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Hobbes (Files) Reoganization
Martin Iturbide:
--- Quote from: ivan on April 17, 2024, 04:08:50 pm ---Hi Martin,
I think you are not thinking clearly. Not everyone knows if a windows program is 16bit or 32bit so dividing up that way makes it harder for users to find something that might be useful.
Most people using computers today don't know the internal workings, to them it is just a tool to do a job or play a game.
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Hi Ivan
When you start a message saying "you are not thinking clearly", even if it is your personal opinion, it blocks the perception of your interlocutor. I haven't made any value judgment of your way of thinking or personality in the past.
I think it is not as bad as you specify it. The directories have a text description of what it includes, and it is not a critical directory as /pub/os2.
What do you suggest?, just don't splitting it and keep everything in /pub/widows ?
Regards
ivan:
Hi Martin,
Sorry if I have upset you but in my 35+ years of using OS/2 I have found that people using it are generally not interested in the nuts and bolts of the OS, their main concern is 'does it do the job they want and do it efficiently'. If it doesn't they will change it to something that does do what they want, in fact that is why I started using OS/2, it left windows for dead.
The other thing I must congratulate you for your zeal in trying to keep OS/2 alive when others have said that it is dead - it is not. I use it every day to write and edit stories and manuals which gives me something to do rather than shuffling off into oblivion. In my 80 odd years I may have become a bit short with some people and the fact that education appears to be going backwards especially in STEM subjects - is that why bridges fall down when they have a little bump and aircraft fall apart?
Martin Iturbide:
Hello
At the end Nathan accepted the changes and now we have a directory for Win16 and a different one for Win32.
I would like to eventually populate that directories with software tested on Win-OS2 and Odin under ArcaOS, but I think I will request some help on a different thread.
For now, I think I'm done withe Hobbes directory structure, I don't see any other idea on this area.
I guess the strategy now will be to find and upload any OS/2 Freeware/Shareware/Open Source/Public files that may be missing on the site.
Any other suggestions for Hobbes Archive are welcome and I will check them out with Nathan.
Regards
Martin Iturbide:
Hello Again
Just to let you know that I keep uploading OS/2 little things on HobbesArchive.
I'm on the up going phase of looking some old OS/2 Shareware CDs/Sites/File archives and see which OS/2 files are we missing on Hobbes and upload them there. Usually now are little things, some old software, little REXX scripts and even sometimes newer versions of old software that are already on Hobbes.
I'm also trying to consolidate non-english OS/2 software on Hobbes by putting _de or _jp on the name of the files( if the software is exclusively available in a non English languange)
If someone see something that we are missing on HobbesArchive.com just post it here, or let me know.
Regards
Mentore:
--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on June 01, 2024, 05:10:24 pm ---Hello Again
Just to let you know that I keep uploading OS/2 little things on HobbesArchive.
I'm on the up going phase of looking some old OS/2 Shareware CDs/Sites/File archives and see which OS/2 files are we missing on Hobbes and upload them there. Usually now are little things, some old software, little REXX scripts and even sometimes newer versions of old software that are already on Hobbes.
I'm also trying to consolidate non-english OS/2 software on Hobbes by putting _de or _jp on the name of the files( if the software is exclusively available in a non English languange)
If someone see something that we are missing on HobbesArchive.com just post it here, or let me know.
Regards
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Good to hear, Martin.
I'm sure I have something old related to long lost archives, like Fernwood (already removed a lot of useless or duplicate entries), plus some OS/2 ports I'm working on during my little spare time. Going to upload on Hobbesarchive asap.
Mentore
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