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 Hi All.
I just tested on my OS/2 Client Warp 4.5 (Warp 4.0 + FP13) the new Beta of Download Center, version 0.32, by Fudeba Software (Daniel J. Caetano) and this fine release is running very fine here. With Download Center all functions of Autoget are improved and you takes total control on all downloads. At this time this version is yet a secret Beta and his name and location cannot be unveiled.

 Download Center uses the WarpIN package technology developed by Ulrich Moeller & associates on NetLabs. In the photo below you can see the Download Center warpinned file being unpacked and installed by WarpIn on my Warp 4.5:

In the next photo you can see the Agreement screen for Download Center Beta 0.32 displayed by WarpIN:

In the next screenshoot below you can see the Download Center installation concluded on my Warp 4.5:

When the Download Center install is completed a folder is created on your desktop, with objects for manage the soft and a Manual, as you can see in the image below:

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Say goodbye to download problems!!

        =======================
        by Daniel J. Caetano
        Author of PM Download Center
          ==========================

        Long, long time ago, in a galaxy  far away... (ops, wrong text!)...
Well, it was middle  of 1998. At this  time I was  just wondering how great
could be a  program like GetRight for  using with OS/2. At that time, I had
found an  interesting program:  AutoWGet Daemon. It was  made by  a russian
guy, and it was a REXX script.
        I looked into  its code and thought: "Nice  concept! If I implement
this in C or C++ I can add more and more functions!"...

        AutoGet/2 was  born. In middle  of november, 1998,  I  started  the
open beta program for my  OS/2 friends at  OS/2 Brasil mailing list. It was
great and they were  very receptive to the news  and I was very, very happy
with the response.
        At that  time, all of  them asked for a  PM version of the program,
since AutoGet/2 was  made for  VIO Window, but I had no knowledge to create
such program. I was just starting on OS/2 programming world. But I was just
starting that version, and even doing it  at VIO, I  thought to make it the
better  download program  ever made... but  sometimes we  cannot do what we
want to. In middle  of december a crash on my harddisk simply destroyed all
of my source code, and  only an installed version of the program was saved,
on my syster's  computer (she was testing the beta  version for me). It was
then the version 0.99.70b of AutoGet/2.

        After some  time, I decided  to package AutoGet/2, even  that  beta
program, and  distribute it, because  keeping it hidden  would be of no use
to other  users... Besides,  even  at beta  stage,  AutoGet/2 was  the most
advanced  automatic download program  ever made for OS/2! So  I created the
page and I received more  than 300 e-mail messages (from different people!)
of support, asking me please to continue the job.
        I was  learning PM programming then (and I have not  finished yet!)
and then decided to restart the project, but  now with a new perspective, a
new point of view... A new concept...

        Presentation Manager Download Center!

        But... after all,  what can it do for  you? Simple. There is almost
nothing to say. It  just do automaticaly every  download you need to do. It
uses WGet bullet-proof system to download  files, from FTP or HTTP servers,
always as possible using "reget" option.
        Of course PM Download Center  adds lots of features to WGet. If you
had already  used AutoGet/2, you'll discover how much better it is now! All
parameters are  now redefined  in real  time, no  more  problems  with  URL
objects  being lost, more  options, select the  download  order,  freeze or
unfreeze downloads at your command!

        Say goodbye to download problems. Welcome to PM Download Center.

 Daniel Jorge Caetano is an young brazilian OS/2 programmer and one of the most important computer gurus for OS/2 and Windows platforms in Brazil, where are several OS/2 users. For some years he updated day-by-day the OS/2 News page of the OS/2 Brasil web site, maintened by Ecodigit.

Daniel Caetano has been founded Fudeba Software for MSX and OS/2 development, based on Quasar BBS, an Italian web site powered by OS/2 Warp.

Currently Fudeba Software is developing a new operating system called FREEOS, based in the OS/2 kernel (but is not a warez made by reverse engineering!) in order do replace the OS/2 Client, depreciated by IBM under Microsoft's slavery.

To read about FREEOS click the link below:
Fudeba Software is Announcing FREEOS for OS/2 Client Replacement

Technical information

System Requirements

        The System  Requirements are:

        - IBM PC able to run IBM OS/2 Warp v3.0
        - WarpIn installed (for install process)
        - Wget (needs  EMX  installed, but  you don't need  to  worry about
          this, since WGet and everything comes with PM Download Center)
        - About 1Mb of free disk space
        - An HPFS partition.

Features

        - PM Shell interface.
        - Almost no CPU overhead.
        - When it detects  one URL at  the desktop or  waiting directory it
          starts the download automaticaly.
        - Use the "Create  URL  Object" from  Communicator to  easily start
          your downloads.
        - Select the time between checks from 15s to 300s.
        - "Multithread". You can open several downloads at the same time.
        - Acts directly on WGet error message, to correctly take the proper
          action.
        - You can change the maximum  number of downloads "on the fly". You
          can select from 1 to 16 downloads.
        - Correctly  manages  unexpected shutdown/power off/connection down
          or program abortions, so you can be sure your file WILL be fine.
        - Easy to configure.
        - Great 40x40 icons (32x32 version also present)
        - Enable/Disable all downloads with a click
        - Change all  parameters (including  WGet, directories, etc) on the
          fly.
        - Delete URLs easily
        - Freeze a URL for future download.
        - Stop a download, if you want to.
        - Change download order at any time.
        - Select between WGet being launched normaly or hidden.
        - Internet Connection Verify
        - Select between the program start shown or hidden
        - Select between "wide window" or "Small Window" WGet mode.

Coming Soon Features... and limitations

        - Waiting directory is not implemented yet. It will be fixed soon.
        - Capture "Link Click" of  Netscape, so you'll be  able to download
          just like you do with GetRight. (Not very soon)
        - Dran'n'Drop (not very soon).
        - Mirror option (maybe never... maybe a new exclusive program. ;-)
        - Log files.
        - Make your suggestion.

The Files

        These are the files that comes with PM Download Center:

        \DESKTOP                Default desktop searching place
        \DOWNLOAD               Default place for download files
        \TMP                    Temporary directory
        C2151MT.DLL             Borland DLL. Needed to PMDC.EXE run.
        DATAFILE.ICO            Icon for DataFiles.
        DOWNFLD1.ICO            Download folder icon (closed)
        DOWNFLD2.ICO            Download folder icon (opened)
        EMX.DLL                 Needed for WGET.EXE runs.
        EMXLIBCM.DLL            Needed for WGET.EXE runs.
        FDBFOLD1.DLL            General folder icon (closed)
        FDBFOLD2.DLL            General folder icon (opened)
        GETTING.EXE             The new version of WGet launcher.
        INTL.DLL                Needed for the inclosed WGET.EXE version
        PMDC.EXE                PM Download Center executable file
        PMDC.ICO                Icon for PM Download Center
        PMDCFLD1.ICO            PMDC folder icon (closed)
        PMDCFLD2.ICO            PMDC folder icon (opened)
        README.TXT              Handbook (this file)
        REGISTER.FRM            Registration. Send to dcaetano@sti.com.br
        URL.ICO                 Icon for URL files
        WGET.EXE                WGET executable
        XFDESK1.ICO             Desktop icon (closed)
        XFDESK2.ICO             Desktop icon (opened)
        
        After you had executed PM Download Center once, the following files
will appear on the directory:

        PMDC.INI                PMDC configurarion file
        URLS.LST                URL list for download

Configuration

        The PM Download Center  configuration is as easy as breeze. You may
use the default configuration, or you may change it.
        At the first time you run  the program, you'll receive some "error"
messages saying you  that the  configuration files  were not found and then
the program starts using the default ones.
        Now the  program  is  running... At this  time it is  set  to these
options:

        - Start Downloads enabled
        - Show WGet Windows
        - Check Internet Connection
        - Maximum number of download at the same time: 3
        - Search delay: 15s
        - WGet parameters: -t 20 -T 45 -w 0 -v -c
        - Desktop Directory (search URL): [PMDCPATH]\DESKTOP
        - Download Directory: [PMDCPATH]\DOWNLOAD
        - Start in normal state (NOT minimized)
        - Use "Little" WGet windows.

        You can change everything just pressing the buttons. To change WGet
parameters, just push  the "WGet Parms"  button, but  be sure you know what
you are doing. The dialog  box will help  you and let  you change  only the
options that will not harm the program work.
        Probably you would like to  change the desktop directory, directing
it to your real desktop. Just click  on "Desktop" button and change it. Why
would you do that? Simple. Netscape  Communicator only  creates URL objects
on the system desktop. If you change  this to point to your "real" desktop,
every URL created  there using  Communicator's "Create URL Object"  will be
downloaded at once!
        Change the "Download To" so  it points  to your download directory.
Remember, however, this  program was designed  to work  under HPFS. It will
not work properly on FAT  file system. Sorry, I can  do nothing about this.
Remember that  internet file  names are  almost always  greater  than "8.3"
characters long.

Photo above shows the Download Center Control Panel

Controls

        The controls  are very, very  simple. Using the  list box  you  can
select a URL  and  use the  buttons to  act  on  them. The  buttons  do the
following:

        DELETE - Delete the URL. This will stop the download if it is being
                 done and cut off the URL from list.
        FREEZE - Freeze  the  URL. What the  hell  is  that? The  URL  will
                 continue on  the  URL list,  but will be  ignored  by  the
                 program. Pressing FREEZE again will "unfreeze" the URL.
        STOP   - Stop the download of a URL, if it's running.
        UP     - Moves the URL up on download priorities.
        DOWN   - Moves the URL down on download priorities.

        These  commands  acts  only on the  selected  URLs.  The  following
commands acts on ALL URLs at the list:

        DELETE ALL - Clean the entire list of URLs.
        FREEZE ALL - Freeze  all "not  frozen" URLs  and  unfreeze all  the
                     frozen ones.
        STOP ALL   - Stop all  downloads. Usefull  when you had set lots of
                     priorities and want them to act.
        

How this program works

        The program is  very simple. It just  searches some directories for
URL objects and then uses WGet to  download them. Pretty simple, but really
usefull.

        The most "tricky" part is the Internet Connection check. It's buggy
yet, but I'm  trying to  make it  better. The process  it uses to determine
if the connection is up or down is... The  program calls NETSTAT -N to look
for  existing  interfaces, and  search if  there  are  any  PPP0  or  SLIP0
interfaces  instaled.  If  yes, the   program  get   the  number  of  those
interfaces. Now, it  runs  NETSTAT -A and verify if  one (or more) of those
PPP0 or SLIP0 interfaces are active. That's all...

CONTACT AUTHOR

Daniel Jorge Caetano
e-mail address: dcaetano@sti.com.br
web: http://www.quasarbbs.com/daniel/

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