OS/2 and eCS links and tools

I am a proud user of IBM's OS/2 multitasking operating system - now in the form of    eCS 1.2 with eCS 2.0 coming out very soon now. For pricing and purchase information please click http://ecomstation.biz

  I was at Warpstock 2005 in Hershey Pa. October 6-9. Why weren't you??

Warpstock 2006 was in Windsor, Ontario October 12th-15. I was there - Why weren't you??

Warpstock 2007 will be in Toronto, November 15-18,2007. More info

Here are a few OS/2 links:
OS/2 World
Netlabs.org
OS/2 Voice
os2warp.be compatible hardware list
See a view of my old eCs desktop. (If that didn't work click here).

I am a member of the board of  POSSI, the Phoenix OS/2 Society. You can get membership information at their new expanded web site. You don't need to live in Phoenix to reap the benefits of membership; there are members in almost every state and many other countries.

Get my REXX utility to build a HTML catalog of GIF and JPG images  imaghtml.zip Feb 2002
Now at version 2.X.10. Click here to see the results for the images on this site.

tnailer is a tool to assist in web site generation, where there are a number of images on a page, and it is desired to create thumbnails (small versions) of the images that, when clicked, cause a new window to open with the full sized image. This technique reduces substantially the time to download a page, the viewer only downloads the large version of images of interest.

Now updated to use a parameter file so you don't need to edit the parameter block in the program itself.

Also for web site creators, I've found the gifwizard site useful for shrinking graphics:  Accelerate your website with GIF Wizard!

Get my REXX utilities for comparing Mozilla, Netscape etc. bookmark files:  bmarkcmp.zip

Get my command line utility fixpdf.zip that removes one specific backward-compatibility problem between Acrobat 4 Distiller and Acrobat 3 Reader. The symptom of this problem is the message "Could not find the ColorSpace named 'Cs9'" or Cs6, etc.

For more information on this, please visit THE COLORSPACE ERROR: WHAT IT IS, HOW NOT TO CREATE IT, HOW TO RECOVER FROM IT by Dr. Jeffrey Race.
Updated Aug 4 2003 - incorporated Steven Levine's fixed version (0.5).

MR2/ICE links and tools

MR/2 ICE is an excellent mail and news [newsreader is in an open beta at this time] program. There is both an OS/2 version and MRW, a version that works under windows (95,98,NT,2000,XP,...); the 2 versions can coexist and share files on a machine running multiple operating systems.

Other items for MR/2 ICE users:

Get my utilities to set a default sort order on newsgroups and blastit.cmd to clean up corrupted news data newscmds.zip

Read my article about filters from the November 1997 extended attributes

Get my updated (Jun 2004) filter interchange utility package (includes ICEFI and ICEFX) fltintch.zip - now handles the new (MR2ICE 2.29 and later - INCLUDING the new flag in 2.40) filter format.

Get FilterRef.txt  the best (and only?) filter reference.

Get my Folder INDeX UTiLity findxutl.zip.

Get my vacation autoreply package vacation.zip

Get my autoice package to automatically connect and get mail autoice.zip

Get my possicmd package to modify subject lines possicmd.zip

Get my cpymsg package that can be used to combine a bunch of messages into a single file for printing: cpymsg.zip

Address book utilities adrstuff.zip