Jan Hvilsted describes a situation that isn't unfamiliar to me, and possibly many of you as well. Regarding the silence from Team OS/2 Denmark when Jan tried to join the team "officially," I think there must have been a communication breakdown somewhere and I have offered my assistance in getting in touch with a Team OS/2 representative in Jan Hvilsted's neighborhood.
From: Jan Hvilsted (hvilsted@forum.dk). Subject: A reply to your view in the latest OS/2 Connect. I don't know if Team OS/2 has a future in Denmark, but it is a shame the little interest people and IBM in particular shows in OS/2. I have been an OS/2 user since version 2 and have no intention to switch to anything else for the time being. I'm today at Warp 4 US with FixPak 10. About a month ago, I was confronted with the request from Unibank to switch to W95 to continue using the PC-Bank. Contacting the bank did not show any interest to keep me as a customer by having the present access possibility kept open (it via WINOS2). I'm now investigating the market to change to a bank who doesn't force their customers to one particular software supplier, in this case MS. So far I have only located one bank in Denmark who does not require a specific operating system on your PC, to do your home banking, that being Jyske Bank. All what is required is an Internet Browser. (This could very well become my future bank). Den Danske bank is still supporting the WINOS2 solution, but for how long?. This little story is just to tell you that fools still exist, who support the use of OS/2 even when IBM seems to have abandoned the home market. (Maybe I should start looking into LINUX). As to Team OS/2's future; good question, I became a member many years ago, but never got sent any information, it was before I become an Internet user, so I couldn't follow the new coming out. Today I try on more or less daily basis to follow the news coming out about OS/2 on different sites, like http://www.phillyos2.org and IBM OS2DDPAK Device Driver site. Best regards Jan Hvilsted hvilsted@forum.dk
SOFTWARE NEWS
Klaus Post has ported uxcook 2.0.1 to OS/2 (
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=uxcook&pushbutton=Search)
uxcook is a tool for repairing binary files downloaded as ASCII.
F/X Communications has released version 2.2 of their Internet dialer,
Injoy. There is a great deal of new features and fixes compared to the
previous non-beta release; read more about the new version of Injoy at
http://www.fx.dk/injoy/.
IBM has released FixPak 40 for Warp 3 in Danish ( ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/v3.0warp/danish/).
Please do not hesitate to send me any news related to OS/2 from around the Scandinavian area.