НОВОЕ: OS/2 GURU - Вопросы и ответы

Essentials подписка

Operating systems:
ArcaOS, eComStation, IBM OS/2 Warp
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Please include to Essentials this applications

  • WPS assosiations: video files + kmp. More suggestions?
  • TODAY: ePDF -- http://www.subsys.de/ePDF/
  • TODAY: Simple TCP/IP Setup for users from Windows (IpConfigPM is written on REXX)
  • TODAY: RT: kvdart, kvdive libraries
  • FileManager
    • Larsen Commander [*]
    • Finder -- В составе ECS должен быть хороший и удобный проводник.
    • I would like to have a OS/2 version of the great "Total Commander", which was in earlier days named "WinCommander"
  • Clipboard
  • Photos
    • CD2?: Fotoget/2 (Camera MSD support) [**] -- Program that makes it easy to collect pictures from digital camera. Automatize foldernames after todays date.
    • GBM
  • WPS extenders, PM extenders
    • X-File (XFile) or similar to allow creation and deletion of directories and files in the standard file open dialogue. [**] Features: buttons for frequent dirs, recent files & recent dirs.
    • Title utility [*] -- This program modual was designed to add some missing funcitonality to OS/2. The specific features are: 1) right-click on the Titlebar pushes a window back in the z-order. *2) ctrl-right-click shrinks a window to its titlebar size.
  • WPS Recovery
  • REXXAutoStart is essential, for machines where a user has more than about 5 entries in the Startup folder
  • I find the ISOFS package, to be very useful
  • Every system should have ASPIROUT installed
  • Just an offer for "LongName." A program that allows the display of a long name on a folder and/or a file yet allowing the DOS name to remain so that DOS programs will recognize.
  • ASSOEDIT - [**] -- association editor, set associations to programs and program objects.
  • Audio/Video players
    • SMPLAYER [**] -- the new OS2-eCS port of SMplayer. Besides WarpVision the only PMVideoplayer we have.Maybee a little configuration program that configurer mplayer to work as plugin could be good?
  • PMCam
  • GOTCHA - An easy screencapturer
  • VNC, Remote control
    • RDesktop
    • HOB-Link X11 (no FreeWare), it is included to CD2 already
  • Citrix ICA-Client 6.x + 7.x or Newer :-)
  • YAOS-Shell
  • FTP
    • JFTP - FTP program (java)
    • Free FTP client
  • Archivers
    • eZIP
    • Esse: Create templates .zip and .rar in Templates folder
    • WPI-VIEW [**] - wiew wpi-packs, and extract just the files you want - needable sometimes.
  • PGPTools for OS/2
  • File utilities
    • DirDiff (not free but very good)
    • PMDiff (not free but very good)
  • ZipStream (not free but very good)
  • MrMessage or SIM, some AIM client.
  • DOSBOX (www.dosbox.com) is a utility which I feel should be included with eCS. Great program - makes for hassle-free DOS gaming on eCS.
  • Information:
    • Folder with 50 URL links to eComStation resources
  • Text editor
    • Idea: A text editor with large fonts
    • NEPMD
    • [*] AEDIT - old, but very userfriendly, tiny text editor - always have it in you root. Works in OS2-eCS and DOS.
  • System utilities:
    • Idea: PM vesions of system utilities (PM chkdsk, PM format, ..)
    • which
    • ls
  • Internet-Application-Integration (IAIUtil)
  • Nconvert
  • SysInfo
    • SMP systems should have icons for: MPCPUMON.EXE and EXECMODE.EXE It would be really helpful, if EXECMODE.EXE had a user friendly front end.
    • SMART viewer -- One thing missing from eCS is a utility to interface with hard drives supporting S.M.A.R.T. technology, which most drives seem to do these days. There is a small utility called SmartCtl co-authored by Dani & Yuri Dario that provides som function in this area. The description says that it will work with \"ATA-3 and later IDE drives\", but does not mention SATA. I once had a version that I think I got from Dani that would support SCSI drives, but I have lost that. It would be nice to have such a utility with a GUI interface. I believe that it would be a useful addition to eCS! I just found a URL
  • Sync with mobile devices, Sync with other eCS computers.
  • Vocabulary: DC Clico, PM Dict
  • Crypt: Можно сделать прогу или скрипт для шифрования по гост'у с красивой иконкой, чтобы на нее кидать файл для шифрования и расшифровки автоматически. Или две иконки.

Let's include to eComStation CD1

  • SQLite - so small/medium applications can use the databases, not files or self-made databases. a) other OSes have this database embedded b) this is important for developers. This is essential requirement if we want to get new software. Now the developers should invent own formats, organize own storage, implement own sorting. This takes all time. If they know that every eCS is equipped with sqllite then they will use it. 1000 applications need small DB: PIM apps (Password manager, Address books), Math utils, Business utils, ......

Please improve the OS and include to CD1

  • LVM and DASD updates to support drives > 512GB [*]
  • Full XWP rather than the reduced eWP. [*]
  • CUPS Printer support [**] -- it is planned to include it to eCS 2.1

Competitors

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  • Use experience of Suntan Special

 


 

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