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Utilities / Re: Print to Email.....sort of...
« on: October 23, 2014, 08:48:55 pm »
REXXmail has some features that could be used for this, but you'd still have to learn REXX to make it work...There are some people here who could probably help you with a script that would do what you want.

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Applications / Re: About eComStation Pricing
« on: October 16, 2014, 10:23:42 pm »
Look the latest Haiku OS post on their site 2014-10-10:

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The Haiku project is participating in this year's "Semester of Code" (SoC) of the European VALS project. The SoC is similar to Google's GSoC, but without the financial incentive and more emphasis on the educational side.

Its goal is to connect higher education students with open source projects to introduce them to the cooperative nature of working within a group on a bigger project. For Haiku, besides potentially extending its feature set, it's another opportunity to spark the interest of new, eager developers with a chance to gain future regular contributors.

ReactOS is at least tried to do something different:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thorium/thorium-core-cloud-desktop

On the other hand:
- "We don't have a future" is not an strategy or an idea.
- "Why bother"  is not an strategy or an idea.
- "Be realistic, we are doomed and our destiny is to switch platform"  is not an strategy or an idea.

It would be great if we could get students to do semothing with eCS. And I do agree that "we don't have a future" is not exactly a constructive attitude. The reality is that indeed the platforrm, pc, that our OS runs on, is rapidly changing and indeed, disappearing. So, it will take more than an open source clone to preserve OS/2. It will need to be adapted to more modern hardware and ways of using computers/hardware. I personally don't see the desktop disappearing very soon, but it -is- disappearing rapidly in private use. Eventually, OS/2 will die. As has DOS, Amiga, Commodore 64. And as Windows will, and as Android will. Some os's are practically stillborn, like Sailfish (sadly). It's life. Nothing is forever. I'll leave it to Frank to switch the light off, but after he has done so, the lights of my hard drive will probably light up the room a few times more until the hardware finally gives up the ghost).
Strategies... I actually have no idea what it will take to keep OS/2 alive as long as possible, or to make it evolve eevn into something nw and modern. Drivers to keep it running -now-, for sure. A new approach, open source replacement would certainly extend the life of it. I do agree with Martin that development of one does not preclude the development of the other. It is merely a matter of attracting people to spend time on it. How to do that? Maybe we van learn from Haiku and similar. But it won't be easy to convert an OS from a previous age of computing into an interesting project for students.....

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Games / Re: Firefox Game
« on: October 16, 2014, 04:41:46 pm »
Spikes here too.

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Applications / Re: Edit pdf files
« on: October 16, 2014, 12:07:12 am »
Such an installer is available from Alex Taylor. In ecs 2.2 beta it's included. I don't know where to download offhand.

regards
Silvan
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http://www.altsan.org/os2/printing/

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Programming / Re: GitHub Repository - Public OS/2 Source Code - Feedback
« on: October 14, 2014, 12:24:51 am »
Guzzi, did you get the file? It is opening right?

Regards

I did get the file. For some reason unzip 6.05 wouldn't extract it, gave a warning that it had 76 extra bytes. After a few tries it did suddenly extract.

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Applications / Re: Edit pdf files
« on: October 12, 2014, 01:19:07 am »
There is pdfbox, for Java, but that will not do exactly what you want. Still might be worth to take a look at.
https://pdfbox.apache.org/

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Applications / Re: About eComStation Pricing
« on: October 10, 2014, 02:08:34 am »
The right to install. Yeah, right..... I actually only run eCS on one pc. But if had had a few more, I would not pay for additional licences. When I install win 7 on computers for other people, I buy a 'used' licence on ebay. Is that legal? I don't know and don't care. Most of the pc's I have seen in russia running windows, have a pirated version. Most here, have been delivered with windows. Most pc's not from vendors like HP, Lenovo but custom built, have 'copies' running on them. Selling os's is a dead business.

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Applications / Re: My lost apps...
« on: October 09, 2014, 10:42:29 pm »
Yes of course. Although only one of the apps now survives as anything but screen shots :(

Thanks everyone for the advice re Rexx re else engineered source code. I had no idea that was possible. Alas though, the admin tool for web/2 and the file manager have no exe either. 

What I'm most upset about is I trashed bunch of old hard dri es only a few weeks ago. The source was probably on one of those...  silly boy!

Ouch! There's nobody else who used the programs you developed who might still have a copy?

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General Discussion / Re: 1.2R vs 2.1
« on: October 09, 2014, 10:40:56 pm »
My personal opinion: I would not update right now. The important changes are in the drivers. ACPI, better USB support, better video driver. I expect many of those updates will become available through arcanoae and/or bww bitwise works. There are some other updates too, most available for free already (yum/rpm is one). Then there are some cosmetic updates, like sunny icons, file open container. I'd wait a bit and see if it would be more worthwhile to get the separate updates and 'modernise' 1.2 or buy an upgrade. It all depends on what the new companies will offer. I think it won't be long before arcanoae opens it's website. Once they have done so, it's time to decide)

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Applications / Re: Heavy issues with PSI/2
« on: October 09, 2014, 09:13:11 am »
Which version of uniaud are you using? 1.9.26 is the latest supported one. Do you have an SMP system? Do you have ACPI installed, if so, which version and with which parameters?

IIRC I'm using the latest one (but I could be wrong) which comes with eCS 2.1. I've got an SMP system working with the latest ACPI - and AFAICR, it's in APIC mode working good. I'll post the relevant informations as soon as I have my machine up and running.

There have been a number of significant imrovements since eCS2.1. Try with version 1.09.06.

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General Discussion / XEU and eCS?
« on: October 09, 2014, 12:15:35 am »
Interesting...
I just noticed that apart from http://xeu.com there is a new website http://www.xeu.com which seems to be their online shop. It has no mention of eCS at all...

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Applications / Re: Graphic Work Bench and ImageMagick
« on: October 08, 2014, 11:59:38 pm »
There is a fork of imagemagick called graphicsmagick, ported by Gianfilippo Cimmino. Perhaps that is usable and does not have the issues that bug you)
http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
http://www.ecomstation.it/ecsoft2/prog.php?progid=1969&name=GraphicsMagick&sys=os2+ecomstation&language=en

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Programming / Re: GitHub Repository - Public OS/2 Source Code - Feedback
« on: October 08, 2014, 12:11:24 am »
Ouch!!.. I just found all this - http://kimludvigsen.dk/os2/gfd/dev/xmpl/index.php

Martin, with your involvement in OS/2 you should really be familiar with the name Kim Ludvigsen))) A lot more work nos, but on the bright side, you have struck gold)

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Programming / Re: GitHub Repository - Public OS/2 Source Code - Feedback
« on: October 07, 2014, 02:22:59 am »
It's pretty small compared to modern hard drive standards) You could upload the zip file to me by ftp so I can keep a copy if you want. If so, I'll email you login and password.

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Programming / Re: GitHub Repository - Public OS/2 Source Code - Feedback
« on: October 07, 2014, 01:05:31 am »
Martin, do you know how big the total os/2 github source rep is? I think it's a good idea to have one or more copies of all that stuff so it won't be lost in case of...) After all that work it's worth it to store a few copies locally.

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