Alexander Mai's OS/2 page

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Porting FAQ

Available software

Some Software for XFree86/OS2 which I have built for XFree86/OS2 is also available.

Below you can find various software which I built for OS/2.

• A2PS 4.13b (1st build, 632043 Bytes)
  One of the best ASCII to Postscript converters
  It offers "pretty printing" of many types of ASCII files (especially sources of many programming languages) and is able to call third-party utilities to handle more difficult formats.
  By now my port doesn't offer NLS.
  More information can be found on the homepage of A2PS

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

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

• col (1st build, 5275 Bytes)
  un*x standard tool to filter out reverse line feeds.

• (Exuberant) ctags
  The best ctags utility available: supports man y programming languages, including C, C++, Java, Fortran, Eiffel
  You may get the original source distribution and binaries from from the tool's homepage or retrieve version 5.2.3 locally (1st build, 20020226; 175130 Bytes)

• file 3.37 (1st build, 20011101; 107768 Bytes)
  file is a utility which identifies files based on an extensible database. I use the free version maintained by Christos Zoulas. Incorporated are enhancements from the previous OS/2 port by Darrel Hankerson. Diffs against the offical sources are included.

• fte 0.49.13 (2nd build, 653752 Bytes)
  xfte 0.49.13 (2nd, 442449 Bytes)
  A powerful editor available for PM, commandline and X11. Those package include all docs, config files and executables.
  Note that this is not based on the latest code base, but the last time I checked the developers had not managed to get a simple setup to build all version on OS/2 and I'm too lazy to update this all the time.
  I use my own set of Makefiles and did minor modifications, like adjusting the built-in version numbers to match those of the distribution (0.49.13), so you will have to rebuild you .cnf files!

• gifsicle 1.26 (1st build, 120141 Bytes)
  A tool to create animated gifs. Check out the homepage for more information.

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

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

• htmldoc 1.8.19 (1st build, 20020413; 1064650 Bytes).
  A "dual-mode" application which converts HTML files to PS, PDF. It features a GUI if X11 is available. Otherwise it can be used as a command line utility which doesn't require X11 to be installed.
  It is a good idea before upgrading to remove any existing old /XFree86/lib/X11/htmldoc directory. This wipes out some old, unused files from previous distributions.
  There's a PM frontend for htmldoc available, called htmltopdf which was written by Don Eitner.

• The solid modeller IRIT used to have OS/2 support, though that's now no longer a supported target platform.
  • Binaries for 7.0
  • Binaries for 8.0
    The latter isn't even an alpha release, just a snapshot of the binaries which are on my disk and need debugging :-(

• My port of (GNU) less has been withdrawn.
  Get the version from Kyosuke Tokoro (also available from Hobbes) instead!

• 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

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

• rayshade 4.0.6 (3rd build, 20020112, 354397 Bytes)
  Famous ray tracing program. Source is available from it's homepage.
  There are two old OS/2 ports out there. Both don't create RLE output and are incomplete distributions.
  My version requires the URT package and cpp (preprocessor; get it from the EMX package).

• rman 3.0.9 (1st build, 43768 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.
  This port seems to contain some bugs (e.g. some useless blanks added to the output)

• Smiley (2nd build, 13681 Bytes)
  the famous Smiley-program :-)

• Various TeX tools
  Here I collect some utilities which are often used together with TeX, but do not ship with neither emTeX nor emTeX/TDS).
  All is work in progress so don't rely on these tools for anything mission critical!
  • dvi2tty 5.3 (2nd build, 20010121; 18684 Bytes)
    dvi2tty is intended for previewing dvi-files on text-only devices (terminals and lineprinters). disdvi is a simple hack that dumps a dvi file in a more readable form (nothing for the average user, though).
    Sources are available

  • dvidvi 1.0 (2nd build, 20020121; 14260 Bytes)
    The dvidvi program converts a dvi file into another dvi file, with certain changes.
    Source is available from CTAN

  • lacheck 1.26 (2nd build, 21030 Bytes)
    Simple LaTeX syntax checker. Source is available from CTAN

  • rtf2latex2e 1.0beta3 (1st build, 129846 Bytes)
    rtf2latex2e is a RTF to LaTeX converter. Source is available from CTAN
    I did almost no testing with this, it might be broken ...

  • tth 3.07 (1st build, 20020410; 339268 Bytes)
    tth is a (La)TeX to HTML translator.
    The supplied manpage is outdated, try tth -? instead!
    The pbmutils/netpbm stuff is work in progress and might be available in a separate distribution upon request. To some extent and unknown quality there are already distributions available on Hobbes/LEO. Usage of the un*x tool "rm" has been hard-coded in (instead of the native OS/2 one "del") for various reasons. Don't ask me about this.

• termsize package
  termsize library (version 20010223, 39835 Bytes)
  Small library (DLL) which detects the terminal/screen size. It should work in OS/2 Window and Fullscreen sessions as well as in XFree86 OS/2-xterms. A sample REXX application is supplied as well as an import library.
  The source code is now included.

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

• whois (3rd, build, 11951 Bytes)
  Richard J. Sexton's kinder, gentler whois

A couple of small utilities which I have written. Most of them are coded in REXX.

• alc (Alexander's Link Checker)
  Check HTML file(s) for broken links. It also reports about multiple defined NAME targets.
• Alexander's RexxUtils:
  
  • adfa
  • amfe
  • amkdist
  • at2h
  • which

• ACD2 (Alexander's Change Directory)
  the most comfortable and powerful utility for changing directories. Written in REXX.

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