Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1329
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:01:19 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600

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Sunday 09 July 2006
 Number  1329
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Subjects for today
 
1  Re:  Ganttproject (PM) for OS/2 : Ian Manners" <deadmail>
2  Re:  "Open the pod bay doors, please HAL!" : Kev <kdownes at tpg dot com dot au>
3  Re:  "Open the pod bay doors, please HAL!" : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
4   HP Business Inkjet 1000 : Paul Smedley <paul at smedley.info>
5  Re:  HP Business Inkjet 1000 : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
6  Re:  HP Business Inkjet 1000 : Chuck McKinnis <mckinnis at sandia dot net>
7  Re:  HP Business Inkjet 1000 : Kev <kdownes at tpg dot com dot au>
8  Re:  HP Business Inkjet 1000 : David Shearer <dsh43871 at bigpond dot net dot au>
9  Re:  HP Business Inkjet 1000 : Paul Smedley <paul at smedley.info>
10  Re:  Ganttproject (PM) for OS/2 : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
11  Re:  HP Business Inkjet 1000 : David Shearer <dsh43871 at bigpond dot net dot au>

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Date:  Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:19:54 +1000 (EST)
From:  "Ian Manners" <deadmail>
Subject:  Re:  Ganttproject (PM) for OS/2

And on similar programs for those simpler things.

http://www.ws-it.de/en/product/ptime/ptimeuse.html

Cheers
Ian Manners
http://www.os2site dot com/

On a clear disk you can seek forever
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Date:  Sat, 08 Jul 2006 23:46:52 +0800
From:  Kev <kdownes at tpg dot com dot au>
Subject:  Re:  "Open the pod bay doors, please HAL!"

John Angelico wrote:

>I know that VT is not in the eCS releases, but does anyone know where it is
>in the original Warp 4 CDs (of which I have one per machine here, of
>course), and how to get it installed from there, please?
>
>Oh, and could the historians please remind us exactly WHEN Warp 4 was
>released, and HOW MANY YEARS it will be until Vista actually catches up??
>  
>
Actually VT was included with the first 2 releases of eCS.  If you have 
eCS 1 or 1.1 Cds, check on the second disk.  You can install it with a 
pretty GUI installer and everything :-)

Cheers
Kev

-- 
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Kev Downes
kdownes at tpg dot com dot au  ph 0404 7 0808 2
We use and recommend Xandros 3.0.2
=========================
There are 10 types of people ...
   ... those who understand binary, and those who don't!
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"Jesus Christ is the centre of everything and the object of everything;
He who does not know him, knows nothing of the order of the world
and nothing of himself."             Blaise Pascal
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Date:  Sun, 09 Jul 2006 09:41:19 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  "Open the pod bay doors, please HAL!"

Voicetype IS supplied with eComstation - it's on the 2nd CD if I 
remember correctly !

Cheers/2

Ed.

John Angelico wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I was surprised at the latest news re vanishing Windows Vista...
> 
> Apparently it will include a new convenience feature
> 
> Spoken commands to control your computer!
> 
> Have a read of
> 
> http://blogcastrepository dot com/blogcasts/37/windows_workstation/entry588.aspx
> 
> http://blogs.technet dot com/chenley/archive/2006/02/21/420136.aspx
> 
> Of course, you will have to train your computer to recognise your voice but
> it will be wonderful and convenient to "just say the word" <VBG>. This is
> regarded as being highly COOL in the blogosphere. 
> 
> Well, having fallen off the chair laughing, I picked myself up off the
> floor and wondered, hmm, now that our machines have more memory and
> horsepower, could Warp 4 VoiceType/VoiceDictation actually be functional?
> 
> I know that VT is not in the eCS releases, but does anyone know where it is
> in the original Warp 4 CDs (of which I have one per machine here, of
> course), and how to get it installed from there, please?
> 
> Oh, and could the historians please remind us exactly WHEN Warp 4 was
> released, and HOW MANY YEARS it will be until Vista actually catches up??
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards
> John Angelico
> OS/2 SIG
> os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or 
> talldad at kepl dot com dot au
> ___________________
> 

>  

> 

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Date:  Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:38:43 +0930
From:  Paul Smedley <paul at smedley.info>
Subject:   HP Business Inkjet 1000

Hi All,

Seems my old Epson inkjet printer has died so I'm in the hunt for another.

The HP Business Inkjet 1000 seems to be going for a reasonable price 
locally - anyone tried this one on OS/2 or eComStation?

The Business Inkjet 1100 is listed in the omni drivers, and the HP 
manual for the printer states:
Information about using the IBM PostScript 3 emulation printer driver 
for IBM OS/2. Visit
http://www.hp dot com/support/businessinkjet1000.

Of course - at that page I can't find any information.

I did do a little googling and found that the printer can work in 
Wordperfect 5.1 using the Business Inkjet 1100 driver so it may be OK?

-- 
Cheers,

Paul.
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Date:  Sun, 09 Jul 2006 11:59:21 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  HP Business Inkjet 1000

Paul Smedley wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Seems my old Epson inkjet printer has died so I'm in the hunt for another.
> 
> The HP Business Inkjet 1000 seems to be going for a reasonable price 
> locally - anyone tried this one on OS/2 or eComStation?
> 
> The Business Inkjet 1100 is listed in the omni drivers, and the HP 
> manual for the printer states:
> Information about using the IBM PostScript 3 emulation printer driver 
> for IBM OS/2. Visit
> http://www.hp dot com/support/businessinkjet1000.
> 
> Of course - at that page I can't find any information.
> 
> I did do a little googling and found that the printer can work in 
> Wordperfect 5.1 using the Business Inkjet 1100 driver so it may be OK?
> 
If your Epson has died, you may be able to "fix" it by downloading a 
program to reset the counters. This was the case with my Epson Stylus 
color 680. It seems there are counters in these printers that stop the 
printer working unless you take it in for a "service" (the Epson dealer 
then changes the sponge that collects any excess ink from the cartridges 
and then resets the counter(s).

Cheers/2

Ed.
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Date:  Sat, 08 Jul 2006 20:22:11 -0600
From:  Chuck McKinnis <mckinnis at sandia dot net>
Subject:  Re:  HP Business Inkjet 1000

Paul Smedley wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Seems my old Epson inkjet printer has died so I'm in the hunt for another.
> 
> The HP Business Inkjet 1000 seems to be going for a reasonable price 
> locally - anyone tried this one on OS/2 or eComStation?
> 
> The Business Inkjet 1100 is listed in the omni drivers, and the HP 
> manual for the printer states:
> Information about using the IBM PostScript 3 emulation printer driver 
> for IBM OS/2. Visit
> http://www.hp dot com/support/businessinkjet1000.
> 
> Of course - at that page I can't find any information.
> 
> I did do a little googling and found that the printer can work in 
> Wordperfect 5.1 using the Business Inkjet 1100 driver so it may be OK?
> 

The secret is to find a Postscript PPD (Postscript Printer Definition) 
file if one exists.  Adding new printers to the existing Postscript 
driver is a fairly simple procedure.  I used the readme to enable my HP 
2550 Color LaserJet on eCS using a WinXP PPD file, and it works quite well.

-- 
Chuck McKinnis
Covenant Solutions
http://www.7cities dot net/~mckinnis/os2/
505-286-3191

If you aren't confused, you don't understand the situation.

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Date:  Sun, 09 Jul 2006 14:14:33 +0800
From:  Kev <kdownes at tpg dot com dot au>
Subject:  Re:  HP Business Inkjet 1000

Chuck McKinnis wrote:

>
> The secret is to find a Postscript PPD (Postscript Printer Definition) 
> file if one exists.  Adding new printers to the existing Postscript 
> driver is a fairly simple procedure.  I used the readme to enable my 
> HP 2550 Color LaserJet on eCS using a WinXP PPD file, and it works 
> quite well.

You're dead right Chuck.  .PPD files are plain text files and are common 
across /all/ OSes which can handle postscript.  So it doesn't matter 
what OS they /say/ it's for, it's for /all/ OSes.

Cheers
Kev

-- 
=========================
Kev Downes
kdownes at tpg dot com dot au  ph 0404 7 0808 2
We use and recommend Xandros 3.0.2
=========================
There are 10 types of people ...
   ... those who understand binary, and those who don't!
=========================
"Jesus Christ is the centre of everything and the object of everything;
He who does not know him, knows nothing of the order of the world
and nothing of himself."             Blaise Pascal
=========================

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**= Email   8 ==========================**

Date:  Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:17:53 +0000
From:  David Shearer <dsh43871 at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  HP Business Inkjet 1000

Paul Smedley wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Seems my old Epson inkjet printer has died so I'm in the hunt for 
> another.
>
> The HP Business Inkjet 1000 seems to be going for a reasonable price 
> locally - anyone tried this one on OS/2 or eComStation?
>
> The Business Inkjet 1100 is listed in the omni drivers, and the HP 
> manual for the printer states:
> Information about using the IBM PostScript 3 emulation printer driver 
> for IBM OS/2. Visit
> http://www.hp dot com/support/businessinkjet1000.
>
> Of course - at that page I can't find any information.
>
> I did do a little googling and found that the printer can work in 
> Wordperfect 5.1 using the Business Inkjet 1100 driver so it may be OK?
>
I recently replaced my epson c61 with an epson c87 - it works well with 
the epson ibm c80 drivers.  it is a colour inkjet with separate ink 
tanks for each colour etc.  quite good quality.  At officeworks it is 
currently on sale i think.

David
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**= Email   9 ==========================**

Date:  Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:50:38 +0930
From:  Paul Smedley <paul at smedley.info>
Subject:  Re:  HP Business Inkjet 1000

Hi David,

David Shearer wrote:
> Paul Smedley wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Seems my old Epson inkjet printer has died so I'm in the hunt for 
>> another.
>>
>> The HP Business Inkjet 1000 seems to be going for a reasonable price 
>> locally - anyone tried this one on OS/2 or eComStation?
>>
>> The Business Inkjet 1100 is listed in the omni drivers, and the HP 
>> manual for the printer states:
>> Information about using the IBM PostScript 3 emulation printer driver 
>> for IBM OS/2. Visit
>> http://www.hp dot com/support/businessinkjet1000.
>>
>> Of course - at that page I can't find any information.
>>
>> I did do a little googling and found that the printer can work in 
>> Wordperfect 5.1 using the Business Inkjet 1100 driver so it may be OK?
>>
> I recently replaced my epson c61 with an epson c87 - it works well with 
> the epson ibm c80 drivers.  it is a colour inkjet with separate ink 
> tanks for each colour etc.  quite good quality.  At officeworks it is 
> currently on sale i think.

How's the quality of photo prints?

Cheers,

Paul
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Date:  Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:41:56 +1000
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  Ganttproject (PM) for OS/2

PTime2 appears to be a time reporting tool rather than a Project 
Planning tool - interesting never the less.

Cheers/2

Ed.

Ian Manners wrote:
> And on similar programs for those simpler things.
> 
> http://www.ws-it.de/en/product/ptime/ptimeuse.html
> 
> Cheers
> Ian Manners
> http://www.os2site dot com/
> 
> On a clear disk you can seek forever

>  

> 

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**= Email   11 ==========================**

Date:  Sun, 09 Jul 2006 21:19:26 +0000
From:  David Shearer <dsh43871 at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  HP Business Inkjet 1000

Paul Smedley wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> David Shearer wrote:
>> Paul Smedley wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> Seems my old Epson inkjet printer has died so I'm in the hunt for 
>>> another.
>>>
>>> The HP Business Inkjet 1000 seems to be going for a reasonable price 
>>> locally - anyone tried this one on OS/2 or eComStation?
>>>
>>> The Business Inkjet 1100 is listed in the omni drivers, and the HP 
>>> manual for the printer states:
>>> Information about using the IBM PostScript 3 emulation printer 
>>> driver for IBM OS/2. Visit
>>> http://www.hp dot com/support/businessinkjet1000.
>>>
>>> Of course - at that page I can't find any information.
>>>
>>> I did do a little googling and found that the printer can work in 
>>> Wordperfect 5.1 using the Business Inkjet 1100 driver so it may be OK?
>>>
>> I recently replaced my epson c61 with an epson c87 - it works well 
>> with the epson ibm c80 drivers.  it is a colour inkjet with separate 
>> ink tanks for each colour etc.  quite good quality.  At officeworks 
>> it is currently on sale i think.
>
> How's the quality of photo prints?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul
 
>
> 

>
Haven't tried photos yet - just normal colour prints on plain paper - 
but I found the c61 very good with photo quality - so expect the same 
from the c87.

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