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AdeptXBBS

"AdeptXBBS is a 32-bit, Multi-thread, Multi-user, PM BBS for 32-bit OS/2. AdeptXBBS incorporates the best that is OS/2! AdeptXBBS is designed to give you speed, reliability, power and flexibility in one package. Almost everything about AdeptXBBS can be customized. All the text displayed in the PM system, to every prompt and menu. AdeptXBBS gives you robust support for DOS and OS/2 doors using the DOOR.SYS and Session Info drop file."

Author: AdeptSoft (1993-1998).

1998-06-12: v4.2w. Formerly paid shareware, now freeware.

Find adf42w.zip (2.8MB) in the Hobbes archive: apps/comm/bbs/adeptxbbs.

MAGCOM — Companion program to Magnum.

"MAGCOM is a companion communications program to Magnum BBS. The purpose of MAGCOM is to provide EVERYONE with an OS/2 communications program at no charge. This is our way of asking you to consider our commercial product, MAGNUM BBS for OS/2, for your OS/2 host telecommunications needs. MAGNUM BBS, is perhaps one of the most powerful BBS packages available on ANY platform."

Author: Charles Gilmore / Gilmore Systems (1989-1993).

1993-09-01: v2.30.

Find magcom23.zip (82.3K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/comm/term.

MaxFile/2 — Maximus BBS file manager.

Package contains compiled binaries for DOS and OS/2.

Author: Ronald Van Iwaarden (1995).

1995-09-02: v1.30.

Find mfil130.zip (236.1K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/comm/bbs/maximus.

Internet File Transfer

AutoFTP

Author: Nicky Morrow (1997).

1997-12-22: v1.0.

Find aftp1.zip (101.1K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/ftp/client.

BlackRose FTP

Author: Stephen F Townsend, Canada (1994).

1994-05-01: v1.0 wide beta.

Find bftp1wb.zip (394.8K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/ftp/client.

ClipGrab — Video downloader.

"With ClipGrab you can download online clips from many sites with just some clicks and then automatically convert them into "usable" files. Like this, you can watch your favourite clips again and again wherever and whenever you like. And ClipGrab can also save your videos as audio files, you can put them on your mp3 player if you like."

Authors: Philipp Schmieder, Germany (2007-2019); OS/2 port by Elbert Pol, Netherlands (2015-2019).

2019-04-02: v3.7.2 - Last version for OS/2. Free under GPL 3.0 license.

Go to the ClipGrab website, in English - auf Deutsch und andere Sprache, for downloads for other OSes, source code and more.

cURL — Two-way file transfer between client and server, using Internet protocols.

This outstanding program uses standard Internet protocols (ftp, http, https, gopher, dict, telnet, ldap, file) to handle small- or large-scale file transfers, from the command line or from a script, without user interaction or intervention. It offers proxy support, user authentication, cookies and file transfer resume. Can be used standalone or as an external app in a browser or Telnet setup.

Compilations for many OSes are available. The libcurl library is also available, for providing cURL services in, or to, other programs.

Authors: cURL by Daniel Stenberg, Sweden; OS/2 ports: Takashi Ebisawa, Japan (2010), Marco G. Salvagno, Italy (2000) and Paul Smedley, Australia (2014).

Go to the cURL website for latest source, compilations for other OSes, libcurl, news, online manuals & more.

FTL

"FTL is a program to help anyone running a FTP site (via FTPD). FTPD has only one way to generate a log of user activity, with the "-t" option. The tracefile generated is not very useful. There is too much logged (who cares about PORT and STRU commands) and it's not very readable. FTL will take one of these tracefiles, read though it, and provide a much more readable log of server usage, along with oversall statistics (ie files transferred, bytes downloaded, etc)."

Author: Justin H. Dolske (1994).

1994-08-12: v0.8. SuggestionWare.

Find ftl08.zip (8.7K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/ftp/util.

FTPBox/2

Author: Miles Kuperus (2005-2007).

2007-08-09: v0.03.

Find ftpbox_0_03.zip (52.5K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/ftp/client.

FTPPM Visual REXX frontend

"Are you tired of re-typing the same information at all time when FTPing to a remote host? The TCP/IP FTPPM "Remote Logon" procedure reads your NETRC file searching for "User" and "Password" for any defined host name. However, you are supposed to type in the "Host" information anyway. I think it's a very annoying feature of FTPPM. This REXX procedure tries to remedy this behavior.

This REXX cmd file is used to start the FTPPM program through a Presentation Manager front end. This allows the choice of removing host entries in the TCP/IP NETRC file via a listbox without any user typing."

Author: Michele Marziani, Italy (1993).

1993-11-15: v1.01.

Find ftprxfe1.zip (6.4K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/ftp/client.

GNU Wget — Command line downloader.

The ftp command get downloads files from a server. Wget expands on that single command, downloading files under the ftp and http protocols, and with an expanded command set. It supports SSL security (https) and http proxies, and can be used standalone, or as an external app in a browser or Telnet setup. Compilations for many OSes, and source code, are distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Authors: Wget by Hrvoje Nikšić, Croatia et al. OS/2 ports and packages by Nikolay Kolosov, Russia (2005), Andreas Ludwig, Germany (2007), Ivan F. Martinez, Brazil (2001), Lewis G Rosenthal (2013) and Paul Smedley, Australia (2008).

2012-08-05: v1.14 - Last version for OS/2.

Find the latest development news at the GNU Project's Wget page.

GrabSite — Copy websites to local storage.

"GrabSite is designed to copy a WWW site to your local hard disk."

Author: Daniel Hellerstein (1999).

1999-10-22: Unnumbered release.

Find grabsite.zip (15.2K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/util.

Jasmine — Auto FTP uploader.

"Jasmine is the ftp front-end using the OS/2 WARP genuine part for FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for the maintenance of your webpages. And Jasmine can copy local files to destination directory with same functions of FTP Mode. Jasmine will put/copy the files and directories, only which are changed or altered from the last put/copy. You can also select if you want to put/copy this time such automatically selected files and folders. You may record the logs of uploaded files by either daily or monthly, too. And you can remove remote files that uploaded/copied and managed by Jasmine."

Package contains source code.

Author: Ken Kinoshita / Pretty Pop Software, Japan (1997-2004).

2004-11-03: v4.01β5. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find Jasmine-4.01_b5.zip (1.9MB) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/ftp/client.

KSCP — PM program for secure FTP servers.

Package includes docs in English & Korean.

Author: Myung-Hun Ko, South Korea (2012-2017).

2017-11-12: v0.5.0. Free under 'Modified' BSD License.

Find kscp050.zip (355K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/ftp/client.

Lyrics — Download lyrics from songs.

"Lyrics is a simple application that downloads specified by the user lyrics."

Author: OS/2 port by Elbert Pol, Netherlands (2012).

2011-06-28: v0.5.1.

Available in Netlabs' FTP server.

Marvin's Retriever — PM downloader.

"Marvin's Retriever is a small program similar to Netscape's SmartDownload but not as powerful (yet)."

Author: Diarmuid Albers, Germany (2002).

2002-07-22: v0.31. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Program available as WarpIN installer or zipped archive (source code and precompiled binary) in the Hobbes archive under the util/network/tcpip directory (retrievr031 with src or zip at the end if using zipped archives).

MaxiFTP — REXX FTP client.

"MaxiFTP is an alternative user interface to the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol. The program allows a user to transfer files to and from a remote network site. This program offers additional features that are not found in the standard interface, ftp."

Author: Albert Crosby (1994).

1994-02-18: v3β r191.

Find maxiftp3.zip (36.1K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/ftp/client.

NcFTP — Set of ftp programs.

The main program in the NcFTP set provides an interactive browser shell for ftp. The other utilities perform a variety of tasks, as noted below. Some shell features: Command line editing, filename completion, list caching, firewall support, on-the-fly TAR (with compatible servers). Requires network connection. Ported from Unix.

Authors: Mike Gleason / NcFTP Software (2016); OS/2 ports: Mentore Siesto, Italy (2012) and Paul Smedley, Australia (2008).

2011-01-01: v3.2.5 - Last version for OS/2. Free under Clarified Artistic License.

NetUse — User interface frontend for many internet commands.

Package contains REXX source code and docs in English & German.

Author: Thomas Bohn, Germany (2001).

2001-08-30: v1.5. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find netuse15.zip (89.1K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network.

NFTP — Text mode FTP client.

See description at the NFTP website among with features and download links of various operating systems.

Author: Sergey Ayukov, Russia (1994-2011).

2011-01-04: v2.0. Free under MIT license.

Personal Hobbes Virtual Mirror

"This is a Rexx program that uses the file 00GLOBAL.TXT from Hobbes to build a group of HTML pages that mirrors the contents of the Hobbes ftp site.

It will produce only the the pages that emulates the Hobbes structure, and will not attempt to download any file.

In the other hand, if you keep any file you've downloaded from Hobbes in the appropriate directory starting form the directory where you put the MKPHVM.CMD program, it will detect the files and will put an icon on the HTML page so that you can "download" it locally. If you keep PHVM in your local disk or on a LAN you probably find it quicker than accessing the Hobbes site (and hopefully it would prevent you from downloading the same file two or three times like I sometimes do).

This is a Rexx program so that you can change it easily."

Author: Ricardo H. Lindengrün, Portugal (1996-1998).

1998-06-11: v1.0.

Find phvm.zip (220.7K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/mirror/www.

PM Download Center

Author: Daniel Jorge Caetano, Brazil (2001).

2001-03-19: v0.60.

Find pmdc060.wpi as a WarpIN package in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/misc.

PMSPX

PMSPX is an FTP-like application that uses the Novell SPX protocol for its transport mechanism.

Author: Cliff DeCarlo (1996).

1996-06-14: v1.01.

Find pmspx.zip (282K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network.

Psion OS/2 utilities

"Psion utilities for OS/2 is a set of utilities to organize communication between your Psion Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and your Personal Computer (PC) under OS/2. All programs are text-window OS/2 applications with a wide set of commands. Psion utilities for OS/2 don't require to install any additional software on your Psion. As I've been reported, they work with the whole range of Psion devices. If you need access to your Psion from OS/2 and if you aren't afraid of printing commands on a keyboard - these are your utilities."

Package contains source code and docs in English & Russian.

Author: Andrei A. Porodko, Russia (1999-2002).

2002-03-05: v1.5. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find psiftp.zip (1.2MB) in the Hobbes archive: apps/comm.

Scythia — Qt FTP client.

Package contains docs in French.

Authors: Frédéric Julian, France (2007-2008), OS/2 port by Salvador Parra Camacho, Spain (2011).

2008-01-02: v0.9.3. Free under GPL 3.0 license.

Find scythia093-os2.zip (577K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/ftp/client.

Sslurp! — Download pages from websites.

"Sslurp! can retrieve pages from a HTTP (WWW) server. It can be configured to follow all hyperlinks on the page that lead to other pages on the same server. Images on the pages can be retrieved as well. All pages are stored on disk and can be viewed later using your web browser."

Author: Michael Hohner, Germany (1997-2003).

2003-03-18: v2.67.

Go to the Sslurp! website for download links, screenshots, release history and more.

VXFTP

Author: Howard Hyten (1994-1995).

1995-09-13: v1.00.

Find vxftp100.zip (623.2K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/ftp/client.

Web G.R.A.B. — Capture URL pages with images to a new htm file.

"The idea for this program is to capture URL pages with images to a new .htm file. The client can interactively use Webgrab or the browser inside."

Author: Asbjørn Pettersen, Norway (1996).

1996-10-15: v0.22.

Find webgr022.zip (262.8K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/util.

Mail and News Readers

Alpine — Emailer / news reader.

Alpine is the successor to Pine and is one of the most widely used email programs on Unix systems. Messages are retrieved by IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) from folders on remote machines. Mail sending is via SMTP.

Authors: University of Washington (2006-2008); maintained by Eduardo Chappa (2013-2020); OS/2 port by Nicholas Sheppard, Australia (2008).

2008-08-26: v2.00 - Last version for OS/2. Free under Apache license.

Go to the Alpine website for source code, patches, tips and tricks and downloads for other releases.

HL_News — REXX headline news viewer.

Author: Tom Fredrickson (1999).

1999-06-12: v2.1.

Find hl_news.zip (41.4K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/util.

Newsbeat — News reader.

"Newsbeat for OS/2 is a PM USENET newsreader for OS/2. It is multithreaded, which allows you to do many things at one time. In other newsreaders you have to wait for each function to finish before continuing on. In Newsbeat you can actually do many functions at one time, so no time is wasted watching your screen do nothing."

Authors: Dave Minogue, Vipin Bhargava (1997).

1997-07-01: v1.0.

Downloads available in the Hobbes archive in apps/internet/news/reader

• Program - newsbt10.zip (791.9K)
• Source code - newsbeatsource.zip (38K)

PMMAIL Offline Folder Archive and Maintenance Utility

"POFAMU allows a PMMail user to programmatically specify routine mail message maintenance in an 'off-line' (batch) mode. Messages may be moved between folders and accounts, zipped into folder-based archive files or completely deleted. Folders are re-indexed as required. A sample control file and .inf documentation are provided."

Author: Dave Serls (1998-1999).

1999-08-28: Unnumbered release.

Find pofamu.zip (128.3K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/mail/reader/pmm.

Mail Send & Receive

MailRun — Mail monitoring program.

"MailRun is a fast program to monitor your POP3 mail account. It can be set to notify you in, numerous ways, when you have new incoming mail including starting other programs, beeping you, prompting you with a dialog, and playing .WAV files. It's highly configurable and also has a mail preview feature to take a sneak peek at what is in your mail box without having to download it. Other features allow downloading the header file and a maximum of 50 lines, deleting files from your mail box, and running multiple copies to monitor multiple mail boxes. MailRun can be sized to take up a very small rectangular area and can also be set to float to the top of everything else if desired. MailRun also can notify NetChat users, if desired, when they are being Hailed by someone for a chat session."

Package contains source code.

Authors: André Doff, Netherlands (2012-2017); originally by Gary L. Robinson (1994-2012).

2017-09-10: v1.43. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find MailRun_1-43.zip (120.3K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/mail.

MAILTO — Simple non-interactive SMTP mailer.

"This program is for automating the sending of simple e-mails. It was written to fill a specific need, and is now being released, with a very slight amount of added functionality, so that anyone else who has a similar need may see said need fulfilled."

Package contains C++ source code.

Author: Mike Ruskai (2002).

2002-06-24: Unnumbered release.

Find mailto.zip (61.8K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

PMBiff — Checks for incoming mail.

"This nice little program is similar to the "xbiff" program known from X-Windows. PMBiff monitors the mailbox of your choice in intervals of your choice. PMBiff will raise its flag and beep if it detects incoming mail or play a sound file if MMPM/2 sound support is installed. It will lower the flag after the mail was read. No more, no less."

Author: Thomas Vandahl, Germany (1995).

1995-01-30: v1.2.

Find pmbiff12.zip (36.6K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/mail/util.

POPBiff — Simple Unix-like Biff program for the POP3 TCP/IP protocol.

"POPBiff is a Unix xbiff analogue. Only it has been designed to work with a POP3 server i.e. it doesn't monitor a file on disk. Instead it periodically checks your POP3 mailbox. It will raise its flag and optionally beep on incoming mail. It will lower the flag if the mail is read. An optional secondary window can show the total count of new mail messages and their total size."

Current features:

• compatibility with IBM TCP/IP 1.2.1, 2.0 and Warp IAK
• usual flag down/flag up stuff (à la Unix xbiff)
• display of new message count and total size
• optional beep in response to new mail
• mail checking every N minutes (N ranging from 1 to 120)
• saving of settings (host, user, password) to an INI file
• password encryption when saving to an INI file
• saving of window positions/size/color
• ability to turn off error messages for SLIP/PPP connections

Author: Michele Marziani, Italy (1995).

1995-04-23: v1.1.

Find popbif11.zip (149.2K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/mail/server.

RXPOP — REXX utilities for POP mailing.

"RXPOP enables to check a POP account and automatically download messages."

Author: Christoph Lechleitner, Switzerland (1996).

1996-06-24: v1.2.

Find rxpop12.zip (12.8K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/mail/server.

Thunderbird — Email, news and RSS client from the Mozilla Project.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component, with several new features and improvements to make your mail and news experience better. It integrates chat client and, since version 38, a calendar application.

Authors: Contributors to the Mozilla codebase (2004-2021), see the credits page at https://www.mozilla.org/credits/ (sorted) or the monument in the San Francisco office (unsorted). OS/2 port by Dave Yeo (2015-2018).

2017-03-07: v45.8.0 - Last version for Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard", Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion", Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" and OS/2. Free under MPL 2.0 license.

Go to the Thunderbird website for precompiled binaries for other OSes, features, extensions and version changes.

Go to the Mozilla organization's archive to download precompiled binaries for other OSes, language packs and the source code.

Network Connections

BM2WPS — Create URL folders/objects from Netscape's bookmarks.

"BM2WPS creates URL folders and URL objects from your Netscape bookmark file BOOKMARK.HTM."

Note: Netscape must be your default web browser to get URL objects for Netscape. BM2WPS is for OS/2 Warp 4 only (because URL objects and folders are new features of Warp 4).

Author: Markus Jasinski, Germany (1998).

1998-01-09: v1.01.

Find bm2wps.zip (86.9K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/util.

Can't Wait — Speeds up browsing by decreasing the MTU size.

Author: Tim Dodge / Dynamic Information Systems (1998).

1998-10-13: Unnumbered release.

Find cantwait.zip (2K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

Carrie R. Lust — Phone cost / online time tracking utility.

"Carrie R. Lust is a highly configurable phone-cost and online time tracking utility for OS/2 in the tradition of Richard Papo's "MemSize" systemresources monitor.

You may choose freely which values out of 11 available should be displayed, may let Carrie warn you in several ways (Beep, messagebox, etc.) when certain events happen (end of current unit, user configured time limit reached, user configured costs reached, etc.) and may log all connections to a file.

The scheme, after which the charges to be applied are determined, may be configured by the user to suits her/his needs (though especially this feature is still far from what I want it to be ...)"

Package contains C source code.

Author: Thorsten Thielen, Germany (1998-2000).

2000-03-14: v1.17. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find clust117.zip (244.7K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip or download it from the author's website.

ConnStat — ISDNPM Connection Log Analyzer.

Creates complete connection statistics for the period covered by existing log files grouped by month and year, including traffic, connection time and error count.

Author: Robert Schroeder (2003).

2003-06-29: v0.3β.

Find connstat03.zip (19.2K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

Easel Sync

"The ESLASYNC.EXE local application is designed to provide XModem, 1K XModem, and YModem file transfer protocols for Easel/2 applications. It is assumed that you are fairly familiar with file transfer protocols."

Author: Easel Corporation (1990).

1991-10-06: Unnumbered release.

Find xfer.zip (21.8K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/comm/transfer.

FingPing — PM-based finger and ping program.

"FingPing is an OS/2 PM program that will allow you to store a list of frequently fingered and pinged addresses and display the output in a scrollable window."

Author: Greg Kondrasuk (1996).

1996-10-16: v1.0.

Find fngpng10.zip (125.6K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

FleetStreet — FTS compatible editor.

Authors: Michael Hohner, Harry Hermansdorfer, Germany (1998-2002).

2002-08-15: v1.25.7.

Find flt1257.zip (894.8K) as a WarpIN package in the Hobbes archive: apps/comm/offline.

getstats — WWW/gopher server reporting utility.

getstats (formerly called "getsites") is a C program that will produce detailed, concise, monthly, weekly, daily summary, daily, hourly summary, hourly, domain, request, directory tree, and error reports from your World-Wide Web or Gopher server.

Here's the details:

• Works with CERN, NCSA, Plexus, GN, MacHTTP, and UNIX Gopher log files.
• Supports the "common" Web log format.
• All reports are in the same consistent format.
• Basic statistics include server name and type, date, total requests last 7 days, unique hosts last 7 days, total unique hosts, number of HTML, script, and non-HTML requests, total number of requests, average load (requests per hour and day), number of bad requests, date coverage, and running time.
• Detailed report includes host name, number of host requests, and last access date.
• Monthly, weekly, daily, hourly, and summary reports are in vertical bar-chart format, with number of requests for each week or day.
• You can add byte traffic statistics to every report.
• Full, request, and domain reports can be sorted by requests, name, byte traffic, or date.
• You can filter requests and IP or name addresses matching certain conditions. You can filter by date, hour and day conditions also.
• You can generate "Top 10 (or any number)" lists.
• getstats can take standard input, so you can pipe stuff to it.
• getstats can produce HTML output.
• Runs under VMS, DEC Ultrix, SunOS...

Package contains C source code.

Author: Kevin Hughes (1995); OS/2 port by Network Cybernetics Corporation (1995).

1995-04-11: v1.2.

Find getstats.zip (136.7K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/util.

GoSWISH — A web indexing system.

"GoSWISH is a free search engine for OS/2 Web Sites. GoSWISH consists of ver 1.3 of the SWISH "web indexer", a script to automate its use, and a script to provide a front-end to WWW clients."

Author: Daniel Hellerstein (1999).

1999-06-08: v1.48.

Find goswish5.zip (307K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/util.

ipconfig — REXX routine to emulate basic functions of Windows ipconfig utility.

Author: John J. LeMay Jr. (2001).

2001-04-04: v1.3.

Find ipcfg13.zip (3.9K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

IpConfigPM — Graphical interface to change IP address for network adapters.

Author: Dušan Golubič, Slovenia (2008-2010).

2010-05-22: v1.4e. Free under GPL 3.0 license.

Find IpConfigPM1.4a.zip (91.6K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

IP Monitors toolkit — REXX DLL with TCP/IP functions.

"This archive is a collection of scripts you can use to create TCP/IP monitors. They are intended for use with XWorkplace V0.9.12 or higher and the XWorkplace Widget Library V0.5.2 or higher. It consists of a REXX DLL and a couple of sample REXX scripts for use in a gauge widget."

Package contains C source code.

Authors: Cliff Brady, Martin Lafaix (2001).

2001-07-08: Unnumbered release.

Find tcpmon.zip (29K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/wps/workplace.

IPSpeed — a small PM-application to measure the speed of your TCP/IP connection.

"IPSpeed measures the speed of your tcp/ip interfaces. Every interface (network, ppp or others) can be selected for measuring. The following values are displayed for both directions of data-flow:

• total bytes transferred through this interface
• average bytes per seconds transferred (in the last three seconds)
• maximum average bytes per seconds

A small diagram shows the average bytes per seconds for the last 35 seconds. All values and the diagram are updated every second."

Author: Michael Bock, Germany (1996-1997).

1999-03-23: v1.02. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find ipspeed.zip (122K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

Istart — Starts applications once an internet connection is established.

"Istart is a REXX program that waits for Internet connection. When it is established, it starts all applications placed in the Internet startup folder. It checks if an ip address exists. When ip address has been obtained, the launch sequence starts."

Author: Michel Such, France (2002).

2002-11-26: v1.1.

Find istart11.zip (105.1K) in the Hobbes archive: internet/misc.

kipcfg — Allocate IP address automatically from DHCP server.

"This program is intended to allocate IP address automatically from DHCP server."

Package contains source code and docs in English & Korean.

Author: Myung-Hun Ko, South Korea (2011).

2011-03-01: v0.1.1. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find kipcfg011.zip (57.7K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

MPING — Node monitoring for TCP/IP.

MPING is a program for node monitoring through TCP/IP.

Author: Maxim Annenkov, Russia (1998).

1998-03-03: v0.9.

Find mping09.zip (48.3K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

MYIP — Utility for querying your public IP address.

"MYIP is a simple TCP/IP utility for querying the current system's IP address as seen by the outside world. This may or may not be the same as the locally-configured IP address, depending on how the system is connected to the Internet."

Package contains source code.

Authors: originally by Alexander Taylor (2006), maintained by Andreas Buchinger, Austria (2012-2019).

2019-03-31: v0.7. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find MyIP_07.zip (40.5K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

NCB — Network traffic control program.

"Allow control traffic on network card, include Receive, Transmit, Collision Alignment, Retrain. Work over NETBEUI ONLY. Take control block of each computers in net (cable, hab)"

Package contains docs in English & Russian.

Author: Pavel Shtemenko, Russia (1999-2000).

2000-08-25: Unnumbered release.

Find ncb.zip (26K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network.

NDFSCONF — NetDrive configuration utility.

"Just a small util I made to make it slightly easier to mount FTP sites etc. with NDFS (NetDrive)."

Author: Eirik Øverby, Norway (2000).

2000-10-19: v1.0.

Find ndfsconf.zip (15.9K) in the Hobbes archive: util/config.

Netcat — Read/write data on connections using TCP/IP.

"Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol.

It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.

It provides access to the following main features:

• Outbound and inbound connections, TCP or UDP, to or from any ports.
• Featured tunneling mode which allows also special tunneling such as UDP to TCP, with the possibility of specifying all network parameters (source port/interface, listening port/interface, and the remote host allowed to connect to the tunnel.
• Built-in port-scanning capabilities, with randomizer.
• Advanced usage options, such as buffered send-mode (one line every N seconds), and hexdump (to stderr or to a specified file) of transmitted and received data.
• Optional RFC854 telnet codes parser and responder."

Authors: originally by Avian Research (1992-1994); maintained by Giovanni Giacobbi, Italy (2002-2004); OS/2 port by Mentore Siesto, Italy (2011).

2004-01-11: v0.7.1. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Go to the Netcat website for more info.

NetFolder — Folder full of OS/2 URL objects.

"NetFolder is a group of nested folders populated with Uniform Resource Locator (URL) objects that link to lots of information about Operating System/2 (OS/2) on the World Wide Web (WWW) and other parts of the Internet. It takes advantage of OS/2's drag and drop capabilities as well as the features of Object Desktop by Stardock to create a list of internet links far superior to WebExplorer's QuickList and Netscape's Bookmarks."

Author: Michael Neice / KrazyDog Software (1996).

1996-06-04: v1.35.

Find netf135.zip (144.6K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

NETGRAB — Command line client for programming.

"Netgrab is a full featured command line client mainly for use in batch file programming. It incorporates FINGER, FTP, GOPHER, HTTP, NNTP, POPMAIL, and TIME clients in one program."

Package contains source code.

Authors: Martin L. Roth, Stephen Loomis (1994).

1997-06-12: v1.0. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find netgrab.zip (411.3K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/misc.

NETIO — Network Throughput Benchmark.

"This is a network benchmark for OS/2 2.x, Windows, Linux and Unix. It measures the net throughput of a network via TCP and UDP protocols using various different packet sizes."

Package contains compiled binaries for AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2, Solaris and Windows and C source code.

Author: Kai-Uwe Rommel, Germany (1997-2012).

2012-11-22: v1.32.

Find netio.zip (158.7K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network.

Network Configuration Manager

"The Network Configuration Manager is a free utility that allows you to save and manage multiple OS/2 network configurations. It can handle settings for multiple protocols and adapters and allows you to quickly switch between them without having to change settings in multiple configuration programs like MPTS and the TCP/IP configuration notebook. It is not, however, intended to replace MPTS and other OS/2 network configuration utilities but rather to provide a way of saving configurations set up with these other tools and quickly switching between them as needed. The Network Configuration Manager also DOES NOT maintain the driver installations in your config.sys."

Author: John Blumel (2000).

2000-12-19: Unnumbered release.

Find netcfg.zip (48.4K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network.

NIFMON — Monitor network interface speed.

"NIFMON.EXE is a very simple TCP/IP network interface monitor. It displays the interface name, description, speed in bits per second, bytes received, bytes sent, average bytes per second total throughput and max average bytes per second."

Author: John R Clark (1996).

1996-04-09: Unnumbered release.

Find nifmon.zip (35.7K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

nslint — Lint for DNS files, checks integrity.

"Nslint reads the nameserver configuration files and performs a number of consistency checks on the DNS records.

Nslint understands both ancient style named.boot and BIND 8's named.conf files (which are also used by BIND 9)."

Authors: Craig Leres, The Regents of the University of California et al. (1991-2009); OS/2 port by Antonio Sanmarti, Italy (2001).

2001-03-20: v2.0.2 - Last version for OS/2.

Find nslint.zip (124.4K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

NSPING — A simple DNS latency/connectivity testing program.

"Nsping uses DNS queries to monitor reachability and operation of nameservers, as well as the latency of DNS queries. It does this by sending random recursive DNS queries to the nameserver (avoiding the effects of DNS caching) and measuring the amount of time between the sending of the query and the receipt of the response packet.

The latency of DNS transactions depends heavily on the data being queried for. The zone within which to query can be specified explicitly on the command line, or inferred from the local host. To measure the responsiveness of a nameserver for information it is authoritative for, specify one it's zones of authority as this zone.

To measure basic network latency and DNS processing time, specify a hostname on the command line. If this is done, DNS queries sent by nsping will not be randomized, and nameservice caching will cause the program to measure only network+processing time. If latency between the first and subsequent queries does not vary greatly, nameservice caching may not be enabled on the probed server.

Finally, a rough estimate of the latency between two sets of nameservers can be measured by querying one of those servers for information within a zone authoritative for the other servers. This would be more useful if there was a way to specify which of a zone's servers a target server queries."

Package contains C source code.

Authors: Thomas H. Ptacek (1997), OS/2 port by Antonio Sanmarti, Italy (2001).

1997-11-24: v0.7. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find nsping.zip (55.5K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

OpenSSL

"The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSLv3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptograpic library. The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related documentation."

Authors: The OpenSSL Project (1998-2021); originally by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson (1995-1998); OS/2 ports by Takashi Ebisawa, Japan (2010-2015); Brian Havard, Australia (2003).

2018-11-20: v1.0.2q - Last version for OS/2. Free under Apache License.

Go to the OpenSSL website for downloads for other releases, version history, wiki, manual and more.

OS2_NTPD — Network time protocol client.

"OS2_NTPD is a 32-bit, multi-threaded, text mode, NTP client application that runs in a Presentation Manager text window."

Authors: originally by Bruce M. Penrod (1996), maintained by Steven H. Levine (2015).

2015-01-20: v1.4.

Find os2_ntpd-1.4-full-shl-2015-01-20.zip (81.4K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/clock.

pilot-link — Palm OS sync tools.

"pilot-link is a suite of tools used to connect your Palm or Palm OS compatible handheld with Unix, Linux, and any other POSIX-compatible machine. pilot-link works with all Palm OS handhelds, including those made by Handspring, Sony, and Palm, as well as others. pilot-link includes userspace "conduits" that allow you to synchronize information to and from your Palm device, as well as libraries of Palm-compatible functions that allow other applications to take advantage of the code included in pilot-link."

Authors: originally by Kenneth Albanowski; maintained by David A. Desrosiers et al. (2002-2010); OS/2 ports by Yuri Dario, Italy (2005); Stefan Zechmeister, Germany (1999).

2006-08-25: v0.12.0 pre4 beta Trois ans - Last version for OS/2. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find pilot-link-0.12.0-pre4-b2-os2.zip (1.9MB) in the Hobbes archive: apps/pim.

PMRouMon

"PMRouMon is a small application for the OS/2 Presentation Manager for monitoring an ADSL-Router."

Package contains C source code.

Author: Jürgen Dittmer, Germany (2002-2003).

2003-03-20: v9a.

Find roumon9a.zip (59.6K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

PM Timer — Online phone costs calculator.

"PM Timer/2 is an online phone costs calculation program for OS/2 Presentation Manager. It gets rid of the hassle of having to use a different logfile for every communications program you use, not to mention the programs that don't even keep a logfile (think about Dial Other Internet Providers in the OS/2 Warp bonuspak).

PM Timer - when used in the right manner - logs all your outgoing calls in one single logfile and calculates the phone costs made in a specified period of time on your demand.

PM Timer will monitor the serial port to which your modem is connected and detect any connections you make with your modem or ISDN-card. (The latter only if you access your ISDN-card through a virtual comport provided by e.g. Cfos/2)

Furthermore, if desired you can run PM Timer unattended from batchfiles using commandline parameters.

And, with PM Timer running you'll always keep track of your online (surfing) time, even if the PM Timer window is invisible. PM Timer places a small clock that displays the online time and costs for that session in the currently active Presentation Manager window's titlebar."

Author: Jeffrey Habets, Netherlands (1997).

1997-04-21: v1.17.

Find pmt117.zip (87K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/comm.

PPMU — pilot-link frontend.

Author: Denny Mleinek, Germany (2000).

2000-08-30: v1.0.

Find ppmu10.zip (727.9K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/pim.

RINGUTIL — Display LAN Ring Utilization.

"This program displays the LAN Ring Utilization for the ring on which the station resides. Utilization is checked every minute and the last hour of activity is graphed."

Author: Chris Ahl for IBM (1994).

1994-06-29: Unnumbered release. Free under IBM EWS license.

Find ringut.zip (17.2K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network.

ripMIME — Extract email message attachments.

"ripMIME is a command line tool used to aid in the extraction of email borne attachments to files which can be processed using other UNIX tools. ripMIME supports both the RFC MIME standards as well as being able to behave according to various MUA 'features' which are often used as exploitation holes.

Authors: Paul L. Daniels (2002-2011); OS/2 port by Alex Samorukov, Russia (2004).

2004-03-10: v1.3.1.0 - Last version for OS/2. Free under 'Modified' BSD License.

Go to the ripMIME website to download the latest source code.

RxRsync — Rexx procedures for the rsync differencing protocol.

RxRsync contains several OS/2 classic REXX procedures that implement the rsync "differencing" protocol.

Package contains source code.

Author: Daniel Hellerstein (1999).

1999-11-18: v1.01.

Find rxrsync.zip (134.1K) in the Hobbes archive: dev/rexx.

SOUPbox — Internet SOUP ↔ FIDO-BBS .PKT converter.

SOUPbox is a collection of conversion programs which convert SOUP offline reader packets used by Internet-compatible software to .PKT's which can be read by FIDO-compatible BBS programs. It is intended for use by FIDO-style BBS sysops and point node operators."

Package contains C source code.

Author: Carl Austin Bennett, Canada (1998).

1998-01-25: v0.0β.

Find soupbox0.zip (63.8K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/comm/bbs.

SEAlink

Author: System Enhancement Associates, Inc. (1992).

Package contains DOS and OS/2 versions.

1992-06-03: v1.40.

Find clink140.zip (74.4K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/comm/transfer.

Subnet Calculator

Author: VicTor Smirnoff, Russia (2011).

2011-04-26: v0.02.

Find rxCalcNet002.zip (7.8K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

TCP/IP Profile Manager

"TCP/IP Profile Manager lets you define multiple TCP/IP configurations (as selectable "profiles") and switch between them without rebooting. This is mainly useful if you have a laptop which you have to move between different locations which require different IP configurations (for instance, some static, others using DHCP)."

Author: Alexander Taylor (2010).

2010-10-27: v1.0. Free under 'Modified' BSD License.

Downloads available in the Hobbes archive in util/network/tcpip

• Program - ipprf_10.zip (73.6K)
• Source code - ipprf_10_src.zip (19.8K)

Traffic Visor III — IP traffic analyzer.

"This program is intended to analyze IP-traffic in the LAN using flexible mechanism to count IP-packets by sender/receiver addresses, TCP/UDP ports, ICMP-services, and so on. There are several ways for capture packets, XML data format, HTTP and PIPE interfaces."

Author: Andrey Vasilkin, Russia (2007).

2007-05-23: v1.01.3.

Find tv3-20070523.zip (1.5MB) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

tSearch — Desktop-based internet searcher and page launcher.

"TSearch is a small Web search engine entry field for the desktop. Or you can use it as an URL launcher."

Authors: 2Rud Software and Panacea Software (1997).

1997-09-19: v1.00.

Find tsrch100.zip (44.5K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/util.

URLCopy — URL collection utility.

"How shall I remember an interesting web address without being interrupted in reading an email or a newsgroup? Away with stickers all about, since there is OS/2 Warp. This little WPS tool will help while collecting and surfing."

Author: Lothar Söns, Germany (2002).

2002-05-28: v1.1.

Downloads available in the Hobbes archive in internet/www/util

• In English - urlcpye.zip (72.3K)
• Auf Deutsch - urlcpyd.zip (73.1K)

URLObjectTool

"The URLObjectTool will enhance the open menu of URL Objects."

Author: Norbert Kohl, Germany (2000).

2000-03-22: v0.1β. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find urlot01b.zip (5.3K) in the Hobbes archive: util/wps.

Web S.L.I.D.E. — Runs a slideshow of URL pages.

"The conception of this program is to make use of the WWW to implement slideshows or other demonstrational presentations.

With this a Client/server can easily present information through use of a network. The client can use the web SLIDE or the web browser within the program."

Author: Asbjørn Pettersen, Norway (1996).

1996-03-09: v0.22β.

Find websl022.zip (217K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/util.

Whois

Author: Thomas Fotherby (1998).

1998-03-29: v1.2.

Find whois12.zip (7.3K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/misc.

Whois

Authors: Richard J. Sexton (1998); OS/2 port by Bjørn Mork, Norway (1998).

1998-03-30: Unnumbered release.

Find whoiskg1.zip (6K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/misc.

zeupd — Update DNS address on zoneedit.

"I have established my own domain and am hosting my own web server and mail server. When I started to look around for a client to automatically update the IP Addresses on zoneedit I couldn't find one that I liked or worked well. So I decided to write my own. This is the first cut and as such there are some limitations."

Author: Ken Laurie (1998-2005).

2005-02-24: v0.9.

Find zeupd09.zip (381.6K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/dynip.

Other Comm Progs

2hobbes — Automatically upload any package to the Hobbes archive.

"2hobbes lets you automatically upload packages to the incoming directory of the well known Hobbes File Archive."

Author: Christian Langanke, Germany (2001-2004).

2004-10-05: v1.04.

Find 2hobbes104.zip (16.6K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/misc.

Asynchronously Communication for REXX

"The enclosed REXX DLL comprises a set of functions which are used to extend the REXX language by providing FULL exposure of the ASYNC communications API. In addition a number of higher level functions are also provided to simplify the task of enabling REXX to be used as a scripting language for serial communications control."

Package contains C source code.

Author: Ian Timms, Australia (1994).

1994-12-26: v2.0.

Find rxasyn20.zip (138.4K) in the Hobbes archive: dev/rexx.

Bandit Convert — Command line tag converter.

"This simple utility converts oneline tag files into WYSIWYG tag files, or the other way around."

Author: Flemming Bregnvig for FA Partners, Denmark (1997).

1997-09-15: v1.00.

Find banconv1.zip (86.2K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/mail/util.

Bandit Tagger — Add taglines to PMMail.

"Bandit Tagger is a tool to add taglines to your outgoing mail. The taglines can be selected random or manually. It also enables you to change the X-Mailer line in the header section."

Author: Flemming Bregnvig for FA Partners, Denmark (1997).

1997-06-25: v2.0. Cardware.

Find bandit_b2.zip (438.8K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/mail/reader/pmm.

Beholder — RMON compliant Ethernet monitor.

Author: Jan van Oorschot, Netherlands (1992-1993).

1993-01-08: Unnumbered release.

Downloads available in the Hobbes archive in util/network

• Program - btng2exe.zip (813.7K)
• Source code - btng2src.zip (875K)

Cable — LAN cable tester.

"Cable is a small wrapper with portions of code from GenMac utilities samples and from XWorkplace. It has been written to allow automatic start of XWLan when the LAN cable is not connected to your computer. Since OS/2 drivers cannot provide such info, it can work only if the GenMac driver is used for your LAN card (check GenMac for supported chipsets)."

Package contains source code.

Author: Yuri Dario, Italy (2005-2006).

2006-08-02: v1.0. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Find cable10.zip (14.5K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network.

CheckLink — Create, examine, traverse, and index Web-Trees.

CheckLink is a free, multi-threaded, socket aware utility used to create, verify, traverse, and index a web-tree; where "web-tree" is defined as all the URLs (in-line images, anchors, etc.) that are referenced in a base HTML document, and in html documents reachable from this base. CheckLink is written in REXX, and can be run as an addon for the SRE-http web-server, or as a standalone program.

Author: Daniel Hellerstein (2001).

2001-05-19: v1.13β.

Find cheklink_v113b.zip (151.2K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/util.

DragURL'Base

Author: Floris A.C. Naaijkens / UltiHouse Software B.V., Netherlands (1998).

1998-04-14: Unnumbered release. Cardware.

Find dragurl.zip (231.2K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/util.

FormCheck/2

FormCheck/2 is designed to be a CGI-Program executed on a "submit"-button of a from. It works with either the POST or GET. FormCheck controls the data passed for being complete and then passes to a mail or fax-process. It can handle "dependings" (e.g. different mail-addresses on different entries at an element in the form).

Package includes demo page.

Author: Arne Blankerts, Germany (1998).

1998-06-05: v1.12β.

Find frmchk112.zip (31.4K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/util.

LAN Server Management Tools

"The major purpose of the tools is to help the novice as well as the experienced LAN Server administrator to migrate, update and/or maintain his LAN Server domain(s).

The tools allow the administrator to extract the information of his current LAN Server environment into ASCII files, change it and use it to apply these changes to the same or to a newly installed environment.

Therefore these tools are useful to:

• Backup a LAN Server domain
• Restore a backuped version
• Migrate (for example from LAN Server 3.0 to 4.0 or WarpServer)
• Consolidate
• Restructure the actual domain definitions

The programs are written in REXX not only to enable you to adjust them to your own needs but also to demonstrate the usability and easiness of REXX. We have written the programs to meet following objectives:

The command files have to:

• be easy to read and debug by any user who is familiar with REXX
• be easy to upgrade to a PM environment by using programs such as VX-Rexx, VisPro-Rexx, GPF-Rexx, DrDialog and so on
• provide external customizable files for proper convenience such as column length, language and so on
• provide error and logging facilities for all activities"

Author: Alain Rykaert, Belgium (1995-2001).

2001-05-01: v2.13c.

Find lsmt213c.zip (1.7 MB) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/lansrv.

MailCut — Convert Netscape and Eudora messages to PMMAIL format.

"MailCut is a utility for converting email files from Netscape and Eudora in the file format of PMMAIL. The program saves all emails from one folder in one big file. PMMAIL saves every email in one file. For every folder it uses a subdirectory."

Package contains English & German versions.

Author: Christoph Reimer, Switzerland (1997-1998).

1998-03-03: v1.20.

Find mailcut.zip (618.6K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/mail/reader/pmm.

MTPSync — Utility to work with USB Media Transfer Protocol devices.

"MTPSYNC is a simple command line tool to transfer data to/from USB MTP device (i.e. media player, cell phone, digital phone device and so on)."

Author: Nikolay Kolosov, Russia (2009).

2009-08-24: v0.0.2.

Find mtpsync-0.0.2.zip (123.6K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/mmedia.

News Harvest — Extract binaries from news groups.

"News Harvest lets you extract binaries from all your favorite news groups while you work, while you sleep, or while you watch."

Author: Kingsley Turner, Australia (1997-2002).

2002-08-05: v1.7. Free under GPL 3.0 license.

Find NewsHarvest-1_7_fix.wpi (1.2MB) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/news/util.

PMNapster — Napster Presentation Manager client.

Author: Ricardo Mayrink, Brazil (2002).

2002-11-12: v3.6.4.

Find pmnapster364.zip (681K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/misc.

RexxIPC — interprocess communication for REXX.

"The RexxIPC library is designed to supply basic Inter Process Communication capabilities for Rexx programs. This is accomplished by supplying a near one-to-one API to the Named Pipe, Event Semaphore and Mutex Semaphore OS/2 system services."

Author: Serge Brisson (1994-1997).

1997-04-26: v1.20.

Downloads available in the Hobbes archive in dev/rexx

• Program - rxipc.zip (41.2K)
• Source code - rexxipc-src.zip (67.8K)

REXXSOCKVM — an alternate REXX socket API.

"The Rexx sockets API supplied with OS/2 TCP/IP is significantly different from the APIs supplied with VM/ESA and OS/390. REXXSOCKVM supplies an alternate API which is roughly source-compatible with the mainframe versions, eliminating one obstacle to porting Rexx programs."

Package contains source code.

Author: Peter R. Flass (2000).

2000-08-08: v1.0β.

Find rxsvm10b.zip (34.7K) in the Hobbes archive: dev/rexx.

RxTelnet — REXX Telnet/TN2370 API.

"This package provides a simple Network Virtual Terminal (NVT) as defined by the "Telnet Protocol Specification (RFC 854)". It provides both C and Rexx callable functions in a .dll."

Package contains C source code.

Author: Ben Ravago (1999).

1999-09-20: Unnumbered release.

Find rxtelnet.zip (98.2K) in the Hobbes archive: dev/rexx.

sendip — Distributes your dynamic IP via email.

"This REXX script allows you to distribute your dynamic IP via email to your work or school. This allows you to run an auto-dialer on your system and have access to it regardless of the assigned IP."

Author: Dennis Peterson (1996).

1996-12-08: v2.1.

Find sendip21.zip (3.8K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

TTCP — Test TCP connection.

Package contains C source code.

Authors: Terry Slattery et al. (1984-1991); OS/2 port by Marco G. Salvagno, Italy (1998).

1998-06-18: Unnumbered release.

Find ttcpos2.zip (12.8K) in the Hobbes archive: util/network/tcpip.

WHOAMI — Display hostname/IP address.

"This program will tell you what your current domain name and IP address is. Granted, this won't do you ANY good unless you are connected to some sort of TCP/IP (Internet-type) network, by SLIP, PPP, or other means."

Package contains C source code.

Author: Ryan C. Gordon (1996).

1996-06-23: v1.2.

Find whoami12.zip (11.7K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/misc.

Wireless LAN Monitor — XCenter widget and standalone program.

This program can be used to monitor wireless networks.

Authors: Christian Langanke et al.; maintained by Andreas Buchinger, Austria (2017).

2017-12-22: v3.14β6.

Find this utility in Netlabs' FTP server.

WSiever — Check for updated web pages.

This PM program keeps a list of URLs and checks for their updates. The check can be manual or periodical. It can check for changes in the header or in the page body.

Package contains docs in Japanese.

Author: A.Y. Dayo, Japan (2003).

2003-05-26: v1.10.

Find wsiev110.zip (81.9K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/util.

Terminal Programs & Protocols

Kermit — Outstanding text and text-graphics terminal.

Kermit is a high-end, text and text-graphics terminal program that can run by itself, or embedded within some other program. It can run over a variety of networks, including the Internet when coupled with Telnet.

Authors: Frank da Cruz, Christine M. Gianone, Daphne Tzoar, Jeff Damens, Joe R. Doupnik, James Harvey, et al. (1994-2011).

Kermit is owned by Columbia University. Releases are prepared by Joe R. Doupnik and the members of the Kermit Project. Free under 'Modified' BSD License.

2003-01-21: v2.1.3 (Kermit 95 2.1) - Last version for OS/2.

Go to the Kermit Project, for old and new versions for many other OSes and machines, general news & info.

WWW Browsers

Falkon/QupZilla — Qt5 web browser.

"Falkon is a web browser using QtWebEngine rendering engine. It aims to be a lightweight web browser available through all major platforms. This project has been originally started only for educational purposes. But from its start, Falkon has grown into a feature-rich browser.

Falkon has all standard functions you expect from a web browser. It includes bookmarks, history (both also in sidebar) and tabs. Above that, it has by default enabled blocking ads with a built-in AdBlock plugin."

Authors: David Rosca et al. (2010-2020); OS/2 port by Elbert Pol, Netherlands (2015).

2015-11-11: QupZilla 1.8.9 - Last version for OS/2. Free under GPL 3.0 license.

Go to the Falkon website for recent releases and more.

Firefox — Browser from the Mozilla Project.

Authors: Original Phoenix by Pierre Chanial, Joe Hewitt, David Hyatt & Blake Ross. Firefox by Contributors to the Mozilla codebase (1998-2021), see the credits page at https://www.mozilla.org/credits/ (sorted) or the monument in the San Francisco office (unsorted). OS/2 ports by Doug Bissett (2017), André Doff, Netherlands (2017) and Dave Yeo (2014-2019).

2017-04-18: v45.9.0 - Last version for Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard", Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion", Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" and OS/2. Free under MPL 2.0 license (the license is also available online at the Mozilla website or via about:license).

Go to the Firefox website for precompiled binaries for other OSes, descriptions of some features, social media channels and more.

Go to the Mozilla organization's archive to download precompiled binaries for other OSes, language packs and the source code.

Links — Graphical and textual browser.

Links is a graphics and text mode web browser compliant with HTML4 standards.

Features:

• Links runs on Linux, BSD, UNIX in general, OS/2, Cygwin under Windows, AtheOS, BeOS, FreeMint.
• Links runs in graphics mode (mouse required) on X Window System, SVGAlib, Linux Framebuffer, OS/2 PMShell, AtheOS GUI
• Links runs in text mode (mouse optional) on UNIX console, ssh/telnet virtual terminal, vt100 terminal, xterm, and virtually any other text terminal. Mouse is supported for GPM, xterm, and OS/2. Links supports colors on terminal.
• Easy and quick user control via pull-down menu in both text and graphics mode, in 25 languages.
• HTML 4.0 support (without CSS)
• HTTP 1.1 support
• Tables, frames in both graphics and text mode, builtin image display in graphics mode
• Builtin image display for GIF, JPEG, PNG, XBM, TIFF in graphics mode
• Anti-advertisement animation filter in animated GIFs
• Bookmarks
• Background file downloads
• Automatic reconnection in case of TCP connection breakdown
• Keepalive connections
• Background (asynchronous) DNS lookup
• Possibility to hook up external programs for all MIME types, possibility to choose one of more programs at every opening.
• 48-bit high-quality image gamma correction, resampling and Floyd-Steinberg dithering in all color depths.
• Font resampling (antialiasing) for virtually unlimited pitch range, LCD optimization of fonts and images.
• Builtin fonts in the executable without reliance on any fonts installed in the system
• User-adjustable menu, HTML font size and image zoom factor.
• User-adjustable display gammas (red, green, blue), viewing-condition correction gamma and precise calibration of both monitor and Links on a calibration pattern
• Automatic aspect ratio correction for modes like 640×200, 640×400, 320×200 with user-adjustable manual aspect ratio correction.
• Support for one-wheel mice (vertical scroll), two-wheel mice (vertical and horizontal scroll) and smooth scrolling by grabbing the plane with a mouse (no wheel needed).
• Easy installation, the browser is just one executable and no more files.

Note: Some TeX tags caused problems with auto-generated files (e.g. the table of contents in the project documentation is displayed as \maketoc in project.html and projektova(2).html in the website's parent directory).

Authors: Mikuláš Patočka (1999-2022), Karel Kulhavý, Petr Kulhavý, Martin Pergel (2000-2013), Czech Republic.

2021-05-18: v2.23. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Go to the Links website, in English - v Čeština, for precompiled binaries for other OSes, docs, screenshots (taken in 2002) and more.

lynx — Text mode Web browser and more.

lynx is a power user's text-only browser. Setup takes time, but the result will be a package that can do almost anything, online or offline. It knows the http, https (SSL), ftp, file, news, nntp, and gopher protocols. TCP/IP and file compression/decompression (with internal bzip2, or external zip, unzip, gzip, tar, etc.) are included. Navigation can be via keyboard or mouse. lynx can be configured to call external programs to handle, e.g., telnet (Kermit recommended), tn3270, mail and Talk.

Authors: Thomas E. Dickey et al. (1997-2021). Original lynx for Unix by Lou Montulli, Charles Rezac & Michael Grobe of The University of Kansas, et al. OS/2 ports and packages by Andrew A. Belov, Russia (2016), Jason F. McBrayer (1998), Jun Sawataishi, Japan (2001) and Michel Such, France (2003).

2016-04-26: v2.8.9dev.9 - Last version for OS/2. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Go to the Lynx website for downloads for other OSes, release notes and more.

Netscape — Web browser, page editor and more.

The OS/2 port is very outdated. For example it does not support:

• tabbed browsing (up to Netscape 7.0)
• popup blocking (up to Netscape 7.0)
• searching from the address bar (up to Netscape 6.2)
• spyware protection (up to Netscape 8.1)

Authors: Original Netscape by Netscape Communications Corporation (1997-2008) et al. Original OS/2 port by John Fairhurst, UK and Henry Sobotka (1997). OS/2 development by many people at IBM, see the developer race at about:authors.

1999-06-14: v4.61 - Last version for OS/2. Free under MPL 1.1 license.

See SeaMonkey below for the active development. Go to Antony Shen's Netscape Browser Archive for downloads of many versions for other OSes (note that all downloads are linked to Netscape's non-existent FTP server).

Opera

The OS/2 port is very outdated. For example it does not support:

• automatic completion from the address bar (default in the Blink version suggests special pages and previously typed history entries like in Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers)
• fraud protection (up to Opera 9.1)
• speed dial page for visiting frequently used sites (up to Opera 9.2)
• developer tools (up to Opera 9.5) (available in English only)
• private browsing that is incognito mode (up to Opera 10.50)
• extensions (up to Opera 11)
• tab management (up to Opera 18)
• importing data from other browsers (up to Opera 26)
• browsing under a virtual private network (up to Opera 36)
• virtual reality (up to Opera 49)
• tab freezing (up to Opera 66)

Author: Opera Software ASA, Norway (1995-2022), see the contributor list in the about page for recent versions.

2001-06-27: v5.12 - Last version for OS/2 released as paid shareware.

Go to the Opera website for the Blink version (including Opera GX - gamer variant), docs and more.

QBrows — WebKit based browser.

"QBrows is web browser based on WebKit and written with Qt 4.7."

Authors: Dennis Bespalov, Russia (2010); OS/2 port by Salvador Parra Camacho, Spain (2011).

2010-12-15: v1.0. Free under GPL 3.0 license.

Go to the SourceForge project page for QBrows for more info.

QtWeb — lightweight, secure and portable browser having unique user interface and privacy features.

"QtWeb is an open source project based on Nokia's Qt framework and Apple's WebKit rendering engine (the same as being used in Apple Safari and Google Chrome). QtWeb is so compact and self-sufficient (not much dependencies), that it operates perfectly in bootable Windows (WinPE-based) and Linux environments (LiveCD) and has been used in many freeware and shareware projects, like Active@ Boot Disk."

Authors: QtWeb by QtWeb contributors (2008-2013); OS/2 port by Salvador Parra Camacho, Spain (2011).

2012-02-02: v3.7.5 build 099 - Last version for OS/2. Free under GPL 2.0 license.

Go to the QtWeb website for release history, comparisons of other browsers and downloads for other OSes.

SeaMonkey — Integrated application suite based on the Netscape and Mozilla application suites.

The SeaMonkey project is a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey Internet Application Suite. Such a software suite was previously made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the SeaMonkey project continues to develop and deliver high-quality updates to this concept. Containing an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal to advanced users, web developers and corporate users.

Authors: SeaMonkey by the SeaMonkey council and contributors to the Mozilla codebase (1998-2022), see the credits page at https://www.mozilla.org/credits/ (sorted) or the monument in the San Francisco office (unsorted). OS/2 port by Dave Yeo (2010-2019).

2018-02-15: v2.42.9 ESR - Last version for OS/2. Free under MPL 2.0 license (the license is also available online at the Mozilla website or via about:license).

Go to the SeaMonkey Project website, for downloads for other releases, screenshots, features, changes in other versions and more.

Go to the Mozilla organization's archive to download precompiled binaries for other OSes, language packs and the source code.

WebExplorer — PM based browser.

WebExplorer is very outdated. For example it does not support:

• frames
• JavaScript and Java
• popup blocking
• tabbed browsing

Author: IBM (1995-1996).

1996-12-11: v1.1h.

Go to the evolt website to download this browser.

WebNavigator — PM based browser with incomplete documentation. Requires WebExplorer.

"WebNav is a web browser for OS/2. WebNav is a faster, easier way of browsing the web than WebExplorer. It tries to mimic WebExplorer but has changed many functions for a more ‘modern’ look. Also WebNav adds many features that is not in WebExplorer. If you are used to work with WebExplorer you will soon get used with WebNav. Most menu-items and keyboard shortcuts are similar to those in WebExplorer."

Author: John Martin Alfredsson / JMA Technologies, Sweden (1998).

1998-07-28: v2.1β1.

Find webn21b1.zip (270K) in the Hobbes archive: apps/internet/www/browser.