Subj : [VOICENWS] SW: John Ridges tools now public domain
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From : VOICE News Service
Date : Mon Nov 23 2015 03:03 pm
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Several tools developed by John Ridges on the 90’s had been released as
Public Domain, both binaries and source code.
The programs that are now public domain are:
• Animate – Set of desktop animations.
• Checkout – Schedule backup related command line utilities for OS/2
• Deskpic – Screen Saver tool for OS/2 that includes Animate
• Deskext – Source code and examples to create desktop animations.
• Eyecon – A couple of eyes that follow your pointer tool.
• Fatbits - A pixel magnifier program for OS/2 Presentation Manager.
• John Ridges Misc Tools – Several little tools
• Usage – Command line tool that prints out the disk usage of
subdirectories.
You can visit a little wiki page of each software here:
http://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/John_Ridges
Special thanks to John Ridges to giving the source code to the community.
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