General Software Testing

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello.

Does anybody has an idea what is this Ruki (Ruki.sys) driver for?
It says its developed by Alex Romanov. It is for OS/2 and it shows it loads on boots, it loads ruki$, but no idea what is for.
Or it is just somekind of demo/sample?

(Please don't try it on a production/critical machine, I don't know what it is)

Regards

[Dave Yeo]

Demo, sample or a skeleton to be built on. It is small and running strings on it produces little,

Code: [Select]

H:\tmp>strings Ruki.sys
ruki
 ruki$
.sys 0.01 Device Driver
Copyright (C) 1998 Alex Romanov (2:50340/759)
All R
4s Reserved.


[Martin Iturbide]

Thanks Dave !!

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello

I'm trying to find out if this software runs for you, I get a Japanese error:
- WRUMIN (DBCS-Ruminator) 1.0
- From A.Y.DAYO 
- https://www.vector.co.jp/vpack/browse/person/an023499.html
It's Japanese, it translate as:
- DBCS input assistance utility
- Supports DBCS input in overseas-made applications that cannot input DBCS (full-width characters)

I guess I will put it on "/pub/os2/util/international".

Regards

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello

I don't know what this DOS software is about:
- http://cd.textfiles.com/swextrav4/swextrav4-4/os2utilf/tame21.zip
I found this little description on the internet "Tiny TSR fm Pete Fitzsimmons to Tame OS/2 2.1 by Converting". But I still don't get what it does.

Regards

[Dave Yeo]

Looks like it gives up time slices in a DOS session

[Alex Taylor]

I'm trying to find out if this software runs for you, I get a Japanese error:
- WRUMIN (DBCS-Ruminator) 1.0
- From A.Y.DAYO 
- https://www.vector.co.jp/vpack/browse/person/an023499.html
It's Japanese, it translate as:
- DBCS input assistance utility
- Supports DBCS input in overseas-made applications that cannot input DBCS (full-width characters)

Looks like it requires PMNLSSSC.DLL, which is only included in DBCS versions of OS/2.

[Eugene Gorbunoff]

Ruki.sys - fun empty driver.
if somebody tells to other user that "your hands grow from ass",
then he recommends install correct driver, "good hands", "in the right hands"

[Martin Iturbide]

Thanks for the feedback.

[Martin Iturbide]

Hello.

I guess this are some command line inf viewers?
- ftp://bbs.bajer.cz/pub/files/osysdoc.fe/VIEW-OS2.ZIP
- ftp://bbs.bajer.cz/pub/files/osysdoc.fe/VIEW-DOS.ZIP

The OS/2 version gives me a:

[C:\HOME\MARTIN\DESKTOP\VIEW-OS2]view-os2
SYS1808:
The process has stopped.  The software diagnostic
code (exception code) is  0005.

Any idea if it runs?  ...and yes, it is the first time a try to read a INF file from VIO.

Regards

[Dave Yeo]

The DOS one does work, get the same error with the OS/2 one. Looking, the only copyright I can find is,
Portions Copyright T(c) 1983,92 Borland
1993 by Matthias Withopf / c't

Searching for Matthias Withopf gives http://withopf.com/ with various freeware published in c't. Perhaps a German user can expand on the c't, which seems to have been a magazine. Unluckily the archives don't seem to go back that far.

IBM has released VIO versions of view too and IIRC a DOS one was included with IBM PC-DOS 7

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C't

[Martin Iturbide]

Thanks Dave, I'm writting Matthias, maybe I can get some reply about a latest version or even if he can open the source code.

Regards

[Andi B.]

... on the c't, which seems to have been a magazine.

c't is still a valuable computer magazine. Homepage - https://www.heise.de/ct.

I've trashed all these old copies long ago. I fear at this time there was no annual CD too as it was in the 200x years. But if there is really an urgent need for some old article, changes are good that you can still get/buy it. Have to look at my old CD collection first.

[Tom]

... on the c't, which seems to have been a magazine.

c't is still a valuable computer magazine. Homepage - https://www.heise.de/ct.

I've trashed all these old copies long ago. I fear at this time there was no annual CD too as it was in the 200x years. But if there is really an urgent need for some old article, changes are good that you can still get/buy it. Have to look at my old CD collection first.

In the 90s  they already had annual CDs, and today you can still buy a complete archive (Blu-Ray, USB stick, DVD). So if you have also thrown out the CDs ...

[Martin Iturbide]

The DOS one does work, get the same error with the OS/2 one. Looking, the only copyright I can find is,
Portions Copyright T(c) 1983,92 Borland
1993 by Matthias Withopf / c't

FYI: Matthias replied me:

Unfortunately I don't know this programs. I'm not the author.
Apparently the OS/2 version uses a library I developed 30 (!) years ago.
It's part of the effort to use Borland Pascal 7 to create 16-bit OS/2 programs.

Regards,
Matthias Withopf

I guess we are stuck here.

Regards