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Applications / Re: Are you getting ready for ArcaOS?
« on: May 17, 2017, 02:24:36 pm »
After 10 to 15 minutes the View of the Order should have a download link below the name of the product. That part of the page will display other information before the ISO is ready.

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Applications / Re: Are you getting ready for ArcaOS?
« on: May 10, 2017, 10:54:49 pm »
Rumor has it that something will released at some time.

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Applications / Re: Are you getting ready for ArcaOS?
« on: May 08, 2017, 04:34:55 pm »
It would seem to me that the statement "new kernel, that better supports upper shared memory, but it appears that that is still not perfect." is a real problem. This should have been the highest priority. What good is a fantastic installer when the system crashes at will. I have used OS/2 since 2.1 and have put up with that behavior for years. It was not bad until the latest crop of applications started needing high memory. Now, any extended use of those applications will cause system failure. Not a production OS for users. I have servers running with OS/2 with no problem as long as they do not push the use of high memory. That cannot continue if OS/2 wants to continue.

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Applications / Re: Are you getting ready for ArcaOS?
« on: April 26, 2017, 11:00:44 pm »
I sure hope Acranoae is not going the way of Microsoft which would release "vapor" ware and would never come anywhere close to deadlines when they did release.

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Applications / Re: Are you getting ready for ArcaOS?
« on: April 24, 2017, 08:55:44 pm »
If the team is "patching" the kernel in memory my hat is off to them. I used to do some hacking and patching of binaries and it can be very challenging. I would patch the actual binary file. (for the uninitiated a patch simply over writes a section of the program permanently). Doing this in memory, on the fly is a real trick.

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Applications / Re: Do you really need DOS/WIN16 Support?
« on: March 16, 2017, 08:48:36 pm »
Get with the program Martin. I still use Unix developed in 1971 and Dos which used many of the ideas from Unix.

As to actual DOS in OS/2, well not regularly but I have some good hacking tools that run in DOS under OS/2.

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Applications / Re: Blue Lion Beta testing...
« on: February 08, 2017, 10:32:16 pm »
Miracles do happen. OS/2 is still here.
I will buy ArcaOS5 on day one.
 

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Applications / Re: Blue Lion Beta testing...
« on: February 08, 2017, 05:02:46 pm »
How about the memory problems. Does the new kernel flame out when the high memory runs out?

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The java -X switches that relate to memory can really be ignored. They will not produce the results you expect. That is why documentation if often contradictory. Java will use the memory it needs up to the limits that the OS will supply. In the case of OS/2 the java implementation will go beyond the memory that will actually work. That is the case with 1.3 and especially with 1.6 The memory switches will not fix a java program which has excessive memory usage. In the past some have thought that the switches would help a program that is a pig to start as some server  programs have been. I don't agree. As I have said in another thread, there is a real problem with OS/2 Java 1.6 . The same problem is found in other VMs but is not universal. The problem is that when new Threads are started and ended there will be a memory leak. I designed a Thread pool which can easily be used by classes which fixes the problem. Of course you need the source and some knowledge to take advantage of it.

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Never heard of such a thing.
I have been programming in Java for OS/2 since 1997. Continuously.
The only reason for a drive (partition) change to effect the program is if there is something hard coded in the program.
A bad class to determine drive and directories can give odd results when not using the "preferred" drive.

here is a setup to fix a bad install of java.
add a line at the end to start your java program.
(also change the path the java1.6 as needed)

@REM ===
SET CLASSPATH=
SET JAVA_HOME=D:\java16\jre
SET SWING_HOME=D:\java16\jre
SET PATH=D:\java16\jre\bin;D:\java16\bin;%PATH%
set BEGINLIBPATH=D:\java16\jre\bin;D:\java16\lib\dt.jar;D:\java16\lib\jconsole.jar;D:\java16\lib\tools.jar;%BEGINLIBPATH%
SET LIBC_HOOK_DLLS=D:\java16\LIB;%LIBC_HOOK_DLLS%
SET INCLUDE=D:\JAVA16\INCLUDE;
SET LIB=D:\JAVA16\LIB;
@REM ===


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Programming / Re: Crash on Boot with JFS
« on: January 12, 2017, 02:58:48 pm »
I have found that if you push a JFS partition repeatedly to full status at some point it will just crash. It could be due to excessive fragmentation. I therefore only use C: as a boot partition and put data on other partitions. This allows keeping the C: drive from running out unexpectedly and also allows a reload of the OS without loosing any data. By full status I mean within 10% of the end.

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Networking / Re: Do we have a socks v5 proxy?
« on: December 30, 2016, 01:57:26 pm »
I have used the jsocks.jar found at http://jsocks.sourceforge.net/ for setting up a connection.
My applications are in java so the socks connection layer becomes invisible to the application.

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I note that the money listed there for Firefox does not include me. I had purchased 200 Euro of support that seems to have gone missing. That was part of my discussion with Silvan.

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General Discussion / Re: Change the Forum Headings?
« on: December 15, 2016, 02:41:47 pm »
Hello Ian:
You are correct that Microsoft helped develop V 2 but the roll out was muddled by the sudden interest of Microsoft in pushing Windows 3.1 so that by the time V 2.0 hit the street it was IBM only.
As to Warp. Even before it was released IBM had agreed to basically pull the plug on OS/2.
I had contacts with a leading OS/2 executive who was part of the discussions with Microsoft.
The topic was the price of 3.1 paid by IBM which had a lower price than other PC makers.
The PC division saw Windows 3.1 and IBM PCs as a cash cow.
Microsoft told IBM that if they did not stop pushing OS/2 on t he public the price for IBM to buy Windows was going
to go way up. IBM then agreed to only push OS/2 to corporate customers. That accounted for the very disjointed
add campaigns for OS/2 and the quick abandonment made obvious by 1995. The policy of only "targeting" corporate
customers became public bu not the reason.

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Programming / Re: OpenWatcom & GCC
« on: December 14, 2016, 09:59:24 pm »
A number of years ago I had to use the IBM C++ compiler to access old Microsoft OS/2 C DLLs. The way it had to be done was to load the DLL into memory directly and use a far call to directly call the functions. Somewhere I have the code if needed. The technique works fine. You just need to make sure and remove the DLLs manually after use or you end up with a memory leak.

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