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Messages - Dave Yeo

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Applications / Re: PmPatrol - Doscall1.Dll Load Error
« on: January 10, 2019, 11:54:00 pm »
SMP kernel here.

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Programming / Re: Experience with decompilers with OS/2 programs
« on: January 10, 2019, 11:12:19 pm »
Unluckily, I can't imagine there is any disassemblers that will output C or CPLUS that is aware of the PM functions. Strictly speaking, a disassembler outputs assembly language, hopefully with generic labels and such. While possible to output C, it would probably take quite a bit of manual intervention by a knowledgeable programmer to get something that looks useful rather then just capable of being re-compiled. IDA does seem to have its own C type language that it uses.
The NSA tool could be pretty powerful and who knows, it might even support disassembling OS/2 as the NSA is interested in looking at everything.
Usually, I believe, disassemblers are mostly used for things like removing shareware limits and other types of copyright protection as well as fixing bugs. The more complex stuff you want to do, the more knowledgeable you need to be.

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Printing from Firefox resulted in an error, also. But printing from E.EXE, as well as a desktop screenshot, worked. This may be a bug in Firefox rather than the driver.

Firefox is somewhat broken when it comes to printing. The last version should be able to print to postscript but generally it is better to print to a file, postscript (ps) or pdf with the extension signaling which and then print the file.

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Programming / Re: Experience with decompilers with OS/2 programs
« on: January 10, 2019, 06:59:38 pm »
The NSA is supposed to be releasing quite a good disassembler. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nsa+disassembler&t=seamonkey&ia=web.
There are some available for OS/2, http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?button=Search&key=disassembler&dir=%2F

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes is a good start.
Personally at this point, I wouldn't worry too much. Probably a bit got flipped, the smiley face was just a coincidence and hopefully it won't happen again. JFS does use Unicode and the smiley is a Unicode character.
Keep an eye on the partition in case any similar errors appear. Hard drives can deteriorate without triggering smart. You can also have things like cosmic rays cause one time errors.

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Internet / Re: Unable to download PDF documents with FF 38.8
« on: January 10, 2019, 02:06:47 am »
Hi Ivan, someone pointed out your problem may be in content-prefs.sqlite. Brutal fix is moving it out of the way. Subtle fix is using a sqlite3 editor such as the sqlite manager extension and deleting the prefs table containing a bad path, probably from a crash while downloading to %TMP% and a leftover .part file.

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Applications / Re: PmPatrol - Doscall1.Dll Load Error
« on: January 10, 2019, 12:57:04 am »
Which version of DOSCALL1.DLL? Here same size, different date
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D:\OS2\DLL>bldlevel DOSCALL1.DLL
Build Level Display Facility Version 6.12.675 Sep 25 2001
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1993-2001
Signature:       @#IBM:14.106#@##1## 2011/11/23 14:01:06      IBM::EN:US:::@@SMP
 doscall1.dll
Vendor:          IBM
Revision:        14.106
Date/Time:       2011/11/23 14:01:06
Build Machine:   IBM
Language Code:   EN
Country Code:    US
File Version:    14.106
Description:     SMP doscall1.dll

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Applications / Re: PmPatrol - Doscall1.Dll Load Error
« on: January 09, 2019, 11:09:43 pm »
There's one I haven't seen in a while. Downloaded http://web.archive.org/web/19970215092459/http://www.musthave.com:80/OS2/ftp/pmp43.zip installed and it is running fine on ArcaOS.

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Internet / Re: Unable to download PDF documents with FF 38.8
« on: January 09, 2019, 09:44:37 pm »
Can FF be setup to use Lucide or does it already use Lucide?

If Lucide is set as the default PDF application, Firefox should use it. RWS helps here but it is somewhat buggy and usually turned off. Firefox really degraded in its handling of helper applications.

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You might want to boot to a maintenance partition or the system management thing in the ArcaOS installer and run chkdsk c: /f on the drive.

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Internet / Re: Unable to download PDF documents with FF 38.8
« on: January 09, 2019, 08:56:32 pm »
With Firefox closed, try deleting/renaming handlers.json from your profile.
You could also try toggling your SET MOZ_NO_RWS setting in config.sys or on a cmd line.

edit, seems we don't have the handlers.json file. Perhaps try moving mimetypes.rdf out of the way or at worse, swap it with one from a new profile.
Here the applications tab is populated so it seems to be a profile problem there. It gets populated when you click a link and choose download or whatever I believe.

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Applications / Re: PMMail - COMCAST - secure tunnel
« on: January 09, 2019, 07:24:59 am »
I used PMMail for quite a while and liked it. Back then it did have a few issues, the one that killed it for me was the lack of threading, since fixed. It also isn't very cross platform, which if a user does decide to migrate to a different OS, makes it hard. I've migrated away from OS/2 a couple of times, though I do keep coming back.
It is easy to send with different accounts with Thunderbird, it depends on the from field. There's likely add-ons or other settings to make it more fine grained. I have TB set to send text messages and use simplified HTML if I receive HTML messages. The simplified HTML has no pictures, JavaScript etc so no tracking. Could have it set as text as well. It is also cross platform and the mailbox itself is pretty standard.
SeaMonkey uses the same news and mail engine as Thunderbird so is pretty similar, along with many of the extensions.
Of course our port is getting old and due to changes upstream, things like extensions are harder to find.

As for PMMail being opensource, as mentioned up the page, it might make using other libraries easier, though even as closed source it can use quite a few. LGPL as an example can be shipped as DLLs with source.

Decent Email programs seem to be in short supply on all platforms, at least to hear people bitching and now a lot of people use web mail in a browser.

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Applications / Re: P7zip syntax for archiving an entire volume
« on: January 09, 2019, 12:42:37 am »
That's weird. I just clicked on it in SeaMonkey and a compose box opened with his email in the to box. It is slightly different from the one I sent you, namely his full first name rather then initial.
DDGing for "ne app" gave me no useful results, perhaps a language issue.

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General Discussion / Re: The Mainframe Kid - and OS/2
« on: January 08, 2019, 06:13:51 pm »
I know very little about Hercules, just looked at the build requirements and the tap driver jumped out as a missing requirement.

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