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CrossTec announces the release of NetOp for OS/2 v6.5
New version offers continued remote support and platform migration
options for mission critical OS/2 applications
Besides an updated user Interface, designed to look more like the NetOp for Windows Host screen, NetOp for OS/2 includes a new File Manager. According to Soren Andersen, VP of Sales and Marketing with Danware, "The NetOp Remote Control File Manager has won numerous awards for speed and features. We took most of that functionality and added it into the new OS/2 version so our corporate customers could easily synchronize files with remote servers and locations." The new OS/2 File Manager includes a dual window layout for easy 'Drag and Drop' file selection and transfer, along with a progress meter, delta file transfer, history list and crash recovery.
NetOp for OS/2 also includes TCP support for connecting to remote PCs over the TCP/IP device protocol. By using this dynamic TCP NetOp protocol instead of NetOp's default UDP setting, users are able to connect directly to a NetOp Host, which adds speed and may enable users to more easily connect through firewalls. Also added to NetOp for OS/2 is the ability for remote users to send a request help message via network or modem dial-up. NetOp customers rely on the SOS feature so users can easily send a NetOp Instant Message to support providers. Once a technician receives a message, they can easily take control of the troubled user with a click of their mouse, saving the organization valuable time.
Besides enhancements to the NetOp for OS/2 Guest and Host modules, the NetOp for OS/2 Gateway Server and Access Security Server products have been updated as well. The OS/2 Gateway now permits out-going NetOp calls from NetOp Windows users. The NetOp Gateway acts as a secure inbound and outbound software router and firewall for NetOp traffic. The OS/2 Gateway now also enables a request help message from remote NetOp Host to call a NetOp Help Provider on an internal Network. The NetOp Access Security Server, which provides centralized security and management of NetOp Remote Control users, now makes it possible to define a default OS/2 Host group. NetOp can also establish a session with a Windows Host using Windows Security Management authentication.
Developed by Danware Data A/S as a network support tool in 1987, NetOp continues to win awards for its speed, security and stability. NetOp for OS/2 is available in combined guest/host packages starting at $295. Reseller and enterprise site-license pricing is also available. NetOp products, along with personalized pre and post sale support are available in North America from CrossTec or authorized NetOp resellers. For a free fully functional evaluation copy and additional information visit the CrossTec web site at http://www.CrossTecCorp.com/ or call 800-675-0729.
For more information on NetOp for OS/2 visit: http://www.crossteccorp.com/netopremote/os2.htm
To download a fully-functional 2.3MB eval visit: https://www.crossteccorp.com/tryit/
Larsen Commander has a look and feel like the classic Norton Commander, but in a GUI environment. It combines the best of two very different worlds; - the command line and the file management panels. Both are available at the same time, and even in parallel while one or more commands are running in the background!
Larsen Commander is extremely useful espessially for advanced users such as programmers and system administrators that knows the power and the value of having the command line possibilities and the file operation panels available at the same time and in the same shell window. In fact, you can use Larsen Commander almost exactly the same way as you are using the standard system shell, but with a large number of additional and powerful features, such as the console monitor being scrollable and not limited to those "stupid" 25 lines or so of the default OS/2 shell.
But Larsen Commander is not only for the advanced users. Even the novice will find this piece of software very nice at hand. It makes the standard file operations a play, such as copying, moving and renaming files and directories. And of course the command line can be 100% disabled and hidden, for those who never uses it anyway.
Larsen Commander is available at
http://home.online.no/~leifel/lcmd/index.html
For a screenshot of a typical Larsen Commander in action, take a look at:
http://home.online.no/~leifel/lcmd/lcmd_screen.html
Please also be aware of the open Larsen Commander discussion forum at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lcmd
This new release has a lot of fixes and improvements. For a complete list, take a look at:
Data Shield is a secure deletion program that removes sensitive information from a hard drive. Normally, deleting a file only marks the file as deleted on your drive but the data remains and may still be recovered. Data Shield will obliterate it so that data may not be recovered by overwriting it x number of times or according to Department of Defense specification.
It has options to do a standard or secure delete on:
Data Shield will automatically find standard installations of Netscape 2.02, 4.04, 4.61 or 6.0 and offer to clean any part of it according to the versions need.
In this version we have included the routines to securely overwrite and clean entries for the new IBM Browser as well as a few changes in file deletion routines to increase effectiveness.
If you have sensitive data on a drive (financial records or client lists for example) never give away or sell the drive without cleaning it thoroughly.
The Enhanced E has a few new features and fixes also. New items in v2.4:
The PillarSoft Suite has been updated to contain both of these programs plus 11 more OS/2 and eCS specific programs for only $129.
NOTE: The $99 PillarSoft Suite special remains in effect for a few more days. You can take advantage of this great price on a full suite of OS/2 and eCS software until June 4th.
Downloads and more information:
Data Shield:
http://www.pillarsoft.net/dshield.html
Enhanced E:
http://www.pillarsoft.net/enhanced.html
PillarSoft Suite: http://www.pillarsoft.net/suite.html
Guiffy 2.0 enhancements include:
License: Fully functional 30-day evaluation. Single User registration is $49.
By accepting bids so early (14 months in advance), the Warpstock Committee is hoping to announce the location and date of Warpstock 2002 during the Warpstock 2001 conference. It is expected that such early announcements will become the norm for all future Warpstock conferences and will have a number of benefits.
The location of each Warpstock conference is chosen by the Warpstock Committee. The selection is made from bids that are submitted by interested parties who want to host the next conference.
Groups wishing to host Warpstock 2002 should indiciate their intent to bid by sending an e-mail to bids@warpstock.org by June 1, 2001. The e-mail should include the location (i.e. which city), the names of the individuals involved (they would then become the Event Team), and any other information available at that time (e.g. possible locations for the conference).
After submitting the bid intent, the group should work on submitting a completed bid form by August 15, 2001. The bid form, and all other relevant information, can be found at http://www.warpstock.org/2002/bid_form.html, in RTF, PDF, and WordPro formats. Any questions should also be directed to bids@warpstock.org.
We have also updated the code templates on our web site for use with the editor. In tagging languages like HTML you can now highlight text and doubleclick a tag in the template tool to tag it. Making a quick fix or even writing new web pages has never been easier and now you can save them directly to your website.
New features in v2.3 are:
Take a peek at our web site for more information on the Enhanced E's. The PillarSoft Suite has also been updated and can be downloaded from our website.
The Enhanced E is $25 and is available through BMT Micro, Mensys and others. The PillarSoft Suite contains this program plus 12 more OS/2 specific programs for only $99.
Downloads and more information:
PillarSoft:
http://www.pillarsoft.net/
Enhanced E:
http://www.pillarsoft.net/enhanced.html
PillarSoft Suite:
http://www.pillarsoft.net/suite.html
WarPaint is a basic paint program and bitmap viewer for the OS/2 family of operating systems including Warp v3, v4, Warp Server v4.5 and eComStation. It allows the user to work with existing bitmaps or to create bitmaps from scratch.
WarPaint had been knocking around PillarSoft for a few years but had been held from release by a couple of issues that may or may not have affected most users. If this program is a major part of the reason you would be interested in purchasing the PillarSoft Suite, please be sure it works satisfactorily in your case before making any commitment. Most of the old bugaboos are gone so the only major issue has to do with editing a zoomed in bitmap on some video cards.
Bitmap formats supported by WarPaint are:
BMP - VGA - BGA - RLE - DIB - RL4 - RL8 (OS/2 1.1, 1.2, 2.0 / Windows 3.0
bitmap)
GIF (CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format)
PCX (ZSoft PC Paintbrush Image format)
XBM (X Windows bitmap)
TIF (Microsoft/Aldus Tagged Image File Format)
VID (YUV12C M-Motion Frame Buffer)
KPS (IBM KIPS)
IAX (IBM Image Access eXecutive)
TGA - VST - AFI (Truevision Targa/Vista bitmap)
IFF - LBM (Amiga IFF / ILBM Interleaved bitmap format)
SPR - SPRITE (Archimedes Sprite format from RiscOS)
PSE - PSEG - PSEG38PP - PSEG3820 (IBM Printer Page Segment)
The JPG format is not supported internally but because it is such an important format we have made provisions for WarPaint to use a conversion utility to convert JPG's into a temporary BMP file for viewing and editing. The file may be saved as a JPG after editing but the quality is dependant on the jpeg utilities.
WarPaint is not for sale separately but is part of the PillarSoft Suite which is available at most fine OS/2 sales outlets for $129. There is also a link from our website to purchase the suite for $99 at: http://www.pillarsoft.net/suite.html#order
For non-registered users the program is fully functional for evaluation until it hits its drop dead date.
More information and downloads are available at:
WarPaint: http://www.pillarsoft.net/warpaint.html
PillarSoft Suite: http://www.pillarsoft.net/suite.html
This version adds the ability to view and extract individual files in WarpIn (Wpi) archives just like WarpZip allows you to do with any other archiving format. Great for digging out a file or two when you don't need everything from an archive or just to read the documentation or view the bitmaps in an archive without having to unarchive the whole thing.
There is much more to the program than is being discussed here so stop at: http://www.pillarsoft.net/warpzip.html for more information.
We have also updated the PillarSoft Suite with the latest versions of all our programs. More information and downloads of the PillarSoft Suite are available at: http://www.pillarsoft.net/suite.html
WarpZip is $29 and is available through BMT Micro, Mensys and others. The PillarSoft Suite contains this program plus 12 more OS/2 utilities for only $99.
The SFX Installer marries the installation tool for your software and it's own setup tools into one friendly package for point and click installation setups that are personalized for your software. SFX allows you to build an archive in standard or self-extracting format, with or without the installer.
Although the installer is distributed as shareware through BMT Micro, we invite freeware authors to use the installer free of charge as a small token of appreciation for their selfless work. Please read the license for more details.
KidStreet is an educational program for youngsters. Your kids may even have fun while honing their typing, spelling and math skills. KidStreet is in more of a test market phase at this time and is not for sale. Registered users of the PillarSoft Suite may consider it to be another component of the suite and use it indefinately.
More information and downloads are available at:
SFX Installer: http://www.pillarsoft.net/sfx.html
KidStreet: http://www.pillarsoft.net/kidstreet.html
Enhanced E: http://www.pillarsoft.net/enhanced.html
PillarSoft Suite: http://www.pillarsoft.net/suite.html
It takes a close look at how the system capabilities and design philosophies of OS/2 and BeOS can help netizens to send, receive and manage e-mail with built-in options not even available yet in other environments. As you yourself may know, both BeOS and OS/2 have been recognized as two of the most powerful and versatile operating systems. They both are object-oriented and highly compliant with open standards.
Regardless of which operating system(s) you are using now, bookmark IACT's 24x7 Reports page at http://www.iact.net/features/24x7.html and check out the intriguing possibilities of RexxMail, BeOS and OS/2.
New features in v2.2 are:
The Enhanced E is $25 and is available through BMT Micro, Mensys and others. The PillarSoft Suite contains this program plus 12 more OS/2 specific programs for only $99.
Downloads and more information:
PillarSoft:
http://www.pillarsoft.net/
Enhanced E:
http://www.pillarsoft.net/enhanced.html
PillarSoft Suite:
http://www.pillarsoft.net/suite.html
As part of the agreement, Solution Technology and Serenity Systems will evaluate additional device driver development for both TWAIN and USB.
"Applause is an excellent entry level image utility (please see http://www.stiscan.com/imaging/applause.html) which includes STi's Consumer Driver Pack with support for "family" drivers for SCSI scanners from HP, Fujitsu, and EPSON scanners," said Bob St. John, Director of Serenity Systems. "From a value perspective ... if the eCS user is interested in supporting a scanner this is an excellent value. The Applause Image Utility has a suggested retail price of approximately $85."
The various TWAIN for OS/2 (SM) driver packs being refreshed and updated to the TWAIN 1.8 specification. The current version is compliant to the TWAIN 1.6 specifcation. STi has also stabilized the product and updated the various TWAIN Data Sources (scanner drivers) with some newer scanner models:
The Applause Image Utility (TM) has been refreshed and updated to the TWAIN 1.8 compliance. For more and updated information on currently supported devices please visit http://www.stiscan.com/drivers/drivers.html on our web site.
STi is pleased to add these features to eComStation (TM) because we believe that more and more users desire the ability to do image and document management on their PCs, getting images ready for use on web sites and html documents. It is the perfect complement to PMView, which has significant features for editing these images.
"Adding our scanner drivers and a simple imaging utility to eComStation certainly rounds out the extensive support currently provided by eCS. It's great news for eCS users. Now scanning and imaging will be sold as part of operating environment," said Leon Zetekoff, Product Manager of Solution Technology. "We will release the next production versions of Applause, the TWAIN for OS/2 driver packs, and ReView 2000 (TM) as close to the eCS GA as possible which will make all of our existing and new users very happy."
Here are the details of STi's Software:
STi is delighted to announce availability of new products as well as software enhancements and upgrades. These announcements cover:
The flagship document management system, Review 2000, has substantially extended flexability, uses the best database available - DB2, and centralizes management in complex multi-user environments. Review 2000 can migrate Review 1.x and 2.X databases into Review 2000 without requiring Btreive indexes, making conversion simple.
TWAIN for OS/2 Scanner Drivers - Available April 2001
TWAIN Scanner Drivers - Work In Progress
BarCode Anywhere - Available Q2
Review 2000 Document Manager
Release Candidate in April, Public GA release in May, 2001
Joint Development Efforts Planned
Solution Technology and Serenity Systems want to develop specialized implementations of Managed Clients using eCS, STi, and IBM technologies. These specialized, or vertical applications, will feature document and image management combined with improved reliability, manageability and lower support costs afforded to users of server managed client workstations.
While lowering the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for user organizations the new products actually improve the ability to execute tasks associated with document and imaging management. These products will be marketed to consultants and fee service providers who can resell the products to users, or provide these line of business applications as part of the Serenity Systems channel partner program.
Serenity Systems is working with Jacaranda Business Systems, Toronto, Canada (http://www.jbs.ca/), to recruit qualified consultants and technical professionals to market these vertical applications as products or as fee service contracts. Programs will be focused on the needs of large and small users alike, with a range of image and document management requirements.
An important feature of the relationship between the two companies will be the intent to create imaging and document management networks utilizing imaging technology from Solution Technology and workstation management features from eComStation. The resulting document management networks will feature powerful document and image management running in an extremely cost effective computing environment.
An example of these products can be seen as part of a contract recently awarded to STi by a small county government which will use STi's ReView 2000 Document Manager supporting a 10 seat eComStation environment with IBM's Warp Server for eBusiness network and IBM's DB2 for a "Document Records Imaging System." As part of this contract, STi will enhance Review 2000 to add fee processing and accounting as well as aiding in the reconciliation process. ReView 2000 will have certain additional enhancements performed to add the capability to charge for page printing from publicly accessible document search and viewing stations.
STi
STi is a leading supplier of components for image analysis, data-entry, document management applications, and device driver development. Other barcode, forms reading, image data-entry, and departmental document management products for OS/2 and NT are available for use in the governmental, transportation, banking, distribution, and insurance industries among others.
For more information, contact Leon D. Zetekoff, NCE, Product Manager, 1101 South Rogers Circle, Suite 14, Boca Raton, FL 33487 or visit our Web site at http://www.stiscan.com/.
Serenity Systems International
Serenity Systems International is a software OEM and ISV specializing in Managed Client Computing and Computer Telephony Integration. Serenity Systems is currently launching eComStation, an Internet/intranet enabled business desktop environment based on IBM Intel platform software and technologies. eComStation features Wisemachine (TM), the industry's first implementation of Mobile Managed Client Technology. eComStation and other Serenity Systems products are available through a world-wide channel of distributors and resellers.
For more information, contact Bob St. John, Director, 765 Juniper Lane, Lewisville, TX, 75077 or visit our Web site at http://www.serenity-systems.com/.