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Setup & Installation / Re: Cannot update cups
« Last post by Lars on Today at 08:02:11 am »
I found the cause:

the system claimed that:

E [21/May/2025:07:44:23 -0100] "/@unixroot/var/run/cups/certs" is not a directory.


That was obviously wrong as this directory does exist and in fact, it is a directory. It turned out that this directory was "contaminated" with the usual Unix EA crap (UID, GID, MODE, etc.). Once I completely removed all EAs from the directory, I was able to properly update CUPS.

Sigh ...
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Applications / [Looking] Word for DOS 2.01
« Last post by Man42 on Today at 07:51:32 am »
Hello, everyone.

I am posting this request with Martin's permission, although it is not directly related to OS/2.

I'm looking for one rare minor version of MS Word for DOS.
This is Word 2.01. This version was released in October 1985.
This release included a fix for printer drivers. The floppy disks used copy protection similar to version 2.00.

I'm looking for it in any form. These can be either installation floppy disk images or a pre-installed copy from an old hard drive.

In addition, there could be a network version 2.01N with copy protection. 2.01N I have never seen, so there is no evidence of its existence.

Does anyone still have this old version?

Best regards.
–Man42
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Setup & Installation / Cannot update cups
« Last post by Lars on Today at 07:21:37 am »
Looks like I am out of luck when it comes to updating packages.

I tried to update CUPS, the package download succeeds (I can find it under \var\cache\yum) but finally I get this:
Error unpacking rpm package 1:cups-2.2.13-2.oc00.pentium4

When I use the commandline, I get this:

Quote
{1}[d:\] yum install cups-2.2.13-2.oc00.pentium4
Geladene Plugins: changelog, fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Einrichten des Installationsprozess
Löse Abhängigkeiten auf
--> Führe Transaktionsprüfung aus
---> Paket cups.pentium4 1:2.2.13-1.oc00 markiert, um aktualisiert zu werden
---> Paket cups.pentium4 1:2.2.13-2.oc00 markiert, um an update zu werden
--> Abhängigkeitsauflösung beendet

Abhängigkeiten aufgelöst

================================================================================

 Paket       Arch            Version                   Repository         Größe
================================================================================

Aktualisieren:
 cups        pentium4        1:2.2.13-2.oc00           netlabs-exp        2.0 M

Vorgangsübersicht
================================================================================

Upgrade       1 Package

Gesamtgröße: 2.0 M
Ist dies in Ordnung? [j/N] :j
Lade Pakete herunter:
Running Transaction Check
Führe Verarbeitungstest durch
Verarbeitungstest erfolgreich
Führe Verarbeitung durch
  Aktualisieren: 1:cups-2.2.13-2.oc00.pentium4                              1/2

Error unpacking rpm package 1:cups-2.2.13-2.oc00.pentium4
Warnung: /@unixroot/etc/cups/classes.conf erstellt als /@unixroot/etc/cups/classes.conf.rpmnew
Warnung: /@unixroot/etc/cups/cupsd.conf erstellt als /@unixroot/etc/cups/cupsd.conf.rpmnew
Warnung: /@unixroot/etc/cups/lpoptions erstellt als /@unixroot/etc/cups/lpoptions.rpmnew
Warnung: /@unixroot/etc/cups/printers.conf erstellt als /@unixroot/etc/cups/printers.conf.rpmnew
Fehler: Entpacken des Archivs fehlgeschlagen bei Datei /@unixroot/var/run/cups/certs: cpio: unlink
1:cups-2.2.13-1.oc00.pentium4 was supposed to be removed but is not!

Fehlgeschlagen:
  cups.pentium4 1:2.2.13-1.oc00          cups.pentium4 1:2.2.13-2.oc00

Komplett!

So: is there a way for force an RPM installation ?

If all of this is a problem because CUPS is running, how can I stop CUPS (without manipulating config.sys and rebooting) ?


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Programming / Re: EDM/2 - The API Project - Undocumented
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on Today at 03:09:56 am »
Hello again.

It still spins on my head if I should do something with the DevHelp_ stuff on the EDM/2.
1) Maybe it is more comfortable to standardize it as DevHelp_ since most of the items listed are that way.
or
2) Just leave it that way, and redirect the different names between DevHelp_ and DevHlp_

And:
3) My other issue is that republishing the SMP Addendum there is the STRACE page when it lists the DevHelp and are some that I do not have. You can check it out here with red color on this page.

Regards
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Applications / Re: Lotus 123 + organizer - OLE
« Last post by Steven Levine on Today at 12:43:26 am »
Hi,

I finally remembered where Lotus documented the ASWAN issues.  It's Suite15.txt in the root of the \LOTUSW4 directory.  Have you tried all the suggestions in the section that discussed the known ASWAN issues?
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Applications / SFTP client
« Last post by Per E. Johannessen on May 21, 2025, 06:28:14 pm »
Can anyone recommend a recent/updated SFTP-client?
The connection I'll try to setup is to an external server accepting RSA-2048 keys.

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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« Last post by Martin Iturbide on May 21, 2025, 03:45:49 pm »
Thanks Dave for giving it a try.

I think it will be good to keep this (Joe Fromm's SYSINFO) because it comes with the source code. Maybe on OS/2 2.0 it will work fine. I will try it on the weekend on a VM.

Regards
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Mail-News / Re: Oauth2 proxy
« Last post by Dave Yeo on May 21, 2025, 06:07:00 am »
A python path issue?
Perhaps using _virtualenv would work if I can remember how to do it.

Seems Python3 comes with a light weight virtualenv, https://realpython.com/python-virtual-environments-a-primer/#linux-1.
Need to use bash, still the same problem,
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bash-5.0# python -m pip install emailproxy
WARNING: The directory 'w:/home/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned
 or is not writable by the current user. The cache has been disabled. Check the
permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you should
use sudo's -H flag.
Collecting emailproxy
  Downloading emailproxy-2025.3.14-py3-none-any.whl.metadata (38 kB)
Collecting cryptography>=2.2 (from emailproxy)
  Downloading cryptography-45.0.2.tar.gz (743 kB)
     --------------------------- ----------- 524.3/743.9 kB 2.8 MB/s eta 0:00:01
     --------------------------------------- 743.9/743.9 kB 2.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00

ERROR: Invalid member in the tar file h:/tmp/pip-unpack-prwpg07h/cryptography-45
.0.2.tar.gz: '.gitattributes' would be extracted to 'h:/tmp/pip-install-eriz9zy6
/cryptography_7cbb1fea01e946c08b459fde6f7c0682/.gitattributes', which is outside
 the destination
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Mail-News / Re: Oauth2 proxy
« Last post by Dave Yeo on May 21, 2025, 05:17:44 am »
It's an interesting project, though I wish I knew where the bug is in our Thunderbird as oauth2 should just work.
It's been a long time (perhaps Firefox 10 development?) since I've played with this Python stuff. So far I've done,
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yum install python3-setuptools python3-setuptools_scm
python -m ensurepip --upgrade
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install -r requirements-core.txt

Which results in this error, (rerunning the error causing command)
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K:\work\email-oauth2-proxy>python -m pip install cryptography
WARNING: The directory 'w:/home/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned
 or is not writable by the current user. The cache has been disabled. Check the
permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you should
use sudo's -H flag.
Collecting cryptography
  Downloading cryptography-45.0.2.tar.gz (743 kB)
     --------------------------------------- 743.9/743.9 kB 2.3 MB/s eta 0:00:00

ERROR: Invalid member in the tar file h:/tmp/pip-unpack-ye_q2rxg/cryptography-45
.0.2.tar.gz: '.gitattributes' would be extracted to 'h:/tmp/pip-install-zhxi8tme
/cryptography_a6b377d357bc4600a896c1f43f6d019b/.gitattributes', which is outside
 the destination

So it doesn't like the idea of installing a hidden file (.gitattributes) in %TMPDIR%.
According to the documentation, shouldn't need the -m parameter either, but it results in,
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K:\work\email-oauth2-proxy>python  pip install cryptography
W:\USR\BIN\python.exe: can't open file 'K:/work/email-oauth2-proxy/pip': [Errno
2] No such file or directory

A python path issue?
Perhaps using _virtualenv would work if I can remember how to do it.


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Applications / Re: General Software Testing
« Last post by Dave Yeo on May 21, 2025, 01:04:26 am »
Generally, it locks my computer completely. If I double click it fairly quickly after it starts so it has a frame, it doesn't seem to lock it up though I never let it run for very long as I didn't want to power cycle my computer again :)
The CPU meter is broken and likely gets confused by our fast CPU's and the multi-cores.
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