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OS2VOICE RPM - ...and MMOS2 Updater
« on: November 12, 2025, 11:24:30 pm »
Hello

At Warpstock Roderick formally announced the OS2VOICE RPM. I asked Roderick for a formal email announcement, but I can not wait for more people to try it out.

Visit: https://rpm.os2voice.org/
Include the RPM and WarpIn repository into AN Package Manager.

I want you to give me some feedback about: https://rpm.os2voice.org/warpin/release/ArcaOS_MMOS2updater-1-0-0-01.wpi
I really like it a lot, it installs MPlayer, the MIDI stuff, CODECS very easy and for me it is working great.

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Re: OS2VOICE RPM - ...and MMOS2 Updater
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2025, 08:29:27 am »
Hello

At Warpstock Roderick formally announced the OS2VOICE RPM. I asked Roderick for a formal email announcement, but I can not wait for more people to try it out.

Visit: https://rpm.os2voice.org/
Include the RPM and WarpIn repository into AN Package Manager.

I want you to give me some feedback about: https://rpm.os2voice.org/warpin/release/ArcaOS_MMOS2updater-1-0-0-01.wpi
I really like it a lot, it installs MPlayer, the MIDI stuff, CODECS very easy and for me it is working great.

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Adding it right now. Thanks Martin!

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Re: OS2VOICE RPM - ...and MMOS2 Updater
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2025, 05:35:51 pm »
The repodata is still broken. This is server side issue.
This will be looked at later. But you can download via rpm.os2voice.org with a browser.
Remember you can also need to download and install the CWMM 031 WPI next to this one. Otherwhise Timidity will not work.

I am currently dealing with some health issue so not online much.

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Re: OS2VOICE RPM - ...and MMOS2 Updater
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2025, 09:56:06 pm »
Hello Roderick

May I suggest that lSwitcher to be included in the WarpIn installers?
-- https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/util/wps/lSwitcher-2-94-0-0.wpi

I want to make a WarpIn installer for DataSeeker to be included.

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Re: OS2VOICE RPM - ...and MMOS2 Updater
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2025, 01:27:08 am »
 I was watching the presentation at Warpstock Roderick gave when he mentioned the new repo for WPI apps so I immediately added it to ANPM and was able to download and install everything on it - thanks Roderick! (and thanks Martin for showing it). It all works great. I agree with Martin that lswitcher and Dataseeker be included too.

 One thing I'm curious about - there was an alpha PMMail 3.26 version awhile back, but nothing about it since. Will there be any further releases? The alpha does not seem to recognize my license...

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« Last Edit: November 15, 2025, 01:31:18 am by David McKenna »

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Re: OS2VOICE RPM - ...and MMOS2 Updater
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2025, 03:40:18 pm »
There was not an alpha of PMMail. There was an announcement. It was wrong.

There have been a few bug fixes over the years, and I'll probably do another release. Occasionally I rebuild to make sure I can still do it, and to reset the timebomb.
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« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2025, 04:37:24 pm »
 Maybe it's not an alpha, 'About PMMail' says:

 3.26.00.2024 (32973)
 Dec 31 2024 20:39:44 +0000 (GMT)
 Session Time: 4.0 seconds

 And it is currently available on Hobbes (uploaded back in July). It works OK here, just get a warning that it is expired and needs a license every once in a while. Thanks for keeping it alive and look forward to any new updates!

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Re: OS2VOICE RPM - ...and MMOS2 Updater
« Reply #7 on: Today at 06:13:23 am »
Hello

I remembered that I made a RPM installer for DataSeeker some time ago.
I want to ask Roderick if he thinks this has the qualifications to be includes in the OS2VOICE RPM.

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Re: OS2VOICE RPM - ...and MMOS2 Updater
« Reply #8 on: Today at 03:11:39 pm »
Hello Martin!

...Visit: https://rpm.os2voice.org/
Include the RPM and WarpIn repository into AN Package Manager...

This is a great undertaking, so thank you for the engagement.

I have a app specific question: RSYNC.

The version I am currently using is the Paul Smedley 3.0.7 release, which specifically calls out the following OS/2 specific changes:

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Rsync v3.0.7 compiled with GCC 4.3.4 & kLibc v0.6.3

Requires libc063.dll available from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.3-csd3.zip

We (Paul and Steven) are using this as both client and server for backups

Changes in this version:
- Updated to v3.0.6
- Incorporated a bunch of patches from Steven Levine
- Move to GCC 4.3.4 as a compiler
- --xattrs now works for remote servers

eCS/OS2 specific changes:

- Supports OS/2 extended attributes
  Enable with --xattrs
  The default is --no-xattrs
- Supports drive letters
- Supports OS/2 style backslashes in path names
- Supports preserving native OS/2 permissions
  Enable with --os2-perms
  The default is --no-os2-perms
- Supports 2 second native file time resolution
  Defaults --modify-window to 1 second
  Disable with --modify-window=0
- Falls back to shared open if standard open fails
  Allows open files to be backed up if owner allows reading
- Defaulted to %ETC% for rsyncd.conf

However, in your release (which is v3.1.3) there are no OS/2 specifics being called out.

Therefore, I am trying to understand how these packages compare to the otherwise alternative distributions in terms of functionality (this of course is a version-to-version kind of a comparison since obviously 3.0.7 will be different from 3.1.3), etc.???

Thank you!