Alexander Mai's OS/2 page

Below you can find some programs for OS/2. Their sources are available somewhere on the net but I couldn't find a binary distribution for OS/2 (at least none on current release level), so I decided to publish these builds. Most of them were done just for fun and therefore not heavily tested.

Please study all warnings and documentation carefully. Note that I am not the author of these programs (until stated otherwise, of course) and therefore I am not responsible for any damage this software might cause.

• I do not read and/or answer emails sent from T-Online or MSN. Get a resonable internet provider instead!

• Sometimes links to local archives may fail !
  Then you should try the other of my locations:

  
  
  • http://migdal.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/~mai/os2/
    or
    
  • http://www.tu-darmstadt.de/~st002279/os2/

• I provide a (not complete) list of tools and libraries I have used to create the packages available here.
  Almost all packages offered below require the EMX runtime package to be installed.

• rman 3.07 (1st build, 40015 Bytes)
  A filter for UNIX manual pages which can create output in TkMan, [tn]roff, RTF, SGML, HTML, MIME, LaTeX, LaTeX 2e, Perl 5's pod

• gifsicle 1.12 (1st build, 100428 Bytes)
  A tool to create animatied gifs. Check out the homepage for more information.

• Exuberant ctags 3.2 (1st build, 91104 Bytes)
  Best ctags utility available: supports C, C++, Java, Fortran, Eiffel
  Get the original source distribution and older versions from the tool's homepage.

• File 3.27 (1st build, 75283 Bytes)
  File is a utility which identifies files based on an extensible database. I use the version of Mark Moraes and Christos Zoulas and enhancements from the previous OS/2 port by Darrel Hankerson.

• Gnuplot for OS/2
  (version 3.7 and related software)
  Plotting software. Handles mathematical expressions 2d(3d) data sets

• BZIP2
  Archiver (which often compresses better than INFO-ZIP)

• POVRay
  The famous raytracer. Now version 3.1 including X11 preview!

• htmldoc 1.8b4 (2nd build, 408123 Bytes)
  A "dual-mode" application which converts HTML files to PS, PDF
  "dual-mode" means here: it runs under X11 if available. Otherwise it can be used as a command line utility which doesn't require the X11 libraries!

• HF-Lab 0.85
  HF-Lab generates heightfields which can be used as landscapes or other surfaces in computer-generated (e.g. raytraced) images.

• Smiley
  the famous Smiley-program :-)

• A2PS 4.12 (1st build, 573397 Bytes)
  One of the best ASCII to Postscript converters (which is better ?!)
  It offers "pretty printing" of many types of ASCII files (e.g. sources in many programming languages) and is able to call third-party utilities to handle more difficult formats.
  By it doesn't support NLS for the program's messages. I am working on this!
  More Information can be found on the homepage of a2ps

• Small Postscript -related utilities:
  • MPAGE version 2.5
    print multiple pages of text per sheet on a PostScript compatible printer
    
  • PCAL
    program to create calendars (Postscript-files)
    
  • C2PS
    converts an ASCII file with C/C++ code to Postscript
  • PSIFY
    very minimalistic ASCII-to-Postscript-converter

• Chess programs
  A few chess engines which offer a VIO interface and/or can be used with xboard.

• Software for XFree86/OS2
  Some applications I built for XFree86/OS2

• unfinished stuff
  stuff not ready for distribution at all ...

• various TeX tools for OS/2
  
  • lacheck 1.26 (1st build, 20275 Bytes) Simple LaTeX syntax checker. Available from CTAN

• VERA (Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms)
  1.5 (202533 Bytes)
  GNU acronym list of more than 7000 computing related terms. Compiled to .inf format

Small utilities which I have written in REXX:

1. ACD2 (Alexander's Change Directory)
   real fast and comfortable utility for changing directories

2. ADFA (Alexander's Do For All)
   Quick&dirty;&tiny; utility providing wildcard support for every textmode-application.
   (it expands wildcards itself and executes the command n-times)

3. AMkDist (Alexander's Make Distribution)
   A small REXX util to create archivs. It reads in simple scripts which may contain (shell) commands und target directories.

4. ARC (Alexander's Rexx Cruncher)
   ARC "compresses" REXX source

5. AT2H (Alexander's Text to HTML converter):
   Well-suited for converting small ASCII text-files containing german 'Umlaute'

6. AMFE (Alexander's Mail FrontEnd)
   A PMMSend (PMMail's textmode interface) command line wrapper similar to the Un*x mail program