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Archive Description List (files.bbs) Creators
4Desy/2 — 4DOS and 4OS2 description file editor.
Author: Wolfram Körner, Germany (1994).
1994-12-09: v1.40. Cardware.
Find 4desy140.zip (103.1K) in the Hobbes archive: util/shell.
4dizzy — Import BBS to 4DOS file descriptions.
"4dizzy is a utility to import information from file_id.diz files found in most distributed archives into 4DOS/4OS2 file descriptions. 4DOS/4OS2 stores the description info into a hidden file descript.ion so you may remove any descriptions simply by deleting this file.
4dizzy will process user-defined archives, while any descriptions for any files are preserved. 4dizzy will put a marker description for new archive files it cannot find a file_id.diz file for - any previously processed files are ignored by default."
Author: Olli Männistö, Finland (1996).
1996-10-28: v9.6. Cardware.
Find 4dizzy96.zip (54.7K) in the Hobbes archive: util/shell.
Archive Viewers and Editors
Archive Viewer
"The Archive Viewer is a very simple GUI tool for viewing and extracting archive files of various types. It cannot create archives, nor is this ever planned as a feature. (This program is not intended to compete with commercial archive managers which do allow this.)"
Author: Alexander Taylor (2006-2013).
2013-08-01: v2.2. Free under GNU GPL 2.0 license.
Download this utility as a WarpIN installer from the author's site.
KAZip — Zipfile utility.
Author: Kevin Ash, UK (1998).
1998-09-20: v1.0.
Find kazip1.zip (342.2K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
Simple ZipShell — OS/2 PM and REXX program.
"Simple Zipshell extends your WPS for handling ZIP and ARJ archives. It will create some program objects with useful associations for *.ZIP- and *.ARJ-files. When packing large data volumes, it will create multiple zip files, each with a size of 1,44 MB maximum. Selective unpacking of parts of the archive is not possible. When packing data, only zip archives will be created. Packing/unpacking folders and sub-folders also works.
Simple Zipshell consists of only some lines of Rexx-code which will create 6 program objects and 2 folders, and of 6 tiny batchfiles packing and unpacking archives."
Package contains docs in English & German.
Author: Martin Vieregg, Germany (1993-1998).
1998-08-24: v2.1.
Find zipshell.zip (33.3K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver or download it from the author's site.
TarGZipPM — .tar.gz user interface.
Author: Virtual Publication, UK (1998).
1998-11-08: v1.6. Emailware.
Find targzippm16.zip (430.8K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
The Archive Folder
Package contains English & Danish versions.
Author: Thomas Olsen, Denmark (1996).
1996-10-18: v0.32β.
Find af0_32b.zip (265.3K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
The UnZip Shell — ZIP file archive front-end.
"The UnZip Shell is an OS/2 PM front end for ZIP file archives. The following instructions will guide you step-by-step to installing UnZip Shell and integrating it into the Workplace Shell. The UnZip Shell allows you to activate files in your ZIP archives without unzipping the whole archive. This is handy for viewing text files, etc... Using the OS/2 Object Association feature, you can activate any object that is associated with the files contained within your archive files."
Author: John Wagner (1994-1996).
1996-02-15: v1.3r.
WarpExpander — Front-end for un-archivers.
"Warp Expander is a PM front-end for command line archivers (such as unzip, unrar or unpack) and lets you:
- show the contents of an archive and expands its contents in a desired folder.
- associate all the archive files with only one program object.
In some aspects, Warp Expander is a clone for OS/2 of a Haiku program (Expander). Essentially the concept and features are same in both programs so the idea of Warp Expander isn't mine."
Author: Salvador Parra Camacho, Spain (2003).
2003-12-12: v0.6.0.
Find wexp060z.zip (58.6K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
WPIView — WPI file viewer.
"This is, as the name indicates, a viewer for the content of WarpIN archives. Basically WPIView acts as a frontend for WIC.EXE, which comes with each version of WarpIN."
Author: Herwig Bauernfeind, Austria (2006-2010).
2010-06-19: v1.1.l0. Available in Netlabs' FTP server.
ZiPMe — PM ZIP shell.
"This is ZiPMe, a multithreaded zip shell that helps you to manage zip archives of INFO-Zip programs. Newer ZIP versions can be used, if there is no change in the command line arguments."
Package contains English & German versions.
Author: Peter Eggert, Germany (1995-1996).
1996-06-14: v1.3. Cardware.
Find zipme13.zip (159.8K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
ZipZap — Archive editor.
"ZipZap for OS/2 is a fast integrated 32bit utility that makes working with ZIP files easier than ever. Zip, unzip, view, and more."
Author: Gary L. Robinson (1997-2012).
1998-01-08: v1.27. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Find ZipZap_1-27.zip (761.6K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
Backup
Backrar
"This program is a PM helper to create backups with the RAR compressor. The program creates a cmd file that can be ran without this program."
Package contains source code and most docs in Spanish.
Author: Roberto Gainza, Spain (2003-2005).
2005-01-30: v0.09.
Find backrar009.zip (418.7K) in the Hobbes archive: util/backup.
fileUpdate
"This program attempts to simplify backups of files in a directory. The backup can be either another directory or a zip file. The program will not create the initial zip archive used for backup but will show the files in the archive and add to it."
Package contains C source code.
Author: Robert O'Brien (2000).
2000-01-09: v0.1.
Find fileup01.zip (112.2K) in the Hobbes archive: util/backup.
luckyBackup
Authors: Loukas Avgeriou, Greece (2007-2018); OS/2 port by Elbert Pol, Netherlands (2014).
2017-10-19: v0.4.9 - Last version for OS/2. Free under GPL 3.0 license.
Find this utility in Netlabs' FTP server.
Go to the luckyBackup homepage for compilations for other OSes, screenshots under Linux, version history, and more.
RxBMW (REXX Backup My Way)
"RxBMW - 'Backup My Way' is a PM frontend for your custom backup commands. Backup commands are stored in a configuration file, and through the program interface the user selected source and target drive letters are merged into the backup commands. A Rexx program is generated to perform the backup.
A history of backups is generated which shows date, time, commands used, and elapsed time for the backup. File level details of a backup are available until the drive is again backed up.
A separate window shows all drives on the system, with file capacities and file systems used by the drive. Both real and virtual drives are available for RxBMW to use as source and target drives."
Package contains REXX source code.
Author: Stan Pokorney (2003-2004).
2004-03-11: v1.0.1.
Find drbmw-1.0.1.zip (369.6K) in the Hobbes archive: util/backup.
Checksum
MD5SUML
"MD5SUML calculates MD5 checksums like many other programs. It simply includes the feature of checking large files."
Package contains C source code.
Author: Axel Meiss (2004).
2004-02-21: Unnumbered release.
Find md5suml.zip (23.7K) in the Hobbes archive: util/encrypt.
PMCRC32 — SFV & MD5 File Checker.
"PMCRC32 is a OS/2 PM Checksum Checker needed for creating/checking so called "SFV Files" as like WINSFV for Windows.
It can handle all SFV's created with all versions (even exotic ones) of checkers on Windows and Linux Operating Systems."
Author: Reinhard Berger, Germany (1999-2002).
2002-11-21: v2.0.115.
Find pmcrc32.zip (566.1K) in the Hobbes archive: util/misc.
PMDigest — Calculates MD5 and SHA256 sums.
Author: Gunner Prießnitz, Canada (2007).
2007-07-09: v1.0.
Find pmdigest.zip (67.6K) in the Hobbes archive: util/file.
PMUUE (Presentation Manager UUENCODER/UUDECODER)
"PMUUE stands for Presentation Manager Unix-to-Unix Encoder/Decoder. It is used to encode and decode Unix-to-Unix encoded files (commonly known as UUencoded files.)
Using text only mail readers, it is not possible to send binary files through E-mail because of the possibility of non-ASCII characters being lost or converted to other characters. A utility, such as PMUUE, will convert a binary file into a set of ASCII characters (UUencoded format) which can be sent through E-mail and converted back into binary format once the destination is reached."
Author: Colin Vernon, UK (1996).
1996-08-12: v1.44.
Find pmuue114.zip (63.4K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
REXX_MD5
"REXX_MD5 contains several OS/2 REXX tools that allow you to compute the MD4 and MD5 digests of any string."
Package contains Fortran source code.
Author: Daniel Hellerstein (2000).
2000-04-10: Unnumbered release.
Find rexx_md5.zip (107.9K) in the Hobbes archive: dev/rexx.
ValidateItNow
ValidateItNow is a file validater which allows you to do CRC checking on a set of files.
Author: Terje Flaarønning, Norway (1999).
1999-08-26: v3.0β1.
Find validate-it-now030b1.zip (58.5K) in the Hobbes archive: util/file or download it in the author's website with a shortened filename.
EXE Compressors, Packers, Unpackers
E_WISE — Unpack files from Wise Installshield installers.
Author: Veit Kannegieser, Germany (2002).
2002-07-01: Unnumbered release.
Find e_wise.zip (106.4K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
LX lite — a compressor for OS/2 executables.
This is a fantastic program to pack OS/2 executables in Linear Executable (LX) format. OS/2 uses the LX format for .EXE, .DLL, .PDR, .QPR, .DRV, .FON and .SYS files. Virtual Device Drivers (VDDs) for DOS sessions are also in LX format. You can even compress the OS/2 kernel (os2krnl)!
LX compresses the files in the same way as LINK386 does. The decompression algorithm is part of the OS/2 WARP program loader. So files compressed with LX are "simple" OS/2 executables. There's no additional stub program necessary to uncompress the compressed files.
Authors: originally by Andrew Zabolotny, Russia (1996-1997); maintained by Max Alekseyev, Russia (2001-2015), Silvan Scherrer / bitwise works GmbH, Switzerland (2017).
2017-09-26: v1.3.9. Free under GPL 2.0 license. Available in the bitwise works GmbH GitHub repository.
STIX — Unpack files from Stirling Technologies installers.
Author: Veit Kannegieser, Germany (2001).
2001-06-13: Unnumbered release.
Find stix.zip (48.6K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
Typ — File type recognizer and archive lister.
Examination of files and bootsectors
- determine archiver, crypter, viruses, compiler, music, images data files, BIOS-chipsets, ...
- user-friendly background search
- configuration program
Author: Veit Kannegieser, Germany (2004).
2004-08-13: Unnumbered release.
Find typ_os2.zip (531K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
File Archivers, Compressors, Extracters
ARJ
ARJ is a popular and versatile shareware archiver (free for individual use only). Compression stats are average but ARJ's file management capabilities are unmatched. An excellent choice for maintaining backups. Can archive files to multiple volumes regardless of destination media. Can create self-extracting archive EXEs. Supports Long File Names under all Win32. Free for individual use, except "you cannot distribute ARJ self extracting files publicly without a license".
Authors: Robert K. Jung / Arj Software (2002, 2005); OS/2 port by Andrew A. Belov, Russia et al.
CABextract — a program to extract Microsoft Cabinet files.
Authors: Stuart Caie, UK (2000-2018); OS/2 ports by Alex Samorukov, Russia (2002), Mentore Siesto, Italy (2011).
2006-06-21: v1.2 - Last version for OS/2. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Go to the CABextract website for downloads for recent versions and more.
Clear — Backup and cleanup, create backup file lists.
"Creates file lists for backup and deleting with detailed include/exclude criterions."
Author: Martin Vieregg, Germany (1995).
1995-10-22: v1.0.
Find clear10e.zip (54.4K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
LSZipWizard — Archive viewer, extracter and editor.
"This application is a graphical user interface
- to list the contents of a compressed Zip archive
- to view single files thereof
- to extract this archive following given options
- or to create a new Zip archive or modify (update) an existing one, following given options."
Package contains docs in English & German.
Author: Lothar Söns, Germany (2017-2021).
2021-08-24: v1.21.
Find lszipwiz-1.21.zip (402.4K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
NELite — Experimental NE file repacker.
"NELite packs programs, libraries and drivers that are stored in segmented NE (New Executable) format. Actually, you could use LX lite to convert them to paged LX (Linear eXecutables) since the LX format does not have the simple /Exepack:1 "compression", but also the much better /Exepack:2. But the NE format has a small header and ancillary expenses. And /Exepack:2 compressed files do not compress as good as Exepack:1 or no compression and then using a usual ZIP/ARJ/RAR file compressor."
Author: Veit Kannegieser, Germany (2002-2004).
2004-06-30: Unnumbered release.
Find nelite.zip (101.3K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
PMUnZip — View and extract zip files.
Author: Gunner Prießnitz, Canada (2007).
2007-12-07: v1.0.
Find pmunzip.zip (70.6K) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.
rxGZlib — GZIP compression procedures for OS/2 REXX.
"These procedures will deflate, and inflate, both strings and files. Deflate & inflage are used by the popular GZIP compression program; hence the output of these procedures is readable by GZIP.EXE (and vice versa)."
Package contains C source code.
Author: Daniel Hellerstein (1999).
1999-12-21: v1.01.
Find rxgzlib.zip (133.4K) in the Hobbes archive: dev/rexx.
XDSKF — Self-extract DSK files.
"The XDSKF package provides a self-extraction extension for DSK files (diskette image files created with SAVEDSKF or EMT Suite). For the task of extracting the image to a diskette using this extension, the LOADDSKF program is being embedded in self-extracting diskette image executables."
Author: Christian Langanke, Germany (2001-2004).
2004-03-10: v1.00.
Find xdskf100.zip (96.8K) in the Hobbes archive: util/system.
zlib — Data compression library.
Authors: Jean-loup Gailly, Mark Adler et al. (1995-2017); OS/2 ports by Christoph Brendes, Germany (2005), Takashi Ebisawa, Japan (2005-2009), Myung-Hun Ko, South Korea (2015), Russell O'Connor, Canada (2002), Mikuláš Patočka, Czech Republic (2011-2018), Mentore Siesto, Italy (2012), Vadim Yegorov, Russia (2003), Dave Yeo (2006).
2017-01-15: v1.2.11.
Go to the zlib website for downloads for other OSes, manual, license agreement and more.
Installers
WarpIN — General purpose installer.
"The WarpIN general purpose installer for OS/2 is used for creating and installing archives and can be used to distribute almost any application. It has full support for system configuration (CONFIG.SYS, WPS classes, WPS objects) and can fully undo all the changes to your system again. It can do package dependencies and execute external programs for system configuration after install. REXX scripting support is also built in."
Authors: Jens Bäckman, Ulrich Möller, Netlabs et al. (1997-2022).
2022-04-11: v1.0.26. Free under GPL 2.0 license.
Find warpin-1-0-22.zip (1.2MB) in the Hobbes archive: util/archiver.