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Applications / eCs 1.x & SmartSuite

« on: March 27, 2024, 04:50:02 pm »

Hi all,

I am reinstalling my ArcaOS VM and some of my eCS-originating programs..

1. Does anyone remember on which eCS CD SmartSuite was located, and for which versions of eCS (before it was replaced by openoffice)?

2. Someone has uploaded the 3 CDs of eCS 1.0 to Archive.org. This is the US version, when the one I bought at that time was the version with the CDs made by Mensys (in their usual green cardboard pouch). What are the known differences between both versions?

3. At the time (must have been around 2000-2001), I had ordered eCS early enough to get a sort of 1CD beta before the final one was released. I remember it also had some programs that did not make it to the final one. Anyone has any idea ?

4. I started making/keeping the ISOs of all eCS versions to which I had access since 1.1, but I am missing the ISOs of the beta and of 1.0, and I lost the CDs. 7 years ago, when I emailed Mensys about the inability to redownload my CDs, Menso answered

 “I am sorry to say that our download system is currently in maintenance. We are working on it!

I have forwarded your e-mail to info@ecomstation.com. They will send you a quote for the latest version of eComStation.”
Needless to say, the eCS download system never got out of “maintenance” and the forwarded request was never answered. Would someone have ISOs of the Mensys-version of eCS 1.0, and if possible of the preceding beta?

Thanks !

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Storage / Re: Virtualbox - LVM stopped working

« on: February 11, 2023, 03:21:10 pm »

Well the problem has changed a bit today. My D drive is still inaccessible, but I could start the LVM, and somehow it appears that the D drive was renamed to E, but E being already taken, that cannot work...

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Storage / Re: LVM stopped working

« on: February 10, 2023, 11:25:05 pm »

Does the second (and first) drive show up in hardware manager

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Storage / Re: LVM stopped working

« on: February 10, 2023, 08:39:16 pm »

Now back at home... and again LVM does not work, no second drive - even if DHCP manages to find the network. So really puzzled as to why it would work sometimes and not other times..

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Storage / Re: LVM stopped working

« on: February 10, 2023, 05:44:07 pm »

And without touching anything, the system works again without problem - LVM starts (on command line and mini-LVM), the drive is recognized, etc.

This is far fetched, but this problem could it have a relationship with NetDrive? I noticed that it happened when my DHCP did not get an address, but when it does get one, then there is no problem. Either that is a pure coincidence, or there is something in the network that messes up the LVM, and I can only see NetDrive as a culprit..

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Storage / Re: LVM stopped working

« on: February 09, 2023, 04:31:24 pm »

Mini-LVM (from the System folder/icon), lvmgui (java based) or lvm??? cli version?

The ones I tried were mini-LVM from system folder icon and lvm on command line (the screenshot). Have not tried the java based. Is there any hope it would work when the others do not?

All not going to help. LVM.DLL can be loaded but for some reason the LVM dll can not access the disc somehow.
Hence wording it failed to open the LVM engine. Its not an issue of not being able to load the DLL.
Minilvm, lvm.exe and the java version all use lvm.dll so they will all have the same resuit.

Hmmm interesting.

Did you update to Virtualbox 7 ?

Roderick

Hi Roderick.. Yes I updated to Virtualbox 7, but quite a bit ago, and it had been working fine until yesterday...

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Storage / Re: LVM stopped working

« on: February 09, 2023, 11:28:39 am »

Mini-LVM (from the System folder/icon), lvmgui (java based) or lvm??? cli version?

The ones I tried were mini-LVM from system folder icon and lvm on command line (the screenshot). Have not tried the java based. Is there any hope it would work when the others do not?

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Storage / Virtualbox - LVM stopped working

« on: February 09, 2023, 09:48:21 am »

Hi all, I have my ArcaOS on VirtualBox, and everything was working fine, until yesterday when I saw that my second virtual HDD was not here anymore. I tried running LVM GUI, and nothing happened. Went to command line, and running the lvm command shows that it does not work anymore.. no idea why (maybe some INI cleanup at boot time that messed up an LVM-related setting?).
Has anyone experienced that problem ? If yes, how did you solve it?
Thanks for any help!

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Applications / Future of Linux ports

« on: October 02, 2022, 10:53:56 am »

Hi all, On tech forums everyone is talking about Rust making it to the Linux kernel, which probably will mean more and more programs that will be Rust-based.
In the Firefox discussions, I read it was impossible to port Rust to OS/2. I’d like to better understand why, because I see that as an increasing difficulty to make OS/2 apps by porting Linux ones…

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Applications / Re: VisualAge for C Modern Installer

« on: September 23, 2022, 09:20:30 am »

Suntan Special installs VAC and other FI products using CID.

Hi Neil,
I still have an image of my CD (v0.5.2) and cannot see a directory with VAC scripts in it. In which version did you add that functionality ?

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Applications / VisualAge for C Modern Installer

« on: September 21, 2022, 12:18:10 am »

Yes, it would be nice, but QtCreator is not a generic IDE. It's tailored to Qt development.

Thanks Joche, I guess you are right. I download it and I don't see any generic Non Qt project on the list.

I guess if we are dreaming we should aim for the Eclipse IDE and/or Apache Netbeans, right?

Regards

Well, from a non-commercial POV this is probably the best solution one can seek imho. On the "abandonware" side the best editors for OS/2 are the VAC 4 IDE and (AFAIK) Visual SlickEdit, together with I seem to remember VisualAge for SmallTalk.

There was some talk about how to retrieve at least Visual SlickEdit, but nothing more.
Mentore

Talking about VAC.. is there any way to convert Feature Installer based installers to something more modern, so programs like VAC could be installed without having to use Netscape ?..

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Applications / Re: HOBLink and ArcaOS

« on: September 18, 2022, 11:46:22 pm »

There are several options to detect an eCS installation:

• \os2\install\syslevel.ecs
• \ecs\ecs_inst.flg
• \ecs\dll\securit2.dll
• \os2\ecsreg.ini
• \os2\ecsreg11.ini

[...] "WiseMachine.FIT"

Out of the eCS 1.2 install, I did copy syslevel.ecs, securit2.dll, ecsreg11.ini to the same directories on my boot drive (ecsreg.ini was already there, I may have had some use for it..). WiseMachine file was absent (I created an empty file with that name) but ecs_inst.flg was nowhere to be found.

Even with these files, HOBLink still threw me the same error..

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Applications / HOBLink and ArcaOS

« on: September 18, 2022, 01:05:38 pm »

Hi,

How does one install / start on ArcaOS the HOBLink X11 version that was included with eCS ?

During the install, I get a "fatal error : cannot load C:\HOBX11\xwpdllid.dll" pops up (the file is present in the folder). That makes the installer stop, but after I copied the files from an eCS installation (and added the registration info to the registry), the message is the same when trying to start the X server.

Additional strange thing (but not a showstopper): the installer defaults to D:\HOBX11, even though I have no drive D on my ArcaOS VM...

Thanks for any tip!

A.

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Applications / Re: Old problem.. any known solution ? (American Heritage Dictionary by DUX)

« on: June 03, 2022, 09:07:59 am »

I did install the fonts (even the TTF fonts in the Windows 3.1 version of AHD), without any subsequent effect on the problem. I checked and my config.sys does have the environment variables.
Roderick now has ISOs of my installation disks so should be able to tell more when he has some time to look at it. Thank you so much to you all for your help!

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Applications / Re: Old problem.. any known solution ? (American Heritage Dictionary by DUX)

« on: June 01, 2022, 11:12:15 pm »

Glenn can you put back the original version of pmmerge.dll and run the program ? Post the popuplog.os2 entry and then I might be able to tell why it crashes. Maybe a font that is installed ? I have no clue but then we MIGHT be able to trace why it crashes.

Roderick

The app not starting produces the following (do not look at the dates, I put back the original unpatched files tonight, to recreate the error message):

06-01-2022  16:07:21  SYS3175  PID 0058  TID 0001  Slot 0094
C:\AHD\AHD.EXE
c0000005
1fabd544
P1=00000002  P2=005bb000  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX
EAX=000000e4  EBX=00039280  ECX=00000022  EDX=000081d3
ESI=000392f4  EDI=005bb000
DS=0053  DSACC=d0f3  DSLIM=5fffffff
ES=0053  ESACC=d0f3  ESLIM=5fffffff
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:1fabd544  CSACC=d0df  CSLIM=5fffffff
SS:ESP=0053:00039274  SSACC=d0f3  SSLIM=5fffffff
EBP=0003938c  FLG=00010206

PMMERGE.DLL 0004:0004d544


After applying the patches, when it freezes the WPS, it shows:

05-15-2022  17:04:40  SYS3170  PID 0026  TID 0001  Slot 004b
C:\OS2\PMSHELL.EXE
c0010001
1ffde411
EAX=00000002  EBX=00000000  ECX=00000000  EDX=00673720
ESI=00000000  EDI=00000000 
DS=0053  DSACC=d0f3  DSLIM=5fffffff 
ES=0053  ESACC=d0f3  ESLIM=5fffffff 
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:1f8f454e  CSACC=d0df  CSLIM=5fffffff
SS:ESP=0053:0004f80c  SSACC=d0f3  SSLIM=5fffffff
EBP=0004f814  FLG=00010202

DOSCALL1.DLL 0003:0000e411