OS/2 is controlled by DOS settings, some of which can
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only be set at session startup. StartDos accepts these
settings via a REXX command.
01/19/94 TSHELL is a text-based, protected-mode shell for OS/2
2.x. Remember OS/2 1.0? TSHELL makes OS/2 2.X look
something like OS/2 1.0. Like OS/2 1.0, there is no
Presentation Manager. Thus, OS/2 PM applications will not
work. IBM EWS support.
01/20/94 MShell is an alternative, simple, mini shell for OS/2 2.X
that uses the replaceable shell architecture of the
Workplace Shell. With this architecture and their own
EXE, programmers can easily make OS/2 a turnkey platform.
04/24/94 Gives OS/2 some of the look and feel of X-Windows. Focus
following mouse, active window in background, and free
definable hotkeys for often occuring events.
** Type Source Code
06/15/93 Source code demonstrating SOM programming for WPS.
10/28/94 List box replacement. The behavior of this control is
similar to that provided by OS/2 PM.
12/20/93 Demonstrates one PM window opening another.
02/23/94 Source code showing how to set up a notebook.
** Type Time Scheduler
04/05/94 Use to schedule program execution, reminder alarm, reset
system date/time, and show on-screen clock.
07/25/93 CAL is a nicely-enhanced version of the Unix `cal'
command for OS/2 & MSDOS.
09/28/93 ATS for OS/2 has been designed to allow you to build
complete job streams giving complete control of how and
when to run each program. Free demo of future commercial
product.
11/01/94 GUI based event/program scheduler. You can schedule any
command, event or program to run at any time on any day,
or every day.
** Type WINOS2 Utility
02/17/94 Simple way to switch to/from Windows 3.11/3.1.
Coincidentally, this utility also helps the OS/2 for
Windows user, as the Windows 3.11 upgrade contains
replacement modules that prevent Windows from running
with OS2.
07/20/94 Enables OS/2 for Windows to use Win 3.11 and WFW 3.11
01/02/95 WIN Setup is an alternate install program for Microsoft
Windows 3.1. This setup program, however, will run in a
VDM, which allows end users to install Windows on HPFS
drives (for use with OS/2 for Windows versions of OS/2).
Will work with CD, now.
** Type Word Processing
05/31/92 Andy's Editor. DOS & OS/2 version. Docs are in Norton
Guides format & AE.TXT.
08/15/94 Tech-Edit (Technical Editor) is a FAST full featured
programmers' editor. Tech-Edit was written to be the
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fastest multi-window text editor available for OS/2 2.0.
Configurable keyboard, Undo and everthing else! Source
code available.
12/16/93 Not supported. Port of UNIX multi-document scanner
utility. Includes C source code.
05/03/94 Installation of OS/2 WPS Integration Tools from
OS2TLS.ZIP.
07/11/94 Medium scale WYSIWYG word processor for OS/2 PM. Supports
all ATM fonts, any printer with a PM driver, color,
bitmap functions. For correspondence and memorandums (1-4
pages). In English, French and Spanish.
08/15/94 Adds a TeX pull down menu to the EPM menu bar. Menu items
in the TeX pull down menu allow the user to TeX (with any
format, e.g. LATeX), jump to errors in the TeX source,
preview and print (portrait and landscape) the TeX file
currently active in EPM
** Type WPS Utility
03/01/92 Puts the date/time in a little box on the WPS.
05/17/89 Displays graph of CPU usage.
03/04/90 FREEMEM - Displays free memory on WPS TIME. Displays
digital time on WPS.
07/18/92 Helps you configure OS/2 Presentation Manager's system
colors. Sample color templates are included. The
templates can be modified, created, or saved to OS/2's
INI file. Colors can be set from ommand line.
05/24/93 QwikSwitch is an alternative method for switching to
running programs. QwikSwitch allows switching to any
running program under OS/2, PM or full screen. Now
supports DOS sessions.
09/11/92 Visual REXX for OS/2 Presentation Manager. VREXX is a
library of OS/2 2.0 REXX functions that will give your
REXX programs a PM interface. You DO NOT need to know
anything about PM programming.
07/24/94 CPU Monitor Plus is an OS/2 utility that brings the
performance and analysis power of the mainframe computer
to the personal computer workstation user. Using both
predefined and customized views, a variety of performance
data is displayed. DEMO
11/09/92 REXX CMD to build a WELCOME folder with utilities
included with OS/2.
08/11/92 Displays digital clock on lower right of WPS. Double
click display for options.
05/31/92 Kills running processes on WPS. Slightly improved
versions are available from the author.
04/30/92 A scientific calculator with equation based editing. More
recent demo and commercial versions (1/1/93) are
available from the author.
10/15/89 Checks speed of Graphics in OS/2. Very thorough testing.
12/21/92 OS/2 CMD that will aid in recovering lost ICONS.
10/28/92 No longer supported. VMB_ENV issues a DOS_START_SESSION
call to start a DOS session and to pass an ENVIRONMENT
constructed from a user-specified ASCII text file
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containing a list of variables to SET.
07/02/92 This small program will install an icon on your desktop
that, when started, will shut down your system. Also has
a bitmap changer which automatically changes your
background each time you start OS/2.
09/30/92 REXX command script that will build a "BOOKSHELF" folder
with all of your 'manuals'.
01/18/93 You can send any object you don't like to the other side
of the desktop's universe. Just drop it on the Black Hole
and it will disappear forever and never come back again.
Requires SOMFIX or $P or OS/2 2.1 to work properly!
Deletes undeleteable obj.
05/24/94 Lets you inspect or modify associations set for file and
type filters. You can add new associations, remove old
ones and change default associations. Also, you can add
new file types.
01/28/93 Load in your CONFIG.SYS and you will be able to divert
bootup to CMD.EXE instead of WPS. Great for disk
maintenance.
10/27/92 BuildSOM is a REXX program that will create OS/2 WPS
objects. Currently, the program supports only program and
folder objects.
10/21/91 Displays CPU usage as a Tachometer.
02/06/91 OS/2 screen saver. No password required. Can do animation
of screen blanking.
12/30/94 HSWITCH is a program that allows you to switch sessions
on OS/2 2.0 from within full screen sessions. The .exe
file actually contains TWO programs: an OS/2 program AND
a TSR program for DOS.
01/25/94 PMxEyes, a PM Program displaying eyes following your
mousepointer everywhere, was inspired by XEYES on Unix
Systems, (to prove that OS/2 is of equal ability!) and
also by the eyes of a beautiful young lady named Birgit.
02/03/93 Draws cute mazes on screen until unlocked with password.
12/26/94 INIMAINT gives you the ability to make virtually any
change you want to any of the INI files in your OS/2
environment. SYSMaint will allow you to fix problems
with the extended attributes. Use with care!
07/18/94 Monitors time since last boot, system memory free,
swap-file size, available swapping space, spool-file size
and each fixed disk drive's free space. Source included.
Versions are available in English, German, Spanish,
French and Catalan.
04/02/93 Reinhold Weicker's DHRYSTONE 2.1 benchmark, slightly
modified for instrumentation purposes only. This is an
integer CPU benchmark.
02/07/93 This utility lets you watch the status of a menu item in
a pulldown menu.
09/15/92 Utility program which displays amount of available
memory, the size of the swap file and the amount of free
space on the swap drive under OS/2 2.x. A 2.07 version is
available from the author.
08/24/93 Displays either as many onscreen colors as you have or
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256, whichever is LESS.
02/01/93 Creates a private folder with password protection.
02/17/93 Displays time & date on 25th line. Can stay in forground
at all times.
12/19/94 WPS tools that will COPY or CHECK the INI files and
backup/restore the WPS.
04/05/94 Contains a DeskTop Clock, personal Information Manager,
TODO reminder, and event scheduler.
03/24/93 Determines the type of executable (OS/2, MSDOS, etc).
07/27/92 Attaches Icons to files from the command line.
01/29/94 Desktop expander. Makes nine "virtual desktops" available
to the user, instead of the standard one. Reduces window
clutter and allows you to organize groups of windows more
effectively.
05/02/93 Creates floating Windows. Under virtual desktop programs
like CVS (by Carrick von Schoultz), floating windows keep
their positions on screen.
04/04/94 Group Folder allows you to create visible subsections
within a given folder. Thus, you have more control over
the organization of the contents of folders.
04/20/93 Mole is a utility that will enable you to close badly
behaved applications even when the task list fails to.
09/14/92 Open Shutter will capture screens or portions of screens
in OS/2 2.0 and save them as a file, save them to the
clipboard, or send them to a printer. Once you capture an
area, you can save it in a ariety of formats.
01/06/94 Did you delete Command Prompts? Shredded your Shredder?
This program restores the standard WPS desktop objects on
2.x. It will preserve any current settings/objects you
may have created, and this is its advantage over the
Alt-F1 method.
07/07/93 Displays elapsed time since OS/2 2.0 was booted in a
titlebar. The maximum length of time that can be recorded
is 49 days, 17 hours, and 2 minutes.
04/10/93 Detects a hung desktop and calls DosShutdown. This will
allow CTRL-ALT-DEL to be used to reboot. It can avoid the
drastic power off and endless CHKDSK of HPFS on power up.
11/07/94 Easy-to-use and reliable screen saver for OS/2 PM and
Full Screen sessions. Has hot corners, a variety of
different blanking actions and is configurable. Provides
password protection and supports Deskpic modules. New
Test button for externals.
10/24/94 Analog or digital clock for the OS/2 desktop. Also
monitors the system load, either as a percentage of CPU
usage, or as a count of active tasks. The clock's border
changes color from green to yellow to red as the system
load increases.
09/21/93 The CPU & Drives program is used to show the amount of
processor time and disk space being used. It does this
graphically and is a great utility to just keep running
in the background as a system monitor.
10/27/94 MIG2 is a 32 bit PM based migration aid and program
launch utility. It requires OS/2 2.x. This utility was
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made to help migrate simple programs to the desktop.
09/09/93 Open objects from the commandline.
10/25/93 OpenFolder is a little REXX script that works in
conjunction with J.P. Software Inc.'s command shell
replacement for CMD.EXE, 4OS2(TM).
04/24/93 This program issues a broadcast message to the Desktop
frame windowsas WM_SYSCOMMAND, uscmd SC_CLOSE, to
BMSG_FRAMEONLY. Each frame window issues itself and its
client WM_CLOSE.
09/17/93 This is a utility to start a program at a defined
priority. It is also able to start a VDM (DOS-session)
at a defined priority. Includes source code.
03/16/94 Two user defined "button bars"
program launching
file listing, finding and maintenance
disk monitor
file monitor and clock. Print file lists and edit/view
extended attributes.
10/04/93 WILLUTIL grew out of extensions to NumLock for OS/2.
NumLock was a pair of programs (one for DOS and one for
OS/2 2.x) to overcome the annoying habit that OS/2 has of
turning the NUMLOCK key off. A 2/13/94 version exists.
11/20/93 In fact, as the title says, this program installs a new
WPFolder class in the WPS. This new class is called
WPNEWF. It has the following proprerty
If you press "F2" when opening a folder, the parent
folder is closed.
11/13/93 This program was written to provide an small, attractive,
and easy-to-use alarm clock for all of those reoccuring
appointments none of us can afford to miss! This alarm
clock has been kept purposefully small and simple.
03/27/94 The TWCP application is a simple Presentation Manager
application which let you Mark, Copy and Paste text and
graphics from a DOS or OS/2 Window using the mouse, like
in X Windows, without passing through the system menu.
12/06/93 Character Set is a font mapping application written for
OS/2 Presentation Manager. Use it to find graphic
characters in a font that are not normally accessible
through regular keystrokes.
07/01/94 CMDFolder adds an OS/2 window item to each folders pop up
menu which lets you start an OS/2 window with the folder
a current directory.
02/15/94 Disk Watch is a utility for OS/2 2.x which monitors the
amount of remaining free disk space on the hard disk
system. If the amount of available space is reduced below
a certain minimum.
11/03/93 Build the WPS entries for the following products: IBM
CSet/2 Compiler, ON-Line Text, C Samples : Not Yet,
Updates the CONFIG.SYS
06/07/94 Highly configurable digital display. Can be set to stay
on top of all other windows. User can adjust various
performance parameters to minimize Clock's impact on
resources. Easy-to-use pop-up menu interface.
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12/27/93 An OS/2 2.1 PM application for quickly saving information
under various categories. When reading documents, E-Mail,
etc. any information which you place into the OS/2
clipboard can be placed into another file.
05/23/94 This program is an RPN calculator with a layout similar
to that of the HP 41c. HPcalc is meant to be a simple
calculator and does not have programmability unlike the
real HP 41c calculator.
12/31/93 ICF collects inventory information from PC's and writes
the data to industry standard file formats so that it can
be read and processed by any popular database or
spreadsheet package.
05/04/93 KLCPU is a program to test the true CPU speed of your
computer. KLCPU can run in several OS/2 sessions
concurrently.This allows you to chose the right priority
settings in OS/2.
08/08/94 This program combines the eye-pleasing graphics of a
spinning planetary mass with the usefulness of a clock,
day of the week/date information, and system information.
A 1.1 version exists.
06/24/94 Easy to use 32 bit screen saver for OS/2 2.x. Features
very low CPU and memory usage, password protection,
Deskpic support, intuitive user interface, and sample C
source code for do-it-yourself modules.
01/18/94 Talking Clock is a PM based application for OS/2 2.1 GA.
It requires MMPM/2.
01/05/94 PMVDesk is a Virtual Desktop utility for the OS/2 2.x
Workplace Shell.
01/05/94 Tame will help you get maximum performance from your
multitasking environment by speeding up the processing of
your applications. Improves DOS program performance
under OS/2.
03/02/94 ConfigWiz version 1.3
Notebook style editor/optimizer for OS/2 startup files.
12/09/93 Lets you edit the environment strings associated with an
OS/2 process. The environment consists of a set of
variable names for each variable having a simple text
string value.
03/01/94 Will view any ATM font properly set up for OS/2. Use the
drive's object to drop the font on the icon or program.
03/02/94 Infconvert PM converts OS/2 INF and HLP files to plain
text files. INF and HLP files can be searched for text
and opened to view.
09/13/94 PM Patrol is a robust and easy to use resource monitoring
facility for OS/2 2.1+. Numerous monitors, utilities and
tools. Online docs.
05/04/94 YASS! is an OS/2 2.1 Presentation Manger Screen Saver
utility. All screen saver modules bundled with YASS!
were conceived and developed by the author.
06/15/94 AddWPS will instantly add folders and programs to your
OS/2 WPS for you to use under OS/2.
04/07/94 Pops up a quote for the day each time the program is
accessed. PM application.
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07/28/93 Uses the VIEW.EXE program which comes with the OS/2
system and merely gives a list box for all the .INF files
that are in the directory and merely gives a list box for
all the .INF files that are in the directory \OS2\BOOK.
02/11/94 Simple utility that allow you to detect whether an
application is running (that exist in the PID list) or
dead, if the application is not found, DE will start it
over again.
06/29/93 Registers the ExtendedDesktop Class, then uses a public
API in OS/2 to "replace" the WPDesktop class with the
ExtendedDesktop class. Any objects of the WPDesktop class
will exhibit the behavior of the ExtendedDesktop class.
07/29/94 This OS/2 2.x utility allows the user to select multiple
noncontiguous lines from a file and paste them to the
clipboard.
08/12/94 VLAUNCH will scan your hard disk for all of the *.INF
files in the specified search path. It allows you to
select and view the *.INF file from a list box. This
program is designed to be a better (i.e. working)
replacement for IBM's VIEWALL.
06/26/94 OS/2 PM notepad utility. Has search ability on the text
within the notes.
08/07/94 OS/2 PM memo manager. Supports mutiple files and setting
the Alrams Applet for the memo.
09/20/94 OS/2 CPU Usage Display. WPS program. Displays amount of
CPU being used on a SMALL Bar Graph located at
bottom/left corner of DestTop screen.
05/03/94 A Pm digital clock with perpetual calendar.
04/04/94 Fixkey is designed to fix OS/2's very annoying problem of
not recognizing certain keys on some 101 keyboards. Easy
to install for all apps.
11/23/94 This is an example program that shows how to load a
bitmap to the desktop background. The bitmap will be
displayed tiled. Includes C source code.
12/10/94 Makes any application visible or in visible in the
Windowlist. Furthermore you can also determine whether
an application can be reached by pressing [ALT]+[ESC].
This is especially useful when you run a lot of
background tasks.
11/26/94 This screen saver is intended to provide OS/2 users with
an inexpensive, robust program that can protect expensive
monitors from phospher burn-in, while simultaneously
providing a simple and secure method to lock your system.
12/16/94 Finds duplicate files on your system using checksum and
byte checks.
01/10/95 Playback macros created with HOOK from an OS/2 command
line.
01/12/95 The taskbar program allows rapid switching among multiple
running programs by providing a popup button bar
containing a list of all running programs in the system.
The taskbar is activated by moving the mouse cursor to
the bottom of the screen.
12/14/94 Multi-city time display clock for OSW/2. Will display 6
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clocks with user definable cities for each clock.