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Applications / Re: OO v4.18

« on: January 18, 2025, 03:25:42 pm »

The current release for supported platforms is 4.1.15.

The current release for OS/2 is 4.1.11

https://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: January 17, 2025, 04:25:49 pm »

With unlock.exe provided from HobbesArchive, the printer creation now fails this way. It's an HP Color Laserjet Pro M252, which works pretty well under ArcaOS. My goal is to get Manage Printers, CupsWiz and PSPRINT to work under MCP, and eventually under Warp 4.

(The screen shot says see CupsWiz.L1. Scroll down to the end of CupsWiz.L1 to see the most recent errors.)

I see ArcaOS has a more recent unlock.exe than HobbesArchive.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: January 17, 2025, 05:26:18 am »

I installed PSPRINT using Manage Printers, and now I get an entry in the presentation drivers list.

When I create my printer, I get a new error message; screenshot is attached.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: January 17, 2025, 04:49:42 am »

You may need to add the path to the correct CUPS install as a parameter to cupswiz.exe.

Regarding the trap, the only thing I can think of is the PSPRINT install is broken somehow. 

If you go into PrintMan and choose File -> Manage presentation drivers, what does the entry for PSPRINT report? In particular the Version and Status columns.  Next, if you double-click on the PSPRINT entry, does it pop up its list of supported printers?

I think you are correct about the path to the cups install. If I give CUPSWIZ C:\usr as a parameter, I get a list of printers.

The process goes well until I say create printer, then I get the VX-REXX error shown earlier in the thread.

If I select Manage presentation drivers, then the list is blank. So something is wrong with PSPRINT install.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: January 06, 2025, 03:37:18 pm »

The source code led me to my installation of PSPRINT.DRV. I think I installed it correctly, but when I try to create a printer, PSPRINT adds this to POPUPLOG.OS2

Code: [Select]

01-06-2025  06:28:59  SYS3175  PID 0022  TID 0002  Slot 0042
C:\OS2\PMSPOOL.EXE
c0000005
1ef407c7
P1=00000001  P2=00000007  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX 
EAX=00000000  EBX=00535d6c  ECX=1cb80c80  EDX=00000007
ESI=1a34a7f0  EDI=00535ed4 
DS=0053  DSACC=d0f3  DSLIM=7fffffff 
ES=0053  ESACC=d0f3  ESLIM=7fffffff 
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:1ef407c7  CSACC=d0df  CSLIM=7fffffff
SS:ESP=0053:00535978  SSACC=d0f3  SSLIM=7fffffff
EBP=00535c00  FLG=00012202

PSPRINT.DRV 0002:000107c7

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: January 03, 2025, 04:55:10 pm »

I found Cups Wiz is getting the driver location from OS2.INI

PM_INSTALL
PDR_DIR

Unfortunately, I cannot set a value that evades the syntax error message from VX-REXX. Probably I should look at the source code for Cups Wiz on Net labs.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: OS/2 Licensing

« on: January 03, 2025, 01:34:31 am »

The copyright seems to be 120 years for a commercial product like OS/2. Software written by one person would be copyrighted for 70 years after the end of his life.

Oddly, it looks like a private person downloading a copy of OS/2 and using it may be OK legally. Offering a copy of OS/2 for download from a server in the USA is probably not OK.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / Re: OS/2 Licensing

« on: January 02, 2025, 03:44:23 pm »

If someone wants to try OS/2, and downloads a copy from the Internet, I doubt they can get in trouble with IBM, even if they are violating license terms.

It's different for someone who wants to offer OS/2 software. IBM may have issues with someone distributing OS/2 parts and fixpaks. Here on OS/2 World, we don't even give links to unofficial OS/2 media and fixes. But OS/2 has been off the market for 18 years.

Is there some time limit after which OS/2 licensing doesn't matter?

Have we already reached that time?

When can a business or other organization offer OS/2 parts without licensing restrictions?

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: December 30, 2024, 01:14:33 am »

I think I have PSPRINT installed. The installation routine does not actually notify you of success or failure. Cups Wiz does select PSPRINT in the screen before the Error.

Here is a fragment of error_log from my attempt to create a printer

E [29/Dec/2024:16:02:29 +0800] Unable to get hostname: Function not implemented
E [29/Dec/2024:16:06:01 +0800] [CGI] Unable to execute ippfind utility: No such file or directory
E [29/Dec/2024:16:06:27 +0800] [CGI] Unable to execute ippfind utility: No such file or directory
W [29/Dec/2024:16:06:31 +0800] cupsdDoSelect: select() returned 4 (Interrupted system call)... pause and retry select()

Also, CUPSWIZ thinks my local driver repository is D:\OS2IMAGE, while I think it should be C:\OS2\DLL\PSPRINT or maybe C:\OS2\DLL. I don't know how to tell Cups Wiz otherwise.

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Comments, Suggestions & Questions / OS/2 Licensing

« on: December 29, 2024, 08:41:26 pm »

I'm looking at how people use OS/2. I think people want to try something different, and I see a lot of copies that can be downloaded.

OS/2 is not abandonware. No version of OS/2 is “free”. ArcaOS is based on an IBM licensed OS/2. It's still for sale.

That said, you can freely download any number of OS/2 versions. If you are a licensed OS/2 user, you can legitimately use these downloaded versions.

These are the license classes I recognize

OS/2 Warp 4	1996 release, without Software Advantage
OS/2 Warp 4	1996 release including Software Advantage
MCP	one of the Merlin Convenience pack releases, 1, 2, 2R
MCP	with Arca Noae software
eCS	eComStation release, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2R, 2.0, 2.1, 2.2 beta
eCS	with Arca Noae Software
ArcaOS	versions 5.0.x, 5.1
ArcaOS	with Software Subscription

While running under VirtualBox, Warp4 needs TCP/IP 4.3 from Software Choice to implement Shared Folders
While running under VirtualBox, Warp4 and MCP both need Arca Noae Software to implement Power Off
Warp 3 probably has the same restrictions as Warp 4
Earlier versions of OS/2 probably cannot run TCP/IP 4.3

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: December 29, 2024, 03:52:12 am »

I created an icon in the startup folder to start the CUPS daemon. I gave cupswiz.exe a command line containing the parent cups directory, C:\usr in my case. Now I get a list of printers.

I can select my printer, scan the local network and discover the printer, but when I go to create the printer object, Cupswiz displays an error (see attached). No printer is created.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: December 27, 2024, 07:46:25 pm »

Thanks, Pete. While running cupsd made no difference to cupswiz, it made a difference for lpinfo.

The output from lpinfo is attached.

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: December 27, 2024, 04:20:31 pm »

Well, that helps!

Version 1.18

System boot volume: C:
Local CUPS directory: C:\CUPS
Local driver repository: D:\OS2IMAGE

which lpinfo
c:\usr\sbin\lpinfo.exe

lpinfo -m
lpinfo: bad file number

which cupsd
c:\usr\sbin\cupsd.exe

set unixroot
UNIXROOT=C:

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Setup & Installation / Re: Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: December 26, 2024, 04:01:50 pm »

The cups daemon wasn't running. If I start it, and then run cupswiz, I still don't see any printers.

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Setup & Installation / Installing CUPS on MCP

« on: December 25, 2024, 05:55:22 pm »

Well, the short answer is to install rpm/yum on MCP, then cups.

But I like the interfaces for Printman and Cupswiz. It makes configuring printers so much easier. I can download these from Alex Taylor's website, and, after installing the prerequisites, I can get Printman to start. Cupswiz initially starts with an error in DosLoadModule, but can be corrected by fiddling with UCONV.DLL and friends.

But, after that, Cupswiz comes up empty. I have both cups and hplip installed, but where did the printer models go? (see attached screenshot)