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Xref: sparky comp.os.os2.misc:28815 comp.os.os2.apps:5751 Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!gatech!taco!garfield.catt.ncsu.edu!harris From: harris@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Michael Harris) Subject: Re: ?'s about IBM's OS/2 software Message-ID: <harris.715310468@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: North Carolina State University References: <1992Aug29.161935.15684@sdf.lonestar.org> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:21:08 GMT Lines: 316 >I remember hearing a few months back that IBM was going to make public >all the internal IBM-use only OS/2 programs that employees and such >have written over the years. >I think people said their were over 200 programs. >What ever happened to this? Did IBM say no go? Are they out and I'm just >blind? Take a look at software.watson.ibm.com. In the /pub/os2 directory you will find a file called ewscat.text. (The contents is appended to this posting.) The packages listed in this file are exactly what you are looking for. As time goes on, more packages will be added to this list. At this time, the files are mixed in with the OS/2 patches. I have spoken with the ftp site owner and he says that he plans to separate the two when time permits. Contents of ewscat.txt (Note: The SW catalog is at the bottom.) ---- CUT HERE -------------------------------------------------------------- IBM OS/2 Employee Written Software Catalog These programs are available on all sponsored IBM BBS's and CompuServe. The file names are the filename.ZIP listed in this catalog. ********************************************************************* * * * NOTICE * * * * You accept these programs with the understanding that * * the IBM Corporation makes no representations or warranties * * as to the suitability of these programs for your particular * * purpose, and that to the extent you use or implement this * * program in your own setting, you do so at your own risk. In * * no event will the IBM Corporation be liable for any damages, * * whether consequential, incidental, or special, arising out of * * the use of or inability to use the programs provided. * * Please read the LICENSE which follows to determine if you want * * to use these programs. * * * * Copyright the IBM Corporation, 1992, All rights reserved. * * * * DO NOT POST MODIFIED VERSIONS OF THESE PROGRAMS FOR PUBLIC ACCESS * ********************************************************************* IBM License Agreement for OS/2 Tools ----------------------------------------------------------------- IF YOU DOWNLOAD OR USE THIS PROGRAM YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS. International Business Machines Corporation grants you a license to use the Program only in the country where you acquired it. The Program is copyrighted and licensed (not sold). We do not transfer title to the Program to you. You obtain no rights other than those granted you under this license. 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Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you. You may terminate this license at any time. We may terminate this license if you fail to comply with any of its terms. In either event, you must destroy all your copies of the Program. You are responsible for the payment of any taxes resulting from this license. You may not sell, transfer, assign, or subcontract any of your rights or obligations under this license. Any attempt to do so is void. Neither of us may bring a legal action more than two years after the cause of action arose. If you acquired the Program in the United States, this license is governed by the laws of the State of New York. If you acquired the Program in Canada, this license is governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario. Otherwise, this license is governed by the laws of the country in which you acquired the Program. 3/92 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- C A T A L O G Program Vers Rel Date Description ------- ---- -------- ----------- EWSCAT 1.06 92/08/27 IBM OS2EWS Catalog DIRSTA 1.01 92/08/27 Program to Display LAN info for attached LAN DINFO 1.30 92/08/21 Program to display Swapper Size and Free space BOOT20 1.00 92/08/21 Program to create various OS/2 2.0 Boot Diskettes PMTREE 1.0 92/08/18 Graphical display of/interaction with PM windows TINYED 1.0 92/08/11 Tiny OS/2 and DOS editor CDEXPL 1.3 92/08/07 A Compact Disc Digital Audio Explorer APING 2.31 92/08/05 APPC Echo Test written in CPI-C AREXEC 2.31 92/08/05 APPC Remote Command Execution (written in CPI-C) ATELL 2.31 92/08/05 APPC Tell Program - send a message (written in CPI-C) ALPHAL 1.0 92/08/04 Code Browser and Analysis Tool IPFCPP 1.0 92/07/18 IBM Employee Written S/W, IPFC Pre-Processor PMFTRM 1.0 92/07/18 IBM Employee Written S/W, ASYNC Terminal Emulator --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DIRSTA.ZIP Date Issued - August 27, 1992 Author: Chris Ahl IBM Raleigh, NC. DIRSTAT is a simple PM program that can be used to obtain information from a LAN adapter in your PS/2. The primary purpose of this program is to provide an easy way of finding out the universal address (UAA) of the adapter and the local address (LAA) of the adapter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DINFO.ZIP Date Issued - August 21, 1992 Author: N. Malte Christensen, IBM DENMARK A small program that sits on your desktop on monitors your SWAP file and free space on the SWAP drive. Alarms can be set to alert you to SWAPPER.DAT growth and you can also set an alarm to specific FREE SPACE values. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOOT20.ZIP Date Issued - August 21, 1992 Author: Kenneth Kahn IBM Poughkeepsie, NY The SE20BOOT 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, but not limited to, Floppies and Hard Disk Drives. There are three types of BOOT systems you can install: Minimum. PM, and WPS. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PMTREE.ZIP Date Issued - August 18, 1992 Author: Donald Hobern IBM Boca Raton, FL PMTREE is an application for examination of and interaction with the windows of an OS/2 system. It presents a graphical display of all a window hierarchy, allowing navigation according to the relationships between the windows. Many characteristics of the windows may be displayed or queried. In many cases the windows may also be modified. The application also allows the user to post or send PM messages to any window in the system. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TINYED.ZIP Date Issued - August 11, 1992 Author: Tim Baldwin IBM United Kingdom Laboratories Ltd. There are times even in today's world of multi-megabyte personal computers when a quick, simple and small text editor is of benefit. With a .EXE file of less than 9K bytes T is designed to fit that role. For the DOS user trying to cram more and more into 640K the advantages of small size are obvious, for the OS/2 user the speed and ability to run when even Presentation Manager is unavailable may prove just as useful. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CDEXPL.ZIP Date Issued - August 7, 1992 Author: Dave Thomas IBM Research Triangle Park, NC. Features: Play including options for disc repeat, track repeat Disc status/Counter, Eject, Pause/Stop, Skip to next/previous track. Output to CD-attached headphones or audio card-attached speakers. Table of contents - allows random track selection, plus a nifty way to indicate current track via auto-selection in list. Mini window option requires less screen space to interact with CD. Shares CD with other well-behaved CD applications. Requires -- - MMPM/2 (multimedia extendsions to OS/2 2.0) installed with CD support - An MMPM/2 supported CD player that allows digital audio disc playback - IBM 3510 - IBM CD ROM II (XA) - Toshiba functional equivalents to the above - Output to speakers requires an audio card like IBM M-Audio ACPA - Headphone support via the CD headphone jack is the default --------------------------------------------------------------------------- APING.ZIP Date Issued - August 5, 1992 Author: Peter J. Schwaller IBM Research Triangle Park, NC. APING is a CPI-C program that should be the first program you configure and run when first configuring APPC on your computer. APING exchanges data packets with a partner computer, and times how long the data transfer takes. It can be used to get a coarse measure of the session setup time between two computers, and the throughput and turnaround time on that APPC session. APING can be used to determine whether a session can be set up between two computers, and will display extensive error information if session allocation fails. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ATELL.ZIP Date Issued - August 5, 1992 Author: Peter J. Schwaller IBM Research Triangle Park, NC. ATELL is a sample program that allows a workstation user to send a message to another workstation. ATELL is written in the C language and uses the IBM SAA Common Programming Interface for Communications (CPI-C). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- AREXEC.ZIP Date Issued - August 5, 1992 Author: Peter J. Schwaller IBM Research Triangle Park, NC. APPC Remote EXECution. AREXEC allows you to execute any single command line on a remote workstation. All output of the command that goes to stdout or stderr will be routed to your screen. Full screen programs or programs that require user input will not work properly with AREXEC. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALPHAL.ZIP Date Issued - August 4, 1992 Author: Lionel de Lambert, IBM United Kingdom Laboratories Ltd. Code Browser and Analysis Tool ALPHA is a code browse and analysis program for 370 & 386 Assembler, PASCAL, C, PL/AS etc. ALPHA provides basic browse functions and will also draw branch flow lines, display the program call structure, highlight keywords and expand the procedure calls in a secondary window. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IPFCPP.ZIP Date Issued - July 16, 1992 Author: Doug Haigh, IBM Raleigh, N. C. IPFC Preprocessor. IPFC Preprocessor is tool to expand the capabilities of the IPF Compiler. It provides additional function for the IPF Compiler that are necessary for both single sourcing online documentation & hardcopy books (using BookMaster), and single sourcing of symbols for the developer and help panel writer. IPFC Preprocessor allows you to define symbols, create conditionally compiled sections of documents, include C language symbols (using #define) in help panels, create simple text macros (tags), and resolves searches for imbedded files and bitmaps to other directories. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PMFTRM.ZIP Date Issued - July 16, 1992 |Author: Steve Blunden, IBM New Haven CN. Async Terminal program for OS/2. PMFTERM provides ANSI, DEC VT100(R), TTY line mode and FTTERMC asynchronous emulation for OS/2 1.2, 1.3 and 2.0+ without CM or ES. File transfer for IND$FILE via 3708/7171 or XMODEM for others. Logon scripting provided including special escape characters, CIS logon, IBM NSC BBS logon script etc. Command line interface to SEND/RECEIVE for all F/T types. Full hypertext help. COPY from and PASTE (!!!) TO emulation sessions (ie. from an editor session). COM1-COM4 support, run as many PMFTERM's concurrently as you have COM ports! Just add COM01/COM02/COM.SYS to CONFIG.SYS and talk to the world...and still use your computer while you do it! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________________ Michael Harris - harris@catt.ncsu.edu or harris@carvm3.vnet.ibm.com System Administrator, Computer & Technologies Theme Program, NC State Univ. (My opinions are my own and do not represent those of NCSU or IBM Corporation)