TTF2PT1 version 3.4.4 has been ported to OS/2. This tool will convert TrueType fonts into Adobe Postscript Type 1 fonts.

Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=ttf2pt1

OpenWatcom C/C++ 1.3 RC3 is available for download.

Download: open-watcom-os2-1.3-rc3.exe

Open Watcom is a joint effort between SciTech Software Inc, Sybase®, and the Open Source development community to maintain and enhance the Sybase Watcom C/C++ and Fortran compiler products. Plans for Open Watcom include porting the compiler to the Linux and FreeBSD platforms, as well as updating the compilers to support the latest C and C++ ANSI standards.

web Site: http://www.openwatcom.org/

GNU Privacy Guard version 1.2.5 has been ported to OS/2. This is a complete and free replacement for PGP, and is compliant with OpenPGP.

Download: http://www.tobiashuerlimann.de/GnuPG/
Project Web Site: http://www.gnupg.org/

There are various eComstation themes available; the most recent is a collection of 12 by David Graser. Thanks to [stom] for the news.

URL: http://www.ecssite.com/sw/graphics/themes/

TOP had been updated.

URL: http://home.clara.net/orac/os2.htm#top

TOP is an OS/2 VIO application to monitor CPU usage by process. It does NOT impose an artificial load on the system to generate usage statistics. The process list can be sorted according to various criteria (including CPU percentage, name, threads), and any process from the list can be selected to be killed.

IBM1S506 replacement, supports Intel, VIA, Ali, SiS, CMD, Promise, Cyrix, HPT, AMD, Artop, SMSC, ServerWorks, Opti, Nvidia, NatSemi, SiliconImage, ITE, and ATI chips, SerialATA, disk capacities up to 2TiB, V1.6.9

Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=danis506r169

Enhanced shutdown helper driver, ver.0.01 is available for download at hobbes.

Hobbes: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=esdhlpdd

ESDHLPDD.sys is a simple interface physical device driver (PDD) that can perform reboot / power-off after system shutdown without any kernel / subsystem modification. A sample executable, ESD.exe, issues system shutdown with 3 modes (conventional / reboot / power-off) interactively (via Presentation Manager) or not (via command line option).

Web Site: http://www.sys3175.com/~jjsuwa/

The OS2 World.Com poll has been updated and for the next 15 days we are asking how much would you pay for an IPnG-stack (single license) if it was available for OS/2(eComStation)?

The current poll can be found here:
http://scripts.os2world.com/stuffed/

Archived polls can be found here:
http://scripts.os2world.com/stuffed/index.cgi?pkg=poll&action=archived_p...

There has has also been posted an article by Espen Andersen who talks about if Microsoft of today become the IBM of the late '80s?

FTPServer 1.22 had been released.

Download: ftpser122.zip
Web Site: http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au/os2/FtpServer.html

FtpServer is an ftp daemon for OS/2. Of course you could always use the ftpd that comes packaged with Warp Connect and later versions, but this one has better security controls, together with extra features such as symbolic links.

IBM Alphaworks has released version 1.2.2 of an MPEG-4 player and content creator development kit that works with Java 1.3.1. Reportedly, it plays MPEG4 video (samples included) just fine on a PII-300MHz machine.

URL: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/tk4mpeg4