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Applications / Re: LarsenCommander - new test version
« on: April 13, 2025, 11:47:39 am »
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Everything seems to be alright with the exception of the fact that the 'Bytes per second' window no longer shows the graphical throughput rate as the file copy progresses.

Good catch. I wonder why I've overlooked this. Needs investigation.

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Setup & Installation / Re: How to mount OS/2 JFS/LVM volume on Linux?
« on: April 04, 2025, 02:51:34 pm »
Ok, thanks. Now I get further. I found one JFS partition/volume mounted at /media/a/e97c5ffe.......  But user 'a' can not cd into this directory. Only root. Maybe I can temporary change chmod for this dir. But for all the NTFS/FAT32 volumes there is some automatic 'mount with access rights for all users. See -
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root@zazu:/media/a# dir
insgesamt 236
drwxr-x---+  13 root root   4096  4. Apr 14:24 .
drwxr-xr-x   10 root root   4096  4. Apr 09:48 ..
drwxr-xr-x    1 root root    136 31. Okt 16:45 853df5b3-56d2-4746-8d2c-c02054bcaa4d
drwxr-xr-x    3 root root     18 31. Okt 16:51 bfb7a5a8-a380-4538-ade7-7e7081318bf2
drwx------    2 root root   4096 13. Okt 12:01 e97c5ffe-0000-0000-0000-000000001c0e
drwx------   12 root root   4096  7. Mär 19:39 e97c97fd-0000-0000-0000-00000000200e
drwx------  378 root root  28672  7. Mär 19:39 e97c97fd-0000-0000-0000-00000000200e1
drwx------    8 root root   4096  7. Mär 19:39 e97c97fd-0000-0000-0000-00000000200e2
drwxrwxrwx    1 a    a      4096 24. Mär 14:06 Toshiba8TB_NTSF
drwxrwxrwx    1 a    a     20480 30. Mär 21:14 Win7_C_Boot
drwxrwxrwx    1 a    a    131072 30. Mär 21:17 WinApps
drwxr-xr-x   77 a    a     32768  1. Jan 1970  WinDataF32
drwxrwxrwx    1 a    a      4096 24. Mär 15:45 WinVirtual
root@zazu:/media/a#

Also most of my JFS partitions can not be mounted. Bit hard to find which one is which OS/2 volume cause currently I've more than 20 volumes here.
Also for the NTFS and FAT volumes the labels are found and mounted with these. Not some long number....

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Setup & Installation / How to mount OS/2 JFS/LVM volume on Linux?
« on: April 04, 2025, 10:07:58 am »
I wanna access my OS/2 volumes from Linux/Debian12. But can't 'click' and automount like in any GUI file manager. For my FAT32 and NTFS partitions I see the label in Linux and clicking on them opens the volume/filesystem. But not with my JFS volums. Any help?

I've already installed jfsutil and libguestfs-jfs.

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Hardware / Re: OpenWatcom Discussion
« on: March 27, 2025, 06:22:54 pm »
As mentioned above, everyone will be confused now.

https://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/dev/proglang/cpp/OpenWatcom_C_2-0-1.exe mentioned as Program Contact: David Azarewicz

Unfortunately we do not see who uploaded this. But as Steven mentioned above he and Gregg needed a repo we can only guess if David used these or any other source. I fear David uses his own different repo. But I don't know. We have to ask the unknown uploader or David.

http://openwatcom.org/ftp/source/ow_portable_v2_test_build.zip seems to be a build by 'lys'. However is behind this nick he is hanging around at irc #watcom. I think lys cross-builds this from the 'official' perforce repo on his BSD machine. It seems to be not related to Jiris builds I think.

Lars, lys asked me to ask you to test the ow_portable_v2_test_build.zip build against the problem you know with the other watcom builds. No clue why he don't want to post here by himself or ask you directly.....

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Programming / Re: [Classic REXX] Network Map
« on: March 26, 2025, 08:33:16 pm »
My limited understanding of all of these is as following -
nslookup needs a DNS server for a useful reply. There's usually no DNS server on your home network so it will not work with most small private LANs. And the official DNS servers on the internet don't know anything about your private network members of course. At least they shouldn't.

If you wanna have a private DNS server in your network you've to setup one. But most of the time it's not worth the effort to make this for a private LAN. If you've a router which run's a DHCP server it might work as local DNS server too. But then it probably don't know very much about your devices with static IPs.

I'm puzzling what you're all talking about here. In my limited understanding you need to ping every address on your subnet if you wanna have a list of all your devices on your LAN (with IP support. There maybe devices on the LAN communication without IP protocol). Even then it may be possible that a devices do not respond to an ping request. And so you don't 'see' it either. Although I don't think much devices will really hide them self when called with a ping.

If all your devices uses dynamic IP addresses then look at the leases file of your DHCP server. It has the IP <-> MAC list in the dhcpd.leases file. And sometimes there's also a hostname there for the device. But that's not mandatory. Also in a LAN with static IPs or a mixed LAN (I think that is very common) you only get the subset of devices with dynamic IPs. So pinging every IP is IMHO the only way to get a (nearly) complete list of all devices.

If you wanna have a 'network map' of devices with SMB shares you've to use the samba tools to get one. And similar tools for NFS shares or ....?

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Programming / Re: [Classic REXX] Network Map
« on: March 25, 2025, 06:41:25 pm »
I've also seen it many times that a lot of devices do not respond to pings on broadcast address. OS/2 boxes are the only ones which always answers. But most other computers do not. I think no even all of my SoHo printers do.

There's a utility which pings every address. LanScan? Of course it takes time to get a full list especially with a network bigger than /24 (f.i. /16 - netmask 255.255.0.0).

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Hardware / Re: OpenWatcom Discussion
« on: March 24, 2025, 09:13:47 pm »
Has someone tested this build?
http://openwatcom.org/ftp/source/ow_portable_v2_test_build.zip

I think this is made of the perforce sources.

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There are some bldlevel information when added to an .exe leads to strange things when the exe is loaded by OS/2. Although strictly correct regarding Stevens notes about bldlevel it's yet unknown why f.i. sometimes the menu is not loaded by OS/2. Or even worse some program refuses to start with some bldlevel information.

Summing up my experience with bldlevel infos I made with my projects, if the developer who extensively tests the program don't add a bldlevel info I wouldn't add it later. It may be dangerous and maybe more harm then help.

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General Discussion / Re: OS2World Site Update
« on: March 23, 2025, 10:38:06 am »
I wonder if I'm the only one who thinks such a login form look ugly.

It's a failure of our old browsers, even Dooble_Qt6 is to old.
Is it a failure of our browsers or is it a failure of the server when content is delivered in an ugly looking way? All the years before the server software did a nice job.

I know update update update to the latest Google web controls..... All old standards are crap and have to be replaced by the newest shiny, fancy toy again and again... Guess I'm to old for some of these things now when I only wanna have things to work not to break.

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General Discussion / Re: Brainstorm: What is Next with OS/2 ?
« on: March 23, 2025, 10:30:00 am »
Rant !!

I may be a lone voice in this discussion bur what I would like to see is the removal of the RPM/YUM abomination from our Operating System.  We had/have a very good method of installing programs - warpin which does not require OS/2 to pretend to be linux which it is not.  Those that want to play with linux would be better installing  linux and using that.

Rant over.
If you only read the recent post here about ApacheOpenOffice and understand the problem behind, then you will see very fast how wrong your statement above is. Or do you wanna say we should completely avoid all these ported software?

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General Discussion / Re: OS2World Site Update
« on: March 22, 2025, 05:43:45 pm »
I wonder if I'm the only one who thinks such a login form look ugly.

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General Discussion / Re: Brainstorm: What is Next with OS/2 ?
« on: March 20, 2025, 09:24:28 am »
My top priorities would be -
1) stable operation on Ryzen7 either with integrated graphic or external (at least AMD B550) without trap when Virtualaddresslimit is above 1536 and 3140x2160 resolution. If you see the ticket you know what I mean in detail.
2) solving PM (GPI, gradd, Panorama, ??) problems which leads to no window update anymore after some time or when memory gets low (usually seen with VBOX running, but pretty sure not a VBOX problem only, but mem management and graphic)

Regarding browser I fear we never ever will have a browser with the features I need (I'm used to) again. So no priority for me. Dooble works to some extend and I appreciate the efforts made here. But it never will get the features I'm used to from SM or FF.


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Applications / Re: OO 4.1.11 trouble
« on: March 17, 2025, 03:24:43 pm »
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LIBPATH=.;G:\usr\local\lib;G:\usr\lib;G:\usr\bin;
Usually I suggest putting the '.;' at the end of this line. Or at least after the x:\usr\xxx entries. This would avoid loading old/wrong/special/... dlls from outside the somehow 'maintained' versions (by ANPM/yum/rpm) at the default locations. And will reduce the risk of using 'wrong' dlls a lot I think.

Imaging you've an old program which an old dll in it's own path and you load it at system start. From startup folder or tcpexit.cmd or startup.cmd or.... Then this program would load the 'wrong' dll into memory. All programs started afterwards have to use this 'wrong' dll cause it's already loaded in memory. Until the program (all programs which use the 'wrong' dll) are closed or you cheat the system with libpathstrict and beginlibpath.

Maybe you wanna test this.

Edit - there was a time when I have to yum downgrade icuxxx (?) to let AOO run. But I think this was well before 4.1.11.
Edit2 - you've assured that you don't run the AOO quickstart from an older version?

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Article Discussions / Re: RPM Packages - 2025 (Pentium 4)
« on: March 11, 2025, 05:53:29 pm »
I don't think DataSeeker needs more than 686. It's compiled with VAC3.65. But I don't remember if I set any special option. OTOH there was no single report of anyone that it does not work on his system. So maybe even 386 is enough.

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Virtualization / Re: print under virtual box
« on: March 08, 2025, 11:04:14 am »
What the heck is "Datenstrommodus"? Is it a translation for raw mode?

I'm a native German speaker but I don't understand how someone can make such a weird translation.

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