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Networking / VNC to Ubuntu LTS

« on: May 02, 2024, 08:39:43 pm »

I'm trying to use our VNC to connect to Ubuntu LTS.

It looks like it's trying to work, but I can never get a password accepted.

Has anyone gotten this to work?

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Applications / Re: 3270

« on: April 29, 2024, 03:17:49 pm »

The last Personal Communications for OS/2 version was 4.3.2

There are several builds out; I think the last might have been August, 2001

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General Discussion / Re: PMfax

« on: April 28, 2024, 03:21:41 pm »

The serial device drivers, USB, IBMCOM and COM all work fine in any position. All the position in Config.Sys does is determine which com port COM1, COM2, etc. is assigned to which device.

RMVIEW is voluntary, so if a device driver doesn't participate, RMVIEW will not show it.

BASEDEV statements are processed in an earlier pass. We've presented the process at Warpstock several times. They have to be correct, but their order compared to DEVICE= statements is not relevant.

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General Discussion / Re: PMfax

« on: April 26, 2024, 03:24:06 pm »

On my system, I made sure that USBCOM.SYS was the first device= statement. That ensures that the USB com port comes before all the other com ports.

IBM File and Print services also shares COM ports, so if you install that, it will grab a com port.

I didn't bother installing COM.SYS, apparently.

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General Discussion / Re: PMfax

« on: April 22, 2024, 05:09:53 am »

The system installs COM ports at boot time while parsing the Config.Sys. The COM port number depends on the ordering of the statements in Config.Sys, and which of them claims a serial port. (Some might not be obvious)

I'm not sure how many COM ports OS/2 supports. Some say 99, some say 255.

In the time since I last posted, both ends of the POTS line have ended service. AT&T has applied for a permit to stop providing POTS to anyone.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Install Arca OS via USB stick

« on: April 11, 2024, 03:20:05 pm »

If all you have is the .ISO, then burn a DVD and boot a computer from it. Once booted, you can go to the /AOSBOOT directory and execute AOSBOOT <drive letter of USB stick> <ISO filename>.

If you have an OS/2 computer running, you can skip the DVD part.

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Networking / Re: Netdrive and ArcaOS

« on: April 04, 2024, 03:54:16 am »

You can just run the NetDrive installer on ArcaOS, and it will replace the Arca Noae version with the full version. It even keeps your NetDrive settings the same.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Ecomstation 1.0

« on: March 29, 2024, 02:41:56 pm »

It's also not true the IBM does nothing. They have contracted with Arca Noae to supply an OS/2-compatible operating system. Downloading MCP is also a violation of their license.

Should naming the sites where you can download pirated copies should banned on OS/2 World?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Ecomstation 1.0

« on: March 27, 2024, 01:47:32 pm »

Did you notice that ecomstation.com is still on-line?

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Programming / Re: REXX IDE recommendations?

« on: March 26, 2024, 02:55:25 am »

The newest REXX IDE is 30 years old.

VX-Rexx, VisProRexx

I don't know how to get VX-REXX.

http://hobbesarchive.com/?detail=/pub/os2/dev/proglang/rexx/VisProREXX_3-1-1.wpi

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Hobbes (Files) Reoganization

« on: March 24, 2024, 02:28:15 am »

I hope this is the right thread for this topic.

Hobbes used to have loaddf.zip which had both LOADDSKF.EXE and SAVEDSKF.EXE

Now HobbesArchive has Loaddskf_1-16.zip which claims to have both, but contains only LOADDSKF.EXE

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General Discussion / Re: MS os/2 2.0 kernel

« on: March 22, 2024, 02:34:41 pm »

As I remember the transition, the 2.0 kernel did everything the 1.3 kernel did. So, they pretty much have to be the same kernel, with the 32-bit stuff added on for the 2.0 version.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: Hobbes (Files) Reoganization

« on: March 01, 2024, 03:38:52 pm »

HobbesArchive.com is down for a while, so does anyone remember the URL for the mirrors of HobbesArchive.com?

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Utilities / Re: vncserver setup

« on: February 29, 2024, 03:27:13 pm »

1. You need RPM/YUM. Type command:

       yum install libc libgcc1 openssl zlib pthread libjpeg libpng

   or use Arca Noae Package Manager to install these packages.

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Setup & Installation / Re: DB2 v. 6.1 / Java

« on: February 23, 2024, 03:56:03 pm »

I think DB2 6.1 requires Java 1.1.8 and also IBM File and Print.