Welcome to my OS/2 WWWarp page!

Obsah/Contents:

This page is multilingual (both cestina and English are mixed) and always under construction (software development goes too fast, you know), sorry. Doufam, ze vam to prilis nevadi.
Ma WWW stranka funguje od zari 1995 (=since September 1995) a je obnovovana priblizne jednou za 2 az 28 tydnu.
Last update: 10. 4. 1998
Previous update: December 1997


First of all, some important addresses:

IBM -- Internation Bussiness Machines
The IBM Software Home Page
Team OS/2 -- non-profit organization of OS/2 users

Collection of sites with interesting OS/2 information (note: that's quite obsolete, since now I use Merlin and thus put all my URLs there instead here... maybe times come to check the links below):
OS/2 Warp during Nagano Olympic Games
Why get Warped?
Fifteen reasons to choose OS/2 Warp
Warp 5 unofficial Web page
"OS/2 vs. Windows 95: Showdown at the OS Corral" - from the current Software Quarterly
The "Nuns" commercial (including video and other material)
The OS/2 product family
Other Internet servers with information about OS/2 products
Selected pointers to other OS/2 information on the Web
OS/2 Warp Pharmacy
OS/2 product information
WWW page of *Must Have* utilities
*Must Have* utilities via FTP
Warp, OS/2, *Must Have* Utilities List and Links
"Carsten's OS/2 Springboard" a collection of OS/2 related links
OS/2 info, hotlists
OS/2 Nice Native Games web homepage
The comprehensive list of TCP/IP apps for OS/2
OS/2 vs. Windows'95: A Decision Maker's Guide
Fifteen questions to ask Microsoft
Timothy Sipples' Warped World!
Tricks for OS/2
Internet and OS/2
Huge archive of OS/2 links
IKE features, description, IBM, Lotus
Virtual software archive for OS/2
WebExplorer devoted page
PGP and links
freeware programs list
Russian OS/2 site
Annotated archiv as big as Jumbo
Sound, music etc. links
development support for programmers at IBM Europe
Jacco's page (FreeTCP, SMB etc.)
OS/2 Links web page
HTML editors
OS/2 fixes page
OpenGL for OS/2
Warp Map (great!)
Team OS/2 FAQ in Europe
Warp Online The Independent Guide to OS/2 Warp Computing
ftp.univie.ac.at
Page by Kvilas (highly unofficial FixPack page, links and much more)
Warp tuning tips

Some OS/2 electronic magazines

The OS/2 Warp Weekly
The OS/2 Warp Monthly
IBM Personal Software Magazine
IBM Personal Systems Magazine
IBM Software Quarterly Magazine
IBM NetNews Magazine
OS/2 Warp Flash Magazine
OS/2 Developer Magazine
OS/2 Connect Magazine
Inside OS/2 magazine
EDM/2 Electronic Developer's Magazin (also on hobbes: os2/newsltr/edm*.zip)
e-Zine magazine
Personal systems (IBM magazine)
NetMag
What about these FTP sites which are almost EXCLUSIVELY devoted to OS/2:
hobbes.nmsu.edu
ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
ftp.cdrom.com
leo.org
ftp01.ny.us.ibm.net
What about these web pages devoted EXCLUSIVELY to OS/2:
Austin IBM
OS/2 BBS or by telnet
warpflash
cuos
os2world
godzilla
HVMindex

Ruzne / Miscellaneous

The list of OS/2 utilities you MUST HAVE is linked directly to the files concerned.

There is also a list of available OS/2 software.

IBM has a World Wide Web page dedicated to games under OS/2. They can answer most questions, solve problems, and you can get the latest database of tested settings for the more popular games.

There is also the complete REXX handbook. The best one?


For foreigners in France

If you have bought French version of Warp and you want to replace it by the US version, contact Mrs. C. Herrenschmidt at Compagnie IBM France, tel. (1)49058800. I needed change it as well and it has taken me five weeks to contact the right person, c'etait merdieuse...


International commercial organizations

Indelible Blue -- you can buy a lot of OS/2 software very cheap here (OS/2, compilers by Borland and Watcom, etc.)
Walnut Creek CD-ROM -- publisher of many CD-ROMs containing mirrors of the most interesting Internet ftp sites
Info Plus -- it sells Walnut Creek CD-ROMs cheaper than Walnut Creek itself
BMT Micro - here you can register the shareware you are using

XFree86 and TCP/IP applications

XFree86 for OS/2 are free X-Windows for OS/2 (X11R6 protocol). This link goes to H. Veit's page, the author of the port. You can read the oficial announcement of version 3.2 as it has been posted to several news groups. The up-to-date version is (Sept. 1997) 3.3.1. V Cesku se da stahnout ze sunsitu, anebo z naseho fyzikalniho serveru, kde jsou i kopie vetsiny Ported Tools z originalni stranky H. Veita, ktera je vetsinou nedostupna, a tahat z ni neco ve vsedni dny je takrka neschudne.

How to setup XFree86 under FreeTCP is written here.

You can have a look at some my tricks for running XFree86 under OS/2: XFreeOS2

How to switch mouse buttons: either run "xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1" or put the line "pointer = 3 2 1" (without quotes) to your %HOME%\.Xmodmap

Pozn: Xfig 3.1.3, ktery zpocatku byl na "Ported tools" strance H. Veita pri kresleni oblouku, v nemz 2 ze 3 bodu maji stejnou x-ovou souradnici, padal. Nahrajte si verzi 3.1.4, ktera je OK.

Another XFree86-OS/2 WWW page
Peter Ganten's Homepage (various ported Xapps)

Some nice free TCP/IP apps:

C-kermit scrollable telnet
nFTP (v. 082) --- nice text mode FTP client; see must-have page.
ncFTP --- ftp client, command-line oriented. It can download subdirectories too!
FreeTCP - original archive; see also my Czech Manual for FreeTCP. Jedna se o popis pripojeni Warpa neConnecta do site TCP/IP pres sitovou kartu (nikoliv modem, jak je to v BonusPaku).


Ceske OS/2 servery

Prosim, pokud sem chcete zaradit link na svoji stranku (anebo ho naopak odsudto vyradit), tak mi zamejlujte.

Prihlaseni se do ceske diskusni skupiny o OS/2 lze provest zaslanim prikazu SUBSCRIBE OS2C-L na listserv@alfa.vse.cz. Tato e-mailova diskusni skupina je obousmerne propojena s newsovou skupinou cz.comp.os2. Dotazy a prispevky se pak mohou zasilat bud na adresu os2c-l@alfa.vse.cz, ci primo do dane newsove skupiny.


Me poznamky k Warpu / Some my Warp notes

Pouzivam americkou verzi Warpa, a tam se mi nelibilo, jak se vypisuje ceske datum a cas. Ja povazuji za ceskou verzi povazuji napriklad 31.12.1995 24:00:00. Tak jsem trochu zaplatoval country.sys. Jak jsem zjistil, tak v ceske verzi Warpa je toto jiz spravne, ovsem v Merlinove opet spatne.

Pouzivate OS/2 v okne ci nejaky nemysoidni file manager a najednou byste chteli provest drag&drop na nejaky soubor, ktery mate v danem adresari? Ja vim o dvou moznostech, jak to provest:

Jak zjistit velikost adresare se vsemi jeho podadresari? Podivejte se na konec vypisu prikazu dir /s. Ze je to nudne? Co takhle tento ds.cmd file:
@dir %1 /s/w | tail -2 | head -1 | awk -f e:\bat\DirSize.awk
kde DirSize.awk je
{print "Directory contains ",$1,$2," ",$3,"B = ",$3/1024,"KB = ",$3/(1024*1024),"MB"}
(musite mit nainstalovany GNU programy tail, head a awk). Mozna by to nekdo zvladl jednoduseji v REXXu, anebo to jde jeste jednoduseji?


Me problemy s Warpem / My Warp problems


TeXovani pod Warpem / Warp TeXing

Pro veskerou vyrobu textu a dokumentu pouzivam sazeci system TeX a jeho nadstavbu LaTeX. Pouzivam emTeX, tedy implementaci TeXu pro OS/2 a DOS vyvinutou E. Mattesem (to je tentyz clovek, ktery prenesl gcc pod OS/2). V ceskych, moravskych a slovenskych zemich (plus vsech dalsich, kam to nasinec zavlece), pouzivame ceskou distribuci zvanou CSTeX, kterou jiz od roku 1994 pripravuje CSTUG, tedy Ceske sdruzeni uzivatelu TeXu. CSTeX obsahuje, mimo jine,

Dale si vsimneme pouze distribuce pro OS/2.

Distribuce CSTeXu pro OS/2 je identicka distribuci pro DOS s pridavkem jednoho modulu navic: os2.zip. (Pripomenme, ze programy z baliku emTeX je mozne pouzivat pod OS/2, DOSem i Winy, protoze jsou prelozeny prekladacem gcc/emx od stejneho autora jako je emTeX---E. Mattese).

Jak si tedy TeX nainstalovat? Doporucuji tento postup:

  1. Stahnout kompletni CSTeX pro OS/2, DOS a Win odtud. Tamtez si tez prectete, jake zmeny v CSTeXu v posledni dobe nastaly, jak to vse nacpat na diskety, pokud neni vas pocitac napojeny na Sit, apod.
  2. No prave: prozatim (23.11.1997) nebyl v CSTeXu proveden upgrade modulu os2.zip, protoze se nevejde na stavajici organizaci disket. Stahnete si ho proto radeji extra odsudto.
  3. Zkopirujte vse na vas lokalni disk.
  4. Vsechny informace by mely byt uvedeny v souboru @ctimne, a vy byste si je meli precist! Navic je jeste popisi svymi slovy zde:
  5. Tamten jakysi soubor obsahuje vsechny komponenty, ktere se pri instalaci pouziji. Tak tam nechte vse co je DOSove, pak os2.zip, a naopak vyhodte vse je co je Winblozi.
  6. V DOSovskem okne spustte install.bat a provedte instalaci pro DOS. Doporucuji vse nainstalovat do x:\EMTEX, kde x: je drive, kde mate par desitek megabajtu mista. Instalacni program provede instalaci pouze do tohoto adresare a do zadneho jineho, tj. muzete si byt jisti, ze vam neposkodi instalaci systemu ci jakychkoliv jinych utility, natoz ze by se vam hrabal v systemovych konfiguracnich souborech.
  7. Behem instalace si ctete, jaky program k cemu slouzi, je to poucne jak pro zacatecniky, tak i pro pokrocile!
  8. Instalacni program vam rekne, kam si jakesi dva vysledne bataky mate zkopirovat (tusim, ze se jmenuji cstex.bat   a initex.bat), a dokoncete instalaci vygenerovanim formatu tim initexem.
  9. Hodte si DOSovske fullscreen okno, a v nem spustte cstex.bat. Overte si funkcnost DOSovske instalace na nejakem libovolnem TeXovskem souboru. Napriklad tam kdesi mate adjust.tex, kterym si zaroven muzete najustovat tiskarnu.
  10. Ted vse jede, takze dokoncime instalaci pod OS/2. Zde jiz nekolikrat citovany modul os2.zip   se rozbalil do adresare \emtex\@os2. Tam najdete nejake ctimne ci readme, do nehoz jsem napsal, jak zdarne instalaci pod OS/2 dokoncit:
    • musi se zkopirovat par .cmd souboru (do \emtex\bin),
    • musi se naeditovat par souboru z emTeXu,
    • a pak se nakonfiguruji makra pmCSTeX pro EPM do editoru EPM, cimzto budete mit neco jako deja-vu Olsakovo menu pod timto editorem---and much more!
    Jo, zrejme si vsimnete, ze tohle vse si pod OS/2 budete muset nainstalovat rucne, neni tam zadny nadherny instalacni program. Proc? Protoze ho nikdo nenapsal (nejaky dobrovolnik?). Chapu, ze vas tahle instalace bude mozna otravovat, ale ma to jednu vyhodu: budete vedet presne, co se k cemu ma pouzivat, a pak to sami budete moci efektivne vyuzivat, o coz tu jde predevsim! Jako uzivatele TeXu a OS/2 se da prepokladat, ze jste inteligentni uzivatele pocitace, nikoliv jeho periferie (drzak na mys --- TeX et al. neni zadny user-friendly mysoidni program za drahe penize, ktery obsahuje 95% funkci, ktere nikdy nepouzijete!). Takze si to prosim udelejte manualne, a pak dlouha leta pouzivejte (hm, ja neupgradoval CSTeX uz dva roky, vlastne akorat drivery na tiskarny, protoze hardware se porad meni).
  11. Tim je instalace skoncena, a verim, ze vam vse funguje. Doufam, ze jste spravne postupovali podle instrukci v pmCSTeX.INF, a precetli si tez FAQ, a hlavne otestovali spravnost instalace pro OS/2 na demo souboru, ktery je u pmCSTeXu.
  12. Gratis rada 1: pokud chcete nekoho noveho zaucit na vasi fungujici instalaci, tak mu predvedte demo z pmCSTeXu.
  13. Gratis rada 2: pokud chcete provest identickou instalaci na deseti dalsich pocitacich s OS/2 (gratuluji, ze jich mate tolik!), tak jednoduse cely adresar \EMTEX   zazipujte a preneste. Nezapomente tez patricne prenest konfiguraci editoru EPM (treba taky kompletnim zazipovanim) a pak upravene kousky CONFIG.SYSu (ten rozhodne nekopirujte bezhlave na jinou masinu!).
Jak jste jiz spravne pochopili, tak jako menu system v TeXu doporucuji muj pmCSTeX pro EPM. Precte si, prosim, tez jeho stranku. Z ni vas zrejme bude jeste zajimat historie zmen, resp. nac jsem zapomnel v aktualni distribuci datovane 11. 11. 1997. Jinak...


...mam desny hlad, trcim tady bez vecere, takze prepsani tohoto drive napsaneho textu necham na neurcito:

Napsal jsem makra pro editor EPM, ktera implementuji mnoho uzitecnych funkci do tohoto volne sireneho OS/2kovskeho editoru. Nejnovejsi verze baliku pmCSTeX pro EPM je zde k dispozici. V jeho menu budete mit pristup ke (skoro) vsemu z CSTeXu. Instalujete-li CSTeX a podporu pro OS/2 poprve, doporucuji nainstalovat kompletni

modul os2.zip pro distribuci CSTeXu ('96,'97...) 11. 11. 1997

kde je pmCSTeX a jeste nejake dalsi povidani.

Jinak, stejne jako na Unixu, muzete vse spoustet z prikazove radky. Napriklad start dvipm @dvipm.cnf clanek spusti prohlizec (to se da implementovat jako Associations pro .dvi soubory). LaTeXuji prikazem latex clanek.tex = cslatex clanek.tex = cslatex2e clanek.tex, stary LaTeX 2.09 se da spustit cslatex209 clanek.tex. Pro tisk na laserovce je prislusny prikazovy radek dvihplj @lj.cnf clanek.dvi clanek.hp. Prevod do postscriptu je dvips clanek.dvi, ovsem predtim se musi pustit dvi-out stejne, jako to dela CSTeX.

O pouzivani cestiny ve Warpu i v TeXu se zminuje jedna z dalsich kapitol.

Az do ery pmCSTeXu pro EPM jsem pouzival TeXshell (TED UZ NE!). Tehdy jsem o tom psal nasledujici: Pouzivam ponejvice prikazoveho radky pro vse, co od emTeXu chci. Prikazem texuj clanek.tex se spusti DOSovske okno s klavesnici kbdlatin, a na to prostredi TeXshellu (Turbo Vision prostredi se zvyraznenou syntaxi a systemem napoved podle Borlandich zvyklosti). Psani cesky bylo probrano vyse, ScrollLock prepina ceskou/US klavesnici. Na pozadi se spusti batch cykl, ktery stale dokolecka testuje, zda jste neulozili soubor, a pokud ano, tak ho projede ceskym LaTeXem 2.09. Z menu TeXshellu si spustte View; Mattesuv ovladac dvipm take automaticky pozna, ze se .dvi soubor zmenil, a okamzite zobrazi zmeny. Timhle mate z TeXu system, ktery jsem nazval "rizeny, casove zpozdeny WYSIWYG". Parada. Dulezite: pred spustenim TeXshellu musi bezet program os2execd; muzete ho zavolat bud z prikazove radky OS/2kovskeho okna anebo spustit z menu PC2: Aplikace/os2execd.

Jeste neco pripsat o TeXovani pod OS/2? Aha, kresleni obrazku. Vzhledem k tomu, ze od brezna 1996 jsou XFree86 (X-Windows) pro OS/2, pouzivam bezvadny kreslici program Xfig (pochopitelne vcetne transfigu).

Dobry je take PageDraw na editovani postscriptovych obrazku. Je to jediny Windowsovsky program, ktery pouzivam, coz jiste svedci o jeho kvalite. Nezapomente si povolit ATM manager ve Win-OS2 setupu, a v ATM control panelu zadat pristup ke vsem fontum z adresare \psfonts\pfm.

Na generovani grafu pouzivam gnuplot, ktery umoznuje i vystup do LaTeXu ci emTeXu, takze k popisu grafu se daji pouzivat TeXovske fonty. Blize o prispevek do cstexu je zde k dispozici. Muzete si to precist, a pak prebrat, sami. Ja se rozhodl pro OS/2 a emTeX.

Muzete se podivat tez na kapitolu venovanou (La)TeXu na me hlavni WWW strance.


pmCSTeX for EPM

Version: 11. 11. 1997

This section is devoted to pmCSTeX for EPM---actually, this is the homepage of this program. pmCSTeX for EPM are my macros + some other supporting files for the editor EPM (powerful editor for OS/2, which distributed together with the OS/2). pmCSTeX implements many wonderful (em)(La)TeX-related features into EPM, thus making it "the best choice"   for the (La)TeX writing under OS/2:

In addition, the Czech version (i.e. the version compiled for the users of the CSTeX distribution of the emTeX package with the Czech typography add-ons + installation routines) includes:

pmCSTeX for EPM has been written since the author wanted a tool superior to what he has ever seen or used before. Therefore, he wanted to develop something better than:

You can let me know whether I succeeded to make a good (ultimate, final...) replacement for CSTeX MNU for DOS, TeXshell, EPMTeX, WETeX, pmgraf and emacs under OS/2.

Since I'm not professional EPM programmer, these macros are easily readable and reprogrammable (if necessary). The package includes the on-line help for LaTeX2e (hypertext LaTeX2e help), epmkwds files for colour syntax highlighting according to yellow/blue scheme, some help on installating the dictionaries for various languages, and much more...

The up-to-date release of pmCSTeX for EPM is dated 11. 11. 1997. pmCSTeX is changed from time to time, you can have a look at its page with the

history of changes.

You can download the latest release from

or from the mirrors of the CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network), hobbes or leo (the most important OS/2 archives), which include the following sites: Install, and enjoy!

Notice: if you encounter slow transfer rate during the transfer of pmCSTeX.zip for EPM from this site, then please try to avoid the download during our working hours. If you have an access to a Unix machine, then you can issue a command like at -f pmCSTeX.cmd 5:00 (I use this trick for downloading files from hobbes).

Omissions in the current distribution

As one user noticed after getting the latest distribution, there is still the hypertext documentation LaTeX2e.INF version 1.4, even though one can find 1.6 on the net. You can download it from here LaTeX2e.INF. Finally, some questions+answers for this topic:

  1. (How did I produced this documentation? I have taken LaTeX2e.texinfo from CTAN, converted it to LaTeX2e.ipf, edited manually the title page (otherwise the L. Lamport's name get together with et al), and then produced LaTeX2e.INF.
  2. How do I use it? Put into the directory \EMTEX\book\english  , and then either view LaTeX2e   from the command line, or Ctrl/H   from within the EPM having the cursor on a LaTeX keyword.
  3. I will put View LaTeX2e manual menu item into the next release of pmCSTeX, even though I think it is not very necessary.


Editor EPM

pmCSTeX requires editor EPM 6.03b. If you have

Pokud nemate EPM verze 6.03b, pak si ho muzete stahnout:

Dictionaries for EPM and IBM Works

IBM gives the BonusPak CD-ROM free with many of the Warp packages, but not with all of them (e.g. it is missing in Merlin CZ). Since there are people asking me to send them a dictionary, I'm putting some dictionaries from the BonusPak CD-ROM of blue Warp US 3.0 (noConnect) here. I hope that this does not violate any copyright, but making better service for the Warp users: Note: the following languages are on that CD-ROM: BR, CF, DK, FR, GR, IT, LA, NL, NO, PO, SP, SU, SV, UK, US.

But---shame to IBM: the Czech dictionary is not available yet, after more than one year of "localized" Warp!


gnuplot OS/2 PM terminal: now with mouse support!

I have patched gnuplot's PM terminal for mouse support. Currently, this modified version is available from here since the disk of gnuplot ftp server seems to be exhausted. Please notice that my patch is a new feature  of gnuplot and that's why it will not be released officially before the oficial release of gnuplot 3.6 (feature-freeze state).
Here, I cite a part of the README-mouse.os2 from the patched gnuplot: This package contains distribution of gnuplot 3.6 beta 340 for OS/2 with mouse support added into the pm terminal. It possesses the following new functions with respect to the "original" PM (Presentation Manager, not Petr Mikulik's, of course) terminal:


In addition, I've added few lines of code into the realine routine so that the duplicated commands in the history are not stored, which facilitates the history browsing (since there is no 'history' command in gnuplot).
And finally, into the current version of gnupmdrv, I have implemented the possibility of switching on/off the aspect ratio kept by gnupmdrv (I do not like the white box aside of the graph).

If you are interested in it, then feel free to download the patches and the corresponding executables.

Note: last version is dated 7.4.1998. There are still some more nice things to do (described in the README), but I do not how to implement them. Your contribution is welcome!


Cestina ve Warpu

Predevsim musite mit v config.sysu CODEPAGE=852,850 a COUNTRY=042. Tim padem mate zavedenu cestinu v kodovani Latin-2. Cestinu podle kodovani bratri Kamenickych prestante pouzivat; na konverzi starych textu pouzijte bud prislusneho menu v pmCSTeXu, anebo DOSovskych batch souboru kam2ibm, ibm2kam (mate je mit v DOSovskem adresari \BAT). Pokud chcete ceske akcenty urezat, pouzijte batch ibm2a. Vsechny tyto skripty akceptuji i soubory zadane divokymi kartami. Tyto batche volaji DOSovsky program cstocs.exe, ktery je prevzat z CSTeXu (distribuce emTeXu sirena Ceskym sdruzenim uzivatelu TeXu).

Dale je casto potreba konvertovat cesky psane texty mezi ruznymi mezi ruznymi kodovanimi cestiny (Latin 2, Kamenicti...). Proto vam doporucuji ke stazeni konvertor mezi ruznymi ceskymi formaty (exac pro OS/2 i DOS a zdrojaky v C++), ktery se jmenuje cs2cs. Dale v instalaci CSTeXu je (volne) k dispozici program cstocs.zip (anebo rucne, je na ftp.muni.cz, hleda se prikazem quote site exec tex cstocs - to byste neverili, ale je obcas dulezite cist hlasky serveru). Je ovsem jenom pro DOS se zdrojaky v pascalu (jsou tam dve chyby, jak vsem uzivatelum znamo).

Jo, a mam taky programek text, ktery vytahne z binarniho souboru vsechny stringy, a pritom akceptuje i ruzna kodovani cestiny (zdrojak v C++ je prilozen.)

Ted klavesnice. Ceska klavesnice, ktera je soucasti Warpa (a ktera by se instalovala prikazem DEVINFO=KBD,US,E:\OS2\KEYBOARD.DCP v config.sysu), je cesky psaci stroj naprosto nepouzitelny programatory a snad i ostatnimi, kteri potrebuji lomitka, obracena lomitka, zavorky a dalsi znaky, z nichz nektere na ceske klavesnici nejsou. Myslim, ze tohle IBM CR vubec nevyresila. Proto jsem v pocatcich sve prace s Warpem psal cesky pouze v DOSovskych oknech, kam jsem si natahl ceske znaky Kameniku vcetne jednoho meho oblibeneho DOSovskeho driveru pro cestinu a TeXoval jsem bez problemu. Tudy ale cesta nevede.

Panove M. Kures, J. Kolafa a Z. Wagner dali k dispozici zdrojak pro ceskou klavesnici pro DOS, konfigurovatelnou pro kodovani Latin-2, Kameniky i KOI-8 a to pro libovolne usporadani klaves. Pouzijete-li ji v DOSovskych oknech, pak vezte, ze klavesa ScrollLock zapina a vypina cesky rezim, a mrtvou klavesou je obraceny apostrof. Pri me instalaci ji volejte prikazem kbdlatin anebo lepe lh kbdlatin.

V prosinci 1995 dal pan Wagner k dispozici cestinu pro editor EPM. Doporucuji, abyste obojiho take pouzivali, je to velice dobre reseni a editor EPM v. 6.03 je dost schopny, lepsi nez EPM dodavany standardne s Warpem. Cestina se zapina Alt-[ a vypina Alt-], a vice se dozvite v manualu CzEpmCs.INF.
A jeste neco: nainstalujte si kompletni EPM 6.03b ze site (treba hobbes; to, co je v Merlinovi, je jenom kousek EPM.

Klavesnice kbd.asm, EPM v. 6.03 a jeho ceska podpora jsou k dispozici u pana Wagnera.

Ted jsem potreboval cestinu i mimo editor, a tak jsem naeditoval KEYBOARD.DCP, kodovou stranku CS 243 852. Tuto jsem prepsal na ceskou programatorskou klavesnici. (Pozn.: chcete-li pouze prehodit Y a Z, pak se podivejte sem). Je tam ovsem jeden problem: tahle klavesnice funguje pouze v OS/2 a DOS oknech, protoze Presentation Manager programy stale z pro mne zahadnych duvodu pouzivaji cesky psaci stroj. Kvuli tomu se musi zaplatovat PMMERGE.DLL, obludne dlouhy soubor. Jak na to? Slozite. A bohuzel stejne tohle neni problemem pouze ceske lokalizace. Vzhledem k tomu, ze na dotazy tykajici se teto problematiky v diskusni skupine os2-c nikdo z IBM CR neodpovedel (cte tuhle konferenci vubec nekdo z lidi, kteri se na lokalizaci podileli, anebo vubec nekdo z IBM CR?), vznesl jsem patricny dotaz na jedne newsove skupine. Dostal jsem odpovedi od jednoho Nemce a od pana Comellase z Argentiny. Oba mi psali, ze klavesnice pouzivane v PM programech jsou definovany v PMMERGE.DLL (silene dlouhy soubor). Navic, klavesnice tam neni dana linearne, ale dost "zbesile"; da se to hackovat pomoci resource decompileru (rdc) od pana Lafaixe. Pan Comellas mi psal: In order to change the PM keyboard layout you also have to patch the PMMERGE.DLL. I have already written a program in C++ that patches the US keyboard layout in both the KEYBOARD.DCP and PMMERGE.DLL (through Martin Lafaix's RESMGR utility) files to support the US-International Windows keyboard layout in OS/2. If you want I can send you the sources uuencoded to your e-mail address. The .ZIP file is about 80 KB. The comments and messages are in Spanish, but it may still be useful for you. Program jsem dostal, stravil nad nim par hodin, ale klavesnici jsem nerozchodil. Vic casu tomu venovat nemohu. Program si dale vyzadal jeden clovek z CR, ale asi ani on nebyl uspesny. Nejaci dalsi dobrovolnici?
V breznu se v announcich objevila zprava o Keyboard Redefineru (hobbes:incoming) od F. Paly z Madarska. Take on vyslovil kriticke poznamky o "lokalizaci" klavesnice. Tenhle program (je to skutecne program, nikoliv zaplata) jsem vyzkousel, je perfektni tim, ze umoznuje za behu systemu klavesnici vymenit (zmena klavesnice v PMMERGE vyzaduje reboot). Bohuzel, v jeho programu neni podpora pro mrtve klavesy; ale aspon trochu zit se s tim da. Pozadal jsem ho o dodelani te podpory, takze uvidime, jestli na to bude mit cas.

Neco o ceskych encodings.


Instalace Free TCP/IP pro Warp 3.0 neConnect

Potreboval jsem napojit obycejne Warpy (neConnecty) na Internet pres sitovou kartu, tedy nikoliv pres modem, jak je to dano v BonusPaku. Pouzil jsem k tomu balik freetcp.zip z hobbes. Vzhledem k tomu, ze cela operace byla ponekud narocnejsi, nez se na prvni pohled zdalo, rozhodl jsem se instalacni manual napsat cesky a snad i presneji. (Jde o textovy soubor, takze si ho ulozte na disk a prectete nejakym normalnim prohlizecem ci editorem, nikoliv WWW prohlizecem).

Pozn.: tento manual je soucasti meho mirne rozsahlejsiho manualu (.inf) pro instalaci aplikaci pro OS/2. Ten davam prozatim k dispozici pouze svym znamym na explicitni vyzadani.

Muzete tez navstivit domovskou stranku autora FreeTCP, kde jsou dalsi linky na free Internetovske aplikace.

XFree86 mohou behat jednak bez napojeni na Internet (takze muzete poustet prenesene Xaplikace), anebo s pripojenim (takze pak muzete poustet Xaplikace i z okolnich pocitacu). Mne behaji XFree86 pod FreeTCP s timto nastavenim:

route -fh
arp -f
ifconfig lan0 _myip_ netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default _mygateway_ 1
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
SET HOSTNAME=localhost
SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0

a soubor \TCPIP\ETC\HOSTS musi obsahovat:
127.0.0.1 localhost

Abyste mohli poustet X-okna z jinych (unixovskych) pracovnich stanic na svych XFree86, musite se na danou pracovni stanici nejdrive nalogovat. Ovsem nemuzete pouzit OS/2 telnet, ale telnet x3270. A jeste jedna celkem dulezita vec: ftp prozatim spatne zobrazuje a cte heslo; proto z Xu musite zadat ftp __server__, pak odklepnout dotazy na uzivatele i na heslo, a pripojit se prikazem open __user__ __password__.

Muzete si precist muj .cmd skript na spousteni Xu.


Patches for Merlin

I have got (as a beta tester) a "localized" Czech version of IBM OS/2 Warp 4.0 (Merlin). By those quotes around "localized" I mean that this version is only translation of the English text, but not the true localization, beee. Therefore

Have you read about the undocumented Merlin features?


Ruzne informace o Warpu

Neco o historii FAT a HPFS, a tez o vyvoji DOSu a OS/2 si muzete precit v nasledujicim clanku z Microsoft Systems Journal (Sept. 1989, v4 n5 p1(13)). Tento soubor hpfs.zip je kopii souboru tehoz jmena z hobbes:os2/info. Mj. se tam dovite znama fakta, jako ze napr. FAT je naprosto nevhodny system ukladani dat na disky vetsi nez 256 MB; zrejme proto ho Microsoft pouziva i nadale i ve Windows'95 (a pritom HPFS vyvinuly IBM a MS spolecne; to tedy nechapu, proc MicroMekysi od tohoto systemu upustili -- ze by kvuli prachum?)

IBM ohlasila vynikajici vykon Warpa pod novy Intelackym procesorem P6. Muzete si precist prislusny mail.

IBM dala volne k dispozici program Just Add!, ktery vam pomuze otestovat vas pocitac a pripravit ho pro instalaci OS/2, a ktery tez poradi optimalni konfigurace pri koexistenci vice systemu. Jejich oznameni je zde.


Komercni zajimavosti

CDcka s OS/2 (share|free)warem se da (bez zaruky, neni to placena reklama, ale me poznamky) sehnat u: Prodavaji se tez dvojCDcka se zrcadlem hobbes , tj. nejvetsiho OS/2 Internetiho archivu. Zacinate-li s OS/2, tak to kupte, vyplati se vam to!

Pokud jsem si vsiml, tak v Brne se da koupit Warp bud v BitStudiu na Dominikanskem namesti, anebo na rohu Purkynova/Skacelova.

Muzete mi mejlnout, jestli mate nejake zajimave tipy.

Tak, a mozna, ze se vam bude hodit nasledujici informace. Programuji prevazne v C/C++. Pro OS/2 je GNU C/C++ sice zadarmo, ale kompiluje pomalu.

Par charakteristik Borlandiho prekladace:
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