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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #75 on: July 16, 2025, 02:01:02 am »
Hello

Any idea what this software is supposed to do?

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/****************************************************************************/
/* Sends messages to Desktop - OS/2 2.x                                     */
/* Instructions:  Find the modifiable section to add desktop popup          */
/* menu items and follow the comments.                                      */
/* Author:  Brian McManamon CIS - 73243,166                                 */
/* To compile this program using IBM CSET/2 - icc /B"/pmtype:pm" desktop.c  */
/* Warning:  This program is provided as is.  It has hung my desktop in     */
/* some cases becauses some messages have been lost.  This is a temporary   */
/* solution for a specific problem until the WPS development team publishes */
/* a supported solution.                                                    */
/**** Make sure all program names are present and can be found in the    ****/
/**** path before running this program or your desktop will hang.        ****/
/****************************************************************************/

In ArcaOS it starts, shows like the desktop settings and closes very fast. (Includes source code)

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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #76 on: August 05, 2025, 04:49:58 am »
Hello

I have no idea what is this, just says "TransIt protocol driver for OS/2" (1991-06-27)
Any idea of what is this for is welcome.

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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #77 on: August 05, 2025, 08:56:39 am »
Hello

I have no idea what is this, just says "TransIt protocol driver for OS/2" (1991-06-27)
Any idea of what is this for is welcome.

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Looks like it is a utility to transfer data via serial COM1 port. It's not really a driver, it's an executable that likely makes use of the normal file API and devioctl calls.

The help is really thin:
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[Z:\TRANSIT_1991-06-27]transit
transit <r[o][g]|s[t][g] {<path-name>}>
I guess "r" stands for "receive" and "s" for "send" ...
That would make it likely that you run this app on both sides of the serial connection in order to transmit a file


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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #78 on: August 06, 2025, 04:48:06 am »
Thanks Lars. I will be trying to include some documentation on the file.

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Re: General Software Testing
« Reply #79 on: August 06, 2025, 08:22:26 am »
Hello

Any idea what this software is supposed to do?

Quote
/****************************************************************************/
/* Sends messages to Desktop - OS/2 2.x                                     */
/* Instructions:  Find the modifiable section to add desktop popup          */
/* menu items and follow the comments.                                      */
/* Author:  Brian McManamon CIS - 73243,166                                 */
/* To compile this program using IBM CSET/2 - icc /B"/pmtype:pm" desktop.c  */
/* Warning:  This program is provided as is.  It has hung my desktop in     */
/* some cases becauses some messages have been lost.  This is a temporary   */
/* solution for a specific problem until the WPS development team publishes */
/* a supported solution.                                                    */
/**** Make sure all program names are present and can be found in the    ****/
/**** path before running this program or your desktop will hang.        ****/
/****************************************************************************/

In ArcaOS it starts, shows like the desktop settings and closes very fast. (Includes source code)

Regards

This program will not work on a non-english version of OS/2. It expects the desktop title to be "Desktop" but on my system it is "Arbeitsoberfläche". The proper solution would be to search for the object via the Object ID <WP_DESKTOP> (and then to open the settings view of the object) instead of trying to find the window by its window title. That makes this program rather useless.
What this program is trying to achieve (adding menu items to the context menu) is better done via WPS.