Hi
I had wrote this quick article about my experience compiling HWMan.
It is located here: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Compiling_HWMan_WPS_Class_on_ArcaOS_5.x
Constructive criticism and spell/grammar check are always welcome.
Regards
you do not necessarily need Netscape Communicator to install VAC 3.6.5. Alex Taylor has published articles on how to use an install object to install the application (I cannot find it right now). In fact I "pimped" my installation CD-ROM so that I can install VAC 3.6.5 without ever running Netscape Communicator.
What you effectively need to do is create an installation object and import the "PORTAPAK.RSP" file into the installation object.
Here is something that you can run from a batch file. Replace and rename directories as appropriate (the notes I wrote down):
C. Invoking installation directly through an installation object
I have reworked and modified PORTAPAK.RSP (on your VAC 3.6.5 installation CD-ROM) so that it can also be used to create an installation object.
You create an installation object via CLIFI.EXE (it is installed on every OS/2 machine) once you have burned a new CD-ROM from the original
CD-ROM and these patches.
For what follows, assume this:
a.) your CD-ROM is drive V:
b.) you want VAC 3.6.5 installed to drive D: and directory IBMC365
c.) you want the OS/2 toolkit installed to drive E: and directory TOOLKIT
echo /O:ROOT >parms.txt
echo /SET:InstDrv1=D: >> parms.txt
echo /SET:InstDrv2=E: >> parms.txt
echo /SET:InstDir1=IBMC365 >> parms.txt
echo /SET:InstDir2=TOOLKIT >> parms.txt
echo /SET:PackagedFromPath=V:\COMPILER >> parms.txt
echo /SET:ImageMediaPath=V:\COMPILER >>parms.txt
echo /R:V:\COMPILER\PORTAPAK.RSP >>parms.txt
echo /S:V:\COMPILER >>parms.txt
clifi.exe /A:B /F:"<WP_DESKTOP>" /PARMS:parms.txt
The installation object is created on your desktop. If you open it you can select/deselect the individual features to install. After installation
you can either delete the object or keep it around somewhere if you want to install later on.
During installation, you are asked to specify the "Source Media": just reenter the path: V:\COMPILER
I DID slightly modify file PORTAPAK.RSP but it should also work with the unmodified version.