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Neil Waldhauer:
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.

David McKenna:
 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!

Regards,

Martin Iturbide:
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.

Regards

Dariusz Piatkowski:
Hello Martin!


--- Quote from: Martin Iturbide on November 12, 2025, 11:24:30 pm ---...Visit: https://rpm.os2voice.org/
Include the RPM and WarpIn repository into AN Package Manager...
--- End quote ---

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:


--- Quote ---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

--- End quote ---

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!

Dave Yeo:
I'm using,

--- Code: ---Z:\>rsync.exe --version
rsync  version 3.0.9  protocol version 31 (os2-perms)
Copyright (C) 1996-2011 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Built by Steven H. Levine Dec 21 2012 10:43:12
Built with GCC 4.4.7
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, no IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, no ACLs, xattrs, iconv, symtimes

rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.

--- End code ---

Note the built by Steven H. Levine part along with (os2-perms).
I'd assume the newer one is similar as Steven has been maintaining it.

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