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Messages - Andi B.

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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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In UEFI mode, I also have to run at 3840 x 2160 x 16. In Legacy mode 3840 x 2160 x 32 works OK. VESA BIOS in 4K mode is flakey on several of my computers. This is one area where a video driver would be a plus.
How do you setup 16 bit? I've only 16M colors and no other selection available here with Panorama (bare metal).

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... running it at 3840x2160x16...
Do you really run it with 16 bit (65536 colors) or do you mean 32 bit (16M colors)?

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Applications / Re: LarsenCommander - new test version
« on: February 26, 2025, 01:54:30 pm »
Ouch, I don't have access to the source code at netlabs :-(.
It this one? https://trac.netlabs.org/openjfs/browser#branches
I can watch it without being logged on. Maybe it was the upppercase on the URL.

Regards

I was at the main trac page and even logged in and did not found the usual 'source code' button. Just found out netlabs has 2 jfs projects. One jfs another openjfs. I was here - https://trac.netlabs.org/jfs while correct link should be - https://trac.netlabs.org/openjfs/.

Last check in seems to were 21 years ago. Not sure how much of this old code is still in use. Thanks anyway.

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Applications / Re: LarsenCommander - new test version
« on: February 26, 2025, 12:21:27 pm »
Thank you very much. Enough stuff to test and try out. Have to bookmark this. OTOH I thought this lcmd version would be really the last one.....

Ouch, I don't have access to the source code at netlabs :-(.


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Applications / Re: LarsenCommander - new test version
« on: February 26, 2025, 08:37:02 am »
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These info levels are undocumented in the CPS.
Wow. Some of your explanations sounds familiar. After I invested countless hours on reading original Lcmd code, edm2 and all the help files of os2tk45. But where did you get the undocumented stuff from? Answers from some experts in some goups which you noted somewhere? Or is there a place where someone document such undocumented stuff? Stevens site?

Btw: these idiots which wrote the control programming appendum for DosOpenL f.i. should be sent to jail. Again I stumbled over this wrong description and examples (variables versus pointers). It's a mess when the official documentation is so wrong in so many places :-(.

Btw2: It's a somehow educated guess that the file system is faulty here. With different versions of EA handling in Lcmd I very often got 'Trap 000e in JFS'. The last implementation which I think perfectly correct, let the IFS silently stop working only sometimes. Unfortunately I need to copy a few hundred thousand files with a lot of GBs. So still have no simple scenario to reproduce.

Btw3: For my problem I think it's not the DosRead buffer size as this is already limited (<1 - ~16MB) here. AFAIK the problem Silvan reported happens with about 400MB and above. OTOH David explained in the ticket it's not the buffer size which triggers this one known problem, but 2 DosOpenL calls where the first one does nothing. Do you think Davids explanation in the ticket is wrong? Or is he talking about another problem? Is it worth to test with read buffers max. 1MB f.i.?

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Applications / Re: LarsenCommander - new test version
« on: February 25, 2025, 11:43:27 am »
Interesting. But if I understand it correctly it should be fixed since a while. I can reproduce problems here even with ArcaOS5.1EN.

OTOH LarsenCommander doing the copy stuff a bit unusual so this may be another JFS problem others rarely encounter. Lcmd reads the file (in chunks if bigger than internal dynamic buffer) and writes it to target. So far so good. Then it reads in all EAs from source file and then writes the EAs to the target. This EA handling is strange when you see it the first time. Reading every EA name and data with dynamic size.... And I think the problem occurs when writting the EAs.

Unfortunately I didn't find a way on OS/2 to read and write all EAs of a file at once. These can be <64k anyway so no would be no problem on todays systems. Reading all these EA entries in a loop by name and values is a mess.

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